Eggyhead
@Eggyhead@lemmings.world
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 2 days ago:
I don’t personally know anyone on game pass, and only one with Nintendo online, so that seems accurate. But it doesn’t matter. Releasing AAA games day one on a subscription model isn’t sustainable for Microsoft or the studios participating. Those prices will go up and the service will enshitify.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 days ago:
Steam, the cheapest I see it as is 79,99€ where I am, which is actually US$90. I just assumed the US store did a straight conversion to dollars, but you’re getting a discount too, it seems.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 3 days ago:
- It’s $80
- It’s on Gamespass, where I assume a lot of doom fans who might have otherwise purchased are likely to be.
- It’s shouldered up against Expedition 33 and Oblivion Remake, both over $20 cheaper and highly acclaimed.
- It’s $80
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 3 days ago:
During the pandemic? Wasn’t PS plus at around 40m at that time? Xbox live at 90m? Netflix at 180m?
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 3 days ago:
My friend, this is why Lemmy exists.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 3 days ago:
Step 1: get lots of subscribers Step 2: enshitify
It took them 8 years of trying to get to step 1.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 3 days ago:
It doesn’t make a difference. They’ll enshitify that service to hell whether you subscribe or you don’t.
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 3 days ago:
Just wait for the enshitication. Once they have a stranglehold on the gaming industry, that’s when the prices go up and the benefits go down.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 1 week ago:
Absolutely. Now that people are paying attention, it’ll be easier to spot.
- Comment on Fortnite now lets you chat with Darth Vader using generative AI speech [Eurogamer] 1 week ago:
I’m waiting for this in a AAA open world fantasy VRpg. I’ll be waiting a while, but I want it.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 1 week ago:
Didn’t they get caught doing this with destiny as well? It makes me wonder if it’s a studio culture thing. You’re 200% right in what they should be doing, but I still am inclined to think this is more likely an incompetence thing than malice.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 1 week ago:
NGL, it seems really practical that it was intended to be placeholder concept art that someone forgot to go in and replace.
That said, this artists they took so much inspiration from definitely deserves a place in the game’s credits at this point. Whether they actually use his art in game or not.
- Comment on Rare's Cancelled N64 Title Dinosaur Planet Is Getting The Recompilation Treatment 2 weeks ago:
I remember reading news whenever I could about dinosaur planet. It was a game about dinosaurs built by rare on the same engine used by Ocarina of Time and would likely feature expansion pack support. That was like a dream team setup to me back then.
The conversion to starfox killed it for me because I never got into those.
- Comment on Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Their games almost never go on sale and the switch 2 has set off the $80 trend. Nintendo is expensive.
- Comment on Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday - IGN 3 weeks ago:
Tbf, Microsoft is an American company that is probably looking for ways to address their own rising expenses. Japan is struggling economically as well, so I imagine they’re looking for the foreign markets to offset their own struggles as well.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 4 weeks ago:
Their deliberate word choice of “upgrade” to supported operating system is mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
No it doesn’t understand the question. It collects a series of letters and words that are strung together in a particular order because that’s what you typed, then it sifts through a mass of collected data and to find the most common or likely string of letters and words that follow and spits them out.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 4 weeks ago:
Sony has a nice headset, but it’s more of a whatever than a serious evolution of the industry.
This sentiment exists because Meta sunk gargantuan losses into engineering progress that the burgeoning VR market couldn’t possibly have managed naturally. If you took meta and the quest 3 out of the VR picture entirely, I believe the psvr2 would still be a good bar for where high quality, affordable, modern VR would be. There would be no outstanding AAA VR meta exclusives, but who’s to say a few of those might not have been made anyway? On better hardware and non-exclusive, no less.
Furthermore, if all those people who opted for Quest 3 when choosing what to buy ended up on other platforms, the incentive for developers to develop VR features for their games wouldn’t be restricted to mobile only and on a terrible store front. I think we would have seen a lot more studios take the Resident Evil route and add VR modes to their games because the VR audience would be on platforms that would require less compromise, and it would be larger than it is now. We would have had much better games in VR by now. Meta fucked shit up.
- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 4 weeks ago:
Daggerfall, too.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 4 weeks ago:
On the other hand, I think the VR gaming industry in general would be much healthier position today if it weren’t for Meta’s financial boat rocking.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 4 weeks ago:
Last I heard they’re actually doubling down. They were supposedly shifting away from games in a push towards more comprehensive Horizon Worlds integration. Like it will no longer be an app you launch but rather the environment you enter when donning the headset. I heard that a few weeks ago, though. It might be outdated already.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 4 weeks ago:
Broadcasting spoilers to an audience tuned in to an unscripted live stream play of an unreleased game on the Internet. I’m sure the risks were understood.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 5 weeks ago:
He literally could have contributed to lost sales from potential buyers watching the games before they were released.
By allowing them to be better informed of what they would otherwise have purchased?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 adds Hardcore mode 5 weeks ago:
I just watched a YouTube video that taught you how to cheese the combat system by poking the face with a sword or bashing the head with a mace. KCD2 has kind of forced me to switch it up a bit, which I appreciate.
I have no interest in a hardcore mode though.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 5 weeks ago:
My friend is looking to pick one up after that fromsoft game comes out. I might grab one then as well so we can play together, but I’m more in it for Metroid and whatever the Zelda team cooks up.
- Comment on need advice, how to get good at monster hunter 1 month ago:
I was introduced to MH with Freedom Unite, then convinced to jump onto the World bandwagon, but it wasn’t until Rise that it finally “clicked”. It might have been that I discovered I am more a Light Bowgunner than anything else, but I enjoyed the heck out of Rise, then discovered I actually love playing LBG in World.
Unfortunately Freedom Unite is still a step too far out of “modern streamlined” for me to really enjoy, but perhaps if I tried LBG there as well, I could finally find a way to look past all the inconveniences.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
Video games, and Zelda especially, should only be for rich, privileged folk. Poor people need to work 3 jobs if they want to play games in all that free time they must have.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
If they owned Mario and Zelda, you can bet your britches they would be.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
I replay OoT and MM at least once a year. I can see myself replaying these new Zelda games at some point and enjoying them, but I won’t likely pay $90 for the privilege.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread 2 months ago:
The black samurai dude is already prevalent in Japanese pop culture. The folks going around saying that’s the problem are just confused and dumb. There’s no real issue there The issue lies in how things are portrayed that make the game look not distinctly Japanese, but more western “Asia wonderland”. I lived in Japan for over 10 years, I have Japanese family, so I pick up on some of this. It definitely gives the vibe of a Canadian studio did as much “Japan” ™ as they possibly could without having to actually go there or consult genuine professionals on cultural nuance or visual identity.
I say this as someone who has only seen promotional materials and not the game itself, though. So the game itself could prove me wrong. And I don’t care if you enjoy the game or not, I’m just sharing why it kind of turns me off.