Eggyhead
@Eggyhead@lemmings.world
- Comment on Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday - IGN 4 days 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 5 days 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 1 week ago:
Their deliberate word choice of “upgrade” to supported operating system is mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Daggerfall, too.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on Pocket Power: The Game Boy's Legendary Journey 3 months ago:
Apt timing. My FiL pulled out my wife’s GBC just an hour ago. It’s a pearlescent Pokémon Center edition with Gold/Silver Pokémon on it. Was just playing it a bit moments before finding this thread.
- Comment on Digital Foundry - Bloodborne PC Emulation 60FPS/Mods Tested! 3 months ago:
I have yet to see a single piped link work. Am I doing something wrong?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 months ago:
I’ll wait for the OLED model, because apparently this isn’t it.
- Comment on Don’t Shield Foreign Spyware Company from Human Rights Accountability in U.S. Court, Rights Group Says 8 months ago:
Or domestic?
- Comment on Zotac Gaming Zone handheld gaming PC launches for $799 (with Ryzen 7 8840U, 120 Hz display, and dual trackpads) - Liliputing 8 months ago:
Not a fan of whatever that D-pad is. I’m also curious about the battery life.
Thrilled to see twin touchpads though.
The more handheld PCs get made, the more I become aware of just how ahead of the curve Steam was with their deck design. I actually thought it looked gaudy as hell when it launched, but since using it, I can’t get over just how unexpectedly handy anything is. I just wish there were better haptics, since I’m kind of a sucker for that kind of stuff.
- Comment on We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock 8 months ago:
I was thinking something more in line with a narrative story-based shooter like half life. TF2 and other competitive shooter arena games were never really my thing.
- Comment on We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock 8 months ago:
A new shooter from valve? Hell yeah!!
a hero shooter
Oh. Never mind then.
- Comment on Giant FAQ on The European Initiative to Stop Destroying Games! 8 months ago:
I do not think developers should be compelled to add single player modes to multiplayer games, but I do think that server software should be open sourced as a multiplayer game is shuttered. I believe the studio is entitled to royalties if a server host is profiting from their discontinued game, but I also think that servers for discontinued games should be allowed to be run as nonprofit, charging only as much as necessary to keep the server active and healthy, and not be charged royalties.
- Comment on Missing cold pizza 10 months ago:
Blueberry, sausage, hash browns, biscuits, coffee.