Eggyhead
@Eggyhead@lemmings.world
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 1 day ago:
I haven’t been a real borderlands fan since 2. The gameplay is fun enough, but the dialogue kind of gets cringy after a while.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 1 day ago:
I’ve decided amongst this push to $80 games that even $70 is too rich for me. With very few exceptions, the only launch games I buy will be the $40-50 ones. Otherwise I will just wait until the $70+ ones that interest me to get there on their own. If i lose the urge to play them in the meantime, oh well. Money saved.
There are just sooooo many great games out there at much better prices.
- Comment on Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven 2 days ago:
Conservatives should be banning mods if they’re banning books. Games are for children, right? Right???
- Comment on Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven 2 days ago:
I couldn’t make it through the whole 2hr essay, but I can’t disagree with some of his criticisms of the game. It’s just that they never bothered me, and I found the AAish quality of the game really cozy.
I completely agree with him about just how manufactured the “woke outrage” seemed to be, though. I just fundamentally believe “woke” lost its meaning some time ago and doesn’t really define anything anymore. It is really handy for letting mindless culture-warrior types flag themselves, though. I certainly doubt the IGN article was the ONLY article criticizing eve’s character design, but I think it served as a great example of just how far up their own asses the anti-woke crowd love to be.
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture - Launch Trailer 1 week ago:
Looking at the US PS store, atm Lies of P is on sale at $29.99, and this expansion goes for the same price, bringing the total to $59.98 if you buy them separately. This seems like the best option right now.
If you are a plus member, the Overture bundle, which is the exact same thing but in a single purchase, is on sale for $60.29 (31 cents more). Otherwise it’s $89.99.
For me personally, I’m interested in the game, but my time is split between so many other really great games at the moment that I don’t see myself really tempted into purchasing this until the bundle gets to something like a 50% discount.
- Comment on MindsEye - Official Launch Trailer | 2025 1 week ago:
NGL, this trailer made me more interested in the game than the original unveiling trailer. It’s still not really on my list of games to play, but I’ll pay attention if I see it brought up in the news now.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign’s Massive Steam Launch Tarnished by 'Mixed' User Reviews Over Lack of Duos Co-Op, Voice Chat 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t hold it against them. You and I are in a place where we know the value in looking this stuff up, and we know the industry. There are a lot more people out there who don’t, and others who still haven’t made the mistake they need to in order to learn it.
- Comment on Video Game Workers [at ZeniMax Media] Reach Historic Tentative Contract Agreement with Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
New in Copilot: QA testing functionality!
- Comment on Skyrim-style open world RPG Tainted Grail: The Fall Of Avalon releases out of early access today 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month ago:
Their deliberate word choice of “upgrade” to supported operating system is mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Daggerfall, too.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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.