DarkMetatron
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- Comment on Statement from OneBGS, the Bethesda Games Studios union 2 days ago:
Starfield is, in many regards, Elder Scrolls Daggerfall in Space. Many, mostly unconnected, game systems and mechanics, a huge mostly procedural generated world with only a few handcrafted dungeons and places. So there is hope that Starfield 2 will be Morrowind in space 🤤😄
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
I have the offline installer stored on my NAS and use GameVault[1] as a local installed web interface to access my digital game library.
[1] gamevau.lt
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Such boxes are made mostly of cardboard, the amount of plastic is rather low even more so should they leave out discs, by replacing them with flash storage for example.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
My preference are not set to english, but GOG sometimes things I am in France and from time to time sends me Mails in that undecipherable language so who knows what happened exactly in my case and why I got the mail.
But even with all that information I still classify it as a badly managed marketing stunt then a right wing outing or something like that. Nothing else they do, as far as I know, shows any signs of that.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Those would be collectibles, and as that more or less art pieces, so not really waste, unless you classify all art as waste which would be sad in my eyes.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
GOG already offers offline installers for all games they sell.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Well the games name is “End of the Sun” and it is a Slavic game, so using a slavic sun rune is not that extremely far fetched. Why using it double, which lead to the SS appearance, i``s another question and it was dumb at least. But I still don’t see ill intent, when something like that happens once I am fair enough to accept that people can do things in error. I still try to see the good in people
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
I can’t find a official statement from GOG with that content, only statements where they say that it was a error both in the internal processes, with not waiting for the responses of all internationale, especially in this case the german, teams before sending the newsletter and with checking if the runes could be problematic in some fonts.
The runes themself are both from the intended design and from the connected meaning and symbolism unproblematic, yes they can look problematic in the wrong fonts but that is more a problem of font design then of ill intent.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
The warning from the german team was not ignored, as far as I understood it, but just arrived to late while the newsletter team was already sending the mails. I also work in a international company with teams all over the world, stuff like that can happen without any ill intend, and so far GOG has shown no negative signs at all. So I tend to accept the explanation that it was only a error, especially with the very bad history that poland had with the nazi regime, Blitzkrieg and all.
Sure one can, and should, put GOG on a personal “watchlist” in case other strange or ugly stuff like this happens, but as long as that is not the case I don’t see any reason to change my use of GOG at all. Humans, and with that companies too, can make and will make errors and I am a big fan of second, or even third, chances. I try to judge by intend not by looks.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 6 days ago:
It was not Nazi symbolism, well not intentionally at least. They used Slavic runes that, in the intended fonts, looks very different from the Nazi symbols. It came to the issue because in some fonts the Slavic runes are displayed without serifs and with hard lines which makes them appear problematic. So it was kind of a self inflicted homographic attack.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Well they could, but that would cost them money
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 week ago:
Not really. They are not as bad as GTA 5 but the story lost me after a few hours each too. I think that I just doesn’t want to be a criminal scumbag, not even in a game. They may be great games, but they are not for me.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 week ago:
I tried GTA5 when EpicGames had it as a freebe and put it away after about an hour because the characters were so awefull and stupid, I could not stand it at all. That and driving the cars felt bad, there was nothing fun in the game for me. GTA just stopped being a game for me when it went 3D
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 2 weeks ago:
Because we are better then him, thats why!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That is ok for NVidia, they don’t really want to sell to end users anymore. AI datacenters give way higher margins
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I would say it depends who you ask. Nvidia is all up for the hype. isaiprofitable.com
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Neither Gabe nor Valve will earn much from the higher price, because they have to pay a lot more for the Hardware that makes the Steamdeck. It is not that they raised the price out of smite but due to AI companies with their gigantic Hardware glutony.
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 1 month ago:
Thank you for looking it up!
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 1 month ago:
Buying a castle is “cheap”, but maintaining and preserving can eat up money very fast. So let’s hope that they didn’t bite more then they can chew!
- Comment on Warhorse says that the new Middle-earth RPG 'will be a living world' with a 'strong narrative focus' and says new Kingdom Come game could arrive 'next fiscal year' 1 month ago:
The next Kingdom come? I had not have time yet to play the first two…
- Comment on Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games 1 month ago:
Morrowind with OpenMW engine and Tamriel Rebuild mod and you should be good for some time.
- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 2 months ago:
I still have games from the Snes era on my backlog, a few years will not be enough in my case. So Yes, no need to buy anything new for a very long time!
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 months ago:
Source code gets lost all the time, for all kinds of reasons.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's Japan map is the series' best yet 2 months ago:
That is unfortunately the price to pay for having cars with original licenses, the licence givers don’t like to see their cars broken and mangled. It is not positiv for the brand marketing.
- Comment on Anyone else looking forward to the new Starfield dlc and update? 3 months ago:
I really liked Starfield and had lots of fun with it and the first Dlc.
Looking forward to playing the new one two, but not that soon. I started a highly modded Morrowind playthrough a few days ago and that will take ages to play.
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 3 months ago:
It was a game for the C64 and I was 12, but I am not sure what game it was. Such a long time ago.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 3 months ago:
I can’t wait for the first videos from people who turned that Ai slime into an mysognostic, racist, pile of blue shit!
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 3 months ago:
- Morrowind
- Final Fantasy 7 (the original not the aweful Remake)
- Final Fantasy 9
- Secret of Mana
- Secret of Evermoor
- Planescape Tornment
- MegaMan X
- Gothic
- German trading simulators (Hanse, Fugger 2, Vermeer, etc.)
- all the many games on my C64
- Comment on 4 months ago:
There could be some fineprint in the contract that gives FromSoft a right to veto or something in that regard. Or it could just be respecting wishes, as others said. We can’t know and it doesn’t really matter either.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 5 months ago:
There are a few games that I would like to play but can’t because they have awefull cellshader graphics. I really don’t give anything about graphics most of the time (I play lots of retro games after all) but for some reason is cellshader problematic. I can tolerate it when it is a very light cellshader effect, but some games like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have such a thick cellshadering that it is unbearable for me. Which is a shame, because I would love to play the games but can’t.