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- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 1 week ago:
Factorio has more value than the vast majority of AAA games I’ve played.
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 1 week ago:
Engines cost money for a reason. It means you get the tools while someone else spends the significant resources to develop and maintain it. There are FOSS engines available, but those aren’t as developed or widespread.
- Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!) 3 weeks ago:
There was another actual event at the end of Burning Crusade with similar mechanics to this. Plagued grain barrels spawned in cities, and players who interacted with them would die and spawn as an infected zombie. They were able to attack other players and spread the infection in doing so. My memory is pretty hazy since it happened so long ago, but in Shattrath (a high level neutral city), the zombies weren’t able to be attacked (probably due to pvp flags being forced off within the city limits), but in the faction cities, they were. This led to mobs of zombies roving around in Shattrath, pouncing on any unfortunate player they could find, where players in the faction cities formed subjugation squads and would patrol around, exterminating any zombies in sight.
Something else interesting was zombies gained access to another language (Zombie), and since Shattrath accommodated both player factions, you were able to speak to zombified members of the opposing faction.
- Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!) 3 weeks ago:
There were other “healers” during the pandemic, like those who would 3d print face shields and such for emergency workers. I also remember seeing shitheads do things like spitting on and licking items in stores for the social media shock.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but these same companies will drag you to court and rake you over the coals if you infringe on their copyrights.
- Comment on Star rupture on sale. It's only $20 to begin with, heh 1 month ago:
I typically don’t do early access games either, but added to the watch list.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 1 month ago:
Check out the Youtube channel Let’s Game It Out. Josh is very creative in finding ways to torment the NPCs of various simulator and tycoon games.
- Comment on A Playthrough Reborn: Rediscovering Final Fantasy XIV 1 month ago:
I quit the game more than once during the slog that is the post-ARR questline. I got to the point where I was just skipping all dialogue, then started paying attention again when I noticed new characters being introduced. Getting to Heavensward was great, both storywise and just to be in new areas.
I heard later that they pruned that section of the questline down, and it really needed it.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran defends studio's attempt to make something different with Anthem: "BioWare's always been changing" 2 months ago:
Probably more floundering. An EA exec told them at one point that their demo was crap (and based on word from other devs, he was probably right), so they reintroduced flight, which IMO was one of the best aspects of the game. EA didn’t force a new story or concept on Bioware, though. All that was Bioware’s own fault between lack of leadership and staff burnout.
A long read, but this article goes pretty in-depth on what happened during the development of Anthem: kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731…
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
Maybe. Maybe not. Some Amazon exec thinks it will, though.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
This isn’t for Fallout fans. It’s for people who watch Netflix/Prime and saw the Fallout show. Reality shows are pretty popular on these platforms (Beast Games is #2 on Prime right now) so that’s who they’re going after.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
A reality show vault? Not even Vault-Tec had any experiments that were that cruel.
- Comment on Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore' 2 months ago:
Hashbrowns scattered all the way was my go-to.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 2 months ago:
“Anthem actually had the code for local servers running in a dev environment right up until a few months before launch,” Darrah continued. “I don’t know that they still work, but the code is there to be salvaged and recovered. The reason you do this, it pulls away the costs of maintaining this game. So rather than having dedicated servers that are required for the game to run, you let the server run on one of the machines that’s playing the game.” This, he added, could have worked alongside an additional move to add AI party members to the game, allowing people to play it like a single-player game.
Ok, this is even more heartbreaking now. I loved the concept of Anthem and had a fair bit of fun with the game in its current (prior to shutdown) state and was hopeful that the “Next” project would overhaul it into something great. I still don’t blame EA for their decisions in this case; Bioware fucked around for way too long during development and the overhaul project was most likely seen as too little, too late… or too expensive.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
It means GW1.
- Comment on DAE name their characters by their official name? 4 months ago:
My WoW characters had a mix of thoughtful and funny names.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 months ago:
An item that is sold to you at a loss in hopes that you buy more profitable stuff from them to make up for said loss. Game consoles are usually sold at a loss in order to get people into their ecosystems, so they can buy things like games and subscription services, which are more profitable.
- Comment on You guys should check out Far Far West, they're having a Playtest that ends on the 10th 4 months ago:
Looks cool, Wishlisted.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 5 months ago:
Might be fine with space bar as-is. I use the side of my thumb for the space bar, not the tip.
- Comment on Dispatch sells 1 million copies in 10 days 5 months ago:
I’ve enjoyed Telltale games in the past (specifically Tales from the Borderlands and Batman), so I’ll likely pick this one up later during a sale.
- Comment on Halo community lead wears PlayStation t-shirt to announce: ‘Halo is on PlayStation going forward’ [VGC] 5 months ago:
We’re already seeing some of that with things like the ROG Ally. There are also specialized emulator platforms that can play cartridges from multiple consoles.
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 5 months ago:
Considering Skyrim Special Edition is handled like a different version of Skyrim, I would completely expect this version of Fallout 4 to break mods.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles | Review Thread 6 months ago:
FFT is hands-down my favorite Final Fantasy game. I’m busy with other stuff at the moment, but I definitely plan on getting this one eventually.
- Comment on they really need to nerf this boss 6 months ago:
I now understand why so many people are complaining about Silksong being too hard.
- Comment on After current events I'm now replaying this gem. Forgot how fun killing Nazis actually is 6 months ago:
I started replaying this one recently, as well. And yes, killing Nazis never gets old.
- Comment on Blue Archive, [an anime RTS], got hacked, but the hacker just spawned the same character everywhere without touching valuable data, Nexon confirms - AUTOMATON WEST 7 months ago:
It was definitely one of the funnier hacking incidents I’ve seen in a game.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
A lot of executives in publicly traded companies only have a tenure of a few years, so they’re focused on pumping the stock for next quarter to maximize their bonus. They probably won’t be around if/when the whole thing comes crashing down; that’s the next guy’s problem.
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 7 months ago:
One streamer dropped over $100k on Diablo Immortal when it released. His gear was leveled so high, he couldn’t match against anyone else in pvp.
- Comment on The PS4 version of Genshin Impact is being delisted and shut down | VGC 8 months ago:
Yeah, I’m sure they ran the numbers and a decision like this didn’t come lightly. Also, since this is a multiplatform game, there’s a good chance the displaced ps4 users already have another device they can play the game on. Ultimately though, if the devs want to grow the game, then these decisions have to be made. Back when I played, after every major patch, you were guaranteed to see people lamenting that they could no longer play the game because their device no longer had enough storage.
While I understand it’s not a 1:1 comparison, Final Fantasy 14 dropped support for PS3 in 2017, and the console was only 11 years old at the time.
- Comment on The PS4 version of Genshin Impact is being delisted and shut down | VGC 8 months ago:
Unfortunate, but sometimes you need to cut support for 12 year old hardware in order to do more with your game. I come from MMOs, and this sort of thing would regularly happen when a new expansion would be announced. Minimum specs rise, and support for old stuff gets cut.