Viri4thus
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- Comment on Star Wars Zero Company | Official Announce Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Huh, did EA just got me excited for a Star Wars game!? Whoooot?
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 5 weeks ago:
This is a pretty good take on all of this. MS, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing but enshitify their platforms in the past few years and yet, they increase the cost of admission at every enshitification step.
- Comment on PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand 5 weeks ago:
Uh, newsflash, the Euro appreciated vs RMB and USD to the tune of 10%. GTFO with this “trying times” nonsense. You’re increasing the price because there’s a massive hole in your accounts thanks to Jim Ryan’s regarded chase of live service games. How much did he get as severance and how many consoles do you need to sell for those 50€ to cover that golden parachute?
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC 1 month ago:
This is a testament that Nintendo thinks the same as I do about their fans 🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 1 month ago:
And rightfully so…
- Comment on Marathon | Save the Date Trailer 1 month ago:
Looking foward tonsee sony slap a 40€ price on it, sentencing it to be another multi-million write off.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 1 month ago:
Average reaction of a Nintendo fanboy to abuse:
Step 1: this is expensive Nintendo: kawaiiiiii Step 2: shut up and take my money you cute souless overlord
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 month ago:
“In a sense, Nintendo is the victim of its own strategic foresight. With the Switch, it was the first to spot that the narrowing gap in processing power between mobile and at-home devices had enabled a unification of handheld and home gaming experiences.”
I was out after this. This is patently wrong. Crucially, Nintendo capitalised on the failure of the vita using the exact same strategy but with a caveat: 3rd party memory cards.
The PSVita had the power to play former gen games in a compact format and MUCH better connectivity than the switch. It failed on the stupid memory cards. Nintendo did not. That’s pretty much it. Sony had the AAA handheld market with the PSP and blew it. I’d be very surprised if something like this wasn’t uttered by an MBA regard in sony’s corpo structure:
“If we divide our playerbase between handheld and dedicated living room console too much it will damage our business”.
So instead of capitalising on a massive library of games that could easily have been ported to a handheld format (the PS4 had 1,4TFlops, we’ve surpased that on mobile before the PS5 launched) SONY decided to double down on AAA and subsequently in live service games, and here we are…
If someone can create a handheld AAA console is a team lead by mark cerny with the support of AMD. To this day I don’t know how we end up with PS portal instead…
So here we are, Sony carved out a niche (AAA and fidelity) from the Nintendo handheld success, and just decided to sit on their hands with it. There was exactly 0 foresight from Nintendo. They knew from the beginning the living room was lost to either MS or Sony to begin with.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on reveals a proper generational upgrade, though its biggest new idea remains unproven 1 month ago:
Nintendo commands a (re)legion of fanatics. I was downvoted back to hell for saying the mouse was meh. We’ve had that in the legion go and it’s extremely uncomfortable and not suitable for longer sessions of play. The fact they don’t go bananza with touchscreen but rather take a shitty facsimile of a mouse tells you two things: Nintendo has idiots at the helm Nintendo is dead scared of the steam deck and is actively promoting an image of “we can do pc too”
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 month ago:
Predicted to hit 90$. That is batshit insane.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 1 month ago:
Fuck Nintendo.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 month ago:
It apes what lenovo already did and will be equally janky if not worse. At least it comes bundled with the console, but, meh.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages - Previews Thread 1 month ago:
There’s story videos now, dafuq…
- Comment on Kriegsspiel! How Napoleon Accidentally Invented Strategy Games [Super Bunnyhop] 1 month ago:
Follow him on nebula. It’s a nice platform afaik, and remunerates content creators better.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
It’s not even skill, it’s laziness and pride. The game has a quest tracker (limited to 3 concurrent quests) and also tracks quest characters. It’s just sheer utter laziness and refusal to read anything beyond a sentence and the hubris to think that if they are stuck, it’s the game’s problem, the issue is never them, they are never to blame for any shortcoming or inadequacy. That’s why they mentioned Avowed, it’s as deprived of any actual interactivity as it can be. It’s completely a fantasy on rails shooter. It’s basically a mobile game sold on steam for 70€.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
That was exactly the reason. The game has quest tracking but it’s limited to 3 active quests. It also has an extensive quest log. Rather than calling out their obvious incapability of reading a sentence, I opted to direct them towards games more geared to the effort they are ostensibly willing to put into a game. The fact them and their alt/cronies turned this into a brigade, should inform anyone what is the level of human being we’re dealing with here. Victimhood olympics, the US merican specials. Hasan Minaj put it better than I ever will be able to. Anything for fake sympathy points.
- Comment on Kriegsspiel! How Napoleon Accidentally Invented Strategy Games [Super Bunnyhop] 1 month ago:
George is a veritable treasure. Highly recommend his videos on Pentiment.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Poor victim you.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Every single one of the components of my comment are factual, I did not insult anyone, and gave pretty good advice, recommending a good game that a lot of people like. The way they are interpreted is not on me.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Is it though? In a world of limited time refunds, someone complains about something that is the exact ethos of a game, I tell them, probably not for you, play AC shadows, which is undoubtedly a good game for people who want a more accessible open world experience than KCD that is less demanding of your attention and less punishing of your time. Likely, in time for a full refund so they’re not stuck with something they find obnoxious, but I’m the ass for telling someone not to stick to something they clearly don’t like and get something more tailored to their taste. Maybe you should take your own advice, stick with me, ask me what I mean, go past whatever you interpreted my comment meant initially and see if it’s better to have someone frustrated at a game or have them play something they will like better.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Wholeheartedly disagree, these are the same arguments levied against the souls games and yet, it’s that opaqueness and steep learning curve that created such a tight knit and engrossing community. Arguably, some of the best games ever made.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Don’t have to but highly advised to do so. It will contextualise significant parts of the background and character histories. The first one is also a masterpiece, so you should try it out and see if the game type is your cup of tea, with the benefit of a lower upfront investment. If you like it, when you’re done with it, the second one may even be cheaper at the time and you get some more of that warhorse goodness.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
When someone asks for QoL to not having to pay attention to dialogue when playing an immersive RPG, clearly, they should be playing a different game, i.e. Assassin’s Creed Shadows, that happens to be really good.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Usually assholes are the ones calling names to random strangers.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Huh?
Ubi open worlds are more like avowed, better, but with QoL, which is what you asked for. KCD1&2 are not for you. Dunno why the downvotes.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
This game is not for you then. It’s OK, you can play something else, like a Ubisoft open world game. They have a dynamic world but also markers for everything so you can button through dialogue. The story is also much simpler than KKD so you don’t have to pay attention. Characters are also quite one dimensional, it’s easy to follow, much like Avowed. Highly advise AC shadows or Mirage.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 1 month ago:
That’s some grade A vintage racism right there.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
Of course you have. If you mean picking the mobs one by one from a distance because they reset after x amount of m from origin just like in an MMO (mobs are leashed), I have bad news for you. Already in Far Cry 4’s release that was rightfully pointed out as shit design, several years later is just unacceptable. Again, Kojima was right, pearls to pigs.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
You calling something bonkers doesn’t void the fact that a demonstrably cheaper game from the same developer was far more reaching and generated more engagement than the halo product from the same stable that got a 3D ad in times square. Everything else is cope.
I find it amusing that you’re using the Conway “alternative facts” defense in the same breath you compare me to the AC shadows detractors. Projection for the win I guess.
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 month ago:
The profit or loss of Avowed, next to the hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that Microsoft brings in in a year, hardly matters to investors
*Looks at tango, arkane and the rest of the cemetery.
Yes, every time anyone at MS said the engagement and GP users was amazing it was totally true. Lets believe that and appreciate how normal it is to give interviews to bloomberg saying, “we totally didn’t fail our objectives with this mediocre piece of media”.
Time is on my side, I’ll just save this interaction.