Elevator7009sAlt
@Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social
Formerly @Elevator7009@kbin.run, kbin.run died, moved here.
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 4 days ago:
I’ve heard about Minami Lane being cool. I bought because that and the strike
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 5 days ago:
“In case you missed it”
I ABSOLUTELY did not know about that until your comment, where do you find these things? I am always down for charity bundles
- Comment on I Released a Questionnaire About Video Game Preservation! 1 week ago:
I used to fill surveys on r/samplesize for fun, it was a mild positive of my day to come across one on Lemmy!
I do have some issues with some of the questions, spoiled for those who have not taken the survey yet.
Issues with survey questions
For “Do modern video games have too many micro transactions today?” giving our opinion and saying “I never paid a microtransaction” was mutually exclusive. It is possible to notice the amount of microtransactions in video games, and to have an opinion on whether that is a good or bad amount, without ever buying one yourself. Folks who never bought microtransactions might not choose “I never paid a microtransaction” because it is either that, or say if you think there are too many microtransactions. For “There is a possibility that access to your games could be revoked, as stated in the TOS,” I wasn’t sure what to put. I strongly agree that that possibility exists, so I was considering putting Strongly Agree. But I do not agree with that practice, so I also considered putting Strongly Disagree. I wasn’t sure what I was being asked to agree or disagree with here. Similarly, for “Prices of old video games may lower when a modern release of the same game is available to purchase,” I wasn’t sure if we were being asked if we agree that is a phenomenon that happens, or if we think that should be a thing that happens. Luckily I both agree that is a phenomenon that happens and that it should happen. For “Companies should make single player video games be released for a limited time, regardless if its physical or digital” I had no idea what was being asked at all so I just put Neutral.
- Comment on Football Manager 25 cancelled, as Sega shifts focus to FM26 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a football/soccer person, but I do feel bad for what happened here. I saw in the article a survey on your favorite management game with a Football Manager title as an option, how are these games if you look at them as management games instead of as sports game?
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day 2 weeks ago:
Every time I see a sequel I get curious about the first. KCD1 seems like something I have a 50/50 shot at either loving (roleplay!) or hating (QOL stuff, probably the combat), not sure which side I’ll come out on.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hits 1m sales in just one day 2 weeks ago:
I’m asexual, not aromantic, but thinking about this from an aromantic perspective I completely get wanting more close platonic relationships that don’t turn romantic. That would actually be inclusive, a lot of people try to put romance everywhere, and I get it! It’s fun to do! But aromantic people like to have representation too, and options to be friends but not romantic helps them feel represented.
Too bad this guy’s “checkbox insert” means it’s probably (I might be wrong) an “omg too woke” complaint and not a “hey platonic relationships are important too, don’t make every significant relationship romantic” for all the aros (or even non-aromantic people who think friendship is important as well as romance) out there.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 2 weeks ago:
Given the “people online, especially gamers, are antisocial losers with no friends!” stereotype, the very real issue of how difficult it is for adults to make new friends in some parts of the world, and that online there is no tone of voice or body language, I can definitely see how it is being read as a genuine complaint. Plus you can always find people with wildly differing perspectives online, which tends to completely deaden the “nobody would ever believe/say this, definitely a joke” reaction.
- Comment on Wrye Notes: Open Modding 2 weeks ago:
Recognized the name from Skyrim modding, clicked, interesting read.
- Comment on Heart of the Machine, a strategy/4X/RPG hybrid where you play a sentient AI trying to take power in a dystopian cyberpunk city, released in early access Steam 2 weeks ago:
Description looks so cool. I’m probably going to have to watch some gameplay videos to see if this is something I want to follow.
- Comment on This ancient city sim constantly simulates 1000 NPCs in a clockwork murder sandbox where you can poison someone's drink and leave 'confident that you've pulled off the perfect crime' 3 weeks ago:
social city simulation
Sign me up!
From the description here I was thinking more Hitman but what is here sounds interesting.
- Comment on Cozy Games May Help Improve Players' Mental Health, Researchers Say 3 weeks ago:
As a reader, I say “not for me” and leave overly negative things there for others to enjoy. The way I feel better is not reexposing myself to a reflection of all the ills in this world that I’m constantly being shown can be awful. But some people find catharsis in it! One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, after all. I am sure some people would dismiss some things I like as too saccharine and not realistic aka gritty enough.
- Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think they are trying to decrease their anger. I think they are trying to engage in it. Also, people generally do not like being called out, especially during periods of high emotion. Thanks for the link though, fun read! I guess we should go to bed angry ;)
- Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 4 weeks ago:
Genuinely? I think there are always a couple trolls downvoting anything and everything, or people who can’t resist being contrarian for the sake of it. I see downvotes applied to on-topic, factually correct, and completely uncontroversial posts and comments all the time. Same principle could apply here.
- Comment on Large Language Models in Video Games? 4 weeks ago:
If the feature actually worked as intended I could see myself ignoring the rest of the game and just chatting with the townsfolk.
In reality, I imagine the NPC would totally forget what we were talking about after a certain amount of messages pass. Limited context windows and all that jazz.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for clarifying. I do my best to compensate for any of my differences from what the average person wants, but it’s a bit hard if you and your environment also skews in that direction.
At least with tech I feel I’ve got a somewhat decent handle on “normal,” at least for my age group, which is not “grandparent struggling to turn on the computer”. I probably skew a little more crazy compared to average, I did switch my computer’s OS to Linux, but way less than people on this instance. Although I have no comment on the Switch/Steam Deck thing, I have zero desire to participate in console gaming and none of my friends are passionate enough about consoles to leak any information over to me.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 4 weeks ago:
I feel on every single social media platform I have ever been on I will see the comment
[This social media platform’s users] are completely disconnected from the real world.
I never know how seriously to take this. I always want to automatically dismiss it because it seems like a “everyone here is delusional” type of comment and if I have had a majority of pleasant, reasonable-seeming interactions there I will really not like the idea that these seemingly nice people who had a civil, reasonable discussion with me are actually delusional, and by extension I probably am delusional too. But setting that aside for a moment…
Obviously every platform will attract different types of people, probably not a fully representative sample of the population, a skew towards this or that type of person… but how far skewed from the “normal” experience is each platform on average? What is normal? If one platform has a wild skew towards one type of person, but that type of person makes up most of what I’ll see in real life due to my environment (like who my friends and family are, what my workplace is like), does its distance from normal matter if it’s no different from my real life normal? How much? Which social media platform is closest to the average real life normal, which would you personally say is the least “disconnected from the real world”?
- Comment on Genshin Impact Game Developer Will be Banned from Selling Lootboxes to Teens Under 16 without Parental Consent, Pay a $20 Million Fine to Settle FTC Charges. 5 weeks ago:
Most people consider lootbox/gacha predatory and regular advertising a necessary evil. Regular advertising is often manipulative too, but most people consider lootbox/gacha to be more so, especially because of the addictive gambling mechanics it uses that regular advertising doesn’t.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 5 weeks ago:
Necktie makes him feel a bit… sad and pathetic. And I usually have no problem with neckties! It’s just the way it looks on this particular duck… team bow tie all the way.
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 5 weeks ago:
For folks browsing the thread, not OP who already is done with Hades, I came to this thread to plug Hades because I hate roguelikes but enjoyed Hades. Story suckered me in, and it turns out the gameplay was fun too.
- Comment on The Death of Gaming YouTube: How Money Killed Authenticity 5 weeks ago:
The only gaming videos I’m ever likely to put out are tutorial videos.
Now that I think of it, for consistency, because I have posted game tips on the Fediverse first and nowhere else before, I might actually post to Peertube if I make it a video. But for someone else just hoping to help out their fellow gamers, they might want to make sure the widest audience would be able to actually easily access their tutorial. If I make the world’s best tutorial, but it is never indexed by search engines, I’m probably not going to help many gamers looking up the problem I try to show them how to solve. How many eyeballs will possibly see the content isn’t always a “how much money can I extract” concern. Here it is a “how accessible is my help to other people?” concern.
- Comment on Negotiations over AI are still holding up video game development - Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale explains why 5 weeks ago:
Let robots that don’t experience emotions or pain take away the dangerous, backbreaking stuff. Not the safe jobs people do because they love them. Whose idea was this in the first place? Why the arts anyways, I thought “starving artist” was a phrase for a reason, is there really that much money to be made here?
- Comment on Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024 1 month ago:
Thanks for the TL;DR!
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 121 comments
- Comment on Bioshock creator Ken Levine discusses the future of narratives in games 1 month ago:
One I’ve had to do super often is injecting a name back in a sentence. Why say
Mary said the following about Jane: “She went to the store today.”
when I could say
Mary said, “[Jane] went to the store today.”
I mean, I could just paraphrase Mary and do away with the quotation marks and brackets entirely, but when I am trying to prove something (primarily that I’m not talking out of my ass) I like quotes because you can easily just take it as direct evidence, an exact citation of what the other person said that you can use as evidence yourself, instead of a paraphrase by some random person whose reasoning and motives you do not trust.
Of course, that doesn’t get into how people can manipulate quotes and take them out of context, or even just straight up write something in quotation marks that was never said, but…
- Comment on Rule the talking movie industry in tycoon game Hollywood Animal 1 month ago:
Oh my, pretty. I have to try this! No idea what is pushing past my usual aversion to dark themes.
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 1 month ago:
I grabbed it as a gift to myself. $35.00
- Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+ 1 month ago:
Thank you, shared with my friends who claim free games!
- Comment on Video game journalist Jason Schreier's top 10 games of 2024 list 1 month ago:
Ace Attorney was a GBA/DS series for awhile.
However, Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor’s Gambit was something that went untranslated (officially, there was a fan patch) for a long time. Fan translation came out 2014, official translation 2024.
- Comment on Against the Storm looks charming and cosy, but it's actually the best and most fiendish city builder I've played in years 1 month ago:
Damn, imagine downvoting someone for asking how they can play the game according to their personal preference.
I usually don’t advertise my personal aversion to alcohol specifically because I’m not interested in getting backlash for it like you did. It would be understandable if you were being judgmental about those who do drink, but you were not doing that. I like to keep it out of my life too, and I do the same in games when I can, so you’re not alone.