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- Comment on Bungie delays Marathon, telling players, "we know we need more time" 4 days ago:
Offline play with bots, not server dependent… Its a multiplayer game with mtx. Its not an Online-Only service game.
You could consider it a service game of sorts, but it isnt the toxic sludge that Destiny 2 and Marathon are/could have been.
- Comment on Bungie delays Marathon, telling players, "we know we need more time" 4 days ago:
Agreed. I would love it if they took all the assets and the engine and made a great campaign actually grounded in the marathon universe. Thats what i would pay for.
- Comment on Bungie delays Marathon, telling players, "we know we need more time" 4 days ago:
What they need is to make a completely different game.
Destiny was successful because it was the first real fps service game, it didnt push mtx, and had competent pve, pvp and a story(debatably). Bungie cant chase that dragon anymore. Its been done a million times now.
Players know all service games want is to milk them with mtx. No player wants to get into a new service game especially when its nothing unique.
Just make a good single and multiplayer shooter with a somewhat interesting story and people will buy and play it.
It seems so easy, but AAA pubs and devs cant pull their heads out of their own asses to see what players want. They just see what investors want.
There, dead horse kicked again.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
I see your point with the millions that play those specific games, maybe i am just disappointed by microsoft only doing the bare minimum when they are forced to.
This is at least progress
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
Oh and about the potential for native Xbox games running on PC handhelds… God i hope youre right.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
Is it good enough for you? Is that why you will get it? Where are these people you speak of…?
I highly doubt there are enough people that want that super particular use case to make this particular handheld stand out at all, especially ones that didnt meet their needs with another handheld already.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
What a weak sell then, i understand your point, i just wish Xbox came out swinging with a compatibility layer for the Xbox game library. A portable device with that capability would have the potential to put them back on top.
Instead we get a less bad version of windows, that will likely be inferior to its direct competitor anyways(steamOS). I see no reason to believe it wont be.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
Its not that i dont prefer the PC library, its that there are already dozens of other handhelds that play PC games already.
So then the UI is the sole reason people should want this device?
I see no reason why this UI shouldnt also work on the plethora of other windows handhelds in the market currently. This leaves nothing new for this device to offer… Unless its really cheap.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 1 week ago:
This will likely only play pc games… And that is the big disappointment.
Who cares? We already have pc gaming handhelds. Unless this is subsidized to hell so it beats all other pricepoints… why should anyone care?
If my xbox library was made mobile… That would be something new and worthwhile. NO, I DONT WANT TO STREAM. I cant always stream on a handheld either. I want to possess my games!(As much as i can anyways)
Xbox will be disappointed by the sales of this handheld and might give up on their own that could play the xbox library locally. If they do that their next generation is screwed. Lets see how this plays out.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 4 weeks ago:
As long as they remake the original Witcher(and maybe the 2nd one too) so i can experience it in a similarly cinematic way to The Witcher 3… I will be happy and excited to see what a Ciri-based game or even trilogy would look like.
Will definitely miss the masculine indulgences of TW3 in the Ciri game though…
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 5 weeks ago:
The original psychonauts was a cult classic though that got great reviews.
Starfield is in the opposite boat, it doesnt seem to have been a commercial failure, but fan sentiment is really low with the starfield franchise to the point that the hype around a sequel would be nowhere near what it was for psychonauts 2… But this is all my assumption, difficult to find/trust empirical data on fan interest.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 1 month ago:
Can you think of another commercial failure IP that ever got a sequel? I honestly want to know if this ever happens.
I have to look back and see if Red Dead Revolver was as disappointing as Starfield.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 1 month ago:
Great point. I agree that people would likely forgive all of the technical and environmental shortcomings(loading screens and bland environments) if the game had even a slightly interesting story. Anything worth experiencing at all. Unfortunately it fails on all 3 of those fronts.
The places where it excels (1st person gameplay compared to other B* games, ship building, and graphics imo) are not enough to make it a game worth experiencing.
It honestly should have used another 2 years in the oven to make the lore and universe more interesting. No way Bethesda wastes another 5-8 years on a sequel with the negative reception Starfield received.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 month ago:
Brothers: tale of two sons
- Comment on Wario64: Borderlands 4 is moving its release date up to September 12th 1 month ago:
As opposed to paying actual real-world currency to respec a character… Like in monster hunter wilds 🙃
- Comment on Painkiller - Weapons Trailer | Galaxies Showcase 2025 2 months ago:
We will see what the aaaactual gameplay looks like. If the hit detection and subsequent damage effects are at least at Doom’s level, it could be a good game. This video might as well be a mock up.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 2 months ago:
The only thing “convoluted” about this whole announcement was pricing. The price of the console The price of the games The price of their online services and upgrades…
All of that is gut-wrenching as Nintendo claws at its dedicated fans wallets.
Otherwise the features and games look amazing, i understand why people are willing to pay those prices.
Fingers crossed we luck out with easy jailbreaks and emulators like we did for the Switch 1.
- Comment on PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 2 months ago:
I have one as well that sits docked next to my playstation, its the ideal way to game, if you dont mind dealing with a bit of challenges to get some classics running.
- Comment on PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 2 months ago:
Edit: preserve for their customers, not preserve the data for themselves, they can still choose to vault content forever, then what good is it to anyone?
- Comment on PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 2 months ago:
It will definitely be something in between that incrementally moves the mark in their favor to an extent that people dont mind.
Linux truly is the only open frontier of gaming and software independence. The only reason to not be there already is mild inconvenience.
- Comment on PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 2 months ago:
Theyre already doing it with all PS3 games, and you can only stream them.
This absolutely is not preservation of classic games, this is walling off and financially exploiting them as much as possible. Nintendo is doing the exact same thing.
Imagine if these companies started doing this with all new games? They wont right now because people would be outraged at not possessing their games(or at least their data).
Alas, we are all boiling frogs and 2013 Xbox is getting what they predicted… An all digital future where the consumer possesses nothing and pays more for it. This is exactly where Sony is headed… Dont let the insulting trickle feed of 2 classic titles per month convince anyone otherwise.
- Comment on PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 2 months ago:
With a subscription most likely lol
- Comment on PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 2 months ago:
Yes, and they still do not do nearly enough to preserve their games.
- Comment on PlayStation’s extraordinary effort to preserve its game-making history 2 months ago:
But not to preserve its games…
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 2 months ago:
Well dont play The Last of Us part 1/2 or it will ruin gaming for you.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 months ago:
Well in my free time this evening, reinstalling windows on a new boot drive in a friends 8yo PC, i think thats the issue with it.
Security wise i might upgrade my plex server(running on a windows 10 hp laptop) to windows 11 hopefully to make it more secure. Ever since i opened port 32400 for plex streaming i have gotten daily notifications saying they blocked another known malicious IP…
Ive read mixed reviews on how much reliance i should put on plex to keep my network secure with that open port. Also, my windows admin account on that pc doesnt have a password to login…
If i am being wreckless and you have security recommendations with justification/reasoning… Please feel free to comment.
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 3 months ago:
I understand your sentiment…
I havent played 16 either but i also see almost no appeal. Its clearly an action rpg at heart and that isnt what Final Fantasy was originally about.
The depth of story people expect in the modern is as high as it was when ff7 ot ff10 released, the only issue is that expectations for production value have gone through the roof.
If anything is holding square enix back from creating the next ff masterpiece, its their commitment to high quality visuals, and unfortunately that is what they have groomed their fans to expect. This is why the ff7 remake is being done over 3 games, to get that much story into the visual and gameplay depth people expect, it would probably dilute the experience to cram it into 1 5-year production. That and they make money off 3 games instead of 1 lol
What would salvage ff17 in the eyes of a classic ff fan would be to cut down production value and variations of gameplay. SE just needs to boil in good turn based combat, then focus on creating a beautifully unique setting and with deep, engaging lore. That is what was so powerful about ff7 and ff10 imo. A couple minigame distractions would be good, but the amount of effort that went into the minigames in ff7 rebirth is just ridiculous.
It would be nice to see a spinoff series that focused on this at least… We can dream.
- Comment on The System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster pages are on GOG & Steam 3 months ago:
Oh yeah they are perfect games for the deck! Im dure the sequel will run great too.
- Comment on The System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster pages are on GOG & Steam 3 months ago:
Definitely. Immersive sim is a scant genre with some of my favorite games. We need more of them, so its good that the OGs have been getting so much love.
Thanks for sharing this, wishlisted.
The remake of SS1 was so masterfully done i had hoped SS2 would get the same treatment… But this heavy remaster looks like itll do just fine. Thank god itll have controller support.
- Comment on Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far? 3 months ago:
Ya know, it also might be that the lore of avowed just seems too bubly and colorful for me.
I enjoyed obsidians other recent rpg, the outer worlds, enough to finish it, i just thought it was too short.
So yeah there definitely are too many variables here to pinpoint exactly why a game resonates with someone or not.