Doc_Crankenstein
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- Comment on Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse 4 days ago:
The owners of the company get a fat check while the employees gets shafted. Same as with any corporate merger.
- Comment on Anon listens to music 1 week ago:
The meaning of art is up to the audience, not the creator.
- Comment on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% 1 week ago:
Haven’t played a Nintendo game in over a decade because fuck Nintendo for how they treat the consumer.
Just because you’re feckless and have no integrity doesn’t mean other people don’t as well.
- Comment on Lollipop Chainsaw Back2Back coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. A brand-new entry starring Juliet 1 week ago:
Yup. I loved the game and have been waiting for a sequel but fuck Sony, so this announcement might as well not exist for me.
- Comment on Lollipop Chainsaw Back2Back coming to PlayStation 5 in 2027. A brand-new entry starring Juliet 1 week ago:
Why else do you think they stopped releasing titles on PC?
- Comment on Anon listens to music 1 week ago:
Something something separate art from the artist something something
- Comment on Anon listens to music 1 week ago:
“there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism”
It’s been a known concept in leftist theory for a long while.
- Comment on Day 793 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Fallout 3 is one of the few games I’ve ever actually played all the way through (ADHD is a bitch) and man I’ll never forget being so mad that Fawkes, the radioactively immune supermutant, refused to go into the radiation filled chamber to save the day and forced me to do it instead.
Yes, I know the game has, since its original release, been updated to include it as an option (even if they have Fawkes shame you for being “cowardly” for choosing it).
- Comment on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games 1 week ago:
Denuvo is an Austrian company, not American.
- Comment on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games 1 week ago:
By using the law to circumvent the privacy of the account holder.
- Comment on Currently playing: Caravan SandWitch 1 week ago:
This game was such a great vibe
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 2 weeks ago:
Decades of anthropological evidence say otherwise. Read Graeber’s works on the subject. They are incredibly enlightening.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 2 weeks ago:
The two are not mutually exclusive
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it does function. Just not for the benefit of the working class.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Petty concessions do not obscure the overt imperialist oppression.
“I don’t care about the fact we support genocide so long as I get better quality of life.”
What a fucked mentality. Go find your solidarity with the oppressed.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost like the system is designed to prevent the working class from gaining any headway while consistently capitulating to the whims of capital.
The intrinsic failure of arbitrarily hierarchical systems. When the working class demands change, it can’t happen because [arbitrary barriers we blindly obey] while anytime the owning-class demands it, suddenly we must make compromises for the benefit of the “county’s economy”
Never forget the state and the economy are intrinsically linked. The state is a tool of the ruling class to oppress the working class. It is fundamental to the system itself.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 weeks ago:
Yup. This is why we were trying to get it increased to 15 back in fucking 2011.
Today we need it to be nearly double that.
- Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC devs faced “diametrically opposed” feedback from players in the West and Japan 3 weeks ago:
The friction in DD2 is exactly why I loved the game. It didn’t hold the hand. You had to pay attention to the world and actually immerse yourself in it.
It made it feel as if you weren’t just playing a game but were roleplaying a character.
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- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This is some dogshit bootlicking mentality.
Sort your priorities, mate, and quit carrying water for your oppressors.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Not worth buying with how they have treated the dev team with these lay offs but it’s a perfectly reasonable game to pirate if one wants to play it.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Also, it isn’t that big of a deal in a turn based tactics game to have all the animations be silky smooth or responsive like it is in games with real-time combat. The quality doesn’t directly affect the game play experience for the most part.
A turn based game at 30 frames plays the same as it does at 60 or 120. Can’t say the same for other genres.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This is why I pirate most games unless it’s from indie devs. Fuck any and every corpo entity.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 4 weeks ago:
Except the vote isn’t absent they are casting votes for McConnell via proxy.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 4 weeks ago:
Business as usual for America
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 4 weeks ago:
you forget (or maybe just unaware) they are casting votes for McConnell via proxy.
- Comment on METRO 2039 | Gameplay Trailer - Renegade 4 weeks ago:
Agreed on all points.
As I said in my other comment, Exodus isn’t a bad game. It’s actually very enjoyable. It just didn’t feel like a METRO game.
The 2nd game did suffer from sequelitus. It was fun but the writing was not nearly as up to par with the first, and that lack of hook in the writing made the last half of the game drag cause you weren’t nearly as invested in what was going on half the time.
- Comment on Is this true? 4 weeks ago:
Had to explain this to a friend when I called the original Deus Ex titles were “open world” games. (It’s technically semi-open world but, meh, nuances)
- Comment on Frictional Games' ONTOS -- Gameplay Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Jack got special treatment since he did VA for the game.
- Comment on METRO 2039 | Gameplay Trailer - Renegade 4 weeks ago:
Just gonna copy my comment from the last time this was discussed on this sub ——— Exodus wasn’t necessarily a bad game. It just didn’t feel like a Metro game.
The first two games in the Metro series exemplified a rich, linear story experience with intricate and interwoven characters, condensed level design, and strict resource management. They had a very specific and distinct atmosphere and experience. There was very little extra fluff outside of hidden secrets and logs. Everything was centered around telling the story it wanted to tell, even down to the gameplay mechanics themselves like using bullets for currency.
Exodus broke away from a lot of it to have a more open experience which unfortunately required a lot of fluff to fill the empty space of an open world design. The events in each region didn’t really have anything to make me care about it. Even if it does provide a much larger view of how society outside of the Metro had adapted, a lot of the content just didn’t feel any connection to Artyom and crew like it was in the older games.
The open world aspect also completely invalidated the resource management aspect of the Metro games. They were not able to pull it off in the way that Stalker’s very intricate economy systems do for making an open world with the feeling of limited resources. It was way too easy to farm stuff. I never worried about bullets after the first hours, in a series where bullets are supposed to be scarce enough for use as currency.As a long time fan of Metro, Exodus kinda felt like something “other” wearing the skin of the series rather than an actual Metro game. I feel they wanted to have a good, traditional Metro experience but it is everything else that feels added on to try and bring in a wider audience that resulted in a lot of older Metro fans, like me, feeling like the game was half-baked.
