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- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 4 days ago:
It really does. On the other hand, you can spin this as Ubi CEO is literally, just a little illiterate.
- Comment on Oolite, the FLOSS spiritual successor to Elite, just got a graphics overhaul with 1.91, and it looks good 1 week ago:
I played only a bit of Oolite about 10 years ago and man, this does not look like the same game at all. In a good way, of course! There’s actualy detail on the ships now! Props to the Oolite team!
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 3 weeks ago:
Matt Turnbull doesn’t have a singular clue what LLMs do and what they should be used for. Except touching up your resume, I think that’s actually a good use for LLMs. However, he also suggested using it as a career coach and even a psychiatrist. That man is a raving lunatic.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 3 weeks ago:
Ah, fair point. Still, I’m not too jazzed about Nintendo making their own USB standard. They may as well call it just SB, because there’s nothing universal about this.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- Comment on The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory 3 weeks ago:
Rookie mistake. The answer to that isn’t to remove the accessory, but to add EVEN MORE accessories so it balances itself out.
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I may have jumped the gun, I apologize. What this initiative is trying to do is important to me and between Pirate Software lying his face off and one of the most prolific gaming publications not getting their facts straight… The amount of misinformation being spread around this topic just hurts my soul.
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 4 weeks ago:
That is false, PC Gamer screwed up. Here are both pages of the initiative itself:
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home
citizens-initiative.europa.eu/…/000007
Deadlines are in the upper right. And as you can see, it does NOT say July 3rd.
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 4 weeks ago:
They’re not getting half a million signatures in less than a week a man.
31st July is not a less than a week from now, dude…
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know about developing, but he’s certainly involved in a live service-ish game called Rivals of Aether 2 as “Directory of Strategy”, whatever the hell that is. His name is listed in the game’s credits (video). He comes up at around 01:57 mark. Really bums me out too, because I like that game :(
- Comment on Reminder to sign the Stop Killing Games petition UK and EU 4 weeks ago:
Um, no. Ross Scott, the organizer of this whole thing, said that it will most likely fail. Meaning that there’s still a chance of success, not that he’s completely given up. The deadline for the European Citizens Initiative is 31st July, more than a month from now.
Also, fuck Pirate Software.
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 5 weeks ago:
I see most of my faves have already been covered by others, so I’m going to add the Metroid Prime games. Unlike the mainline Metroid games, which are awesome in their own right, the Metroid Prime games are played from a first person perspective.
You still get to explore, you still get power-ups, but because you can scan almost anything with Samus’ visor, there’s some actual worldbuilding, which the mainline Metroid games didn’t really start doing until Metroid Fusion (which was alright, but Metroid Dread did a better job at worldbuilding, I feel). As for the platform, I played the GameCube versions on the Wii.
- Comment on What are your favorite metroidvanias? 5 weeks ago:
Good picks, but I don’t think Dark Souls qualifies as a metroidvania. Metroidvanias gate off parts of the map based on what abilities the player has/doesn’t have, whereas Dark Souls blocks off parts of the map simply because you’re missing a key. Also, Dark Souls doesn’t really have ability power-ups with the exception of acquiring the Lordvessel.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 5 months ago:
Just finished Yakuza 0 and am psyched to start Yakuza Kiwami (which is a remake of the first Yakuza game). The action is soo good. Beating the shit out of enemies is already satisfying enough, but where it gets really good is when you build up something called a Heat meter as you’re fighting. Once it builds up, you get access to Heat Actions and they are nuts.
I mean just look at this madness (spoilers for move unlocks)!
- Comment on Ubisoft sued for shutting down The Crew 8 months ago:
The quality of the game isn’t why The Crew makes a good target. It’s because it’s made by Ubisoft, which is based in France. And France has some pretty strict consumer protection laws. Were this, say, EA, which is based in the US, the lawsuit would be a non-starter. In adddition to that, France is a part of EU, which means Ubisoft has to comply with EU law in addition to the aforementioned French laws. So if this goes through, they will have to fight this on at least two fronts. The Crew is also a singleplayer game with an online component, which shouldn’t be necessary for the game to function, but here we are.
So to sum up: the lawsuit is not because people are super passionate for The Crew (though some probably are), but because if you’re going to make an example of a game, your best shot is suing a company which is located in a country with good customer protection laws. The Crew just happened to fit that bill.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 28th 11 months ago:
I started playing the first Nioh. Send help.
- Comment on Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? 11 months ago:
I know, I would love to see more games using that style! Then again, I completely understand that it might be easier for some devs to use skeletal animation on voxel models instead of making a static voxel model for every frame of animation.
- Comment on Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? 11 months ago:
I loved Picross 3D 2 (or Round 2 or whatever it was called) on the 3DS! As you surmised, it’s not what I’m looking for, but I’ll try to snag it the first chance I get. Thanks!
- Comment on Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? 11 months ago:
It definitely qualifies! Alas, I’ve already played it. It still astounds me that the game wasn’t ported to other platforms, it was good!
- Comment on Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? 11 months ago:
Much appreciated nonetheless. And yes, that’s precisely what I’m looking for.
- Submitted 11 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Comment on Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new “Standard” tier 1 year ago:
Not surprising. Either this was their long game or MS is in crisis mode, because lately they haven’t been doing so hot.
- Submitted 1 year ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 year ago:
That’s a good one. True enough, Splatoon doesn’t go boom, it goes splat.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 year ago:
Nope, that goes boom, too.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 year ago:
Okay, then riddle me this: which shooter DOESN’T go boom?
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 year ago:
Raging against new slang is just gonna make us more out of touch, and intensify the feeling of being old, so I just accept it and try to keep up.
NEVER! I choose to embrace my inner geriatric and complain about kids these days and their hippy-hop music.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 year ago:
Oh, I’m liking this take. Get ready for “Z Shooters” and “Alpha Shooters”.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 year ago:
Get off my lawn and leave me to my prune juice.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 1 year ago:
It does roll off the tongue nicely, I have to admit.
