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- Comment on We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them 2 weeks ago:
As a fan of story-driven games, I absolutely am NOT advocating for complete removal of stories in videogames. What I was trying to say is that if Bioware knows that their audience has an attention deficit and is developing the game around this fact, you’re going to get a crap story. And judging by the reviews for Veilguard, that seems to be the case.
If Bioware is dead set on developing games for a crowd that watches twenty-seven thing simultaneously, why develop the story at all?
- Comment on We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them 2 weeks ago:
“What you need to know about your audience here is that they will watch the show, perhaps on their mobile phone, or on a second or third screen while doing something else and talking to their friends, so you need to both show and tell, you need to say much more than you would normally say.”
This is so baffling to me. So you’ve discovered your audience has a limited attention span. I can see that. But for the love of all that is holy, if you know this, why even make a game with a story in the first place? The thing with videogames is that stories can be minimalistic as all hell, or even optional. Just let the gameplay speak for itself and have the story be “defeat the bad guy on the mountain” or something.
- Comment on Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material | RPS 5 weeks ago:
Would GNU Taler be useful in this situation?
- 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' 1 month 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 month 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' 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- Comment on The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 6 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 9 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 1 year ago:
I started playing the first Nioh. Send help.
- Comment on Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? 1 year 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? 1 year 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? 1 year 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? 1 year ago:
Much appreciated nonetheless. And yes, that’s precisely what I’m looking for.
- Submitted 1 year 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.
