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- Comment on Fallout Game in Development at Xbox-Owned Studio Might Have Been Canceled; Bethesda Would Rather Staff Up Than Give It (or Elder Scrolls) to Others 1 week ago:
After Fallout 3’s success, they should have expanded into a multi team studio. By then they’d been a publisher and developer for like 20 years. Since then they became a major publisher owning studios like iD and Machine Games and then bought by MS in 2020. It took another like 15 years and a successful TV show to realize 15+ years between entries in a series is pretty inoptimal. It’s a pretty bad fostering of talent. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim - there’s got to be at least a few people that worked on those games that could have succeeded leading development on a Bethesda style RPG
- Comment on Xbox Confirms Helix Dev Kits To Land End 2027, Xbox Mode Arrives in Windows 11 in April 1 week ago:
Whoa, end of 2027. I guess it’s not end of the world because really it’s just targeting the Windows store environment GDK so a specific dev kit isn’t a barrier to develop for it. It’s not like anyone’s going to optimize for the pillar Xbox Helix hardware. I’m betting it ends up being the lowest selling Xbox
- Comment on Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games 1 week ago:
Ubislop 2.0
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 weeks ago:
PS5 will keep being a dust collector for me. Unplugged it once the ROM keys leaked. It may someday be useful as a normal PC
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 2 weeks ago:
I’m interested in what levels of locked down it may be. Fully open software platform where I can install any OS on it. Maybe locked soley to Microsoft/Windows signed OS image. Open to install any software or only open to a selection of software stores so like Windows/Xbox store, Steam, EGS, etc. Expectations low. Microsoft and hardware devices have no consistent long term vision or identify so they keep pivoting strategies
- Former Diablo devs release demo for their Diablo 2-style action-RPG Darkhaven, but warn of "rough edges"www.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on .hack//ZERO Reveal Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Nice. It’s been ao long since the last game
- Comment on DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Sweet. Favorite fighting game back on the OG Xbox. The only fighting game that I felt good button mashing
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Checking the Steam forums, people say online required. There’s a to of ARPG these days recent and upcoming. Skipping
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 5 weeks ago:
People, myself included disliked the star crossed lover turn 2 went with following Brood War. Sharp shift from Raynor pledging to kill Karrigan to then being a depressed drunk wanting to save her. That added to the tone being way lighter. Protoss became maybe too high elfy
Terrans, I feel like they flanderized around a basic cowboy western aesthetic rather than anything the confederacy or UED were like in Brood War. A lot more competitive politics for the Terrans in the first game. A bit off that the UED didn’t return.
Zerg became a lot less interesting in my opinion. Kerrigan was redeemed. No overmind or cerebrate intrigue. I think many had way higher expectations for a hybrid/xel’naga faction
I remember a lot of complaints about the first 2 games story being long treks to make kerrigan not Zerg and then Zerg again. I don’t mind the end or what the Xel Naga ended up being, just the journey not having the weight of the first game. A lack of anger. Faction politics didn’t match up the anger of the first game. Felt more high fantasy to me than sci-fi
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 5 weeks ago:
Question will be if there’s going to be a single player component. Back then StarCraft had a beloved universe and characters. Post StarCraft 2 - the universe and those beloved characters aren’t so beloved anymore. SC2 and expansions may have been worse than Veilguard in terms of universal disappointments over the story
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time 1 month ago:
I’m hoping they can revive Star Fox Adventure. Next Zelda, I think it needs something new to it. I got tired of it way faster than Breath of the Wild. Too much of the same
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time 1 month ago:
I wonder if Nintendo will manage 2 main Zelda games for the gen considering how long it took for Tears of the Kingdom and how recent that was. Mostly want to see how the next Xenoblade looks
- Comment on Whats the best free to play anime gacha game if at any at all? 2 months ago:
I’d go with Wuthering Waves and Zenless Zone Zero. Those two probably have over 100 hours of main story and character stories to play through. Where Winds Meet is new and popular. Haven’t played much but it seems good
- Comment on Larian publishing chief says "there aren't currently any plans for a new Divinity Original Sin 3 game" as trademarks matching The Game Awards tease point to Divinity revival 3 months ago:
sequel to ego draconis
- Comment on After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series 3 months ago:
This year competition excuted well in the same launch window. Arc Raiders and Battlefield, I have played neither, people seem happy with. Looking at Steam charts, Delta Force looks popular too and CS is always popular. It’s taken like 15 years but the not Call of Duty and not sort of weird gunplay in modern times/military shooters compared to Counter Strike (I play counter strike and I know it’s gunplay and movement are weird and harsh for newcomers) are hitting their strides. Call of Duty is facing the best most suitable amount of competition since the first modern warfare
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 3 months ago:
It’s internet explorer vs Netscape navigator. Even Safari. Gemini gets pushed by Android phones. MS lost the smartphone OS war. Also lost TVs. Also lost home assistant speaker/mics. Microsoft and every other company without a major mobile OS under their unbrella is fighting a battle with a major handicap against Google
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 3 months ago:
Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it’s becoming clear they’re giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games
- Comment on Gaming PC with Chinese-made x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but you probably wouldn't want to buy it even if you could 3 months ago:
It’s the easiest path to gaming compatibility. Don’t know about loongarch. For RISC-V box86/64 supports it but it’s probably far from great and there’s a lack of RVA23 chips to test and develop for currently. These companies could employ people to work on it but most hardware companies really minimum needed effort software until it bites them in the wallet like Nvidia vs AMD/Intel. Qualcomm hyping up day one Linux support for X Elite ARM laptop chips and then over a year later it’s still medicore. Mobile graphics drivers for Mali, Adreno, and PowerVR all being different levels of mediocre. Every car company vs Android auto and Carplay
- Comment on The State of Switch Emulation right now is objectively hilarious 4 months ago:
I always just used the last Ryujinx build for desktop. Android, I won’t bother with any for another year. Something will show itself as the legitimate successor to Yuzu on Android someday and hopefully development resources consolidate rather than a bunch of forks of hard to understand how any of them differentiate much at all. PC gaming emulation is more interesting on Android than Switch currently
- Comment on 4 months ago:
1080p to 4k was a big improvement in my opinion. I still have a mix of 1080p and 4k equipment. 4k to 8k is real minor to me because 4k TVs are varying degrees of HDR now. Brightness range per zone/pixel and wider color gamut. 8K someday because someday the only TVs you should be buying for the price will be 4k but content picture quality, 4k with quality HDR brightness, contrast, color gamut - minor difference. Just need high quality sources. When I encode something, I use fairly high bitrate AV1. Another 5-7 years and I expect to be encoding everything new at AV2
- Comment on TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs 4 months ago:
They’ve been around so long but I don’t associate it with any major investigative article or any writer that made their name writing for them. It’s the most faceless notable gaming website and it’s notability to me seems entirely based around SEO and spamming social media with their blogspam articles
- Comment on TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs 4 months ago:
That website has so much ragebait. Once I noticed I stopped. Like 15-18 years ago I would read Kotaku but at some point it became click bait and weirdly gooner bait for a while so I stopped with that site 15-18 years ago. Like the site started good but then became the worst kind of geekdom pandering. Like Perez Hilton for fictional characters
It happens to every gaming site. Some worse than others. Gamespot post-Kane and Lynch and IGN at some point became a shameless industry advertising site. Polygon started real good and quickly devolved into a terrible ratio of clickbait to occasional good article. At this point the only games media I care for are official communications and gameplay videos from randoms on YouTube or twitch where the only narration I care to hear is about bugs and performance. Gameplay can show itself in video. I can judge writing myself
- Comment on TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs 4 months ago:
That is one of the websites where I never click on a link. I associate it with click/ragebait
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 5 months ago:
Grow up and learn basing your personality around what you don’t like makes you unlikable. Don’t spend eternity in teenage angst
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 5 months ago:
Do you enjoy anything?
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 5 months ago:
Nice to see the digimon comeback. This game is already a major stepup in production quality for digimon, the next is going to push towards persona quality I bet
- Comment on Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points 5 months ago:
The next Xbox if it exists will certainly sell worse than the X/S and with it will see the decline of gamepass subscribers
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 5 months ago:
Those rumors about a new Xbox console next year, no way anymore. Too expensive. Series X is $650 and something more powerful than a PS5 pro would be a pre-buiod gaming desktop at Best Buy price level. If they’re trying to have their own Wii U level of sales failure, they’ll push out an $800 console and bomb out
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation. 5 months ago:
Tried the first hour and it’s pretty nice. I did skip all the way to trails of cold steel the first go at the series and so far I like the gameplay differences. With this now I can just play the series in order as they already said they’re working on the second game