Ashtear

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Impossible to rank, so I’ll pull from at random from a top 25 I did not long ago:

  • Trails to Azure - This one had a massive impact on me, from musings on depression and self-worth to love for a city, a community, and the hard choices that come from that love. Incredible story and character writing. All boosted by a well-developed world with a lot of moving parts and a crazy good soundtrack.
  • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames - Endlessly replayable. Holds up even to this day. Every time I think about it, I’m amazed at how they got lightning in a bottle with this new idea.
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Just one of those games where every single facet clicked for me. Visuals, writing, setting, soundtrack, gameplay, meta-gameplay, decision points. All of it.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it’s a thing when going back to older games after being living in the map marker era for so long. This is a big part of why games back then came with annotated maps so you’d at least have a reference for all the locations.

  I’d say at the minimum, don’t be afraid to pull up maps and take notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Setting aside how unusual it is for overall spend to decrease in this age cohort (I encourage people to read the WSJ report linked in this article), this is the only comment here that hits on the most newsworthy part of this. Video games have been recession-resistant for decades, but now we’re seeing it as a leading category for cutbacks. Even though gaming is a low-cost hobby, zoomers have found alternatives, and that surely includes F2P games.

  While trends haven’t been great for a while now, this is the most alarming data I’ve seen yet for the traditional gaming market. I feel like I’m gonna blink and there’s going to be a generational divide like there is with baseball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Improved ray tracing is key. We’re at a point where hardware improvements aren’t for selling games to end users, they’re for cutting costs for developers. Project managers don’t want to spend time and resources handcrafting lighting anymore.

  We saw it before where making SSDs baseline didn’t necessarily lead to a change in world design but certainly led to cuts in asset streaming optimization. Same with framerates.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The domestic market can be, and even that depends on your perspective. For example, China doesn’t have the insane Disney copyright regime the West has that artificially suppresses competition.

  Competing in the domestic Chinese market is another conversation entirely, as right now, for video games, China has to come to us. The remnants of insular, planned economy only get you so far when you’re trying to build soft power and expand into foreign markets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario & Luigi games are still JRPGs, which is a genre that’s more of a vibe than something easily defined. Here it’s a little easier because the series traces back to a major JRPG developer in the 1990s.

  Even Expedition 33, another one with timed gameplay, is frequently getting lumped into the category (though that might change in coming years). That’s why I prefer the term Japanese-style role-playing games, as the genre is increasingly seeing game dev outside of Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  depends how much chinese influence you want in the gaming market.

  There’s no stopping that train now, Tencent or no.

  Traditional devs need to be ready to compete, and breaking up monopolies makes for a market more prepared to do so.

• EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage'www.ign.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth it just to get your socks blown off by the opening theme, if nothing else.

  It’s not the best Civ has ever been, but RomanHoliday’s AI rework seemed to mostly resolve the biggest problem I had with it, which was the AI falling apart by the Renaissance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone seems to be more interested in the latest techbro feud so I wanted to highlight what he said about Unknown Worlds staff not being given specifics on what their compensation will be. The statement was quite nebulous on that.

  No problem going into detail about the previous execs though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing, for the big publishers, the end user (consumer) is only part of the puzzle. Investors and business partners (such as licensees) are more important, and have been for years. They bring in the wealth.

  End users are neither organized nor informed enough to have a seat at the table. The masses will gravitate towards their big properties and marketing will be shaped to that effect. Acquire said big properties if you don’t have them, and make sure all the potential investors know you did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, you must have a beefy rig. Even setting aside the weird texture issues, FPS was all over the place for me. Knew it was a hard pass pretty quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still amazed how well Wilds sold after that dumpster fire of a demo.

  I’d also recommend they open up the co-op more, but common sense multiplayer seems a bridge too far 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare's Everwild canceled amid layoffs at Xbox Game Studios⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think we get granular info on this stuff, all we know is this latest round of cuts involves sales too as they are moving to outsource some of that work. And that Microsoft’s total head count has been mostly level since they added a ton of people with acquisitions and hires in 2022.

  Clearly, Xbox has seen a lot of cuts though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There Isn’t Much Sway Held by Past Success’: Baldur’s Gate 3 actors reveal it hasn’t boosted their careers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to talk about it without getting into spoilers, but Gustave (Cox’s role) was very much a leading face of the game in marketing, and I strongly suspect that was solely because they thought the game would sell better with a male lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Bubble Bobble roguelike? Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons announced for PS5, Switch, and PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s exactly because the arcade version was amazing that I can’t, lol.

  Sometimes I’m ok with visual updates (and I don’t even mind the look of Bubble Bobble 4 Friends much), but something’s just off here. Bub’s just too upright/tall? for one thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Bubble Bobble roguelike? Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons announced for PS5, Switch, and PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Roguelite gameplay is a natural fit here but I just can’t with this art style. 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy Tactics writer says its political message is still relevant because the world hasn’t improved in 30 years [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he’s particularly strident here or anything in Japanese, but the headline here would have been better off sticking with the MTL translated “nothing has changed” in the article.

  There isn’t any optimism in Matsuno’s words here. I would have added “as always” to “economic disparity remains the same” and “again” to his comments about armed conflicts. He sounds tired of the cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  New engine, new gameplay style, new [licensed] IP. Lots of variables. Owlcat’s exploded in size recently but I can’t quite tell yet if this is their big swing like BG3 was for Larian.

  I’m also confident the writing will be competent, and Ty and Daniel have have a good track record of being available to assist on adaptations. I just hope I like the player characters more this time around. I didn’t quite click with anyone in the Pathfinder games (haven’t tried Rogue Trader yet).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once bitten, twice shy. They’ve had really mixed results doing this with the brand in the past, and their current corporate strategy suggests it’s not happening again anytime soon.

  I think the Bravely series is the closest to that we’ll be in these times, although it’s not even clear at this point if that series is continuing or not.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy X was also the first pure turn-based game in the mainline series since 1990.

  I keep hearing people cite Final Fantasy nostalgia with Expedition 33, but pure turn-based combat with realistic graphics happened exactly once in all of Final Fantasy. I don’t get it. It’s much more of a thing in the rest of the genre, including SQEX’s other properties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The writing was already on the wall following the massive successes of Persona 5 and Honkai Star Rail. Expedition 33 had its moment in the zeitgeist, but at this time it’s not clear it will be the massive revenue generator those games are. And that’s the goal for mainline FF.

  That said, SQEX has been very internally-driven for a while now, and their major teams get more excited about developing games with action elements. I’d be very surprised if FF17 returned to turn-based for that reason alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  conventional wisdom does not apply

  All the more reason why it’s far too early to draw any conclusions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too early to draw any conclusions. Take it from Mat Piscatella, who’s forgotten more about video game market research than I ever learned myself.

  Hardware launches are not like game releases, anyway. It’s the establishment of a new product market, and early game releases on consoles have an ebb and flow to them that later blockbusters do not. It’s about building growth, not first-week sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouch. Even selling it to Fandom would have been better than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life 2 always stands out in my mind for this due to it being such a physics playground.

  I usually hate water areas in games, though 😂 Especially the Zelda ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s almost no multiplayer in Honkai Star Rail, though, much less anything approaching what an MMO does. It has asynchronous character sharing and chat. That’s literally all the player interaction there is in the core game. Every now and then there’s an event where you can go head-to-head in simple games like match 3.