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- Comment on Extraction shooter The Cube, Save Us has announced it's shutting down just three weeks after it launched 3 days ago:
The reviews are decimating it, yet the owners will have learned nothing.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 3 days ago:
Unity makes me hesitate due to their past aggressive data collection issues. Now sure how it is at the moment, but in the past it really, really wanted all your data.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Coincidentally, I suddenly felt like playing XCOM 2 again.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on is it normal for parents to act nice one minute and rude the next? 6 days ago:
Oh, i see. I thought it was a more sudden, on the spot shift.
- Comment on is it normal for parents to act nice one minute and rude the next? 6 days ago:
Isn’t that like bipolar disorder? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of bipolar?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
On a scale of 0 to 100, 77 is to 100 what 23 is to 0.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Assume away.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Here’s how it can go from 0 to 100 real quick:
0-23=77-100 => 0+100=77+23 => 100=100 => 23=77
qed.
- Comment on Found a browser space MMO using real orbital physics 1 week ago:
The LLM bot game is evolving…
Anyone risking that link? Is it vibe coded malware? Looking for the criminally insane to try it out!
- Comment on Starfield - Free Lanes Update 1 week ago:
An ok game is worth 40$? You sound rich. Or maybe i just sound poor…
- Comment on Is there any decent PvP FPS that's not infested with cheaters? Looking for a decent PvP FPS 1 week ago:
I recall someone mentioning the game allows disabling foliage as an exploit?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 29th 1 week ago:
Encased. Had it for a long while, but it’s an abandoned effort of a defunct company aka the money ran out towards the end of development, so they rushed for an early release, but failed to stay afloat. Anyway..
An isometric RPG where you’re the new employee arriving on an extraterrestrial rendition of the Zone. Welcome, Stalker! You got character creation with attributes, skills and perks, you got flinging bolts into anomalies and you got the monolith with zombie stalkers running around hearing voices. What’s not to love? Probably the end game. But I wouldn’t know since I didn’t get that far yet.
Also, the narrator’s voice is that default early LLM voice YouTubers are using for their short alien stories. So, geh.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 29th 1 week ago:
TCL is your friend. No need to unlock doors when you can float through them.
- Comment on I was with "it" once, then they changed what "it" was... 1 week ago:
When you’re young, you want to get ‘it’. When you’re old, you already got it and just want to be comfortable.
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember, but it was one of those yellow cartridges the size of your palm. I think they were knockoffs. Can’t say for sure.
It was a side-scrolling fighting game with tiny martial arts dudes. It could be played co-op. I think the bald character was overpowered, or I just felt like he was. It was either a tournament style, attacking a rival dojo or both. Or something else.
I liked the cool art on the cartridge.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Don’t go all in with Steam. The people in charge right now are kinda old and the vultures are already circling.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 2 weeks ago:
Earlier these few months, an article popped up educating indie devs on how to attract a publisher and it basically boiled down to “appeal to their money-grubbing soulless husks”, because investors don’t care about games, they care about making profit out of an investment.
But it defended this kind of practice because profiteers care about results. They want a game to be successful, because it makes them money. However, they’ll also cut their losses early if it doesn’t look good.
Developers on the other hand just want to express their creative vision, even if this might bring them to ruin. And it’s this cooperation between realism and idealistic, when done properly, that brings out the greatness of a game. Or so they said.Unfortunately, a lot of the decision makers involved are idiots who fail to understand the need for balance between the costs of production and unhinged desire for success, artistic or material.
Kingdoms of Amalur failed because the people in charge spent their money like crazy on comfort and knickknacks.
Concord failed because the publisher threw a large sack of money at the devs and then fucked right off without a care in the world, leaving a bunch of headless chickens to run around it with no purpose or direction.
New World failed because it was a project run by scammers looking to scam investors (or so I’ve been told).
Highguard failed because the owner was dumb. And probably still is. Also, Tencent was their silent investor, who pulled out when shit went sideways.
Indeed, the formula for a good game doesn’t guarantee success. Even the best of games will fail if the conditions allow it. Yet, for those who simply do not give damn about what they’re making, their carelessness will make damn sure they guarantee its failure.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
Or something.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
PPSSPP because I can’t trust second hand dealers anymore.
- Comment on "Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel 3 weeks ago:
Gooners.
- Comment on What if glassmorphism and neumorphism had a baby? I redesigned my city-building game's menu window. 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the well wishes.
A recent study performed on the large batch of one person revealed that pure black used as menu button colour is unlikely to draw out a positive emotion. When asked for more details, the study participants suggested having a more colourful UI would make it more visually pleasing and subtly influence the player’s perception of the game itself. However, the colour pallet should not be in conflict with the rest of the game or its theme, but rather to complement it.
Both the study participant and I wish you well on your journey.
- Comment on [DX] What's a Concord-like? 4 weeks ago:
Nah, didn’t you hear? Ever game that fails does so due to DEI!
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 4 weeks ago:
The loudest are often the weakest. I’m averagely sure there was a (biased) study made back when it was popular which suggested many of the most intense participants of an online community barely participate in the activity itself and are instead more interested in projecting themselves as leaders or a person of influence in order to dictate or direct actions and narratives.
- Comment on What is a game that hits a similar itch for you as Divine Divinity? 5 weeks ago:
As divine divinity? Maybe Sacred.
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 1 month ago:
No peace. Only war fueled by annoyance.
- Comment on Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good? 1 month ago:
They don’t go after everything foreign. They are produced with instructions by which they identify a threat. It’s their production source which provides the instructions and it’s not that smart or we wouldn’t have cases where the immune system attacks the body itself.
- Comment on What do you guys think of Crimson Desert? 1 month ago:
But you can swipe the enemy’s feet to knock them down!
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 month ago:
New version = old version + ai?
- Comment on 👐 aliens. 1 month ago:
Yup, just some goats walking on two feet.