Agent_Karyo
@Agent_Karyo@piefed.world
MJ12 Detachment Agent
- Comment on 6 days ago:
So you’ve played it?
How can you trust PR contractor output? This is not even a Star Citizen thing, one does not take advertisement and press releases literally.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
better than anticipated actually
In what way? Genuinely curious? What was the expectation and why was it overcome?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Some games beat out the vast majority of Hollywood. A small selection (with a focus on more indie titles, because that’s I play):
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Citizen Sleeper I (and to a lesser extent II, albeit if II was released first it would beat I) Lone Survivor Cloudpunk Don’t Escape Consortium Age of Decadence Roadwarden
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ignoring the political context (which I actually agree with), Roberts has always had those pompous militaristic themes in a space sci-fi setting posture. It’s almost what makes Wing Commander the movie so good (it’s so bad that it’s fun sense).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I am actually a big fan of Chris Roberts’ Wing Commander movie. Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows :) ; trash sci-fi, the space bulldozer , weird cat aliens, hiding you spaceship in an asteroid while getting hit by WW2 era anti-submarine bombs, this is top class stuff if you are a connoisseur of sci-fi b-movies.
I still remember catching the movie on TV (I wonder why it was available on TV even in my country so close to the release), I tuned in during the scene in the early part of the movie where they were flying through some gravitational bla bla to get on the Tiger Claw. Fun times.
Unfortunately PR contractors report that just the intro is 5 hours of cutscenes. I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch the 50 hours cutscenes even in second monitor mode. 50 hours of scifi b-movie trash is a whole different proposition from 2 hours of laughs.
I honestly wouldn’t mind if investor types were duped into giving Chris Roberts money for a Wing Commander II movie. I would even go to the cinema to watch it.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 72 comments
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 months ago:
Fair point, with Steam sales, I don’t really feel the need to resell.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Corrupt:
That’s just the annoying American style of corruption (I say this as someone who is not American but who has lived in North America for ~10 years).
Dishonest:
https://www.thegamer.com/tim-sweeney-grok-controversy/
Specifically:
This is a vile lie by PC Gamer. I criticized a government official for pressuring Apple and Google to block a speech app owned by their political opponent, deplatforming 500,000,000 users on the pretense of stopping a small number of users from distributing disgusting content.
This is clear bullshit aimed at local (i.e. American) degenerates.
When Elon Musk went on a crusade against texty (a tiny Ukrainian new source), did genuine free speech believer Tim Sweeney care? Of course not, because polemics about alleged beliefs in free speech are bullshit. A comical joke (I say this from living there for 4 years).
- Carcass Clad is less story-heavy than Mouthwashing, but 'a lot of thought' has gone into it: 'We haven't discovered how much we can push it'www.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 months ago:
So far, in France, the only political party to have taken Russian money
Do you know how international financial shemes work? Without a web search can you explain what a dutch sandwich is?
News in Ukraine would never report on Mélenchon’s commitment to russian genocidal imperialism over a period of ~10 years? Right? Why would they even mention it?
No wonder western “leftist” always fail.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 months ago:
If you bothered to read russian military policy text (as far back as from the 90s) on management of international attitudes, you would understand it is shilling.
But chances are you don’t even speak russian and don’t know what you are talking about.
You western “leftists” are such an embarrassment. No wonder you always lose.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 months ago:
You can’t leave someone stateless
And when it does happen (de facto or de jure mind you)?
We have to deal with our own trash, even if it’s polluted from afar.
In principle, I agree.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
This is not copium, this is propaganda.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I am not a Valve fanboy.
They are only sort of OK when viewed in comparison to other American technology oligarch groups. I even hesitate to use the term “OK” in this context.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 months ago:
Yes, a fake leftists.
Western countries would really benefit from cancelling the citizenship of supporters of russian fascism and deporting them to russia.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 months ago:
That’s really too bad, he is a fucking russian shill.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Sweeney is such a dishonest and corrupt piece of shit, a very typical retrograde American oligarch.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 101 comments
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 months ago:
I was talking about data storage on optical discs, not DRM free installers. :)
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 months ago:
That may be true, I just don’t see the point of storing the DRM free installer on a disc, something like an SD card which can be easily updated seems like a much better fit.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 3 months ago:
No, physical media is not useful for PC games, you want a DRM free installer (preferably with all relevant patches applied, both game patches and compatibility DLL/mods for older games), not the physical media (which may or may not have DRM).
This ship has sailed a long time ago on PC (~15 years ago).
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 3 months ago:
Didn’t know it was that low, I knew it was smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages.
That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 3 months ago:
I would just a get pirated copy.
I haven’t pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.
- Comment on End of an era? 3 months ago:
Why do you need physical release on PC?
You need a DRM free installer (preferably with patches built-in) not physical.
Mind you, I am no Valve fan, they lean towards typical American oligarchical behaviour and they made a massive contribution to developing loot boxes. But in comparison to all other large American tech companies, they are not aggressively terrible, still nowhere near “great” though.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 3 months ago:
Many steam games are DRM free and would work even if Steam shuts down. It’s been like this at least since 2011 or so (that’s when I discovered this, it could be earlier).
I guess the impact would depend on the types of game which one buys on Steam.
- Comment on "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" 3 months ago:
Yeah, a lot of people don’t know that a decent number of games on Steam have no DRM and you can just archive the installation (make a portable copy so to speak).
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 3 months ago:
Even without a game being popular, if you sort of know what you are doing, you can “patch” it yourself via relatively easy to use tools:
https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper
There is even a patch to enable 16 bit emulation support on x64 Windows (sometimes needed for installers or some weird Windows 3.1 game ports to Windows 95).
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 3 months ago:
I don’t get the fascination with physical disc for modern consoles, it seems like the worst of both worlds.
The only way to own your games is to have a DRM free installer on a platform that has backwards compatibility as a goal/feature (so not MacOS).
PS2/PS1 discs sure, but from my understanding modern discs don’t function like they did back in the day.
- Comment on In development: Survival game set in the world of Against the Storm 3 months ago:
I actually like that they are using the same (updated) assets and visual style.
Would have been cool to see some gameplay though.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 24 comments