Agent_Karyo
@Agent_Karyo@piefed.world
MJ12 Detachment Agent
- Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's hairbrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AIwww.eurogamer.net ↗Submitted 3 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Epic Games Pins ‘Fortnite’ Comeback on Disney Partnership (a Disney extraction shooter) 6 days ago:
Doesn’t sound like the Disney-themed game is going well.
Their PR rep seems to confirm (surprised at the relative honesty) this:
“Liz Markman, the senior director of global communications at Epic, said Bloomberg’s reporting is “not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration. We are building a new games and entertainment universe of Disney experiences.”
I play indie games and in more niche genres, so I am somewhat outside of mainstream sensibilities, but is there much of a market for a Disney-themed extraction shooter?
Seems like a bad fit, but what do I know.
- Comment on It seems that Valve is working on a "SteamGPT" feature that will apparently deal with Steam support issues and is somehow connected to Trust Score and CS2 anti-cheat 1 week ago:
But this is not viable for every use case. If there is a major issue with my Bank account, I want to speak to person, period.
Specific actions have automated workflows is of a course a good thing.
Documentation is also good, but it often doesn’t account for edge cases or your unique situation. Not to mention, the majority of the public is not going have the desire to deal with documentation.
- A dark turn-based management game, [with some RPG elements], about prisoner quotas, heretic hunts, revolt, and supernatural horror is heading to Steam in 2026turnbasedlovers.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG Site 1 week ago:
I personally don’t understand how people play RPGs no console. I don’t mean this in an arrogant or aggressive manner, back in the day (most of 2000s) consoles ccompletey fucked the PC game market. These days it’s irrelevant, the market is so huge that I can play tons of unique PC only RPGs and it doesn’t matter what Obsidian or Bethesda are doing.
In context of RPG, consoles make it difficult to have skills systems, include text, allow modding (I still play Fallout 1/2 and Arcanum every few years, more than a quarter of a century later) and do result in UI/UX inefficiency which in turn limits themes and approaches that can be used in world building.
One just has to at VTMB 1 (computer focused) and VTMB (cross platform, but UI is console based and game design was console focused).
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 1 week ago:
They definitely want to sell hardware and have closed platforms built around their hardware.
But that’s not as easy to do as it was even 10 years ago.
The nature of gaming is changing and it’s more difficult to differentiate based on hardware alone. You have indie games which tend to be multi-platform, you have Roblox, Fortnite, PC specific games have also become more common.
And it’s difficult to manage hardware costs and show meaningful graphical quality improvements. Hardware subsidies in the first few years of a new console are basically not viable anymore.
Even Nintendo’s handheld dominance is being slowly challenged (their games are extremely expensive on a relative basis).
- Comment on Day 626 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I don’t know if making the painting for this kind of game tedious and slow is a good idea. It’s authentic, but not everything needs to be authentic in a video game.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 weeks ago:
Not if there is no impact on your console platform if a given market segment would never spend money on your platform in the first place.
I bought Death Stranding and Heavy Rain on PC, I would not buy a Playstation just to play those 2 games.
It’s their call of course, I think the era of consoles as a siloed platform is slowly coming to an end.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 weeks ago:
Great game, but the PC port UI is comically bad and lazy. It so bad on 32 inch monitor.
- The Berlin Apartment review; [narrative-focused adventure unlocks inviting character dramas in key historical contexts]adventuregamehotspot.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
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- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
I never knew there were two Beverley Hills Cop video games. Although both sound very uninspired. I might check out the 1990 DOS version, as a excursion in time type of experience.
- Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans 3 weeks ago:
I would add CDPR and Firaxis to that list. Although I would argue Firaxis has almost become a victim of its own success. I still play Civ 4 and 5, because with mods there is an infinite amount of playability.
The Civ 4 Dune total conversion is a lot of fun and it’s still getting updated (albeit these days it’s just new art from the movies).
- Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans 3 weeks ago:
I posted a negative comment about Paradox games (stopped playing them because of DLC spam) in reference to Borderlands DLC.
In my defence, I post about indie games all the time on the Fediverse, even had random people message me thanking me for helping them discover some cool game.
I will stop with the flexing. :) Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
- Comment on Borderlands 4′s New $30 Expansion Pack Isn’t Winning Over Fans 3 weeks ago:
I stopped playing Paradox games because of this.
Not mention that there are indie game alternatives that often offer something more innovative (albeit less polished) when it comes to Paradox-style strategy games.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 3 weeks ago:
I personally think “eurojank” is almost like a sign of quality. Sure you can have a bad game that has janky elements, but any truly innovative/interesting games will have some measure of jank because you’re not dealing with a template.
Then there is issue of genre. Complex strategy games like Kingdoms Reborn, Transport Fever 2 or Evolution of Ages: Settlements.
Settlements in particular can superficially look like some trash game, but if you get into it you’ll find a very in-depth game that takes inspiration from multiple genres, allows for very different playstyles and requires you to experiment and take risks to beat often overwhelming odds.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 18 comments
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- Tycoon god game Sintopia is Black & White above, Dungeon Keeper below, and it's releasing in Aprilwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- "We have no desire to be a media empire," says Palworld publishing head, but Pocketpair would be stupid to let the survival game die outwww.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 4 weeks ago:
The headline and even the content of the article don’t make much sense and I don’t get why they are so focused on the term authentic (and what do they mean by it).
Surely a viral coop game, $70 AAA and a $20 indie game can all be authentic (or not). So what does authenticity mean in this context?
And some “clones” are actually pretty fucking good.
How big is traditional marketing for games in the US or Western Europe? I remember seeing billboard for TheSims, COD and a few other games when I/lived travelled in the US, but this was a while ago
In Ukraine, the only time I’ve seen traditional marketing for video games was with new Stalker game.
I would almost be inclined to say digital hobby news/discussion (doesn’t matter which platform/type) has de facto become traditional marketing in context of video games.
- Subnautica 2's early access release date was "self-servingly" leaked by Krafton, "further damaging the game", claim lawyers for reinstated Unknown Worlds CEOwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A very DLSS5 Jackie Chan.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I also wanted more, but I think you are right, it’s paced exactly right for what it is.
Sometimes less is more.
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- Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in valuewww.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 68 comments