dukemirage
@dukemirage@lemmy.world
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
That’s actually more than I thought. I thought about 80% fall into complete oblivion.
- Comment on The Free Shepherd | World Premiere | The Game Awards 2025 10 hours ago:
not really a dog person but that looks fantastic
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 12 hours ago:
Thanks I’ll will try it eventually. It’s not the difficulty I’m worried about, it’s the sheer amount of combat.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 21 hours ago:
I really want to experience the narrative but I really don’t want a JRPG. They burn me out.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 1 day ago:
Let’s not push the myth here that over dependence on LLMs is the only source of bad code. In the past it’s almost always been management constraints, probably the case here, too.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Except the cake will be good. It‘s more like making the entire cake out of fondant.
- Comment on ROUTINE – Launch Trailer 1 week ago:
All the positive Steam reviews are from people who can’t believe the game has been finally released and say nothing about the actual game.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 1 week ago:
its clearly pr
Yes, as I said, plan B. Do you expect the studio to say “ok fuck it, let’s close up” when they projected a huge loss of sales after Steam denied their release?
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 1 week ago:
It would be an extremely risky strategy. The studio’s whole portfolio are offbeat shortforms (indeed one of the higher profile indie devs) and I don’t think getting banned from Steam and losing sales there was something they anticipated. Using this for publicity is plan B for damage control.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 1 week ago:
please share your theory. also, why popularity matters.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
It already is a unique art form. This is not defined by the commercial availability, and this game wouldn’t be the first art piece that understands controversy as part of its essence.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 week ago:
What’s CSAM?
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 1 week ago:
Stardew Valley totally would have taken staff and money if you can’t live in your parent’s house forever.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes if a game is available on GOG and Steam I choose Steam simply because I will play the game exclusively on the SteamDeck and there Steam’s eco system and UX is obviously better.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want to discredit Steam’s features like compatibility layers, but the software itself is a mess. It is an unnessecary RAM-heavy chromium instance, to be fair, just like most other launchers. I replaced it with Playnite which is streamlined, responsive and more feature rich for managing a library (Steam still needs to be installed of course because they don’t offer offline installer like GOG). And I’d argue that console user saren’t free of launcher, they are locked into a very specific one.
But as someone who’s neither been to Costco nor Walmart, what is the difference?
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 2 weeks ago:
With the second paragraph I agree, it’s a bad fit for a sequel and this is consensus (probably, I didn’t enjoy Bloodlines much), even TCR thinks so. But is this a scale? Is Bloodlines 1 a lesser game with subpar gameplay because it’s systems weren’t as complex as other CRPGs? “Game” is just the term we stuck with, it doesn’t mean that the fidelity of the gameplay, the mechanics and dynamics is paramount. If I value narrative, and it is, has become, a narrative medium, I very well might think that A Machine For Pigs did a better job.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 2 weeks ago:
SOMA isn’t a walking sim and I don’t remember such situations in Still Wakes the Deep. The gameplay never stood in the way for me.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, too
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
A decent review process is always necessary, LLMs or not.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
The launcher?! This bloatware is the second worst thing about Valve’s services right after the gamble mechanics.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 2 weeks ago:
The gameplay in their original IPs is only subpar if you think that walking sims are inherently lesser games.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
It might be cosmetic, but it can be sold, which fuiels the addiction mechanic. EA is bad, too, but this whataboutism.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
Loot boxes in Counter-Strike
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
Unreal 1 was a milestone, and Unreal Engine always has been very popular, now more than ever.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
Valve banned shitcoins and blockchain scams
would’ve been nice if they banned gambling, too, but that’s part of their business model unfortunately.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
The killer app is language processing and if a localization contractor isn’t using an LLM to quickly check for style errors and inconsistencies, they’re just making it hard for them for no good reason.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
It’s been a very common feature for the last few years and has been very rare before that so it really depends on when you started playing new releases.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t want to argue about your initial point, I do want to argue about your weird persistence that I didn’t get what you were saying.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
So because I don’t wanna argue I don’t get your point?
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
I can disagree with a little detail and still get your point.