Ashtear
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- Comment on NES composer Masanori Miyamoto uploaded original synth compositions before they're converted 1 week ago:
Nice! I hear some familiar soundfonts in there, I wonder if Japanese composers back then had a lot of the same ones.
- Japan’s biggest “ghost developer” known for working for Atlus and Square Enix sees significant growth in console sector following shift away from mobile games - AUTOMATON WESTautomaton-media.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Pragmata reviews! 1 week ago:
87 on OpenCritic. If I’m being honest, that’s quite a bit higher than I was expecting after playing the demo. The gameplay felt novel for about three fights before it quickly started to feel like extruded third-person shooter product.
Unless I start hearing really strong things about the story, I’ll probably be waiting for a sale.
- Comment on Pragmata reviews! 1 week ago:
I have never understood this. Heard it with Undertale, too. One can always just ignore the weirdos in the fanbase?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 12th 1 week ago:
I got absolutely sucked into Mewgenics the past month, still playing that. It doesn’t help that no other recent releases have caught my eye, and there aren’t really any on the horizon other than Mina the Hollower, which still doesn’t even have a release date.
- Comment on Don't Starve Elsewhere - World Premiere Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Nice, best gaming news so far this year for me. I played the crap out of the original.
- Comment on Rhythm Heaven Groove launches July 2 2 weeks ago:
Woo, that song in the trailer is filthy, but I sure hope the text-to-speech is something you can turn off.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Bit of a tough sell to shareholders when Death Stranding sold well north of 10 million copies.
- Comment on Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog? 2 weeks ago:
Likely quite a bit of overlap with those people that are okay with genocide happening (trans or otherwise), but at the same time are zealots about animal cruelty.
- Comment on Do YOU consider Kanji difficult? 3 weeks ago:
There is at !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz but it’s not super active. Like a lot of things on the Threadiverse, it’s best to go up a category. !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz is more active, and there are many Japanese learners there.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, substantially higher production quality than I was expecting out of the visuals.
That said…I hope this is an early pass at the writing and voice acting for the purposes of a trailer. Rogue Trader was a lot better than this in both regards.
- Comment on I tried Persona 5 - I did not like its style 4 weeks ago:
Cinematic style as in it’s heavy on cutscenes, or that you didn’t like the art direction? If it’s the former, that’s been the general orientation of the genre for a little while now.
You could try something more gameplay-oriented, like Octopath Traveler, Shin Megami Tensei V, or Rune Factory.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 4 weeks ago:
SQEX already tried that, and just like here, also with third-rate producers in a new tech space.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 4 weeks ago:
It really didn’t take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m interested in the premise, but if it’s a 300 hour grind to Vox and Nagafen solo, it’s not gonna be for me. When I started (late Kunark), much of the old world was already dead, so it’d be neat to see that content.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn - Something is Coming... - GameSpace.com 4 weeks ago:
Owlcat is a big RPG developer. Closer to Larian in terms of headcount. $1.4m is a drop in the bucket.
The concerns here would be about the different type of project and Owlcat’s history of releasing unpolished games at 1.0, not in it being a soulless cash grab.
- Comment on Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC 5 weeks ago:
Rampant, sociopathic, infinite growth corporate leadership is one thing, but I always assumed someone was being served by these CEOs. What this brief says about Kim is incredible, and that he didn’t settle this case is just icing on the cake of incompetence here.
I’m old enough to remember when CEOs got held to account for this sort of thing, but I guess the big boys are all kings of their castles now. I’d be pissed if I was a Krafton shareholder.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 1 month ago:
When almost half of their income comes from MTX and other services purchases, their first-party games were never, ever going to be simultaneous releases. Sony wants as many users platformed in their ecosystem as possible, and exclusivity is one of the ways you do that. This was a pretty simple ROI calculation, and when you’re already losing Steam’s cut, it would take solid performance to be worthwhile.
The above comment mentions goodwill, and that’s another thing; Sony burnt up the goodwill they earned with PC users (and probably then some) with the PSN nonsense for these ports. It’s like how Nvidia continually gets bad press for their gaming GPU division, at some point you gotta look at how it’s affecting your overall brand.
- Comment on Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix? 2 months ago:
Don’t use bloody mary mix. Add tomatoes, whether skinning and cutting them yourself, using a can of diced or crushed tomatoes, or tomato paste. If fresh or paste, add chicken stock.
You’ll also want an acid. Can be vinegar, lemon juice, or even mustard.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 2 months ago:
I’d forgotten that was on the Nvidia list. Wasn’t many misses on there. Final Fantasy IX remake was another big one that never surfaced.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 months ago:
I agree this is a much more plausible reason. Not only was there less choice, there was less opportunity. Adjusting for inflation, I paid over $150 for Final Fantasy VI when it came out. Games were precious, and the good games were ones you replayed because–unless you were quite privileged–you didn’t have a big library to choose from.
That’s the kind of thing that endears players, and it takes truly exceptional products to get there now. There are also far more studios that have the game-making formulas to work with today, too. I don’t think that’s a bad thing in any way.
- Comment on What is Substack and why all the sudden do all the content creators seem to be on it? 3 months ago:
Forbes 2.0
- Comment on New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe 3 months ago:
Not gonna lie, if they get Ashly Burch I’m gonna pick it up.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 3 months ago:
This feels like cope a bit, honestly. The thing about the current push for system requirements these days is it’s less about visual fidelity and more about saving development time. This is especially the case with ray tracing, with setups that are far easier to get passable lighting on. Not that there’s ever a fortunate time for exploding hardware prices, but it’s especially unfortunate that they hit while the most popular GPUs right now are 3060 and 4060s. Not exactly RT powerhouses. It would have been better for everyone involved if RT hardware was a generation ahead, and the “we want to spend less time on optimization” part of the push isn’t going to stop.
I don’t know if the AAA devs will hit the brakes a bit on visual fidelity in response to the hardware situation slowing down, but that and the gradual rise of handheld PCs will certainly create an opportunity for lower-spec games to find a market.
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 3 months ago:
He’s kind of a JRPG traditionalist, so I’m not surprised he wasn’t big on the game.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type 4 months ago:
Someone just needs to clone him so he can actually finish the new game.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 4 months ago:
First year recorded.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 4 months ago:
Considering we’ve already got the one former Larian employee speaking out against this, it’ll be interesting to see how many more show up off the record (or maybe on the record anonymously). I’m sure there was an internal battle over it.
There aren’t many (possibly none) with more goodwill banked among enthusiast gamers than Vincke, so I feel like we’re about to see just how far a popular figure can step into this particular puddle without coming out soaked.
- Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 4 months ago:
Yeah, pound-for-pound, as far as collecting stuff goes, these games get crazy expensive. Some of them are more generous than others with the in-game currency outlays, but that can become its own problem with daily grinds.