Ashtear
@Ashtear@piefed.social
- Comment on Do YOU consider Kanji difficult? 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
It really didn’t take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.
- Comment on 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 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 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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) 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
Forbes 2.0
- Comment on New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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' 3 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 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 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.
- Comment on Which RSS are you using? 3 months ago:
I use the Smart RSS extension for Firefox. I like FOSS for this because I require next to no features for an RSS aggregator. It’s not maintained anymore and I’m sure there’s something better out there but I haven’t been bothered enough to look.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 3 months ago:
There is some very high quality writing and gameplay in the genre right now. A lot of talented people are working on these games. And generally speaking, yes, you don’t need to spend a dime to see the main content.
I tend not to recommend them because you never know who has a gambling problem (and sometimes people don’t know until they are exposed to it for the first time). There’s also the other odd quirk–not just in gacha, but in live-service and other self-insert media in general lately–where character romance is omitted from the game world because they don’t want to offend insecure men. Can make things feel flat at times.
If one knows they are fine with both of those issues, there’s a lot of great content out there.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 3 months ago:
Close enough
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 3 months ago:
Their reviews aren’t frequent. This is more of a “we ask around the org for what everyone liked this year.” It’s a consistently good list year after year.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 months ago:
I’ve noticed this is especially bad in Japanese games for whatever reason.
- Alberto Mielgo defends the Marathon cinematic as "not AI," denies his team touched Bungie’s plagiarized material and calls the art theft incident a genuine mistake that was "blown out of proportion"thegamepost.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess 4 months ago:
Holy hell. I have some bad GameStop trade-in stories, and that’s just from taking in normal trade-ins. I can’t even imagine the clusterfuck this would be. I’d be calling in sick.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
A small AAA production in 2000, maybe. E33’s was only a fraction of a small AAA budget today.
TGA calls it “a game made outside the traditional publisher system,” which fits. I’d agree that we’re looking at wildly different scales of production in the same category, though.