Ashtear

@Ashtear@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of “firing your customers” even became part of marketing strategy in the last decade. Amazing what kind of nonsense bubbles up out of the muck when markets see less competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been a PC gamer, but for a long time there, consoles were affordable enough to put in for just a few exclusives. Then I gradually went from a couple consoles to one, and then I started skipping generations and now it’s at the point where my last participation in the console market was getting a used PS3 at the far end of its life and getting a Switch gifted to me a couple years ago. I was expecting to skip PS4 and get a PS5 after the price dropped, but yeahhhhh. I’m definitely still interested in exclusives (the Shadow of the Colossus remake, The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, and now Intergalactic), but at this point, there’s no viable scenario were I’m in the Sony ecosystem in the foreseeable future. Fumito Ueda’s next game being announced for PC was shocking to me.

  Even if we’re talking marginal cost differential for used games, a lot of consumer psychology is just feeling like they are getting a good deal. PC gaming is on the rise–and I don’t mean that in a cute, Lemmy Linux gaming sort of way, it’s genuinely a market shift shown across multiple indicators–there’s growing hostility towards walled-garden ecosystems, and Nintendo’s still going strong. Sony needs some sort of carrot, sheesh. Woof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that PC gaming is at feature parity with console gaming, I think it’s particularly important to tell people how available DRM-free gaming is. No, it’s not going to be common in the AAA segment of your library, but it’s a lot of games. And you’ll never have to worry about it being pulled from your library.

  The price of hardware is a pain point for sure, but if you’re able to see past that, you’ll be spending less over a generation on PC than you would on a console between not having to pay for online service, dramatically cheaper gamepad/accessory options, and a massive library of quality games at $30 or less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeahhh, anytime it goes adjective to noun I’m like 😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite gaming console you have played?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than PC, the SNES probably had my most favorite games, but the breadth of the library on the DS was fantastic. Once I got an R4 card and was able to stop carrying a dozen carts around, I was on it all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  230m copies is an insane bar to clear, even for this juggernaut. I’m sure Rockstar’s expecting some headwinds on the price, but nothing major.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny you say that, because the generally accepted style is Black and white. Here’s Microsoft’s style guide for another example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just the Windows gaming storefront. It’ll also be out on Steam in any case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gen ATLAS | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah cool. One of my friends just did Bloodborne, so it might be time to knock these two off the list finally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gen ATLAS | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, EGS isn’t ideal, but this actually being available on PC was the best news of the month for me. I thought sure it was going to be exiled to PlayStation again. I still haven’t played The Last Guardian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Outer Wilds. Completely not for me.

  I’m not big on puzzle games in general and I found the ship controls infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with all the captions on short form videos?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The unrelated ones I don’t get, but the closed caption-style stuff makes it more likely someone on the endless scroll will stop on your video when they have their apps set not to play audio unless the video is focused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if I didn’t have a standing appointment to watch game showcases with some friends, I could definitely see a scenario where I missed this. It’s not the kind of thing that would pop up at all in my regular gaming feeds.

  The funny thing is that I was genuinely tired of seeing it at every single State of Play for however long it’s been now. It was heavily marketed within a specific media channel, and didn’t stir up any controversy or buzz that reached my eyes or ears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NES composer Masanori Miyamoto uploaded original synth compositions before they're converted⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pragmata reviews!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It really didn’t take him long to spend what little goodwill he got for punching Apple in the mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.