Ashtear

@Ashtear@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite gaming console you have played?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gen ATLAS | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.