popcar2
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- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 days ago:
Seriously, timed blackouts and petitions are just being performative. If someone actually cares, sell your ps5/move to another platform. Nothing else matters. This is like how sports game fans complain every year that the game sucks but are still willing to drop 100 dollars on it.
- Comment on Lazy weekend with my Switch Lite and Octopath Traveler 5 days ago:
The sequel is waaaaaaay better by the way, I would play that if you only had the time to try one.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 1 week ago:
Neat. I wonder how they’re doing this though, because I’m assuming it’s just an Xbox emulator adding the games on PC. Or are they proper PC ports?
- Comment on Bethesda Announces New ‘Fallout’ Roadmap Following Xbox Reset 1 week ago:
Well… At least it’s going to be moddable I guess, so we’ll wait a year after launch for the community to fix the game’s issues.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I wish Capcom would embrace the fangames/ROM hacks more.
On one hand, I love that they’re silently letting the fans do what they want without getting involved. On the other hand, I totally agree that it’s surprising they don’t lean harder on the fanbase. SEGA hired fans to make Sonic Mania which turned out great. Capcom could straight up take Megaman Maker and sell it for $30 or something, it’s one of the best free games out there and I’m surprised they haven’t tried buying it from the devs.
- Comment on Gaslamp Games Under New Management; Announces Surprise Public Beta of New Dungeons of Dredmor Patch 2 weeks ago:
Oh hey, finally! The devs talked about updating the game a few years ago. I wanted to play this game again so much but all the steam reviews about crashes and save corruptions kept me off. Might be time to finally give it another shot after 10+ years.
This game was kind of awesome, I guess it was maybe too early to blow up along with other indie roguelikes. The idea of making your own class with crazy modifiers every run was really neat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Okay this is definitely AI spam lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I like the idea of having as much info about a game as possible on one page. That said, I’m worried about how the data is being aggregated and how it won’t turn into a mess with more and more data being added. How are you going to stop bad info or duplicates from making it in? What happens when two sources report conflicting info?
At the end of a game page, it says “data aggregated from 5 sources”, but it should also list the 5 sources here.
Also, the page content doesn’t seem to be licensed. Most wikis and databases have a small blurb on how you can use the content. Terraria’s wiki for example says this at the bottom of every page:
Page content is under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License unless otherwise noted.
It would be nice if the page content can be explicitly licensed as creative commons.
Finally, this is just my opinion, but the website is a little to “what’s up fellow gamers” for me. The about page is kinda eye-rolling, it’d be nice to know what this website offers without all the “games for gamers, make your gaming identity now, gamer” talk.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This site doesn’t seem to be making a new database, it’s more like an aggregator that collects information from multiple databases and puts it all on one page. I can see the merit in that but yeah it’s not going to replace something like IGDB.
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 2 weeks ago:
To everyone confused what his point is:
“But those two roads do not converge. Those two roads necessarily diverge, because to be a platform and to be a very well-supported, well-accepted, well-selling platform, you need exclusive content. Nintendo needs its Mario and its Zelda, and PlayStation needs Crash Bandicoot and Astro Bot, and Kratos and Horizon, all of that. But if you’re going to be the biggest publisher in the world, which is not a bad ambition - I’m sure there’s gold on them there hills - you have to bring your stuff on every platform. Multi-platform is almost a prerequisite.”
He’s arguing that Xbox has ambitions to buy massive studios and be the biggest publisher ever, but that doesn’t work with how they also want to start making games exclusive. This kinda fits with him saying that PlayStation should keep their games on PC
Basically, he’s saying that if you want to make big franchises that are in the public consciousness and get made into TV shows/movies etc, then they need to reach the biggest amount of people possible so that the average person cares about that franchise. If most people can’t play the games, most people will stop caring about the franchise entirely.
- Comment on Hands-On With the TRIMUI Brick Pro: A Better Handheld, but Not a Faster One 2 weeks ago:
Colin Mcrae Rally 2 mentioned!
Great article, I was looking at some reviews for it earlier too. I’m not a vertical handheld type of person, but this one looks great if you wanted a bigger handheld. I can’t help but feel like the Brick Hammer is way better though. That one has the same specs, a much more premium looking metal body, and is small enough to fit in your pocket. I guess the only downside is that it doesn’t have sticks.
- Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series 2 weeks ago:
Then you have Solo Leveling, a franchise entirely about one guy grinding dungeons alone, making a multiplayer co-op game.
The jokes really do write themselves.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know why anyone would work at one of these studios. Obviously people are staying because the jobs are still lucrative but who is it that’s walking into these super unstable jobs under a company that’s been doing nothing but layoffs and shutdowns for the last few years?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 79 comments
- Comment on Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership" 3 weeks ago:
At this point I don’t know what Microsoft has been doing lately that isn’t about laying off thousands of people, but at least I’m very happy that all these companies have been spun out of Xbox. Double Fine might not be a 10/10 studio, but it’s great that they’re indie again and not part of a bipolar company that keeps threatening every company they own with layoffs due to management’s bad decisions.
In addition, Mojang and King will now report directly to me.
I appreciate how direct this post is compared to your average corpo-speak, but wow that sounds threatening as hell LOL.
Today, in some parts of the company, work passes through as many as 14 layers of management. […] We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3.
14 layers of management is insane. Isn’t that like a month of going up and down the chain for simple decisions? No wonder they take forever making one game that turns out to be mediocre.
There’s a lot of talk about focusing on their bigger projects and being more hands-on with studios, which is worrying. Usually management messing with development makes the game worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Audio is another big one. If you want good quality music and your game is voice acted you would be surprised how much space all those audio files take. Add in tons of other gigabytes if you offer voice acting for other languages.
- Comment on It's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownership 3 weeks ago:
There will definitely be a niche market for physical games, but yeah I was thinking about the average person and their experience. Especially since PC has shifted very early, I think most people would prefer to download a game in half an hour than having to go to a store and buy a physical disk and have to constantly put it in/take it out every time you want to play something else.
For Nintendo, I have genuinely despised their game key card approach. From a preservationists perspective, it’s a waste of money. However, getting a code in a box is a massive joke. Sony actually succeeded in making the concept of a GCK looking like a solid alternative. I really don’t know how to feel about that lol.
That’s funny, I had the same exact thought when writing this. The game key card thing sounds so stupid that my first thought was “damn, I hope they don’t get away with this”. My second thought was “wait, this might be the most consumer friendly option on consoles soon. Damn.”
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 4 weeks ago:
Telling people to buy a Steam Deck used to make sense, but it doesn’t anymore when it’s twice the price of a Switch 2 (I say this as a Steam Deck fan).
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
I’m with you, this is an insanely ballsy move. One of the biggest pros of a console is that you could still buy physical games and trade it with friends or sell it used to someone else. If everything is going digital, what’s the point?
Here we even have a local chain that rents you physical games for a week at a time…
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 4 weeks ago:
The spec difference between a PS4 and a PS5 was pretty big, SSD aside.
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 4 weeks ago:
I would kind of understand it if the PS5 Pro doesn’t already exist. There’s already a high end expensive PS5 to play modern games at very high graphics, why would Sony make a PS6 any time soon if it’s just going to be the same thing? There isn’t any performance leap that would make it worth getting.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Levelhead is a Mario Maker-esque platformer with a huge emphasis on user-made levels and a very powerful level editor. It’s not too active right now but there’s thousands of awesome levels already made that you can play. The game is dirt cheap, too.
- Comment on Sonic Game Recomendation? 5 weeks ago:
If we’re counting spinoffs, then I’d definitely put in Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
This has some serious “GAMERS RISE UP!!!” energy. It’s a video game, and people on Lemmy need to calm the hell down. Buying games was never about “actually standing up for what’s right”. Get off the high horse.
used to make good games… now they make stores and money pits with graphics and mechanics slapped on top.
Their last game was Red Dead Redemption 2 and it was critically acclaimed and loved. I don’t personally care about GTA 6 but I can see why people would be excited for their next game.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 5 weeks ago:
But if they’re describing it as a “single player experience” it’s going to be a shitty offshoot of multiplayer instead of a ring campaign that has a multiplayer slapped on.
This is a massive stretch with zero evidence…
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 5 weeks ago:
Could’ve been worse I guess. I know they did their best considering ridiculous market conditions, but it’s a hard sell if this was meant to compete with consoles, you can still buy a normal console for roughly half the price.
In terms of being a prebuilt gaming PC, it’s not bad. Some people have said a similar spec PC is roughly $100 cheaper if you get everything yourself. Now the question is how much stock Valve actually has to sell, because I assume they won’t have that many made because of the component shortages…
- Comment on see you in valhalla, brother 5 weeks ago:
It really is such a weird show, I’ve watched a couple of random episodes and every single one is just:
Entrepreneur: I’d like to introduce the tablet magazine! It’s like a magazine but it’s a tablet for some reaso-
Guy on the left: This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard in my entire life. You should end it all today.
Old man who unironically calls himself Mr. Wonderful: I’ve heard enough. I can give you a loan of $200k, but I want to own half your company and get your children’s souls when they die.
- Comment on Game Informer's Favorite Steam Next Fest Demos – Summer 2026 Edition 5 weeks ago:
Some people just don’t get real art…
- Comment on Game Informer's Favorite Steam Next Fest Demos – Summer 2026 Edition 5 weeks ago:
How is it? I loved Braid but found The Witness a little pretentious honestly, not sure if I have time to try the demo soon.