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- Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides? 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s the publisher who decides. They can either enable regional pricing or not. And many don’t. Simple as that, unfortunately.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
They both sound cool, will wishlist them and keep an eye out, thanks !
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They’re tankies… They’re both.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
Oh crap. I didn’t mix them up, I did assume, however. Wasn’t expecting it to be single player. I thought I was basically black desert 2. My bad
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
Oh, yeah, I definitely agree. A high retention rate is obviously preferable but at such high sales numbers, I’m sure many of them are only gonna be there for a short while. I’m pretty sure not even WoW can retain so many people anymore.
Steam reviews are fairly positive, which is a good sign but I guess it remains to be seen how many will still be playing in a month or two. And how many will be back for the first content patches.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
You’re right but I think it might be relevant for retention? If they retain 10% of players 500k vs 5 mill sales makes the player base size quite different.
- Comment on Starfield has sold 140K copies on PS5 1 week ago:
Not really. There’s so many games out there, don’t waste your time with this one… It’s like outer worlds but not interesting and not funny and with some no man’s sky sprinkled in. But it’s so poorly done and the writing is so meh… Even if you add mods to fast travel and avoid other annoying things it’s still a 6/10 game at best.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 1 week ago:
Yes, ofc there’s lots of rubbish, it’s easy to make games. There’s tons of shit music. There’s tons of shit paintings, there’s tons of shit in every type of art. But there’s also more good stuff than ever before. And the previous stuff hasn’t gone away either, it’s just more and more. You can’t possibly enjoy all the good art that’s out there. Are you sure you still enjoy video games? Maybe that’s the issue…
Look up the year 2005 or whatever. Tell me how many you’ve played and how many you’ve enjoyed from that year. Some years are better than others especially if you have very particular tastes, but there’s no way there were more good games before than now.
Most of the games I’ve mentioned had budgets in the millions, but here’s some more big budget games from last year that were well received: Mario kart world ghost of yotei ninja Gaiden 4 south of midnight arc raiders Death stranding 2 donkey Kong bananza stellar blade Elden ring: nightreign metal gear solid delta Dying light: the beast
And that’s only a few that come up in a quick search. I’m not trying to piss on your grave.. but just because EA, Ubisoft and Activision aren’t making good games anymore doesn’t mean others aren’t.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 1 week ago:
Kingdom come deliverance 2, clair obscur, silksong, split fiction, citizen sleeper 2, ball x pit, blue prince, dispatch, hades 2, silent hill f, escape from duckov, outer worlds 2…
And that’s only last year and only the games I’ve played. I don’t have the time or the energy to try all the games that I want to… But sure, focus only on the bad stuff..
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 week ago:
I’m assuming they mean western RPGs. For most there is no enemy respawn. You can only kill each enemy once. Or there’s respawn but at a set time like end of a chapter or when you’re in town or whatever.
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 1 week ago:
The good ol’ “All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises”
- Comment on Must emit less carbon 1 week ago:
Woah. Gives new meaning to the star wars prequels. George Lucas is truly a genius.
- Comment on Is there any decent PvP FPS that's not infested with cheaters? Looking for a decent PvP FPS 3 weeks ago:
Ah, fair enough. Only other option I can think of other than faceit for cs2 would be like a private community, with in-house games and stuff.
- Comment on Is there any decent PvP FPS that's not infested with cheaters? Looking for a decent PvP FPS 3 weeks ago:
Back when I used to play CSGO a lot, faceit had very few cheaters. Is it worse now or something? Or why not play that?
- Comment on Going to the club tonight so I'll be a whore there too 3 weeks ago:
I hadn’t noticed until you pointed it out to me but you are right, Lemmy is pretty bad at spotting satire.
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 4 weeks ago:
If they’ve never heard of slayer that means they don’t really listen to metal so of course they wouldn’t know what to do with it. Metal is very hit or miss with non metal people. Even when talking about one specific band. I know plenty of people that have like a handful of metal songs in their playlists and it’s usually just one song per band and they dislike all the other songs that they’ve heard from those bands.
Tried asking them what they like about the songs and stuff when they asked for recommandations but the conclusion is always the same. People’s tastes are weird and make no sense.
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 4 weeks ago:
My oldest source for that is Supernatural. I don’t remember the exact episode, but in one of the early seasons the two brothers were in the car listening to music and Dean plays some Bon Jovi and Sam is like “Bon Jovi?! Seriously?!” And the reply goes something like “Bon Jovi rocks… On occasion”
Obviously not a serious source and obviously they don’t say Bon Jovi isn’t metal, just more of an amusing anecdote that I still remember almost 15 years later, for some reason.
But more seriously, Wikipedia lists genres there even if a band doesn’t belong in a genre. Simply because they have some elements of that genre. And in Bon Jovi’s case that was only on the early albums. You can go to the wiki page of their first 2 albums, for example and you’ll see that the genr e listed are “glam metal / hard rock”. Which means that even early on they weren’t really metal. More like metal adjacent. Obviously beyond that they went more and more towards rock.
But I do agree that the definition of metal has changed a bit. But mostly when talking about the early days, not anytime recently. For example bowling for soup has a line in one of their songs that goes something like “when did motley crue become classic rock?!” So you might be onto something.
Beyond that… There’s always gonna be silly purists that will try to gatekeep stuff. And metal has plenty of those. You can see it easily when there’s talk about the more commercial or experimental bands like sleep token or whatever.
- Comment on My kind of Doctor 5 weeks ago:
That’s Loid Forger’s kit, obviously.
- Comment on Can't click my app controls! 5 weeks ago:
Oh…dunno. Mine’s not that reactive to objects. I just tried touching my screen with a piece of cloth, even wrapping my finger in one and I still can’t make it react.
- Comment on Can't click my app controls! 5 weeks ago:
You do get to choose. That’s what the settings are for. Someone commented the solution to the issue.
- Comment on Can't click my app controls! 5 weeks ago:
Yes. You just swipe left from the edge of the screen to go back. You swipe up from the bottom to go to home. And a smaller swipe from the bottom, dunno how to describe it, for the square menu thingy. Easier than the buttons and you also gain extra screen space.
- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 5 weeks ago:
She’s gained a bit of weight since we’ve adopted her xD
- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Ah. Oh well xD whoosh I guess. I do take things too literally sometimes, thanks
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Not surprised to hear about men being pigs. But now I’m curious about the kind of job that you were applying for. Doesn’t really matter as there are assholes in every industry, but some seem to have more than others.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wait, what? How can you love someone without friendship? People I care about are either friends or family. So without friendship, sex + love is just.. incest?
- Comment on Also how do I know if it works? 1 month ago:
No, but I do it because I find it fun. I enjoy the sound it makes.
- Comment on Gothic 1 Remake | Release Date Trailer (June 5th) 2 months ago:
Played the intro/demo thing they had up a while ago. The world and stuff seemed promising. The combat was slightly better but still quite similar to the original game. Which imo is not that good of a thing. I’m still gonna play it, cause I love the game, but still.. was hoping for a bigger improvement in what I consider to be the side of the game that most needed jt.
- Comment on Happened to look up "ghoul" on Wikipedia 3 months ago:
Oh. That was a nice one. Thanks!
