LemmyEntertainYou
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- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 9 hours ago:
Donkey Kong 64 is a game I see constantly criticised but it was always one of my top N64 games.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I bought the 1TB Deck Oled about 6 months ago for £660 but returned it and bought a £300 ROG Ally instead. Personally I think it’s time the Deck was updated a little bit. It’s too big and bulky for my liking.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
That’s about the only positive I can think of for the game but mindless exploration really doesn’t appeal to me.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Breath of the Wild. A big empty open world with a few fetch quests thrown in. The shrine puzzles are all trivially easy they’re just not fun and the four main dungeons are just a joke.
- Comment on What do I need to know about GrapheneOS? 2 weeks ago:
NFC payments work flawlessly with Curve Pay. Nor brilliant for privacy but handy for convenience.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
Switch is easily my least played console. Its library was nearly entirely made up of games I already played on the Wii U. On top of that they had the cheek to require a subscription to play online. No thanks.
- Comment on [PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days. 5 weeks ago:
Further reinforcing my decision to hard dump Sony after the PS4.
- Comment on Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Volume wise maybe but it’s low enough to fit in a standard TV unit. The boxy design of the Steam Machine doesn’t look very compact to me.
- Comment on Revisiting the last truly great Call of Duty: Why a lot of people are playing a seven-year-old CoD again. 1 month ago:
People are getting nostalgic for a CoD game released WAY after I stopped playing and I feel fucking old.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 2 months ago:
PS5 was too much day one at £400 and it’s only gone up since. What happened to the days of sub-£200 consoles later in their lifespan?
- 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:
I’ve only ever played DGXI and it really isn’t very good. Generic gameplay and plot that just becomes tedious to play after a few hours. You’re not missing out.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
They weren’t an outside studio though they were owned by Sony. I don’t think there was really any fear of then doing a bad job considering how good the Demon’s Souls remake was.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 2 months ago:
Sony turned so anti-consumer due to their PS4 dominance that even with a fairly modest digital library of games I still bailed to PC when the PS5 came around.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 3 months ago:
Even if you really want to play on Switch there are CFW options that enable GBA emulation.
- Comment on Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal 4 months ago:
Presumably Symfonium is streaming lossless files whereas Spotify probably isn’t. That and Spotify is probably caching a lot more.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 4 months ago:
Sounds like Baldur’s Gate 3.
- Comment on ‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons 4 months ago:
Their entirely social media presence is pathetic and their products are poor quality. They only exist because they throw money at marketing.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 4 months ago:
I find the Steam Deck far too heavy and bulky unfortunately. I’d love a Switch sized handheld PC.
- Comment on Looking for 3D Platformer recommendations on sale on Steam 5 months ago:
Lunistice is quite fun. It’s not groundbreaking but I enjoyed my play through of it. It’s not overly long either which is a positive to me.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 5 months ago:
I guess it’s not so much the discs I’m against (apart from the fact they do deteriorate faster than other types of storage) but the fact that there’s no option to retrieve and backup the data on said discs. Although saying that, most games require huge downloads to install anyway so is there even any benefit or security in ownership of physical media if it’s still useless without a significant download from a server than could theoretically cease to exist at any moment?
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 5 months ago:
I thought we were MAYBE heading that way in the days of iTunes but then the oh-so-convenient streaming came along and entirely killed the majority’s desire to actually own movies.
At least music is a medium that managed to transition to DRM-free digital storefronts, even if it is barely used.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 5 months ago:
There’s nothing stopping you from having multiple backups of your own game installers though if the DRM free options are there. It’s not too unfeasible for people to have dedicated offline storage in the form of a NAS or even just an external drive. Yes this has the same waste implications as discs but they’re at least multipurpose and have a longer lifespan. Obviously we should never rely entirely on a server that’s out of our control for backups to our purchases.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 5 months ago:
This will probably be a controversial take but physical media shouldn’t exist in 2025.
Ownership of games SHOULD exist and so should multiple competing store fronts. We need to normalise DRM free digital copies rather than ewaste blu-ray discs that’ll one day degrade and become useless.