dreamkeeper
@dreamkeeper@literature.cafe
- Comment on Thief vs. AAA Gaming - An Essay 22 hours ago:
You can stealth around the undead, but sure what you’re referring to there. It doesn’t make you engage in combat at any point in the game.
- Comment on Thief vs. AAA Gaming - An Essay 22 hours ago:
There just aren’t that many first person stealth games, and none of them topped thief. There was dishonored but it wasn’t a pure stealth game.
- Comment on Thief vs. AAA Gaming - An Essay 22 hours ago:
Thief 2 is still my favorite game of all time. There’s nothing else like it.
Nothing else gives the same satisfaction of planning out a route for a bank heist or infiltrating Soulforge and then pulling it off without getting detected.
Throw in the total immersion from the haunting ambient music and lore that you discover by reading notes and eavesdropping and nothing else has come close. Not even dishonored, which I also enjoyed. Thief is the most immersive I’ve game I’ve ever played.
- Comment on i love standing out💖 1 day ago:
Or maybe she just likes looking good? I’m shy and I like to dress up because it makes me feel more confident about myself.
- Comment on Fappucino 1 day ago:
It pisses me off how easy it is for these fucks to get away with it. All of the women I’ve been close to have stories about being assaulted, stalked or harassed, or all three. These men are a plague on society and should be locked away for a lot fucking longer than they are.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
These guys just want to whine and complain and reminisce about how much better the old days were.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
What was was so great about web design in 2012? It was barely any different back then except for being much worse on phones. And the main reason for your complaints is the need to accommodate phones.
I feel like I’m sharing this website with a bunch of crotchety old men who just want to complain
- Comment on Fappucino 1 day ago:
Should be sexual assault
- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 4 days ago:
So what? I hate AI but blowing a gasket over using it for translations just makes you sound like a witch hunter. Like this is supposed to ruin all the hard work this person clearly put into their game? Yeah right
- Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job 4 days ago:
Bro even the rural chuds and soccer moms shit on AI here in magaland
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes it’s still better than the vast majority of open world RPGs, even the new ones. It doesn’t feel like an old game.
It’s not perfect and the combat is mid, but the story and characters hold up as well as they ever did. Really good writing and voice acting. And the graphics were revamped a few years ago. It looks amazing with RT if your machine can take the performance hit.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They already did that for free.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How is a new story dlc even remotely close to oblivion remastered? It’s not a revamp of the same game, it’s brand new content for it. And considering they said it’s on the same scale as Blood & Wine, it should be almost a full game’s worth of content (pending reviews of course).
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The new devs already released a new quest for W3 and it was solid. I’ll wait for reviews but yeah I’m looking forward to it.
I didn’t need an apology from cdpr. I just needed then to fix cyberpunk, and they did. It’s a great game in its current state. But I won’t be buying their games on release until I’m confident they’re playable and worth the money.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
XCancel and redlib will let you browse both without an account.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
Fallout 3 was pretty good. New Vegas was solid.
And let’s not be disingenuous, the backstories for both were not taken to the level of 4 and we all know it.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
I said it was mid not that it was bad, and I didn’t assert as it was an objective fact. It’s just my opinion.
I had some fun with the usual fallout gameplay but the dialogue and story were the typical Bethesda oversanitized stuff, which I find very boring now. The settlement mechanic was annoying. The backstory killed a lot of the immersion for me especially because it was predictable and kind of cheesy.
There’s no need to get defensive, not everyone is going to like games that you like.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 1 week ago:
I thought fallout 4 was pretty mid, which killed any hype I might’ve had for 5. Did not like having a backstory forced on my character.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
Good lord you people are so gross. It’s actually more than OK for me to tell you that worshiping some greedy billionaire is an insane thing to do.
Go touch grass, Gabe doesn’t give sit about anything except making huge gobs of money. Steam fanboys are a bunch of looney toons.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
They’d get sued to oblivion if they disabled DRM for all their games and you know it. This is just delusional.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
Wow it’s truly insane how you guys will just blatantly to defend your precious gaben
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
They literally cornered the digital sales market from the very beginning with HL2. It has nothing to do with “improvements to the platform”. By the time other companies had the infrastructure to try to catch up it was far too late. If you wanted to sell a PC game digitally, you had to do it on steam.
So much ridiculous counterfactual revisionist history in this thread.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the steam “sales” that cost more than used physical games because valve killed them.
The steam cult among PC gamers is fucking absurd.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
But you can buy digital codes for ps5 on other stores like Amazon right now, so is it really that different? And steam is still more expensive than used physical games even with the gray market keys. The fact is that you’re still just buying games for steam at the end of the day.
Steam made gaming cost more money. The same will happen with Sony. You can look up prices on steam and compare them to used console games on eBay/Amazon and see that the physical games are significantly cheaper even when steam is having a sale.
Valve did a great job tricking PC gamers into believing they’re saving money when in reality, the used physical game market was always cheaper than digital.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 2 weeks ago:
Yep. At one point my company tried to hire an architect from outside to lead our engineering team. Our software is very complicated, even ignoring the codebase and just looking at the business use cases. It takes years before people become somewhat familiar with it.
That guy noped out after three months and literally gave the product’s complexity as the main reason. Complete waste of money.
They eventually promoted one of our senior devs instead and he absolutely killed it. Modernized much of the codebase and dev processes because we were still acting like a startup at the time. It’s insane they just didn’t go with him from the beginning. He saved the company many millions of dollars that will never show up on a bean counter’s spreadsheet.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, pretty much no one cares. I hate this move by Sony mostly because used physical games are so cheap, even cheaper than steam sales. I already used to resell games I stopped playing to get some of my money back.
But just look at PC gaming. It’s been digitized for almost 20 years and no one stopped gaming on PC. So of course the console companies saw that and decided to do the same.
The outrage feels a bit hypocritical considering how many PC gamers constantly defend valve. It isn’t quite the same situation but valve is still responsible for killing physical PC games. Gamers literally helped them do it out of sheer convenience.
Of course valve did strong arm us, especially in the beginning with HL2. The controversy over HL2 ended being nothing more than a fart in the wind and people barely remember it now.
- Comment on End of an era? 4 weeks ago:
Oh I know, the gunplay in destiny really was incredible. And the music and atmosphere was top notch, even though the scope and story didn’t live up to prelaunch hype.
It was hard to walk away but I couldn’t justify overpaying for dlc that should’ve been $10, maybe $15 at most.
- Comment on End of an era? 4 weeks ago:
Destiny got what it deserved. I can’t believe it lasted as long as it did. I noped after they started charging $40 for a couple maps and a raid labeled as “expansions”. And that was destiny 1. The game was an unbelievable ripoff.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Finally, a kindred soul. Valve is the worst thing to happen to PC gaming in decades.
It annoys me how people whine about exclusives on epic when valve were the ones who forced steam down our throats in the first place with HL2. We literally have them to thank for this.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The disc is still an issue for me even with the licensing issue. I like to resell and gift my console games and you can’t do that without a disc.
It’s one of the things that makes me sad about PC gaming. Steam killed physical PC games and it kind of sucks.