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- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 8 hours ago:
The game engine should not be a factor in my opinion, but sometimes I have some feelings. In the end ultimately the game itself and how fun it is is the most important factor.
- Unreal Engine 5: This engine has such a poor reception for me, that whenever I see it I dislike the game before even having a chance to play. Its not fair I know, but its also not my fault that I think like that. Often games with this engine have stutter issues, require lot of resources and for whatever reason, most AAA games launching with this engine are in a bad state. In the end I will buy a game if its good, obviously, but the engine has a little deciding factor to look deeper or not… even if its just a little factor.
- Unity: I personally don’t like Unity anymore for the bullshit they did. But if I am honest, if the game is good then I do not care if its in Unity.
- Godot: I really want to like games made with this Open Source engine. But if I am honest again, I would not buy a bad game even if its made with this engine.
- RPG Maker: I am a fan of oldschool RPG Maker, so I don’t mind that. But whenever I see made with RPG Maker (or suspect it), the value of the game goes dramatically down for me.
- any custom engine: I highly respect good custom engines, made specifically for the game or company. They often feel and look different, so its actually a factor. Or at least it will make me curious and look deeper into the game.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 2 days ago:
I didn’t even know “Horse Girl” is a word that existed.
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 4 days ago:
Obviously we are not, if you put stuff into my mouth I didn’t say or meant to say (where I was clear and even explained it to you afterwards).
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 4 days ago:
No you didn’t. You made an assumption about if i like it or not. And my reply has nothing to do with if i like the updates or not. I am not sure how to be more clear than my extended explanation.
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 4 days ago:
I don’t know if you can read or not, but I said its not a bonus anymore. Don’t hallucinate stuff I did not say. If I like an update or not, depends on the update. Not every update is a bonus, especially if they have to fix an undercooked game in example. A forced update is not a bonus. I hope that is clear now.
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 5 days ago:
If updates are forced on you, its not a bonus anymore.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 5 days ago:
Steamdb steamdb.info/app/427520/ never recorded a lower price than 25 € (which is the initial price before raising it to 32 €) on Steam. Maybe such a special deal was organized outside of Steam, possibly Humble or GOG. Game is also available on Switch, but I doubt it would go on sale there. On gg.deals/game/factorio/ it lists “Official Stores low: 20,00€ Ended 7 years ago”. Weirdly the websites price history shows a lower Steam price at launch. Feb, 2016 initial price of 20 € on Humble, then shortly after on Steam. Then April 2018 on Steam first price increase to 25 €.
- Comment on When you're the type of person who commits. (xpost, because the Factorio joke inspired me) 6 days ago:
You won’t know it, until you read (or played it). Also opinions can change after time. Especially if the last episode and ending was a slog, it can change the view of the entire franchise for some. If you read fast enough (or watch), then your brain does not have enough time to process everything and does not build relationship with early stuff, but with the last stuff. What I mean is, if you watched Star Wars in the 80s, then you had plenty of time to be fan and reject the new Disney films. But if you watched all films back to back from beginning to last Disney film for the first time, then you maybe hating it.
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 6 days ago:
I really don’t think we needed a subscription service for indie games (nor they do). Game Pass for AAA games makes somewhat sense, as the games are expensive. Game Pass concept in general will favor slop over creative and good game design with long time support. I am not a fan of this concept at all and its even worse for indie games in my opinion.
If this campaign is for discoverability, then they should find a different way to “advertise” the games. I agree that most games do need some discoverability though, besides the hits on Steam. There are so many good indie games for low price. But Game Pass concept is the wrong way in my opinion, for the entire industry (the player and the devs).
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 6 days ago:
In the past Flatpak was listed as “Flatpak”. Its possible that something changed and this is actually Flatpak.
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 6 days ago:
What the f is this? (If you click Linux only.)
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 1 week ago:
Developers or publisher seem to think its anti consumer practice to go on sale. So I knew something was off when I read post title.
It isn’t about visibility or sales, its about respecting the players who have already purchased the game. We don’t want to reward the people who hold off on buying the game, the game is a price we find reasonable, and this is the deal. If you think it is priced too high, then it is your choice to not purchase, and we hope that with enough time, and extra development, we will be able to convince you of its value.
Not having a sale ever is part of our philosophy. In short term, they are good and bring extra money, but we are targeting long term. I believe that searching for sales is wasted time, and people should decide on the price and value, but putting option of wasting time to search for deals or waiting seems like bad part of the equation. As an example I would like to mention Minecraft. I’m not aware of any sale of it :)
- Comment on Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed 1 week ago:
I hope not.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
Now it makes sense why Epic raised the prices for Fortnite Vbucks. I thought its greed, but looks like Epic is in trouble.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 1 week ago:
Right, I assumed too much here.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 1 week ago:
We are all biased. :-) There is no other way to judge games for your personal taste or experience.
It also depends on the context. I assume you was a E.T. fan and you was young, didn’t have many games and really wanted to like it and played it a lot overlooking its flaws, until you got a bit the hang of it. I am assuming a lot here! Then decade later you have so much experience, filter out good from bad games and then comes Superman 64, maybe you don’t even care about Superman (Just assuming here, let’s put anyone in this role, not just you). And then “oh yeah shitty game, no one cares”.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 1 week ago:
I genuinely think that Superman 64 is more entertaining and fun to play than E.T. .
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 week ago:
That was PS4 back then. Now consoles are even more expensive. So for many its not even an option to buy a new console, even if it has exclusives locked to it.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 week ago:
As said, this is about future first party games. The new policy doesn’t have immadiate effect on current developed games. The signal I get is, if true, then new Sony first party games will be locked to their console without porting it to PC. Multiplayer games will be an exception to this apparently.
And for story heavy titles - youtube playthroughs exist as well as blogs and wikis.
This is for me a non option, regardless of what game it is. I either play it or don’t. If the game is a movie rather than a videogame, then I am not interested into it anyway. Watching a playthrough or video on YouTube (or any other service) is absolutely something I would not do (and never done) for this kind of thing.
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 1 week ago:
Only for non free to play games. This is standard across all consoles. Only on PC it online play does not cost extra.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 week ago:
The effects of reduced or no further single player games from Sony on PC will be felt in future. Until now Sony was happily porting their games to PC, but after some reports it looks like that will change. So while the recent games are ported over, new games will probably not. So I am worried for the future, not for current available games.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 1 week ago:
Makes it even worse that Sony keeps exclusives to their console. And reportedly reduced or stopped single player first party games on PC.
- Comment on New RPG Maker Entry Announced With HD-2D Style Visual Shift 1 week ago:
I know, but with the last version they did not support Linux anymore. The version before that was supported on Linux. So its unclear at the moment if the next version will do.
- Comment on New RPG Maker Entry Announced With HD-2D Style Visual Shift 1 week ago:
Will it run on Linux? (I mean the editor, not the games it produces.)
- Comment on Pragmata's newly revealed New York stage was painstakingly made by human developers to look "AI generated," according to director - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
I don’t know, but to me this doesn’t look soulless or sloppy at all. As they explain:
It mirrors reality, but its unique appeal comes from the setting errors and how they feel out of place, such as taxis sinking into floors, or buses sprouting from walls.
It’s more about the errors that typically happen with Ai too. But it can be something your art direction wants to have, and by accident it looks like Ai generated. I don’t think they want it to have look like Ai generated on purpose, but the art they are going with looks by accident like Ai.
- 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out 2 weeks ago:
Hope your wish comes true. We will know it, once the games are out.
- Comment on Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post) 2 weeks ago:
It’s all about anticheat support. The game would likely run on a Linux desktop, but Epic chose not to support Linux devices. They officially said (I have no source to link to it at hand) that they don’t believe the anti cheat would work well in Linux, because it lacks root access. On Android on the other hand they have a better sandbox and control. But most importantly, on Android they have a wider audience and that is basically all it counts for them. Epic CEO Tim said, if the Steam Deck gets sold enough, they will consider it.
I’m just listing what has been said, not sharing their same opinion.
- Comment on Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post) 2 weeks ago:
It’s even playable on the phone, so they would not lose complete access to the game. Unless you are really invested into it, it does not matter on what you play. I have a Xbox, so when I wanted to play Fortnite, i would rather play on console than installing Windows on my computer.
- Comment on Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post) 2 weeks ago:
Maybe we get an Overwatch like hero shooter, Fortnite Rivals… But they do not support Linux, therefore I don’t care what happens to Fortnite.
