Kaldo
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- Comment on Star Trek: Discovery Beats Picard & Rises Higher In Nielsen Streaming Top 10 5 months ago:
Lorca got me through discovery for a season or two and then he was gone, I don't think I watched anything beyond it. I hear it's only gotten worse, somehow
- Comment on ENDLESS Legend is Currently Free to Claim on Steam 5 months ago:
Amazing and beautiful game, the only issue I have with endless * series is that the combat always falls short for me, but you can still easily get a few dozen fun hours out of it.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 5 months ago:
Very easy time if it's about commercial use (well, at least outside of china). Companies need to have licenses for the software they use, they have to obey copyright laws and trademarks, have contracts and permissions for anything they use in their day to day work. It's the same reason why no serious company wants to even touch any competitor's leaked source code when it appears online.
Just because AI tech bros live in a bubble of their own, thinking they can just take and repurpose anything they need, doesn't mean it should be like that - for the most case it isn't and in this case, the law just hasn't caught up with the tech yet.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 5 months ago:
That's a very naive perspective though. We're not blaming the guns for gun violence, it's the people, but restricting access to guns is still the proven way to reduce gun incidents. One day when everyone is enlightened enough to not need such restrictions then we can lift them but we're very far from that point, and the same goes for tools like "AI".
- Comment on Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? 5 months ago:
I can give so many but you'll have to narrow down your preferences a bit ^^
I've recently been playing Remnant 2, Songs of Syx, Age of Darkness, dotAGE, Helldivers, Valheim, Against the Storm... all really impressive and amazing games made by (relatively) small studios or AA developers with a passion for games.
- Comment on Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better? 5 months ago:
Abandon AAA, buy more indie or AA games and you'll find what you want
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 5 months ago:
It was a bit frightening for me to see how quickly the mob turned on AH during this fiasco and just how much vitriol and propaganda has been generated on the subreddit like this is any other ingame operation with the associated shitposting... except this time it could very well shape the futures of real people and fate of the company for years to come.
Unfortunately this is the only way to accomplish anything. If there wasn't an outcry like this both AH and sony would just ignore any criticism and move on until it gets buried and forgotten. It's a world of extremes and the scales could have easily tipped into the other side, with people rightfully complaining about these shitty practices but getting ridiculed for complaining about just another account or sth.
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 5 months ago:
Looks really promising but way too much in early access for me to risk that price tag, I'd rather try furthest frontier or the game from the settlers creator since they are further along iirc. I do look forward to trying it out one day tho, seems right up my valley if they manage to add some meaningful late game goals or challenges!
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mass Effect 5 months ago:
I remember being confused by the ending but tbh never to the extent it ruined the rest of the franchise retroactively. Not even Andromeda managed to so that! I still have fond memories of ME and I'm constantly tempted to replay it with the legendary edition, if only I had the time.
- Comment on Valheim: Ashlands Gameplay Trailer 6 months ago:
Really looking forward to getting this on the stable branch, despite some questionable aspects valheim remains one of my favorite gaming experiences and nothing else has lived up to it in recent years.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 6 months ago:
Wasn't that more for games like wizardry or the more modern example, legend of grimrock? It sounds more related to what a dnd party would do than just fighting hordes of enemies.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 6 months ago:
Back in my days we called games like Diablo hack n slash RPGs
- Comment on Judas First Details: How Ken Levine Is Building on BioShock With 'Narrative LEGOs' 7 months ago:
I'm a big fan of Levine and his games and I'm looking forward to Judas. It might not be a huge mainstream hit but I think it's going to be fantastic for some people, or at le ast interesting for everyone to see what has he been cooking all these years.
- Comment on V Rising x Legacy of Castlevania - Official Teaser Trailer 7 months ago:
Is this the first crossover they've done?
- Comment on eBay agreed to pay maximal possible fine of $3 million after employees harassed, intimidated, and stalked a Massachusetts couple in retaliation for their critical reporting of the online marketplace 9 months ago:
Someone must have signed off on this and thst person should have gotten jail time IMHO.
- Comment on I Wonder What Star Citizen Is Up To - Aftermath 9 months ago:
That's just one ship though, and it's just walk afaik - you can't actually do anything on it. It's hardly comparable in any way
- Comment on I Wonder What Star Citizen Is Up To - Aftermath 9 months ago:
DId you ever actually play ED Odyssey or SC?
- Comment on I Wonder What Star Citizen Is Up To - Aftermath 9 months ago:
I like to dunk on SC as much as the next guy but how can you say this at all with a straight face? For starters, can I walk around my ship? Is there a story-based campaign I can play through? Are there capital ships with dozens of players with different roles working on them?
SC will never get finished or live up to the promises it made but ED barely even tries to do anything beyond being a space truck simulator.
- Comment on Dyson Sphere Program - Rise of the Dark Fog (The Combat Update) is Now Available! 10 months ago:
its a pretty fun game but i wasnt a big fan of how everything eventually boils down to logistic stations, there is one best (and practically only) way of doing things and its pretty bland. Hopefully this adds some spice
- Comment on Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield 10 months ago:
I'd say "i will pick it up on a sale in a year or two" but they're just going to release the enhanced / special / anniversary / superspace edition down the line too, so why bother
- Comment on Superb survival city-builder Against the Storm is finally finished and released 10 months ago:
They have been amazing in terms of updates - regular meaningful updates every 2 weeks, it was amazing to see the game evolve so fast. I hope it means they just had a really good codebase and established workflow rather than they were crunching though.
- Comment on Superb survival city-builder Against the Storm is finally finished and released 10 months ago:
Did you try it recently or during EA? They added an extensive guided tutorial/story now that gets you through the beginning.
Other than that, the best advice I ever got was not to go too wild with the glade openings, only do it if you need something otherwise you're just raising the hostility for no reason.
- Comment on Superb survival city-builder Against the Storm is finally finished and released 10 months ago:
One of the best games I've played in recent memory, even during EA. Extremely polished and well designed, it's worth every cent and if this doesn't convince you I think it still has a free demo you can try.
- Comment on The Game Awards 2023: List of Winners 10 months ago:
Thankfully! Its not even indie, it's a good game but it shouldn't have been nominated for that category in the first place.
- Comment on "The Next Subnautica" aims to deliver underwater survival spooks in early 2025 11 months ago:
I'm tempted to agree but on the other hand, I'd rather see the budget go towards a better game than designing for coop. The first one wouldn't be atmospheric at all if you had a laggy friend floating around you all the time.
Plenty of other survival games that have coop and are better suited for it.
- Comment on We're thrilled to announce that we're working on a mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt! 11 months ago:
I wonder if this will mean improvements for cyberpunk's modding scene as well, since they use the same engine underneath?
- Comment on Avatar: The Last Airbender | Official Teaser | Netflix 11 months ago:
I can't put my finger on why but it just feels off. It's like they are trying too hard but hitting the uncanny valley instead, or maybe I'm just too old and it's a bit cringe to me now? Then again I felt the same way about the netflix one piece and that turned out to be entertaining so who knows. If they go for that rather than expecting me to take it seriously maybe it works here for ATLA as well.
- Comment on The newest of new news! 🤦😮💨 11 months ago:
I kinda get how it happened with all the reboots and delays but still, that's one banger of a title lol
- Comment on Here's what a random person on the internet thought of The Outer Worlds 11 months ago:
The anti capitalism jokes are just as relevant and funny today as they were back than
I agree they are just as relevant today, probably even more so, however I didn't find them that funny since they are just making the same "joke" all the time. They don't really say anything or go deeper into the situation beyond "haha corpos are cartoonishly evil", over and over and over again, there was no nuance and I expected more out of an obsidian game.
- Comment on Remnant 2's first DLC The Awakened King gets November release date 11 months ago:
Can't wait to get more Losomn content! Remnant 2 is an fun experience and a great follow-up to the first game, if you liked that one you definitely need to give R2 a try too