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- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 2 days ago:
Tom Clancy’s End War?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 1 week ago:
Well they reversed the account linking. I don’t think the anti-cheat had the same backlash though.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Well, 3 data leaks in the last 10 years, at least one of which wasn’t their fault at all. This change is bad for several reasons but “data leaks” isn’t really one of them.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
Evidently that is the case.
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 2 weeks ago:
It’s remarkable how well this game looks, plays, and performs. The game was somehow made by a single guy, yet it puts just about every other medieval city builder that’s come before it to shame. Only real issue with the game is a lack of content due to being early access, but everything that’s there is incredible.
- Comment on How Greed Ruined Gaming 3 weeks ago:
The problem is the AAA games are what prop up gaming consoles, which are the only reasonable way for the average person to afford gaming. All the best AA and indie games have predominantly been on PC. All my favorites are still PC only.
In the year like, 6 months to a year I’ve seen what looks like maybe start of many of them coming to consoles, but we’re still years out from seeing what becomes of that. As for right now, AA studios and indies can only afford to port things to consoles due to the large console adoption, and large console adoption is due to AAA games. If consoles stop being worth it for Sony and Microsoft to make, people will have to buy PCs. And PCs are expensive even to those with the experience to build things themselves and know how to shop for what they need to have a good experience.
- Comment on How Greed Ruined Gaming 3 weeks ago:
Totally disagree. The homogenization and enshittification of AAA games has meant that there is less choice than ever. More and more established IPs are tanking in quality and there aren’t enough new ones to replace them. There are certainly “more games”, but the problem with this quantity of quality style of production means that there are fewer standouts and unique experiences to actually choose from. This has resulted in entire genres collapsing under their own weight. There are still unique, standout games but I’d hardly say there are now that 10-15 years ago. And the ones we do have are more often than not made by indie and AA studios.
- Comment on Giving someone oral is the most intimate thing you can do for someone. (IMO) 4 weeks ago:
Found the automaton spy
- Comment on Fallout 4 is Getting Free Updates on April 25 4 weeks ago:
Which is pretty pathetic given the numbers of game breaking bugs and head scratching performance issues in Fallout 4 for PC. I guess for Bethesda back in the day, fixing the game for the people that already paid for it wasn’t worth doing.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 5 weeks ago:
Twilight Princess. I loved the characters and the vibe, the MUSIC was something else too. On par with OOT. The snowy mountain theme was chilling.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t call it reductive as much as I would… accurate.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 1 month ago:
You have a family and you bought Satisfactory? Well I’m sure it was nice while it lasted.
- Comment on What game fits this? 2 months ago:
Satisfactory
- Comment on What game fits this? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure many of those people exist. Most of the bad reviews I would imagine came from people that put 1-10 hours into it.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
In CS 1 I purposely poisoned the entire city and it took a remarkably long time for that to have any real repercussions and can be immediately and cheaply fixed. Like you can tank a city, but it takes a concerted effort.
- Comment on Many players have become "patient gamers". What are games people might miss out on by waiting for sales? 3 months ago:
Factorio is another game considered a modern masterpiece and the leader of its genre but they have flat out said they will never put it on sale.
Which is honestly fine because it’s $30 and you’re generally considered “new to the game” until you crack 1,000 hours.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 4 months ago:
Fallout 4. After the disappointment that was Starfield, I had a hankering for a Bethesda style game and while not perfect Fallout 4 is just miles ahead and is still a lot of fun today.
- Comment on Let's confuse Americans! 5 months ago:
There’s no continent called “America”
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 6 months ago:
Were those assault weapons as easily aquirable then as it is now?
A lot more easy as a matter of fact. All the stores stuffed with guns now were just as stuffed with them back then, if not more so, and it was easier AND faster to get them into your hands. I mean you’re casually calling a semiautomatic AR-15 an “assault weapon” because it LOOKS like a military gun. But prior to 1986 you could just go and buy a fully automatic machine gun that also FUNCTIONED like a military gun. I mean there was a point in time in American History where you could order a rifle in a paper catalogue.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 6 months ago:
Well OP is framing the entire timeframe as 200 years but he also specifies the last 30.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 6 months ago:
The point he’s making is that the title asks what changed to make mass shootings more commons “in the last 30 years” and you answered it by blaming the difference between guns today and guns 250 years ago, so he pointed out that there was at least a 30 year period where the guns of today were available and yet the mass shooting problem of today didn’t exist (1960-1990).
That would mean that the cause of mass shootings today isn’t necessarily because we evolved beyond the musket.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 6 months ago:
And boom, they just today dropped the “one more trailer” I was talking about lol.
- Comment on What's your favorite game through the ears of Original Soundtrack? 6 months ago:
I am absolutely floored that nobody has said any Legend of Zelda games, but Twilight Princess and Ocarina of Time for sure.
A close third would be the first Ace Attorney game. Every song is a banger.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 6 months ago:
Well check out their YouTube channel, the videos are very informative.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 6 months ago:
If they cared about peaking hype they wouldn’t have told us about the performance problems. But frankly they don’t need to hype CS2 or even sell big at release and they’re well aware of it. Games like the latest annual COD have to sell as much as possible at release because they need players to fill the servers, they need to have an established player base to sell the battle passes to after a month, and the game has a maximum shelf life of a year, before it’s abandoned for the next game. But CS on the other hand doesn’t need to do any of that. It has virtually zero competition so it has a captive audience of everyone who likes modern city builder games, and it doesn’t matter when you buy it, because they aren’t making another one for 5-8 years. They know exactly how much money they’re going to make from this game and they’ll get yours too, whether it’s at release or a year from now.
To put it in perspective, COD games are made fast, and have to sell fast. Since CS1 released, there have been TEN Call of Duty games. In that same timespan were about to get ONE new Cities game.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 6 months ago:
I mean what were you expecting a month from release besides like maybe one additional trailer? The original trailer exists and I’m sure they’re paying to run that somewhere. And once someone sees it they can go watch the dev videos.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 6 months ago:
Have you watched any of the feature highlights and accompanying dev talks? Visually speaking, the game looks worse in a lot of really bizarre ways, but the actual city simulation gameplay looks like it’s been much improved. There really wasn’t anything groundbreaking, but they added a lot of the depth that’s been seen in older Sim City titles, as well as what looks like an actually currency based economic model, as opposed to the shallow approximation of an economy that existed in Cities Skylines. They also added the frankly crucial changes to traffic AI that was added to CS1 via mods, into the base game. It looks like as far as the city simulation goes, CS2 will be a solid improvement and there have been a couple well known CS1 YouTubers that seem to confirm that.
That being said, I fully expect this game to look rough and maybe perform even rougher at release, but it does at least look like I definitely wouldn’t recommend anyone buy this at launch unless they pull some big improvements out of their asses which judging by this statement, they don’t plan to, but it is also releasing on gamepass…
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 6 months ago:
People from Canada, Mexico and South America are not technically “Americans” because none of them have “America” in the name of their country, whereas we do. In fact, it’s the only word in the name of our country that uniquely identifies us. We’re just called Americans because it’s realistically the only name we could have.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 7 months ago:
I mean Keith David has been a huge voice actor for a long time.
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 7 months ago:
It’s on sale right now