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- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 2 weeks ago:
The only ads in games I’ve ever been ok with were the ones in SWAT 4 where they just had dynamic textures that pulled different ads in so it was literally just like, decorative flyers on the walls were real ads instead of fake ones. Of course I could do with most the whole game braking 20 years later because the back end shit down thing.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
I would submit that AC Brotherhood would be a contender, as it was kinda of the peak of the original formula before it all started to blend together and degrade, and the multiplayer mode was truly original, fun, and hasn’t been replicated since.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
The shame of it too was I played all the RPG Creeds except for Origins and was disappointed in them, but eventually I got Origins for free so I went back and played it and it was actually a really good marriage between the old games and the new RPG style that every game since missed the mark on
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
Yeah looking at these lists, it didn’t win because some real juggernaut games released in the same year and it just couldn’t compete.
Though there have been a couple years over the last 20 where I feel it some of the games could have won
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 weeks ago:
This might not apply anymore though since it seems capitalism found out about it and companies realized they could make the $50 boots as trash as the $10 boots and the rich wouldn’t think twice about throwing them out at the same rate so the two options now are spending $10 a year or $50 a year on boots
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 weeks ago:
I think skipping cutscenes solves the problem of not liking cutscenes, yes.
I do like Kojima’s cutscenes so I don’t skip them.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t like the long cinematics just skip them.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 weeks ago:
All of them contain the entire game. The only functional difference over the early days is that the game data isn’t read from disc while you play.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 weeks ago:
Skill issue
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 4 weeks ago:
They pivoted to merch stores awhile back. I’m pretty sure the selling games thing is just a side business
- Comment on Me_irl 4 weeks ago:
The PS4 era was not reading from the disk for gameplay. You’d copy the entire game to console storage and the only thing the disk was used for was a license check. You’re thinking of the PS3 which was… a very long time ago now.
- Comment on Me_irl 4 weeks ago:
The upload speed from the source will almost certainly be more than the maximum read speed of the optical drive on say a PS5
- Comment on Me_irl 4 weeks ago:
Blu-ray does not load immediately. You still have to install the whole thing from disk, which for the new GTA 6 game (which this post is ostensibly about) would take approximately 45 minutes.
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 5 weeks ago:
I am a long time PC/PS5 player and what’s pretty much put me off of PlayStation permanent are two things:
- PlayStation implemented online license checks every 30 days. So year from now when they shut off the PS5 back end states like they have with PS3, your games will no longer be playable.
- Sony intends to lock multiplayer features behind third party facial recognition software globally in the somewhat near future.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
Yeah like this is supposed to be an upscale restaurant but they’re acting like a beggar on the street. They even had the gall to charge the customer for the 3% credit card fee. I’m supposed to spend $70 a head but their acting can’t afford a $3 fee for the table. Unforgivable lol
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
Nicer than starving to death that’s for sure
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
I went to a fancy restaurant recently, the kind that charges $15 for a side salad and $30 for a plate of noodles, and the straw that broke the camels back for me was that she charged me $3 for every refill of the 12 oz of soda they give you.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
I grew up poor and well but I sorta also think you’re trash.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
You can’t make someone drive any distance for your convenience. That driver signed up for UberEats, made themselves available for deliveries that day, and then chose to take that particular order.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
Must be nice. Our monthly grocery budget for two at the discount grocery store is $600
- Comment on Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 1 month ago:
I’m not at all a “never preorder” guy and will happily pre order games I know I’m going to like.
That being said this game will be the only GTA game for the next 1/4 of my life so I also feel no pressure to actually buy it on release.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 month ago:
Depends on exactly what about Skyrim drew you in? Do you want to be immersed in a fantasy world? The ability to roleplay a certain kind of character? Have distinct builds?
Because if you like an engaging, living open world there are so many games that do it so much better than Skyrim. The Witcher 3 comes to mind, but you’re stuck playing a specific guy with a specific personality and allegiance.
As far as roleplaying experiences go, Baldurs Gate 3 is unsurpassed if you want to roleplay a certain type of character and have people/the world react to the flavor of your character. But that’s a turn based combat game not an action one.
- Comment on God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games 1 month ago:
I really don’t think that will stick long term. There’s a reason they started making the PC ports to begin with and that reason still exists. I think they’re just trying to build up the exclusivity things in the minds of consumers ahead of their PS6 launch in the next two years
- Comment on something to be reinvented 1 month ago:
They don’t expire. Thats why they’re called forever stamps
- Comment on Splinter Cell designer says “one of the difficulties with modern stealth games” is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much “harder to read” 2 months ago:
Yeah a big trend right now is indie games made with what is basically PS1 graphics. Having more tools for better graphics and lighting does not at all mean you have to make your game look a certain way.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 months ago:
This game is evidently not worth even pirating
Is that so? I’ve primarily seen glowing reviews about how good it is already and even well optimized even given its EA status.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 2 months ago:
I mean for better for worse (It’s better) it appears Civ switching will no longer be part of the franchise. It can remain part of the Humankind franchise where it belongs.
Old World is a rad game, but it’s not about leading A Civilization through time. It’s a different kind of game.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 2 months ago:
You don’t like the game? Don’t play it, go on and enjoy the hundreds of thousands of other games out there rather than linger and whine until the devs cater to your whims.
Counterpoint: Humankind already exists. It exists as a similar but alternative game series to Civilization, which is a good thing. That means people who like Civilization games get something, and the folks who like what humankind did get something. Turning Civilization into a completely different game in the one way most at odds with its identity. You already have Humankind, the devs of Civilization don’t have to cater to your whims by just cloning Humankind.
- Comment on Civilization VII "Test of Time" update lands May 19, finally letting you play entirely as one civ 2 months ago:
I will always appreciate game designers attempting to try to do something fresh over playing it safe.
They did not attempt anything fresh. They just copied the mechanic of one of its competitors.
It’s not as fleshed out as the previous entry until all the expansions land.
That’s not the issue with the game, at all.
