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- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 2 days ago:
Hearts of Iron IV. It’s a grand strategy but War is the whole point.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 2 days ago:
Civ 6 has two DLCs.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 weeks ago:
Generally speaking, algorithms on these sites don’t serve me a ton of videos with no views from creators with no followers, en masse.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 weeks ago:
This is true, but one thing I noticed with AC Shadows is that there were a LOT of no-name streamers posting reels with fake hype over the game. It was a little egregious and came off as more than a little desperate.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 3 weeks ago:
I am an absolute die hard Hitman fan. I’ve played all of them. Replayed the whole series last year. Blood money was a better sandbox by far than the previous games. And it’s still a blast to go back and play just for the nostalgia and the vibes. But the people who insist today that it’s better than the World of Assassination trilogy are smoking crack. Not only that, but in some ways Blood Money was a big downgrade from the previous games. Hitman 3 in its current state today incorporates all the best things about Blood Money, the games that came before it, the game came after it, while cutting out the negatives.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 3 weeks ago:
A good observation. Hence why one of those games can afford to launch during a crowded window and the other, despite their confidence in their work, and the quality of their work, could not. You’re starting to get it now.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 3 weeks ago:
That’s just not how these things work.
Also if an (already established) company’s future is jeopardized by a single game not doing well, I’m sorry but it’s not well managed. Ask me how I know.
That’s not really here nor there. It also isn’t really true.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 3 weeks ago:
A good solo game might take a hit to its initial sales but should recover in the long run.
It won’t though. This feel-good theory that if a game is “good” then it’ll just make the same amount of money it always would have otherwise is not supported by any real world evidence. And even the most hypothetically high quality, ethical, game making company is still a company in the bed, and companies need to money to pay living wages and keep people employed making new games. And if the games they are putting out are high quality, they probably have competent leadership. And competent leadership isn’t going to gamble the future of their company and livelihoods of their employees on an unproven feel-good fantasy espoused only by people on Reddit and Lemmy who’ve never run a business before.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 3 weeks ago:
It’s the exact same thing actually. Their claim was:
Good games will sell regardless of what’s out
But that’s just not true, and game studios of all sizes know that. The risk aversion of these companies exist because of the reality of the situation.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 3 weeks ago:
They aren’t crowding into those windows because competition helps their sales, it’s because they expect the biggest shopping period of the year will result in more sales than they lose. And there’s a reason only the biggest titles release in these windows.
Capcom made the decision years ago to release in February/March because they know a November window will drown them.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about that one. Games are expensive these days and if your game releases anywhere near the rumored $100 GTA 6, a LOT of people are going to have to choose one or the other, and it’s very unlikely that in most cases they don’t choose GTA6, literally the most anticipated video game of the last decade. Sure you can always buy the smaller game later, but a huge part of the sales of video games is the opening week, when all the hype around it has had time to come to a head, and you’re influenced by the fact that lots of other people are playing it.
Yeah good games will always sell SOME copies. But if you thinking that a game even releasing in the same month as GTA6 won’t have a permanent impact on that games sales, you’re smoking the reefer.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 3 weeks ago:
It’s one of those things where it looks good where in like the case of a video game, the GAME’s implementation of it is good AND your Console/PCs implementation is good AND your TV/Monitor’s implementation is good. But like unless you’ve got semi-deep pockets, at least one of those probably isn’t good, and so the whole thing is a wash.
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on LAN (local area network) games 4 weeks ago:
SWAT 4.
- Comment on Fast-paced turn-based tactics game Warside for fans of Advance Wars launches April 14 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like hotseat. A remnant of the good old days.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Pre-Order Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I could not preorder this game any harder if I tried.
- Comment on FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated 1 month ago:
Sony doesn’t really do that, not in the way that we’ve seen Microsoft do it at least. And most PlayStation exclusives are on PC now or are planned for PC.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator 2 months ago:
RDR2
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 months ago:
Certified classic
- Comment on Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts 2 months ago:
We also use Linux
- Comment on Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts 2 months ago:
In the last few years we used to do windows updates quarterly on our production servers as required by PCI DSS. In the last year though, we’ve had to do updates every single month due to critical CVEs needing to be patched. It’s becoming ludicrous actually, yet they’re cutting security folk.
- Comment on Par for the course 2 months ago:
It’s also very likely the divorce was the reason for the behavior. Getting lost in the sauce of that nonsense is a tragic but not unreasonable reaction to the trauma of divorce, or just being hurt by a woman. That ideology and the people who make money from it prey on weak, lost men for a reason. Thats what its designed to do.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 3 months ago:
The Nvidia shield ships with the exact same OS as many of these smart TVs
- Comment on *cough cough* GOLLUM *cough cough* 3 months ago:
Supported genocide. Palestinian specifically. And not like “Supports Israel”. But very unapologetically thinks the Palestinians should die.
- Comment on Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer] 3 months ago:
Ah yeah that’s a good catch. It is a solid game and should have won.
- Comment on Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer] 3 months ago:
I can’t think of a single city builder released this year that isn’t in EA.
- Comment on Best City Builder 2024: Manor Lords [as per PCGamer] 3 months ago:
Were there any city builders fully released in 2024? Is this a matter of an EA title being chosen because there are no non-SA titles?
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 3 months ago:
The distinction is very much universally accepted. The reason CRPG is used synonymously with RPG in that article is because CRPGs were at the time of their inception what an RPG was. You can tell by reading the introductory description and the characteristics section that what is being described and named are tabletop-like CRPGs specifically.
You’ll notice that in the section that defines ARPGs that they’re referred to as a hybrid genre. They are related to CRPGs, as they borrow elements from CRPGs but they are their own genre that by that hybridization are distinct from the CRPG.
This is reinforced by the Wiki link I sent you which is a more cut and dried succinct list of game genres, where it lists ARPGs and CRPGs as two distinct genres.
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 3 months ago:
A CRPG is the video game sister-genre of the table top role playing game.
“Computer Role Playing Game” doesn’t mean “A Role Playing Game that’s on the Computer”, the word computer is used specifically to distinguish it from tabletop, meaning it’s intrinsically tied to tabletop RPGs.
So if a game plays with very similar mechanics to a tabletop rpg (Turn based, tile or distance based movement, top down or isometric views, unique player-created characters, plus the other hallmarks of the greater RPG genre), then you can call it a CRPG. Games like XCom are closer to being CRPGs than the likes of Skyrim, though it wouldn’t itself qualify because it’s not an RPG.
Games like Skyrim are well established in the “Action RPG” genre and the burden of supportive evidence and reasoning would really be on you to try and make the claim that Skyrim is a CRPG.
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 3 months ago:
Something that’s being heavily overlooked in this thread is the difference between a CRPG and an RPG/ARPG. I’m not sure which one OP is referring to, but if you want an easy guide, Fallout 1-2 are CRPGs, Fallouts 3-4 are not. Skyrim, the Witcher, latter Assassin’s Creed games, Elden Ring, etc are not CRPGS. Games like Divinity Original Sin 1-2, Baldurs Gate 3, Pillars of Eternity, Pathfinder, etc are CRPGS