EncryptKeeper
@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
- Comment on Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright 23 hours ago:
Yeah fuck no. Left side should only be a jumping spider lol
- Comment on New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA 4 days ago:
So basically like what Obsidian did with New Vegas reputation system after Fo3’s simplistic karma system.
- Comment on Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc? 1 week ago:
I agree, and a big part of that is that everything they’ve added over the years just feels bolted-on.
I tried to give it a shot a little while back and tried to do one of the things that was initially promised you could do, be a trader. Pretty standard space game fare. Only to find out it’s a pretty pointless and broken experience because the way you do interstellar trade in that game is by putting goods in your pockets and walking through portals that exist in every single space station. You never even get in your ship lol.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Which part of the roadmap is what you wanted?
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 2 weeks ago:
From what I’ve gleaned from the history of this project, the original creator of the game sold the IP to a publisher in order to secure money and resources for further development, where they promptly started interfering with development to the point that it was delayed and ultimately cancelled.
The creator bought the rights back from them and released it into Early Access so that they can fund its development.
I personally have nothing against early access games after playing other EA games like Factorio, Rimworld, and Satisfactory that were known for being incredible experiences long before they launched into 1.0.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 4 weeks ago:
I often preorder games that I know are sure bets. I won’t preorder games that I’m not sure I’ll like or by a developer with a rocky reputation (Ubisoft, etc).
I love buying early access games. Many of the best games ever made spent a lengthy time in early access, and it was worth every penny. Some I’ve bought 2-3 times in early access on different platforms just to support the developers (Satisfactory, Factorio, Rimworld).
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 5 weeks ago:
It is not and as somebody who was patient with Civ VI and ultimately loved it after it was fleshed out, I don’t think it ever will be. The “play three different civs over the coarse of each game with a leader unrelated to any of them” thing they stole from humankind is not going away so if you’re not a fan of that you’re just going to have to skip this one.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 5 weeks ago:
Evolution 2 was pretty good. Much better than the first game.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 1 month ago:
Ngl that is a stupid ass name lol
- Comment on Total War: Medieval 3 Announced, But It’s A long Way Off 1 month ago:
I’m so glad my medieval loving brethren are getting their so long awaited game.
But the bad news for me is this means probably yet another decade of trying to finish a game of Empire before the crashing brings my campaigns to a halt lol
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
Unless both 10 years ago and 1 year ago you replayed them on a computer from the late 90’s, you didn’t get as many random events as were intended. Your doubt isn’t a factor, it’s just how the game works.
The very fact that you think random events were such a small part of those games also confirms you weren’t getting as many as you were supposed to lol.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
Oh yeah I’m aware of that. It’s just that foundational game mechanics are still broken to this day lol. Like the game never really reached a polished state, without mods.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
That’s why lol. The random events were tied to your cpu speed, and with faster more modern processors you wouldn’t see nearly as many random events.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
They never fixed the bugs lol
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
How long ago did you play Fallout 1 and 2?
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
Not quiet at all. Lots of people loved 3. I’m old enough to remember when NV was the red headed stepchild of the series. I don’t think you’ve picked up on the fact that New Vegas is a cult hit. It didn’t become everyone’s favorite for half a decade at least after its release.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 month ago:
A lot of folks really live 76. And it’s the only game in the series that offers them what they like, so why wouldn’t they?
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
Well an assassin kills his targets. He doesn’t kill every innocent bystander he sees. In the first game, the guard enemies you see are your colleagues who are fully under the impression that you are a traitor who killed the empress. They are functionally your enemies during the game, but they are ultimately the good guys.
The rebel leaders, especially the admiral are going to complain about you killing who are also basically his men.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 months ago:
It was unfortunately a product of its time where moral systems ultimately amounted to binary good guy/bad guy outcomes which was the style at the time. The system was designed to make you want to play it twice. If you’re used to the more modern moral ambiguity in today’s RPGs I don’t think anyone can blame you for disliking it.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 months ago:
Little Nightmares 1 & 2. Cosmic horror very well executed.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 2 months ago:
- Comment on Beach Day (Black Desert) 2 months ago:
Yeah OP did a great job in composition but that lighting looks like the surface of the moon.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 months ago:
Who seriously believes that?
If an artist consents to the use of their song in a specific way, it’s not a matter of belief at all. It just is tacit approval. So when the government does this without consent, until the moment the artist responds, the implication is that the artist has approved it. Which isn’t as big a deal if a private entity does it, but it’s a much bigger deal when the federal government does it.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 months ago:
The current government strategy of illegal use of copyrighted materials, often with the full understanding that the artist/IP owners will not consent to it should really have a harsher punishment to it. The DHS social media pages in particular keep using songs without artist permission because they know it will be taken down but by that point it doesn’t matter and they just steal another song. Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist, this should absolutely count as the rights of the artists to free speech are being infringed upon.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
They are inherently a sweat fest by their very nature and they appeal to a crowd that enjoys high risk high reward gameplay. Theres nothing wrong with you for not being into it. Not everybody’s dream job is being a fireman and running into burning buildings before lunch.
But it’s one of those niche genres that scratch an itch that more casual games don’t.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I hear the game is supposed to be fun so I suppose I should give it a shot. But styling they give the characters and weapons, essentially junk weapons and raiders from Fallout wearing whatever goofy scrap they can find puts me so far off. Like not everything has to be perfectly tacticool but like, something closer to the Metro series would be dope
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 3 months ago:
I saw a post saying it’s untrue but their only evidence seemed to be that their Target had not removed anything g last time they checked. Meanwhile I have seen a half dozen posts from employees and customers showing the Xbox stuff being removed.
- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 3 months ago:
Not sure I’d describe that spreadsheet simulator as casual lol
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 3 months ago:
The graph will also give you a note that the review behavior is unusual and that there may be review bombing going on.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 3 months ago:
Company gets a cut of every game sold, gets exponentially more customers that use your infrastructure on a day to day basis, meanwhile the price of games stays the same for 20 years and game development cycles get longer while games and infrastructure gets more expensive to make.
I wonder how Valve hasn’t gone bankrupt.
I don’t. Valve is in a super sweet spot in the market and their near-monopoly on PC game sales and lean business model gives them a lot of breathing room that Companies like Sony don’t have. Some benefits Valve has:
- They don’t need to worry about R&D of exclusive hardware often sold at a loss just to capture a user base. Valve has dipped its toes into hardware now, but even if its competitors eat some of its market share, those users will still buy games from Steam. On the other hand If people buy an Xbox instead of a PlayStation, Sony just loses out on the customers.
- Valve doesn’t have to operate a number of first and second party game studios to churn out increasingly more expensive games.
- Steam being a storefront on another company’s operating system means it can rely on external infrastructure to handle user services in many of its games.
- Valve is a privately owned company so they have a lot more wiggle room to tread water and “stay afloat” when necessary and aren’t being driven to an ever-increasing profitability targets year after year.
