Katana314
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- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 2 hours ago:
There’s some optimization I’d like to see on both the project planning level, and the game visuals level. Planning level, because paying 10 level designers to put together interesting ideas for a year might be a better use of $1mil than enlisting a celebrity to voice one character in your game. On the visuals level, making a game with an eye-catching, unique art style that serves the style of gameplay might work better than developing a game that makes nice screenshots but can only run on a 5090 and requires highlighting to point players to obvious gameplay elements because of all the detailed objects. (There’s a reason Doom and Quake have fans even in 2026)
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- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 1 day ago:
Can Microsoft play its own games for me so I don’t have to play them?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The only way to do this accurately would require the same game to release twice on two planet Earths. It gets harder when pirates are not the types to offer up their purchase data honestly and willingly, for somewhat expectable reasons.
BUT, the closest we got is an old version of FIFA (we’ll assume it was FIFA. This is an old article, and unfortunately I’m only recalling details from memory until I can locate a very old bookmark) Those games sell each year, generally just to update the roster. You’ll see many college dorms where people just stack up each year’s edition they bought because that trend doesn’t change. In the year that the publisher added Denuvo encryption, the PC sales jumped significantly. The only reasonable explanation most analysts could come to is that many PC gamers found they couldn’t pirate the game, and bought it.
It’s not perfect data, not least because I don’t have a link right now. The other murky point is that the people who need to be convinced are not gamers, but publishers. Whatever arguments we make in forums, Denuvo makes its own arguments to them behind closed doors. So far, their arguments have been convincing, enough for publishers to burn money on licenses, and it may be because they have some very valuable, and non-public, figures that make the case. The games industry is not always obligated to release full numbers to its fanbase.
I’m not trying to suggest anyone should shut up and accept Denuvo, I think a lot of the frustration is valid. But I do think it can be more nuanced than you reali3z
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
One thing that makes it contentious is that how much it affects performance can depend on how well it’s integrated. Some studios check every frame, to Denuvo’s disgust, and it’s a #1 issue on release. Other studios manage it a bit smarter; as you say, it’ll always affect performance at least a little. But I’ll be honest, usually my experience is fine.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 days ago:
For full disclosure, I remembered once someone claimed to me there are AI models that use much less power. But, to confirm that statement before replying, I looked up an investigation, and they say it’s much murkier, and that a company’s own claims are usually understating it. So, you’re on point.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 days ago:
To admit some context: My company has strongly encouraged some AI usage in our coding. They also encourage us to be honest about how helpful, or not, it is. Usually, I tell them it turns out a lot of garbage and once in a while helps make a lengthy task easier.
I can believe him about there being a sweet spot; where it’s not used for everything, only for processes that might have taken a night of manual checks. The very real, very reasonable backlash to it is how easily a poor management team or overconfident engineer will fall away from that sweet spot, and merge stuff that hasn’t had enough scrutiny.
Even Bernie Sanders acknowledged on the senate floor that in a perfect world, where AI is owned by people invested in world benefit, moderate AI use could improve many people’s lives. It’s just sad that in 99.9% of cases, we’re not anywhere near that perfect world.
I don’t totally blame the dev for defending his use of AI backed by industry experience, if he’s still careful about it. But I also don’t blame people who don’t trust it. It’s kind of his call, and if the avoidance of AI is important enough to you, I’d say fork it. I think it’s a small red flag, but not nearly enough of one for me to condemn the project.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 3 days ago:
For me, it wasn’t a promise that Linux would be annoyance free. It was the simple fact that Windows had been escalating its annoyances and built-in ads to catch up.
Linux had some new annoyances, but I realized over time I just didn’t need to deal with the old ones. Keyboard shortcuts locked to the OS defaults was one; there were a lot of window management shortcuts I wanted to change or disable, and Windows simply doesn’t let you.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 3 days ago:
I see this in some character costume designs that show some (not all) skin. Once in a while, they’re barefoot, and the effect is just a free spirit vibe. But, if they have very bare legs, a big thick pair of sneakers or boots draws attention to the legs, making them look more exposed.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 4 days ago:
I’m not a big fan of Valve’s use of loot boxes. But I’m also not happy about the proposed solution of “Just collect blood samples from all users”. That doesn’t protect kids, and risks harm and increased surveillance to many other users. It also means companies in similar situations to Valve are forced to safeguard data they didn’t want to be involved with.
I don’t buy that Valve is fully at fault on the concept of targeting children. I don’t see how parents are held at gunpoint to attach credit card data to Steam accounts, or to check the “remember my info” box. Valve has also attempted to add adequate parental account controls. The main reason I oppose Valve on loot boxes is those shouldn’t be used on anyone. I’d like the NYAG to equalize pressure on sports betting sites.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 4 days ago:
I feel like the Lemmy description should retain the double quotation marks, since they often indicate “…so said a deceitful snake oil salesman.”
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 5 days ago:
I can imagine a lot of heartache and contention around where one lands with this. But I gotta be honest, my favorite Japanese properties are the ones where the translators took a lot of liberties and flexed some writing chops to make the most flavorful expression of something that fit what the creator was going for.
There’s a lot of Japanese/Chinese mystery games where suspects blend together because I can’t remember which person is Yuang Ho or Ryuiki Takachi. But I’ll always remember that in Ace Attorney, I play as Phoenix Wright, and am cross examining suspicious man Frank Sahwit. The cultural relevance of the changed names improves context learning. The series has been mocked for its adjustments, but I like them.
Other weird moments of creativity came from the dubbing team that did Ghost Stories as an “abridged series”, and the Trails in the Sky localizers that found a string table that duplicated “The chest is empty” for each treasure chest in the game, and decided to make each one a ridiculous message.
On the other end, there’s moments like the infamous quote in Rhapsoy. The parentheses are part of it.
This is WhiteSnow, a town filled with snow. Enjoy the world of snow. (Note: This is what happens when you do a direct translation.)
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 5 days ago:
They were probably relying on obnoxious Windows 11 install prompts to carry most of the fight there.
Sadly, in my case it just moved me to Linux…
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 week ago:
I have REALLY gotten sick of the “git gud” crowd.
I’ve recently been playing Tormented Souls 2. It has a good number of weapons to it, but some contention about ammo scarcity. I pointed out that while using your melee weapon on enemies, and using iframes, is technically viable, even if you’re really good at it, it becomes really samey and boring.
Someone immediately jumped on me as having a “skill issue”, and copy-pasting the generic “developer shouldn’t be forced to make the game your way” argument from every Dark Souls discussion.
Somehow, difficulty has become so entwined with masculine ego that people cannot seem to judge criticism of a game that has anything to do with its specific level of challenge.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 1 week ago:
We seriously need to give up on the sarcastic, parodic pro-capitalist games, and go back to ripping heads off of virtual fascists.
- Comment on Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself 1 week ago:
I’m not incredibly invested in the story or whatever father/daughter dynamic the game implies, but I did kind of enjoy the gunplay and the boss fight presented in the demo. Still, I haven’t been invested much into full-price games lately, saving what I can to help the myriad global victims of Project 2025, so no matter how good a job they did on this one, I’ll probably wait for a sale.
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 1 week ago:
It’s a good point around the recent CA age verification laws: Sensitive data (is this user a potential target for predators?) can’t be leaked if it was never recorded in the first place.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 1 week ago:
A streamer I like has been playing Avowed. It’s different in a lot of ways, and on modern detail levels it ends up being smaller, but I feel like it was maybe a bit over-criticized by players.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I guess if we define it loosely I know of a few of those now. Baby Steps, and Easy Delivery Co are simple games about getting around, with some terrain challenges.
- Comment on i guess this is why i'm a controversial figure just by existing 1 week ago:
I really want a good way to vocalize this to the people who think the “Pro-Woman” crowd means inherently being “Anti-Pervert”. Everything is always one or the other to these people. Meanwhile the LGBT world, as well as the furry world, is super pro-perversion.
Thus we have the worst, stupidest, loosest definition of the word “woke”, that these people live by.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 1 week ago:
This criticism is fixed by primaries, not the vote in the general election. This comic is criticizing the latter act. South Park is right about that one.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Introducing a niche, unheard indie game by a small, unknown team: The Witcher 3!
- Comment on many have been saying this 1 week ago:
I mean, even the UK just masks it.
Much of the support for Israel is around it being a white ethnostate, not a Jewish haven; and this is the place that banned even verbal support for Palestine Action. You can tell me if you think that’s out of empathic protection of Jewish communities, or racist radicalism.
- Comment on The State of Gaming (2026) 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t even agree with the idea that “Mobile is powering most of gaming’s growth”. Quite often, the two sectors have nothing to do with each other. For the most part, PC and console gaming has stagnated because the publishers controlling those spaces have flipped off their customers and given them nothing.
- Comment on Day 8 of posting an indie game I found that I think looks cool - They Killed Your Cat 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I saw out of it. Being attacked by non-zombies trying to rush you makes for an extremely disconcerting look. I can’t help but think the dev pictured themselves in that situation.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 2 weeks ago:
I’m acutely aware of how anti-consumer it is, but I always found it strange they ever started putting singleplayer games on PC.
Yes, it’s some revenue for the game itself, filtered through Valve’s 30% cut. But from what I gather, most of the reason the console offering works is because people who’ve finished God of War will learn about some new forever F2P game, and decide to play it on that same PlayStation, thus getting all the microtransaction revenue. None of that environmental connection really happens on PC.
That especially hurts because the cost and risk for singleplayer games hasn’t always been great. Sure, we look positively at Hollow Knight: Silksong, but that often ignores the 95 other indie failures for every Silksong. At the least, a publisher like Sony that’s put out enough big hits can pull that failure rate down, but they’ll still put out stinkers; and the whole “environmental buy-in” helps to pay for that failure rate.
But, if people can get their well-produced games anywhere, the insular cycle encouraging people to get PlayStations kind of falls apart. Not many people will buy them specifically to play FortNite (though they will, in the end). It was good for PC consumers for a time, but I feel like PC releases were very much motivated by short-term profit. You can also see how, since singleplayer games fit in a longer-term industry plan, it may explain why we don’t see many of them anymore.
- Comment on Is spreading. 2 weeks ago:
I feel like so many Linux advocates would get more interest if they were at least a little honest about the upfront friction, and recognized how obtrusive so many acronyms and half-names (or “hames!”) become.
Main thing I want to work out is a reliable path for reinstalling Windows, so people know they have a safety net. Licensing is often complicated since it came with people’s computers.
- Comment on Is spreading. 2 weeks ago:
There’s a dumb anime game in Steam next fest called Fate Trigger. It’s not innovative at all, but it runs fine under dwproton, which lets me experience the thrill of battle royale that I’d never been willing to stomach Fortnite to try out.
- Comment on Is spreading. 2 weeks ago:
It took a bit of time, but using a protontricks launcher, I’ve been able to do this for a trainer or two on a game on Steam.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 2 weeks ago:
Trading cards are arguably a problem too, but one that becomes much less prevalent due to their comparative inconvenience. The internet can gamify immediacy around them, and the cards of that store will never run out of stock.