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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Please Do Not Let This Vanish Into The Night" - Konami Is Terminating Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The game originally existed as monetized F2P, much like many mobile games. They gave up on the freemium model, and wanted to sell it.

  But, the practice of “Good, packaged game for $10” doesn’t really work on phones. Everything must be free or it doesn’t even get a look. That’s what Apple Arcade tried to resolve, tying to Netflix subscription model.

  Not a fun answer and speaks to the dumb mobile crowd; but I certainly wish they could at least find some motivation to repack it into a $0.99 game for preservation purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cracked version of Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC runs better than official release - Variable⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For its implementation, generally Denuvo asks devs to call their check function somewhere in the core gameplay loop. From what I gather, many times this has happened, it’s been because the devs picked a function that’s happening much more than the check really needs.

  That said, perhaps I’m to be proven wrong; but that often depends on a close look at the source code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unfathomable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My hope is that part is a mistranslation. The picture shows it being lit, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This was how I first got Factorio, but the post is really about things you can’t discover on Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MORE PICTURES OF SPIDER-WOMAN!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first saw Spider-Man 1, I totally missed that; Green Goblin threatens Jonah to his face, and his only answer is “I don’t know who takes the photos! I get them in the mail!!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically, this is also true of the Dualsense on PS5. It has a clear, dedicated LED button to disable the microphone, and that mic is rarely used for anything but online chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny enough, moving to Linux meant I discovered a lot of cool tools and games that I wouldn’t have otherwise…and then eventually learned they had Windows releases anyway, so it wasn’t strictly necessary to ditch MS for them. But beneficial anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing a lot of Gyakuten Live. It likely can’t be officially monetized because it infringes upon “Love Live School Idols” as well as stealing a few assets from the Ace Attorney games. But, the game has quite an impressive amount of production value, with many emotive character faces, a full custom soundtrack, numerous cinematics between cases, and a lot of artwork to help visualize the scenarios. It centers around what seem like relatively innocuous cases, like a missing treasure, or fraudulent tickets, but (aside from the intro case) tends to dive into some complex character emotions as the motive behind each incident.

  The other game that made me think of posting this is Hytale, which looks to basically be an indie, non-Microsoft, pro-modding version of Minecraft.

• What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait to get 20 Fortnite ads. And then an error message that Fortnite doesn’t run on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are other reasons - one being that doctors aren’t really offering treatments, just finagling their way to defining a “solution” or excuse for the symptoms you’re exhibiting. Many people experiencing problems are out looking for their own solutions. I don’t blame poor medical training, just the squeezing of their metrics for maximum profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now you’re getting into garbage-collected abstraction though. Quite often you don’t have full control of the machine layer with C#.

  This is not just saying “C++ is too complicated for me”. It’s also that even beyond managing precisely what memory holds, C++ is not intuitively designed, and deserves a successor fulfilling the same role. The reason game development often moved off C++ was that even as fast as it was, dozens of people would write failing or undiagnosable code in it purely because of the language design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I ended up avoiding game development in part because of C/C++. Part of that is because you inevitably write C for various library imports, with little object-oriented operation. The other part is the archaic mess of the templating, which is totally unnecessary.

  I don’t mind being forced to manage memory carefully, to follow what is actually happening to RAM. RAII also makes a lot of sense to me. But the obtuse declarations are often sideways from that. Worse, while there were new language features around the time I stopped, they were actively avoided.

  I wanted to mention that because it seems like the few people who have any knowledge of C are devoted to it. I don’t know enough of Rust to actually champion it, but it isn’t the only language shielded from criticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

  Some Capcom exec saw that and thought “Wow, so people really don’t like it when we change up the protagonist! Let’s give up on forehead boy, and go back to the classic Phoenix Wright!” When, ironically, the biggest issue with that game was that Phoenix himself was frequently upstaging Apollo through xanatos gambits.

  Ace Attorney is a great formula, but it sort of needed to divorce itself from the name “Phoenix Wright” since it’s very character-based, and you can only tell so many stories with a single person. It managed to do that with the Edgeworth and Naruhodo games eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This thing is plastic-wrapped, but the thing we can’t easily compare is produce. I think it’s likely that fruits and vegetables just don’t have as much nutritional content as before thanks to aggressive agriculture and worsening environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aussies Will Now Have To Age Verify To Play R18+ Games On Xbox Series X/PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Something sad but interesting I’ve found is, if you ever explore some adult game spaces, you can find some people who are certain that liberalism, “DEI”, and “wokeness” are to blame for the rise of censorship.

  It seems intentional that the efforts of censorship are hidden behind many finger-pointing centers of blame, rather than being associated to common political parties. Most politicians don’t want to be associated to raunchy imagery at all, and so they don’t make any direct statements, and communities end up drawing their red strings themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aliens: Fireteam Elite Is No Longer Playable On Switch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even know how you’d legislate on this one.

  The Switch is a weak console. The only way it was ever going to run games like this was via a cloud stream system. There was no possible solution for ensuring Switch owners could permanently play this game to the end of time.

  I’d be curious if any Switch gamers were at all grateful for getting the chance to play it, or if the game was mischaracterized to them in this case, and they’re upset to lose it. Either way, I don’t for this game I don’t see a great solution, laws or not.

  I’ll still support SKG in general. I wonder if it means a future game like this would need to be frontally advertised as “5 year access to this game via streaming”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually don’t know if the rules changed, did they? It was just that the publishers of the time weren’t ambitious enough to be sure they could prove in court that “These uses of swastikas are for the means of depicting Nazis in a negative light”. Much easier to just sidestep the analysis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d definitely recommend Mouse, P.I. . They don’t wear swastikas on their sleeve, but for how silly the game is they do take steps to show just how organized the Big Mouse Party is about fascism and oppressing minorities. Some of the first villains of the game are an army of cops that happily kidnaps shrews - “lesser” mice - into human trafficking. And you get to melt them with an acid gun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hitman has some complex AI with a lot of interactions that, in context, do make a lot of sense. One that’s a bit rarer is the way they react to gunshots, which I used to get a Silent Assassin Suit Only run.

  There’s one path with two guards and I couldn’t figure out a way around. My master plan had me stand in a room nearby, and fire an unsilenced pistol at the ground twice - no one saw, but the two guards heard and became alerted to the location. I holstered the gun, and snuck around their pursuit path to go in the area they’d protected.

  As a bonus, several NPCs inside the room would normally have been “suspicious” of my appearance. But, while they’re panicking in reaction to nearby gunfire, they are more concerned with avoiding danger than spotting intruders (kind of makes sense, they think I might be someone running from the shooter too). So, I rushed past them to a safe room before any of them returned to a calm state.

  And, since no bodies were found and I wasn’t spotted doing anything, the whole loud chaos doesn’t cause problems for my silent assassin score, ironically enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay? People have already been abandoning Windows on the gaming front. More hurdles and roadblocks will speed that up. How will they sell these products as useful?

  And you still haven’t answered who “they” is. Now it’s Microsoft? Or Nvidia? Why wouldn’t AMD capitalize on the gap?

  By all means, be a concerned consumer. But your concerns become incoherent and easy to dismiss when you don’t think critically about them and frame them in a direct way that exposes problems people will be impacted by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is “they”? Major game publishers? How will they convince 80 different indie publishers to stop publishing locally run games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Few adult men are killed by adult women.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While it’s not an “excuse”, I think the “explanation” tends to be that speech from Nick in Zootopia: If people are going to regard you as shifty and untrustworthy, why bother being anything else.

  Like I said, not a valid reason, but I do see how that toxic manosphere grows through fear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turn-based RPG Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC - Gematsu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Was expecting a standing-animal Redwall style story with armored cats wielding swords. The all-fours aesthetic always feels difficult to take seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have at least one good picture of yourself for display at your funeral memorial⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I make a social network, one of my rules will be that you cannot self censor.

  For example, “Politicians be f*cking stupid” would give a warning. “Politicians be fucking stupid” would not.

  If the message itself is disagreeable, it gets punished based on content - but it wouldn’t apply purely by use of a word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, Drywall Eating Simulator. Saw them play that at SGDQ. There’s more good stuff in here than I expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drunken Rogue, a dungeon-crawling RPG where heroines get stronger the drunker they become, launches on Steam on August 21⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give us The Demoman as an unlockable character, or you’ve got no guts, indies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when you had to buy a separate one? Now just get one to do both.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest, I have something like this and it’s convenient.

  I’m not brave enough to rub it directly against such sensitive skin, but it’s still useful for curbing down excess overgrowth, which makes close-fitting clothing more tolerable.

  And, it’s water-washable, so I’ll put it through some of that before using it elsewhere. Your hands have been to both extremes before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern sorcery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid 950-watt microwave

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oak⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need more game mods like that.

  I’d love to see a JRPG with simple scene scripting warped so the whole thing is just someone upset about a stolen pie, etc.