Katana314

@Katana314@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give Me Experiences, Not Obligations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not the target demographic.

  Someone working minimum wage wants to get the most of their refurbished PS4. They might try spending $60 on an unforgettable 12-hour singleplayer adventure, but then they’d run it a second time for achievements and have nothing else to play the rest of the year, having an old hospital and car bill to pay off. Instead, they either play F2P to stretch their dollar, or buy a 100-hour Ubisoft game padded with content. When they do get a bonus from work, they feel invested in that F2P and buy the skin they always envied.

  I’m of course not suggesting these games are masterpieces, but it’s not so hard to imagine the appeals they cater to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Mass Effect lead writer says new narrative-focused studio will "avoid painting ourselves in a corner"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly what I’ve wanted. Anytime we get a plot point that fits in the following lists, I feel like it severely handicaps the writing potential of any other stories you could tell.

  • Humanity was created for the sole purpose of ???
  • Everything you’ve experienced is part of a simulation.
  • Our entire lives are lived for the fight against the ???. But it turns out that whole war was a conspiracy by the patriarchy.
  • There are many enemies around us. But we may as well throw our swords and guns in the trash, because the only ones who can fight them are the chosen ???, born with special powers.
  • Not much of humanity is left, so we need to preserve what we can and never ever get into any major conflicts.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam Autumn Sale and Steam Award Nominations are Live until 28th November⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully Hi-Fi Rush can win an award here, having failed at the developer awards.

  I went with Dead by Daylight for labor of love; the game has had its serious downs, but done a lot to fix things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lethal Company reaches 100,000 concurrent players on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if facetious, but in my early college years I made a flash game where you’re surfing down a river of lava, and it was pretty fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried Sea of Stars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeahh, that’s what I was worried about.

  It annoys me because I’m writing my own story, agonizing over excess word count and trimming every scene I can, but I still feel like they’re all additive and value - even if not to the core plot, to some very valuable theme.

  Then I play a JRPG and there’s just a random scene where two characters go play hide and go seek for pure padding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lethal Company reaches 100,000 concurrent players on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems to make for fun clips, but I can’t tell what the gameplay is other than walking into a room, seeing something, dying with no chance of escaping, and then hitting the “record clip” button for your audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried Sea of Stars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be a bit unusual, but I feel like the main thing I’m looking for in a JRPG isn’t just good characters, but good storyline that gives each of those characters real moments to shine. Something in the vein of Cloud Strife

  spoiler

  revealing he built up a fake persona based on his idol

  , or FFXIV

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  having your team resolve a generations-long war against dragons

  . I have heard that Sea of Stars has one really impactful/good character in your party, but not heard much in the way of super-heavy story beats; and it’s seemed the same way for a lot of JRPGs that have come from the indie sphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried Sea of Stars?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to be less excited for prequels because of this. Good stories can go in a completely unexpected direction, for instance having a villain “win” in an unexpected way, or killing off characters you expected to survive. Prequels are often just an excuse to give more content of the same, especially in order to star someone that’s been killed off in other media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Falls Out of the U.S. Top 20 Games for the First Time in Six Years - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Time got Mario Kart 9.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Last of Us Part II Remastered - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, I was waiting for The Last of Us Part I Remastered Remastered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic: November Maintenance Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I wanted for the corrupt or was just to slightly reduce its giga giga armor so it doesn’t take a whole supply drop’s worth of ammo to whittle down. I know it’s meant to have a weak point system after you’ve foamed it off, but it didn’t seem to work for me, especially with the many low-accuracy weapons you tend to use and other enemies around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨picnic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  doo.

  Where are you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But its the only thing I want!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But everything that I have done has been for this family!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨History is written by the victors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give them the spoils.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hidden Costs of Long Playtimes in Modern Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I peg this in Minimum Wage.

  It’s great that the well-paid gamers have their options of exciting, linear singleplayer games. Realistically, if we want AAA gaming to be defined by that, it needs to be profitable enough, which means people buying those games on release consistently, and even maybe accepting the $70 price tags.

  Some people do so - but many others are only buying one or two games a year due to shrinking personal budget. And those games need to fill the hundreds of spare hours they’ll have during that year.

  The situation could be reversed if more people had a generously-sized personal budget; if they weren’t fearful of managing their rent each month, or debating whether to save a few pennies from their paycheck for retirement. $40 or even $70 for the hot new 10-hour singleplayer game of the month shouldn’t be a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it’s everything in a world with so much income disparity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an idea for a story in which a former businessman, now homeless, has a number of interpersonal conflicts with people who lend him money, dislike him, give him favors to get by, etc. There’s a whole first part based on this strife and drama. Then, a freak situation results in him instantly becoming the head of a nationwide corporation. Every single conflict that existed in the first part is solved in about 3 paragraphs through a quick set of checks he writes.

  There’s a lot of general morals in that story, including “Wealth is not necessarily as ‘earned’ as one would think”, but also that a comfortable amount of money really does ease almost all interpersonal relationships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Has Added A Library Of Games To Its Streaming Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasn’t this been working out okay for Netflix? The intersection of people who watch stuff, and people who would like no-microtransaction games is decently sized.

  I found Steam versions of several of the games in the list. Can’t say much for mobile ports, but all of them seem to have decent reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely see its use. Suppose you don’t consider yourself a content creator, but you’re playing GTAV and some absolutely hilarious one-in-a-million glitch happens where a ragdoll flips in JUST the right way. It’s good to have a fast button to be able to mark the recording for later. Could be that video would get to a million views, but only if you’re able to record it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From that artsy article graphic, at first I thought the ROG Ally was smaller than the Switch. Not so, it seems.

  Funny thing is, this isn’t the first time this has been attempted. I remember Razer putting out a gaming tablet back in the Windows 8 days. Most of the concern I have for people buying these is interface - Steam has done a lot to alleviate concerns of a desktop environment in a game boy, including offering community tools to fill the gaps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The downvotes make me wonder if people noticed the irony - in which a hundred posts have been deleted after claiming that right-wing ideas require no censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft offering generative AI tools to its studios⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Question being, are these a secret trove of AI tools that don’t have any potential risk of future copyright claims for having been trained off of content on the internet? I feel like we’re still waiting for an AI-based company to hit a landmine on that topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may lose $120 million due to the Overwatch League shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sincerely hope this sends the message that no game should firmly rely on the expectation of an esports competitive scene. It’s a fantastic thing to have happen, and has occurred even for party game Super Smash Bros with no esport support, but it’s not something you can force.

  Sometimes the spectator appeal just isn’t there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facepalm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ads are fucking annoying, but I’m still not sure how people are answering this question.

  What should YouTube’s business model be?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that require you to unlock the basic functions of the game can suck my nuts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, arguing against unskippable cutscenes or misrepresentative tutorials is basically like comedians pegging on airline food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that require you to unlock the basic functions of the game can suck my nuts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say I agree with this take.

  I’ve played some games where the hero gets all of their tools from the outset, and it ends up being really hard to figure out when to use each one. Comparatively, when you slowly unlock things during tutorials, you’re building a mental framework of how combat should go, and on each unlock, get some time to work out how that fits in.

  In fact, it’s something I think is an issue with fighting games and their competitive-only mindset. People play the 20 tutorials in quick sequence, get confused by a Reverse Upper Back-Airdodge-Cancel input that’s only going to happen in high-level play, and feel overwhelmed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution is slow depletion of title power in order to drive competition. Basically, encourage each others and yourself to explore other games that aim for the same goals as the original property, ideally expanded with some vision of innovation.

  For Pokémon, players could likely try out Casette Beasts. For Silent Hill, there are other survival horror properties examining psychological properties of their heroes, like Cry of Fear and The Park.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a recent Capcom R&D presentation, Capcom has clarified it's stances on mods and PC gaming.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much as I love abridged series and mods, I sometimes feel like there are people too invested in existing franchises that could have made something substantial if they ventured their creativity out of fan works. I’m sort of one of them - I made a lot of TF2 animations back in the day, and past a point realized for all my work I had nothing I could claim to have truly been made “from scratch”.

  Not to disparage parody makers, just that I understand the sentiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodborne Kart - Release Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious; are they gonna aim for splitscreen play? Could make for a lot of fun party moments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming Soon to Game Pass: Like A Dragon Gaiden, Wild Hearts, Football Manager 2024, and More - Xbox Wire⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got so many Like a Dragon games in my queue I don’t even know which to go for yet. I still didn’t finish Yakuza 6, bought Judgment 2, and now game pass has Isshin and MWEHN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one thing that pulls me away from JRPGs is when their story is too generic. All the best ones I’ve enjoyed had some truly unpredictable, or even just highly dramatic, elements to their story.