Katana314

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade on PC Hit 1 Million Sales 19 Times Faster Than on PlayStation 5⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t stand Near A Tomato but have tons of hours in SB. I grant it has nothing amazing in terms of story, but it has enough intricacies of combat to keep it fun, even if none of those mechanics were invented here.

  Nier seemed to operate off a single attack button a lot of time, and working off RPG mechanics gave so many opportunities for level disparity that didn’t serve the game at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the only thing that might get me to go over the $60 line is if a publisher takes a chance on a franchise/concept I’d like to see more of, which these days is rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Studio Camelia shuts down a year after raising €300,000 on Kickstarter to fund JRPG (Alzara Radiant Echoes)⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  While it is fraud, it’s murky waters when you realize this is what every Kickstarter does. Gamers don’t easily fathom the full sum of what it costs to pay qualified artists for a full development cycle. Kickstarters have only existed to prove to investors that there’s monetary interest in a concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Protests Pop Up on Roblox as Kids Organize Virtual Demonstrations: 'FRICK ICE'⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It is my fervent hope that in a decade or less, the next Wolfenstein-style game is about killing ICE agents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BattleBit - Operation Overhaul: Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Downvoted for censoring “Gamers”. Go back to TikTok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MindsEye Becomes 2025’s Worst-Rated Game As Reviews Creep In⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know “worst” is an adjective that triggers a lot of content farms, but I still feel bad about these situations. Even the worst games, when they manage to be completed, are mountains of effort from the people involved; and as I understand it this was coming from one of IOI’s first publishing efforts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BattleBit - Operation Overhaul: Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This happened for me with Back 4 Blood.

  Turtle Rock said “Okay, we’re done developing content. We’ll move on to new things now.” And people took that to mean it was a failed, dead, and worthless game. Whereas the active state where they left it was pretty solid, still runs, and I have a lot of fun with it. It just wasn’t built to be endlessly live-service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like, though it doesn’t come up much, we should conceptually separate “owning the game” from “having a physical edition”. Some games give you a disc, but barely offer ownership (remember CD keys?) while other games are only sold digitally, but are ultra-permissive with what you do with them.

  I get the sense many indie companies would like to give people as much control as possible, but also can’t afford printing box sets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  King’s Quest VIII: Mask of Eternity. Even as a kid, I felt like it was a very strange gore-and-action focus shift for the King’s Quest series. Only as an adult did I hear the story of executive meddling that lead to the complete tone and gameplay shift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The video game market is extremely hard to “corner”. It can happen for professional software like document processing, image editing, etc, but far too many startups are interested in making games, and there’s multiple digital stores to sell them. Minecraft and Factorio even sold off their own websites. Clair Obscur recently outsold a lot of big publisher efforts, and definitely didn’t need Game Pass’s visibility.

  They can corner one particular audience like Call of Duty, but can only push so many expectations on them before those gamers consider other games. They tried it with Fallout, complete with subscription, and it was massively unpopular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I still haven’t seen the “no other option” scenario as so many claim. You could say $80 price tags do that, but if all prices are going up, that doesn’t track so much.

  They also discount games if you buy them while you have game pass. So there’s some encouragement to try a game, find you want to keep it, and pay for a permanent copy should it be removed from GP (or the player decides to stop the GP subscription).

  Still, I’m done with them because they’re done with talented studios, and are active participants in the Palestinian genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I enjoy PS+, it’s just a matter of whether you’re okay playing a bunch of games on a known rental basis for the price point.

  I enjoyed playing Texas Chainsaw while it was on there. Now the game’s dead. To me, not much lost as I move on to other games (and I do buy games too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One bit that’s nice about being a gooner game is, there’s enough outfit options you can just pick something “cute” and tasteful, and then just play the game. So while many people are ogling, people that are not as interested can just play the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I abandoned it.

  I found some cool stuff. I even coincidentally solved a puzzle involving an ice box on my first go. But it was taking waaaaayyyy too long to find anything interesting, and I had multiple runs where it felt like there was no chance to build anything other than a straight path of rooms leading to a dead end, either from lack of doors, or lack of keys.

  I actually like the dice roll of getting different encounters and adapting to what comes up; but only when the goal is generally to do well, eg dealing lots of damage or exploring new directions. But often there’s very particular objectives in BP and the UI doesn’t do a lot to help you track them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea of Thieves Season 17 Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be great if the matchmaking world could set some criteria restrictions.

  PlayStation controllers have a mic built in; make an expectation people will use it, and speak English. If people matchmake games, and then leave those games 45 seconds in, penalize them and prevent them from joining new ones.

  I know those things are idealistic, but I also think with a very dedicated effort an online network could create that space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atomic Heart 2 Announced At Summer Game Fest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even care about propagandist views. I’m just like “Hey devs, has your government stopped invading a sovereign country? No? Okay, no buy.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the controls on PC are just as unbearable. It’s that style of mouse movement that would be fine in an RPG but is absolutely terrible with an FPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh look, another day where I barely ever even got rooms that had more than one door, and now that my winding path has hit a dead end all my resources are useless. Next day I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see people playing Sea of Thieves much anymore. I never liked the top level pro PVP aspect but I do enjoy joining people for simple treasure hunts.

  DM me if you’re looking for more players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now this is how you do pride month, take notes AAA devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rudetalend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MindsEye studio execs depart Build a Rocket Boy, one week before game's debut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m a simp for IOI, but the CEO’s allegations that the game might be getting paid-off negative press makes me curious. There have definitely been games in history that I’ve seen overwhelming negative reactions to from the internet, I tried them out and…they’re actually really fun. Sometimes it just feels simpler to join the bandwagon without trying a game out, not knowing a good 60% of that bandwagon might be paid trolls. I’ve always hated vague statements like “The game was released unfinished” or shit regarding paid extra content.

  Anyway, all that is just my opinion that I’m going to wait and see, at the very least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s walk back and compare to a social cause that I think most people agree on.

  Police violence is a problem. It’s a problem for all races, but black people have been disproportionately targeted for a long time, and are in all forms at greater risk. So, it’s fair to organize social movements around supporting that demographic to show they’re recognized and they matter; Black Lives Matter.

  Male social isolation is also a problem. It’s been a problem for everyone, and loneliness affects all genders under modern social technological trends; but men are overwhelmingly gathering to movements that target their demographic and give them a sense of identity association. (Women and trans communities also gather to their exclusive groups to help identify their unique problems). Even if you don’t agree men are really victims, they can be warped into becoming perpetrators, creating more victims, if their mental health needs are not addressed.

  And so, it’s fair to organize social movements around supporting that demographic to show they’re recognized and they matter; Men’s mental health matters. This of course does not need to detract from any other social causes happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The GeForce NOW Native App for Steam Deck Is Here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Geforce app used for drivers, and the app to connect to Geforce Now, are installed separately. In fact, you’d likely install the latter on weak devices that don’t even have an NVidia GPU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The GeForce NOW Native App for Steam Deck Is Here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. You log in to something like Steam or UPlay, and it lets you play games you have on your account. It’s only their supported list sadly.

  The service is fast enough I’ve been able to play mouse-based shooters. Latency is not perfect, but home monitors and input devices sometimes have comparable imperfectness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So far as I can think, wasn’t the only handheld that failed the Playstation Vita? And that had very visible reasons for the failure - designing itself around an obtuse storage medium, and requiring first-party memory cards. Even with those drawbacks and with no first-party support, it had a tremendous following.

  It honestly could still be a worthwhile device to chain off of, since none of the current offerings fit in a pants pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The GeForce NOW Native App for Steam Deck Is Here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For those who don’t know, GeForce Now is a cloud option when you don’t have access to a strong PC to run a game. Back when Cyberpunk 2077 was unattainable for many, my advice to some was to run it through GeForce Now.

  Interestingly, they also have “day passes”, making it practical for when you are out spending most of a day away from a gaming computer. Save files still synchronize to local games when you’re back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing this is basically how the Xbox works already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d really rather gamers focused their energy into showing support for the developer groups making cool projects, than specifically deriding any works made under publishers they dislike.

  Once every few years, EA and Ubisoft produce something that’s really cool; and much as we’d rather the publishers were replaced with better ones, at the least we can be happy that developers got to put out one or two good games through them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be very funny if Microsoft releases their handheld, and is instantly better with Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This gets trickier with games, because an experienced game designer can, for instance, look at the UI design and graphics programming of a Ubisoft open world slopfest, and say those parts were masterfully done (even if the overall game isn’t so fun). And, even the best of video games have bits of them that weren’t as good.