kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
yeah I’m not into anime art, but Genshin’s landscapes are breathtakingly atmospheric
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
*it uses Denuvo tho.
and AI-generated art during its development :/
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
Genshin is the only one I know of. Its monetisation is predatory, but it’s a huge open world action-RPG with tons of discoverable chests and environmental puzzles. Also it’s very f2p friendly if you’re not susceptible to hype and FOMO - I’ve been playing for 4+ years with most areas 100% explored (and 70+ characters unlocked) without ever spending a pence.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
haha same, as a sylvari main from my first day, I’ll miss my glowing salads, but oh well, as long as they keep GW2 alive…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how action orriented they will make the game. I saw some speculation that it will be a lot like warframe.
That was my impression too. It will get released on PS5, so the game will deffo need fewer keys than GW2, and I’m betting that GW1’s recent mobile release is another sign that they’ll want to release GW3 on mobile too (just didn’t include it in the first announcement to avoid backlash from the core playerbase).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s ok, they want to keep developing all three games. GW2’s population will probably drop a bit when GW3 gets released, but then those who prefer GW2’s MMORPG combat over GW3’s action-adventure will most likely return.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hall of Monuments 2.0 will be released later this year and will connect GW2 and GW3. Since GWAMM was ported to GW2, it will probably make its way to GW3 as well :)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I guess they had to announce it now to explain why we’re not getting an annual expansion this year.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It will probably be quite different from both GW1 and GW2, since they’re planning to continue active development of all three, so they wouldn’t want to target the exact same audiences.
GW3 seems like it will have a more console-friendly action-adventure combat, and dynamic movement that preserves momentum between movement types.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
I looked at the trailer on Metacritic, and jesus those costumes and poses of the underage-looking girls are really uncomfortable to watch
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
I liked Watch Dogs 1 mainly because I didn’t consume any pre-release media about it. Whatever downgrade there may have been, I was unaffected.
My game in this vein was Spore. I enjoyed it for what it was, not having seen any of the pre-release hype.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of both. No wonder it’s a running joke in the Genshin community how many designs have “coochie flaps”, detached sleeves or thigh straps. Or the ever-present high heels on female characters, no matter if she’s a jungle explorer or a desert warrior.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Also, just don’t spend money if you don’t want to. It’s not hard. Nobody forces you to spend money on any game with a gun to your head (hopefully). Just have self-control, it’s easy. And if for some reason you don’t have self-control, work on it. Improve yourself.
It’s not hard for you. But many people are wired in a way that makes it exceptionally hard for them to resist these kind of psychological dark patterns. These are innate characteristics, with some overlap with ADHD and other neurodiversity, not necessarily something one can “work on”. And there’s a reason why these dark patterns are in the games, because they work in extracting more money from players than they would otherwise give.
Stephanie Sterling made a video a few years ago where they go into detail how modern games prey on vulnerable people: The Addictive Cost Of Predatory Videogame Monetization (The Jimquisition)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Saaame, I love games with a ton of dialogue, hell one of my favourite games ever is Disco Elysium. And it’s not even that Genshin’s story is that bad, but it is told and localised very badly. It’s basically the trope of r/Im14andthisisdeep - an overall pretty shallow and meandering story (probably due to its gacha nature), often told using such an extremely dry and ornate language (probably due to direct translation from Chinese) with tons of characters and concepts thrown in in the attempt to pretend it’s something epic and profound, that the end result feels really disjointed. Also Paimon’s constant inane intrusions and hogging of the Traveler’s role is just actively bad storytelling.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Eh idk, I play Genshin for the open-world exploration, which I find really enjoyable. Also love the landscapes and music. The combat is alright too, but the story is below mediocre, and the monetisation is predatory af.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
trying to make positive changes in a Sims life, and it only makes me feel worse about trying to improve my own situation.
Haha same, whenever I was working on improving their life, I was always acutely aware that I could be spending that time improving my own :D I guess there was some satisfaction from wish fulfilment (they own a house, wow), but yea I always spent an afternoon setting up mods, another day or 2 playing, then just got bored. Rinse and repeat every couple years. (Though I haven’t touched Sims 3 since the pandemic, and never tried Sims 4 so whatevs xd)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Guild Wars 2 is 14 years old this year, and you could argue that Guild Wars 1 is having a new renaissance after 21 years :)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I hate voxel graphics, so it never worked for me.
Also not into creative sandbox games. Give me a problem to solve or situation to improve, and I’ll have fun. Give me a big sandbox with no goals, and I just get bored 😅 (Same with Sims and other life simulators. I’d much rather play stories other people wrote than come up with my own.)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Incremental games are that kind of braindead thing I can play for 5-10 mins at a time, when I’m too tired for proper games :)
But only with an autoclicker, otherwise it’s pure torture.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I put 2000+ hours into Genshin over 4 years and have like 75 characters without ever spending any money. But the game is still so full of psychological dark patterns that would squeeze out the last penny from those whose personality or neurodiversity makes them vulnerable against such manipulation.
And yet again, the core of the issue of capitalism. As Stephanie Sterling put it many a time, the companies’ attitude is “Why be satisfied with a lot of money, when we could have all the money.”
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
When I went on the main Genshin subreddit, I was so baffled that people do little pulling rituals, and even do parties with thematic food and decoration for characters to influence their gacha luck 😵💫 Maybe they didn’t take it that seriously, but it still felt like a very unhealthy attitude towards such a predatory game.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 4 weeks ago:
As someone with 2000+ hours in Genshin, I completely agree 😆 I only play for exploration nowadays because the story actively pushed me away, while the gambling never appealed to me. I wish we could just unlock characters via quests. I get no joy from a lucky draw, so I just treat gacha pulls in batches of guaranteed unlocks, like the price of this character is 160 pulls and that’s it. But the whole monetisation is disgustingly predatory for those who are even a little susceptible to it.
- Comment on Batteries 2 months ago:
nice timing, I heard of it literally today from this Smashing Magazine article :D
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
Sunless Sea. Neat setting and writing. I don’t like the gameplay — simple combat, not very interesting choices, hunt-the-item stuff.
Oh I forgot about Sunless Sea. I played the hell out of Fallen London, but the switch to real-time gameplay was stressful enough that not even the worldbuilding and writing could make up for it.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
BioShock and any other narrative-heavy games with a shooter/action gameplay. I love lore and worldbuilding, but I really hate shooter gameplay, even more so in first person. If they were, say, turn-based RPGs, I would absolutely play them.
- Comment on Space weather fans be like 2 months ago:
Anyone else here from Scotland? 😅🌫️
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
I went through my curator list just now; these are the largest/most active ones:
- Game uses Ai - 961 reviews - last update: 2026-03-27
- Is it AI? - 774 reviews - last update: 2026-03-26
- AI_games_flag - 1,998 reviews - last update: 2026-03-17
- AI Check - 2,000 reviews - last update: 2025-12-23
- The Curator Page I Made to Flag AI Slop - 383 reviews - last update: 2026-02-13
- Ai? No buy! - 343 reviews - last update: 2026-03-23
- Does This Game Use GenAI? - 193 reviews - last update: 2026-03-27
- NO AI #HumanArtists - 119 reviews - last update: 2026-03-25
- AI Check 2 - 86 reviews - last update: 2026-03-23
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
Same. Steam is so inundated with AI slop that I’m now following like a dozen different curators that flag AI usage, for the cases when the developers “forget” to fill out their AI disclosure field D: (which I’ve restyled to be red and on the top of the page)
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 months ago:
Sid Meier’s Civ 5, and I was 24 😆 (growing up, my family was piracy-only, so this was the first game I actually bought)
and was absolutely worth it :) I paid ~15 GBP for the base game + some expansions and DLC, and so far put 500+ hours into the game. I still reinstall it every few years.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
Every other commenter under this seems to forget that stock assets exist and worked fine for decades without involving AI slop.