PonyOfWar

@PonyOfWar@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My heart stopped at reading “GoG is getting acquired”, but that doesn’t sound so bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dying Light⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn’t have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I’m 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite. Larian also wants to use it for concept art, which is not the same thing as placeholder assets. To give you a bit of context, the standard for placeholder textures at the software development companies I worked so far has mostly been “vaguely fitting images you found on Google”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only in regions where they’re being forced to do this. And if the implementation in Japan is anything like what they did in the EU, it’s essentially worthless, as there are way to many hoops to jump through for alternate app stores to make it practical or useful at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except for the “developing concept art” bit I guess. That’s not some unimportant intern’s work and does have the potential to displace artists. And while no AI-generated content may make it into the game, it does suggest that there will be art that’s based on the AI-generated content. That’s what concept art is for, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any games I missed in the last 21 months?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome back! BTW, there was some user wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: pawb.social/post/33129287

  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That does sound like an interesting scenario. I guess the big challenge here will be getting the actual self driving implemented and approved across manufacturers. Also, if we had that, couldn’t the car just as easily connect to a physical docking port of some sort? But I guess a wireless charging pad would be more friendly to various car shapes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. Personally, I haven’t actually encountered a charger that was vandalized to a point where it didn’t work though. And I’m not sure whether these are more or less prone to have technical issues compared to regular cable chargers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, but 10% still seems like a lot for the small convenience of not having to spend 10-20s connecting a cable. Doesn’t seem worth it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 2 hours in and I’m really enjoying it. Visuals and soundtrack are fantastic. Gameplay is mostly classic Metroid Prime so far. Story seems a bit formulaic (Collect X of object Y to escape the planet). Despite what some people have said I don’t find it overly handhold-y, especially for a Nintendo game. The first major NPC you meet, Myles, is a tad annoying but not as bad as some of the previews made it seem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s pretty cool. The game does have a lot of pre-written dialogue as well, so it’s just an additional interaction you can have with NPCs. It also does require a detailed backstory, motivations, personality etc to be written for each NPC you can chat with, so I wouldn’t exactly call it lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.

  In case you didn’t know, Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have a very similar fire spread system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the author might be interpreting a bit too much into Sean’s words here. “In the background” could just mean out of the eye of the public and he said it’s another tiny team, not necessarily smaller than the NMS one which he also calls tiny in the same post. Hello games is a pretty small studio. LNF could easily still be years away, but I don’t think Sean’s comment here tells us anything either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that’s a game I haven’t thought about in a while. I backed the game in 2013 and played it for 100+ hours in beta, but dropped it shortly after 1.0 because I didn’t like many of the fundamental changes they introduced. How is the game these days? Maybe I’ll join and give it another try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you want to get into a horror game in the first place, if you don’t handle horror games well? I don’t see how that could work, as shocking and horrifying the player is kind of the whole shtick of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point my phone from 2022 is way overpowered for every use case I have for it. So why upgrade? It was a bit different years ago, when new phones actually did exciting new things older phones couldn’t do. But now the technology has pretty much matured, and upgrades are incremental at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played Ultros recently and thought it was really cool and unique.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, didn’t expect that to ever be a thing. I never played the original GW campaign, only Factions and Nightfall, so I guess this will be a good opportunity for me to finally play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Potentially it could also be something behind the screen. That could even explain the spot moving if there’s some sort of loose component inside the TV that has moved around over time. Pure speculation though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They could be pressure marks. Maybe you or someone else bumped the TV screen with some object?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too big when the developers are unable to fill it with enough interesting things to do and discover to keep my attention. But there’s no absolute size I’d automatically consider too big, as it also depends on things like traversal. If you ride through the map on a mech going 400km/h, it can be much larger and more spread out than if I have to traverse the entire map on foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve only gotten like 1.5 hours in so I can’t really say yet, but so far it feels similar to the first one with some improvements to stuff like gunplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the main menu. Pretty fun idea, but from what I’ve played of the actual game so far, it isn’t nearly as creative or meta unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s The Outer Worlds 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It plays games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a massive free content update for a 5 year old game and a $5 update for Switch 2 owners who want higher resolutions and more online features. No reason to desperately try and find something to complain about just because it’s Nintendo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My AYN Thor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I mean Crysis had been out for 3 years already. N64 graphics seemed ancient at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else disappointed by Steam's current Next Fest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! It’s the Demon Turf devs, so it’s in competent hands. The demo is quite fun. Also filled with self-aware references to Bubsy’s… colorful past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else disappointed by Steam's current Next Fest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found some good stuff (Bus Bound, Bubsy 4D), but none of it through the actual Steam Next Fest store page. That indeed seems to be overloaded with low-effort crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t really noticed any change personally. What game was it btw? Having a positive experience with a game that is being negatively reviewed doesn’t necessarily mean it was review bombed. Especially when it comes to bugs and technical issues, which often won’t affect every single player.