RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem currently peaking at over 300,000 players on Steam 6 hours ago:
They made Leon hotter by asking women on the dev team for feedback on his design.
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem currently peaking at over 300,000 players on Steam 6 hours ago:
Meanwhile Marathon’s server slam is down by more than 50% from yesterday, dropping from ~150k to ~55k.
“Dont worry, its a Thursday, just wait until the weekend.”
Nah bro, it dropped to its lowest concurrent player count on a Friday. That bodes horrendously badly for its future. And I mean, good. Its a skinwalker anyway (though I really love the artstyle, Graphic Brutalism has always been a favorite of mine since it started popping up in the late 2000s, its not a Marathon game, and my love of its art style isnt enough to carry it alone).
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 day ago:
So are they going to do the same thing against EA, ActiBlizz, Epic Games, etc etc? Or is this just “Valve has the most money and we want money and dont actually care about this issue” yet again?
- Comment on Games with friends 3 days ago:
In that case, you got a lot of options.
Helldivers 2 would probably be a good fit. It doesn’t have a lot to learn for a player to do well, and if one player is a min-maxing nuisance it won’t really effect the rest of the player’s experience. It’s a cooperative third person shooter.
- Comment on Games with friends 3 days ago:
How many people are in your group? If its 4 people then you guys have tons of options, but if its 5 or more, your options are extremely limited (I know this because I play in a group of 5).
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 4 days ago:
Its true, but also “please give the big business more money” isn’t exactly the thing anyone but business owners and shareholders want to hear.
- Comment on The Developer the Handheld Scene Depends On: An Interview With Gamma 5 days ago:
I feel a bit puzzled as of what a second screen can bring onto the table when emulating single screen games
Maps, a useable notepad, control scheme reminder image if buttons don’t match onscreen prompts, game specific companion apps, etc.
- Comment on Nintendo is issuing refunds for Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition's poorly-received premium Switch 2 Edition upgrade 5 days ago:
Remember how much Nintendo fought and gaslit everyone about JoyCon Drift to avoid paying/fixing/refunding customers?
They aren’t fighting this time.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
Okay, then use a different archive link. My point is, its not a monumentally impossible task to read at least to the 3rd sentence of the article, even if you don’t want to follow the direct link to avoid giving ad revenue to The Verge.
Someone said that it wasnt out of laziness that someone wouldn’t have read the article, and my point is that it is out of laziness. It wasn’t even at the end of the article.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
Her name is in the 3rd sentence of the article posted by OP.
But, as a special treat for the lazy, her name is Asha Sharma.
- Comment on NieR: Automata Will Continue, Finally Confirms Square Enix as the Game Breaks 10M Units Sold 1 week ago:
Still waiting for playable Papa NieR in 1.22 after they said it had to sell 1m copies.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 week ago:
Literal definition of Monkey’s Paw:
All the Phil Spencer haters get to rejoice that he is gone. But now he is replaced by a woman who has only ever had AI related positions at Microsoft, and previously worked at Meta.
Even her letter to employees sounds AI generated.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
Average early FromSoft game experience:
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
Probably because not enough people are buying PS5s. You all didn’t rent a PS5, so now small indie company Sony has to dissolve a studio. It’s not the executive’s fault, it’s the consumer’s fault, obviously.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for a remaster of The Adventures of Cookie & Cream this whole time…
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 1 week ago:
They just dropped an update today with a new map, new raid tool, and new cosmetics for a few characters.
This whole thing with this game seems to be a case of people trying to force the game to die for some reason. I don’t think it’s the best game ever and still needs some work, but it’s better than Concord.
- Comment on Bloober Team's big reveal is Layers of Fear 3 1 week ago:
Its a Bloober game, so its going to be mid-at-best and have horrendous performance issues. Most likely a walking simulator overfilled with the only thing Bloober thinks is scary: jump scares. Ansolutely no subtlety in the story either.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 week ago:
Some games in the past were like this but people complained because “I want the goth baddie but I am not an 80 year old man with a white beard names Santa Claus, this game’s romance system sucks.”
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 week ago:
There comes a point where it is too real, and when the loading screen comes up and you see yourself in the reflection of the screen, that’s going to create a really negative experience for a lot of people, not just gamers.
Which is why everyone should just play on anti-glare screens! They aren’t reflective enough for that to happen!
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
Games were more than $60 in the 90s.
But video games were limited by physical copies back then. Supply was limited, and it cost the publisher multiple dollars, sometimes in the double digits, to manufacture the physical goods to sell. But with that you got a usually complete game, as patches werent really a thing and making physical revisions was expensive. You also got the entire game that you paid for, tall the content in the game was available to you from your one purchase. You can lend it to a friend if you want, too.
Nowadays we get sold half of a game that barely works for $70, so you can get the other half by buying the next 14 $20 battlepasses and playing only that one game for the next 5 years to finally get all the content of the game. You also cant let your friend borrow the game.
I don’t need to pay for a dev team that is overbloated with people, a marketing team that thinks every ad needs to have a Beatles song, and an executive that just demands more profit. Dev teams need to get smaller, marketing needs to shrink, and exectuives need to be less greedy. They already make record profits, they do not need more.
- Comment on Multiplayer car games? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Marathon | Launch Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
The subgrenre of art that this one artist used has existed before that artist even used it.
No artist “owns” an art style. Imagine if Rembrant claimed to own chiaroscuro. His estate would still be claiming monopoly over the art style, effectively handicapping the progress of art as a whole. Nobody could create art with heavy contrast between light and dark anymore because “thats Rembrant’s style only and nobody else can use it.” As someone with artistic ability, “owning” an art style is the most ricidulous idea in art I have ever heard of.
- Comment on Marathon | Launch Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I hate Bungie, but it was only a few textures, and they have been replaced. The rest of the game is not “stolen.”
- Comment on Multiplayer car games? 2 weeks ago:
Screamer is looking pretty cool. Its a revival of a classic racing game of the same name, but its really related seemingly in name only.
- Comment on "It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds 2 weeks ago:
Same guy:
What we are going to be doing is focusing on a few features and polishing those to the highest possible level we can. And the first feature I spoke about was: How come the screen’s gone black?
~ Peter Molyneux, Fable 2 E3 live presentation, 2007
- Comment on Silent Hill: Townfall - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games 2 weeks ago:
Another Silent Hill game that isn’t in Silent Hill? We’re just milking the name recognition alone at this point.
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
Yes, lol. I turned the subtitles on thinking it would be translated and it was just stuff like that, it was actually quite funny to me.
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
The Spanish alphabet also has characters which the English alphabet does not use, such as ñ.
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 weeks ago:
As a Hispanic American, I really wish I could have understood what he was saying.
I don’t know enough Spanish to understand him, and the English subtitles didn’t help because it was just the Spanish lyrics spelled only with the English alphabet. They couldn’t have translated the subtitles? Its not like they didn’t know what he was going to sing, they practice halftime shows before the game. 77% of Americans only know English and only ~14% know Spanish as of 2024, so this was a superbowl halftime show that only ~14% of the country could understand.
Also, side note, this show kinda sucked for the people that paid for actual tickets since much of it was in those tall grass walls/designed for the camera. In the past, the shows were more like a stage concert, which was better for the people actually at the arena, but this superbowl was like a double whammy for people that paid 10k for the nosebleeds: a horrendously boring game and a halftime show designed for the people watching at home.