RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly a mystery even science cannot explain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For this particular game I can only imagine physical sales were from gamblers that wanted a future collectible like E.T. Atari cartridges and actually predicted correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I know it isn’t But even you must admit, our genre is dry as a desert. We take what we can get, even if it’s not exactly a flight sim it can be close enough to scratch the itch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Theres that whole Star Wars Genesis total conversion mod that changes basically everything, yeah. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but it makes a lot of changes.

  Though honestly if those are al your complaints, it seems like you don’t want to play the game regardless, whether its modded or not. You just want to play a completely different game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you ignore mods maybe. But now there are a lot of mods that can fix everything. The problem is it is pretty time consuming to get all the mods set up and its not very user friendly to need to use mods from the start of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Us space flight sim enjoyers like that kind of thing. When Starfield was announced we kinda expected it to be a default feature, so obviously when we saw it wasnt a feature it was disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US receiving the short end for OoT pre-order bonuses?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo has basically always favored the Japanese market. This isn’t unexpected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not eugenics. Raising a child is way more complex than learning how to use a comupter. If a person has learning disabilities so severe that they cannot learn how to use a computer, then it would be wildly irresponsible for them to raise a child, because doing so is more complex.

  I am not saying that people with learning disabilities shouldn’t be allowed have children. That was never an argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone has the ability to be tech savvy.

  This is not true. Everyone has the ability to be tech savvy, except perhaps people with severe learning disabilities. Which, if that is the case, they shouldn’t be having children, thus making them irrelevant to this discussion.

  People have to care enough to actually try to learn. Learning tech is not difficult. But too many people don’t care enough to want to even try. Because trying takes effort, and people these days only do whatever is easiest.

  I mean, why actually parent your kid when you can sit them down in front of an iPad all day and make the government create laws that make businesses and schools responsible for raising them? Why take on the responsibility of your conscious choice to create a new human when you can just shove it all onto someone else who can take the blame when that inevitably fails? Kids take up your free time; why deal with that when you can drop them into the daycare called Roblox and then do whatever you actually wanted to do without needing to supervise your kid?

  Additionally, sometimes you can’t have a certain kind of parental control on something, thats true. The solution? Either the kid can use it while the parent actively watches them, or they aren’t allowed to use it at all. Kid is visiting webpages they aren’t supposed to? DNS block those sites. RaspberryPi community might even have something like a PiHole but for blocking outgoing network traffic to certain URLs, or maybe even a PiHole might work for that, IDK. Everything has a work around, but there are ways to make things difficult for someone that isn’t eventually going to end up a computer science major.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 807 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Daikatana is a game that is objectively bad, but I can see the amazing vision behind it. It had some really cool ideas that were executed really poorly, either because of lack of knowledge from the developers or lack of time for proper implementation.

  Deathmatch was fun though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 807 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t leave without him. Literally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mojang reveals The Sift as the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am assuming they mean CurseForge, which yeah, I don’t like CurseForge either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican lawmakers join the global fight for digital games ownership with a new consumer rights initiative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally - and perhaps most importantly for Mexican gaming enthusiasts - the pair are pushing for additional accountability for companies that sell digital goods in Mexico. At the moment, many of these companies do not have consumer-facing support in Mexico, and this proposition aims to change that by forcing businesses to have a Mexican business address so authorities can intervene if consumer rights issues occur.

  This feels like it could be an easily abusable problem and not a real solution. Who exactly would this apply to, publishers or game developers? What about Indie developere that self-publish?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People, especially the Japanese players, wanted a sequel that continued the story of Harry Mason. That’s why Konami forced Team Silent to change Silent Hill 3 in order to incorporate all the elements to force a connection to Silent Hill 1. Silent Hill 2 had so many complaints about not being connected to Silent Hill 1 that it permanently disfigured Silent Hill 3.

  I guess back then we didn’t fully understand the concept of a sequel with a 2 in the title not directly continuing the story from the original. Whatever the case, the fact remains that Silent Hill 1 was immensely more popular than Silent Hill 2 for a good long while. It wasn’t until recently (maybe within the last 10 years or so) that Silent Hill 2 came into the spotlight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Silent Hill 2 Changed Horror Gaming For The 21st Century⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Silent Hill 2 (the original, not the remake), and consider it the best Silent Hill game, but let’s not kid ourselves. It was only mildly received when it came out, getting an average score of 6 or 7 out of 10. It only very recently came into vogue.

  I loathe its ability to spawn the millions of YouTube video essays about it. This is the pain of a franchise you love going mainstream and then all the new people completely change it. Tale as old as time.

  Don’t let your hobbies go mainstream people. Its a two edged sword. Sure, you get more interest and more money into the sector, but it also permanently changes forever, and almost never for the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not even close to the worst thing. The worst thing was letting 343 “Halo Studios” keep Halo.

  At worst, we just get another bad Halo game. But with entirely different people working on it, at least there is a chance it could be better. Under 343 “Halo Studios” it had no chances of being good.

  Activision is a publisher, they don’t only make Call of Duty. They have a large variety of games they publish, including Blizzard’s Overwatch, which while one can argue doesn’t fit the Halo gameplay, proves that Activision has the capacity to publish an FPS games that feels almost nothing like Call of Duty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that Activision isn’t a studio. It’s a publisher. I read Activision said they are forming a new studio for Halo.

  I mean, I didn’t bring up all of Activisions classic games like Pitfall, just the most recent games they have published since those are most relevant to the topic.

  “the era 343 aas turning out good games too”

  Ok but that never really happened. Ensemble made Halo Wars and Creative Assembly made the sequel which were decent IMO (the first being better IMO). Every other game with the Halo brand under 343 was garbage. Forget about Spartan Strike and Spartan Assault? 343s first game was Halo CE Anniversary, which was horrendously bad, so I suppose it is poetic in a way that Halo Studios, which only survived long enough to drop a single game, would die with yet another rehash of Halo CE.

  Except for maybe Fireteam Raven, only because I never had the chance to play it, 343 never had an “era of making good games.” Halo 2A was pretty good but it launched in the very broken MCC which took them years to fix.

  4,5, and Infinite were the absolute low points of Halo, with Infinite being the best of the three only because of the art direction. But they are all far below Bungie-era Halo games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Activision doesn’t only publish Call of Duty though. They publish all kinds of games: Sekiro, the Tony Hawk games, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc.

  Way more potential than what 343 had. I mean, 343 was purposefully NOT hiring former Bungie-era Halo employees. The important ones, like Marcus Lehto, Marty ODonnell, heck they only brought Joe Staten to get Infinite “back on track” and then promptly kicked him to the curb too. 343 definitely deserved this earlier, I am gonna be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, not thrilled Activision has it, but at this point literally anyone other than Halo Studios would be better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am assuming this means they are planning on adding a “free” tier to Xbox Cloud Game Streaming. Which doesn’t really bother me that much if its a free tier. But if they add this to paid tiers or full games that would probably lose them a lot of goodwill that Asha seems to be pretty keen on regaining lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they haven’t announced drives being removed, then there isn’t any proof that they are planning to do it. There is no benefit of doubt, nor is there evidence to support your claim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any proof that their next console isn’t going to have an optical drive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a favorite Caves of Qud build?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whichever build doesn’t die in the first 10 minutes lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Metroid Prime 4 lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima’s ‘Physint’ on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its Kojima though, one of the biggest names in game creation. People like me buy games just because he worked on it. And its always a fire game. Sony can easily account for him while handling their other projects. He’s like Yoko Taro, except Square doesn’t let Yoko Taro make whatever he wants. But I still buy all his stuff because its always fire, even though I really don’t like Square Enix.

  Sony is just burning every bridge possible. No idea why, but it seems like they are speedrunning ending their company, like every other company, but they just found new method to reduce time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cinematic was fire, but I wasn’t getting “open world shooter” from it. Rather, I thought this was “Helldivers 2 with Starcraft window dressing,” which would be awesome I won’t lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I probably don’t need to tell you this, but I think you picked the wrong dialogue option there. Too bad Quick Load is currently disabled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, the Tetris Company is a copyright troll / vexatious litigant.

  According to Tetris Holdings LLC v Xio Interactive, the 10x20 play area and block shapes are somehow copyrighted, despite these being declared public domain previously.

  Therefore all Tetris clones are somehow illegal. Absolutely insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious to know what exactly the copyright infringement was? There are a vast myriad of Tetris clones, none of which the Tetris Company have taken down. Copyright isn’t something you can pick and choose when to enforce it, copyright holders are legally obligated to enforce it on every infringement, or they lose the copyright. Was the game using Tetris IP music or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably CryzenX, who has been remaking OoT in Unreal Engine for a while now. Seems Nintendo didn’t bother to try making theirs look any better than CryzenX’s attempt, sadly.