RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Beyond Good & Evil 2's troubled development due to "passionate managers" not getting along, says creator Michel Ancel 11 hours ago:
I thought they said it was cancelled?
- Comment on Is Kickstarter Still Viable for Video Games? 1 day ago:
It can be. You basically just have to accept that there is a 50/50 chance that you are putting that money in the toilet and never seeing the final project.
I backed System Shock remake, and that was a nightmare. I put in $350 and the project was delivered extremely late after pretty egregious mismanagement. I think the only thing that saved the project was that Night Dive Studios is kind of a well known studio. Probably a nobody or start up would have just given up and kept the money.
- Comment on TRIBES: The Most Influential FPS You (Probably) Never Played [video essay 52:59] 2 days ago:
Ragebait. Looks like it worked.
- Comment on Square Enix Appears To Be Using The DMCA Takedown Process To Silence Criticism 5 days ago:
Japanese company attempting to apply Japanese law outside of Japan – nothing new.
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 5 days ago:
The following games all typically do not hold the player’s hand. They are to varying degrees, some give you a map and/or journal, some do not.
- TES III Morrowind
- King’s Field 1-4
- Snatcher on SEGA CD
- Dark Souls 1-3, Demons Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden Ring
- Ultima Underworld
- Silent Hill 1-4
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Tunic
- Super Metroid
- Hollow Knight
- Rain World
- Comment on [Meta] Some of y'all are way too sensitive for this community 5 days ago:
Reminds me of when BlueSky recently got overwhelmed with reports. They got something like 42,000 reports in an hour, which is significantly over the regulat traffic of the platform apparently.
People like their echo chambers, and I suppose as a side effect of maintaining them for so long, if they go somewhere else they try to turn that other place into their echo chamber too, I guess.
- Comment on How does Xbox backward-compatibility works? 6 days ago:
It is exactly the same game. Audio quality will be identical to the X360 release.
The picture may be a bit brighter, I haven’t noticed the X360 being darker. But picture output is effected by the emulatorz the same way that picture output on a N64 emulator eill appear brighter than an N64 plugged into the composite plugs on an LED TV.
- Comment on How does Xbox backward-compatibility works? 6 days ago:
AI is not a great source to ask for any sort of factual information, just a heads up. Its good for creating new stuff, like improvising story narratives or something like being a TTRPG dungeon master, though. I just wouldn’t ever rely on anything it says to ever be factually true.
Im not an Xbox/Microsoft employee, but I will answer to the best of my knowledge. Some or all may be wrong though.
- Both.
- It does not transform the game at all as long as there are no bugs. Usually the only benefit is increase internal resolution, and sometimes increased franerate. Everything else is identical to the original release.
- AFAIK, no. When you install the game it doesn’t actually copy the files, it downloads them because some of the files are patched. No internet means you cant download. I think it also needs occasional connection to check. I do think you can play offline but not for 20 years straight.
- To my knowledge, no, there is no significant difference. I think it probably is exactly identical, actually. It is however, different from how backwards compatibility worked on the Xbox 360. It is significantly improved.
- Cross-generational System Link. Its cool being able to have one player on Original Xbox and one on Series X in the same game.
- Comment on What video game company/developer/publisher loves shitting on it's fans? 6 days ago:
Nintendo. Nintendo, and it’s not even close.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 1 week ago:
- Snatcher
- Policenauts
- King’s Field (any of them, even Pilot Style)
- Halo 1-3 + ODST and Reach
- Yakuza 0
- Silent Hill 2 (the original, Enhanced Edition for PC is still the best way to experience SH2)
- Life is Strange (only the original game, completely ignore the fanbase, theyre all toxic)
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (too bad BioWare doesnt have a single good or competent writer anymore)
- NieR, both Gestalt and Automata
- Rule of Rose
- Dark Souls 1-3
- Elden Ring
- Kuon
- Armored Core (all of them, but the controls are hard to deal with before Nexus)
- Steel Battalion (only if you can find and afford the controller, otherwise dont bother)
- Comment on Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically? 1 week ago:
Absolutely not. This game is more interested in yapping in your ear than letting you race.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 1 week ago:
That one Ubisoft shareholder was right. Ubisofts current management is trying to sabotage their profits. Thats crazy.
- Comment on Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically? 1 week ago:
Because NFS Unbound sucks. Never in my life have I tried to refund a game so quickly. Couldn’t make it past the first hour of the game.
The characters just won’t shut up, I’m trying to drive not hear people yap about how the illegal street racers that cause millions in public property damage and multiple fatalities each race are so oppressed by the government.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t make a girl a promise if you know you can’t keep it.
~ Cortana, Halo 2, 2004
This town is full of monsters, how can you sit there and eat pizza?
~ James Sunderland, Silent Hill 2, 2001
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 weeks ago:
Which is exactly why the US senator that said this is a left-wing Democrat, right?
Politics is so tiresome.
- Comment on BlackMythWukong has received 4 nomintations from TGA!! 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely no chance it wins any of them though.
Not because it doesn’t deserve to win at least one, it definitely does, but because the people who count for 90% of the vote were literally writing misinformation riddled hit pieces and for some reason think that Chinese gamers are only 3/5ths of a gamer or something.
- Comment on It's insidious 3 weeks ago:
Turns out I have been hallucinating when Nog is listening to Vince Fontaine and sharing a room with Jake.
This whole time I remembered that as a Wesley episode.
- Comment on It's insidious 3 weeks ago:
At least I only have to worry about seeing Wesley for only one episode.
- Comment on Day 124 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Nah, they were new bugs, not ones present in the original game. Bugs in the original graphics mode that made some parts too dark and others too bright, for example. Or the wrong texture being used on the wrong surface. That kind of thing.
I don’t mind if bugs from the original release are left in there. IMO, if it was part of the experience back when the game was new and was never fixed, then unless its some egregious error that could brick your console or PC, I think it should be left in exactly as it was. But new bugs that were only present in the Anniversary and later MCC releases, that’s just embarrassing for 343/Halo Studios.
- Comment on Day 124 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Bugs, for one. So many, many bugs. Bugs that remained unfixed for years.
Also, graphics. I don’t mean fidelity, because fidelitywise they were pretty good for the time. I mean the complete change in art style. Anything forerunner became riddled with lines that made the designs overly busy. The reuse of Reach assets instead of actually remaking the assets to match the original game. Its like at that point, are they even remastering the game? Not to mention how many changes to the environment models were inaccurate enough to cause players to try to shoot through or walk through invisible collision geometry of the original game.
- Comment on Day 124 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 weeks ago:
Its so unfortunate that 343 messed up CE Anniversary so badly. But at least they did a lot better with Halo 2 Anniversary (though that is also not without its issues).
Now with a rebrand to Halo Studios, which was 100% caused by their poor stewardship of the series and the ruining of their own reputation beyond redemption, 343 will have to super-over-deliver with whatever they come out with next.
And I pray it is not a CE Remake. They messed it up already once before, just leave it alone and do something different with Halo. Make ODST 2 or some new story about a new Spartan entirely, I am tired of my favorite characters and stories being butchered these days.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Is it stealing though? Theft, as it is legally defined, requires depriving the original owner of the thing you are stealing. Stealing a car for example, means the owner cannot drive the car since you have it.
If you could take someone else’s car, but they still have access to their car as if it was never taken, is that really stealing?
- Comment on Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away 3 weeks ago:
I have used it. Played Metroid Prime 3, which is probably the best implementation of motion controls by far in any game.
I still would prefer using a normal controller with no motion controls. I would really prefer a trackball on a controller, but that likely won’t happen.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away 3 weeks ago:
I would prefer if gyros and accelerometers die off in controllers for gaming. Tilting and shaking the controller is not something I have ever enjoyed, except when the controller is a light gun for a game like Time Crisis or Silent Hill The Arcade.
- Comment on Stellar Blade coming to PC in 2025 3 weeks ago:
I will try it as long as it doesn’t require a PSN account. I enjoy Shift Up’s other game, arcade shooter Goddess of Victory NIKKE, so I am curious to see their other forrays into gaming.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 3 weeks ago:
He got upset at the Yuzu developers for dropping support for Windows 7, and after throwing a tantrum in a GitHub Issue report, he directly emailed Nintendo and their legal team with a massive word salad directly linking to Yuzu. Multiple times. Then within around a month or two Nintendo initiated a lawsuit.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 3 weeks ago:
This article was written by Luke Plunkett, who used to work at Kotaku. Some of his past articles include real whiz-bangers like: “Oh No, There Are Women In Battlefield”, and “There Is No Saving Cyberpunk 2077.” That pretty much tells you everything you need to know.
Sensationalist e-begging for clicks with ragebait articles. Nothing new from a former Kotaku employee.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 3 weeks ago:
We lost Yuzu because of a Windows 7 user. Whoever that guy was, he deserved this.
- Comment on The price of the PS5 Pro “has not had a negative impact” on console sales, says Sony president - GAMESCENSOR 4 weeks ago:
So they only expected to sell 100?
- Comment on Surprise! Death Stranding is available on Xbox now – WGB 4 weeks ago:
The fact that this game is $20 is kinda criminal. It is a really good game.