RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoping DDR3 prices go up so I can finally sell the 128 GB of RAM I have been saving “just in case” lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon contemplates AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  False. Anon’s name is green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon contemplates AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it would be more convenient if there was a way to link all communities of the same name from all federated instances together for browsing purposes. Kinda like Reddit’s Multi-Reddit. Its totally doable within a custom browsing application, but would be nice if Lemmy could implement something like it natively.

  This way if someone has blocked instances, they can see posts from that same community name on a different unblocked instance and will likely arrive at the same contextual information as the post that mentions it, as it is unlikely that the same name community on different instances would have drastically different content. C/food on Lemmy World is most likely going to have the same type of content as c/food on Sopuli XYZ: posts about food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay look, as much as I hate Nu-Marathon and NeoBungie, it was only a few in-game (most likely placeholder) textures in a beta build of the game. Anyone trying to claim the entire game was stolen has no idea what they are talking about. It’s wrong that it happened but in the bigger picture, it’s a very minor issue compared to other things with other games.

  As a side note, and as an artist myself: Artists do not “own” an art style. Marathon’s art style is not stolen. Brutalism in graphic design existed since the late 1990s. Monet doesn’t “own” impressionism, Dali doesn’t “own” surrealism, Warhol doesn’t “own” pop-art. They never have. Anime and manga have been using that art style in their design and marketing for a very long time. Anime being a pretty big influence on Bungie during the time they were making old Marathon, Halo CE, and most obviously, Oni.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, in driving games, you dont really want to be changing a whole lot about the driving model once everyone agrees its perfect. Good driving mechanics are always good, and bad driving mechanics are always bad. The only thing worse than bas driving mechanics is when the previous game had perfectly fun driving physics and the next game changes it, making it objectively worse.

  Which happened to Need for Speed. A fun arcade racer with predictable physics, Underground 2 had perfected the driving model Black Box had made. Slidey enough to make entering a drift feel easy and controllable, but still predictable enough to master over time. Then in Most Wanted they changed the driving model and added insane amounts of grip for some reason, making the driving model feel more like Mario Kart. Then every game after that one got progressively worse, until we land at the absolute bottom of the barrel games made by Criterion, who make all their driving models feel like they came from a mobile game with tilt controls. Like Unbound.

  I dont believe a driving game with good and fun driving mechanics needs to really change anything other than the map, music, and adding cars for subsequent games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon enjoys videogame music⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  >cherry blossoms in the level

  >koto and sho OR shamisen and shakuhachi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every game must be over-the-shoulder action slop, or nobody will ever buy them!

  ~ Game Executives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon contemplates AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesnt that link directly to only one instance’s version of that community though? Rather than combining every instance community of the same name into the same feed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo definitely learning the wrong lesson from this:

  • The Right Lesson: Maybe we shouldn’t released an expensive console, with only a handful of new games and tons of repeat releases that are $70 (and suck), and some of those games dont even have a real physical copy, and stop treating our fans like they are literally Hitler because they are passionate about our products.

  • The Wrong Lesson: People must not want powerful hardware and physical games anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Save your game first though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The true ending though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The lyrics are designed to evoke a feeling, but not confuse the player with actual lyrics they might understand (especially if the song is playing while characters are talking in-game).

  To do this, the songwriter just created nonsense words that made the sound they wanted, and later on called it Chaos Language. That way they only had to record the song once for all localizations. Its not a real language though, because it doesn’t have any grammar rules or anything.

  They did sing some songs in multiple real languages though, which typically play during the end credits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am the same unless the content added as either years later or is a massive nearly game changing update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Highly dependant on the game and the content.

  NieR Automata has you get 5 endings and see the credits roll at least twice in order to actually get all of the story, and the content is actually very different. Like the credits rolling isnt treated as the end of the game, just a way to break up the pacing.

  But if the game is highly repetitive, extremely linear, and exactly the same on subsequent playthroughs? Nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider them tedious, but I generally dont end up doing all the side content, I just played the game and occasionally did the side quests between main story quests, so I wouldn’t be able to give you a good assessment on that.

  For whatever reason eBay prices on the game have spiked dramatically, but you used to be able to get the game disk for Xbox 360 for like, $10. Its backwards compatible.

  You could also just download and emulate the PS3 copy of NieR Gestalt for free if you are concerned about not liking it and buy the game later if you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Automata was good, but I found myself enjoying NieR (Gestalt, not Replicant) way more. Its older and less refined, but the story was more captivating, and I found the father a more charming character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its hard to argue with Russian Tim Curry. He was such a fun pick for that role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked it more. Red Alert 2 was good but I just prefer Generals Zero Hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is my Quality Slop list (I only like them because they are good):

  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • Metal Gear Solid
  • NieR Gestalt
  • Test Drive Unlimited 2
  • Halo Combat Evolved
  • Dark Souls
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
  • Half-Life: Opposing Force
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
  • Silent Hill 2 (the original, not the remake)
  • Super Metroid
  • Need for Speed Underground 2
  • Shenmue 1, 2, and 3
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
  • Age of Empires II
  • Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
  • Policenauts
  • Panzer Dragoon Orta
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shenmue III Enhanced debut trailer, details, and screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay wait, why the DLSS 5 AI kinda cooking with those casting picks though??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are you picking up March 19th?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am considering Tainted Grail, I have heard good things about it. Also looking forward to Screamer and seeing how that is.

  Screamer wont be on sale most likely, but Tainted Grail might be. If its less than $30 USD I will probably get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the game is good and I can afford it, yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the game have a cash item shop? Will they be removing that? I can understand if they are removing a cash item shop or something, that is technically a trade of that tevenue for subscription revenue. A little late to the subscription party though, people are wisening up to the fact they end up paying more on subscriptions.

  I am not unreasonable though. Nobody ever likes price increases but from the perspective of the business price increases are sometimes necessary to keep up with inflation and cover server costs, etc. I dont know Jagex’s business and financials enough to know if this is necessary for the game to stay online or if it is just greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. While DF have always had the technical computer knowledge of the average iOS user, that doesn’t excuse death threats (if they even actually receieved any and aren’t just making the claim up for sympathy reasons) of any kind.

  They made their hype video, now they make their pseudo-intellectual analyses to try to appeal to both sides of the equation: fanatics of and against DLSS. The problem is, they never had any credibility to begin with. None of their “technical” videos are detailed enough to be anything more than surface level overviews, which to the average iOS user makes them seem like geniuses, but anyone with real technical knowledge can see that they only know enough to be dangerous because they think they know more than they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s getting weird folks, a second five fret game is getting pushed, Sound Studio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And Clone Hero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can add my name to the list of Starfield fans.

  Its not the best game ever, but its not bad. I find I am disappointed by a few of the systems and extremely annoyed at some of the (forced) dialogue options in the game (and often even dialogue options I want but are completely missing so dialogue ends in three variants of the same end result I dont want), but I still have fun playing the game.

  At least I can play it offline, without internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet's plot leaked on 4chan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is from two years ago.

  Still sounds just as stupid as back then, and sounds entirely plausible as something Druckman would think is a good story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firearm Advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like she is standing in a kitchen, actually.

  I see a tiled kitchen backsplash, above head cabinets, and utentils like salt shakers and the white box looks like a microwave or a toaster oven, or maybe its a coffee machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a professional AAA game designer of 25 years and an occasional game director

  What games have you worked on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re saying, and agree that just showing the money prices is better, but I was just wondering if you knew how this would be considered by PEGI.

  Also, deleting currency probably would make it harder to give players free currency, because it might look like the developers/publisher is giving money to the player account and people would demand a way to withdraw money from the account, which I believe should not be allowed. Maybe a hybrid where the currency is free and you can split the difference with a real world cost? IDK. Game devs and publishers gotta make money to pay their bills and the developers, and being Free2Play makes getting money pretty hard without mTX/MTX.

  At the end of the day it doesnt really matter that much because parents don’t know or don’t care. Its the same in the US with ESRB. Sure, some stores would refuse to sell M rated games to minors, but most of the time parents would just buy GTA for little 8 year old Timmy and they didnt event know the game content, or didn’t care. So this isn’t really going to do much of anything to publishers in reality.