RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s basically the point of a tariff; to discourage people from buying foreign goods and to encourage production and sale of domestic goods instead.

  The only times it doesn’t work correctly is when too much of the general populace refuses to do the work necessary to create production, domestic regulations make production locally too prohibitively expensive, and/or when domestic product manufacturers raise their prices to match the new higher tariffed prices, effectively cancelling the intended benefits of a tariff.

  The USA right now is kinda seeing the effects of all 3. It has been so reliant on imports for such a long time that trying to cut that off all at once is having a more pronounced effect than if its import reliance was curtailed more slowly and started a while ago. And since there is no regulation (AFAIK) saying that domestic good prices cannot raise to match imported good prices when tariffed, that doesn’t help either. Businesses want the most money, and if all the other options for a product are $150 and their domestic one is only $50, without law saying they can’t match those other prices businesses feel like they are leaving $100 on the table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Game studios don’t only work on one game at a time, especially not big studios like Bethesda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Give players a copy of the server so they can host their own, or patch the game to allow direct connections like games used to have in the 90s and 00s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For the sake of people that want PlayStation to be actually affordable, I certainly hope not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Halo hasn’t been bread and butter since Bungie developed Reach.

  343 has not done Halo any favors, and 343 With A Mustache “Halo Studios” is going to be exactly the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would just like to mention that it is called “gacha” not “gotcha.”

  “Gacha” is short for the Japanese term gachapon, which means “capsule toy.” You remember gumball machines? You put a quarter in and twist the handle and a gumball comes out. Gachapon is like that, but with a small plastic ball with a random toy inside. Those are less common than the gumball machines, but there were also some that had sticker/temporary tattoo sheets and those hard candies that looks like fruits(mostly bananas).

  Gachapon is a bit different from gambling. Gambling comes with the inherent understanding that you have a chance to lose. With gachapon, you always get exactly what you are paying for: a random capsule toy. You just don’t get to pick which one you get. With gachapon, you always “win,” there is no chance that your money is spent and you get nothing in return. This is why games with gacha mechanics makes duplicates of characters or items useful. Whatever you get is still useful to you, even if you don’t get what you wanted.

  I think you already understand the negative aspects of gachapon, but I just wanted to add that little bit of information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden ring night reign single player⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It already supports single player.

  It supports 1 or 3 players, which is way not supporting 2 players was stupid and they are fixing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax's new IP, and other unannounced projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly? Its kinda good Perfect Dark was cancelled.

  When MS first showed Perfect Dark, there was nothing of substance really to base any expectations on. Except previous games, which were only ever “okay.” But the second time they showed it, with their idea of gameplay, it looked bad. It didn’t look like what one would expect from Perfect Dark, it looked like some weird hybrid between Battlefield/Call of Duty, Mirror’s Edge, and a high tech cyberpunk game.

  Perfect Dark was really only ever “that game Rare made because they weren’t allowed to make GoldenEye 2.” It wasn’t really revolutionary or prolific or anything, unlike GoldenEye.

  Its better that it stays the way it was than be ruined by whatever it was going to be cobbled into. I am kinda shocked it took MS this long to cancel it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting on Build 42 to get multiplayer so I can play it with my brother…

  I’m going to be waiting a long time again, aren’t I?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  because piracy means stealing

  No. No it does not. Piracy is legally copyright infringement, not theft. Stealing requires that the thief deprive the original owner access to the stolen thing. Piracy is not stealing because there is no deprivation of access.

  If I made a copy of your car, but you still had access to your car and could drive it like normal, I didn’t steal your car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I am still using a GTX 1080 Ti (GOATED GPU btw, best dollar per performance value probably ever) because GPUs are too expensive. $700 USD for a low-mid tier card, or $1000 for a card that should (and usually does) give good lasting value. I don’t see where anyone is buying a PC for less than $500 and it has better performance than a PAY, but I suppose it is possible this is a result of Price Discrimination, since I am in California.

  NVidia is showing what PlayStation will look like when it feels there is actually zero competition. Xbox, so long as its hardware exists, is a constant threat to PlayStation keeping a lot of things in check. Once Xbox completely disappears, PlayStation will have no competition. Then Sony can set the prices however they want and nobody can do anything about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, everyone say hello to the $1000 PlayStation 6.

  What’re you going to do, buy an Xbox? Build a PC with a GPU alone that costs almost the same?

  No Xbox means Somy gains a monopoly on the console market. Unless Nintendo decides to actually compete with regular hardware again, which they won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Guys, give small indie company Nintendo a break, they only just moved on from fax to dial up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely don’t recommend Enderal. OP mentioned they didn’t want a game with difficulty spikes, and Enderal is pretty notorious for difficulty spiking. Playing Enderal on Normal difficulty is like playing Skyrim on Hard.

  It might be okay on its own, but it’s not what OP is looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have Valkie 64, and I say save your money. Last I played it, it was VERY rough, unpolished, and felt unfinished. It didn’t properly replicate N64 graphics, looking more like an emulator from 2005 with the internal resolution cracked way up and only basic bilinear texture filtering. The controls are clunky, and I don’t mean like in an N64 game way, I mean they just feel bad.

  Even for $5 USD or whatever, I say its not worth it. I was disappointed because the trailer seemed to make it look like an attempt to recapture the magic of Ocarina of Time, but it doesn’t do that at all. Like, not even close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is certainly a good strategy but this probably assumes the player has been grinding levels. I don’t do that. I play the storyline, and do absolutely no extra grinding because it is boring. I must have been underleveled because those “just humans and robots” were getting a TPK in 2 or 3 turns of combat on I think the 4th group.

  Sad to hear the game gets better, but honestly it took me 20+ hours to get to that point and I wasn’t absolutely loving the game. By the time I quit, I just kept thinking that I wished I could play as Jecht instead of Tidus. Jecht had a better design and his voice acting seemed less annoying. I understand the specific voice acting quirks of FFX, but it sure sounded like Tidus’ english actor was some random Square picked up off the street and paid $50 to read the lines. Along with other annoyances, I just decided dropping it was probably for the best. Lulu was my favorite character, with Jecht or Auron being second place. Seymour was good as a character, I just didn’t like him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Accused Of Allowing Sexual Exploitation In Four Separate Lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps, but simply reporting content does not prove that they are aware of it. Their report system could be automated, and it might not flag those specific reports for human review, or it could have been lost or dropped. I don’t know, I am just particularly curious as to how lawyers will be able to prove beyond any doubt that whoever at Roblox actually knew about the problem and willingly let it happen. I don’t doubt that Roblox was certainly negligent, but I wouldn’t know for certainty that they could be labelled as “allowing” as opposed to “neglecting to take action.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Accused Of Allowing Sexual Exploitation In Four Separate Lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Allowed” implies they knew about it, and let it happen anyway. Is that actually provable? They knew about these specific cases and knowingly let them continue happening? Some may say its just semantics, but semantics is literally the only thing lawyers and judges care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played FFX for like, 20 hours give or take. The combat wasn’t so obnoxious in that games like previous ones. But then I got to the Seymour Wedding part, what I can only describe as "defeat all these enemies in order with no save points in between and if you werent prepared with 30 billion healing items and Lulu (the GOAT) gets killedz your game is basically softlocked. Beat that (thank you savestate scumming) and was already not having fun but that cutscene at the end of that part was frustrating to me. It felt like every character was acting extremely out of character, except maybe Seymour, and it was at that point that I decided I wasn’t having fun anymore and didn’t really care enough to try to potentially suffer more of that.

  I really tried to like Final Fantasy. I want to like it. I just don’t like that kind of gameplay experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, the turn based combat in Final Fantasy is the biggest reason I don’t play it. I find that the combat feels too repetitive, because its always the same animations, same music, same background per area, etc. Also, the random battle encounter mechanic annoys me when I just want to explore and I have to fight an entire army just to move from one side of an area to the other side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me, a US citizen, not seeing a US option. Also me, realizing that means I cannot sign for the other countries because I am not a citizen of EU or UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we appreciate how horny everyone is for Mario in TTYD?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s kinda what I mean. I think we agree. It’s just that recently there has been more attention on more… questionable… changes that localizers have been making to entertainment media, some I agree with and some I don’t.

  In the 80s and 90s, it was common for overseas versions to change names to be more Western sounding. Personally, I don’t mind this kind of change. It usually doesn’t effect the overall story much, but sometimes a character might have an exotic sounding name in the Japanese version, I would hope that they also have a similarly exotic sounding name. However, it was also common for the entire story to be altered pretty drastically, even with the entertainment itself being chopped up into something entirely different. Which I don’t appreciate. I want the foreign media because it is different and from a different culture, changing it to match my own culture defeats the point of me wanting to engage with it.

  Sometimes though, entire conversations are completely removed or changed entirely from their original versions. I mean, completely different, the difference between a character saying “I love you” and “You will always be my dearest friend.” I believe the Fire Emblem series (which I haven’t played very much so I have only minimal experience with) has had a few of these kinds of changes. In those cases, I believe that is a malicious change the developers may not have known about or may not have fully understood when they approved or signed off on the localization. Or the localization agency may have either thought they had more creative license than they actually had or deceived the original creators to push their own version instead.

  Jokes are a bit different IMO, since humor is pretty different between cultures. Jokes in entertainment often rely on an understanding of the local pop-culture, so naturally jokes or geographical/historical references may need to change. It is understandable in those cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we appreciate how horny everyone is for Mario in TTYD?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is entirely a localizer-added thing, and the original Japanese version was very different. I could be wrong of course, but this is just my gut feeling considering the time TYD released (and honestly it isn’t too much better nowadays).

  Now, people can argue whether drastic changes like that are good or bad (I would say it is a massive “it depends”), but personally I would really prefer localizers stick to something as accurate to the original as possible while still being understandable in the target culture, and then include an altered or changed version as an option.

  Like being able to choose between the ADV or Netflix dub for Evangelion.

  I don’t mind if someone wants to add their own spin or whatever, as long as that doesn’t become the singular defined version for an entire region as is all too common. The original creators had a vision, and I want to see that vision, not the one a localizer is adding on that the original creators didn’t have.

  For example, in a culture that doesnt have bread cakes, but they do have rice cakes, I would want a localizer to say characters ate “a food similar to rice cakes” or “an exotic food.” As an absolute last resort “a rice cake” is okay, but certainly not “the characters ate a big feast of pork and jelly donoughts.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey PC game developers, please follow Stellar Blade as an example for PC optimization in the future, because it absolutely rocks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stellar Blade performs well despite using Denuvo. Imagine how much better it will run when Denuvo is removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 340 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they planning on adding network support for multiplayer? Or is it already a feature?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It more or less did on the Series X. A lot of the clips people posted showing the really bad performance and bugs were from the original 2014 Xbox One or the Series S. On the Series X, it performed very well and I think I had it crash only twice in a 70 hour playthrough, in my own experience playing 2077 on my own Series X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if that us legal (it isn’t)

  1. Are you a lawyer?

  2. I am not a lawyer, but I have talked to lawyers about this before and their answer was basically:

  The owner of a copy of a game or other computer software may “make or authorize the making of another copy.” Legally speaking, the law does not require the person who owns the copy to personally make the backup copy, nor does it specify that the backup copy be made only from the copy owned.

  This is important because on Nintendo’s own website they state the following:

  Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not […] it is illegal to download […] a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

  What Nintendo is saying here is outright wrong. A person who only has only temporary possession of a game (such as rental or borrowing) gains no rights under 17 USC 117, and may not download a copy without separate permission, which obviously Nintendo would never geant. However, A person with permanent possession of a game (such as a legally purchased game either from retail or used) DOES gain those rights to an archival copy. These rights supercede any restriction on those rights Nintendo would presume to apply. Nintendo presumes to add extra conditions and terms that do not actually exist in the law.

  The purpose of the archival copy provision is to protect legal owner’s access to the computer software in case of damage. If your copy of a game breaks, such as a broken CD, you have the legal right, as owner of that CD, to continue to use the computer software on that CD no matter its physical condition. An archival copy could then be used to create a working version of that CD so that you, the legal owner of that copy, may continue to access that computer software. This is also the case when access to that software becomes difficult or impossible, such as a game or other computer software that is stored on archaic storage media such as a floppy disk or paper tape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TLOU2 controversy wasn’t because the unlikable character was a woman, it was because the writing was garbage. If the unlikable character was a man the reception would have been exactly the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did nightreign flop?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No?

  80-60k players is still incredibly successful. I don’t think Nightreign was ever expected to see those kinds of numbers given the nature of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did nightreign flop?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does Square have to do with a Bandai Banco published game developed by FromSoftware?