RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ubisoft reportedly considering fresh business to own Assassin's Creed and other big franchises, co-owned by others like Tencent 3 days ago:
I feel like something about this should be incredibly illegal, since it basically amounts to Tencent trying to sidestep every other investor in the company to gain total ownership of the valuable IPs.
- Comment on Morrowind-inspired indie RPG Ardenfall releases in early access this year 3 days ago:
I have the same annoyance with people calling Lunacid a “King’s Field-like.” Like, if anything Lunacid is closer to Shadow Tower, NOT King’s Field. Even the music is what one would expect from a Shadow Tower soundtrack if the original game even had a soundtrack.
- Comment on Anon has no social skills 3 days ago:
“You too.”
- Comment on Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club 3 days ago:
“Classic PS2 Racing games like Midnight Club”
Wait until the author of this article finds out that Tokyo Extreme Racer actually existed like 5 years before the PS2 came out lol
- Comment on What game is this? 4 days ago:
Temu Conkers lol.
Not sure if this is a real game though, it looks like a fake game that people.on a TV show would play in the background.
- Comment on Atomfall Hands-On Preview: Rebellion’s New IP is More Than Just British Fallout - WGB article 1 week ago:
IDK, reading this really solidified the idea that it actually is just Fallout: Britain. Gameplay is incredibly similar, and there appear to be a lot of instances of “Fallout has X, so this game has X too.” Kinda like “I will copy your homework but change it a bit so its not too suspicious.”
Also, a spelling mistake in literally the first sentence is not a good look for whoever the Editor is.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 week ago:
Helldivers 2 is different. The game already released, and then Sony tried adding PS Account requirement after many people had already bought the game.
Forza Horizon 5 has not released on PlayStation yet.
The Helldivers 2 things wasn’t that the game needed an account, it was because it was added on later. Its also different from games like Horizon Forbidden West or God of War Ragnarok because both of those are singleplayer games and should not require any kind of account to play the game as they do not have online gameplay.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 1 week ago:
I am assuming this is caused by Nexon?
- Comment on Monster Hunter series producer is being put in charge of all Capcom’s development divisions 2 weeks ago:
It looks like a PS3 game with post processing or ReShade. The texture quality is actually sometimes worse than a PS3 game.
Looking at games like Demons Souls, Batman Arkham City, MGS 4 + V, NieR 2010, etc, Wilds does not look like much of an improvement. And some of those games released early in the life of the PS3, so they werent even using the maximum capabilities of the hardware. Sure, Wilds has SSAO and RayTracing (if your GPU can even handle running that at an acceptable framerate), but if you turn those effects off to get better performance the game looks like a PS3 game. And by better I mean you go from like 40fps to 55fps, with Frame Gen disabled.
The game is an unoptimized mess and it does not provide a graphical improvement to explain the bad performance. Its not like Cyberpunk 2077, with hundreds of NPCs or something. There like, 20 dudes in a box canyon village tanking your fps down to sub-30fps.
- Comment on Monster Hunter series producer is being put in charge of all Capcom’s development divisions 2 weeks ago:
Oh boy, I can’t wait for top end PCs to barely be able to run the games that look only slightly better than a PS3 game!
Waiter waiter, more poorly optimized games, please!
- Comment on Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items (187 games) for $10 2 weeks ago:
The point of this is obviously the charity, but I’m not gonna lie, after a quick look at the included games, if Tunic wasn’t in this bundle I would feel ripped off paying $10 for it.
I don’t see any of those other games combined being worth $10 to me. Multiple visual novels / story games, puzzle games, and many games that look like a generic Kemco published RPG Maker game but with a pastel color palette this time. Again, I get that the point of this is charity, but Tunic is literally the only game that I would say brings value to this bundle. If someone already owns Tunic and is considering this, I would say to just directly donate the money.
- Comment on Does Monster Hunter Wilds still look and feel like dog water? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on GOG's billboard in Times Square, NYC 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I have. I haven’t had the time to play it yet, but it is on the list.
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 2 weeks ago:
Its one of the games I like. I would mever haven followed the story if I didn’t play the game. OP doesn’t have to follow my list.
- Comment on GOG's billboard in Times Square, NYC 2 weeks ago:
As a long time fan of Dino Crisis, an an avid hater of the REmakes for ditching the fixed cameras for generic, now over-copied over the shoulder camera, I am hoping Dino Crisis gets the “REmake treatment.” It makes me smile to see it so prominently featured in this image.
Dino Crisis differed from Resident Evil in that it was not truly a Survival Horror game. Capcom knew this from the beginning, as it was marketed as “Panic Horror.” In other words: “Action Horror.” The perfect genre description for the REmake games starting with RE2.
Survival Horror requires de-emphasis on combat, actively encouraging the player to choose to NOT get in combat (through severe item scarcity or boring combat mechanics that feel unfun to engage with). A third person over the shoulder camera inherently emphasizes combat by making the player want to engage in combat because they feel like they have greater control, and it is more fun. This is why I always say RE1 already has a perfect remake and should be left out of the “REmake treatment.” RE1 is purely Survival Horror, and was not intended to be like a “hollywood action movie” like RE2 and beyond. Dino Crisis, on the other hand, always leaned more into the action side, starting about midway through the original game, and then really almost getting silly in the sequel. Which is why an action camera like the REmakes have would be perfectly fitting to the action focus of the game.
We don’t talk about Dino Crisis 3. It is unfortunate that the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center happened so close to the games development, as that was the single reason why the game was completely rewritten to take place in outer space. I mean, it was a tradgedy that should never have happened regardless, but still, you hopefully get what I mean.
- Comment on Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations! 2 weeks ago:
My personal favorites on PS2, as someone who did not own a PS2 while it was still being manufactured and sold as new. This does not include remakes/remasters or games that have better ports on other platforms (for example, Soul Calibur 2 on GameCube, Dead or Alive 2 on Xbox, Neon Genesis Evangelion 2 Another Cases on PSP, or Need for Speed Underground 2 on PC).
Haunting Ground Kuon CyGirls (Both discs are fun but I prefer disc 1) Drakengard 1 & 2 Ico Lifeline (requires microphone, very underrated)
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows Story Will Continue In Multiple Future Entries, Dev Reveals 3 weeks ago:
Plenty of early reviews for were positive for Concord and Dragon Age Veilguard, but those ended up being pretty worthless reviews. Access media has ruined critic credibility. It would be stupid to trust a reviewer that knows their media outlet won’t get review copies of the next game from a publisher if they review the game badly, because that will absolutely change the review to be more favorable.
If Star Wars Outlaws, a game connected to an IP that absolutely has a way bigger market than Assassin’s Creed, did that badly, I can almost guarantee that Shadows will not do better than Outlaws.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows Story Will Continue In Multiple Future Entries, Dev Reveals 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s really hilarious thay they think it will sell enough to have multiple games, considering how bad this game is being received. Thats not even to mention how dysmal the sales were for Star Wars Outlaws, Skull and Bones, and Avatar Frontiers of Pandora.
This game will be a colossal flop, and Ubisoft absolutely deserves it. That is what you get when you ignore feedback from literally everyone.
- Comment on Favourite Metroid game? 3 weeks ago:
Super Metroid for 2D, Metroid Prime 1 for 3D.
Both games absolutely blasted it out of the water. Perfect masterpieces that no other game managed to live up to.
Metroid Prime Pinball is an untouchable god-tier masterpiece of a spin-off.
I think Zero Mission was a pretty good remake of NEStroid, and Samus Returns was an okay remake of Return of Samus. Prime Hunters, Prime 2, and Prime 3 were just okay, nothing bad but nothing special either. Hunters online was fun until the Action Replay users took over. IMO Fusion, Dread, and Other M were too linear. Federation Force was not great either, probably the weakest game to have Metroid in the title.
I appreciated Fusion’s story, it was interesting. I also appreciate the vision of Other M, it was certainly a game that, when it worked, the gameplay was pretty fun to look at. Finisher moves and quick dodging was cool to see, even if it made the game pretty easy. The first person switching was a really cool idea that I think should have borrowed a little from Metroid Prime’s Scan Visor, where the suit automatically highlights objects of importance, to lower frustration of “pixel hunts.” Its certainly got very good graphics for a Wii game, even if the environments are bland. But IMO Dread had some equally bland level design, and was too linear for my liking. I also did not really like the ending that much. Dread’s soundtrack is equally as forgettable as Other M’s soundtrack, except there are some songs I actually remember from Other M that were unique to the game and not a remix from an older Metroid title (for example, the piano theme from Other M, great song). I completed Metroid Dread in about 9 hours the week it launched and I haven’t played it since.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 3 weeks ago:
I fundamentally dissagree with the term “metroidvania” because Metroid and Castlevania are different. Both are what I call a “side-scrolling action platformer,” but Metroid gives the player powerups to encourage them to explore their environment, while Castlevanias powerups focus almost entirely on combat. Therefore Metroid includes “adventure” in its genre, but Castlevania does not.
I never got lost in a Metroid game, but I also have a pretty good ability to remember how I got somewhere. Metroid does a generally pretty good job making nearly every room memorable and unique to help players not get lost, and Metroid has mostly included a map to help players as well. If players are still getting lost, IMO that’s just a skill issue.
But I understand what the author is trying to say, and they are right. Actually getting lost is not what they mean, they mean level and game design that lends itself to encouraging exploration by trial and error. Level design and game design that shows the player some impassable wall early and then when they get the ability to pass it later on, leaving it entirely up to the player to remember. Backtracking is a mandatory staple, if a Metroid game has no backtracking, especially for item expansions, then it is not a real Metroid game. Making the player be the one to do the exploring and not holding their hand is crucial to a good Metroid experience. This is why I consider Metroid Fusion, Other M, and Dread to be among the weaker Metroid titles. All three have an obvious, forced always on hand-holding mechanic that you don’t find in other Metroid games. Like the developers don’t trust the player to actually be smart enough to figure the game out.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Game Director And Others Laid Off Just Months After The Hero Shooter Took Over The Charts [Update] 3 weeks ago:
Most jobs provide some value, but I guarantee you the Chinese team already had double the amount of Chinese workers doing everything these 6 people did already. NetEase operates that way, its not unusual for them to have Chinese employees doing the same job as any of their small foreign offices, as it is cheaper for them to do so when they inevitably cut the more expensive, probbaly less productive team (be that due to language barriers or timezone differences, whatever the reason).
- Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 3 weeks ago:
Though I will likely not be playing tha game, I have seen a lot of people running into performance problems, crashing, and just bugs in general. You aren’t the only one.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Game Director And Others Laid Off Just Months After The Hero Shooter Took Over The Charts [Update] 3 weeks ago:
No no, Kotaku.
6 people. 6 people were laid off, and the game’s real director, who is Chinese and is in the update videos, is still working on the game. Taddeus Sasser, whis is the director that was let go from the Seattle office, said that the Chinese director was in charge of everything relating to the game itself, and that Taddeus was basically only in charge of budget and hiring.
- Comment on Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner 3 weeks ago:
He’s not wrong though. He won’t cheat in Fortnite again.
- Comment on Split Fiction Interview - Discussing the Challenge of Blending Sci-Fi and Fantasy in a Unique Narrative 4 weeks ago:
This has big “Big thinga coming, watch this space” vibes.
Whether they mean it or not, saying this makes me feel like they are massively overhyping whatever they ar etalking about.
- Comment on Avowed Launches to Strong Reviews – WGB 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t IGN give Dragon Age Veilgard a 9/10?
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Developer Backtracks on Controversial Mid-Season Rank Reset 4 weeks ago:
They gotta do something about triple healers and Hulk/Strange/Iron Man though. Too many people are picking it in casual/social mode and its not fun to play against.
- Comment on Rocksteady is back working on a single-player Batman game, it’s claimed | VGC 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if any of the people who worked on the Arkham games are even still at the company. Nowadays it seems like all these beloved studios have none of the people that made the games we love, and are just riding off the coattails of the popularity given to them that they clearly do not deserve.
- Comment on UK Shoots Down 'Stop Destroying Videogames' Petition 5 weeks ago:
Imagine making a typo in your summary that exchanges the United Kingdom for the United States.
- Comment on Help me remember this game [big mechs, small perspective] 5 weeks ago:
Almost certain this is correct. If this is not correct. I HAVE to know what the answer is.
