RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 1 day ago:
Oni was a slapper. Would love to see it done justice. Not by Bungie though.
- Comment on The games industry ‘will only have room for one non-Nintendo console next gen’, it’s claimed | VGC 2 days ago:
I certainly hope not. If Xbox drops consoles then Sony will absolutely be pricing PS6 at $1k to make up for Concord and PS5 Pro not selling. What’re you going to do, buy an Xbox? They’d immediately gain a monopoly over the console market. We all know Nintendo learned the wrong lesson from the Wii and Switch and will likely never make another console with strong enough hardware to actually compete with Sony/Microsoft ever again.
- Comment on Tango Gameworks will continue to make unique games after acquisition by Krafton, lead devs confirm - AUTOMATON WEST 2 days ago:
Oh, I thought they acquired them.just to shut them down before they made anything…
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Year 2 Content is Planned for Ubisoft's Skull and Bones 2 days ago:
Okay, so I am in game development, and I talked to Porsche for a licensing agreement (among other car brands) because I wanted to have real life cars in a racing game. Most of the appeal of a racing game is being able to drive cars that laypeople could never afford. As an independant, it is not financially possible to obtain a license from any of them. Even the cheapest brand is multiple millions of dollars with odd stipulations, including but not limited to such requirements as: “you cant show our cars getting damaged,” “our cars have to be faster/better than X brand even when statistically this is not true,” and “you cannot allow the player to customize any part of the vehicle and it can only be displayed in the specific colors we tell you.” The only way you can get around such stipulations is if you can find a company like RUF that buys cars like Porsche, changes them very slightly, and then get the license from them instead since they will usually not have the same requirements. They do not pay you, no company pays you for brand licensing like that. Contact any brand and ask them for a licensing deal where they pay you and they are going to laugh at you. The way Kojima was probably able to get Monster to pay him was either he has a friend at the company/ a friend is a shareholder or he was somehow able to convince them that the deal was film product placement, which is a different kind of license and comes with different rules, but often means the brand does pay the prodution studio. I am going to assume he just has a friend that works at or owns stake in Monster.
If the problem was a woman lead, how come The Witcher 4 also didn’t get brigaded? Screamer also featured a woman as its main character in the trailer and that was not brigaded either. Even if what you are implying is true, the same thing happened to Concord, people brigading it for being “woke,” and we both know how that ended. This isn’t a stat you can just handwaive away because “some people are brigading it for being woke,” literally the same thing happened with Concord.
Also consider TLOU2 had mixed to negative reception among fans, especially by comparison to the first game. Players will be more skeptical in such a situation. They couldn’t have known when they bought the game how they would feel by the end, and people who felt negatively certainly will be less likely to buy the next game from the same studio, regardless of whether it is related to TLOU or not.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Year 2 Content is Planned for Ubisoft's Skull and Bones 3 days ago:
Im thinking more on licensing costs. Porsche is not a cheap license, especially when considering costs for the details of such a license. The other logos seemed to be Sony owned IP, so they didn’t cost anything, but just seeing Porsche makes me wonder how many other licenses they are paying for, thus ballooning development cost. They may have a license with Porsche for Gran Turismo, but that would not be applicable to other games, so they would have to renegotiate the license, which is always inviting the licensor to demand more the next time.
I don’t doubt it will sell more copies than Concord, but I do believe it will not sell enough to be profitable, and in this way be similar to Concord. The Youtube dislike ratio on the reveal trailer for Intergalactic (91k up, 225k down) is more or less the same as for Concord (8.5k up, 84.5k down) at overwhelmingly negative, and historically speaking this is not an insignificant statistic. Other games I might expect to have similar ratios for various reasons do not have overwhelmingly negative reception, such as the female lead game The Witcher 4 (5k up, 1k down on PlayStation channel - 251k up, 24.7k down on The Witcher channel), anime racing game Screamer (2k up, 75 down), and even The Last of Us Part 2 Remaster (7.2k up, 6.6k down) which I for sure expected to be negative.
I certainly agree with the trend you are seeing. I remember when this happened when ReCore was promoted as “from the developers of Metroid Prime.” ReCore wasn’t awful, but it was far from Metroid Prime. I also didn’t like Naughty Dogs previous titles, but I do think this will be a hard sell. Space themed games typically don’t sell as well as modern or medieval themed games (unfortunately, since I really love space!). I guess the audience for them is not as big, or rather it is big but divided into many niche categories that don’t really like mixing. Star Citizen, Starfield, and StarCraft don’t have a huge overlap of players despite being space themed games. That’s just how space stuff is. Star Wars and Star Trek don’t mix, and while some people are interested in both, most people pick one or the other and stay there forever. I mean look at Star Wars Outlaws, which seems to be in a similar vein to Intergalactic. Sold horribly, despite having the leg up on Intergalactic of being a Star Wars title.
I suppose we will see how it turns out. Personally, I don’t hope the game fails, but I do think Naughty Dog needs to make some big changes to get me and others interested in trying the game again.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Year 2 Content is Planned for Ubisoft's Skull and Bones 3 days ago:
I definitely remember the Concord developers bragging about having worked on games like Destiny. Regardless, I think you are underestimating how expensive Intergalactic is going to be, and I absolutely think that it will not be breaking even on sales, unless they significantly change the fundamental design of the game they have shown (and the leaked plot honestly, it is not very good if that is real).
Marathon and Fairgame$ are absolutely going next, but I don’t see them releasing before Intergalactic, despite being developed for much longer, probably. I think both are probably being delayed even more than they already are after seeing what happened to Concord.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Year 2 Content is Planned for Ubisoft's Skull and Bones 3 days ago:
Intergalactic from Naughty Dog lookin to be Concord 3.
Sometimes these companies think they be making the most bomb idea ever, when its being made for an audience or market that doesn’t exist or isnt big enough to cover the cost of development. In the case of Intergalactic, most people that like space games are older, and much of it appears to try to market to older people (the logos, the CRTs, the rip off Snake Plissken woman), but the gameplay is going to be way too fast for older folks that typically like the setting. Looks like it will be like trying to make a Civilization player play Bloodborne.
At least Ubisoft has a bit of an excuse, since Skull & Bones legally could mot be scrapped because of it being funded in part by the government of Singapore. I wonder if this new content is from the government of Singapore trying to get some of their really bad investment back. They wanna make a Concordillion dollars off of the like 3 people playing the game lol.
- Comment on Steam News - Your 2024 Steam Replay is here 3 days ago:
CS Source?
- Comment on Steam News - Your 2024 Steam Replay is here 3 days ago:
Here’s mine.
- Comment on The Writer Of Dragon Age's Emmrich And Josephine Has Departed BioWare 3 days ago:
Its too bad basically the only good writer left at BioWare is leaving.
I have to wonder if she was/felt pushed out by the other employees there. Veilguard has laughably bad writing, and the fact that the DA creator, and multiple writers either left or were fired before Veilguard went into production/ during its production has me suspicious.
- Comment on Playing dressup with my XCOM 2 soldiers. 4 days ago:
You save scum because you get too attached to your soldiers, don’t you?
- Comment on Project Zomboid - Build 42 Unstable Released 4 days ago:
Or from getting bathroom horded.
- Comment on Project Zomboid - Build 42 Unstable Released 4 days ago:
I’ve been looking forward to this. I hope the game continues to improve, I have spent a lot of time in it.
As any Zomboid player knows, you eaither play for 5 minutes or 500 hours, there is no inbetween.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
I think you are right. Its why Fortnite usually wins in categories it is in, because at the end of the day it mostly comes down to a popularity contest.
I mean, I heard people I know in real life discrediting BMW even being nominated because “oh all the Chinese are voting for it.” I was like what, you think Chinese Gamers only count for 3/5ths of a Gamer?? I personally wouldn’t be surprised if this sentiment was shared with at least some of the judges.
Im not saying BMW should have won, personally I liked it but it wasn’t perfect and I didn’t play Astro Bot. Its just crazy to me.that people are reacting like this over a video game nust because it came from China. They’re not acting like that over Marvel Rivals, probably because they don’t know its from China lol.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
I got heavily downvoted for pointing out “TheGamer” as a poor source of gaming journalism in a post specifically linking to that article.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
Lol.
“Come to Lemmy, we are so tolerant and super chill!”
Yeah, so that was a lie.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
there’s an easy fix for that, don’t come anymore.
How very warm and inviting of you. Im glad there are such welcoming people as you, that are excited to see new studios trying to make good games instead of the same old slop we get from the same old companies.
/s, in case anyone couldn’t tell. What an intolerant comment.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 6 days ago:
No, I meant that them leaving negative reviews because of what was said is a pretty typically Chinese thing to do. Genshin Impact has been plagued by this for pretty much its entire existence. If you ask anyone, the Chinese playerbase is viewed as incredibly toxic because of this.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 6 days ago:
Only ~500 negative reviews… What a nothingburger article lol.
I mean, the Chinese players aren’t totally wrong, support from sales IS an important metric. Swen definitely should have worded that better. But is that worth a negative review, IDK. This seems to line up with Chinese culture as a whole though, which is usually polar opposite to the West.
TheGamer… I can’t say the majority of articles I have personally seen from this site haven’t been poor quality bait articles like this one, so I am going to put this one in the pile with Kotaku, IGN, and the others.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 Recasts Ciri 6 days ago:
I have my assumptions as to why CDPR is replacing Jo, but all I will say is that I hope the game is good and sticks to the lore.
- Comment on Bad news for PC Elden Ring fans: Nightreign's network test is only coming to consoles 1 week ago:
I mean, this is not surprising since From was like this before.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 week ago:
I never expected A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound of This World: YUNO on the PC98 to take me like 80 hours to complete without a guide.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 no longer exclusive to Xbox, is now coming to PS5 – WGB 1 week ago:
Some. Some games. The very minimum amount of games that are typically not highly requested games.
TLOU2 Remaster really be coming to PC before Bloodborne or Demons Souls Remake.
- Comment on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is the first new Naughty Dog IP in ages – WGB 1 week ago:
Yeah, I dont know about this one, chief. Initially I was kind of on board with it, I really liked some of the Alien-esque designs and seeing some of the logos of various companies was interesting. Particularly Porsche as a ship designer, and I liked the shaders they showed for the CRT technology. But then they showed the cockpit of the Porsche and I literally said out loud “Holy crap, that ship is huge, Porsche would never make something that massive.”
From the initial shots I was expecting something more or less the size of a fighter jet, not something that dwarfs a Lun-class ekranoplan.
I thought it might be some kind of take on F-Zero or Cowboy Bebop where the player is a race-driver by day, vigilante bounty hunter by night type of game. Which was pretty cool to me. But then the longer I watched the worse it got. The bounty dispatcher or whatever is a smoker but the voice actor sounded like she was lifted from a 1940s movie and had never smoked a day in her life (rare, I know, but still). I expected at least a hint of gruffness from her character and got absolutely zero of that. The main character was fine I guess, kind of bland so not really much for me to comment on.
I need to see more to really make up my mind on it, but as it is I am leaning on passing this one up. Plus its a Sony game and I just don’t like Sony at all.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 no longer exclusive to Xbox, is now coming to PS5 – WGB 1 week ago:
To be fair, it IS more than Sony or Nintendo are doing.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
Yep. Ciri isnt the worst choice in the world, I just was hoping I could have played as my own character instead. It will be interesting to see what they do with the story.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
It isn’t a complaint, simply an observation. I usually pick to play as a woman in games I can choose the gender of the protagonist anyway.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
So did I, but I mean, given the current game development climate, Ciri was an extremely predictable pick.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
As if anyone expected to play as any other character than Ciri.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
where
