RightHandOfIkaros
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- Comment on Ubisoft has reportedly offered to buy Arkane Lyon from Xbox 1 day ago:
That would be way worse
- Comment on Are you able to trade foreign games in the US & Canada? 3 days ago:
Depends on the shop. You might also get a lot less for it, especially if it requires a region matching console; its going to sit on store shelves for a while, so the store owner might feel like the hassle isn’t worth the low cost unless its a rare game or something.
- Comment on First Nintendo Switch 2 emulator for PC is out, and it already boots Mario Kart World Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/114420/first-nintendo-switch-2-emulator-for-pc-is-out-and-it-already-boots-mario-kart-world/index.html 4 days ago:
So what?
Switch 2 owners have been able to play the games all this time already, and they generally play without the kinds of bugs and crashing seen on emulation and recomps early on.
Besides, its not like Nintendo is the best or even least bad game company our there. They don’t even have built in backwards compatibility, you have to subscribe for them, even if you already bought the games multiple times. Im not exactly shedding tears for a corporation over here, especially not Nintendo.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel... is the title of the highly-anticipated follow-up to Bethesda's Skyrim... 6 days ago:
What, you think Bethesda is developing this game? They’re still hard at work on the eleventy millionth Skyrim release. But this time it will be playable on the Samsung Fridge.
- Comment on The Community behind Daggerfall Online has now introduced MTX 6 days ago:
I am fairly certain this would be considered a derivative work because it relies on the base content of Daggerfall to function. That or because the court may determine that a reasonable person may conclude that it is officially connected or sanctioned by Bethesda. Though I am not a lawyer or IP law expert, so it is possible I may be wrong.
- Comment on The Community behind Daggerfall Online has now introduced MTX 6 days ago:
I do not see any universe where this doesnt end in legal action. I would imagine the people behind this aren’t from a country where copyright law is enforced, because this is monumentally stupid if they are.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense" 6 days ago:
Well that isnt what I said. I said to me it would feel out of place because I dont remember there being flags in the other games like that. So it confused me why this situation would happen in the first place, that’s all.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Perhaps the randomness of the world generation was a bit better, but literally everything was worse. There were many times that I was like “okay, time to try that thing Sean Murray said I could do” and I just… couldn’t do it. Not that I didn’t try, I mean the functionality literally wasn’t in the game.
Multiplayer, for example. Ship customization was another one. Things to do in the ship in space were extremely limited, etc. The planets were basically just walking and mining simulator.
I definitely prefer the current version, even if it means worse RNG for wildlife and planet generation.
- Comment on Outcry after Call of Duty maker uses real footage of deadly Seoul crowd crush in new video game 6 days ago:
Given the fictional nature of the story, I wonder why they chose to use real footage and not just quickly film their own? I haven’t seen the clips myself, but I can’t imagine the film production quality would be difficult to recreate, though the expensive part might be capturing real South Korean streets and people, and the respective audio soundscape. Seems like real world footage would be out of place, but perhaps the nature of the story lends itself to real world footage, like Metal Gear Solid did.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
It is crazy to me how Hello Games managed to turn No Man’s Sky around. Going from day one’s basically one hour of content to now is pretty respectable.
Its for that reason only that I am looking forward to Light No Fire.
- Comment on CONTROL Resonant released on GOG 1 week ago:
Its always good to see more DRM free games releasing.
Would be even nicer if all DRM was just deleted, but publishers aren’t ready for that conversation yet.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 studio was reportedly told to tone down inclusivity by EA after Saudi Arabia buyout, former BioWare dev alleges, "so as to not cause offense" 1 week ago:
A bit of a sensationalized headline, considering BioWare was only asked to remove a flag which resembled an LGBT flag in the game. IMO that is a bit different from “removing inclusivity,” which does a lot of heavy lifting. I mean, ignoring that this happens all the time for games sold in the region of Arabia (and maybe also China, but I am not sure about that, though I do know marketing materials are often altered for the CN region to make certain race characters less prominent such as Disney’s Star Wars The Force Awakens making John Boyega less prominent in marketing materials, for example).
Personally, I don’t really see why there would even be any flags at all in a Mass Effect game in the first place. In the original 3 games it seemed that humanity as a whole had advanced beyond the need, desire, or use of flags as representative of people or their identities. I cannot recall any of the first 3 ME games having any, and BioWare made the romance options not care about the gender of the player character. NPCs in the games didn’t seem to care about it, really, so I don’t understand why the flag would have existed in the first place. For the same reason I would wonder why any current country flag would appear in the game either, I just don’t remember any flags at all. Perhaps I am misremembering and just forgot about one somewhere.
To that end, IMO including any flags at all would seem like a regression of human society compared to the first three ME games, unless the cancelled ME took place in a human timeline very close to our current year. It just seemed humanity had advanced beyond the use of flags entirely, which I would imagine most space-faring civilizations would. I am not praising EA here, I am just confused as to why the situation happened in the first place, considering the established lore of the series.
- Comment on Lets find obscure VG OSTs that deserves more attentions 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon gets a police visit 1 week ago:
This wouldn’t even be close to some of the things some law enforcement workers have had to seen. Arriving at violent crime scenes and having to confirm CSAM are just so much worse than whatever is going on in this greentext.
- Comment on Anons text isn't green but that's far from the worst. 1 week ago:
Yeah uh… FBI? Interpol? This guy. Please get this guy.
- Comment on Leaked trailer for the cancelled game Mass Effect: Universe 1 week ago:
The last 3 games didn’t sell well, and this was at least years down the line. This is clearly very early in production. I can’t say I am surprised this was cancelled in that context.
Even if it was the best game ever made, it was years away from a studio that had just had 3 financial failures in a row. Maybe it would have been approved if it was already like, 90% complete, but this looks like it’s maybe 10%.
- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 2 weeks ago:
I gotta be honest, this is not unexpected at all.
BioWare released 4 games since 2017, one of which was just a remaster/collection of the older Mass Effect titles. The other three games were Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, and Dragon Age Veilguard, all of which aren’t exactly considered the studio’s best work. These games did not sell well, obviously (and in some cases there are EA earning reports that confirm this), leading to studio closure. Honestly I am surprised this didn’t happen sooner.
- Comment on Memes that sums up my experience with 4 of Resident Evil's action focus ganes 2 weeks ago:
The thing about RE is that I only like the original game (and the HD edition of the Gamecube remake, and the Deadly Silence version was okay too). I just do not enjoy the format of action game that RE has been since RE2. I appreciate it for what it is, but the slower, methodical gameplay of the original release, with suspense building camera angles and sound design, has never been revisited since. And I consider that a shame. And the upcoming remake is probably going to become another action shooter if it is using the same over the shoulder camera.
I also only like Dino Crisis 1 for the same reason. DC2 was an action game, and DC3 doesn’t exist :)
I just wish there were more games that played in this slower way. It reminds me of old school TTRPGs. Nowadays they’re all about story and narrative and character arcs, but back in the day they still had those elements, but the gameplay was slower and more methodical. Preparation was more important, the meme of the 10’ pole, etc. Dungeon crawls were slow, you could never get through a dungeon in just one sitting. And with RE1, it plays pretty similar. Character movement is slow, enemies are more or less slow, the cameras build suspense, the doors open to build anticipation (and hide loading screens, novel for the time), etc.
IDK, I just find it more enjoyable than Chuck Norris roundhouse kicking the eleventy-millionth Spanish speaking dude (I think they spoke Spanish in RE, right? Maybe another language… I can’t remember exactly) and backflipping over chainsaws. Thats funny and has its place, I just prefer the original game.
- Comment on Sony is losing exclusives as their games get ported to PC with AI 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t necessarily true. A good villain is often written to make a good point that is to some degree or another true. Its just that they go try to achieve their noble goal in the worst way possible.
Ganondorf in The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker is a pretty good example. Even though I didn’t like a lot about that game, the writing of his character was great. He wanted to see the peaceful wind Hyrule had, for in his own land “the wind always brought death.” Which itself is a pretty noble cause. The problem is his way of achieving it: taking it away from Hyrule.
Another one that could be argued is Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker: his desire is better social support for people that are socially marginalized (well, one of them at least), a point I genuinely agree with, socially awkward people should have access to better social support. However, he tries to achieve it in literally the worst possible way, and I don’t agree with the way the character goes about it.
It makes the villain more believable. No person does something evil just for the sake of being evil. Well, maybe some do, but most don’t. They usually believe what they are doing is a noble cause, and it usually is (like, providing better for my family says the thief, or ridding the world of bad people says the assassin, etc). They just use awful ways to do it, instead of better, less deadly and injurious ways.
Obviously there are exceptions, but that’s doesn’t mean all villains are evil just for the love of the game.
- Comment on Is Minecraft Dungeons 2 a bad sequel? 2 weeks ago:
Is it closer to Diablo than Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy? To me the first seemed a little closer to Gauntlet.
- Comment on Bloodborne is now on PC natively with online features like massages, bloodstains and co-op 2 weeks ago:
Can’t drain a crypto wallet if you don’t have one in the first place.
- Comment on US Rep proposes bill to give video game buyers "ownership," not "a license" 2 weeks ago:
Babysteps? Maybe if it is about video games, the old people won’t know enough about it and pass it, which would make it easier to expand to any digital software.
- Comment on Konami president Hayakawa believes AI “won’t bring a significant change” to the game market. “Humans” and “creators” are crucial for developing innovative games 2 weeks ago:
Okay but Konami has been ruining their major IPs for a while. AI might have even done a better job than their recent offerings. I mean… Metal Gear Survive and Silent Hill Ascension are all the evidence I need. It’s hard to imagine saying human made content could be worse than AI generated content, but those two in the least present a pretty good case.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Truly a mystery even science cannot explain.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
For this particular game I can only imagine physical sales were from gamblers that wanted a future collectible like E.T. Atari cartridges and actually predicted correctly.
- Comment on Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know it isn’t But even you must admit, our genre is dry as a desert. We take what we can get, even if it’s not exactly a flight sim it can be close enough to scratch the itch.
- Comment on Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg 3 weeks ago:
Theres that whole Star Wars Genesis total conversion mod that changes basically everything, yeah. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but it makes a lot of changes.
Though honestly if those are al your complaints, it seems like you don’t want to play the game regardless, whether its modded or not. You just want to play a completely different game.
- Comment on Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg 3 weeks ago:
Well, if you ignore mods maybe. But now there are a lot of mods that can fix everything. The problem is it is pretty time consuming to get all the mods set up and its not very user friendly to need to use mods from the start of the game.
- Comment on Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg 3 weeks ago:
Us space flight sim enjoyers like that kind of thing. When Starfield was announced we kinda expected it to be a default feature, so obviously when we saw it wasnt a feature it was disappointing.
- Comment on Why is the US receiving the short end for OoT pre-order bonuses? 3 weeks ago:
Nintendo has basically always favored the Japanese market. This isn’t unexpected.