RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on IGN Boss Leaving After Six Years Following Latest Mass Layoff 3 hours ago:
Don’t they call IGN in China 8GN or something like that because every review they posted for a while was an 8?
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t say it was designed for multiplayer, just that you can play with other players cooperatively. The game is still solo playable. Yeah, plenty of people still play online AFAIK. I have never played online with anyone other than my friends so I can’t speak for whether matchmaking works or not, but I see posts from online communities looking for players to play with, so its multiplayer scene is still active.
It’s a pretty fun game, I am disappointed that development stopped but we all kinda saw it coming. The game is made in a game engine designed for hunting games, so while the vegetation graphics are very good and the robots behaviour is interesting, it is obviously hard to work with when making a game the engine wasn’t designed for. Plus, it was receiving live active development and free updates and minor paid DLCs for like, 5 years? So it was pretty well taken care of, all things considered.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 days ago:
You didn’t skip 2042??
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 4 days ago:
4 years of development and they didnt have anything to show except for a CG render? That is absolutely troubled development.
Are there any examples of games which have had 4 straight years of radios silence that have not had major development problems? I mean, Metroid Prime 4 had major issues and was restarted twice. Halo Infinite had major problems and that took 6 years. Scalebound was in development for 4 years before it was cancelled, and it obviously had very troubled development. At least Scalebound had some gameplay to show after it was in development for 2 years (it was cancelled 2 years later), Contraband didn’t even have that for all 4 years. That would indicate to me that the gameplay was not in a state that could be shown to the public. The developers could have been actively working on the game, but no meaningful progress was being made.
This was probably the right call from Microsoft. Though depending on the problems being had, they probably should have cancelled it sooner. It sucks for me to say that because I was interested in this game, but thats the reality of game development. Sometimes an impassable roadblock comes up and its not feasible to continue to fund the sinkhole for 10 years, sometimes its better to pack up and go around.
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 4 days ago:
Well since there has been absolutely nothing revealed since, I can only guess and speculate. But I would say the most likely scenario is it was in active development hell.
Like, developers were working on it, but there were probably major problems that were holding them up. Perhaps they restarted development due to some factor. If the game was originally going to be a PvEvP looter shooter, for example, that plan may have changed after seeing the severe negative public reception to that genre (except for streamers). It may have been planned as a live service game but then Concord happened and developers decided to change everything because they were worried the same could happen to their game. Maybe some of the developers wanted a “realistic” depiction of the 1970s and other developers wanted a “sanitized” depiction and there was infighting preventing the game from progressing.
My point is, there are a lot of way that there could have been active development with no actual progress. But since nothing has been shown since the announcement trailer ( a render, not gameplay), I can say with some level of confidence that it likely had no meaningful progress in terms of gameplay development. Otherwise, we would have seen it. 4 years is a long time to spend with no updates just to be cancelled. If there was progress, the game should have been finished by 4 years.
- Comment on Peak devs would rather you pirate their game than play a sloppy ripoff 5 days ago:
No, I am saying exactly what I said.
Indie developers are not immune to being bad people or making bad choices.
Saying “indie devs keep being the best devs” gives the impression that people can automatically trust all indie developers, which I am cautioning against. While it may be true right now that most indie developers are more likely to be “better” than AAA developers, that is not always true and can always change very rapidly.
- Comment on Peak devs would rather you pirate their game than play a sloppy ripoff 5 days ago:
Yanderedev? PirateSoftware? (Lol)
I hate to be that guy, but indie developers are not immune to being bad people or making bad choices.
- Comment on Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases? 6 days ago:
Is this because everything in America has to be bigger?
Wow. Starting off with stereotypes that are incorrect right away, are we?
Let me guess, European? Or Canadian?
- Comment on How do gameplay youtuber develop interesting commentary? 6 days ago:
Considering how many gaming YouTube content creators have been exposed for sexually grooming and abusing minors, my advise would be to dream something else. Anything else, really.
Also, thats a flooded market. Difficult to stand out. If you just be yourself then you will have a small following, most likely too small for it to support yourself on as your only source of income.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Just because an RPG was made 25 years ago that does not automatically make it bad lol
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
The only good thing about Infinite was its return to the classic art style. After whatever the art team was doing in 4 and 5, I am glad at least the art team finally got a clue.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
The article author has never played a good RPG before, clearly.
- Comment on Pokemon TCG Pocket players are taking the whole plagiarism and placeholder situation better than you might think 1 week ago:
Did anyone really expect anything less from the average brainless Pokemon Drone?
Pokemon “fans” are the reason a few emulator developers have halted development on their projects. And honestly, its a totally reasonable crash out.
- Comment on These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now 1 week ago:
My GPU is definitely not thermal throttling, it only gets to ~51°C under load at the hotspot. The thermal limit is 84°C.
- Comment on These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now 1 week ago:
AMD 7800X3D, 32GB RAM, multiple 2TB SSDs two of which are NVMe, GTX1080Ti.
I know someone going to try to blame my performance on my 1080Ti, but Wilds is the only game that runs poorly. I play at 1080p only, and disable RayTracing because my GPU doesn’t do RTX well and I don’t need RTX on. Also I cannot afford to upgrade. Even still, Helldivers 2 gets more than 90fps at Ultra settings native 21:9 1080p, Starfield gets 70fps at High settings native, Cyberpunk gets more than 90fps on High native. Even Black Myth Wukong and Star Citizen gets at least 60fps with High native settings.
Its literally only Monster Hunter Wilds that gets 27fps at 720p windowed and everything set to low or disabled.
- Comment on These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now 1 week ago:
Monster Hunter Wilds? Really? With negative reception due to awful performance and even with Capcom admitting its sales were weak?
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 1 week ago:
I don’t buy any game over $60 USD.
Unless its made by Yoko Taro. That is my only exception. That man is a gem and has never let me down with his art.
- Comment on Atari set to acquire 82% of Thunderful Group AB, as Thunderful announce they're "restructuring" 1 week ago:
*Infogrames
Atari hasn’t been Atari since the 70s. Infogrames bought the name and now skinwalks as Atari.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 week ago:
I said all of them, so yes.
- Comment on Slime Rancher 2 - Release Date and Physical Pre-Order Announcement 1 week ago:
If it has cool physical extras, then it’s fine. But preordering a digital only product is pretty stupid.
- Comment on Slime Rancher 2 - Release Date and Physical Pre-Order Announcement 1 week ago:
I pre-ordered No Man’s Sky through iam8bit for their Special Edition with the ship model and everything.
That experience was such a nightmare (and I mean dealing with iam8bit delaying orders beyond the games release date and other crap, not that the game was underwhelming at launch) that I cannot in good conscience ever recommend anyone purchase anything from iam8bit.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 week ago:
All of them.
- Comment on FromSoftware postpones Elden Ring Nightreign update due to tsunami warning 1 week ago:
Nobody is review bombing Elden Ring Nightreign. Also, not all reasons for mass negative reviews are so absurdly unreasonable.
- Comment on EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage' 1 week ago:
Skull & Bones was the first AAAA game to release. Ubisoft was very proud to announce this.
- Comment on EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage' 1 week ago:
No $80, theyre going to stick with $70.
Fools stupid people into thinking theyre being generous. Same tactic gas companies keep doing in California to raise gas prices. Price goes up almost $2 per gallon, and then back down only $1.
At least with video games we don’t have to buy them to live.
- Comment on I feel these companies stole my money by delisting game, and I'm sure others feel the same. Nobody is sure if the EU will get the law passed. So it got me thinking -- why not revive games together? 2 weeks ago:
Your money wasn’t stolen if a game was de-listed. If you already paid for the game, you can still download it. De-listed just means that people who don’t already have it in their library cannot purchase it anymore. That’s not theft.
- Comment on Xbox returns to gamescom next month with over 20 playable demos, including Hollow Knight: Silksong 2 weeks ago:
The Silksong News guy is going to have an aneurysm.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that be considered cyberstalking/harrasment by searching for, obtaining, and using any business employee’s personal contact info for matters related to their business in most places in the world?
Yes, I understand that in places like the USA that info is technically public info usually, but I feel like contacting someone’s private contact for matters related to their business is crossing a line that I wouldn’t want someone to do to me. I don’t want someone blowing up my personal phone every time something happens at my work, whether I was even involved or not, but especially if I was not involved at all.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Did Operation Harsh Doorstop add anti-cheat? I played it when it first was playable on Steam and the amount of cheating was so obnoxious I uninstalled the game.
Its not fun having your entire team have explosions spawned at your location when you spawn because one idiot decided to ruin the game for everyone.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re 2 weeks ago:
Right, but the complaint is wrong. They are filing against the citizens initiative, which Ross is not the founder of.