RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I said basically the same thing and got downvoted for it.

  Hopefully the catch is nothing, but you can never be too sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, Pierre deserved it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But weren’t the layoffs for white collar positions like HR and marketing? Did it hit their game studios as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 468 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone gangsta until Indie Stone releases the update where zeds learn how to climb ropes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes people want the same kind of game with a different flavor. Maybe they don’t like the PUBG art style and would rather play Fortnite instead, or perhaps they don’t like Overwatch because of Blizzard and are okay with Marvel Rivals from NetEase instead.

  I don’t believe that games should exist with no real competitors. That’s how you end up with games like Dead by Daylight, where community sentiment plummets but the developers have no real reason to do anything about it because where are the players going to go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We screwed up Halo’s future. Not its time.to screw up Halo’s past.

  ~343 Wearing Mustache Glasses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it is still 343. “Halo Studios” has most of the same people working at it as 343. Literally 343 wearing Mustache Glasses.

  They changed their studio name because the 343 reputation was so bad, they needed to try to trick consumers into thinking the next Halo game wasnt made by them to get any sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preserving Play: How Eden Grew Into the Switch Emulator Everyone’s Talking About (my interview with the devs)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using it since 0.0.2 dropped a while back, but when I first looked into it I thought it was a straight up malware masquerading as a Switch emulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 462 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently started a modded run in the Dead Sun Expanse mod map, its pretty cool. Like playing Zomboid 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They kinda always were, tbh. Just with some kinda of unique limitation that prevented them from being used for any purpose other than playing a specific brand of video game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please note that the genre is PvEvP Extraction Looter Shooters. So some games, like Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2, are missing from the list because they do not fit that category.

  I have tried to play (ie, only played a few hours each, not like multiple days):

  • The Cycle Frontier
  • Escape from Tarkov
  • ARC Raiders (the closed beta in June 2023)
  • Dark and Darker
  • Delta Force Hazard Ops
  • Lost Light
  • Marauders
  • Hunt Showdown
  • Gray Zone Warfare
  • Incursion Red River

  Games that I tried that don’t exactly fit the genre but are close enough I feel like I should include them:

  • Steel Hunters (the closed playtest in March 2023)
  • Sea of Thieves
  • SYNDUALITY: Echo of Ada

  Its not that I haven’t given the genre an honest go.

  I hate that death means I lose not only the items I picked up, but also the items I brought into a match. The behaviour of players in this particular genre is almost always peak toxic. I am thankful that the genre exists, because it is a sponge taking some of the toxic people from other games. The people that derive fun and pleasure purely from ruining someone else’s game experience (like cheating, harassing, etc.) It is not a genre of game I enjoy, because some other players always ruin the fun.

  Some games had a PvE mode, which was fine but the loot was limited to be beasically useless. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just have separated inventories, and perhaps allow transfers of items below a set gear level to keep the PvP side economy balanced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont hate coop online games. I hate PvEvP Extraction Looter Shooters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Play it on a friend’s account that owns the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame about Other M though. Fun to play and watch others play, but held back by a bad control scheme and poor voice direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zero, from Drakengard 3. The perfect amount of crude and the dryest delivery of humor imagineable.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, Fallout 3 ran perfectly but New Vegas is incredibly unstable and crashes often before I can even finish character creation. I have tried playing the game multiple times and never make it out of the starting area before the game crashes, and as a result I have never played New Vegas. And thats with the community mods and patches to help stability.

  Meanwhile Fallout 3 boots and runs perfectly fine completely vanilla. It still crashes occasionally, but I can at least play it for an hour or two with it crashing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨titta... slosh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This kinda reminds me of “We got a Dodgson over here!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they fix the cheater problem? I played when it first dropped on Steam, and good lord was the cheater problem bad. Spawning grenade explosions every frame on all player positions for the entire match was awful. I haven’t reinstalled since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes, the only way for players to get the developer’s attention is by doing something drastic like that. Not always, but many times. Because developers and publishers think Steam Review Scores are important for game sales (and I mean, they are, but maybe not as much as they seem to think).

  Sometimes this comes from players in a different language complaining about bad translation or something.

  Review Bombing, the term, is almost used to discredit when people have negative sentiment for something, and does nothing to explain why players may be doing it. Sometimes it is warranted, sometimes it isn’t. But most people are going to read that term and think “Ah, its just a bunch of whiney children,” only to later feel frustrated at the things those negative reviews were talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Terraria⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just one last update for real this time guys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨titta... slosh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has that moment when you ask someone to verify there is a problem with something, only for it to work perfectly when they are watching and make you look like a moron in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NFS Underground 2 has a PC port, and there are some fixes online that make it the best way to play NFSU2, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Silent Hill 2, obviously.

  • Kuon - FromSoftware

  • Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex

  • Robotech Battlecry (the Xbox release was better, but the PS2 one is fine)

  • Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc (there is an English patch)

  • Shadow Tower Abyss (there is an English patch)

  • Castlevania: Lament of Innocence & Curse of Darkness

  • Haunting Ground

  • Ultimate Spiderman

  • Winback

  • Xenosaga 1-3

  • Cold Fear (PC version is probably a better pick though)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 4 Revival is "shaping up nicely" – but it's "not just about adding more" content, because the JRPG devs "have to create an experience that's enjoyable in a new and different way"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A remaster is generally a re-release of an already existing game. It is a new build of the same game, on the same engine, with the same assets. The only difference being compatibility with new hardware, etc. In my opinion, a lazy cash grab that realistically shouldn’t even exist. Often times these new builds aren’t even the same and have many bugs not originally present in the original game that the remaster developers never even fix.

  A remake should always try to stay as close as possible to the original for its initial presentation. The intention of a remake is to become the current market replacement of an old product, for various reasons. Maybe it doesn’t run on new hardware or the original code was deleted/lost. Maybe the original game was poorly received and the developers want to try again with some QoL adjustments. Maybe the graphics haven’t aged well but the story is timeless. This is why a studio would opt for a remake instead of a lazy remaster.

  The issue comes from something like Silent Hill 2 Remake. It did not include a “Classic Mode.” The remake alters some pretty important themes in the game, changes multiple story elements, and entirely changes the focus of the gameplay, putting a greater emphasis on action and combat than the original ever did. The remake shifted the tone away from a melancholic exploration of a character into a Hollywood action movie with an over-reliance on jump scares (basically every Bloober game, honestly).

  This has problems when fans attempt to talk about the game. Which version is each talking about? People do not always specify. If one person talks about the Coin Puzzles in the apartments for example, the clues, hints, and solutions are completely different between versions. Players of the original game needed to get a crate of rotten juice cans and drop it down a trash chute in order to receieve a coin for that puzzle, but that entire sequence was removed in the remake. This is only a minor example that doesnt impact the story, but the problem of discussion disconnect is apparent. You can imagine how confusing it would get when there are other major changes that do impact the story later on in the game.

  These differences are fine if the developers add them as an “Arrange Mode” or “Remake Mode,” but not as the only way to experience the game. That effectively says “our new version is the only good version, because we won’t allow the players to directly compare the two with the same engine and graphics. If you want the old version, you can’t, because we definitely aren’t selling the original and pirating the original that we refuse to sell you is copyright infringement.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Online CO-OP Games should have option to pause⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever tried playing a multiplayer game where other players can pause the game? It is an immense annoyance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 4 Revival is "shaping up nicely" – but it's "not just about adding more" content, because the JRPG devs "have to create an experience that's enjoyable in a new and different way"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont understand this argument. When a game is considered very good, particularly by people that are already invested in a series, those people want remakes and re asters to more or less be exactly the same game, with only technical improvements such as graphics and framerate. The game is beloved and changing it more often negatively effects the experience.

  Why can they not make their new version a separate mode, like New Game Plus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sprint? Thats not Halo. We have told 343 this for 4 games in a row and they just refuse to listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the digital artbook is Unity? At least, thats the case for Avowed digital artbook. Which means delisting the whole game is absolutely excessive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont expect this to last very long, condiering how easy and fast it is to apply the patch. Completely delisting the games feels a little bit excessive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rest in Peace Jane Goodall.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The death of Harambe had many unforseen consequences.