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- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 2 days ago:
I don’t think he’s being nasty to you. His frustration is with Rockstar for abandoning GTA to sell microtransactions instead of make content. A lot of people are mad at valve for not making Half-Life/Portal/Left4Dead 3 just like a lot of people are mad at Rockstar for taking 13 years to release a new GTA game.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 3 days ago:
Obviously I don’t know your personal situation, but they can’t actually force you to play Roblox. You’re allowed to say no.
Mainly I’m bringing up Fortnite and Roblox all these years later, not because I think they are bad games but because their monetization strategies have negatively influenced the gaming disasters that have tried to copy them. I don’t think if you strip Fortnite down to its mechanics that it is bad, I think it’s quite good just not for me.
Multiplayer games are nearly unplayable in 2025. And I just don’t have the free time I had back then. So I get frustrated that we wait more than a decade for good games from established studios and we don’t really get many new IPs.
I fundamentally disagree with your take that only a couple games of 1998 still hold up but I think we can agree to disagree there since I think that’s a matter of taste.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 3 days ago:
Rockstar made GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, Bully, Max Payne and Max Payne 2 in the PS2 generation. We are 5 years into this current generation and Rockstar has made 0 total games for PS5.
Yeah there was a lot of shovelware back then. We get barely anything now.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 3 days ago:
I think the main difference is that we mostly forget about the shovelware titles of 20 years ago. Meanwhile the predatory monetization practices of the popular kids games of this current era will not be forgotten.
You can’t say that gaming is better now when Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Roblox are the most popular games for an entire gaming generation. There are still masterpieces being made today and there was plenty of shovelware back then but there will never be another year for gaming like 1998.
You get like 3 games worth playing a year now and studios that would make all timers year after year now release a game once a decade and sell micro transactions or 50,000 ports of it.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 week ago:
We’re cooked chat
- Comment on The Director of ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is OK with Chaos During Screenings: ‘People Are Making Memories’ 3 weeks ago:
I agree that discussing the kids would come down to “where are the parents?” Or “this is what’s wrong with society” and that’s not productive or worth discussion.
Mainly I was just providing an example of a negative reaction the movie is getting that the director might care about. No right answer you have to provide to me to make me happy
- Comment on The Director of ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is OK with Chaos During Screenings: ‘People Are Making Memories’ 3 weeks ago:
My local theatre had a group of teenagers throw popcorn and drinks at the meme’d scenes and basically destroyed the theatre for a TikTok moment.
They are ruining the experience for the kids that actually want to watch the movie. If all this stupid viral moment was people shouting “chicken jockey” I’d be indifferent but it’s way beyond this
- Comment on Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’ 4 weeks ago:
That’s the concept of voting with your wallet and that’s something we should do more of. Neither way is correct, but if enough people were to vote with their wallet, we could have “quiet please” and “audience participation encouraged” niches being filled by smaller theater operators instead of soulless corporate owned megaplexes.
- Comment on Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’ 4 weeks ago:
If I had multiple bad experiences I definitely would consider stop watching movies in theaters.
If enough people stopped watching then theaters would go out of business for everyone so I understand why they are trying to crack down on disruptive viewers
- Comment on Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’ 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t expect a children’s movie to be silent because kids are still learning how to act in public. The Minecraft movie is not one that would care that much about.
I also don’t think a movie theater is the place for audience interaction, a live show for certain kinds of entertainers or certain sporting events are a more appropriate venue for that.
Not that your preferences in theatre energy are wrong but I don’t agree that you ought to get to be loud because my enjoyment is not more important than yours. Some people get enjoyment out of teasing or trolling others. If your enjoyment is negatively impacting my enjoyment then it’s not acceptable in my opinion. That’s the social contracts. You can still enjoy a movie without being disruptive. Or you can be disruptive as much as you want in a private showing.
- Comment on Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’ 4 weeks ago:
Movie theaters rely on an intact social contract for them to work. These movies aren’t filmed in front of a live studio audience, the actors can’t pause to wait for audience reactions. If I spend $20 for a ticket for a single viewing and miss a line because of people talking, being on their phone, air otherwise acting a fool. I’d be upset, I’m sure plenty of people are asking for their money back because of disruptions during the showing. If a theater becomes known for disruptions then they will lose customers and go out of business.
- Comment on Thoughts on Mario Kart World 4 weeks ago:
The price is too high. They are going to sell skins and characters. The game is going to be fluffed with open world sections instead of actual content. I probably won’t enjoy it.
My kids will though
- Comment on The Half-Life Delusion 5 weeks ago:
I agree with the author’s assessment that Uncharted and the Last of Us use the right tool at the moment for their stories.
I don’t get the criticism about Call of Duty and Halo following Half-Life’s success of limited cutscenes and scripted events to tell their stories. In fact as soon as the article started these were the exact games I thought of to rebut his point. They are the best story based FPS games of their generation and they don’t need an open world that’s believable in absence of its own protagonist.
Far Cry/The Division/Ghost Recon are all Open World shooters with a believable world. They have terrible (IMO, feel free to disagree) stories though.
I thought his analysis was interesting just not sure what the point was and if it was what I thought it was that Half-Life negatively influenced stories in games then I disagree.
- Comment on Child support 1 month ago:
Nothing gets past you two
- Comment on Upscaling is actually good (as an option) 1 month ago:
Upscaling an old game on fixed hardware that can’t output at high resolutions is good.
Upscaling a new game as part of the graphics pipeline instead of optimizing it is terrible and shouldn’t be accepted by gamers that have to spend $1000+ on a GPU
- Comment on "There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles 1 month ago:
That quote is just horribly disturbing to me. He’s basically letting the mask drop that their endgame isn’t to make great games, it’s to make you hopelessly addicted to screen time that you obsessively play and spend
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 month ago:
All time favorite game is so hard to narrow down. I’d traditionally always say Mario 3 and I stand behind that but there are so many great games that stand beside it. Donkey Kong Country, Half Life, San Andreas, red dead redemption 1 and 2.
I think if I was trapped on a desert island, I’d be fine with any of these as my only game
- Comment on [Social Engineering] My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting A Romance Fraudster. 1 month ago:
Really good read. Worth it for anyone with the time to devote to a long post
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 month ago:
Oh I was referring to FH but yeah that makes sense for Split Fiction
- Comment on Snopes Twitter got hacked. Twitter screws up the response 1 month ago:
I didn’t have to DM random people on X but I did have to go through the account lockout support process 4 times and it took 3 months before I finally got someone to respond to my request at twitter. I then deleted my account 5 minutes later
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 month ago:
Why do you need an account of any kind to play a single player game?
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 2 months ago:
Yes steam gardens is great. Such a funky tune!
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 2 months ago:
Ok but Mario slaps so I wouldn’t be offended at all if someone suggested that. Dire Dire Docks, Gusty Garden Galaxy, Super Mario Bros 3 athletic theme? Yes please
- Comment on Most of Lemmy right now 2 months ago:
Corrupt according to whom? Because if you ask me who is corrupt DJT and Elon Musk top the list of corrupt politicians and business men.
- Comment on A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the information, I’ve decided to block this user based on the evidence. Hopefully the rest of the mods of that community will take that into consideration when judging whether that user can serve the community effectively as a moderator
- Comment on PlayStation Says Outage Was An "Operational Issue"; Offers PlayStation Plus Members 5 Extra Days 2 months ago:
Glad to find out we aren’t the only fools that push to prod at 5pm on a Friday. Big companies like Sony do too!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Not everyone who is right wing is a loser. Everyone in that crowd was though
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Considering the audience is made up of right wing losers, you aren’t 100% wrong. He was giving a very special wave to the audience
- Comment on Make sure you get in early fellow Patriots! 3 months ago:
This is a legitimate pump and dump scam. Probably the worst post ever to this community which is saying something.
- Comment on Fyi... Hold shift to run. 3 months ago:
You run by default, you hold shift to walk. Everyone knows that
