TwilightVulpine
@TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 2 months ago:
If you simply start at the base and just get going, the branching paths quickly add up to an enormous amount of options. If you don’t get any decision paralysis from a tree with literally over a thousand nodes, you might just be a superhuman being.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 2 months ago:
You gotta have a crazy amount of hours in that game. That tree is complicated to read, nevermind to understand.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 2 months ago:
I’m all for the cultivation part, but not when games make it so planning it wrong means starting over and grinding a hundred hours more. To keep the analogy, if your farm is not going too well you can just change things after the next harvest. Experimentation is something that helps these games stay fresh.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 5 months ago:
Right? Steam provides better service and functionality than any other PC storefront. It’s ridiculous that there’s so much whining about them charging for it. So what if it’s a higher percentage? It’s also a better service and a large audience. Whoever doesn’t like it is free to go elsewhere, unlike console games that can only be sold though the manufacturer’s store.
- Comment on 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5 6 months ago:
There’s only a handful of games who really need the PS5, no surprise.
- Comment on IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like debuty editor Alice Bell 6 months ago:
There used to be laws against this shit.
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 7 months ago:
It’s work to do anything, but we routinely see small indie studios managing to release player-hosted games just fine, while large studios don’t bother. Even though it also costs them more to run all the servers on their own. So I’m not so sure it’s just a matter of saving costs.
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 7 months ago:
They would never have such expectation if they simply allowed players to host it to begin with. This used to be the norm, until companies figured out that it’s easier to control, monetize and force obsolescence to push players into a newer product if they are the only ones hosting servers.
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 7 months ago:
Well, when companies are cutting off people’s purchases and wiping works from our cultural history, a little bit of disregard for the law that is complicit with it is pretty much necessary.
Say, it’s through copyright violation that we can still play games from Mario Maker 1 even though the servers were shut down. People figured out how to copy it even though they weren’t allowed to.
If this is wrong, maybe the law should be fixed to provide a proper path.
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 7 months ago:
We “all helped” as in people in charge gave us no choice and we didn’t choose the choices we didn’t have.
Hell, even then there’s still people fighting to preserve and host games on their own regardless.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 8 months ago:
Mobile gaming truly embraced the worst side of arcades. I remember way back when there were gamers protested so that the media and governments wouldn’t lump video games with gambling, and now the studios themselves put slot machines inside them.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 8 months ago:
Couch multiplayer and LAN parties had a sort of friendly atmosphere that is sorely lacking from most online multiplayer today. Folks are all business, no fun. Even in casual modes people get mad if you fool around.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 8 months ago:
There were some pretty bad bargain bin releases, and a lot of games had glitches but I can’t remember any game from a big company that released with a critical bug. I do think today companies are much more blasé about releasing games with serious issues and patching it later.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 8 months ago:
I’m an oldschool gamer but unlike many of those of today, I don’t miss that part one bit. Infinite lives? Checkpoints? Autosaves? Yes please.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 8 months ago:
Tunic is great! The dev said he wanted to replicate the experience of playing a game in a different language that you don’t quite understand at first, and he made it perfectly. English is my second language, and it reminded me of the times trying to play games before I understood it, struggling with manuals and dictionaries.
The special edition comes with a physical manual, but ironically the player shouldn’t open it until they 100% the game. It’s like a spoiler.
- Comment on This official Palworld dating sim is the stuff of nightmares 8 months ago:
They saw Pokémon dancing around those two and animal brutality, and decided to settle down right in the middle of it. The whole game is like a big April Fools joke.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 8 months ago:
The planets with big money kinda suck to make bases. They are usually the most hazardous ones. I basically only leave a landing pad and a portal besides the mining stuff to collect and take it to my main base from time to time.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 8 months ago:
The whole situation just made me believe Sean Murray really wanted to make a cool game but he got overwhelmed by the media attention and started running his mouth. Maybe he felt like he had to overpromise and say yes to everything he was asked?
If he had done it in bad faith it would have been much easier to cut his losses and run away with the money. Nearly 10 years of expansions wouldn’t come out of it if not for legitimate passion.
It also made their next game announcement pretty funny.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 8 months ago:
Getting money is pretty easy if you set up mines of rare resources. Give it some time and you’ll have all the money you need.
- Comment on Palworld is Pokémon with guns, farming, survival and building - I'm quite excited 11 months ago:
I was laughing at the ridiculous over-the-top mood whiplash of sad cute animals assembling guns in a sweatshop. I though it would be a so-bad-it’s-good meme game, but seeing people starting to show gameplay and reviews now it’s actually starting to look good.
Edgy nonsense aside, I’ve been wishing for a creature collector game with farming and base building since Pokémon Emerald gave me a taste of that. This one might be what I’m looking for.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions 11 months ago:
I used to hate subscription games with a passion, but seeing what followed, in-app purchases, lootboxes and FOMO-driven battlepasses, turns out subscriptions were the lesser evil.
- Comment on What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games) 11 months ago:
The Gummi Ship missions are pretty fun starting on Kingdom Hearts 2. It’s like its own arcadey space shooter
- Comment on What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games) 11 months ago:
I also loved that they added some minigames from Amiibo Festival into New Leaf on the 3DS: Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape
- Comment on Many players have become "patient gamers". What are games people might miss out on by waiting for sales? 11 months ago:
The prospect that companies will just keep closing stores for each generation and letting games disappear makes me earnestly appreciate piracy.
- Comment on Many players have become "patient gamers". What are games people might miss out on by waiting for sales? 11 months ago:
And this is why I hate playing fighting games (and most versus games) online.
- Comment on Many players have become "patient gamers". What are games people might miss out on by waiting for sales? 11 months ago:
Well, that is a sign of the medium maturing. We’ve figured out most basic technological limitations and many design conventions to make games that are as close to the vision of the creators as we want them to be. Until some new great discovery drastically changes how games are made, now it’s just a matter of building up on existing ideas, with new twists.
- Comment on Many players have become "patient gamers". What are games people might miss out on by waiting for sales? 11 months ago:
Indie games are pretty much the only ones I still buy on release.
- Comment on Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes 11 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be the opposite? I’d think most people are more likely to have had sex than having killed a person. Maybe it’s because they think sexual content might actually lead kids to want to have sex.
Nevermind that these games are not rated for children to begin with, so who is buying it for them?
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 11 months ago:
With games likes Monument Valley, The Room and 80 Days you can’t really say that there is no creative passion there. If someone wanted to just make money they wouldn’t become game developers and artists to begin with. There are much better options for that.
Maybe more good mobile games would exist if the whole market wasn’t stuck on this trend of conditioning compulsion to game algorithms and exploit addicts. Seems like mobile games can either do that, or get buried by someone who does, because mobile users would rather play games for “free” and get tricked into spending $1,000 than pay $10 upfront.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
That is an endlessly fascinating experience. No wonder it inspired so many other games