dinckelman

@dinckelman@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck are we even doing at this point, as a society?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While you are correct, I understand what they’re trying to say.

  WoW suffers massively from adding new systems every patch, that feel like a full-time job. That never made any sense to me, given that an average WoW player already spends an abnormal amount of time playing the game, but they’re trying to fomo you into logging in even more.

  It all probably just comes out to corporate metrics, because the people in Microsoft/Blizzard leadership don’t play their own games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely don’t understand what all those people are doing there. Not just in Blizzard, but any other corporate studio

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot summoned to appear before French court in relation to harassment trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to hear about how he’ll weasel his way out if this one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The atmosphere. The fluidity yet sharpness of combat. The emotional attachment to the story. The absolutely gorgeous level designs.

  No game will be for everyone, and it’s okay if this one isn’t for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna say the 2028 one is deeply disturbing, but in reality, all of them are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Škoda are a massive offender, in my eyes. No one here drives their cars, except for taxis, because they were cheap, comfortable enough, and no one cares if you beat one up. Now, they position themselves as some kind of a mid-range luxury brand, but the quality does not speak for itself whatsoever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, companies will do literally fucking anything, just to pad the numbers for the shareholder reports. The Volkswagen group can screw itself. When we start decent seeing vehicles to a decent price again, maybe we can resume this conversation. Everyone’s tired of plastic garbage for top dollar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I doubt this will happen, because they’ve purposefully sunk Dreadwolf/Veilguard into the abyss, and probably wrote the entire DA series off, as a loss, all together

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Gothic 2, and by extension, Chronicles of Myrtana
  • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
  • Both are equally as monumental, so it’s shared between Obra Dinn, and Outer Wilds

  That being said, i’ve excluded any mmos out of this list, purely because sometimes i struggle to call them my favorite games, despite having playing several thousand hours of each. Some of them have been unbelievably impactful at certain times in my life, but i’m afraid the embers are getting cold now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone from Take-two leadership said that? Are they ill with something? That’s the most sensible statement i’ve heard from them in ages

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft's annual report dictates that the consumers are the problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ubislop need to be reminded that if you make a shit product, with a legally abusive EULA, no one owes you anything. You will go out of business, and we’ll applaud as your headquarters are repossessed by the real estate company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would understand forcibly banning/removing something, if it poses a real existential threat to the majority of people.

  But religion fueled bigotry, in a place where you can CHOOSE to buy and play something, or completely ignore and hide if you’d like? Come on. Adults can decide if they want to have access to this content on their own, without a completely unrelated third party constantly trying to fucking inject themselves in between

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire complaint was based on nothing too. They claimed he’s orchestrating some crazy financial scheme, and getting paid 6 digits from it, when he’s not only doing it for free, but can’t even participate in the initiative to begin with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Japanese corporations overwork people to literal death, but at least you’re not going to be laid off 2 months into a new job. Not as big of a flex as they think it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  x as a service has always been a net negative for the consumer, and a net positive for the seller.

  It strips them away from responsibility, because you can sell incomplete dogshit under a promise of future patches, or push something out for a price, and then continue raising the price, as you pump out more stuff into the system.

  In the case of games specifically, we’ve all seen the typical outcomes. Low effort slop, with a flood of “micro” transactions at a later date, or complete abandonment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  See, that’s what we don’t understand in their legislative genius! Coal? Oil? Trash piles? All of that doesn’t contribute anything to anything, of course, besides padding their wallet with lobbyist money. Jewish space lasers, and chemical typhoon generating planes from the democrats though? That’s where the real problem is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having played both, the answer is definitely yes. They’re not particularly long, but really solid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Against the Storm - Nightwatchers DLC Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve really enjoyed this game, but haven’t bought the first expansion yet though. This one looks quite cool too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When does Trump finally start taking accountability?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The most likely answer is it’ll happen when he finally pisses off his own minions enough. He’s more likely to die, before he’ll see any kind of real punishment for anything.

  Now that he’s about to rob several millions of people of basic needs being met, maybe things will start moving

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am tired of the boomer narrative of that it’s always those “young people” ruining everything. Oldest millennials are now in their mid-40’s. Or even worse, the youngest gen-z people are almost 18 now. These people have been paying their taxes for years on end now.

  The only terrified people in this scenario are the literal parasites who don’t pay anything, through loopholes and theft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be yet another spit in the face, if they released a 80$ base game, with the typical 2 season passes, totaling almost 300$ in dlcs of questionable quality. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything, because it’s 2K and Gearbox we’re talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point, it will only be worth it, if you either finish games at an alarming rate, or play so many different games, that buying them separately would make no sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not. Steam for macOS still has no SteamPlay support, so your best bet is installing the regular Steam through a separate Heroic prefix. Works great, but it does still require Rosetta.

  That said, Box64 and FEX are both making a lot of progress, so it’d be awesome to see these in action officially soon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steamdeck or....⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A Deck will likely be a better purchase for you. Shared library, more sales too. The Cities Skylines situation you’ve described would have been enough to make that decision for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Play Anywhere ™️

  Except for countries where we don’t allow you to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet again proves that capitalism is a cancer, and they’ll never be happy with anything, except for endless exponential growth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I didn’t like it nearly as much, if at all. I’ve heard mods make that game infinitely more enjoyable though, so maybe i’ll try it again some day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For indie and cheaper stuff specifically? The Binding of Isaac is over 1k hours between my two copies. Rimworld, Factorio, and Terraria are all close to 500h as well. If Minecraft counts as one for you, this is an outlier with roughly 4k hours since 2011.

  Otherwise, I am quite into MMOs and story-rich singleplayer RPGs, so there’s a handful of them with well over several thousands of hours played too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of options isn’t the issue.

  For most 25-40€ games I buy, i can get a great experience for the next 30-50 hours.

  Indie games absolutely crush the statistics, where some sub-15€ roguelikes have such insane replayability, that i’ve clocked over a thousand hours into a couple. Not to mention how incredibly creative, unique, and story rich some of them are.

  Meanwhile, what used to be 60€, and is now 80€+, is some “cinematic” 20fps on console slop, that you can barely get 5 hours of real gameplay out of. I don’t wanna sit there and watch a movie with an occasional A button press. Or even worse, play something like the Assassins Creed reboot, that had 500 hours of gameplay, 490 of which is just useless collectibles around the map.