dinckelman
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- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
We used to own a 2008-ish Wrangler, and it’s the single worst car anyone in my family has ever owned. There wasn’t one redeeming quality about this vehicle, except for that it makes you look like an asshole, and I apparently some people are into that
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
No one’s said anything about hating it. For me, it’s primarily a co-op game, and if they’re not going to switch to it, it’s better for me to save the cash, and put it towards something else
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Unless my friends, who have put a lot of hours into both Civ 5 and 6, unanimously recommend 7 to me, I have no intention of getting it.
I’m both satisfied enough with what I already own, and not sold on the new one yet. Not to mention that it’ll inevitably be a vehicle for more dlc and expansion packs
- Comment on The Sims & The Sims 2 Legacy Collections - Official Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Well, isn’t that just great
- Comment on The Sims & The Sims 2 Legacy Collections - Official Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
No standalone expansions, missing some expansion packs, no visual improvements, no UI scaling, no modern settings, has mandatory EA App and Denuvo integration, and they want 20 dollars for EACH?
I’m good
- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 3 weeks ago:
I feel horrible for the people affected, because for a lot of them, this was probably a dream job, but Ubisoft will get 0 sympathy from me
- Comment on EA lost $6 billion in market value, following FC 25 & Dragon Age underperformance news 3 weeks ago:
I cant really find any empathy or sympathy for them, at all
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 weeks ago:
It might inspire me to continue not wasting my money, and buying everything on sale, if it’s worth it at all
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it is. And it deserved all the success it got. It was great, until Sony fucked them against their will
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 5 weeks ago:
Sony specifically had to learn many harsh lessons recently.
The Bungie acquisition brought them nothing but issues. Concord being shutdown immediately after launch was a huge was of money too. Other titles under the Sony umbrella are either struggling, or gaining poor reputation due to their completely numbskull decision to enforce PSN account usage, even for single player offline games.
They need to get their head out of the clouds
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 5 weeks ago:
Came here to suggest The Binding of Isaac, but it looks like people already convinced you. Hope you love it! I’ve achieved 100% completion at around 870 hours, and one of my acquaintances is currently at 4.1k hours played of that. It’s an incredible amount of fun
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 1 month ago:
This is not mildly infuriating. This should just be illegal. Paying money to close your account is beyond infuriating
- Comment on GhostRunner 2 is Free to Claim for 24 Hours on Epic 1 month ago:
I’m currently sitting at 306 total Epic titles, out of which I’ve paid for a grand total of 1. Even that was a gigantic mistake.
I’ll continue collecting these, just out of spite to ye old Tim Sweeney, and his bullshit attitude towards the community, purely because he has to pay out of pocket for every license we claim
- Comment on Dredge is free to claim for the next 24 hours on Epic 1 month ago:
Just got a copy a couple weeks ago from GOG. Excellent little game
- Comment on Dredge is free to claim for the next 24 hours on Epic 1 month ago:
Heroic is great. Especially with the upcoming umu integration, it’s as seamless as it gets. Plus if you install anything from there, you also get a choice to add it to your steam library for easy access
- Comment on Destiny 2 Players Struggle To Find Fireteams As Population Drops To All-Time Low 1 month ago:
There are several contributors here.
Halfway through the lifecycle of Destiny 2 so far, Bungie realized that they have an insane amount of technological debt, and started cutting content out of the game, because it was unsustainable otherwise. The original promise was to rotate the cut content back in, but it was essentially just a lie.
One other outstanding issue is how bland, underdeveloped, and uninspired things are. Every update is “two tokens, and a blue”. Every new event is either standing on a plate, or throwing a core. Core game systems don’t work. The entire new season is fundamentally broken, and took away thing people still liked, just to return a ton of things people despised.
There is a lot more to it, but the core of the issue can be narrowed down to the business leadership being completely out of touch with reality, and bleeding resources
- Comment on Destiny 2 Players Struggle To Find Fireteams As Population Drops To All-Time Low 1 month ago:
It’ll continue becoming worse too.
Most of the people I know are fed up with the issues. When frontiers comes around, I will not be buying it, at any price.
Bungie have shown that they are unable to improve things long-term. It’s always a bungie (sorry) cord jump, except with every bounce they sink deeper instead
- Comment on ‘We are not a retro company’: Sega prepares to go back to the future 1 month ago:
They’re not a retro company. They’re just stuck in the past, and unable to head into the future. The consistency and the quality of their products say everything anyone needs to know
- Comment on What MMORPG are you playing, and why? 1 month ago:
Guildwars has been my choice for quite a while now. I enjoy most things about it, and it doesn’t feel like a job either. I can do my things, take a break, come back and still have fun. Plus all the cash shop items can be bought with in-game gold, which i do regularly.
Apart from that, I still really like ESO, in theory, but Zenimax continue showing incompetence and greed, so the interest there is decreasing fast. And that’s a shame
- Comment on Dauntless Devs Apologize for Awakening Update, Promise "Immediate Adjustments" 2 months ago:
It’s essentially a MonsterHunter clone, originally revealed 7 years ago, but based on what I’m hearing, since then it’s been riddled with horrible mismanagement issues, and players lost the vast majority of their earned items, for them to return as mtx later
- Comment on Zenimax Online Studios workers unionise 2 months ago:
This is excellent news.
I doubt much of anything will change for ESO itself, but happier workers are the real goal
- Comment on Witchfire - The Brewing Update Preview 2 months ago:
I’d really love to play this game eventually. Looks really cool, and a couple of my friends were quite impressed by it
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 2 months ago:
A corpo bully pointing fingers at some AI slop they use, how convenient
- Comment on Moonlighter 2 World Exclusive Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
I keep meaning to play the first one, it’s always looked pretty interesting to me. This looks pretty exciting for a trailer too
- Comment on Ubisoft's XDefiant Will be Shutting Down in June 2025 2 months ago:
Ubisoft are genuinely speedrunning their way towards a shutdown and a buyout
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 months ago:
The A580 launched at 175$+tax. We are not talking about the same card
- Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249 2 months ago:
Hopefully it will bring some decent generational improvements. The only thing i’m not a huge fan of is the 45% price increase over lasts gen, which isn’t even putting used or discounted cards into consideration
- Comment on Elden Ring 2 Not Happening Any Time Soon, Says FromSoftware 2 months ago:
That shouldn’t really be news to anyone. They’ve stretched themselves almost too thin with the scale of Elden Ring, and it’s a miracle, that it’s turned out this damn good.
But even besides that, I’d always take a well put together game every 5 years, than some uninspired yearly slop. Good games are still art
- Comment on Got 20 euro, what game/games to get on steam autunm sale? 2 months ago:
If you’re into older rpgs, i would wholeheartedly recommend the Gothic trilogy. Will fit just under 5$, but they’re absolutely insane value for the money. With that you’ll also get Archolos for free, which has blown all expectations away entirely. This mod ended up being better than a lot of big-budget titles I’ve played, and they’ve done it all out of pocket
- Comment on Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5 2 months ago:
I can’t really say I’m super excited.
Back in the days, you bought a PSP, and you got a shitload of exclusive games, with an occasional fan-favorite port. It was incredible value, especially for a handheld. Today, unless you’re a Playstation gamer specifically, getting the console isn’t even worth it. Knowing Sony, they will introduce a proprietary storage format yet again too.
Buying multiple licenses for the same game, across different platform is annoying as well. That’s one of the reasons why the Deck is so massively successful