dinckelman
@dinckelman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steamdeck or.... 4 days 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on The Crew 2: Offline Mode Update 5 weeks ago:
So they CAN do something nice. Wish it didn’t come down to a gigantic lawsuit for them to do it though
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 5 weeks ago:
One of the best games I have played in recent years. Finally scratched an itch that Gothic left me with for years
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 month ago:
Unlikely to happen, because the leadership behind the project claimed they are in contact with Bethesda, to make sure no one’s stepping on anyone’s toes. Although obviously they can just pull the rug at any time, which would be catastrophic. Given that they’ve remade basically every single asset in the game, and require the original game to be owned and installed, it should be fine
- Comment on Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined 1 month ago:
Yeah that checks out. I’ve found out about this in a doubly infuriating scenario.
I was home abroad on a holiday, and they billed me for my regular monthly service. So naturally, i got slapped with the 25$ rejection fee, and then my bank decided to pay the overdraft on the second attempt, resulting in another 45$ in bank fees for that too.
Everything in the US is purposefully designed to fuck you over.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 1 month ago:
Genuine question for PoE1 veterans: What is it exactly, that people want from the sequel?
With my little experience in 1, I was excited about the new gem system, and the idea of not having to deal with stacks of 20 prefixes on high-end mobs, and it seems that at least with the latter nothing has changed
- Comment on Mewgenics - Official Trailer 1 month ago:
Been waiting for this one for a while. Hope it ends up being fun
- Comment on BloodBorne Released 10 Years Ago Today, Fans Once Again Organize a Return to Yharnam 2 months ago:
I’ve pretty much come to terms that i’ll either never finish it, or will play it again on an emulator eventually. As it is now, it won’t run any better on my Slim console, and i have no intention of upgrading it
- Comment on BloodBorne Released 10 Years Ago Today, Fans Once Again Organize a Return to Yharnam 2 months ago:
This is the only post-DemonSouls game i haven’t finished :/ The frame drops in some areas gave me frequent headaches, so i only made it like a third way in
- Comment on Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround? 2 months ago:
I feel like the AI dubs are just a way to annoy people with ad blockers. Both on desktop, and my modded mobile client, any time i open a new video, the player forces my quality down to 144p, and turns on the first available dub
- Comment on Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Review Thread 2 months ago:
That’s really great to see. I’m excited to get the game when i can
- Comment on Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" 2 months ago:
In comparison to XC2 or 3, the recent pokemon games look like an insult, and a bad joke. I’m still mindblown by that Nintendo greenlit those releases, given how specific they are with other first-party game designs
- Comment on Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?' 2 months ago:
I can’t imagine ever working on any project that large. Most of your people will essentially have zero communication with each other, and release a half-assed overbudgeted product as a result
- Comment on Killing Floor 3 Delayed (With no new release date) 2 months ago:
I don’t even know if i’m surprised, or just disappointed. It’s one thing to make a bad game, but it’s another thing to pick up a bad abandoned game, and actually make it even worse
- Comment on Killing Floor 3 Delayed (With no new release date) 2 months ago:
I thought 2 was already a huge downgrade from 1, however i haven’t played the game in quite some time. Didn’t know there’s still an audience for this series
- Comment on Styx: Blades of Greed | Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
I loved the first game, bought the second one on release, and havent launched it by this day. Should really catch up
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 2 months ago:
What had happened to the people in ZAUM (or what was once that studio), is a tragedy, and a huge shame. I’m not even a cRPG/dnd person, but that game has singlehandedly opened my eyes to a whole new world. It’s easily in my top10 games of all time, and I wish we could get another one eventually
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 2 months ago:
For a second there, i’ve panicked, thinking this is about Monolith Soft. Either way, really sucks for the workers, but WB themselves can eat shit
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 2 months ago:
Because some people love going off headlines, and not the actual articles, and then further twist information, to promote their narrative.
They never said there will never be one. They said there won’t be yearly incremental releases, because they want a substantial performance leap. And that is something I strongly admire. Makes the customers feel more secure in their choice, and lets Valve work on new stuff in peace
- Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025 2 months ago:
Making brand new content costs a ton of money, and Sony clearly made colossal missteps in regards to that recently. With this, they’re hoping for what’s essentially free cash
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Well, isn’t that just great
- Comment on The Sims & The Sims 2 Legacy Collections - Official Reveal Trailer 3 months 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