CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 2 days ago:
When was Microsoft ever??? Sorry but you knew back then what you know now.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 5 days ago:
I have to say that Kingdom Come Deliverance wasn‘t for me. Too realistic. Too tedious. That‘s probably what makes it great for the fans but I do not think Elder Scrolls fans want inconvenience just because it‘s realistic. They‘re not the same fan base.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 5 days ago:
I genuinely don‘t think Elder Scrolls fans would actually want just another Skyrim. They‘ve had over a dozen releases of that already. The devs definitely have to be better.
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 5 days ago:
Absolutely! It‘s completely insane already but apparently you can still get around it sometimes by starting the game offline, then going online once you‘re inside and play online matches. Like, all these risks they burden their customers with just to be sloppy with the execution.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 6 days ago:
Here’s my uninspired lame advise that will never happen: ZeniMax should close down Bethesda. Then they should contract the Crimson Dessert guys and hire a good writer to make the next Elder Scrolls game. Sure it‘s more expensive than doing it in house and it would take years but I think it‘s what players would want.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 6 days ago:
I mean ESO was developed by ZeniMax. Perhaps it would be best to let them handle Bethesda‘s franchises directly and disband their subsidiary. I suspect Bethesda has suffered too much from toxic positivity.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 1 week ago:
Fair enough. Apparently that was 12 years ago already. Damn, where did the years go?
But yeah Kojima is just doing cheap lip service here. He never cared about game preservation at all. Sorry for the people here that worship him like a god but he never chose game preservation when he actually did have full reign.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 1 week ago:
The demo is really fucking good and consoles that still have it installed go for a high price. There is demand for it.
What‘s the point of keeping a good game, you ask? Are you serious?
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 1 week ago:
Said the guy who released a horror game teaser then took it off the store…
Death stranding sits at about 10k votes to bring to gog.com but nah. Gotta have that DRM.
But nice try Kojima. You almost got me.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
On top of all that Sony is known to actually mass delete content from customer accounts, never to be installed again. No refunds. Something Steam hasn‘t done as far as I know. It just looks like a really bad deal.
Then again I expect Sony to go full cloud gaming so that alone is already bad enough to keep me away.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
So their prices drop like Steam games too, right? Riiiight?
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
Game devs: „Here is the code to run our games on a private server. Have fun!“
Gamers: „Cool, thanks! Will do?“
ESA: „ISN‘T THERE SOMEONE YOU FORGOT TO ASK???“
- Comment on Will PS6 Be Like a Nintendo Switch? Sony Says Its Next-Gen Console Will Enable 'A Seamless Experience That Can Be Enjoyed Naturally Beyond the Living Room' 1 week ago:
It‘s all cloud from here
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity' 1 week ago:
Classic Hasbro trying to brute force success when they have no clue what they‘re working with. One can only hope nobody takes on the project when Hasbro approaches them. Best thing that could happen is that nobody really cares and the game is forgotten quickly since it would be nothing like any of the other BG games. Worst case it tarnishes the franchise forever.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There‘s a current trend in AAA to not properly localize games in other languages than English and many German players are very vocal about it in comment sections of reviews on Youtube.
If you‘re an indie game it‘s kind of expected to not ship with a German voice over but Germans expect it when they pay upwards of 50€ for a game.
Things simply are properly localized in Germany. People expect things to be German. Even Nintendo understood that when they started to voice Zelda games for example. I think a lot of AAA studios are about to learn this the hard way.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 2 weeks ago:
How do Steam machine users charge their Steam Controller then? Just with a USB-C cable? I prefer my external pug to that. The Steam Controller would be kind of a silly product if you wouldn‘t get a good experience without a Steam Machine so this argument is kind of silly too if you ask me. Would be cool if the controller came with a proper stand, though. You shouldn‘t expect your customers to own a 3D printer even though I totally support Valve embracing it but the controller really feels incomplete without it.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 2 weeks ago:
Good support and Valve? Like, I get people rushing in to defend GabeN here. Especially considering the Summer Sale is currently ongoing. But their support is shit. From my experience you either like what they give you or you get your money back. Little to nothing in between. Gaming Jesus doesn‘t really do compromises so can we at least stop pretending Steam Support is an actual functional instance? It definitely was‘t for me so far and neither do I expect it to be at this point.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to the world of pre-built PCs! Like, technically you can upgrade your GPU but you‘d have to upgrade most of your machine too to actually get a performance boost.
- Comment on Solved or not, what games have great detailed mysteries/conspiracy theories that you can completely miss? 2 weeks ago:
Portal 2 has a big one that I think most people miss. You can find the biggest clue at the „bring your kid to work day“ exhibit where one submission of (I think it was a potato plant) was signed by a kid named „Chell“. Same name of the protagonist. It‘s easy to miss but it puts the entire story (many parts of which you can also miss) into a new perspective.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
This really reflects the reverse spiral gaming hardware has seen in recent years. The benchmarks are absolutely laughable for what you could get for the same price just a year ago. Go back 2 years and the gap is even larger. Gamers are being priced out by AI slop generators.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Gaming isn‘t standing still though, it‘s reverting. You can‘t get the same hardware you got 5 years ago for the same price anymore. Hardware ALWAYS got cheaper until recently. This is truly unprecedented.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
It‘s nit about skill as prebuilt machines that go for roughly the same are more powerful as well. All the Steam Machine really has going for it is the size. That‘s it. Don‘t need your machine to be a tiny cube sitting under the TV? Get literally anything else.
Really the most remarkable thing here is the software with SteamOS and Proton. By a long shot. Those are the big things we should be discussing.
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 3 weeks ago:
I hope it doesn‘t break Heroic launcher somehow.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 weeks ago:
EU commission does what everyone expected them to do: Deciding based on lobbyism.
- Comment on Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to survive for so long - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
Definitely. Great developers and movie makers keep saying how games and movies are group efforts where the result is more than the sum of it‘s parts.
- Comment on Capcom says shifting from auteur-driven development to team-led development is what transformed the company and allowed flagship IPs to survive for so long - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to games@lemmy.world! Here are your torch and pitch fork. Now go and join the angry mob! What are you waiting for?
Jokes aside it is a really bizarre and twisted way to read the situation but that‘s a pattern with this community. I know these things are kind of subjective but you will see the most confidently wrong takes here gather huge support from people who haven‘t even played the games so as long as they can „stick it to the big guys“. Whatever that means at any given time.
- Comment on Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries 4 weeks ago:
That’s a cute idea but also naive. You voided the warranty the moment you separate the case to open that thing anyway. It doesn‘t even matter if it‘s glued or not and yes, Nintendo can tell. People do not glue it back together to trick Nintendo but to actually keep the thing in place. It will absolutely need to be mounted.
- Comment on Fable - 30 Minute Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life 4 weeks ago:
It does but that‘s because it looks like generic fantasy, not medieval.
- Comment on Steam Controller Review: Now You're Playing with Power - Nerrel 4 weeks ago:
Apart from the fact that Steam Input is a book with seven seals to me, it does not forward gyro input to any emulator I have tried. Not at all. It simply gets no gyro input when I try to set the button layout via emulator menu.
In fact I can‘t even get the gyro from the DualSense to work over Steam while it works out of the box without Steam running. I wish I could just tell Steam to not do anything but unfortunately Steam Input is mandatory for the Steam Controller.
I have tried to get it to work for endless hours and I‘m pretty sure it‘s actually not possible on Arch Linux. It‘s also very frustrating to keep reading „just use Steam Input bro“ as if that explains anything. What do you guys even mean by that? Do you have a step-by-step guide how to make gyro from the new Steam Controller readable for emulators? Because god knows the internet could need one.
- Comment on Steam Controller Review: Now You're Playing with Power - Nerrel 4 weeks ago:
I wonder how he got the pads and gyro working on emulators. I can‘t get them to read the controller properly at all.