CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 days ago:
That‘s not how projects or marketing work most of the time, however. Nintendo is known to use project names throughout development. They have a schedule for each and every step and the recent leaks have turned things upside down for sure.
The reveal itself looks incredibly rushed. I suspect they hastily whipped up a quick animation in Blender by using some simple modifiers and clever editing. It has “Make a product animation in Blender” Youtube tutorial written all over it, if that makes sense. I kind of love it, but it’s not very Nintendo-like and neither is the name.
- Comment on Sony Cancels Two More PlayStation Projects 5 days ago:
I think the huge critical acclaim of Astrobot was also a very important lesson for them to learn. People often seem to glance over this recently.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 days ago:
I‘m assuming they debated about it until the very last second until they settled with the safest option. The leaks probably accelerated things a lot towards the end and it might’ve been called something different entirely if they had more time to agree on a name.
- Comment on The Death of Gaming YouTube: How Money Killed Authenticity 1 week ago:
I know most people here won’t even know what I’m talking about but going by the title I thought this is about Youtube’s own Gaming platform. You know, one of those side tabs that you never click but is still there. So yeah I’d suggest to edit the title to make it more clear what the video is about. Something like “Game journalism/let’s play culture” would make it more clear.
- Comment on Naughty Dog Co-Founder Reveals Why They Were Acquired By Sony 2 weeks ago:
Larian also sold 30% to Tencent because they needed more money. Games can get super expensive quick.
- Comment on Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024 2 weeks ago:
The guy has all the resources to rekindle that flame by organizing game jams for example. I am sure he‘ll think much more positively about the whole thing a couple years from now when he realized opportunities granted by his success. Either that or he’ll go down the Notch route but I don’t think he’ll be that kind of stupid rich.
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
It‘s likely a japanese patent so I doubt Nintendo can sie Rockstar.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 3 weeks ago:
And the AoE franchise tried that at least twice and failed.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
Foreign corporations are much more aggressive about harvesting data than the German government so you should think twice about using their products in the first place. Most of the time the German government is under fire for privacy concerns it’s because they trusted products from Microsoft or Huawei and the like.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
Well the entity is the government. You know, the guys who create your ID in the first place. It’s not perfect but it’s the best one I could conceive.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
When they were asked to implement age verification in Germany, they simply pulled anything off their platform in the country that would require it instead. Mind you Germany has a system that makes age verification anonymous so if privacy concerns you, you could just implement it. (Almost no platform does because they want your data though.)
Valve doesn’t want to touch age verification with a 10 yard stick and that tells me it is probably the way to go here. Because once they have it, the path for more regulations is clear.
- Comment on What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? 3 weeks ago:
I have to say I very much prefer the combat system in OS as it feels much more natural and less restrictive than the DnD combat in BG3. Of course the latter has far more content, but I’m looking forward to Larian’s next game where they can finally go wild again and do things the want exactly the way they want.
- Comment on What happened to techbros from the 90s to now? 4 weeks ago:
Tech bros like Bill Gates used open source communities like an all-you-can-monetize buffet to build a closed operating system. The rest is history.
- Comment on After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages 4 weeks ago:
I honestly expected TGA to be more tone deaf and not address it at all after speeches about the „golden era for gaming“ from previous years. The entire award show is a PR stunt anyway. At least this single award spreads some awarenes and reminds us layoffs aren‘t just a number, but real people.
- Comment on 2024 Steam Awards Nominees Announced 5 weeks ago:
You can‘t even rate early access games for obvious reasons. Nominating it for GOTY is just silly and potentially very awkward for the devs.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 5 weeks ago:
That couldn’t be further from the truth. Mutliplayer games are a huge undertaking because you have no choice but to develop and test for any possible individuality and keep pushing new patches so the game can keep running smoothly. Not to speak of server costs and complex match making systems that typically come with it. No, multiplayer games are hard to make and they’re rarely ever finished.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 weeks ago:
China mad Japan won in American awards. You love to see it.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 5 weeks ago:
They’re not looking into blatant gambling in AAA titles, of course they won’t take a closer look into an indie game. They’re completely useless.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s what I said. But it doesn’t explain the general sentiment here at all.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 5 weeks ago:
None of the downsides you’ve mentioned are exclusive to online games, though. Publisher put these mechanics in single player games as much as they do in online games so you criticism doesn’t make much sense here, to be honest. There are also countless online games that don’t have any of those things.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 5 weeks ago:
Alright, I accept this is your opinion but the overall aversion to multiplayer on Lemmy surprises me. Games have historically been multiplayer experiences since human existence. Go back thousands of years to ancient mesopotamia and people will play games with each other. And even in videogames, they play a huge part. I’ve had countless fun hours in games like Super Smash Bros., Minecraft multiplayer or Team Fortress 2 and I’m always looking forward to multiplayer experiences that look interesting. I’m not sure what you mean by
get your customers to make the content for you for free
in this particular case. Do the devs have a bad track record when it comes to this? Because it’s not something exclusive to online games by any means.
Anyway I understand the title rubs people the wrong way because it’s nonsene of course, but I don’t get the hate. It’s almost like people want the same old stuff wrapped in a new shell over an over again when they criticize studios solely for going into a new direction instead of making yet another sequel.
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 5 weeks ago:
Why the hate for multiplayer? Yes the title is wrong but the trailer looks simple and fun.
- Comment on Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 5 weeks ago:
I have not played it myself but what I’ve seen of it looks at the very least polished and made with care. That being said there just wasn’t that much competition this year. The industry is overshadowed with mass layoffs and a smaller budget pool. And yes, of course some good games released, but nothing in the ballpark of a Baldur’s Gate 3 or GTA 5.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 5 weeks ago:
I guess that could be possible though I doubt it. The 3 origin stories in Cyberpunk were extremely shallow and didn’t add anything to the story. I don’t see why they would go for it again when it didn’t work out last time.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 5 weeks ago:
It’s almost definitely a break with the series in that you likely won’t be able to import your save file, which always was a core feature of the series. There could’ve been many ways to include it but a playable Ciri isn’t one of them.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 5 weeks ago:
In my opinion it doesn’t make all that much sense because of major Witcher 3 spoilers.
- Comment on What are your favourite trailers? 1 month ago:
The E3 reveal trailer for The legend of Zelda: Twillight Princess still remains one if the most exciting moments in gaming history. I still get goosebumps when I see Miyamoto holding up the sword on stage to thundering applause. Even though the game is among the lesser memorable ones in the series now.
I also remember rewatching the Breath of the Wild E3 gameplay trailer dozens of time. It’s just so perfectly paced and cut with a perfect music score to go with it. But even though the game turned out to be as great as the trailer promised I couldn’t bring myself to buying the sequel. I’m just so done with Nintendo that I couldn’t really enjoy it.
- Comment on What video game company/developer/publisher loves shitting on it's fans? 1 month ago:
I would argue Ubisoft doesn’t love or feel anything. It was a slow regress, but at some point it has lost enough of it’s humanity to just become a dead object. A machine run by a faulty algorithm bringing it’s rapidly approaching destruction.
- Comment on What video game company/developer/publisher loves shitting on it's fans? 1 month ago:
Big N could make losses for decades to come and still have lots of cash to spend but it won’t come to that because they make stupid amounts of cash with merchandising alone. So no, you and I likely won’t live to see their bankruptcy and I honestly couldn’t care less anyway. I just won’t buy their stuff and that’s that. They also have not changed. They’ve been this way since the Donkey Kong vs. King Kong lawsuit and a long history of harassing fans going back 20 years and more.
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 1 month ago:
I guess that must be why I can’t buy the Black & White games or Fable 2. Because Microsoft cares so much to preserve the awkward, legal Loop some of their Lionhead Games are in.