CosmoNova

@CosmoNova@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Given they were literally on the payroll of organized crime and happily profited off of blood money I‘d say it‘s quite ironic how they abuse the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They are really good games that me and my siblings enjoyed a lot. I‘ll probably replay them again one day but on a computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don‘t think it does anything for game preservation. What is it preserving exactly? Not the titles. Those are subscription based. A piece of plastic where you can insert your handheld in? Just get a cheap VR headset for your phone. And if Nintendo thought Wario Land was so great then why did they stop making those games like 2 decades ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So they‘re selling a literal piece of plastic that becomes utterly useless the moment you lose access to their subscription service. Also, 14 games that they plan to release over time? Damn they must hate their customers with a passion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Konami’s AI project backfires, Yu-Gi-Oh! videos deleted over unauthorized use of popular actress’ voice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Konami and AI are a match made in heaven (or hell, depending on how you look at it) then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, that was unexpected. To be honest it doesn‘t even make sense. You literally can‘t patent broad gameplay concepts in the US. This patent shouldn‘t even exist according to the law so Nintendo probably doesn‘t have the best of chances here. I’m assuming they‘ll lose that patent in trial as quickly as they got it. How ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe existing work doesn‘t matter much in Japanese patent law for some reason. You either have patented it or you haven‘t. That‘s what we‘ve been seeing with this lawsuit again and again. Honestly, Pocketpal should consider moving to Singapore or something to avoid this bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I‘ve read some complains directly from people when it was happening. It‘s honestly not hard to believe that people get frustrated when a service with a good track record on availability spontaneously goes down for a few hours. It‘s okay when you say that you don‘t care though. I wasn‘t personally affected. But it did happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Purchasing and downloading are different services within Steam. You could update and download games just fine during that period. You just couldn‘t buy anything new for a while. And yes I have seen people complain about it on a Discord for example so there was a degree of frustration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately AAA studios have a long rat tail of unproductive execs and managers that take a huge pay cut so their games will soon cost $100.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be stopped just like climate change but we won‘t and kill humanity instead apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Working for a billion dollar company is the only reason you need here. There are far more of course but that should be enough reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Even after 20 years, I still cry’: the enduring brilliance of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That could be a reason to not discuss the game, though. It‘s probably not as rough or memeable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah and that‘s very unfortunate. Users need more control about these things. This is as rushed as Youtube‘s automatic translation slop. Most people speak more than one language. When will Americans learn that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That will backfire hard when AAA gaming implodes next year and consumers will demand quality over quantity. But I expected no less from a bunch of execs high on profits who never even booted up a game in their life. The bonus crap they promise you for a pre-order at the end of many trailers paint a grim picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will mean they’ll offer less, cost more and have even more bugs and crashes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Even after 20 years, I still cry’: the enduring brilliance of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven‘t played it but it‘s arguably the least discussed Metal Gear Solid game. At least people talk about 4 and 5. 3 literally just sits in the middle and sort of… exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is „my language“? Because depending on where the game is from this changes. Have they thought of that? Because I know from experience that US companies cannot comprehend speaking more than one language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally scheduled stupidity. I’m actually surprised they were this upfront with it being AI and reacted this quickly to backlash. This could’ve gotten a lot worse with a lesser understanding team believe it or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will never happen on a large scale. Not as long as there is this much money to be made. I have no doubts these freaks will keep trying and make our lives harder, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time We Talked about Disco Elysium, Again - People Make Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it‘s very one sided again unfortunately because only one side is interviewed. Although it is interesting to hear how much harm the writers receive through corporate bullshittery. Given how ZA/UM started out and where this odyssey has headed since I‘d say this is nothing short of a modern Greek tragedy about greed and selling out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is exactly what I expected them to do. I laughed at Blizzard fans being hopeful about the acquisition because things didn’t go well at the time. It was always just another step towards closure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is criminally understaffed and always caves in with no resistance when any actor wants to block access to thousands of games to millions of potential customers. This is just the latest chapter in a long history of them neglecting their users.

  For example a large number of affected games in this case have already been blocked in Germany for a while because Steam refused to implement any type of age verification. They didn‘t even want a dialog with authorities and flat out region blocked affected games instead.

  Now, I will say that this move by Germany was complete hypocrisy because it only affected unrated games and porn, when other 18+ games are still perfectly available because they „only“ contain massive amounts of violence. Somehow age verification isn‘t necessary here for some reason and gambling with cosmetic items is fine too? Good to know we have our priorities straight. /s

  Whatever the case, the point is Steam always choses the path of least resistance. Germany has a system that lets users verify their age anonymously. Sony has implemented it for their store no problem but Steam doesn‘t even bother to have a single German speaker in their support team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam gets a brand new video player for trailers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally we can watch all the trailers that radical christian groups allow us to watch without interruptions!

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

  I noticed something was off when looking at the childish comments of the video and although it started out normally it quickly began hinting at the same anti-woke bullshit talking points they always try to apply to everything that doesn‘t match their twisted, self-enforced and ultimately self-contradictory world view. It‘s a terrible video by a terribly bitter loser who couldn‘t figure out why Ubisoft and other AAA companies are failing when it‘s spelled out for him to save his life. No idea what that even gets posted here and users are certainly only upvoting it here because they only read the title but I find it fascinating how we found the guy who could probably run Ubisoft even worse than it‘s current head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It really just highlights the growing injustice in the world and that our problems are growing too severe to solve them with personal responsibility. We need to make billionaires illegal or things with keep spiraling downwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo Pro 3 Controller Announced with Swappable Buttons, Available for Preorder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do their gamepads compare to the DualSense? They‘re in the dame price range after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are “challenges concerning scaling up companies, attracting financing” and “managing cyclical waves of labour lay-off”, the Commission announcement stated.

  So they don‘t actually want to do anything right now because the same scummy companies that kill live service games are laying off workforce en masse as well? Ugh, I didn‘t expect much but that‘s rich.

  They‘re basically saying: „Apologies, but we can‘t improve things right now. You see, the industry is too rotten already.“

  As expected from the EU commission that is just as corrupt as AAA studios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that‘s literally what this is: A screenshot. What you are describing might be exactly how it transpired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fallout 3 isn‘t even a good game on the surface and I doubt anyone actually wants a UE5 slop version of it but people will buy it anyway not knowing they actually won‘t enjoy it because they haven‘t touched it since release if they ever even played it. It‘s success was entirely carried by hype but was ultimately already outdated when it came out. There is no logical reason to revive it because there are endless better alternatives out there but luckily for Todd Howard Bethesda fans aren‘t logical creatures and will buy that shit and proceed to not beat it and forget about it within a week.