MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 1 day ago:
Congrats on missing the entire point of what the guy is saying.
The people losing their jobs are not the ones making the decisions that created a (subjectively) bad product.
- Comment on Day 204 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 weeks ago:
Recently did a solo playthrough of Halo 2 on heroic and it was a slog. Can’t even imagine trying to do it on legendary.
I knew going in that it has a reputation as the hardest game in the series, but it’s wild just how disproportionately unfair it feels at times.
- Comment on 1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely never heard of this one before. Anyone played it?
- Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users 2 weeks ago:
I’m honestly surprised that Slack doesn’t have some kind of steganographic watermarking so that leaked screenshots can be traced back to the original user, given how many big companies use it for all their internal comms.
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 3 weeks ago:
We do that too.
Not sure about countries in the EU, but in the UK your income is taxed at different rates depending on how much you earn in a year.
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 3 weeks ago:
Stocks and property are taxed, just not with VAT: we have capital gains tax, dividend tax, and stamp duty.
- Comment on Website like brandcolors.net but for video game UIs? 4 weeks ago:
Is Game UI Database what you’re looking for?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
If that’s the case you wouldn’t be able to charge them, though? I don’t think you can charge them without connecting to a console (or a third party charging dock I guess)
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
People said similar things about the all-white Wii after the GameCube
- Comment on Chants of Sennaar, a puzzle game where you decipher an alien language (Demo available) 1 month ago:
If anything I’d say Heaven’s Vault is the better of the two!
Sure, it’s way less polished and can be janky, but the language and the translation mechanics are so much deeper and more well-developed than anything in Chants of Sennaar.
The languages in Chants are tightly defined and very specific to what the game needed, so they’re not really usable outside of that context. But the language in HV is rich and complex, and you can actually learn to write new things in it.
- Comment on Valve saw a record-breaking 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024 1 month ago:
Getting harder and harder for new games - even good ones - to find an audience.
I don’t think an abundance of releases is necessarily a bad thing, because more art is more art, but I also don’t know what a solution might look like to help prevent otherwise great games from vanishing into the masses immediately on release.
- Comment on Ex-Starfield dev dubs RPG’s design the “antithesis” of Fallout 4, admitting getting “lost” within the huge sci-fi game 1 month ago:
Bad/misleading title. The article (actually just a regurgitation of a podcast interview) is actually about the design & layout differences between two cities: New Atlantis in Starfield and Diamond City in Fallout 4.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 2 months ago:
Nah, that’s a Tesco uniform so probably UK. It’ll be a Chicago Town mini pizza.
- Comment on Life is Strange: Double Exposure developer Deck Nine lays off staff for the second time this year 2 months ago:
It’s more of an anthology series, so most of the games are completely unconnected. This is the first direct sequel to the original LiS, featuring the original main character.
There are also two different studios involved: Dontnod created the original game, Life is Strange 2 (2018), and the spinoff The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, but the other three games in the series were made by Deck Nine.
- Comment on Valve added an invisible wall to this sewer pipe in Half-Life 2 in their anniversary update - but it only annoyed speedrunners 2 months ago:
Barely a bug IMO - Valve wanted an invisible wall to block players from being able to skip a small environmental puzzle, but invisible walls are a lazy solution. If the player can find an alternate route to climb up into the pipe, more power to them I say.
- Comment on Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term? 2 months ago:
So the full name of the UK is ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’. As the name suggests, it includes Great Britain, Northern Ireland, plus a bunch of smaller islands nearby.
Great Britain is the main island, and contains three countries: England, Scotland, and Wales. They’re all separate countries governed collectively by the UK government, but they also have their own local governments (kind of like how states in the US can have their own laws but must also adhere to federal law).
A Briton is someone from Britain.
I can’t speak confidently to the stuff about Canada & Australia, but hopefully that covers several of your questions!
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles' 3 months ago:
Yes, because the developers working on hair physics were definitely the same people that would have otherwise been working on narrative design.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto: The Definitive Edition trilogy on PC gets a classic lighting update from the mobile version 3 months ago:
Great! It’s a shame the remasters still suck.
I wouldn’t even mind that much, but they removed the actual originals from sale completely, so this crappy cash-grab is the only official way to buy them now.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 3 months ago:
Where does it say they want to ban vaping outside schools & hospitals? This is specifically about smoking.
- Comment on Playdate Season 2 drops in 2025, but firm release details, price, and games all still to be finalised 3 months ago:
Because it has a big library of interesting and innovative exclusives, making use of an unusual control input. Whether that makes it worth it or not is personal preference, but you can’t disagree that it offers something unique.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 months ago:
Because improving visuals is an easily quantifiable task, but improving gameplay requires creativity and risk-taking, neither of which are compatible with the AAA business model.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx gets shut down 4 months ago:
Fuck you, Nintendo. You used to be cool.
Nintendo have always been like this, even as far back as the NES days. They were super protective over who was allowed to make and sell cartridges, and repeatedly filed lawsuits against companies making unlicensed carts.
They’ve always been ultra-protective over their IP and hardware, and will happily sue fan projects and emulation into oblivion any chance they get.
- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 4 months ago:
Those are exactly the fees they’re removing in the uk:
On Tuesday, eBay said its move, which has taken effect immediately, meant private sellers would no longer pay so-called final value fees or regulatory operating fees when they sold on the site.
- Comment on The heart wants what the heart wants 5 months ago:
I just want to know what you people are doing to your fast food over in America that is giving people diarrhoea so reliably. Every time I hear people from the US talk about places like Taco Bell, someone inevitably mentions its catastrophic effect on their stomach.
Why is that accepted as normal?!
We have Taco Bell in the uk too and it’s… fine? I eat out or order food at least once a week and I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve ever had food poisoning, but apparently over in America it’s basically guaranteed?? What in the absolute fuck are you people doing you your food?
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 5 months ago:
I have a lot of fond nostalgia for A Final Unity, but the two TOS point & click games are way better designed. Plus they’re far easier to get hold of, since they’re sold on GOG while Final Unity isn’t available digitally anywhere.
That said, Final Unity is still good and if you prefer TNG then find a way to play that!
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 5 months ago:
Those Old Scientists
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 5 months ago:
Such a shame NOLF is so deeply mired in rights disputes that we’ll probably never even get a digital rerelease, let alone a sequel.
- Comment on What category is games like Life is Strange and Until Dawn? 5 months ago:
It’s called a branching narrative. Most common related Steam tag for finding similar games would be ‘choices matter’.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 5 months ago:
You can manually restart in OW - it’s an ability you can learn from one of the characters you meet.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 5 months ago:
In my experience, if people are going to bounce off the game it’ll come down to one (or more) of three reasons:
- They hate the flight controls
- They hate the feeling of being on a constant timer
- They hate the lack of explicit direction in what to do next
It’s one of my favourite games of all time, and it has good reasons for all of the above, but it’s definitely not for everyone!