MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 1 day ago:
This isn’t about you, America.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 2 days ago:
I’m struggling to get my head around someone who just got into Star Trek starting with Picard.
I mean, fine - if you enjoyed it that’s great! But it’s a show explicitly about exploring the later life of a franchise figurehead. If you didn’t watch any of the earlier series or movies first you’re missing 90%+ of the context for what’s happening, surely?
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 days ago:
In that case you might remember people having similar reactions to Hootie & the Blowfish or Nickelback.
They’re all very popular, but very ‘safe’, overproduced, bland perhaps. That creates a backlash and it becomes cool to hate them.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 days ago:
Do you not remember the massive backlash against disco? Same thing, different era.
- Comment on Would you considering watching playthroughs of a game the same as playing that game? 3 days ago:
Absolutely not the same.
The key defining characteristic of a game is interactivity: the ability to affect the outcome in some way. Some games allow for less freedom than others in that respect, but watching someone else play and make those decisions for you is always going to be fundamentally different to playing it yourself.
Not to diminish the value of streams, especially if you find enjoyment in watching them, but you should understand that it’s not a comparable experience.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 5 days ago:
That’s just the reality of ‘adult’ as the most common euphemism, as in ‘adult films’. It’s not going anywhere.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 5 days ago:
On the other hand, this is Valve capitulating to PayPal and removing games from sale because they didn’t like them. Not a good precedent to set.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 weeks ago:
True, but many indies do rely on funding from investors of one sort or another, be that angel investors, startup funds, or even just small business loans.
Many of those investors have lost their appetite for games, making it extremely difficult to pay the bills unless you’ve already got a sizeable cash reserve to cover costs.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 weeks ago:
Tell that to all the smaller studios that have already been decimated and forced to close because of their publishing/funding deals falling through over the last couple of years.
It’s comforting to believe that only the biggest companies are struggling, but the industry as a whole is currently in active collapse from the inside out.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 weeks ago:
I wish that was true, but funding has dried up across the entire sector and that affects the viability of smaller studios more than it does the mega corps with bottomless warchests.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 2 weeks ago:
Loving this little nugget from the article:
the translucent CD, which was pitched as an environmentally friendly option
Ah yes, the environmentally friendly option of producing thousands of plastic disks that don’t work.
- Comment on Sources: Everwild has been cancelled as Xbox layoffs hit Rare | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Founded in 1985, Rare is one of the UK’s most historic game developers, best known for Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007, and Banjo-Kazooie.
Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002, and it has since gone on to create titles such as Kameo, Viva Piñata, Kinect Sports, and Sea of Thieves under the Xbox banner.
Says it all, really. Rare has been mismanaged into the ground for the past 20+ years.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Permanent hardware bans have been a thing since the PS3/360 era.
I’m not saying it’s a good thing that they can unilaterally disable hardware you purchased (although I certainly understand the reasoning wrt cheaters and pirates) but the author here is acting like the idea is some completely new idea from the diabolical industry villains du jour.
- Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing? 2 weeks ago:
No, I mean the completely unfounded claim that discord’s typing indicators are somehow a tool for analysing users’ writing styles and selling that on to data brokers.
- Comment on Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing? 2 weeks ago:
It’s kind of impressive that you managed to squeeze in so many links to references but without including any that actually back up the accusation you’re making.
- Comment on Trial GOV.UK App launched today 3 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for the inevitable controversy when the official government chat bot tells someone to do something illegal, or gives dangerous advice leading to a death.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 4 weeks ago:
I disagree - adding RT to games that weren’t designed for it often (but not always) wrecks the original art direction.
Quake II is a great example; I think the raytraced version looks like absolute ass. Sure, it has fancy shadows and reflections, but all that does is highlight how old the assets are.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 4 weeks ago:
Sadly you will get downvoted because Lemmy’s hateboner for Nintendo is more important than context
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure there are lots of examples for me, but I guess one that comes to mind is 007: The World Is Not Enough for PS1.
Reading/hearing about it as an adult, it’s seen as not only a poor comparison to Goldeneye, but also a poor comparison to the N64 version of the same game.
Back in the day, though, I didn’t know any better and I loved it. I expect most people have games like that.
- Comment on Oil company funds computer game that promotes fossil fuels to schoolchildren 1 month ago:
the programme, aimed at 7–14 year olds, is “designed to spark wonder for science and the future of energy”. It includes a game, in which players attempt to build a city that survives until the year 2050, and in-school education materials to “showcase how modern cities use energy resources and the ways the energy transition can be managed”
- Comment on Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy 1 month ago:
Interesting how they continue to blame the pirates, devices, DRM, and everything else they can think of, but never the fact that content is getting spread across more and more services and prices keep going up.
Their greed in chasing profits is fuelling the very problem they’re trying to fight.
- Comment on Elden Ring's player engagement is through the roof: 45% of its Steam players have played for 100+ hours 1 month ago:
Because hours of play has no direct relationship with completion. Playing for 100+ hours doesn’t mean you’ve finished the game.
- Comment on Why old games never die (but new ones do) 1 month ago:
It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop.
Kicking off an article with such a provably incorrect and inflammatory statement is certainly a choice.
- Comment on The wonderful Revenge of the Savage Planet has been released! 2 months ago:
Maybe they’re still mad that the first game was on Google Stadia?
- Comment on Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness 2 months ago:
A big part of the problem is that social media platforms encourage and amplify hateful content.
People are literally profiting from their hate and harassment of game developers (and have the hubris to complain about ‘woke grifters’) but platforms like YouTube just throw up their hands and pretend it’s nothing to do with them.
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 2 months ago:
The Internet Archive is a fantastic resource, but to say they take a lackadaisical approach to copyright/IP law is putting it lightly. There is SO much pirated content on there that it’s a wonder they’ve managed to last as long as they have being US-based.
Whether you agree with the spirit of the laws or not, there’s no arguing that they’ve long been on a collision course with major US copyright holders and I doubt they can survive without a massive effort to relocate somewhere out of reach.
- Comment on Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up. 3 months ago:
Yep, I totally feel that. 10+ years ago I was into all sorts - psychological thrillers, crime and mystery, prestige TV drama, etc.
Ever since the pandemic, my taste has flipped dramatically to comfort TV (sitcoms and panel shows) and YouTube content like retro gaming channels, GMM, and Dropout.
I see these huge shows like Succession, White Lotus, etc and while they might’ve interested me in the past I just do not have the energy any more.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
The approach isn’t what became a joke, it was the absolutely unhinged way in which it was presented.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
Gabe Newell?
- Comment on Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll 3 months ago:
I’m sorry if you’re a fan, but there is no way that Shenmue was more influential than fucking Doom, or many of the other games on the list.
