MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 1 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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' 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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 3 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 3 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!
- Comment on Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged | Release Date Announcement Trailer [19.09.2024] 4 months ago:
The DC had upscaled art so the old game looked good enough on 1080p screens, plus a few new bits like character portraits.
This is a complete repainting & reanimating of the assets to 4K quality. Very different! Just compare screenshots and you’ll see.
- Comment on Doom and Doom II get a ‘definitive’ rerelease that’s packed with upgrades 4 months ago:
Not to mention native console ports with crossplay multiplayer
- Comment on Heroic Games Launcher v2.15 has expanded GOG support, EA games from Epic Store support 4 months ago:
Yeah I used to use GOG Galaxy as a meta launcher, but switched to Playnite and never looked back. Supports way more libraries, and has some fantastic metadata plugins like HowLongToBeat integration, so I can sift through my backlog based on time to finish.
- Comment on Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support 4 months ago:
There are prebuilt solutions in some common engines, and companies like Multiplay that will help with development and hosting, but ultimately it depends on the specific needs of each game.
What works well for one project might be overkill for another, so studios have to spend a lot of time figuring out their needs and building something bespoke for it.
- Comment on Do you prefer RTS or Turn based tactics 4 months ago:
Turn-based all the way for me. I need time to think about my moves!
I want to love RTS games, but I just don’t have the executive function skills needed to prioritise tasks and make decisions fast enough to do well. Single player against CPU is sometimes doable if there’s an easy mode or cheats, but online multiplayer is just impossible.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 5 months ago:
Newer, cheaper competitors like the FPGBC are finally muscling in on the Analogue Pocket’s market, so I guess they’ve decided to double down on being the ‘premium option’.
- Comment on Ubisoft’s apology for stolen imagery in Assassin’s Creed Shadows followed by further call for revision of Collector’s Edition artbook 5 months ago:
This has nothing to do with the subject of the post…
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 7 months ago:
Start paying attention to the top new & trending Spotify playlists in genres you’re interested in.
- Comment on Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio 7 months ago:
I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but I don’t see even a single mention of cloud gaming in the article?
- Comment on Favourite controllers 7 months ago:
Mostly agree, except I’ve never liked the dpad on the 360 controller. An XB1 or Series controller is a noticeable step up IMO!
- Comment on Devolver co-founder says large-scale game dev "crushing under its own weight a little bit" 7 months ago:
The return on indie games (if there even is a return) is already vanishingly small for 99% of releases - printing physical copies would just be pouring even money down the drain.
- Comment on Recommendations for Pacific Northwest Themed Games? 7 months ago:
Lake