MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Canon Connections: SNW 3x05 - Through the Lens of Time 9 hours ago:
Much like Rick Berman
- Comment on Anon is Banished 9 hours ago:
Doesn’t something similar to this happen in one of Jack Vance’s stories?
- Comment on Former BioWare exec producer says EA was pitched multiple times to remaster the first three Dragon Age games 1 day ago:
I can’t imagine a way of remaking DA:O for modern audiences without losing what made it special to begin with.
- Comment on Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK 1 week ago:
So is McDonald’s and their UK profit doubled in the last year, so sadly I don’t think BDS is having much of an effect.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x04 "A Space Adventure Hour" 1 week ago:
Directed by Frakes too!
- Comment on Anon earns achievements 2 weeks ago:
Speaking from experience: in many cases, they’re cliche because project managers, producers, and execs take over writing achievement names & descriptions instead of letting the writer(s) do it.
It’s happened on literally every game I’ve worked on.
- Comment on Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, he was treated poorly but the concern is understandable IMO
You can’t walk around in public with what looks a lot like a combat knife and then act surprised when the police show up.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sounds about right. 41% of game devs got laid off last year, and there have been more since.
Statistically, this is a terrible time to try and join the industry.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t about you, America.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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’ 1 month 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"? 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Because hours of play has no direct relationship with completion. Playing for 100+ hours doesn’t mean you’ve finished the game.
