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- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 days ago:
The expectation that it was an open world modern style Fallout game does seem to be a theme among people who didn’t like it. That wasn’t helped by pre-release marketing that emphasized it came from the studio that made New Vegas (despite the writers and game leads all being different).
I went in to the game without expectations and found the structure of the game closer to a classic BioWare RPG. Rather than a single huge open world it was a series of curated hubs to travel between. At those hubs there was space to explore but it was more limited and curated than a full open world. The more curated approach meant that the game could be designed with certain builds in mind since players would interact with certain areas coming from known directions, allowing alternate routes or quest solutions for different builds to be placed.
Accepting it as a hub based RPG that leaned into a specialized build made the game click for me.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 days ago:
Setting aside prices, I’ve seen an unexpected amount of sourness directed at the first game. While the first game wasn’t a greatest of all time RPG and had flaws, I found it overall enjoyable enough and it was clearly a project with some passion that I didn’t regret sinking time into it.
I expect similar of the sequel, with hopefully improvements based on feedback from the first game. I plan to have fun with the game, and it is a bit tiring to see things like the pricing prompting people to badmouth the game itself when they are separate things.
Am I going to pay $80? No. No I’m not. This is a single player RPG though. There’s no FOMO of getting left behind on the multiplayer unlocks or the lore of a new season. It’s a singleplayer game. Put it on the wishlist and buy it on a sale. Simple as.
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- Comment on Atomic Heart 2 Announced At Summer Game Fest 1 week ago:
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - Official Teaser 1 week ago:
The last Black Ops I cared about was 2. I could almost feel the developers of that one screaming that they wanted to break out of the COD mold. It actually had a lot of cool, if underbaked ideas. There were the sidemissions where you commanded an NPC squad ala Brothers In Arms, there were the pre-mission loadouts where after beating a mission set in the past you could go back and load up with future guns, there were multiple endings driven by choices in the missions.
There was a lot of stuff going on in that game which if it had been given a longer development cycle than the COD treadmill, and more freedom to stray from COD mainstays could have been something interesting. All of the above features could have really been pushed and refined beyond the small implimentation they ended up as. BO2 also tied the setting back to the cold war era roots, which makes it far more interesting that the pure cutout angular girder future design that is just the most generic looking thing ever. Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare was forgotten for a reason and it’s disappointing that Black Ops ended up eating all its aesthetics.
None of this matter of course, since no matter how many story trailers they release or how much people like me talk about what could make single player good, in the end the series is kept alive by tweaked out multiplayer addicts so I suppose it is all just a waste of time to think about.
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- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘S.W.A.T.’ Spinoff Planned By Sony With Shemar Moore Set To Reprise His Role As Hondo 4 weeks ago:
I tried watching SWAT and found it tiring, since almost every episode ended in some kind of action set piece takedown. Done on a TV budget, those setpieces tended to be underwhelming. The show being in a theoretically realistic setting started to clash with the team getting in so many high profile gunfights.
I just don’t think the formula exactly works. There’s two directions it could go to be great. One, turn it into The Shield with some quality drama and running plots with heavy themes. Two, turn the city into a Robocop/Predator 2 type over the top hellscape with absurd overarmed gangs of cackling thugs roaming the streets.
I doubt the show runners are brave enough or interested enough to do either.
- Comment on Is andor still worth watching if I've never seen anything else Star Wars? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s probably an even more interesting experience going in blind to the universe because you have no idea which characters are safe.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 4 weeks ago:
The Vice President’s brother!
It gets comical how the characters say that phrase so much instead of using his name, for audience benefit.
I appreciate each season changing things up with a different central conceit. As absurd as the Central American super prison and spy craft seasons were at least the show kept changing instead of spinning its wheels.
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 4 weeks ago:
I am asking, sincerely, what they see in it and how they don’t get distracted by the gravely, old sounding voices. It is difficult to find these people.
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 4 weeks ago:
I suppose there is a business argument to be made, but I’m more curious about the audience perspective. Who are these 2 million viewers? What do they like about the show? Do many of them actually even care and rewatch new episodes or is it just background noise?
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think this comic exactly applies; I’m not commenting about people not knowing some bit of trivia. Even if you didn’t grow up with the classic Simpsons, I don’t know how you can’t notice how old and stiff all the main cast sound. Marge sounds older than the voice acting for her mother in classic episodes.
- Comment on 'The Simpsons' announces new Milhouse voice actor following Pamela Hayden's exit 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know who is still watching new episodes. Obviously someone, because the show keeps going, but I just don’t get it. Occasionally I see some youtuber say “Actually the show is good again.” and I check it out and never even get to thinking about the plot because all the voice acting is like a punch in the face. All the characters either sound distractingly old with their original voice actors or they sound totally wrong with new ones.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 4 weeks ago:
I actually think season 2 of Prison Break was a perfectly natural and well done (for the intended tone) continuation of the story. I know people snarkily point out the title doesn’t strictly apply anymore, but I think convicts on the run from a manhunt fits. The show was from the beginning always a political conspiracy thrilled baked inside of a prison story anyway.
The following seasons get increasingly absurd, but they are enjoyable in a silly way.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 4 weeks ago:
Whole season 2 of The Mandalorian had the distinct flavor of introducing executive producer mandated spin-off hooks, I still found it quite good overall. The finale was the perfect ending to the Mando and child storyline.
The perfect ending. We didn’t need anymore after that ending.
Everything Mando related after that has gone totally off the rails by undoing that ending, and the show has become a parody of itself.
- Comment on First Look at the 'King of the Hill' Reboot Reunites Hank and the Gang 4 weeks ago:
With carter having been out of the WH for decades at that point, I didn’t consider him a “current” political figure. My point, the forest through the trees, is that KOTH tended to shy away from up to the minute real world political specifics, and instead went for wider cultural issues. Doing an episode revolving around a current hot issue is more South Park’s game.
- Comment on If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built? 4 weeks ago:
People are giving answers to your specific hypothetical, but on a higher level, the answer is simple. The government likes having more money. Once a tax is in place, it becomes the new normal. It can be like pulling teeth to make a government roll back a tax. Groups in my local area have tried several times to roll back a specific tax where a government spokesperson has even said the tax is no longer funding the original purpose, but removing the tax would now affect the overall budget. That has become the reason they refuse to remove it, and because neither party cares much about removing it, there’s no leverage by the voters who care about it.
- Comment on First Look at the 'King of the Hill' Reboot Reunites Hank and the Gang 4 weeks ago:
In the same way the original show intentionally avoided addressing 9/11, Iraq, or the Bush presidency I hope the revival has the sense to focus on the local lives of the characters instead of Trump.
The closest the original ever got to specific high level politics was the episode with then Governor Bush where Hank was rattled by his handshake rather than any comment on policy by the show.
- Comment on Rick and Morty | Season 8 Official Trailer #2 | Adult Swim 4 weeks ago:
I think around season 3-4 the writing on the show got high on its own supply, as it were. The dramatic, maudlin moments that felt like the writers really thinking it was the peak of writing were just so overwrought to me. The show has gotten away from that, and by season 6 and 7 all the interpersonal drama and depressing tendencies of the main cast are pretty much gone. The show still has dark premises and lots of over the top moments, but it has stopped lingering on “deep” moments. I think it is much better for it. There is a new main cast character which works for the better, and the rest of the family integrates into the adventures more.
- Comment on First Look at the 'King of the Hill' Reboot Reunites Hank and the Gang 4 weeks ago:
Seeing all of that “2020s stuff” in the poster is giving me really bad vibes. It gives me the same feeling as the Futurama cryptocurrency episode, where the commentary was late to the punch and delivered by writers either out of step with the subject or with the original show. I know KOTH was a premise about an old fashioned guy dealing with encroaching modern times, but it was written genuinely. This worries me that will just be people trying to aggressively recreate that by slapping the most bleeding edge topics into it.
- Comment on What are some of the worst acted main or supporting characters in a TV series you've watched? 4 weeks ago:
I gotta go with my man Ice-T on Law & Order: SVU. While the writing does him no favors in making his character seem slow on the uptake, his acting usually consists of loudly talking in a monotone that feels like it was too loudly mixed in ADR even though it’s not.
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- Comment on If I cut up pictures to arrange things in a way that when traced over create something "new," is that a copyright violation? 5 weeks ago:
The OP is asking about using portions of copy written works.
- Comment on If I cut up pictures to arrange things in a way that when traced over create something "new," is that a copyright violation? 5 weeks ago:
From what I have gather of the Lemmy zeitgeist, intellectual property doesn’t exist except if AI uses it.
- Comment on If I cut up pictures to arrange things in a way that when traced over create something "new," is that a copyright violation? 5 weeks ago:
you can in some situations argue that the way you infringed on their copyright should be allowed
That would be an argument made in court, pursuant to the balancing test. Thats how fair use is determined.
- Comment on If I cut up pictures to arrange things in a way that when traced over create something "new," is that a copyright violation? 5 weeks ago:
People can give you their best guesses, but without a court case and a ruling it is impossible to say what the answer will be.
My guess, for US law, would be based of the four factor balancing test used in determining fair use. The four factors are the nature of the use, the nature of the copyrighted material, the amount of the copyrighted material used, and the effect of the use on the value of the material.
If you are using the copyrighted works for a non-profit purpose that helps, if you are remixing them that helps, if you are using works that are not violating right of first publishing that helps.
Importantly copyright does not have to be enforced by the holder for them to retain full legal protection. What that means is even if the holder somehow became aware (which honestly is pretty doubtful), they can simply choose not to pursue the matter. The resources that could go into pursuing a copyright case are probably going to be a lot more than any gain they’d get.
The TLDR is yeah sure, it’s probably fine. If you somehow got the evil eye on you, the first thing you’d get would be a C&D letter anyway.
- Comment on Anon is grateful for the Punisher 5 weeks ago:
Tom Jane in the lead. Okayish action movie, not really a proper Punisher movie. I reccomend instead watching Stander with Tom Jane which is a much more interesting movie.
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 1 month ago:
In that scene the T-Rex is trying to flush out people which it knows are hiding somewhere as well.
