absquatulate

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CONTROL Resonant released on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I did the same a while ago, and found that most early access indie titles tend to stay on Steam, few make the jump. Also you can forget about getting any modern EA, ActiBlizzard or Sony title as they won’t give up the blasted DRM. Heck, GOG had to even pull warcraft 1/2 from the store a while ago because Blizzard ended their agreement. Also modern Ubi titles tend to not make it because Ubi has a competing store AND uses Denuvo heavily. And speaking of denuvo, Frontier titles also use Denuvo so those are a lost cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Layoffs Hit Ghost Of Yotei Developer Sucker Punch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, if they didn’t build their studio in Layoff Valley, they would’ve been spared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Maybe gta6 presales tempered the fall?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t defending as much as offering a different perspective on the game in case someone sleeps on it. I mean, you say “mile wide and inch deep” and it is like that sometimes ( stellar anomalies are drop in, gawk, scan, screenshot and leave ). But they also say it’s “space trucking simulator”, and it is that too sometimes. And that it’s “just a wallpaper generator”, and that’s also true. But these add up. There’s also the “emerging gameplay” which fdev kept yapping on about - things like the fuel rats, hull seals, the dssa and star carrier networks, axi etc.

  I’m probabaly wrong thinking you haven’t played in a whole but you might wanna give it another chance. In their defense, fdev corrected the engineering rng bullshit and added a feature to shorten tedious in-system travel. They also reworked powerplay and added some colonization features as well as some squadron activities and operations if you’re on foot. On the other hand, some flaws persist: for one, it still does not respect your time, and it still does not explain much and requires third party tools and websites if you want to dive into anything.

  Also I’m genuinely curious what other sandboxes ( preferably space ) offer what elite does. I know x4 does some things much better but the flight model, controls and ui is atrocious every time I play. There’s also SpaceEngine, which kinda does what Elite does with exploration but with a lot less travel time and a lot less interactivity. I was rooting for Starfield for a while but the moment todd said “One. Thousand. Planets” I knew exploration would be shite. Any other recommendations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hate this reductionist attitude towards the game. I can promise you there are much more than 5 types of systems - there some 15 star classes, but then there are giants, sipergiants, you have planetoids, star orbiting othed stars, planets orbiting pulsars, moon-moons, sheperd moons, hot jupiters, gas giant pairs and many more variantions and that’s just orbital mechanics, before you even get planetside or before you see the dozens of space anomalies. Stations, yes, are about 5 main types, but there are settlements, outposts, the odd science station and megaship, tourist outposts etc. The game offers a diversity in exploration that i’ve yet to see NMS match, despite it having landable earth likes and alien life. And Starfield somehow can’t even match what’s in NMS, despite todd bragging about exploration being the main focus.

  Elite is a game about flying your spaceship in a space sandbox. If you like the flight model, the combat model, the symphony of sounds your ship makes you’re gonna love doing whatever with it.

  Now the game has plenty of flaws, and yes it is grindy ( or it used to be, as it’s been lessend lf late ) but anything is grindy if you’re just doing the same thing over and over. If you find you liked the game but got bored with it, maybe join a community, or join an outgoing expedition. Elite’s community is unmatched in its awesomeness.

  Apologies for the rant but I hate people besmirching the good name of Elite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upcoming Starfield mod introduces seamless planet landing - by Frederik Wessberg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was never too bothered by the landing animation ( or the multitude of loading screens for thag matter ) because I figured it’s a limitation of their engine so they won’t be able to fix it easily or at all - and besides other games have been getting away with it: Mass Effect, SW Outlaws etc.

  What irks me about this is that a modder has actually been able to do it, without access to their engine and doing it in their free time. It really shows how lazy bethesda has become and frankly don’t hold much hope for their future games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Smells like a (fairly generic) co-op shooter to me. It might end up being good, but with the state of blizzard and microsoft these days I’m not really excited for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people love to have a base they can revisit on a planet they liked. Some also build mining outposts for particular resources. Bases are also useful for inter-galaxy travel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is fairly shallow, yes, but it’s also open ended so you can set your own goals. It’s also pretty good for creative types, with building bases and ships and such. I have some 700h in it but spread over a few dozen saves, played during updates over the years, and very few go past the 30h mark. I also haven’t touched some gameplay elements so there’s that. But it’s a great game in shorter batches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like Valve themselves added their own charts to the beta client.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why they’re being upvoted but you’re right. I’ve been using nexus since the skyrim days and it’s always had tiered downloads, account requirement and limited mods/page. Just about the only changes I’ve seen are the “refreshed” layout and the abundance of ads (which I have admittedly used an adblock for)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I daresay the first two even worth a playthrough, they’re not that long. Okay, maybe the first is pretty janky and you may want to skip it, but a W2 playthrough is a dozen hours or so, and it holds up ok-ish for a 2011 game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered - Reveal Trailer | gamescom 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ice zone? If it’s the one I think and you still don’t enjoy it you may want to put it down. It’s not gonna get more enjoyable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered - Reveal Trailer | gamescom 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the game should be wide open for you now. This region is the meat and potatoes for the main quest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher III: Wild Hunt Remastered - Reveal Trailer | gamescom 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is notorious for having a slow, boring start and it’s a turn-off for many. Not sure why, but white orchard always feels like a slog. It usually clicks ( it might not for you, but it usually does ) 10-ish hours in, once you get deeper into velen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered Announced, Songs of the Past Gets First Look⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another next-gen witcher 3 update? Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but the last one was both underperforming and kind of underwhelming. Why not do a witcher 1 next gen? That game desperately neets a graphical and/or combat update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like for complete context there’s a miniseries, Alan Wake+DLCs, two comics, AW American Nightmare, Quantum Break and only then Control. I don’t really do horror so Control is gonna be the first and that’s that lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a recommended order to these games? I started Control and it just throws words at me like I’m supposed to know. Combat is decent tho, and while I hate navigating it, the old house has fantastic architecture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problems are a bit blown out of proportion but the overdue updates is a legit issue with GOG, particularly with early access or newer titles. I feel it’s a shared issue too - there’s definitely some inefficiencies in gog’s vetting process but I swear some devs are effectively ignoring their gog version of the game. And not even small teams. Games like robocop sometimes lag behind their steam counterparts. Either way, a nice list to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should judge him by what he does not what he says, but I get it. He speaks to us so we ignore potential issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the guy who zapped his dog? Why the fuck are people still giving him attention?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Halo 4. Never was big on Halo and hadn’t really played past Halo 1 until recently getting the MCC, and then I binged on all of them. The main series story was ok, despite feeling slightly more incoherent with each game. Even the spin-offs were ok games. Pushed thrpugh a and finished Halo 3 and thought it was a fairly satisfying ending to the plot, only to find that they’re reviving the chief. Again. With Cortana. Again. And guess what, she’s going rogue. Again. I just couldn’t do it, stopped then and there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I created "Slingshot Speeders" which is a free browser 2d top down racing game using realistic orbital mechanics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Today I make history! Me! Maneo Jung Esp-”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Listened to Schreier’s podcast and indeed, they explicitly avoided giving sales numbers, which to me is a bit strange. However in their earnings call they reported smth like 1 billion in revenue, and, while I wasn’t clear on whether it’s everything or just GTA6, that would still mean people placed anywhere between 5-14 million preorders. I mean to me it’s staggering why one would preorder a game without seeing a single non-cgi frame, no preorder bonus and no physical release, but to each their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Commandos 2/3 are exquisite for shooting nazis if you don’t mind the lack of first person perspective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clueless or not, zelnick is in the position to attempt to make this happen. Sony seems to be on board with them, and I bet microsoft is salivating at the thought as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funded by who? EA has tens of thousands of 100k/year employees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fiduciary responsibility or not, Sony is a big company with their fingers dipped in a lot of stuff, and decisions have a lot of inertia. The moment we learned they retooled some factories it was clear this has been in the making for a while and they will not back off. Sony (or at least the playstation division) is compromised and we need to focus on alternative solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly Forza Horizon 3. I can probably list a heap of issues I have with this franchise, but they’re good driving games and I arrived late to the party wishing I picked FH3 while it was still in its prime. That game has such a vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rarest Steam achievement you got?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently some Forza5 achievements is some unpopular gamemode that nobody really bothered with. And some rare Anno2205 ones which may or may not have been unlocked legitimately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly you might find it more accurate to go by gut feeling/trailer or word of mouth. Imdb ratings are good for weeding out the truly bad ones, but for the rest it’s fairly unreliable. You can also see rotten tomatoes, but these days it feels very astroturfed and I haven’t really matched my rating with theirs for all but a couple movies that I saw. Letterboxd is better for user reviews but it’s very hivemind-y because popular opinion prevails kn their ratings.