absquatulate

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition is out now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. The original was (to me) the highlight of many, many lan-parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I see it didn’t take long for polygon to turn into a clickbait factory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For children’s safety, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Third separate article about this game in a week? I see we’re in the hyping up phase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a yer now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like they got somethin to say

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a few and they’re good keyboards, especially at that price point. Keychron went from producing niche lower-quality stuff to broad range and improved quality and (from what i hear) back to unreliable products for the past year or so due to cost cutting. So look for a bit older models, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so damn good. I must’ve replayed it like six times since it came to pc. The story, the voice acting, characters, graphics, everything is absolutely top notch. Except for the goddamn controls (and the menus). I’m not sure if it’s due to it being a console-first game or just a rockstar thing as rdr1’s were also crap, but holy shit they’re infuriating. The amount of times I shot people by mistake, lost missions because of a wrong key, or just plain ended up with an unpayable bounty is too damn high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer wants to build 60 apartments and 24 parking spots. New York politician tells him to build less housing and more parking spots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  During Tuesday’s City Council Land Use hearing, Vernikov signaled her support for the revised rezoning proposal at 2501 Coney Island Ave. — one that will allow only four stories comprising 27 units and 35 parking spaces, down from the original proposal of 11 stories with 60 units and 24 parking spaces.

  Car-brains aside, this smells like corruption. 7 floors of an avg of 5 apartments per floor amount to only 4 parking spots per the same floor? Wtf are they parking in those spots? Something doesn’t add up. Over here we had the reverse problem: greedy developers signed for plans with x apts and y parking spots, only to convert the lower floor garages into extra minuscule apts after construction started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s TakeTwo - you know they did. Bioshock was a complete arc and died with Irrational. Whatever this zombie project is, I expect it won’t live up to the name, but they’ll slap it on anyway because goshdarnit executives just can’t help milking a franchise dry instead of innovating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still keep a copy of a pre-EA version on my pc, as that was the cleanest one. I played pvz2 for a bit and don’t remember it being complete shite, but it was absolutely riddled with mtx. As far as the other pvz games, holy hell what a shitshow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love how fast they all dial back after seeing the reaction on nintendo’s 80$ approach. But seriously EA I don’t care for those extra 10 bucks upfronf if your games are still the mtx and gambling infested shit they currently are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a PC player I wholeheartedly welcome the demise of exclusives, but are the strategies toward them really changing? Near as I can tell it’s only microsoft that’s pivoting, and that’s probably because they have to. Sony is sticking to their strategy of the past few years of delayed PC releases, and nintendo does what nintendo does - keep everything in-house and sue everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re arresting 80 year olds in their home for protesting you are NOT the good guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. They’re thw only games I’ve actually bought from them.

  Not sure how they haven’t fucked it up so far - maybe because anno is a small franchise in the grand scheme of things, and has a cult following particularly in Germany, so apaet from online requirement and denuvo added to the latest entries, they let it be. I’m actually more amazed that bluebyte/ubi mainz haven’t butchered the anno games like they did with the settlers series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ffs bioware, your last two “story-heavy” games were both IP “extensions” and they were both pretty meh. Cook up something new for once, see where that goes. Because I guarantee that yet another friggin attempt at mass effect will not go well. The story was cool, it ended and it is now done. Leave a good thing be and think of something new ffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, according to Ubisoft, they allow for a more unique experience by letting players personalize their characters or speed up progression. In other words, it makes things more fun… allegedly.

  Ah, so he didn’t actually say that, then? Tired of these mf clickbaits man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama Proxima⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tamriel! Or at least Cyrodiil+Elsweyr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #63 - The Alters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is a great game. The story’s imaginative, the ambiance is jawdropping. And that sound design, man. It’s also fairly well polished. Played it for a good while, until I could not be bothered to manage people anymore. It felt too much like a job lol. The UI is a bit clumsy too I felt, but it’s awesome that the grindy bits are sped up and the game doesn’t waste your time, I appreciated that. However I hated the lack of manual saving, especially in a game that sometimes crashes at inopportune moments. It also does this thing where it appears open, but it punishes you if you don’t do things the way it wants you to. I’m in the “it’s a difficult game” camp, but there’s plenty of people who feel it’s an easy game just because they did some actions differently, or timed some events at different times. Still, it’s definitely worth a play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Been following the guy on youtube for a while and I love the initiative, but damn, I find it hard to justify 10€ a month for just a single dedicated gaming publication. I expect I will support them every few months or so, but yeah, to me 100€/year seems too hefty.

  Also what worries me is that this model has been tried, before the days of ad-supported web, and didn’t fare so well, so why would it work now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just add the application to the firewall block list. That’s how I’ve been running most games these days, pirated or not. Sighs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aah, the Guardia di Finanza, the one police organ italians actually respect and fear ( or so I hear ).

  The charges don’t make sense though. Maybe by reviewing “pirate” material he was indirectly bypassing paying the italian state its due and thus they jumped him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have they finally had the revelation that the series has been shovelware for the past decade or more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, juat read that. Man, what a fuckin’ shitshow is SN2 gonna be.

  Fuck krafton

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik krafton have been insisting for a while that the game is not ready. Founders disagreed and they were ousted. But seeing as the previous two games were in pretty dire state when they released into EA, I wouldn’t really trust the founder’s word on it. The whole “squirreling out of paying them 250 million” thing seems like speculation, but what do I know.

  Besides, the OP is just ragebainting, seeing as we know exactly fuckall about the game’s actual state at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus tapdancing christ is the subnautica fanbase rabid. How about we actually wait and see how the game turns out before we crucify everyone?

  I do agree that you should definitely not pre-order it and remove it from your wishlist. But you should’ve done that already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smaller rally/racing games I recommend you try!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can add a few mentions to your list:

  Tokyo Xtreme Racer - street racing game set on Tokyo’s highway network and featuring a lor of JDM cars. Sim-cadey physics, great progression loop, nice graphics.

  Motortown - not a racing game as such, more of a “drive anything” game that also festures some racing, among cargo hauling, buses, vehicle rescuing and others. Still in early acces but amazingly complete for an early access game. The developer is also very active and open to feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IANAL but wasn’t that text just some “standard” legalese relating to the way they license software? I know it’s cool to pick on ubisoft for being a shit company, but BG3 had a similar requirement in the game’s EULA: Image

  Same for GOG iirc, but I’m too lazy to search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just trying to scan my TPS reports⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is the right approach, especially with the subnautica community that seems to be really thirsty for drama. I was going to wait for reviews anyway before getting it, so this dev request is probably for the preordering folk.

  That said, my money’s on “subnautica 2 will disappoint regardless” because it continues to build on the original instead of being new. What made the original so good was the novelty of that format, combined with the horror aspect and the fresh lore. Now, after two games set in the same world and the same general flow, people know what to expect so they will be extra picky about s2 and I wager they will end up underwhelmed. I’m still hoping s2 will at least be extra pretty because goddamn if I didn’t love the environments of the first two games.