absquatulate
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- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day 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 days 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.... 3 days 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] 6 days 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] 6 days ago:
Isn’t this the guy who zapped his dog? Why the fuck are people still giving him attention?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 1 week ago:
“Today I make history! Me! Maneo Jung Esp-”
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 5 weeks ago:
The sooner people stop hanging on to “physical” ( and move on to more productive conservation initiatives ) the better. Sony’s not likely to budge and frankly the medium has been dying for a while. Now DRM-free digital like gog or pirate copies still has a future I think, but relegated to a niche. I’ve been trying to picture the future landscape of gaming and I fear it’s mostly “forever games”. Both sony and ms have been pushing for live service/mobile crap ( and they still have the power to do it ) because a single mediocre skin or season pass can be as lucrative as a whole game. No need to innovate when you can make billions on slop. Take Candy Crush - it’s what, 20 years old and still brings in billions. Same for roblox, despite being known as a pedo-heaven. Games as an artform looks like an increasingly niche hobby for hipster/aging gamers, because the vast majority of people just love their slop.
It’s now time move on - hoard, archive and maybe still try and push for decent consumer protections.
- Comment on "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue": Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken 1 month ago:
It is already. Notice how all buttons on storefronts say “get” or “grab” or others
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 month ago:
We were barely 1.3 million that bothered to sign a petition, and you want to convince people to give up games from 95% of publishers? Good luck.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
Funny you should create this. I made an identical spec for my potential upgrade from a 2019 intel pc to a 2021 amd pc in order to keep the ram. Looks like i’ll have to ride these memory sticks until the wheels fall off.
- Comment on Open-World Games with Drivable Motorbikes? 1 month ago:
For a while last year you could still get it for a symbolic 1€ iirc. And there is always the seven seas option.
- Comment on Open-World Games with Drivable Motorbikes? 1 month ago:
The original Crew. You can get it for cheap/free, slap on the TCU patch and drive motorbikes accross a spectacularly large continental US.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 months ago:
Goddamn It
- Comment on September 2026 just became the busiest month in years for millions of gamers 2 months ago:
Most seem to be PS5 games. Don’t have one so meh for me. But I will say this: between all these autumn releases and GTA6 in november, PS people will be eating well this winter.
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 2 months ago:
I do not. This rethoric makes it sound like gamers share the fault for the industry being shit, and the fault lies solely with the publishers and sometimes devs. I do agree with “no crunch and decent wages” bit - if it takes a decade to make it and costs a lot fine, so be it, take your time, but I want and I like options: shorter games, longer games, pretty ones, 8-bit one, realistic graphics, story or not is of no concern, I want them all. What I don’t want is this late stage capitalism infinite growth bullshit which stifles studios from innovating, keeps franchises going forever on mediocre entries and closes studios for short term gains.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 months ago:
With the switch. Or the asus rog handheld, which as of now is only what, 50€ more? ( wonder how much that one will last tho )
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 months ago:
Holy fuck. How is it even competitive at this price?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 months ago:
FH4 and FH5 premium did drop by half after about 3y ( bought FH4 premium for 35€ and FH5 premium was 45€, but bought it bundled win FM for 60 so I suppose 30€ each ). So there is a chance - problem is they started selling new cars as extra car packs and FH5 had like twelve. So if you wanted the “complete” premium it would’ve been at least 70€.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 months ago:
“If all gamers stood together against this the n we could’ve had the game(s) 4 days early” is fairly wild speculation, but I agree that between VIP packs, wheelspins and season passes FH does have its share of dark patterns.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 months ago:
I guarantee the ones who paid 2x the value of the base game just for those 4 early days is a minority. Most people paid to get “the whole package” with dlc, car pass and whatnot, the 4 early days being just a welcome perk. Sadly the early access bullshit is unlikely to go away - streamers will always want a head start and microsoft will happily charge them for it.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release 3 months ago:
Does this impact the game much? It (sadly) requires xbox login, so I don’t imagine it will be playable for long. In fact they’ve already started banning accounts for this.