absquatulate
@absquatulate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 4 weeks ago:
Jesus christ. People need to realize that this is a scam. No video game is worth thousands of your dollars, especially a decade old game still in alpha.
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 2 months ago:
These days I play a lot of Forza Horizon 4 and not much else, since I haven’t found anything else to really click. There’s a couple good ones out there though: Motor Town is pretty good as a car game in general, not just racing. Also BeamNg if you just wanna fuck around with the physics engine. Ooh, and Dakar Desert Rally is a fantastic rally raid simulation (albeit somewhat flawed)
Otherwise I would give some classics a shout: GRID the original, still holds up today. Also NFS Porsche, which was so ahead of its time it’s ridiculous.
- Comment on After 350,000 signatures in an EU consumer rights campaign, Ubisoft is adding offline modes to The Crew games - but not the now-dead original 2 months ago:
Lol, getting downvoted into oblivion because you offered a different viewpoint. Classic lemmy.
The thing is, nobody really expects the companies to keep the servers online forever ( at least according to the petition ), that would unreasonable. People ask that online games are either patched to allow offline play after delisting, or provide protocol information to allow non-official servers, again after delisting.
Normally I’d agree with you, it’s the developer’s prerogative to schedule games in order to maximize their profits, but for the past decade there have been A LOT of online only games, even single player games that require a connection just because ( see the recent forza motorsport, or simcity 2013 ). There’s a clear tendency in the industry to force this as a form of planned obsolescence and that needs to stop.
And yes, I realize that even if the petition materializes into something the developers will find a loophole. This is why I’d advocate more towards educating gamers to recognize and avoid abusive patterns. See the crew 2, where even if they basically give it away now, it’s still chock full of mtx and dark patterns, and a lot of games that are designed to be online only have those patterns ( I for one learned to recognize these and avoid the game and/or the developerr altogether ).
- Comment on After 350,000 signatures in an EU consumer rights campaign, Ubisoft is adding offline modes to The Crew games - but not the now-dead original 2 months ago:
Sadly I doubt this was thanks to the petition itself. More likely ubi is trying to claw back some goodwill ( and make some cash too, by promoting the title that was full of mtx instead of the retired one ). They’ve also done this offline fix thing in the past ( with anno 2070 for one ) and also after a healthy dose of player backlash.
- Comment on Day 55 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I haven’t played skyrim in years and I swear this screenshot is exactly how I remember it looking like.
Yeah, RDR2 is friggin gorgeous.
- Comment on "Quick" security check... I had to do 15 of these... 2 months ago:
Concidentally, I only saw these captchas from hell on sites that also have their own apps. I suspect they’re trying to force you to use the app instead of the browser.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws: Reviews are coming in 2 months ago:
Starfield was the same. Looked pretty meh, but almost all (initial) reviewers gave it high marks. It wasn’t until people started playing that the truthful reviews surfaced. Guessing either paid reviews, or reviewers having a skewed view of what makes a game great.
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era – Official Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Wow, it actually looks ok. Fuck, ubi, you better not screw this up!
- Comment on This Italian "newspaper" wanted to depict the "indian heritage" of an US candidate. Chennai, Cherokee, the same. 3 months ago:
You’re offended that a foreign xenophobic tabloid did not accurately depict her indian heritage in a goddamn caricature? Come on man, live and let live.
- Comment on TitanFall 2 at 3$ 3 months ago:
Is there a way to play this without installing EA spyware?
- Comment on Volt Recharge - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Omg a Revolt sequel! Please please please don’t fuck it up
- Comment on Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less 4 months ago:
That does sound like a pretty good deal. The thing is, it used to be a fantastic deal. And judging by the way they are acquiring multi billion studios and IPs left and right it’s clear as daylight that they want to monopolize the market and keep the subscription model for a long time, which means the deal will get ever worse. So yeah, this pricing change was definitely expected.
Didn’t mean to diminish your experience, sorry.
- Comment on Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Aniplex, and Pocketpair jointly establish Palworld Entertainment 4 months ago:
I’ll bet you 10 bucks sony will screw them over.
- Comment on Modern Warfare 3 disappointment has COD players hankering for the grand old days of Infinite Warfare 1 year ago:
Acti CEO reading this article: “so they want more lootboxes?! excellent!”
disclaimer: I haven’t played a CoD since maybe 4. Only read the odd review
- Comment on Modern Warfare 3 disappointment has COD players hankering for the grand old days of Infinite Warfare 1 year ago:
Wait, Infinite Warfare qualifies as “the grand old days”? Holy clickbait batman
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.02 now available 1 year ago:
They did completely rework a bunch of gameplay systems, so bugs were to be expected. I tried a 2.0 playthrough, and while bug-wise it felt like the 1.04 days ( the death-on-boarding-delamain bug being particularly infuriating ) the gameplay changes are certainly interesting. I’m still holding off on getting PL just yet, maybe wait for a discount.
- Comment on Starfield install size reveal; it is now preload 1 year ago:
and the Shattered Space Story Expansion (when it becomes available).
What is this fuckery? Unplayable day-1 DLC pre-installed and taking up space on the user’s machine? Jesus christ bethesda