absquatulate
@absquatulate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 hour ago:
Getting real tired of this bullshit activism, man. I get it, we all hate LLMs but it’s literally one or two burnt out guys writing this in their spare time. If people really want to do something useful at least go and review the code and then you can shit on his work for legitimate reasons if you really do find it’s bad. Stop demonizing open source devs ffs.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 weeks ago:
One can only hope
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 weeks ago:
Some victory. PC sales were plummeting in favour of mobile and now component prices. Console space is now done with any semblance of competition - Sony is now a monopoly and will start behaving as such. And xbox’s portfolio of many many IPs will go straight to the bin.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
They’re gonna fuck up Forza Horizon 6 and Fable, aren’t they? I was cautiosly optimistic about those two under Phil, but I’m pretty sure they’re doomed now
- Comment on Coastal road swept away into the sea in Devon 5 weeks ago:
Hm, doesn’t look much worse than some of the B roads i’ve driven there
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer 1 month ago:
Pricing on this is something else, man. 70€ base, 100€ deluxe, 120€ for the premium. And they moved most of content into the premium tier. The only difference btw the 70 and the 100 € versions is the car pass ( which could act as a huge car pack as in the past they had a couple dozen cars ). Also the premium tier does not include future car packs ( which may be fair but i have a feeling they will nickle and dime us for cars already present in FH4/FH5 ). There’s a good chance the game will be good, but you can also bet MS will squeeze us dry.
- Comment on Xbox Developer_Direct Returns January 22: Fable, Forza Horizon 6, and Beast of Reincarnation to be shown 2 months ago:
Do you have a source for that? I’m curious about what they said
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 months ago:
It’s definitely flawed. But I found it to be original if nothing else and a breath of fresh air in a world of extraction shooters, rogueliles and soulslikes. Rather reminded me of Death Stranding when it came out.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 2 months ago:
Damn, they did my boy The Alters dirty. Not a single win.
Also, Arc Raiders most innovative? Isn’t it just an (admittedly improved) extraction shooter?
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 2 months ago:
I mean, the historical and geographical context of the newer entries definitely adds to the satire, but GTA2 wasn’t a bad game at all. I def liked it more 1 and 3 at the time. Interesting that the dev team wasn’t fond of it.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 months ago:
I do too, but imagine the drop in donations/subscriptions if they were to pull a stunt like the one with steam/mastercard and porn games. Or if they were to not want to remove a game that features, say, the gaza genocide but on israel’s side, or some other extremely divisive issue.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 months ago:
I’m having mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it could be better for gog to break away from a stock listed company that has proved on occasion it still behaves like a stock listed company and likely still do in the future. Also it seems like they’re keeping their values.
On the other, gog has been fairly volatile and hasn’t always returned a profit. Without a big company behind, it may be just a few years of unprofitability away from from going under. More worryingly though, it doesn’t have the same staying power as steam or its infinite funds, so it might get harder to uphold those “no drm, independence” etc policies.
Time will tell I guess
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 2 months ago:
I agree but these are usually supposed to be the first line when games/news hit the web, and sometimes it appears that the only decent journalist left is Schreier, with everyone else seemingly following him and his direction. Paid coverage definitely accounts for some of the overlap, but like you said it’s probably just reviewers aiming for a greater audience.
There’s always steam curated lists for the rest, I suppose.
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 2 months ago:
The one surprising bit about this is the lack of E33. I know it’s not Jason’s fault but it irks me that every game news outlet repeatedly highlights the same dozen games or so. I’m following four of them and 80% of coverage and reviews is for the same games over and over again. Only digitalfoundry strays off on occasion, and that’s because they aim towards a more technical discussion. There were literally 19000 games released on steam alone last year, and everyone seems to only cover E33, BG3, Blue Prince, Hollow Knight, Elden Ring, CoD etc. I have to subscribe to obscure subs or youtube channels just to get coverage of the occasional forgotten indie.
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 2 months ago:
Pacific Drive?
It’s a great game with a great story ( that I kinda rushed through because I couldn’t enjoy the constant tension - instead the couple playthroughs I watched were very enjoyable )
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 3 months ago:
Could be. I’m not seeing any particularly rare pieces other that the two blue printed canopies under the saucer. However, odds are it’ll be way more expensive to source and ship the parts unless you already have a lot of them.
- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 4 months ago:
In increasing order of casualness I recommend: Elite Dangerous->X3/X4->Everspace/Everspace 2-> No Man’s Sky.
Everspace 2 is a spiritual successor to Freelancer, so probably your best bet ( Everspace 1 is more roguelike, but holds up nicely ). Speaking of Freelancer, I hear the game is still alive and has a vibrant community around it.
If you ever want to revisit Elite shoot me a message, I may help you with starting up. They say Elite doesn’t have a learning curve but a cliff, so help is usually needed. Luckily the game has the most welcoming and helpful community I’ve seen in/around a video game.
Other than these, there’s Chorus, but I haven’t played that one and it seems more story driven than open-ended.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 4 months ago:
For those unaware, there is also Heroes of Science and Fiction, which is essentially homm 3 with a fresh scifi coat of paint and lots of qol stuff. It’s in early access but man it catches the vibe so well.
- Comment on Home secretary calls Gaza protests in wake of Manchester attack ‘un-British’ 5 months ago:
Ah yes, the british approach: “We understand that people dying is horrific and painful but there’s no need to make such a fuss about it”
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version 5 months ago:
Imagine paying to have your data harvested by a social network full of bots
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed 5 months ago:
Seeing the series’ progression so far, I just know microsoft will stuff it full of FOMO crap and monetization, as well as a lot of AI generated stuff ( which, admittedly, may not be all bad ). But still, I’m fairly excited for it.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I loved him in mafia, he had such a recognizable voice. Almost bought Mindseye because of him lol.
But seriously, I wish him luck and hope he doesn’t give up on games.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 5 months ago:
I mean, I get being reluctant to donate or not being able to, but using a software someone worked to develop and a platform someone pays to maintain AND acting high and mighty about it (on that very platform) is rich. The entitlement on some of you people is staggering, I swear.
- Comment on Starmer: Leaving ECHR puts UK ‘on par with Russia and Belarus’ 6 months ago:
You are running a police state that monitors its citizens and arrests protesters. So yes, from a human rights perspective, dropping the ECHR is probably the last step required to become just like the ruskis.
- Comment on Road Kings - Reveal Trailer 6 months ago:
Finally, some competition for scs. From the trailer it doesn’t look like it will be a sim tho. Maybe a story driven teucking game?
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition is out now 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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' 6 months 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 6 months ago:
Like they got somethin to say