absquatulate
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- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about who wants it. People are already in posesssion of this device. And a lot more are buying them - the number of windows pc users has been plummeting lately, and it’s not in favour of linux but mobile os’es. So if you already posses the device ( walled garden or not ) why not use it as a handheld.
Problem is this whole article reads like an ad:
In a surprisingly short amount of time, this project has gone from a curiosity commented on in social media to the bleeding edge of the entire conversation. They move fast. They don’t workshop; they ship. The attitude is less “what if” and more “here.”
Gimme a break with all this glazing.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 2 weeks ago:
I was hoping they leave it at 30$ so that more people see the model for unsustainable bullshit that it is and it finally dies. They bought it a lifeline, but in the end it’s still bad for the end user, bad for devs, and seeing as how they also pulled CoD it was even bad for microsoft.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 2 weeks ago:
And miss grabbing that juicy data of yours? Thats like leaving money on the table! Think of the shareholders, man.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 2 weeks ago:
Not sure why you’re being downvoted for asking a legit question, but I believe the hate comes exactly from the fact that its annoying, unnecessary and a drain on resources. And even if others are worse we shouldn’t be normalizing it. Personally I avoid it also because until recently it was borderline uncrackable and thus prevented me from keeping my games through posterity.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 3 weeks ago:
Word of mouth my ass. Heard absolutely nothing about this game for years and then suddenly a few weeks before launch ( and even now) reddit and youtube absolutely exploded in “can’t wait for this!” and “this is the greatest game ever!” posts. To me that smells of astroturfing. I don’t doubt it’s a good game and might pick it up when/if they drop denuvo, but it was definitely not “organic”
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
Lol, I know what you mean but take a look at that top 20 list and notice there’s only like 2-3 games that aren’t generic sludge pushed by shit companies ran by sociopaths.
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I believe it was xenia. Iirc I did have to.create an accout, but in the emulator, and then it.acted as a.wrapper and logged me in automatically when running the game. Sadly I was not offline to test if it also works like that, but I imagine it does, since it was a “fake” and not actually connected to xbox.
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 3 weeks ago:
True but for FH3+ they were further integrated with the Xbox login and I don’t think you can try them without an actjal account and login. I did emulate FH1+2 and they were perfectly playable as SP games
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t recall if burnout had cop chases, but if it did, note that FH games are very milquetoast, in that they try to not feature anything resembling illegal driving. If you fancy those, The Crew 1 (or 2) might be more your thing. Otherwise, FH is imo the single best non-sim open world racing game. It gives you a huge playground to dick around in, a crapton of cars, allows tuning, looks great (even on lower end hardware), sounds great and features arcadey but still somewhat complex handling. Its biggest sins are the fact that it requires servers, so it’s not exacly future-proof, it features some FOMO stuff and wheelspin gambling mechanics which are bound to get worse in FH6 (nothing ptw though), and it’s tied in to a microsoft account.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, no amount of mods will fix some of Starfield’s faults, but it foes have some of that old bethesda coziness, so it’s not all bad.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 3 weeks ago:
Omg me too. Wasn’t there a marketing term for person that buys only failed products and based on them liking a product they could predict whether it would fail or not? Always thought I’m one of those. Mafia 3 - loved it, but hated mafia 2. Love AC 1,3 and syndicate but didn’t vibe with 2 or black flag. Loved Borderlands 1, hated all the sequels etc. Still, I feel the hate against starfield is way overblown.
- Comment on What to Play (and Watch) While Waiting for Forza Horizon 6 (my article!) 4 weeks ago:
I’ll add in Tokyo Xtreme Racer to your list. While it’s limited to Tokyo’s expressways, it does those very very well. And it features some delightful japanese jank too. Top notch game.
Also worth mentioning are the touge battles in the original GRID. Though, dissapointingly, I couldn’t find this one for sale anywhere - you might have to source it on the seven seas.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
This would make sense if they hadn’t increased the price of their hardware twice in one year. To me it just looks like they started behaving like a monopoly (because they can, as xbox is in the shitter)
- Comment on Starfield - Free Lanes Update 5 weeks ago:
It’s alright. Spent a few hundred hours it when it launched but haven’t picked it up since. It has it’s moments and it has the bethesda rpg dna ( for better or worse ) so if you like bethesda games there’s a chance you’ll like it. In short: Gunplay and shipbuilding are pretty great imo. Questlines - some good some bad, but most are very milquetoast. Base building is meh. Exploration kinda blows and all the planetside POIs are extremely repetitive.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 audio language question [minor spoiler??] 5 weeks ago:
Hey Peko! No option to change that prepper’s language Peko!
- Comment on Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed 5 weeks ago:
That would explain the 1000 people laid off. They could be preparimg the twrrain. Gotta keep the mouse growing amirite?
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 1 month ago:
300 million would kinda make sense, as it would mean an avg of 60k/year for a five year production on a 1000 people team. But how many AAA games are actually that large?
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 looks amazing in the 21:9 ultra-wide 1 month ago:
It helps a lot, since there’s A LOT of context to it. They also have a “story so far” option in the DS2 menu but I haven’t tried it
- Comment on Why do people are so fine with Warframe monetization methods? 1 month ago:
I was in your shoes just today lol. I’ve got about 50h of gametime and bought a platinum pack because I heard 75% off is fairly rare. I don’t really feel guilty about it - even if I stop playing today, it was well worth it.
The monetization doesn’t feel too aggressive, it seems fairly balanced, but it does have some annoyances. Not sure how similar mmos behave, but the amount of weeklies, dailies, battle passes and other mild fomo does get old. Servers need to be kept up, and they’ve been successful at the pay-for-convenience model for the past 13 years, so they must be doing something right.
Luckily the gameplay and the overall loop is fun, the pve is pretty good and the community seems to be one of the nicer ones.
You might feel better if you’d take off the completionist glasses. The amount of grinding and farming to get everything without paying is indeed annoying but again, it’s a 13yo game, the backlog adds up.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I friggin loved Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture! It was like listening to those dramas on british radio, but set at your own pace. And it had the most excellent 80s UK vibe.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 month ago:
The amount of glazing they do, holy fuck. They had me too for a minute before I started wondering if this is just an april fools joke
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 month 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 months ago:
One can only hope
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Do you have a source for that? I’m curious about what they said
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 4 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.
