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- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 days ago:
They’ll undoubtedly retain all of the people who came to play Dreck Aegis, after all it’s highly state of the art and highly replayable, like any Doom game.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 days ago:
How nice for Microsoft, I’m sure it’s a big success.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 days ago:
The reverse-Midas of Microsoft, whatever they buy turns to shit.
- Comment on New STALKER remasters launch to 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews 1 week ago:
Happy they didn’t fuck up the originals, but added these as separate titles. Fucking Sony recently pushed a rEmaSteREd Days Gone as a patch and it sucks, the version before looked great at 45 FPS on Steam Deck, this one is in the toilet for dubious gains. They certainly did it so that people who play the game on their ps5 pro don’t notice how much better the game looks and works on the pc.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 1 week ago:
Looks like complete ass, deflect the green is the stupidest idea in gaming in a long time and those dragon segments are just an insult. Also, I’m happy Bethesda saved time and CPU cycles not baking lighting, but it got offloaded to gamers’ computers for dubious benefit. I have eyes, I see how 2016 and Eternal look, please tell me how much of a graphic improvement the endless glitching fields of darkness are. I wouldn’t buy a game for more than 15€ if it’s top notch (patient gamer here), but I don’t see myself playing this ever, it just evokes a sadness. The story of Eternal (the only game of the recent trilogy I actually liked) was a huge Marvel-caliber turd and I skipped every cutscene, so I’m not expecting anything in that department.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 1 week ago:
Yeah, make me read through an investor-oriented powerpoint once, shame on you.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 1 week ago:
That’s what got me confused - why call it a trailer if there’s nothing new? Not even a UE5 remaster, those are all the rage now.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 1 week ago:
I genuinely don’t understand, is this a new edition and if so, what’s added? Or is it just a trailer apropos nothing, CDPRs “not without my anus” of the gaming news cycle?
- Comment on Obsidian’s Avowed 2025 Roadmap Includes New Abilities, Weapons, New Game Plus, And More 1 week ago:
Still 70€, call me when it’s 10 or less.
- Comment on A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath 1 week ago:
Who’ll now provide shit takes so divorced from public opinion?
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
While it has Denuvo it can get fucked, they’ll remove it in a few years, I’m a very patient gamer with a family group that has 1.5k games in library.
- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have the nerve to try to hack my device
their device. You own device, such as Steam Deck, you don’t have to hack, you can run anything on it however you like.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Are there any mods that rebalance difficulty to make it more challenging?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I hated it, barely pulled through. Great looking game with a wonderfully designed open world and it falls apart if you engage it with any planning. It should have been a linear game, it would waste less time, the only missions worth playing are in the main quest, all of the rest is flimsiest filler, a few dudes standing around waiting for something to happen that you can hack from a distance without them realizing what’s happening. It’s more padding than pudding and it’s way too easy once you level up a few times. Even the story is very uneven in quality across the game, there’s missions that deserve to be a novel, but many are just ridiculously cheap saturday morning cartoon-level trope deployments.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 4 weeks ago:
when it costs so much money.
What? Why should it? We married cheap, no rings or anything, it costs next to nothing.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 5 weeks ago:
Also Barotrauma
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 month ago:
Within an enthusiast bubble, PC handhelds are a big deal, but they do not exist in the same universe as Nintendo consoles.
I keep hearing this shit and it seems like stupid wishful thinking, because in a locked-down universe where Switch 2 is not a shitty proposition for way too much cash compared to getting a PC with 10k+ PC games from the get go and also emulating anything you wish because it’s your hardware and it’s just bits - in that universe, Polygon is a much needed pool of experts that people go to for advice instead of clicking on stupid ragebait titles telling them a log of shit is the new snickers.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 2 months ago:
Hardly ruin, you have to purposefully go find them gloating over Steam charts. But it’s too funny that people really have choice enough now in the good graphics segment that Ubisoft is sinking. It’s my fault, I cursed them when they left Steam for their 4-UAC-prompts-whenever-you-start PoS. They showed total contempt for their users with Breakpoint, tried an nft grift on the side, evolved all cosmetics to clown shoes level and totally failed to offer anything new. Where’s Reflextions? Stuff like Grow Up / Home, metroidvanias on UbiArt Framework? They have great 3D engines and can’t keep a team happy or unfired enough to have people that know how to use it and optimize a game and are able to take some risks with game design. It’s all either heavily monetized multiplayer dreck or incremental QoL features in ever larger and shallower sandboxes in one of few large franchise flavors. There’s not that much to discuss, woo bamboo cutting tech, a new coat of paint and some gimmicks. People claiming it’s failing because it’s either woke or culture appropriating are ascribing cultural import to a happy meal.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 2 months ago:
I was misinformed by an Azerbaijani home electronics swap meet board
- Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a yearlemmy.world ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 78 comments
- Comment on Dichen Lachman on ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale’s ‘Very Emotional’ Scene : ‘It Started to Just Feel So Real in That Moment’ 2 months ago:
No it didn’t, it continued to feel uninspired and maybe felt a little rushed. I am very sad their script turned out to be such pocket spaghetti
- Comment on rule 2 months ago:
This is a programmer who only learns the functions xe needs
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 2 months ago:
It’s pretty okay if you’re like me, i.e. have no needs above full hd res and can either take or leave rtx
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 2 months ago:
not everyone is able to nor should become an ambassador for their “group”.
it’s also not everyone’s responsibility
I’m not talking about moral duty or responsibility, I’m just saying the outcomes are better for the person doing the choosing if they engage with the world around them instead of shut it out.
you might find yourself laughing along with hurtful jokes when you don’t want to. Especially when it’s an old friend.
If it’s an old friend, then you especially need to make some effort, for your own sake if not theirs. People are using “nazi” and “bigot” as thought-terminating cliches, but in many cases you can have a normal conversation the person you’d call a nazi for their online output about things not related to your or their identity or politics. You can learn woodworking from a nazi and go on to make furniture hammer&sickle instead of a swastika. It’s an extreme example, perhaps, but in my view it’s also really extreme to peddle this extreme misanthropy as advice to people on the internet you don’t know about their friends you also don’t know. “Engage with them and try” seems to me like less of an error these days if we’re talking generalizations then “cut them off”.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 2 months ago:
cutting contact will help your mental health
I keep seeing this as self-help advice and it’s completely wrong in my opinion, both for a person in question and for all trans people around them. On societal level, if nobody engages one another things will just slide even worse. And on a personal level, you don’t always get to choose open-minded friends. If you just push everyone away waiting for more compatible people, you’ll be alone. Poptimism really oversells a strong individual standing alone in a world of bigots.
it also might teach your friend that those jokes hurt, and that her new choices have consequences.
A better way is to not cut the person out but explain it to them, over and over. You cut them out, the lesson they’ll probably learn is that they lost a friend to a biblical plague of gayness or something. Engaging is hard, but unless you try, you’re doing nothing.
- Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 2 months ago:
If you like RPGs, I highly recommend giving it a try.
At 15€ or less certainly, they can get fucked with 70€.
there’s no reason not to check it out!
I wouldn’t pay Microsoft for a subscription if it was the last way to play games left.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5: BioWare Doesn't 'Require Support From the Full Studio', EA Moves Some Staff to Other Teams 3 months ago:
Two was horrible, the end boss skeleton is the stupidest shit. I liked the first, endured the second to the end and never touched the third or Andromeda
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 4 months ago:
Emmerich and Zemeckis
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 4 months ago:
It’s not even Lionel Richie.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 4 months ago:
Did you just all-black-people-look-the-same yourself
