Aielman15
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- Comment on "It's Just Not As Much Fun For Me Anymore" - Warren Spector announces his retirement 1 day ago:
A huge and influential name in the gaming industry.
I recently had the opportunity and honor to talk to another name from my childhood (Martin Edmondson), and he told me the same thing: the gaming industry is too alien to him now than what he experienced a few decades ago. More complex, less wiggle room, a lot to take in account for even for smaller scope games.
- Comment on Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more.... 1 day ago:
To the people who want to buy a game on GoG that is included in the 2nd class citizen list, it’s worth messaging the game’s publisher. I did that when I wanted to buy I was a teenage exocolonist, and the publisher responded almost immediately, and in less than a week it was updated on the store to the same version as Steam.
YMMV of course, but it’s worth the try.
Also, the GoG team is aware of the issue, and they started an effort in August 2026 to tackle it and reduce the length of the list. It’s a shame that’s not been included in the article, because they’ve been making bi-weekly updates since and they’ve been pretty consistent so.
gog.com/…/from_good_to_great_improving_our_games_… - Comment on Before you buy a game on GoG, see this growing list of 1,140 titles missing updates, DLC, and more.... 1 day ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Remakes are usually a miss for me, but I like seeing attempts at building upon pre-existing games. I draw the line at “building upon” instead of “replacing/reimagining” the original, though.
For example, someone else already mentioned that Pokémon Fire Red/Leaf Green are miles bette than the originals, and really great games in and of themselves. Although nowadays I only play rom hacks that fix some of the more… Weird and annoying design choices (running shoes, national dex, etc).
Resident Evil 1 Remake is my favourite horror game of all time, which is funny because I don’t care much about the OG RE1. It takes what worked in the original (the mansion map), improves upon that, and adds more stuff, including the Crimson Heads which are my favourite mechanic in any RE game (and I’m sad it never was reused elsewhere).
On the contrary, I love the OG RE2 and was very disappointed with the remake. It botches the story and completely shits on the characters to the point that I felt disgusted by it, even though from a gameplay standpoint it feels and plays great, and I love the RPD redesign.Spyro is one of the first games I ever played, and I absolutely adore what they did with Spyro Reignited Trilogy. I consider it the best way to play those games outside of nostalgia.
I also would never recommend playing Yakuza over Yakuza Kiwami, which is just the same game, but better in every way. The English dub in the original is bad, the combat is clunkier, and the story is better explained and tied up in the remake. There’s also a lot more content all around, including the Majima Everywhere system, which is a debated topic within the OG fandom, but I found it hilarious.
- Comment on Bethesda unveils new logo 2 weeks ago:
Hello, I come from the future, please tell your Floridian friends to vote Blue in the next election (and ask them to tell the same to their friends). Just a few hundred would suffice.
Trust me, it’s really, really important.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s spelled out clearly for these 4 games in early release. As I said, I was thinking ahead. Lots of 360 games I own are not available to buy anymore, unfortunately. If this BC program only affects digital licences, it will be a bummer.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 4 weeks ago:
After the head of the BC program got sacked in the last round of layoffs, I lost all hope about it going anywhere in the near future. I’m happy I was proven wrong.
What’s not clear in the linked article is how to access the BC games: do I need to buy them from the store, or is a disc allowed like on Xbox console?
A lot of BC games have been delisted over the years, so being able to access them via disc would be great. It’s not an immediate concern as they only made four games available on PC, but I’m thinking ahead.
- Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series 5 weeks ago:
SAO is a light novel/anime series centered primarily around the eponymous MMORPG and its sequels. Despite this, most (all?) licenced games are single player.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yep.
AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
Some of the store page artwork for this game was created with the assistance of generative AI image tools. The game itself does not use or generate AI content at runtime.There’s no way a dev is lazy enough to generate their game’s Steam page with AI, and not use it during development as well.
- Comment on Is Ace Combat 8 (Deluxe) worth getting for ¥11,990? 1 month ago:
We don’t know yet if it will be sold separately. AC7 pre-order included AC5 (on Playstation) or AC6 (on Xbox), which were never made available separately.
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/xbox-shuttering-south-of-midnight-peabody-award-compulsion-games-2000706065 2 months ago:
I’m honestly sorry for all the developers that Microsoft acquired in their buying spree around before and during 2020.
- Comment on Gears Of War: E-Day Reportedly Has A Staggering $400 Million Budget 2 months ago:
I think Lemmy users are more probable to skip Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo events than most, since 99% of the userbase of this site is a Steam addict.
- Comment on Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexe 2 months ago:
I remember what AC was like, I played it (and liked it a lot more than what it is now).
I think it’s unnecessary because (a) this game is nothing like AC, at least from the demo we’ve been shown, and (b) just because a guy worked on a game twenty years ago, doesn’t mean that all of his following games will be the same.
“From a former AC dev” is just a marketing pitch; the writer took that and ran with it for a cheap article. “You play as multiple characters in this game. It reminds me of AC”. Like, sure, I can see the similarities in playing a character, following by that character’s ancestors, but that’s where the similarities end with AC, and the article never spells out clearly why this game is what Hexe should be.
- Comment on Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexe 2 months ago:
The game itself is not supposed to be AC, the writer is making unnecessary comparisons.
That being said, I’m a big fan of cozy story-driven games, and this one was bad even by those standards.
- Comment on Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexe 2 months ago:
I played the demo and it was terrible.
Bad dialogue, horrible walking animations (especially when they let you move two characters side by side), and literally zero gameplay. No kidding: I extracted magic from an animal carcass to light some torches, chose a cat familiar among a group of half a dozen identical cats, walked in a library looking for some books (“Hi! I’m the director of this library. No, I don’t know where this book is, maybe you can look over there?”), then walked some more, then I was a cat, then the demo was over.
Is this really what people want from Assassin’s Creed?
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 2 months ago:
Boring? I rewatch the legendary Sony 2006 E3 at least once a month!
Riiiiiiidge Racer! :D
- Comment on Spyro™: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer 2 months ago:
Very curious to see how the free flight changes the game design. Of all classic platformers, I feel Spyro is the best suited to turn into a sort of open world exploration game (and I say this as someone who absolutely despises open world games).
- Comment on Resident Evil – Code: Veronica | World Premiere Trailer 2 months ago:
Umbrella operatives all wear the same uniform.
There’s a possibility of Hunk being in the game (the original Code Veronica had a file in which you discover that Hunk trained, as well as worked recently in, the game’s setting; they might expand on that for this game), but this is probably Juan, the guy from the beginning of the OG Code Veronica.
- Comment on September 2026 just became the busiest month in years for millions of gamers 2 months ago:
Thanks! Yeah, I grew up with Ace Combat and it’s my favourite series ever, so it’s the perfect gift for me :D
- Comment on September 2026 just became the busiest month in years for millions of gamers 2 months ago:
A lot of things that got announced will be playable on other consoles and on PC as well. I got Ace Combat to look forward to. It releases on my birthday as well!
- Comment on Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve - Release Date Trailer 2 months ago:
They clearly bought a lot of inspiration from Project Wingman, and I’m all in for it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, the devs will crunch for a few days around release so that they can put out a new trailer with a new promised release date.
- Comment on Anyone help with a viking game from xbox? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 months ago:
Europe: 512GB OLED went from €
569to €779 (+€210, +37%), and 1TB OLED from €679to €919 (+€240, +35%).I really like the Deck, but I wouldn’t recommend it at these prices, and the price increase is just bonkers even for the crazy times we live in.
- Comment on Phonopolis Review: Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Design’s masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetic in Phonopolis. 2 months ago:
I remember playing Amanita games when I was younger. They never strayed from their niche target audience, so it’s very cool seeing them still releasing bangers all these years later.
- Comment on Finally bought a physical PS2 copy of Most Wanted — for the kid in China who couldn't pay back then 2 months ago:
Psygnosis the PS1
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I wasn’t expecting another one so soon, after the long wait between TTP1 and TTP2!
I’ll absolutely buy it as soon as possible. TTP1 is my favourite puzzle game, and even if TTP2 was a bit of a letdown, I still had lots of fun with its puzzles.
- Comment on Sony hasn't decided on PS6 release date or price yet, and may even "change business models" in response to the memory crisis 3 months ago:
Reading this heading immediately following "Sony and Bandai Namco announce generative AI collaboration to find how the tech can “effectively contribute to realising a creator’s vision” must be one of the most unintentionally funny moments of my week.
- Comment on Day 646 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
I spent an ungodly amount of time on this game when it released. Just watching a few screenshots is so nostalgic.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments