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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the dark souls of games journalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he’s an extreme perfectionist, and it will never be perfect.

  There’s a GREAT book about the making of different games called Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and it includes a chapter on Stardew Valley. Pretty much the only reason Stardew was released was because Ape had pretty bad financial troubles. He won’t be in that situation again thanks to Stardew’s success.

  HC will never be good enough (in Ape’s super-perfectionist mind), so he’ll keep working on it forever. And he won’t bring anyone in to help him finish it for the same reason. I mean, we’re already six years into development and he still hasn’t indicated anything about being remotely close, or even said “I want to finish these things before I release v1.” He wants to release a perfect game that does everything he could dream of as v1, and doesn’t want to compromise with anything less.

  It’s basically a curse of his and TBH I feel bad for the guy. Do read the book (or at least the Stardew vignette) if you’re a fan of his work - it was very enlightening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the dark souls of games journalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Geez, that’s a whole lot of dreaming and unfounded hype-building, especially for a game that will likely never see an actual release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you looked at the page? It would be a BIG effort to fake it, and the suggestions read like the kind of stupid shit only real players come up with. “Make Xbox Love free” was one of the top suggestions… why would Xbox even put that on there, much less fake it to the top?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking hell. PS5 finally gets a few good exclusives and then they jack up other prices so high that the barrier to entry is still unjustifiable. Good luck fixing those slumping sales numbers, Sony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Secrets Behind THAT Cyberpunk 2077 Montage | Game Maker's Toolkit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty badass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be all over this if it were available on a platform I actually owned. But I’m not about to pay $1k to play it (or whatever it costs after Sony’s latest round of price hikes on aging hardware).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And the console is like 8 years old, so anyone who wants one already has one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top-selling video games ever (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Including Wii Sports is kinda bullshit. It was a pack-in for the console. Not like people had a choice there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He makes/contributes to country music now. Maybe that’s what the second panel is getting at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Times sure have changed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call this scene a “good night’s sleep”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frantic Flight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like Elden Ring concept art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DX] What's a Concord-like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *Highguard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I think gaming is done with new live service offerings.

  Live service used to be a way to get a core-complete, feature-limited games in front of players earlier than if they were fully baked. This was actually good for everyone, as player feedback often guided roadmaps and changes. But now everyone expects every new game to be better than Fortnite, Overwatch, etc. on day one. This just won’t ever happen.

  Also, the gaming community of today is OBSESSED with popularity numbers (steam concurrents and twitch view count, mostly), and if players don’t see that everyone else is playing a game then they won’t play either. This is fucking dumb, but we are where we are.

  And don’t even get me started on gaming news and influencers, who seem like they love to hate. They bitch about being stuck with CoD, then shit on anything that could someday compete with it. It’s baffling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s becoming my takeaway here as well. Don’t jump into any live service game early, because it might get rug-pulled right as I’m getting into it.

  Of course, if everyone took this approach then no live service game will ever take off, which kinda feels like where we are anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skate is free to play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony really learned nothing from Concord. Incredible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Xbox consoles are generally not good 4k/UHD Blu-ray players. I tried using my XSX for (physical) movie watching for a while, and my experience was poor enough that I went out and bought a dedicated Panasonic player instead.

  Not all discs would play in my XSX, picture was often noisy, and I ran into a fair amount of audio issues up to and including no sound at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think your mom will get us a Bigfoot from Pizza Hut tonight?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The American system of government is reliant on good-faith actors. When government officials put their own self-interest above the interest of those they have chosen to govern, part of the system is eroded and crumbles.

  There are LOTS of American government officials putting their own self-interest first right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your professor massively underestimates how much of what I say is movie references.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon announces deal with Alliance Entertainment for physical media releases of Amazon/MGM films⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take that over Netflix’s bullshit of never releasing things on physical media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Again, Sullivan?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *its

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Game Pass also lets you do this via cloud play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Venn diagram of moderate users and GeForce subscribers has an overlap that’s about 2mm wide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fork_AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the guy who doesn’t understand software, especially SaaS!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a running joke in the Far Cry games. I know Far Cry 4 does something similar. You meet the big bad at the beginning of the game, he asks you to wait for him, and if you just chill for like 15 minutes he shows back up, honors his word, and you finish the mission that you came to the island for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon studies Organic Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was my experience at a US university as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEARN YOU PIECE OF SHIT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better title would be

  LEARN YOU PIECE OF SHIP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨N++ — 10th anniversary update⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked this up on Steam for cheap today just so I don’t have to hook up my PS4. Still a super duper amazing game.

  I have no idea how to unlock the TEN++ content, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BALL x PIT | Release Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Played this for a couple of hours today thanks to Game Pass. So far, it’s a pretty good time. It has some Binding of Isaac / Enter the Gungeon vibes and interesting meta-progression.