MeaanBeaan
@MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sudden memory 3 days ago:
Definitely the latter I’m sure.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 3 days ago:
While thats definitely true for many games it’s less relevant for console makers and its hardly true universally; definitely not true for the insomniac games I mentioned.
Plenty of games are coming out that are optimized very well. Unfortunately, UE5 has gotten way too popular and devs often don’t seem to really know how to optimize games developed on the engine. Kinda the downfall of having an engine that appeals so much to artists but not so much to engineers. I think the only remotely well optimized game I can think of that was made in UE5 is Hellblade 2. And even as impressive as that game is from a technical standpoint (nothing can fix how boring it is) I still have stuttering problems with it. Though my rapidly aging R5 2600 is not helping things there.
But there are still impressive PC games out there. Recently Doom The Dark Ages, indiana Jones, and Kingdom Come Deliverence 2 come to mind as games that are impressively well optimized on PC. Especially KCD2, that game feels like black magic to me.
I think this is less of an issue of cost cutting by devs and publishers, though it’s definitely a factor, and moreso just devs not being as knowledgeable about optimizing games as they used to be.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 4 days ago:
Fucking why? These dudes always cite the cost of making games increasing as a reason for this nonsense but they never talk about the many many factors working in their favor already.
First, most people are probably not buying physical games very much if at all anymore. And because of that people don’t really buy games used anymore either since used games in general are much rarer. So more people are buying games directly from company storefronts. These same storefronts that also make games stay more expensive for longer periods of time. Not only that but there are literally more people playing and buying games now than have ever done so in the past (at least up until very recently)
All of these factors should be increasing Sony’s profit margins. If anything games should be getting cheaper. Not more expensive.
And I don’t buy that a ps5 game is significantly more expensive to make than a ps4 game. There’s barely a difference between each system’s capabilities in terms of graphical detail in the assets a team needs to produce. Most of the benefits of ps5 come in the way of higher resolutions and higher frame rates. I have yet to see a game release on ps5 that couldn’t have also been ported to ps4 with lower resolutions and frame rates.
Even the games they said needed the ps5’s speed were eventually ported to PC and run on the Steam Deck just fine. (Spider-Man 2 and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart for example)
These statements aren’t anything more than a company executive trying to gaslight people into accepting unacceptable pricing strategies.
- Comment on Sudden memory 4 days ago:
I’ve recently this past year or so let my hair grow out past my shoulders for the first time since middle school and because of that I’ve become a hat guy for the first time in my life to keep hair out of my face. This past May I went to Pax East and bought a NASA hat and a really cool looking Atari trucker hat as souvenirs. The NASA hat ended up fitting a little better for my head so it became my every day hat but just the other day I remembered I hadn’t seen the Atari hat in a while. Looked everywhere for it and I can’t find it. No idea where it went and im so pissed. It was a really cool hat.
- Comment on Name him. 3 weeks ago:
Nancy.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t the baby spiders fly away at the end of Charlottes Web?
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 5 weeks ago:
Mine hasn’t gotten much use lately because the steamdeck itself has indirectly usurped it but man I love my steam controller. It’s genuinely the best controller ever made for certain types of games. I find it very difficult to play FPS games without it (or the steamdeck) due to getting so used to gyro aiming with the capacitive touch sensors. My only real gripe with it is the subpar build quality. They’ve learned a lot since then in terms of hardware manufacturing so I can’t wait for them to put out a new steam controller.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 5 weeks ago:
In 2005 they would have just taken your data without asking.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
Honestly nationalism for the US has always been kinda gross to me. We’ve never really had much to be proud of as a nation historically.
- Comment on It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™ 1 month ago:
While that’s definitely true it’s not like there are any streaming platforms paying artists what they actually deserve. Other streaming services do payout slightly more per stream but they also don’t have the number of paying users Spotify has. So you’re likely going to make more off of spotify than any other service even if they do payout less per stream.
Not defending spotify though. Them and the record labels are absolute scum. Just making the point that if you want artists to benefit from you listening to their music just buy their music outright. Or go see them live if you can. Don’t stream it. Because streaming pays basically nothing no matter where you stream it from.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 1 month ago:
Um, good?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 months ago:
She was like 50 so I doubt it lol
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 months ago:
Crazy to me that this is still going around. I remember hearing this myth back when I was in middle school almost 20 years ago.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 months ago:
I had a customer once at an old job whose name was spelled Deborah. Seems completely normal until she got super mad at me for calling her “Debra” because I was somehow supposed to know her name was pronounced “Deb-Or-Ah”. With the “Or” being stressed.
- Comment on Sad I'm no longer a Catholic, seeing how rad the new Pope is 3 months ago:
How long until trump posts this on Truth?
- Comment on Genius 3 months ago:
lower gun and shoots you in the back
- Comment on Anon appreciates Chris Sawyer 4 months ago:
If people these days don’t know what rollercoaster tycoon is I’m going to start feeling way more old than I already do.
- Comment on Meow 5 months ago:
My only issue with this statement is that it implies there were cats that sounded different from how domesticated cats sound now. I’m not really conviced of that. To my understanding they have a high pitch voice because they’re small. For instance you can find videos online where they record a tiger “meowing” then they pitch it up to the register of a house cat. The resulting meow sounds nearly indistinguishable (other than the digital artifacts Inherent to doing such a thing) from a regular house cat’s meow. Now tigers obviously didn’t adapt to meowing like infants so my conclusion is that cats just sound like that and natural (human?) Selection had very little if anything to do with it.
- Comment on 4 Months After Launch, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Headlines PlayStation Plus March 2025 Lineup 5 months ago:
These things always annoy the hell out of me. Not because they’re giving the game away so soon after release, but because they always say they’re giving the games away for free when they’re not. You have to have a PS+ account to play these. If you ever unsub you lose access to these games until you subscribe again. My library of games that I own should not be a subscription service. If you’re giving me a “free” game it should actually be free not contigent upon a $70 yearly fee. Xbox used to do the same thing but you actually got to keep your games if you ever unsubscribed from live gold.
- Comment on Meow 5 months ago:
Yes, but the question is if they model their meows to sound like human infants. We know they changed their behavior to meow when wanting attention from us. But I’d be willing to bet they didn’t model their meows to sound like that. They just happen to sound like that because they’re small animals with high pitch voices.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 5 months ago:
Who tf says we’re not mad? We’re fucking furious.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 6 months ago:
I mean, I don’t know how to code but I imagine it’s the same as with other subjects. like not being able to use a calculator during some math tests. The point of the examination is for you to demonstrate you know and understand the concepts. It’s not for you to be tested in the same way you would be in the real world.
- Comment on Americans are weird. 6 months ago:
Could just be tall. As a 6’5’’ guy this mirror would be perfect for me.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 6 months ago:
If it’s anything like how the Wii was basically a GameCube it may not even be all that hard to rework existing switch emulators to work with switch 2 games. Given that it’s going to have full back compat I bet that’s why they went after switch emus so hard. They wanted to halt development as much as possible for as long as possible so it doesn’t eat away at they’re switch 2 sales.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 7 months ago:
Genki: “we bought this switch 2 model off the black market”
Nintendo: “we did not provide the switch 2 to Genki”
Yes, we know. You’re not telling us anything new.
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 7 months ago:
Unless you have a Sony phone or an LG V series phone. That DACs on those are incredible (for phones at least)
- Comment on After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages 7 months ago:
His speech made me tear up a little and I have absolutely no dog in this race whatsoever. The fuck is wrong with people?
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 7 months ago:
See come, want. See want, come.
- Comment on dear lord 8 months ago:
Gotta watch out for the clappers
hears clap on clap off jingle in the distance
Oh no…
- Comment on the lifestyle 8 months ago:
Coraline