Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 22 hours ago:
Don’t follow me for advice, I know nothing about this stuff other than “line is down - buy, line is high - sell”
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 day ago:
Good. Time to buy.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 days ago:
When you can’t compete, sue.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 6 days ago:
I can get immersed in incredibly simple games, like Baba Is You. I have simple rules to follow and a world that conforms to those rules. I can tune out reality and immerse fully in the game.
The main thing is that I don’t need hi-res realistic 120 fps graphics for this to work, I don’t know if this is because the way my brain is wired or because I was raised in the 8 bit era and imagination was a significant part of that immersion.
- Comment on Day 553 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I bought the collection a few years ago and played nearly all the titles.
There’s something about these games that makes them feel “off” for me and I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I mean, there’s guns and aliens to shoot, huge buildings and large terrains to cross with cool vehicles. Yet, it never clicked with me. It feels like the games have no soul.
It’s a weird feeling that I could never explain properly.
- Comment on Dying Light 5 weeks ago:
Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.
Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
Bingo.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
Right there with you.
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 2 months ago:
Mark it up as an advantage of getting old. You get to sit and eat popcorn while people debate issues you’ve already debated.
I still want to buy one, mind you.
- Comment on Which year was the most stacked for game releases? 2 months ago:
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 months ago:
Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:
Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 3 months ago:
I feel this is true about much of what you see online currently. Videos that could have been an short how-to, articles that contain mostly AI generated filler. Also, if you want support on that you better join our discord.
I have genuine gratitude to people who share their in depth knowledge online using old fashion HTML.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 months ago:
I take that as a hint that I’m not in the site’s target demographic, and simply close the tab.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 months ago:
Nah, I have nothing to do with this, only a happy gamer.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 months ago:
Just like the good old days when sites would force you to have Internet Explorer and Flash plugin installed to work properly. Amazing.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 months ago:
I was lazy and just copy/pasted the Steam page blurb.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 months ago:
TIL. Thank you.
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- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 3 months ago:
You maybe high, but you are right nonetheless.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 months ago:
“Oh. It’s you.”
Such a loveable heap of junk.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 4 months ago:
I’m still playing Doom, the original!
- Comment on Amnesia creators Frictional are teasing what could be Soma 2 through a sinister luxury hotel website 4 months ago:
Gimme!
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 months ago:
Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
If it is clear that the topic is Impressionist art, I would not go. If I buy the ticket to see Expressionism and get Impressionism instead, I would fell upset.
(Actually, I’d go either way, I love art)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
Regarding difficulty: I’ve lived through the 80’s, where difficulty was ramped up to make the game last longer, as you only had precious few kilobytes to fill with content. I’ve grown to hate difficult games.
It is your right as creator to go that way if you wish, but it is my right as player to hate your guts if I buy your game and it kills me over and over again in the first minutes.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 5 months ago:
One factor they don’t seem to consider is that they are competing for a finite resource: consumer attention.
There has never been so much content to consume: not only games, movies, series, music, books, podcasts, and even old games.
New games have to compete with and stand above all that content to justify the price.
As others have said, purchase power is down, people subscribe to more services (net, mobile, streaming music and video), all that bites into the available budget to buy games.
Bottom line: it’s getting hard to justify spending that amount on a game you don’t have time to play.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Only nerds and dweebs and losers play single player games.
Some people actively avoid multiplayer games to avoid obnoxious, entitled kids.
- Comment on Sync-in, a new alternative to Nextcloud 5 months ago:
The logo needs work. I read that as Syncoin and had a repulse reaction.
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 6 months ago:
I was very happy with The Print Shop. You could print huge signs and banners by stitching smaller pages together. Fun times.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 6 months ago:
To me it is the inverse of socializing. It’s an escape to a world where I don’t have to deal with people.
