Ashtear
@Ashtear@lemm.ee
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 11 hours ago:
If you’re into the nuts and bolts of game development at all, the commentary is fantastic.
- Comment on BASIC Computer Games 1 day ago:
Typing out the code from the book and then trying to figure out where you got the code wrong was half the fun!
- Comment on The price of the PS5 Pro “has not had a negative impact” on console sales, says Sony president - GAMESCENSOR 5 days ago:
Yeah, they’re gonna have to take my Windows 10 from my cold, dead hands.
- Comment on The price of the PS5 Pro “has not had a negative impact” on console sales, says Sony president - GAMESCENSOR 6 days ago:
As long as one is okay with the requisite time tinkering to get it up and running, the gaming PC still seems like a no-brainer to me at these prices. So much utility, including doubling as a work station.
I guess a bit can be saved on games by selling the discs later, but that requires the disc drive add-on, so we’re already looking at more up-front cost. And yet somehow, the base unit is still cheaper than the PS3 was, adjusting for inflation.
- Comment on Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit 1 week ago:
It was literally the Pinkertons. Long-time union infiltrators.
- Comment on Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit 1 week ago:
See also: Hasbro sending the literal Pinkertons for Magic cards.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also my first deep dive into a gacha. One of my friends also plays Genshin and ZZZ and I’m like, hoooow? 😂
There were so. many. quests. that I’m just now getting to the “log in to spend energy” mode with HSR. The game’s absolutely packed with one-time content and being an MMO player, I’m so not used to this rapid release schedule.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The only times I ever ran out of content in WoW–been playing since 2004–was the six months or so before the next expansion’s prepatch. Even in the notorious 6.1 “Twitter integration” patch that didn’t add a raid, I still was happily messing around with my garrisons and collecting battle pets and mounts. If I weren’t doing the tourism thing now, I’d still spend hours upon hours with the new professions system. I spent more time messing with that in Dragonflight than I did in dungeons and raids.
Maybe you’re the kind of player that doesn’t roll alts? Just that alone is a lot of different content and different takes on existing content.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t know how anyone has time for two live service games at once. Even in my peak college slacker days, just World of Warcraft alone was a lot. I started playing Honkai: Star Rail this summer and a friend wanted me to start The War Within expansion with her. I’ve been doing the tourist thing in WoW for a few years now, and even still with that casual pace of play, the combination was far too much for me these days.
My gaming tastes can get mercurial, so I prefer the irregular stuff now. I love that I can just log into Guild Wars 2 any time without even thinking about money, and I’ve spent a whole $10 on HSR in the six months I’ve been playing it. Makes it much easier when I suddenly get a few days of light work here and there.
- Comment on FF6, T(ranslating)-Edition | Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 9 1 week ago:
You made it farther than I did, lol. Got worked by Ymir.
- Comment on Mario & Luigi: Brothership | Review Thread 1 week ago:
IGN’s reviewer really didn’t like it, scoring 5 out of 10. Probably an outlier, but the overall consensus does seem on the low side for a Mario game.
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- Konami reports record high half-year profits thanks to strong performance of video game sectorautomaton-media.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Castlevania to get official stage adaptation by Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue 2 weeks ago:
It’s an amazing fit for Takarazuka. I’d absolutely be going if I were still in the area.
- Castlevania to get official stage adaptation by Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revueautomaton-media.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on After Era of Bloat, Veteran Video-Game Developers Are Going Smaller 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong on this. Part of the problem is new IPs are risky, and I’m sure market research is telling the big publishers that you’d better not suddenly downgrade your graphics on an established property. Nintendo’s very comfortable in this space because they haven’t really gone this route with first party. They’ve even managed to thread the needle on Metroid and Zelda by having both 2D and 3D offerings.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 2 weeks ago:
My wishlist is Final Fantasy Tactics, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, and Xenogears. A Xenogears remake likely isn’t ever happening so I’d be happy with a remaster, and it’s practically an open secret at this point that an FFT project is in development. It getting the Tactics Ogre Reborn treatment would be lovely, but what I really want is an orchestrated soundtrack. Here’s hoping it doesn’t get cancelled. 🤞
As a genre, 4X is still kicking around, but I’m not even sure if SMAC is beloved enough to get the treatment. Good voice acting would be essential.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 2 weeks ago:
I’d be happy with a simple remaster with a cleaned-up script. Disc 2 wasn’t as bad as I’d remembered on a replay I had earlier this year.
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- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Just heard of this guy for the first time in the chatter around reviews for this game (which has been…interesting, to say the least). Similar tastes to mine, so that’s promising for me for Veilguard. Speaking of which, sounds like I should be trying Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 2 weeks ago:
Still need market demand. People want these products.
You can’t just chase a trend and throw out a game and expect it to print money. Ask Sony how that went for their run at a hero shooter.
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 weeks ago:
A lot of those games are still around, just not in legal distribution channels.
The more at-risk stuff is newer games going forward, such as live-service games or games locked down with DRM that requires authentication to play.
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a second person, then. It shouldn’t be too surprising; anyone that works in games media will tell you that new releases are what drive peak engagement.
RSS can be similar to their Twitter feed, with a curated set of highlighted games once a certain amount of reviews are in. I already get a dozen feeds that have reviews in them anyway, and I often read them even if I’m not already interested in the game. Why not an aggregate? I’d subscribe in a heartbeat.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape 3 weeks ago:
I doubt anyone knows how much of the playerbase it makes up, but the WoW subscription effectively went up to $20 a month for anyone that’s using in-game gold to fund it.
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 3 weeks ago:
There are certainly people that specifically like that kind of storytelling that puts the onus on the audience to do some digging. It’s why Malazan Book of the Fallen is popular, for example.
It didn’t do as much for me in Elden Ring, but I enjoyed it in Dark Souls 3 and it’s why Demon’s Souls has one of my favorite moments in gaming. Wouldn’t have worked with more explicit narrative.
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- Comment on Citadelum, a modern take on the classic Impressions Games historical city-builder series with some 4X additions, released on Steam 4 weeks ago:
I forgot I had this on my list. I’m neck-deep in Metaphor ReFantazio right now, but I’ve got to try this soon (along with at least half a dozen Next Fest demos). Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom is one of my favorite games.
- Comment on Hades II - Seize Victory in The Olympic Update 4 weeks ago:
I also can’t see complaining about free content. This isn’t an Ark situation.
- Comment on Hades II - Seize Victory in The Olympic Update 4 weeks ago:
Did the same, although damn is this release ever tempting me. I was done with the first Hades pretty quick, but I could see this one easily sucking me in for 100+ hours. Felt to me like they improved damn near everything, and the vibe is divine. Amelia Tyler is a treasure.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 5 weeks ago:
Sure. There’s just degrees of it. Your average Steam community discussion board is far, far worse than the community you’re in right now.
