EarMaster
@EarMaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale is here! 3 days ago:
The 89 cents were probably on sale too. So the only thing you could say is that the sale is not as good as ten years ago.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures 4 days ago:
Without a proposal by the commission the parliament can’t decide anything. The parliament can request them to do such a thing, but the reason the commission does not propose such a law at the moment will not change.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
The controls are modern, the difficulty can be set fine-grained. You can adjust three different aspects of the game (combat, progression and resources) individually in three steps.
- Comment on Half a Million Nameless Heroes: Gothic 1 Remake Sells 500,000 Copies in First Week 1 week ago:
For only 50 ore nuggets it’s yours.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
They did. It’s basically a modern game in terms of UI and controls.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
It’s crazy that the original Gothic 1 predates all other games mentioned here by years. It is even cited as a main inspiration for the Witcher series. And the remake is really good.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
And it might be no coincidence it is the one not developed by Bethesda.
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks ago:
Deep Space Nine is supposed to host up to 7000 lifeforms, but the infirmary is tiny and has three biobeds max.
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks ago:
I think he refers to the first season of DS9 where it was never explicitly mentioned that Joseph Sisko is well and alive (but neither was the opposite). He first appeared in season 4. He just doesn’t exist before that.
- Comment on What are some of the biggest continuity errors in Star Trek? 2 weeks ago:
But I have to agree that it is barely visible.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors’ developer is working on over 15 games, including IP collaborations 1 month ago:
Intellectual property - as in other famous franchises or brands. Think of a Marvel themed game or DLC.
- Comment on Got gifted an XBOX360 S. What now? 2 months ago:
If you have a chair or a table that is really wobbly you could use it to balance it out…
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
There is one old: Hit the road Then 3 seasons of Telltale’s Sam and Max And apparently there is a VR title as well…
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
You mean all one of them?
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 3 months ago:
In SimCity 4 you could import your Sims from The Sims (1). But that was about it. It didn’t influence the game very much.
- Comment on What's your preferred version to watch Deep Space Nine? Is AI upscale worth it? 4 months ago:
They need to train the upscaler on the remastered TNG. But I get it’s a rather niche use case.
- Comment on What happend with the the new and old Borg after Picard season 2 and 3? 4 months ago:
They are forgotten by the writers as quickly as they were invented…
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Well then I guess the Wolfenstein games aren’t historically accurate either…?
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 4 months ago:
The Stanley Parable is a meta game - a game about playing and making games. And there you are having fun not playing a game…
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 5 months ago:
I fear that early access will kill this. Sure it will provide some money that might pay for the rest of the development, but streamers will play it now - der that it is literally work in progress in vast parts and maybe take another look once it finally releases, but the hype will be gone at the release.
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 5 months ago:
But Minecraft - even in the Beta days - worked as a complete game. They have been improving (depending on how you like the changes) on it since, but it wasn’t ever filled with literal work in progress signs like Hytale is…
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 5 months ago:
Am I the only one who never realized it was supposed to be a futuristic city? To be honest my English wasn’t that good at the time I played it, but that information never clicked with me.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 5 months ago:
I can somehow understand the people who funded it in the first place, but who invests now in a project which has already been in development hell for more than a decade and produced barely anything playable. Every whale has already been milked - what return of investment can an investor expect from Star Citizen?
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 6 months ago:
Why is everyone bashing Nintendo for this? I mean I get it that Nintendo is not to be liked, but this is clearly Bethesda’s fault. They did a fast and cheap port and failed hard with it.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 6 months ago:
These days games often allow you to individually change the difficulty which I make use quite often when I feel a game is becoming too much of a hassle than a joy and I still want to know how the story continues or see what might be coming.
I don’t think I have used a classic cheat in a long time. The last time I actively remember was The Sims 3 (I guess) and it kind of killed the game for me because suddenly everything was possible without any challenge and even a normal playthrough felt like I was missing something.
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 6 months ago:
It sounds like a few sixty year old engineer(s) got some managers to sign off the release of the source code release and decided to do the most out of the lack of resources they had available. I have no problem with them using AI to write a press release. No one is going to read it anyways in a few weeks of time - but the release is there forever (within reasonable limits).
- Comment on We have one at home 6 months ago:
I have an Ouya and an original Steam controller…
- Comment on EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead 6 months ago:
But it also means that 2025 most likely will not get patches anymore.
- Comment on PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared 8 months ago:
It is, but hear me out: There is a difference between failing with a reason and failing silently - and seemingly with no reason. I don’t know this project and I don’t know what happened and how the creators handled this, but I have been on Kickstarter since it came to life and I have seen projects with poor communication fail and everyone was furious and I have seen projects fail who managed to communicate their struggles to their investors very well and they didn’t get overrun with refund requests. I know it is hard to admit problems and finally failure, but it has to be part of the progress.
- Comment on Podcast Discussion | Star Trek: Khan | 1x01 "Paradise" 8 months ago:
I liked it. It was the perfect length to listen to and the voices are well cast and distinctive enough. The only thing I didn’t like was the intrusive (for a lack of a better word) music in some parts. As if they needed to further emphasize “this is the part where romance is supposed to happen”.