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- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 6 days ago:
If the criticism is limited to “It’s too hard.” then I would agree. But that’s not a valid response to criticisms about specific design elements like “these power ups feel like they do nothing”, even if it’s a perception issue at hand you need to address the actual observation and not jump on with ‘git gud’.
I was learning a game a few months ago and struggling with understanding a specific character, so I went to the official discord and asked for advice, not complaining it was too hard, just asking for what kinds of strategies work and I was met with endless ‘try harder, scrub’ responses and literally no actual advice. I quit playing the game because the community was so up it’s own asshole.
And for sake of clarity. I don’t play HK, it’s not my preferred genre and my favorite game (that I can replay) is Noita so I am familiar with reviews that complain about difficulty. It’s fine for games to be hard and it’s also fine for people who find the games too hard to leave a review saying they found it too hard. That is part of informing buyers so people can only pick it up if they desire that kind of challenge.
It’s just a trend that is all too common in gaming. People like a game or a developer and become incapable of seeing an opinion that they disagree without taking it as a personal slight. It’s weird.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 6 days ago:
We should definitely talk about how levying criticism, especially thoughtful criticism, is treated as a personal attack by other people playing the same game. It’s a bizarre form of tribalism.
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 1 week ago:
It is a Civ tradition, BotS made Civ4 amazing, but I’d argue the base game was solid and just needed some mechanical polish.
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 1 week ago:
I listened. I bought Civ6, hated it, didn’t get any of the predatory DLC and went back to Civ4. Didn’t give Civ7 so much as a glance. Sad to hear it went downhill from 6 though.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
Femboys can be hot too, though often authors seem to mix up femboys with trans women and that ends up being frustrating when I try a CHOYA game marked as m/m and it doesn’t have any actual m/m in it.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
On the m/m side, the visual novel Coming Out on Top is a remarkably well-written, if saccharine, dating game about a college guy figuring things out. I don’t usually like VNs but this one was worth playing.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 3 weeks ago:
biphobia is prevalent even among gays and lesbians. It sucks.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 1 month ago:
I don’t think any country in the anglosphere has a monopoly on exporting shitty people, but I’m hardly going to throw stones what with this glass house I live in.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 month ago:
BDSM games have been targeted as well for “sexual violence”. Only straight, vanilla PiV missionary for the express purposes of having children within the confines of marriage where nobody is enjoying it porn will be left.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 2 months ago:
My take is that Borderlands 1 was boring, Borderlands 2 had decent game play but was held up by excellent writing and characterization and every Borderlands game since has been trying to recapture the magic of the second game but just feels hollow. They aren’t terrible, but they aren’t amazing either.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 4 months ago:
Absolute favorite is Outer Wilds. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I can’t experience it again. A true masterpiece of a game.
After that, probably Noita for sheer insanity. Deeply unfair, but getting a god-run going is that much sweeter. It took me ~100 hours to beat it the first time, now I can consistently win if I try but I’m addicted to doing stupid things to see what happens.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 8 months ago:
Unfortunate. Competition is generally good for the consumer and I’d hate to see one of more more customer-friendly storefronts go away.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 10 months ago:
Full agree. I do want some kind of policy for games that introduce anti-cheat both during early access and after release. Bricking a game you paid for should offer some sort of recourse.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Releases Homage Poster for Final Season Celebration 10 months ago:
My issue wasn’t with the show, but with Paramount+ as an app with it’s 60+ trackers. I actually really like the show, just not enough to deal with Paramount’s spyware.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Getting Official Modding Support 1 year ago:
Y’all motherfuckers need Torm.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 1 year ago:
I’m not convinced Paradox knows what they are doing as publisher. Millenia was similarly pushed out the door before it was ready (though in a better state than Cities: Skylines 2). And both games pushed out the door in the last week of the quarter in a transparent effort to boost their earnings. The shortsightedness of the publisher is now impacting their reputation in ways that will be hard to recover. I no longer consider buying Paradox published titles until they are at least a year old or have at least a few months of reviews showing they are solid (like AoW4).
- Comment on Really enjoying my first playthrough of Dwarf Fortress 1 year ago:
So many ways to have fun in DF!
- Comment on ‘Star Trek 4’ Beams Up New Screenwriter: ‘The Flight Attendant’ Creator Steve Yockey 1 year ago:
Timothee Chalamet as Data (he’s in everything).
- Comment on Used to scare the living daylights out of me 1 year ago:
If Death is so scary, why do I keeping running into slash fic for the new Puss-in-Boots movie?
- Comment on Bill Maher postpones return to the air, the latest TV host to balk at working during writers strike 1 year ago:
I’ve hated him for platforming conservatives for years while offering the weakest counter-points to their sophistry. He thinks he’s John Stewart, but lacks the discipline and hard work that goes into preparing for interviews with hostile guests.
- Comment on Forcing Workers Back to the Office Might Not Have Been a Good Idea After All 2 years ago:
Right… that’s why you would use a VDI. There’s nothing local except a thin client that runs your citrix/vmware/whatever client. There’s a reason that VDI is generally used for PCI-compliant business cases but VPN is not.
- Comment on Forcing Workers Back to the Office Might Not Have Been a Good Idea After All 2 years ago:
If you use vdi that runs on a corporate thin client security is basically a non-issue. Data never leaves the data center and so long as you harden the thin client it should be difficult to breach it.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 17-08-2023 2 years ago:
I ended up fighting Nere really early before finishing most of Act 1 and reloaded that fight just so many times before finally winning with some creative strategies.
- Comment on Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭 2 years ago:
I don’t think demanding quality games is inherently at odds with wanting studios to not abuse their workers. What we really should support is broad labor protections and labor unions for developers. Because clearly the AAA studios don’t need the excuse of high demand for features from gamers in order to abuse their people since they have been doing that for years while churning out trash titles.
- Comment on Obscure games talk 2 years ago:
Shadows of Forbidden Gods - a map-based strategic game where you play as an Old God seeking to destroy the world. You mostly interact with the world through your agents and the forces of good will seek to stop you so you need to sow chaos and strife in the world, cause war, plague, famine and death to keep heroes occupied until you bring about the end.
The UI is… not good. But the game ends up being really fun anyway and there is a good payoff of seeing long laid plans come to fruition.