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- Comment on Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable 6 days ago:
I’m willing to bet that the majority of people don’t really care about this. If they did, you’d see GoG do wildly better than Steam does. People like DRM and the convenience with having your library digitally available with the ease of installation, they just don’t like badly implemented DRM.
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 1 week ago:
Yea I get that, just wanted to say that EA has the same issue too.
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 1 week ago:
EA’s games that released on Steam after Origin was a thing still launch a mini EA launcher when you press Play on Steam, much like how Ubisoft’s does on Steam. That’s at least how it seems the last time I tried it with Fallen Order.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 1 week ago:
I’m still playing it and it’s still pretty fun. Seems to be a controversial take but I do like that they’re constantly changing mechanics since I don’t really take the game seriously.
- Comment on 'Stories are our bread and butter': Larian is building a special team to lay out the plot of its games years in advance 1 week ago:
Ubisoft always had such a team for AC at least. AC Origins had a pretty good story and AC Odyssey was alright. Haven’t finished or played the newer ones yet so I can’t judge those yet but if there’s one thing Ubisoft does right, it’s that.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
Not nearly enough of them. Too many frameworks or libraries have their QnAs on Discord instead of a dedicated forum.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
If Discord is going to be abandoned by people, I wish we’d go back to proper forums that’s much more accessible and searchable. Continuing down this road is just going to lead to the continued burying of useful information behind these services.
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 2 weeks ago:
It’s god awful for any development discussion too. Used to be you could at least find someone taking about something on Stack Overflow even if it wasn’t solved, now it’s buried in Discord and you have no way of even searching it out to see if anyone has even had that problem before.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
I’d take that any day over the unhinged AI focus from all these companies now or Google’s awful documentation from the past few years.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion but I’m just using 11. I deal with enough problems with Linux at work and as hard as it is to believe, Windows just work and fits my workflow too well. Linux works great on my Steam Deck but the occasional weird quirks it has with certain games/launchers means I can’t use it as my main gaming platform, it’s only fine on the Deck because it has advantages for the form factor.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 4 weeks ago:
It’s so that’ it’s easier to perform directional actions. I personally like it from a usability standpoint.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 4 weeks ago:
Or get it second hand for cheap lol, it’s not a big deal to me at least.
- Comment on Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround? 1 month ago:
I have ublock origin on desktop and revanced patched youtube and I don’t have any of this issues. So it might just simply be YouTube being YouTube.
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m generalising it a bit but it does seem like the main issue is the lack of open mindedness, compassion and an inclination for aggressive responses rather than simply agreeing to disagree.
Which unfortunately is a difficult thing to achieve since you need both sides to have the same mindset for any healthy discussion to happen. The moment one side decides to be antagonistic, it quickly derails the tone of the conversation regardless how open the other side may be. Heck this happens all the time here. It’s called no stupid questions but people will still flame others for asking questions lol.
The scissor statement just serves to accelerate whatever problem already exists.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 1 month ago:
I can’t say I buy this fully. From a marketkng standpoint, it seems like a huge win: “Subscribe to game pass ultimate and you get thousands of games old and new, up by thousands from last year”. From a financial standpoint, running those emulators should be a lot less compute heavy than current games so it should be cheaper.
The only real issue I see here is legal. Licensing the rights to distribute the games via streaming for their entire back catalogue can’t be easy.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 month ago:
Bringing a ton of their games to PC and the PC game pass has been pretty great. Guess it’s not so nice if you’re on the consoles or Linux I guess.
- Comment on Why AC Syndicate Is So Bad? 1 month ago:
I’m surprised you disliked Syndicate story yet adored Unity’s. Sure Syndicate’s story isn’t anything to write home about but I found it at least consistent and coherent. It’s a typical, evil mastermind needs to be taken down story. Is it amazing? Not really but it’s serviceable. Unity on the other hand, is… To be honest, I can’t even remember any parts of it other than Arno being a miserable prick for most of it.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 2 months ago:
There’s been reports of Valve looking at ARM for Proton actually but x86 chips keep getting better and more efficient. Not to mention Mali and Adreno are laughably bad compared to Radeon and Arc.
- Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release 2 months ago:
Have you played any games outside of those genres? There’s plenty of great modern games that are side scrollers. The idea that side scrollers are antiquated is frankly absurd. All that aside, Yakuza, Street Fighter, Tekken and MH Wilds all look pretty good.
Also considering the power of a Switch, it seems like a no brainer that it would look like a PS3? It’s chipset is almost a decade old and operates at a fraction of the power of other platforms.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 3 months ago:
Oh I’m sure it can be fun for people but I just can’t see what’s the fun in it. Maybe I’m too used to Saints Row that drops you into the action immediately.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 3 months ago:
I still don’t understand the appeal for GTA V either. For a game called Grand Theft Auto, the game sure likes to stop you from committing much crime for quite a large amount of time in game, at least to the point I dropped it at least.
- Comment on Star Wars: Outlaws Reportedly Sold Less in 2024 than Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Did – WGB 3 months ago:
Depending on your luck, it’s not as bad as it seems. I was able to play fine on an 6950 XT except for one location that I only ever was in for 3 minutes or so. Didn’t even had to use any upscaling settings, played it native at 1440p and it was consistently above 90 FPS iirc.
It was way more fun than Fallen Order and I already thought Fallen Order was hella fun.
- Comment on Chinese Keyboards 3 months ago:
Japanese is kind of similar. Although usually native speakers do not use an English keyboard. They use this:
Since Japanese has 5 vowels, each key here represents a consonant and can actually enter any of the 5 vowels by either tapping on it or flicking up, down, left or right on it. Once you’ve built the word you’re trying to write, you can tap on the auto suggested kanji or katakana or leave it as is in hiragana.
The exception is the bottom left and right keys which are for alternative consonants (I’m not sure the actual linguistic term) and punctuation which have fewer options but work similarly.
So if I’m writing the character for home, I’d flick the button toy he right of the emoji button left for い and then right for え. Once I have both hiragana characters, I just need to tap on the 家 character that appears above the keyboard.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official" 3 months ago:
The Switch is a lot smaller and pocketable than those you described and is far better as a party game machine. It’s also much more widely available. I don’t think it’s so clear cut especially if people are getting it for their exclusives. Yea, you can emulate it but there’s a bit of work to get the ROMs and BIOS that the average lay person isn’t really comfortable with doing.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again to March 20 3 months ago:
Are delays not good? It’s preferable to being broken on launch, not to say that it couldn’t be, but it’s likely that it would be more broken if not delayed.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 3 months ago:
You missed the part where Microsoft had better apps on Android and iOS during the W10M period. Satya never cared for Windows Phone once he became CEO.
- Comment on The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales 4 months ago:
Depends, I played Yakuza 8 with no issues ok launch and the newer stuff like the Ally haven’t had a significant jump in performance.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft Wants to Change the 'Far Cry Formula' with Far Cry 7 and Maverick 4 months ago:
Seems like an unpopular opinion but I actually like the Far Cry formula. It’s the same gameplay loop with different maps and weapons and that’s all I really ask for because I know what I’m getting is something that I know I enjoyed and will enjoy. I don’t play Far Cry to experience some innovative gameplay, there’s other games I look to for that.
I already wasn’t a fan of the changes to Far Cry 6 and these changes don’t seem like a Far Cry game anymore so I’m a bit disappointed if these are true.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 5 months ago:
Bokura. This is a bit hard though since the Steam store page kind of spoils it but just get it and think of it as a cool short co-op puzzle platformer.
- Comment on Sony Working on Handheld Console for PS5 Games to Rival Switch [Bloomberg] 5 months ago:
It’s even cheaper if you’re getting an AMD card which would be closer to what the PS5 is running.
