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- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 1 day ago:
I think the equivalence doesn’t apply, because a car is a functional product and you should expect price to correlate with added features.
Indie games, as well as AAA, can offer similar quality levels at wildly different prices, so price doesn’t (shouldn’t) enter the equation imo.
Quality, possible enjoyment and my tastes are what I take into account when buying a game or not, not its price point, so that might be the difference. - Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 1 day ago:
That’s not what I’m saying.
What I find silly is to expect price to correlate with quality in the video game space, because you have Indies as well as AAA, with wildly different prices, ultimately offering similar qualities. Price shouldn’t come into the equation when talking about a game’s quality or “value” imo. - Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 days ago:
To be clear, I find this rhetoric pretty silly given that price has no influence over a game’s intrinsic qualities and vice versa.
I’m not arguing for games to be priced higher either, because a lot of the that money likely wouldn’t end up going to the deva, but I think the price argument doesn’t stand either way. - Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 days ago:
What does that even mean? And what do you consider “full price worthy” in that case?
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 6 days ago:
Backloggd works great for me because I want both game/library tracking and user reviews, including my own once I finish a game. If someone only cares about the former, backloggery.com is probably just as good.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 week ago:
I’m finding it hard to stick to one game in particular these past few days (weeks?).
I’ve been going back to my play through of Divinity: Original Sin 2 and I find the story is getting somewhat less interesting after reaching the second to last act/location (and fights are less challenging now, which isn’t as fun imo).
I’ve also been playing a bit of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and it’s more appealing than I anticipated - I’m just annoyed by recurring shader comp and loading stutters on PC…
I’m kind of in the mood for a shorter game, but my backlog is far too dense to pick anything easily. - Comment on My highest achievement in Expedition 33 (yet) 1 week ago:
Congrats! That’s absolutely what I found most exhilarating with Expedition 33 gameplay-wise, being able to defeat much tougher enemies with a mix of persistence and parrying/dodging - that was really rewarding imo.
- Comment on Giving away 1 month Game Pass Ultimate code 2 weeks ago:
Great, I’ve sent you a message :)
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Over a hundred thousand Dune Awakening players got swallowed by the sandworm | Massively Overpowered 3 weeks ago:
Same dev then, Funcom
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Ditto (but 2077 instead, haha). I’ve had no issues, except I wish it’d be possible to export the mod collection and reimport on a different device - eg going from desktop to Steam Deck and vice versa, which I’ve had to do manually.
- Comment on Developer interview: my Q&A with the creator of Lutris 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for another great post and a very interesting interview! FWIW I cross-posted it to !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 1 month ago:
The only way I get to roundabout $200 now is if OOP is talking about 1983/84, but the NES hadn’t even released in NA back then, so that’s somewhat unlikely?
- Comment on 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs 1 month ago:
Nope, 8bitdo (via their eshop) ships directly from China to Canada, alongside a number of other countries.
The change is only wrt shipping to US. - Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 1 month ago:
Not exactly, you need Steam to install it, but then per PCGW’s wiki:
DRM-free when launched directly via <path-to-game>\SwGame\Binaries\Win64\SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe while EA app is not installed.
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 1 month ago:
I can’t confirm for Steam, since I only have the game on EA app, but the game’s wiki page on PCGW shows the same DRM-free info (with correct launch steps).
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 1 month ago:
You’re right, they do - this Steam DRM-free games list shows Jedi Fallen Order is the most recent DRM-free EA published game on Steam afaict.
Same goes for DRM-free games on the EA app. - Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 month ago:
As enjoyable as ever to read!
I think you might have missed the link to Nightdive Studios’ future endeavours? Or Voyager is not showing it at least. - Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 2 months ago:
Voyager works perfectly fwiw
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th 2 months ago:
I finished a couple of games last week, SotN and Sayonara: Wild Hearts.
I’m currently back on DOS2 and I quite enjoy the slow pace of the game.
I might also attempt another playthrough of Bloodborne. - Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th 2 months ago:
I finished Pentiment yesterday, what an absolute masterpiece. It’s certainly not for everyone - and I initially hesitantly added it to my backlog for this year as a very different game from what I’m used to - but it resonated so much with me.
I also started Castlevania: SOTN, which I quite enjoy so far - metroidvanias are usually hit or miss for me so I’m going in with tempered expectations.
And I’m attempting a fresh playthrough of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, which I shelved a couple years ago. - Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 9th 2 months ago:
What mods did you end up with?
I shelved RDR2 a while ago (year and a half ago?) but would like to get back to it at some point, likely with some QoL enhancements - Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 9th 2 months ago:
I started Pentiment last week and am now wearing my detective hat - I can’t wait to see what’s gonna happen next.
I’m also playing Eigengrau, a shmup with elements of a twin-stick shooter - it’s not bad!
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 3 months ago:
No?
Realistically, as you mentioned with FF XIV ARR now being a classic but also being a pain to get into is true for any other older FF, many people simply have rose tinted glasses to keep them from seeing all the flaws present in those prior entries.
I also started with FF VII, but 25 years after its release, and let me tell you that it did not age well (at all) imo.Had I not picked up FF XVI, I probably wouldn’t have given the series another chance.
I now player both FF VII remakes to date and absolutely loved them, especially Rebirth, and am going through FF VI, which I also think is a masterpiece tbh.
FF IV didn’t work out for me, but that’s fine.All that to say, video game series evolve, ARPGs have been quite popular for a while and FF went that route - for now. That doesn’t make for bad games, and the series will keep evolving.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 3 months ago:
I started 1000xRESIST over the weekend and just can’t put it down, I should finish it in a few hours.
After that, I’ll likely pick up either Divinity: Original Sin 2 (I’m a couple of hours in) or the DLCs for Alan Wake 2 (since I finished the main game a few days ago), we’ll see.
- Submitted 4 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Resident Evil 2 remake has sold fewer than 10,000 copies on iOS, estimates suggest 4 months ago:
In an ideal world, every game should be fully cross-buy IMO, but that tends to never be the case.
PlayStation used to have PS3/PS4/PSVita cross-buy games for a while, but they didn’t keep it going for their recent PC porting efforts (that clearly wouldn’t help their bottom line).
Xbox has Play Anywhere, and that’s likely the closest to a functional cross-buy (and cross-play) we have today - that’s the main draw for me if (when) I ever buy games digitally on Xbox. - Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th 4 months ago:
Tekken 8 is slowly consuming me whole… and I don’t mind. I love the game so far! When I’m not playing, I’m looking up combos, pro replays, various advanced tutorials… I’m fully committed at this point, haha.
That being said, my library has let me know that a copy of Sonic X Shadow Generations is available for borrowing, so I’ll switch it up a bit this week!
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th 4 months ago:
Burnout, what a game! I know 3 still is regarded as one of the best arcade racers to this day, although tbh - controversial opinion, I know - Paradise is likely my favourite in the series.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 7th 11 months ago:
I’m still playing Persona 3 Reload and I believe it finally clicked for me.
I still don’t particularly like Tartarus that much, but I’ve been able to complete each section relatively quickly so far (and without grinding) so it’s certainly not too bad. The rest of the game has definitely opened up though (thankfully, I’m about 30-35 hrs in, haha).Slowly making my way through Jeanne d’Arc on the side - gameplay wise it’s up my alley (minus grinding…), however the story is pretty subpar imo.
