Coelacanth
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 7 hours ago:
Really? I’ve only played Kingmaker but while uneven I thought they had some good ones. I really liked both Jubilost and Nok-Nok, I thought Harrim was a pretty interesting character and Jae’thal was enjoyable too.
- Comment on Day 344 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 7 hours ago:
I’m glad you are enjoying it, but I wonder: how much of the enjoyment is inherent to the game and how much is just having a good time with your mates (and would be equally fun in any other co-op game)?
- Comment on Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks 22 hours ago:
I have definitely come across what your first paragraph describes. Both sealioning and concern trolling definitely happens, on this site and on others.
- Comment on Federation map? 1 day ago:
Would be a great service for the community to have it up and running again.
- Comment on Federation map? 1 day ago:
I remember that map, it was a great resource. Like you say, visualizing defederations would be especially helpful.
- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 1 day ago:
Signed it ages ago when it first came about, and it’s really sad to see it still hasn’t gotten enough signatures.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 3 days ago:
FromSoft reported sales of Elden Ring increased by over 200% following its GOTY win, if I remember right. It definitely has an impact. I can’t imagine it’s irrelevant in terms of attracting or keeping talent either, and it probably would help maintaining creative integrity and sticking to your vision in talks with investors.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 3 days ago:
I have a very hard time seeing any of those competing with either Clair Obscur or Death Stranding 2, apart from maybe Silksong (if it actually ever does come out). But even then I’m not sold.
Mina the Hollower will probably duke it out with Blue Prince for the indie game of the year.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 3 days ago:
So it’s this versus Expedition 33 for GOTY then? I feel for Sandfall, that’s some unfortunate timing if they end up upstaged by Kojima.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
I finished Deus Ex: Mankind Divided this week, and I’m not trying to decide whether I want to push through the DLCs or not. I’m kind of done with the game but if I don’t do them now I probably never will.
Overall I found MD to be good, but uneven. The main story overall suffers immensely from being the second game in a planned trilogy, but the side content is very very good. Gameplay was a step up from Human Revolution in most regards and there were some pretty good level designs strewn around as well. The final mission felt absolutely awesome to me and was one of my favourite Deus Ex missions, and Golem City was another highlight. The running theme of apartheid was also extremely well executed and the climax to that arc with martial law at the end felt very impactful.
Overall I think Human Revolution is probably better as it’s a more self contained and complete experience, but the highs of Mankind Divided are definitely higher than those of HR, in my opinion.
- Comment on Summer Sale 2025 on GOG 6 days ago:
Dishonored: Complete Collection at 80% off, amazing deal if you haven’t already played these games.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 6 days ago:
Yeah it’s convenient to blame Pearl Abyss for everything wrong with EVE, but truthfully CCP were making moves of dubious quality way before they got bought up by them.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 6 days ago:
There are probably better owners than Pearl Abyss, so in a sense that could be a reason for hope. Though I don’t know how much of a hand they have had with all the crap CCP have failed with over the years. Peak EVE was so amazing, but I honestly gave no real idea how or if it’s possible to get back to that.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 week ago:
There’s definitely weird people making games on itch and sometimes in the depths of Steam.
Oh yes. Ever heard of Beautycopter?
- Comment on Murder On The Rotoscoped Express | The Last Express (PC) | Dungeon Chill 1 week ago:
Okay I’m interested. Might give this game a shot, I’ve sort of been missing a detective game after finishing Blue Prince.
- Comment on GOG summer sale is live 1 week ago:
I tried using Heroic to install Alan Wake 2, but it didn’t recognise me owning the DLCs. Only worked through the actual Epic Launcher. YMMV
- Comment on OF alternative fediverse? 1 week ago:
I would have thought there should be several hurdles for a FederatedFans type site: money being one, legality being another and content control a third. How do you ensure your content is only showed to paying members once it’s been federated?
However Mitra seems to exist, though I have no further info about it as literally found it just now.
- Comment on Did nightreign flop? 1 week ago:
Pretty much every single game has a massive drop off in concurrent players after the initial spike. That’s just how humans work, not everyone who tries something will like it.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #20 1 week ago:
PC Gamer has given it 60/100](www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/fbc-firebreak-review/) (which some take to mean a terrible, terrible, scathing review but to me, idk, 60/100 seems like a fun time?)
This has been a thing for ages, and I suspect it’s got some psychological explanation in how our brains are wired. But 5/10 is not an “average game”, it’s a quite bad one. In fact, anything below 5 is usually literally unplayable, despite 4/10 really being just below average. 7/10 is typically the score for “a fun time if it aligns with your interests, but by no means a great game”. Everything below 7 tends to be actively bad.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s about what I expected. Fucking hell.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 week ago:
Aren’t Hasbro the villain moreso than WotC?
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
He does deserve that, but I wish the single biggest modding hub on the internet and a load bearing pillar of an entire gaming culture wasn’t sold off to an unnamed party with no transparency and only vague reassurances that “nothing will change”.
What with the late stage capitalist society we’re living in, I’ve been conditioned to think that good things being sold off rarely amounts to good things.
Let’s hope this is one of the few exceptions.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
God damnit we just can’t have nice things.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
Even though Greedfall is hardly a great game I think it has too much charm to really fit here. I found it too memorable to really be a “mediocre slop” contender.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 1 week ago:
I said any Call of Duty from the past decade as answer to the original comment, and I still think that is a solid candidate. However, another game I played recently that qualifies I think is Sleeping Dogs. Perfectly cromulent 7/10 GTA clone but ultimately not pulling up any trees.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Bruh, FFTA is a great game and I will hear no slander of it.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 1 week ago:
These posts are some of the best content on Lemmy and bring me back to the early 00s days of reading the physical PC Gamer magazines in all their glory.
- Comment on I created WhereToPost. The goal is to help find the right community for specific content. 1 week ago:
This is a great initiative.
- Comment on Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered 1 week ago:
I knew what that video was before even clicking the link. Great insight into the horrible people ruining the games industry.
- Comment on Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered 1 week ago:
Great article. The entangling web of endless progression systems is one piece, but one thing they failed to mention is time gating and daily quests. It’s very important for these games to force you to play a little bit every day, instead of in large chunks all at once. This helps move the game subconsciously in your brain from “a game” to “a habit/a hobby”, and that makes your purchasing decisions very different.