Stovetop
@Stovetop@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Purge 1 day ago:
I thought they were implying “Purge the keep, snack the booze.”
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 1 day ago:
Stellar Blade is a 2024 game, so likely not GotY this year if it wasn’t even close last year.
- Comment on MindsEye Developer Build a Rocket Boy Begins Layoff Process Amid Disastrous Launch, Studio Sources Say 1 day ago:
I am seeing more and more of these “review bomb” takes lately, too. Dragon Age Veilguard getting review bombed because their game is too woke. Moon Studios saying they might have to close because trolls are review bombing their new game. Monster Hunter Wilds being review bombed on Steam because entitled PC gamers expect their games to be stable, I guess.
Too many people out there are deflecting legitimate criticism in favor of what are basically conspiracy theories—that there must be a concerted effort to specifically punish these developers in particular for the crime of releasing a misunderstood masterpiece. No one wants to accept the possibility that they just put out a bad game.
- Comment on For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box. 2 days ago:
I’m surprised someone actually likes AC3, most takes I see for it are terrible.
AC2 is the one people usually prefer
- Comment on For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box. 2 days ago:
Almost guaranteed, at least. Consoles are now in the habit of closing their stores after a new generation or two when they stop making enough money, and there are a lot of games today that aren’t really playable without a day 1 patch or additional content requirement that are simply not included on the disc.
A lot of games (not even just Nintendo) don’t even include the game data on the physical media anymore. The disc/cart acts only as a license and the entire thing is downloaded from the store when first used.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 days ago:
We saved Palestine,
RedditLemmy! - Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 5 days ago:
People live around there, so harm is definitely being done to the air they breathe and the environment they live in.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 5 days ago:
Waiting for the SpaceX bros to tell everyone how this was actually a good thing because it was supposed to happen and means everything is going well.
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 1 week ago:
As a single mom, it’s hard for me to be proactive about my kids’ health, but I have to say that Cerave cream has been a GODSEND for treating the scratches and blisters they get at work.
- Comment on Stellar Blade on PC Hit 1 Million Sales 19 Times Faster Than on PlayStation 5 1 week ago:
More gooners on PC than PlayStation I guess
- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 1 week ago:
Could just go with Thrall for a Warcraft character. He wasn’t on the box for WoW 1.0, but he is basically the face of Warcraft as a franchise.
I feel like a WoW console release is destined to happen eventually, though, now that Microsoft owns them. We’ll have to see.
- Comment on NO KINGS! 1 week ago:
Just for some extra context, the character having a bad day was promised “a crown” (make me king) by this group of warlords he enlisted to support him. He proceeds to be such an unlikable shit for such a long time, they give him “a crown” by pouring molten gold on his head.
- Comment on When the riot squads come... 1 week ago:
Bystanders*
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 week ago:
They’re thick in the “ads bring us more money than making improvements” phase of corporate bullshit now.
Reddit still can’t make a better app than the ones made by solo developers who just did it as a passion project, but they’ve got enough money to throw around for a Superbowl ad spot and an entire ad campaign on YouTube.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
I don’t think the Xbox One was a disappointment due to a boycott, I think it was just a product people didn’t feel the need to buy.
Sure, there was early controversy about the always-online DRM approach they planned to take, but it didn’t launch with that in the end. What killed its hype was just being US$100 more expensive than the PS4 and having no killer exclusives lined up.
- Comment on Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio 1 week ago:
One factor might be just that Mass Effect came out first and was also Bioware’s last game before EA bought them.
The rest is just my opinion, but I do believe that Mass Effect simply told a better story (multicolored endings aside) and had a better cast of characters. Not to mention the fact that it was a single narrative across the three installments helped keep engagement up. And shooters were incredibly popular at that time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m not on lemm.ee myself so I don’t have much of a horse in this race, but I’ve been paying attention to other moves from other lemm.ee communities.
Piefed.social is a popular one because it has community migration features that make it very convenient for situations like this, but other Lemmy instances are also common choices (lemmy.zip, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.blahaj.zone, and others).
Basically it’s a question of: do you want the easy migration option that requires moving to a new platform with better tools but less robust mobile app support; and if not, which alternative Lemmy instance most closely reflects the values of the community.
Might also help to check which instances already have counterpart communities, which could affect the decision on where to go. I think there’s already an !elderscrolls@lemmy.world, for example.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sorry, should’ve clarified that this isn’t directed towards you, OP! Just at a lot of the other comments in here who are acting like someone else’s decision to buy an expensive gadget is a personal insult to them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Console wars stopped being cool years ago. Everyone has their preferences and favorites, no need to shit on someone’s fun because you think yours is better.
- Comment on Spiritfarer Developer Thunder Lotus Reveals At Fate's End, An Action Game With Dialogue-Driven Combat 1 week ago:
Spiritfarer was a masterpiece, hope their next game also succeeds.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s more the fact that kids weren’t really brought to busy markets/stores 100 years ago, nor were there busy streets full of cars everywhere. They stayed home or just in the local environment, and typically mom would also stay home to watch them and make sure they stayed out of trouble.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, ultimately it’s a matter of personal discretion.
Mainly I think we’re at the point where new consoles, now including the Switch, are more like upgrading your PC. Get the newer model to run existing games better.
Games are going to be releasing for both Switch and Switch 2 for a while, so there’s not much incentive to upgrade unless the very small list of Switch 2 exclusives is enticing right now. But if someone’s priority is playing through older games in higher quality now that it is possible to do so without pirating, there are a lot of reasons to upgrade.
It took several years for PS5 to get to the point where it was probably worth it for exclusives alone (and may still not even be there yet for many), but it was worth getting day 1 if there were PS4 games someone wanted to play at higher resolutions and/or framerates, and they didn’t mind the price.
Actually on the topic of price, also worth acknowledging that the market is a bit fucked, and existing consoles have only gone up in price since release, in complete disregard for earlier trends where they usually drop in price over time, so that could be a other reason for someone to want to get in on it early.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 2 weeks ago:
With that in mind, though, since the Switch 2 runs Switch 1 games with better performance (even ones that don’t have paid upgrades), I’d wonder if it might not still be better to finish out the Switch catalog on Switch 2 anyways just so you can have consistent framerates on some games.
- Comment on It's where you put the shit posts 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had that happen as well. Teams decides to give itself privileged access to the microphone and then forgets to surrender that privileged access when no longer needed.
- Comment on It's where you put the shit posts 2 weeks ago:
Other way around for me. At least Zoom listens to whatever I choose for my primary audio device on my PC, Teams just does whatever the fuck it wants.
- Comment on LEGO VOYAGERS | Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
This might be my favorite trailer of the event, to be honest.
I’ve played too many gritty action games at this point, just give me cute and creative stuff and I’m happy.
- Comment on MindsEye - Official Launch Trailer | 2025 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Atomic Heart 2 - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I know there was a lot of controversy around the first game due to the developer’s connections with Russian state owned organizations. Is that still the case?
- Comment on The CUBE - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Also color me disinterested.
I thought it was actually going to be a novel take on arena shooter formats, with a moving game map that would bring in new parts of a stage over time as others disappear. But the more I learned about it, the less interested I became.
So if anyone is looking to make a Rubik’s cube arena shooter, the market is still open.
- Comment on Scott Pilgrim EX - Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
This looks great. Wonder if they’ll be incorporating anything from the Netflix series in this one.
Glad this one is also free from Ubisoft.