RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay look, as much as I hate Nu-Marathon and NeoBungie, it was only a few in-game (most likely placeholder) textures in a beta build of the game. Anyone trying to claim the entire game was stolen has no idea what they are talking about. It’s wrong that it happened but in the bigger picture, it’s a very minor issue compared to other things with other games.

  As a side note, and as an artist myself: Artists do not “own” an art style. Marathon’s art style is not stolen. Brutalism in graphic design existed since the late 1990s. Monet doesn’t “own” impressionism, Dali doesn’t “own” surrealism, Warhol doesn’t “own” pop-art. They never have. Anime and manga have been using that art style in their design and marketing for a very long time. Anime being a pretty big influence on Bungie during the time they were making old Marathon, Halo CE, and most obviously, Oni.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 requirements are out⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, in driving games, you dont really want to be changing a whole lot about the driving model once everyone agrees its perfect. Good driving mechanics are always good, and bad driving mechanics are always bad. The only thing worse than bas driving mechanics is when the previous game had perfectly fun driving physics and the next game changes it, making it objectively worse.

  Which happened to Need for Speed. A fun arcade racer with predictable physics, Underground 2 had perfected the driving model Black Box had made. Slidey enough to make entering a drift feel easy and controllable, but still predictable enough to master over time. Then in Most Wanted they changed the driving model and added insane amounts of grip for some reason, making the driving model feel more like Mario Kart. Then every game after that one got progressively worse, until we land at the absolute bottom of the barrel games made by Criterion, who make all their driving models feel like they came from a mobile game with tilt controls. Like Unbound.

  I dont believe a driving game with good and fun driving mechanics needs to really change anything other than the map, music, and adding cars for subsequent games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Has Apparently Shut Down Dark Outlaw Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every game must be over-the-shoulder action slop, or nobody will ever buy them!

  ~ Game Executives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo definitely learning the wrong lesson from this:

  • The Right Lesson: Maybe we shouldn’t released an expensive console, with only a handful of new games and tons of repeat releases that are $70 (and suck), and some of those games dont even have a real physical copy, and stop treating our fans like they are literally Hitler because they are passionate about our products.

  • The Wrong Lesson: People must not want powerful hardware and physical games anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Save your game first though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The true ending though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The lyrics are designed to evoke a feeling, but not confuse the player with actual lyrics they might understand (especially if the song is playing while characters are talking in-game).

  To do this, the songwriter just created nonsense words that made the sound they wanted, and later on called it Chaos Language. That way they only had to record the song once for all localizations. Its not a real language though, because it doesn’t have any grammar rules or anything.

  They did sing some songs in multiple real languages though, which typically play during the end credits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am the same unless the content added as either years later or is a massive nearly game changing update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Highly dependant on the game and the content.

  NieR Automata has you get 5 endings and see the credits roll at least twice in order to actually get all of the story, and the content is actually very different. Like the credits rolling isnt treated as the end of the game, just a way to break up the pacing.

  But if the game is highly repetitive, extremely linear, and exactly the same on subsequent playthroughs? Nah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is 'Working Closely With Leading Cyber Security Experts to Investigate' Possible Security Breach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me guess, theyre going to try to claim it wasn’t real like what happened with that one ID verification company recently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Data Breach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I never really left, but its like, how can businesses honestly expect customers to buy their product when the objectively better (and safer in this case) experience is to just pirate the content?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider them tedious, but I generally dont end up doing all the side content, I just played the game and occasionally did the side quests between main story quests, so I wouldn’t be able to give you a good assessment on that.

  For whatever reason eBay prices on the game have spiked dramatically, but you used to be able to get the game disk for Xbox 360 for like, $10. Its backwards compatible.

  You could also just download and emulate the PS3 copy of NieR Gestalt for free if you are concerned about not liking it and buy the game later if you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Data Breach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Changed my account password and cancelled my subscription.

  In their exit survey, I told them the reason I am cancelling is because “your ‘business’ is a massive cyber security liability, and I do not plan to return unless you give my account the most premium tier eubscription for free, forever.”

  So its back to the seas for me. I tried being a good person and doing it legally, but if that comes with the massive caveat that my data is going to be harvested/stolen multiple time, then I would rather pirate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nier Automata⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Automata was good, but I found myself enjoying NieR (Gestalt, not Replicant) way more. Its older and less refined, but the story was more captivating, and I found the father a more charming character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now listen up! Back in my day, we didn’t have fancy allowance money! We had siblings. Two siblings and a single income for the entire family! And we had to share the single income! You should consider yourself very lucky children!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get this is supposed to be satire, but do what you want. I don’t control you. But you are responsible for what you choose to do (or not do). Childcare is a big responsibility, and if you can’t handle it, at the very least be responsible enough to realize that and not subject potential children to mistreatment.

  Its pretty easy to not have kids. It does take self-control, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to point out that there are deadbeat moms as well. It’s not exclusively a dad thing, its more a “deadbeat parent” thing. Unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its hard to argue with Russian Tim Curry. He was such a fun pick for that role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked it more. Red Alert 2 was good but I just prefer Generals Zero Hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is my Quality Slop list (I only like them because they are good):

  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • Metal Gear Solid
  • NieR Gestalt
  • Test Drive Unlimited 2
  • Halo Combat Evolved
  • Dark Souls
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
  • Half-Life: Opposing Force
  • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
  • Silent Hill 2 (the original, not the remake)
  • Super Metroid
  • Need for Speed Underground 2
  • Shenmue 1, 2, and 3
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
  • Age of Empires II
  • Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour
  • Policenauts
  • Panzer Dragoon Orta
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many crts yall have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two.

  A 1981 JVC 5" radio TV, and a Sylvania 27" with builtin VHS+DVD combo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shenmue III Enhanced debut trailer, details, and screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay wait, why the DLSS 5 AI kinda cooking with those casting picks though??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the problem is the people. All the people. Even if you take away business and money, which isn’t realistic, you still have to deal with the fact that humans are awful to each other, especially when they have power over each other. Government rulers throughout history have been horrible to their subjects just for the love of the game, sometimes they didn’t even get anything out of it. They just wanted others to suffer.

  Look at Reddit, or even here on Lemmy, honestly. Is every moderator and admin some magnanimous and benevolent person? No, of course not. Moderators have a bit of a reputation for being horrendously corrupt power trippers, right? Do they get paid to be that way? Sure, some, but even without that they would likely act the same regardless. And I am a moderator here on Lemmy saying this.

  There are not enough “nice” people in the world for a human government to ever work the way you suggest. And even if there were, there is no guarantee that they would always be that way. All it takes is one person criticizing people with authority, one person suggesting something those with authority don’t like, etc. No human government ever started from purely bad intentions. But the bad was baked in from before the start, it is unavoidable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are you picking up March 19th?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am considering Tainted Grail, I have heard good things about it. Also looking forward to Screamer and seeing how that is.

  Screamer wont be on sale most likely, but Tainted Grail might be. If its less than $30 USD I will probably get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just the US government. All government. Literally all of them. Not a single human government has ever existed in the history of humanity that wasn’t the villain of the story.

  In not an anarchist, governments provide useful services and protections for their citizens. But lets not fool ourselves into thinking that any government is better than another, they are all bad equally, just in different ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the light of recent news regarding DLSS5...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DLSS, FSR, XeSS, etc are all great for extending the life of older cards. Unfortunately, the GPU manufacturers found this out pretty early on and keep updating the technology to be more and more performance expensive, meaning you need a newer card to get any benefit.

  Therefore no, the new versions are not really worth anything other than artificially boosting your framerate, which at that point just dropping the render resolution will probably give you more or less the same result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Departures are necessary," Crystal Dynamics say as they yet again lay off Tomb Raider staff, but they're "fully committed" to the reboot and sequel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the game is good and I can afford it, yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the game have a cash item shop? Will they be removing that? I can understand if they are removing a cash item shop or something, that is technically a trade of that tevenue for subscription revenue. A little late to the subscription party though, people are wisening up to the fact they end up paying more on subscriptions.

  I am not unreasonable though. Nobody ever likes price increases but from the perspective of the business price increases are sometimes necessary to keep up with inflation and cover server costs, etc. I dont know Jagex’s business and financials enough to know if this is necessary for the game to stay online or if it is just greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. While DF have always had the technical computer knowledge of the average iOS user, that doesn’t excuse death threats (if they even actually receieved any and aren’t just making the claim up for sympathy reasons) of any kind.

  They made their hype video, now they make their pseudo-intellectual analyses to try to appeal to both sides of the equation: fanatics of and against DLSS. The problem is, they never had any credibility to begin with. None of their “technical” videos are detailed enough to be anything more than surface level overviews, which to the average iOS user makes them seem like geniuses, but anyone with real technical knowledge can see that they only know enough to be dangerous because they think they know more than they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s getting weird folks, a second five fret game is getting pushed, Sound Studio⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Clone Hero.