absquatulate

@absquatulate@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s cool to hate on this game, especially with it being so mediocre, but to me the number is fairly meaningless by itself. I wonder how that 2 million budget compares to other large releases ( say Starfield, since it’s pretty clear that bethesda also pumped a lot of money into the “gaming press”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just perception, it’s mindless tribalism and it’s a form of bigotry in itself. It’s no better than doing things to “own the libs” or whatever.

  And the irony, some express this attitude on lemmy, which unlike signal is an actual platform, not a chat app, and with tankie roots to top it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why should it matter if the new users are all magas or not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the rule with every civ launch? They’re all somewhat half-baked on launch (although 7 admittedly looks quite a bit less baked than the others).

  That said, I feel Civ formula seems to be in decline. To me Call To Power was peak civ ( yeah, fight me ), but while 3,4 and 5 were great “second-bests”, I couldn’t really get into 6, and I"m not really planning on playing 7, not with this 3-age format anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so strange. Wasn’t it not long ago that studios were crowding into very specific release windows ( usually november iirc ) so they could maximize initial sales? Maybe the digital release era has changed things. I mean, I get it if your game was in the same niche or smth, but “companies might tank” seems a little much.

  Either way, if this is true, eoy 2025 is in for a dry spell when it comes to new games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 245 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, I went in blind into RDR2 and, not knowing about John’s story, the epilogues felt so weird and out of place. I still can’t really get into his story, maybe because on a subconscious level it feels like it broke the closure I had from Arthur’s story. But yeah, RDR2 really is a fantastic game. They nailed pretty much everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be tempted to say that it will now turn to shit, but in Discord’s case it was pretty shit already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 5 Drifts Onto PS5 in April⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is not without its flaws, but goddamn if it doesn’t look, sound and feel fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exploit it you say? Please get in line behind the russians, the chinese snd pretty much all arab countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wayfinder. Recently discovered it and i’ve been having quite a bit of fun with it. It’s a former live service converted to singleplayer/coop, do the story blows. But it’s a good ARPG - a Torchlight meets Warframe sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really expect anything good coming from them. To me the likes of Blizzard, Ubi, Bioware, Bethesda, EA etc are shareholder-driven companies, that stopped innovating a long time ago and now only produce and regurgitate the absolute bare minimum slop.

  I have been pleasantly surprised on occasion, like for ubi’s Anno 1800, or blizzard’s diablo 2 remake, but they’re few and far between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lobbying. The greedy fucks will lobby until they get their way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus christ. People need to realize that this is a scam. No video game is worth thousands of your dollars, especially a decade old game still in alpha.