absquatulate
@absquatulate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 2 days ago:
Of course it is. It’s invasive by design. The “recent tweaks” were because of backlash, but now that’s died down
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 days ago:
Deliver At Any Cost - fun game, but I swear the plot is just an excuse to feature those wonderful destruction mechanics.
Robocop - Actually not bad! I haven"t seen or played anything Robocop related in 30 years, but I’ll be damned if this game doesn’t make you feel exactly like him ( for better or worse )
Pacific Drive - finally managed to finish this one after starting and abandoning it twice because it’s just terrifying to me. ( I just had to start it again after reading Roadside Picnic and thinking “hey, this reads familiar” ). It’s still terrifying, but absolutely great game.
Now I’m playing Kingdoms&Castles and Starbound again to calm the fuck down.
- Comment on The GeForce NOW Native App for Steam Deck Is Here 1 week ago:
Fuckin’ finally. This could actually help people trying to run fortnites and apexes and whatnot on steam decks.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was rounding things a bit. Great year for gaming
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 2 weeks ago:
And some non-GOG gems, to continue this trend:
Elite: Dangeous - best space-sim out there, no other comes close. Also one of the few live-service games with a great community around it.
Anno 2205 - Seem by many as the black sheep in the anno series, it’s still a great game with a fantastic future vibe.
Craft the world ( hey, it’s also on gog ) - dwarf fortress like game
- Comment on Anno 117: Pax Romana - Gameplay Showcase Trailer 3 weeks ago:
1800 did not have that nimby mechanic. Actually can’t remember if any anno game had it ( maybe 1701 ). 1800 also did away with the separation between campaign and endless and just mooshed them together in what was one of the very few downsides of the game.
To me this one looks less like an anno and more like a contemporary Impressions city builder, but the potential is there. Fingers crossed that ubi doesn’t stuff it full of anti-features.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 5 weeks ago:
So now can we please get the other games that were supposed to launch in autumn?
- Comment on As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper 1 month ago:
Ooh, I’m getting this. Everspace 2 was a great game and in my mind a true spiritual succesor to Freelancer.
- Comment on As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper 1 month ago:
Yes, I’m sure they’re the first and this is totally not a paid article.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 month ago:
Are HMDs really more repairable? Most recent phone they had that tried to be repairable was Skyline and even there it was pretty limited
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 6 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? 6 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 7 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 7 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.