thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch 1 day ago:
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Largely yes, though there are a number of titles which are currently experiencing issues: Official Compatibility Guide
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Yes: Official Guide to Transferring Data from a Switch to a Switch 2
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 days ago:
Being the usual suspects:
Front Mission, if you like tactical RPGs (ie. where you move characters on a grid game map during battles).
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch 2 days ago:
There’s a lot of noise and disinformation floating out there, here’s the simplest explanation:
The Switch 2 will launch with three different types of physical cartridges denoted by serial numbers to describe their purpose:
LB - The cartridge will work on Nintendo Switch 2 consoles only. LP - Game Key cartridges in which a digital download is required LN - The cartridge will work on both Nintendo Switch 1 and 2.
- Comment on Snap election likely as Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff loses no-confidence vote 2 days ago:
Echoing everyone else’s sentiments in saying thank you for the write-up - we really don’t get enough Tas-specific news here, even just across the strait!
What do you think is the likelihood of Labor winning a majority/minority Government as a result of a potential snap election?
- Comment on Snap election likely as Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff loses no-confidence vote 2 days ago:
That explains the YouTube short from the ABC? which came across my feed earlier today.
Their coverage is woeful as always, is there a succinct summary of what’s happening for those of us outside Tasmania?
- Comment on Lumines Arise - Announce Trailer 4 days ago:
Please, please, please don’t be a micro-transaction laden download only title! 🤞🏻
I loved the PSP versions growing up, and this series holds a special place in my heart. I really hope they do it justice…
- Comment on Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - Gameplay Trailer 4 days ago:
Consider this an opportunity to take the money you could have put towards buying this game, and instead use it to purchase stock in Konami.
Not only as an investor will you have the ability to voice your concerns during meetings, if enough gamers were to do this - they could eventually wrestle controls of the company away from those that seek to monetise every single goddamn thing, while shitting on the creatives that created the work they are now trying to leech off of.
- Comment on EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN 1 week ago:
I don’t want the current iteration of EA to succeed; but I do want them to return to help nurture quality releases of Command and Conquer, Mass Effect, Dead Space, Burn Out, Need for Speed, Road Rash, Theme X, Sim City and about a dozen other dormant (or mismanaged) franchises.
Could I get similar experiences from other publishers and developers? Absolutely — but I’d much rather we as gamers have a broader choice in the future of our hobby, rather than continually whittling down our options as quality developers get swallowed up and spat out by the current industrial machine.
- Comment on EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN 1 week ago:
Realistically yes, you are correct.
I’m sure we all (at least those old enough) to remember that Boycott Modern Warfare II Steam group screenshot.
Idealistically, imagine that for every release - instead of giving EA that $80 dollars, 10% of gamers put that money towards a share instead.
So that would work out to be ~$200m in lost upfront sales, and up to $540m in lost recurring spend (microtransactions, battle passes etc.).
That would only be enough for gamers to own 0.5% of the company after the first year, but keeping this up for multiple years could have a downward pressure on EA’s stock price long-term as they miss their financial forecasts - increasing gamer’s buying power on shares.
Within a few years, these “Gamers United” would begin to have sufficient stake to influence board decisions (for the better).
The best part being that, the entire time, EA would continue to pay dividends to them (currently at a rate of ~$3.10 per share, per year), while they still technically own that money - almost like a corporate savings account.
- Comment on EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN 1 week ago:
I really wish gamers could unite in a way that they buy out sufficient ownership stakes in these terrible publishers that they force them to treat development studios better, and not push out half-finished slop filled to the brim with predatory monetisation.
EA, Konami, Ubisoft would all be ripe for a renaissance if that were to pass.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 1 week ago:
I’m going to hold out for Cyberpunk 2222, personally.
- Comment on Developer Interview: my Q&A with The RomM Project 1 week ago:
So is the main benefit to this that you could host your totally legitimate back-ups on a NAS, and access them from any on-network device?
If so, can you share save states this way?
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 week ago:
Which is why in Australia, when we tell someone to eat shit - it’s actually because we care about their digestive health!
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
So the gaming equivalent of ‘chasing the dragon’? That tracks!
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
I’d take SMW over SMB3, but I can’t really fault anything else in this list! 😅
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 week ago:
Unfortunately JNCO went out of business 7 years ago; shame, really - it could have made for a great moonshot stock bet! 😅
- Comment on Opinion: Labor’s tweak to superannuation affects only the wealthiest Australians. To argue against it is misguided 2 weeks ago:
So it impacts individuals with >$3m in Superannuation - a whopping 80K people total?
…and the media are covering it as if the Sky was falling? Yeah, sounds about right. Typical right-wing populist spiel, they are all for talking about improving things for the masses - but will rail against any baby steps made in the right direction.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 2 weeks ago:
I know the whole “Year of Linux” is a worn-out meme by now; but things are a joke, until their not - best case in point would be AMD CPUs pre-Ryzen compared to now.
Steam Deck sales may not compare favourably to Switch / Console sales - it’s hard to say as Valve are privately owned and under no obligation to publish numbers. But all of a sudden, we can add a not insignificant portion of Windows handheld users to the mix (not 100%, but not 0% either).
Microsoft clearly sees this as an emerging risk, which is why they’re partnering to create an Xbox-branded handheld.
In terms of online representation - it’s also a case of chicken and egg. Online games don’t support Linux due to anti-cheat implementations, so online gamers don’t use Linux. Plenty of single-player offline experiences exist for us!
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 2 weeks ago:
I know, right?!
I just hope that there’s enough movement in the market to not just push more developers to support Linux as a platform, but to disincentivise them from punishing players through lack of anti-cheat / incompatible DRM.
Also, low-key hyped for the (hopefully) eventual Steam Deck 2 once the market has re-aligned to a ‘new normal’ and Valve can once again push the envelope further!
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 2 weeks ago:
I’m lucky in that my work arranges them for us at no cost. Otherwise I’d never remember to get it done, as it always feels like it’s too early — until it becomes too late!
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 2 weeks ago:
If you really want to feel old, consider that GTA: Vice City was released in 2002, and set in 1986 - a 16 year gap.
Grand Theft Auto 4, set in a contemporary timeframe was released 17 years ago…
- Comment on We gonna fight 3 weeks ago:
Political ideology is a spectrum, and I feel that Leftists tend to be as hostile towards those they deem ‘not as left’ as them, just as much as they are towards Fascists, Neo-Cons and their ilk.
It’s basically the no true Scotsman fallacy manifest.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 3 weeks ago:
They are still hiring, according to their website - so unlikely they’ve been shut down.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 3 weeks ago:
Just keep Grove Street Games as far away from this as possible.
No one wants to see them butcher another entry in this series with their lazy, AI-upscale slop.
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 4 weeks ago:
The moment you named the subtitle (Allied Assault), you hit the nail on the head!
WOW, I never realised that the series began on the PS1 - or that Allied Assault was the THIRD entry in the series! I guess I’ll have to add both PS1 entries to my hunt list.
- Comment on Medal of honor on the PS1 4 weeks ago:
Not sure if this had the same campaign as the PC release (ah, the good ol’ days where games on different platforms could be completely different); but both Medal of Honor and the very first Call of Duty were formative FPS experiences for me.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
That is very true, but the Venn Diagram overlap between Gamers^TM^ and ‘Nintendo gamers’ is a rapidly shrinking area.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 4 weeks ago:
I know, which is why I specifically called out from GTA3 onwards. 😜
They’ve been console first for a lot longer than not; pretty much ever since they changed their name from DMA Design to Rockstar North.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 4 weeks ago:
Feel free to complain, no one is trying to stop you. Just understand though that you are screaming into the void, and nothing will come of it bar heightened cortisol.
Grand Theft Auto is the arguably the most profitable gaming franchise ever, and it got there doing this exact release cadence. Rockstar Games & Take-Two Interactive will continue to do so for as long as it continues to maximise profits.
Does it stuck for us gamers? Absolutely, but that’s just Capitalism. Given how quickly this hobby has been enshittified over the post decade, we should probably be counting our lucky stars that it looks like Rockstar is still investing heavily into the next entry, and not just pumping out shallow annual releases like Call of Duty!
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m just old, but I feel like all the people complaining about no PC port at launch, or how this trailer doesn’t show gameplay must be ‘new’ to the series (which to be fair, could mean as much as a decade).
This is how Rockstar have pretty much always done it, going all the way back to GTA3 on the PlayStation 2; PC ports have always been 6+ months after.
Trailer 1 tends to be about the setting, Trailer 2 about the primary characters, then Trailer 3/4 about the supporting characters. ‘Gameplay Trailers’ usually don’t come out around/after launch as that’s usually what’s being still being worked on by the devs.