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- Comment on Rivals of Aether II | Official Release Date Trailer (October 23) 1 month ago:
Work required for ROA1 level of “workshop characters” is exponentially higher in the new art style and engine. When/if this game gets Steam Workshop, it’ll probably end up with more “tweaked/cloned” characters than totally new wacky MUGEN stuff like ROA1.
- Comment on My solo project roguelike tower defense game is having a free prologue 6 months ago:
Reminds me of Heretic’s Fork.
- Comment on Hades II - Sign Up for the HADES II Technical Test 6 months ago:
Yeah, waiting on Hades 1’s full release was easy since it was EGS exclusive for the entire early access phase. This one’s gonna be harder to dodge until it’s done.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
If there’s a personal information field, filling it with random noise is marginally better than leaving it blank. The pronouns field is new but I’ve noticed a lot of women friends (that have gender neutral usernames and profile pics, and no linked social media) opting to not use it or set it to he/him because having it filled out accurately caused trolls and bots and incels to fill their DMs.
- Comment on Google just took down IPAs (Apple equivalent of APKs) of popular YouTube tweaks 8 months ago:
The equivalents for Android, precompiled ReVanced APKs, are commonly used to spread malware. Following the instructions to patch the app yourself isn’t hard. Google taking down precompiled modded versions of YouTube but leaving patches and the the tools anybody can use to apply them is a neutral thing at worst.
- Comment on Stop Making Great Anime Into Terrible Video Games 8 months ago:
FighterZ is an actually good fighting game in the style of MvC or Street Fighter though, not the same 3d drivel with copy paste movesets and terrible game balance usually associated with anime tie-ins.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss 10 months ago:
Pirate it. There’s no DRM. Buy it if you like it.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I thought RAID1 enabled faster reads too, because both drives have the complete file. Writes don’t get a speed bump ofc, since those are still bottlenecked by the slowest single drive in the array
- Comment on Everdrive Black Friday Sale Starts Tomorrow 11 months ago:
It’s also possible to fake Pal Park. Pkhex can import a gen3 Pokémon into a gen 4 file, and any 3DS can back up, restore, and edit NDS Pokémon saves.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Most “retro” games have been backed up but the definition of retro shifts all the time. You don’t even need to go that far forward: the PS3 and X360 have a ton of missing stuff - games yes but especially DLCs and update versions.
The pre-online era was “easier” - find each revision of a Donkey Kong Country cart and your job’s done. Now, every game has 12 versions and casual pirates that “just want to play the game” only bother sharing the oldest and newest ones. There’s content locked behind promotions and account bonuses. There’s patches that alter or remove content (or patch important speedrun tech out of games). And the presence of online in otherwise single-player games is always going to be something inherently opposing preservation of the original experience - you’re not going to ever get the same experience playing Wind Waker HD with Tingle bottles that I did because either the feature is dead or it’s been reimplemented through something like Pretendo. And with a reimplementation, the source for the community posts is no longer casual fans taking selfies with bosses but instead comprised exclusively of tech savvy users who bothered to install a fake Miiverse on their hacked Wii U / emulator.
- Comment on Only You Can Prevent The Game Awards Hype Cycle - Aftermath 11 months ago:
Wasn’t last year’s TGA the one where having the tab open in the background entered you into a drawing for a Steam Deck?
- Comment on I Wanna Maker has released on Steam 11 months ago:
It’s a maker game, so there’s no reason to believe you can’t make easy levels.
- Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' 1 year ago:
So use a tool like this for call of duty multiplayer lobbies, not globally. Who cares if people “cheat” in single player games?
- Comment on Nightmare Scenario 1 year ago:
- Comment on Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games 1 year ago:
Their plan for when Fortnite stopped pulling in money was for their Epic Games Store (that they propped up by paying devs lump sums just to not launch their games on Steam) to actually make Steam levels of money because surely exclusives and freebies will make people spend money on their store. Turns out there’s a lot of people that will never spend a dime on EGS, either because they won’t install it or only use it for the free games.
So all that Fortnite money they used to pay devs to not release their games on Steam ended up being a failed investment, and they’ve had to change their incentives from “we’ll give you a huge lump sum that’s about equal to what you’d have made with a successful Steam launch” to “well we’ll give you a better revenue split if you launch exclusively on our store that guarantees you get 10% of sales volume compared to Steam”. Turns out 60% of 1m sales is better than 80% of 100k sales.
- Comment on Hard platformers with banging chiptune soundtracks? 1 year ago:
People already mentioned VVVVVV here, so I’ll go with the classics angle: the Donkey Kong Country series has phenomenal music and super tight platforming. Difficulty is a bit on the low side compared to something like Celeste, but there’s absolutely a mastery curve.
- Comment on Diablo® IV is coming to Steam 1 year ago:
People would have to buy and refund this one to bomb it, versus overwatch which was f2p. It’ll probably settle at “mixed” or “mostly positive” until blizzard does something to try to squeeze more purchases out of the playerbase again.
- Comment on Stuck at 0% Progress with qBittorrent on Torrent/Media Server Setup - Seeking Help and Insights 1 year ago:
Check that your client is whitelisted by the tracker. Some trackers wait to approve the newest versions of qBittorrent.
- Comment on Indie gaming is on the verge of an immersive sim eruption 1 year ago:
The part that makes it confusing is that all of that also applies to a stiffer open-world western RPG like Fallout or Elder Scrolls.
- Comment on The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X 1 year ago:
That’s about using emulators in retail mode which nobody with half a brain thought was gonna stick around. You pay $20 to unlock developer mode and do all your emulation stuff in there. Retail is for playing actual xbox games.
- Comment on Selfhosted backup solution with GUI 1 year ago:
I don’t run anything on the server because I don’t need to. I have my home server mounted as a network drive in Windows, so I just point Kopia’s database at a folder in there. It’s stored as an encrypted backup, and I’ve got the config for Kopia backed up in a few places (and the encryption key as well) so if the worst case scenario happens to my PC I’ll just reinstall Kopia on a fresh windows install + HDD, restore the config from the backup, then restore the backup.
I also have a backup target to an older 8TB drive that I leave with a friend and update whenever he visits for extra safety, if my whole apartment with my PC and server burns down I’ll at least be able to have an outdated snapshot and lose only a month or so instead of decades.
- Comment on Selfhosted backup solution with GUI 1 year ago:
KopiaUI is fantastic and easy to use. I used to run Duplicati but it had database issues that kept coming up and forcing a sixty-hour rebuild process every couple weeks and I wasn’t happy with the idea of my PC potentially failing during one of those six days per month.
- Comment on The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X 1 year ago:
Compete in terms of value, not price. The series S gets you Xbox’s current gen game library and a selection of 360 games, and if you’re willing to use dev mode a powerful emulation suite. Deck gets a huge percentage of Steam’s 20-year catalog as one-click installs, most other PC games that don’t use anticheat as slightly more involved installs, every PC game if you want to install windows, and also a powerful emulation suite. Plus it’s a dockable handheld instead of something that needs a monitor and controller.
The series S has better media apps and can be woken up from the couch, though.
- Comment on The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X 1 year ago:
The S is a stellar emulation box that doesn’t need to be jailbroken. It’s a hell of a lot easier to configure than a custom Linux distro like RetroPie and the hardware packs a punch. I don’t own one, but I’d be more likely to buy a series S than a PS5 or series X.
- Comment on Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs 1 year ago:
Unity would like that though.
- Comment on Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss 1 year ago:
Amazon already tried, with a Twitch branded game launcher and included game licenses for that platform in Amazon Prime.
- Comment on Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall 1 year ago:
You’re arguing about visual fidelity with someone who uses their TV to “turn 24hz movies to 120fps”. It’s the equivalent of the guy who got into a heated debate over Italian food with a Redditor that also posted about drinking his own piss on /r/piss.
- Comment on WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 1 year ago:
Child sexual assault material - underage porn. For obvious reasons, you don’t want this to be something you’re hosting automatically out of your basement server.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 is the horniest RPG I've ever played and honestly it's a bit much 1 year ago:
Unless you’re shadowheart? I told her I didn’t hate her god and the next day she was hitting me with the “I’ve never had a confidant quite like you… You’re very special to me…”
- Comment on Searching for a grindy game for on the Steam deck 1 year ago:
Halls of Torment. Cookie Clicker. Vampire Survivors.
