GalacticHero

@GalacticHero@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost of Yōtei - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a little disappointed that it doesn’t appear to be a direct continuation of Jin’s storyline, but I’m still excited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cut taken by stores is of little concern to me as a consumer. Greenlight was a mess for a lot of reasons, but they discontinued it years ago, while Epic continues to pay for exclusivity deals. Steam provides lots of services to me that Epic doesn’t, though, as others have listed here. That said, I also like GOG and itch.io.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little different to have your own games exclusively on your platform than to pay other devs not to release on other platforms, and it’s entirely different if devs just choose not to release elsewhere because no other store is worth the effort for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Voiced characters that use generative AI in real time instead of prerecorded lines and a dialogue tree come to mind as an obvious use. How cool would that be, to be playing an RPG and ask any character any question you want and get an actual verbal answer? No way you can do that with voice actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your Servernames!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Futurama-based names. It started with my wifi network, which I named Zoidberg, because why not. The NAS is Infosphere, the media server is Hypnotoad, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same issue at first, but once I learned that the game actually expects you to spend some time in the training ring with Bernard to both level up Henry’s fighting and build your own skills, it got a lot better. The game will let you do one round of training and move on, but you should do quite a few to level up, and you should revisit the training ring periodically as you level more to learn new techniques.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT launches on Steam May 16, 2024⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say a little more repetitive than Horizon. The structure is very similar, but there are really only four or so types of enemies and they’re all human, so you lose a lot of the variety that comes with fighting the machines.

  That said, I still enjoyed it. Even though it gets a bit stale in the mid to late game, the gameplay is solid, and the story is good enough that I didn’t mind too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I feel like no good can come of this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i still cant get over how PG the Astral Lounge is.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been (probably unreasonably) my biggest complaint with Starfield since I went into the club. There are gameplay and story issues that realistically should be bigger problems for me, but for some reason I’m actually offended by the Astral Lounge. I don’t expect nudity or even topless dancers, even though thematically it seems appropriate there, but what the fuck were they thinking? The game is rated M for some reason anyway, so why are we being so prudish? Baldur’s Gate 3 gets away with sexually aggressive lizard-person pussy in your face and that seems to be fine with most people, even as a modern mainstream AAA game. Why can we not have a simple space bikini/speedo when the setting calls for it instead of whatever that fucking monstrosity of an outfit is? If you’re not comfortable doing that, maybe don’t put a “club” with “exotic dancers” in your game at all, especially if the story describes that club (and entire city) as particularly libertine and lawless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hope it gets the funding and resources it needs to realize its potential. Hopefully all the recent attention helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of games are made for adults, and relatively few mainstream games have sex scenes at all. Many of the games with sex scenes have an option to disable those scenes and nudity. Practically all of them have an M rating with specific content descriptors on the box or store page, making it easy for parents to avoid it altogether. All modern game platforms also have parental controls that can be set up in a couple minutes.

  All this is to say that if kids are seeing sex scenes in games, it’s because their parents have ignored all the warnings and options. For a parent to say that these types of games should not be made (as one of the above commenters did) for adults because they’re too lazy and feckless to use any of the options available to control and monitor the types of content their children consume, when it’s been made so easy, is disturbing. It’s especially disheartening to see it in a gaming community, from someone who presumably plays games themselves and therefore has absolutely no excuse to not know about the options available. I’m accustomed to hearing it from places like Fox News, but not here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t understand where the M rating comes from. A few blood smears on the scenery? Is it the packs of cigarettes lying around?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Xbox Series S Is More Popular Than The Xbox Series X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And “Revolution” was Nintendo’s codename for the Wii at the time.