Dariusmiles2123
@Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Soon: Watch any YouTube video on Odysee 21 hours ago:
It surprised me to see this. The good news is that apparently it doesn’t affect the revenue of creators…
Still, I don’t really know what to think about it as I’d just want the creators to move willingly to another platform.
- Comment on Nvidia's DLSS 5 Is a Slap in the Face to the Art of Video Game Design 1 day ago:
To be honest it looks great and at first I thought about how impressive it is.
Then you think about how it modifies what was created and how it could lack consistency with a character looking a certain way in a part of the game and differently later.
I don’t know know what to think about these technologies like FSR and DLSS…
I don’t think I mind the fake frames as it could give you more performance on something like a Steam Deck, but the rest is tricky…
- Comment on No achievements in Wolfenstein the New Order through Heroic 2 days ago:
Thanks to you, I managed to downgrade the game and I have now gotten a few achievements.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 3 days ago:
Interesting article. I think it would be really stupid to not reuse stuff if your game is set in a realistic universe (would be different for a cartoonish universe).
In fact, it would even be a way to avoid using AI (even if I think we’ll end up with devs reusing stuff and using AI).
Then you can use colors or lighting to create a different feel to the game, just like different movie directors can film the same place in a totally different way.
- Comment on No achievements in Wolfenstein the New Order through Heroic 1 week ago:
I got an answer and it’s pretty easy so I’m posting it here for anyone facing such a problem.
Go to « : », « modify installation », « keep the game at specific version », « select game version ».
I’ll check the next week if the downgrade fixed the issue and report back.
- Comment on No achievements in Wolfenstein the New Order through Heroic 1 week ago:
Thanks a lot! If it doesn’t mean restarting the game, now I’ll just have to find a way to downgrade a game through Heroic. Would you know how to do it?
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
As you can see, I care about achievements: sh.itjust.works/post/56525516
As others have said, it’s a great incentive to go deeper in a game. It should just not become a grind and that’s why I don’t 100% a lot of games.
It can also make you remember what branch of a story you went for in a story driven game.
If it gives data to developer about how a game is played, it ain’t something I mind as the way I play isn’t a important privacy wise as other data.
What’s stupid is when people buy a game just because it has easy achievements though…
- Submitted 1 week ago to gog@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education 1 week ago:
The voice chat isn’t activated on my kids account as hés clearly too young. I didn’t have anything to do to disable it, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable if he wasn’t playing Roblox in the luving room where I can see what hés playing.
Also he loves it when I watch him play so we get to share and discuss a lot about the games he plays.
I guess Roblox is a game where you have to have good parenting behind.
- Comment on Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education 1 week ago:
My son plays a lot of Roblox.
At first I had a really bad impression about it because I thought it was just another microtransaction hell with pedophiles lurking around.
In the end, hés not really spending money and there are some pretty good and different games on the platform.
I also appreciate the fact that Roblox made him accept that you can play graphically simple games and have fun on cheap hardware.
So, while I’d prefer if he only played single player games on Linux or Playstation like me, I think Roblox is better than what people are saying.
I’m not saying it’s good for the game industry or consumer, but it’s almost better than an Nba 2k with its constant microtransactions despite paying for the game already…
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 1 week ago:
Yeah I know. What I wanted to say is that it would be an incentive to buy one (and convert it to Linux) if they were losing money on every unit.
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 1 week ago:
That would feel even sweeter if they were losing money on every Helix sold.
To be honest, my Linux daily driver is a Microsoft Surface Go 1 and it has served me well for the last 6 years.
Still it’s not what I’d get if I had to choose again.
So if I have to upgrade from my Steam Deck/Playstation 5 gaming combo, it’s probably be a Steam Machine, even if it’s way less poweful than Helix.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 3 weeks ago:
Add Mass Effect, Dead Space and Star Wars Jedi series…
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 4 weeks ago:
While I understand the pain of someone having no hardware right now, I think you should still be able to get an old gaming PC or an old Playstation 4 to enjoy games.
In fact, almost everyone has something like this lying around…
While it means running old AAA or lower demanding current games, it’s still great gaming time.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 weeks ago:
You haven’t read my comment I guess.
I have a lot of games that I bought (mostly for max CHF 20.-, so max 25$), but they are only playing free live service games.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 weeks ago:
I have kids and I have a huge library of games on Playstation and PC. What are they playing?
Fortnite and Roblox which they could play for free if they didn’t want to get cool skins. So, no, games aren’t as expensive for kids as they used to be, except if they waste a lot of money in predatory schemes in games where they could play for free and just 1-2 things to support the devs.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 weeks ago:
The price of new games isn’t a problem for me as they are still cheaper than what they were when I was a kid. In my country Switzerland, an expensive new game is stll less than CHF100.- when some Nes games were CHF120.- thirty years ago. Back in the Playstation 1 era games were around CHF89.- and now most Playstation 5 games are around CHF79.-.
And that’s not taking inflation into account!
Gaming is one of the few things which has become cheaper in my lifetime, especially now that I get a lot of old games on my Steam Deck and only racing sims on my Playstation 5.
For me the problem is that you can pay such an amount and still be subject to many popups begging for your money (microtransactions) or DRM’s (always online or others).
Or that, thanks to digital games, you’ll soon not be able to resell an expensive game that you didn’t enjoy enough to keep.
And also the fact that games aren’t really prettier than 10 years ago but that you still need better hardware to play them.
I think game companies really need to have a look at why their games are becoming so expensive, because I don’t think it’s because they are treating their employees better.
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 4 weeks ago:
That was an interesting read, thanks!
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 4 weeks ago:
Oh, thanks for the deep analyse.
I guess I might play these games one day then🤞
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 4 weeks ago:
I played all of them until Double Agent.
I remember really enjoying the part where you were doing spy missions in your QG in double agent and the way you had an objective with your organisation and another one with your agency.
I don’t know why I never played the following ones, but now I don’t think I could enjoy certain political aspects of the story where the americans sre the good guys…
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m hoping the game will be released on GOG as I wouldn’t buy a game I’ve already owned on console on Steam since it wouldn’t be DRM free.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I guess the old one might feel really old if it’s your first Final Fantasy.
Even the remakes feel a bit dated in a way (not graphically).
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
As long you can still play the old version with your old save, I don’t see the problem.
Although I wonder what the new version introduces…
I might replay FFVII at one point after getting the third episode of the remake. It’d be a nice way to spot the differences in the story…
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 1 month ago:
Apparently a lot of games don’t have DRMs on Steam. The only thing missing is a badge indicating this.
- Comment on XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025? 1 month ago:
Yeah the two last games are really great and I enjoyed them so much on Steam Deck.
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 1 month ago:
Oh yes you’re right, but then let’s say that a lot of great games were published by EA.
- Comment on Mass Effect is one of the greatest games ever and EA makes good games 1 month ago:
Oh yeah I forgot this one. I enjoyed it too.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 month ago:
Having one launcher isn’t a problem for me. Steam’s OS’s launcher even allows me to launch GOG games through Heroic without even really launching Heroic.
Where it starts being a problem is when individual games need their own launcher…
I see the launcher as the system menu in a console…
- Submitted 1 month ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 17 comments
- Comment on Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination 1 month ago:
Well they are based in my city and they’ve been around for 30 years.
They use their datacenters to heat buildings and seem to have good ethos.
I’ve been using kdrive for 5 years and I can only complain about the lack of Flatpak (Appimage for Linux) and the fact that they don’t have an alternative to something like Google Photos.