Dariusmiles2123
@Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
- 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 4 days 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
That was an interesting read, thanks!
- Comment on Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist 2 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 2 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 3 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 3 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 3 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah I forgot this one. I enjoyed it too.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 4 weeks 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…
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- Comment on Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination 5 weeks ago:
Infomaniak is even cheaper with kdrive www.infomaniak.com/fr/ksuite/kdrive/tarifs
- Comment on RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an Update 5 weeks ago:
So what? How much bigger is it than the other one?
If it allows me to not change too many things on the Deck to install, I’m okay with wasting some space compared to other solutions.
Also it can emulate not just one console.
- Comment on RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an Update 5 weeks ago:
RetroDeck has the advantage of being a Flatpak and not needing Deckyloader plugin if you’re using a Steam Deck.
I’ve had a great experience with it👍
- Comment on Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music? 5 weeks ago:
Having music in peertube would be nice, but I think the artist would have to have some kind of paywall or a Patreon…
- Comment on GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality" 1 month ago:
I’m trying to buy around 50% of my games on GOG and the other 50% on Steam.
Clearly the ease of use award goes to Steam, especially on Linux.
Gog is still okay thanks to Heroic but it is a commitment with no background downloading on Steam Deck and slow downloads.
I guess we, gamers, only have to make sure that Valve still has competition so that they can’t just turn evil.
For now, I really appreciate how Valve is supporting Linux and I appreciate how GOG understand that we want to own our games and play them forever.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Do you have an example of such a game? No reduction after 10 years sounds really weird.
- Comment on we need more users 1 month ago:
I agree with you but I would still want numbers to go up a little bit, not down the way they are apparently.
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 1 month ago:
Exactly! The good part of such a shortage is that old tech can stay relevant for far longer and devs will have to optimize more.
Sometimes, therés a lot of good in a bad situation.
I want great games, not necessarly more demanding ones. The Last of Us 2 is still the most beautiful game I’ve played and I don’t really need more if it means getting new hardware.
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 1 month ago:
I’d also love to have a normal PS5 partition and a Linux one. This would be the best of both worlds, but I think I’m dreaming too much😇
- Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you 1 month ago:
My downloads are at maybe 2 MB/S through Heroic (officialy 0.5 MB/S but I think the numer dispoayed is wrong) and Firefox, slower than on Steam even if my connection isn’t crazy.
I keep the games installed and move the installation between internal and external storage.
- Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you 1 month ago:
Through Heroic I think you can just import an already installed game you have on an external hard drive. Wouldn’t this allow you to use your game on every new computer you get?
The downloads are really slow through Heroic, so I’d prefer not having to download offline installers on top of it😅
- Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you 1 month ago:
I might be stupid, but what’s the point of downloading offline installers. Isn’t a game installed through Heroic or Gog Galaxy playable offline, which would mean it would still be useable if GOG went bankrupt?