Ashtear
@Ashtear@lemm.ee
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly taps Nexon to publish Overwatch mobile and a new StarCraft game 13 hours ago:
I’ve actively tried not to be a Blizzard doomer, but Nexon? I guess wealth extraction is where these IPs are now. Bleh.
- Comment on Ace Attorney became a hit IP only because Capcom pushed past the “failure” of first game, according to former dev 2 days ago:
Pains me to hear it called a failure, it’s such a delightful game. While the Western release years after was not part of initial development, it’s also a landmark game in English localization history. The script brilliantly handles the puns and other specific quirks of the original Japanese while also setting a standard tone for this series and similar games that followed. For example, I don’t know if Kansai-ben was translated into a US Southern accent in a video game before this one, and now it’s a common shortcut.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits 500k sales in one day 3 days ago:
I think this one’s going to sell quite well once word-of-mouth spreads.
I’ve played several hours of this already and the deeper I get, the more it makes me think of Dark Souls. It has that same sort of cadence in the dungeons, just turn-based instead, with a party. What’s wild is even with how derivative the concept is, it’s a brilliant, fresh-feeling idea for dungeon design. I’ve been feeling like JRPG dungeons have been stale for a while now, and I’m loving both how dangerous the dungeon trash is and how there isn’t a ton of it. Normally by this point in a more traditional Japanese-style RPG I’m starting to skip around in boss rush mode. Not here. I’m wanting the challenge.
It’s nowhere near as difficult as a Souls-like though. I’ve seen many complaints about how not-optional the dodge/parry system is, but at least so far, I think there are ways around it. I’m not even through Act 1 and there are already enough tools that even people that miss most dodges can find busted builds to offset with (and I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of helpful Pictos and other loot already).
I have some nits to pick, but it’s been a great game on the whole so far. The soundtrack and voice acting in particular are top-notch.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 5 days ago:
Really curious about how well this game does. Being at a significantly lower price point, if it ends up a major GotY contender, that will make waves.
Depending on just how JRPG the game feels, it could also have a big impact there, too. The genre doesn’t have a regular, clear market leader anymore.
- Comment on Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance 1 week ago:
Highly recommend the sitting in the character’s shoes approach. I ended up
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killing Keira on the island on my first playthrough because I didn’t pick up on how desperate she was,
and really kicked myself for missing that cue after. Still one of my most regretfully memorable gaming moments.
- Comment on Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance 1 week ago:
I really do think they should have flipped the timeline for the two. Even players of the first two games don’t really know Yennefer that well, so her proper introduction to the player comes very late, all things considered.
Not being immersed in their backstory also doesn’t really convey how messed up it is that Triss got together with an man who lost the memories of the woman he was in love with.
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
Headline doesn’t match what’s in the report. It’s not just gacha; the question in the survey is inclusive of other games that offer in-game purchases (課金 in Japanese). So we’re talking about skins and boosts in MMOs, MOBAs, and shooters, hints in games like Candy Crush, etc.
The report posted here last week showed just how much MTX spending there is on PC, of which gacha is still a small part. I suspect there is a higher rate of gacha spending in Japan than there is globally (outside of China, perhaps), but I’d be surprised if gacha even made up half of the spending SMBC is reporting on here.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Can’t wait to play the new Star Wars game from XCom devs and miss a 90% as a freaking Jedi 😒
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Jumped back into Baldur’s Gate 3 after the new patch dropped to try out the new subclasses. Giant barb is fun! My Tav is a relatively boring diviner, but I realized I haven’t played a wizard face character before and some of the dialogue options have also been interesting. I rolled a Zariel tiefling so it’s also been amusing to use Intimidate checks as a cloth-wearer. Got a Death cleric that’s been not quite as exciting (planning on replacing with Circle of Stars druid a little later) and my crit build martial character I’ve run half a dozen times before will be trying the notorious Hexblade dip.
Side note, I play on Honour difficulty and I’ve run into a few bugs/blips already, more than usual. Frustrating as hell, though I guess I could always dig into my file system if I really wanted to load a save for a (legit?) reason.
- Comment on After years of hearing about it, I finally started playing Timberborn. Great chill city builder. 2 weeks ago:
Early Access games feel out of scope. Half of the point of patient gaming is waiting for a feature-complete product.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 weeks ago:
Woman-centered is not an absolute. One does not have to be part of a single characteristic of a group to have a stake in it, to be an ally, an advocate, a partner, a family member, among countless other scenarios.
I would suggest reading up on intersectionality.
By the way, all of this is covered in the subreddit sidebar, including in an FAQ in the wiki.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 weeks ago:
Neither the WvP subreddit nor the Discord excludes men from identifying as witches or from participating in discussions.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I actually don’t have one with Warlock as the main class! I love debuffs/CC, and trying to get my spell DC as high as possible means staying in the class (and short rest spell slots).
Whenever I multi Warlock it tends to be in martial builds, getting the extra attack with Pact of the Blade, or a quick dip into it for Mortal Reminder. I have a crit build I do this with.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I’m itching so bad for the BG3 update. It’s been one of those games where I’m in the shower and a new multiclass build pops in my head and next thing I know I’m reinstalling it. And now I get a bunch of new toys!
- Comment on The Triple-i Initiative 2025 - Indie games for 2025 2 weeks ago:
The Eternal Life of Goldman is visually stunning. Plus Yasunori Nishiki? He’s had some amazing music lately. I’m definitely in for this one.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see this one talked about much, but when I do, I hear the story is amazing?
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 2 weeks ago:
I often wonder if mobile gaming wouldn’t be in the current freemium hellscape if the N-Gage had a better launch library. We knew even back then that everyone was going to have a phone, so it was a natural evolution. Unfortunately, the games weren’t very good, and they also weren’t again when Square Enix tried up-front pricing a little while later with Final Fantasy Dimensions and The After Years, for example.
Now I don’t know if single-price games are ever going to have a chance in the mobile market.
- Comment on Final Fantasy XVI - Sometimes you just want to turn your brain off and punch big, dumb monsters 2 weeks ago:
I did like the one on the brand surgery. I had a hunch that one would be good and went with it. However, what I really wanted was more on
spoiler
Jill’s curse progression,
but from what I can tell, there wasn’t one for that. Just the one with the flowers. (I haven’t played the DLC, though I plan to some time.)
- Comment on Final Fantasy XVI - Sometimes you just want to turn your brain off and punch big, dumb monsters 2 weeks ago:
Ah yeah, this one’s not nearly complicated enough to have all that, hah. You’ll get a prompt concisely describing a new system each time comes up and a small summary of new powers when you get them and that’s about it.
If Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is the ultimate hand-holding tutorial experience, FFXVI is about as far as you get on the other side of the spectrum while still having tutorials/descriptions.
- Comment on Final Fantasy XVI - Sometimes you just want to turn your brain off and punch big, dumb monsters 3 weeks ago:
Even among JRPGs, Persona 5 and Dragon Quest XI were turn-based games that were big sellers. Octopath and Like a Dragon have had some success too.
But yes, it does seem like the division leads at SQEX want action combat for mainline Final Fantasy. Maybe we’ll get something in a hybrid style like Metaphor or the recent Trails games.
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- Comment on Mid game review: Life is Strange 2 (2018) PS5 3 weeks ago:
This was ultimately my least favorite release of the series, but I agree that the “choices matter” element of the game is quite strong. I always appreciate a lower budget game like this really going for it in that realm.
The story hasn’t aged well for me–this game’s initial plot hook would have looked a lot different after 2020–and it’s sad that the atmosphere of the game feels quaint today. A lot of what the two go through is disturbingly commonplace among persons of color in the US, but then they have this cult chapter of the story that stretches suspension of disbelief well past the breaking point. I’m still annoyed at its inclusion, which I think undercuts the (very important) greater message the story was trying to tell.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I think this money grab wouldn’t have gotten as much run if it hadn’t been front and center in the Direct. Feels like a misstep, but then, so does €90 Mario Kart…
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 3 weeks ago:
Rumors abound for a remaster of this one, but I’m gonna start thinking it was a casualty of SQEX’s recent restructuring if it doesn’t surface this year.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
You’re not kidding. I think my death count on Demon is the highest for me in any FromSoft game.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 3 weeks ago:
Pure speculation here, but I’m pretty sure the reason Nintendo significantly ramped up their legal hiring in the past few years is because they figured it was cheaper to chill the development of custom firmware and emulation than it was to tighten up their hardware.
I’m sure they still made an effort, but I’d be very surprised if the security isn’t broken fairly quickly.
- Comment on Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’ 3 weeks ago:
Lord of the Rings was massively successful, and I’ve been seeing even more buzz for Final Fantasy than there was LotR. Universes Beyond is certainly here to stay.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 4 weeks ago:
Steam’s investment in UI and store features are part of the onus of hardware platform growth. Steam isn’t just a storefront anymore. GOG has no such interest.
I do think indicators are good for the future of Linux gaming, but it’s just not good business right now to go chasing it.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 4 weeks ago:
Action RPGs, especially the ones with a heavy focus on loot, suffer the most for me. Trying to play through Vagrant Story now is brutal. MP for fast travel!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
It took a good chunk of time for 13 Sentinels to hook me, but it eventually did and it’s continued to grow on me after finishing it. Delightful soundtrack, too.