MissGutsy

@MissGutsy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a genre? I would say no. Cyberpunk is usually described as a capitalist dystopia in which a handful of companies supersede government powers and wage wars against each other beyond the concepts of national borders. In addition, cybernetic enhancements become commonplace, as a way for companies to extract more value from their workers. Cyberpunk stories usually are about groups rebelling against the system through organized crime, who ultimately fail to escape the underlying system of capitalism, doomed to repeat history time and time again.

  HL2 falls in none of the genre stereotypes. While it is dystopian, it’s not capitalist, so it’s not “punk” and it isn’t “cyber” either because of a lack of commonplace cybernetics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  [Encased mentioned] I love that game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smart engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  11 is one louder than 10!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can recommend “Encased”. It’s a CRPG that’s heavily inspired by Fallout gameplay wise, but it’s modernized a lot (in a good way). It has its own unique story and setting which are amazing to explore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Encased is a CRPG, heavily inspired by the classic Fallout games, bringing it’s mechanics into the modern age. It’s story is based on the classic book “Roadside Picknick” (known for being the inspiration of the Stalker series) and is very well written. It has a story narrator, similar to the Divinity: Original Sin games and a very in depth character creation. At the start you choose a department of a research company to work in, which will change the way you interact with many characters, adding some replay value. Anything more I could say would be a spoiler, but the entire beginning (first half to one hour) is an absolute banger.

  It’s my favorite indie game of the last few years and at the time of writing this, it is currently 90% of on steam, an absolute bargain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump, as everyone remembers they like Fallout⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally disagree. I’m a diehard fallout fan, played all the games and know all of the lore. The more you know about Fallout the better it actually gets. There are some small discrepancies, but can easily be ignored if you realize how well it ties all the stories together. It literally references every single game (apart of 76 and brotherhood), even the unreleased ones and picks up the good concepts from the cancelled movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case there is little difference to just sharing a save file, which everybody can already do. If this is everything that the patent covers, then I’m against them having a patent for it. That idea is so generic and nothing somebody should be allowed to have control over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds cool and all but I heavily doubt they would do the work to implement it like that. Replay value doesn’t add market value in the view of the producers. So there is not much money to be made from the large amount of work this requires.

  Of course if they ever do it, feel free to correct me, people from the future

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Sony Patent Will Let You Replay A Game From Any Point Possible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  … sooooo … chapters?