mysticpickle
@mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? 1 day ago:
Keyboard for fighting games
Wh-what?
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 6 days ago:
No, it’s pretty one-sided. They even have communications exchanges between Krafton’s CEO and their global ops head how to avoid paying out the bonus before firing them.
“Krafton terminated the Founders and seized control of Unknown Worlds in order to avoid the earnout,” reads the group’s latest filing. “Smoking gun documents show that Krafton was looking for ways to ‘cancel the earn-out’ and that its secret ‘Project X’ was designed to either make a ‘Deal’ on the earnout or execute a “Take over.” When the Founders would not agree to Krafton’s demands related to the earnout, Krafton decided a ‘take over’ would be the ‘easier’ route.”
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 days ago:
I think Blue prince would have made more sense than another installment of Donkey Kong 🤷♂️
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 days ago:
Donkey Kong inclusion was definitely Nintendo fan tax 🤭
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 days ago:
Your can turn off the QTEs for optimizing attacks which I definitely did. Dodging/parrying I can’t be avoided but if you turn the difficulty to story mode it’s generally pretty trivial.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 days ago:
The gameplay itself is just “okay”. Turn based JRPG combat with some QTE not much different from Super Mario RPG on the SNES.
I think the attention it has received is based on how well they type together the quality of storytelling, dialogue, art direction, music, and the universal theme that resonates with everyone:
It’s an interactive cinematic experience that has me in emotional shambles multiple times throughout the playthrough.
If you’re dead inside like me and desperate to feel anything, it’ll do it for you :>
- Comment on 6 days ago:
It’s getting made into a movie so you can probably wait for that :>
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Expedition 33 is the only game on the list that isn’t a sequel or derivative of a previous IP so it’s got originality going for it :>
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 6 days ago:
I mean it’s pretty obvious they are. The original reason Krafton gave for firing the founders was that Subnautica 2 was being pushed out before it was ready just so the founders could get their bonuses.
Krafton has since dropped those arguments in the legal fillings to some nebulous shit like:
“abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer."
I mean come on. This isn’t even a both sides issue anymore.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 6 days ago:
Latest development makes it seem like Krafton just wanted to save the cash to plow into their lame AI venture.
I mean honestly, when has a video game company actually been on the right side when things came to a head with the founders?
“The termination notices of the founders gave one reason for their termination,” said Fortis, “and that was the supposed lack of readiness of Subanutica 2 for release. Krafton reiterated that basis for its actions repeatedly.”
Fortis called it a “seismic shift in the case” and “a little bit bewildering”. This was also echoed by the judge, Lori W. Will, when the parties met for a ruling on the filed motions, saying: “Well, that’s something that we definitely need to get to the bottom of today, because that is precisely what was cited as the reason in the answer.”
Krafton’s representatives were not clear about why this argument has been taken off the table, only that it has been, and that it’s no longer why they are saying the founders were terminated.
Instead, Krafton is focusing on the argument that the founders “abandoned their posts” and “deceived” their employer. Causing more confusion is the accusation that the founders downloaded files and kept devices with confidential information on them. This only came to light after the termination, so its relevance has been questioned.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Silksong, KCD 2, Hades 2, Death Stranding 2 alongside. It’s quite the lineup!
An overall really good year for gaming!! 👍
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 6 days ago:
Maaaaan. Fuck Krafton.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Impressive list of nominees except for Donkey Kong Bananza?! that just looks so out of place. But it’s gotta be Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 all the way for GOTY.
Think it’s going for a Titanic level sweep here
- Comment on If you truly love your girlfriend, then you need to buy her an expensive engagement ring. If you don’t have the money, then you don’t deserve to be in a relationship. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 1 week ago:
The idiots that actually pay money for this are the same people who pay for WinRAR.
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 4 weeks ago:
Ohhhh so this is why they stole the Subnautica devs bonus for.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 4 weeks ago:
What I remember isn’t so much the gameplay but the quality of the writing, voice acting, and world building. Theif 1 & 2 were bonkers amazing in that regard! I wish they had more games set in that universe.
Here’s a sample of what waiting if anyone wants a taste of the amazing dialogue:
- Comment on How ZSNES Changed SNES Emulation Forever | Interview with the Creator | Zophar 4 weeks ago:
I think there are newer still developed SNES emulator out there, but I’m still using ZSNES or if habit :o
- Comment on How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split? 4 weeks ago:
They seem to help kids solve mysteries by encouraging them to read and write. Not sure what the split on that is though
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 5 weeks ago:
He don’t care. People have tried to engage him in conversation on this and he just ducks any attempt to get him to explain his rationale for being annoying.
He’s just a snowflake trying to validate himself by forcing a social media trend. It’s pretty cringe.
- Comment on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ported from NES to SNES with improvements 5 weeks ago:
It’s actually a bit more complex than that. Apparently there’s a power boost mechanic that kicks in when a turtle is at 50% health for everyone except Raphael.
Above 50% raph is second only to Donatello. Below that, raph actually has the lowest damage per hit even compared to Leonardo or Michelangelo :o
- Comment on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ported from NES to SNES with improvements 5 weeks ago:
Did they manage to make Raphael less useless here? :>
- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 1 month ago:
If you’re into Babylon 5, there’s actually a game called Babylon 5: I’ve Found Her that captures the spirit of the fighter combat pretty well IMO. Might be worth checking out!
- Comment on Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms 1 month ago:
I mean it’s all under RFK Jr. who doesn’t really care about inconsequential little things like data.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate 1 month ago:
The better be more awesome new music to accompany everything too!
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies worldwide; new content update to come to celebrate 1 month ago:
Robert Pattinson for Gustave or riot
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 month ago:
People still use imgur?
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 month ago:
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 2 months ago:
Won’t somebody think of the Fremen?!
