Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on FromSoftware aren't abandoning single player in favour of games like Elden Ring: Nightreign, says Miyazaki 3 days ago:
Rock Paper Shotgun went downhill a long time ago. The original was an opinionated humor column about video games founded by talented writers. It was sarcastic but all on good fun. The owners left more than a decade ago, it was sold to one of the media conglomerates that hoovered up a bunch of other games journalism sites, and RPS even operated without an editorial staff for a while (not sure if that’s still the case as I stopped being an active reader around this time).
The new guys try to ape the sarcasm and style of the old stuff, but it comes across as disinterested at best to downright mean-spirited a lot of the time. The useless clickbait titles don’t help either.
- Comment on Embracer studio Eidos-Montreal has laid off 75 employees 1 week ago:
Embracer is also splitting into three separate companies to shed the tainted Embracer name, all still owned and run by Wingefors of course.
Asmodee Group (for board games) and Coffee Stain Publishing (for indie games) are the only two with official names last I heard. The unnamed third is the big one and Embracer’s direct successor, but I guess they’re delaying naming it to minimize bad press associated with the name.
- Comment on Roblox players are going to start getting paid to watch ads 1 week ago:
Because so far that type of monetization scheme hasn’t made headway outside of the mobile space. This is yet another frog-boiling moment where they gradually push what they can get away with.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 1 week ago:
When I was a kid my parents still called the remote control a “clicker” because of these.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 1 week ago:
Or just excitement at getting “exclusive” early access as a small streamer. If you don’t know there are thousands of others, it’d feel like an opportunity to make it big.
- Comment on The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on 2 weeks ago:
It must have been surreal for Pratchett meeting Emma in person at the Snuff launch party. Since she voices the character herself, it must have been like meeting two separate friends at once - his writing correspondent and research partner, Emma, and his virtual guide/friend in Vilja.
That feels like a scene with the sort of bizarre, semi-irrational emotional undertones that Terry himself would often write about. I wish he was still around to ask how it felt.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets a smaller download on Steam Deck 4 weeks ago:
There’s an old internet law about computer programs endlessly expanding to gobble up every resource as computers improve. Nowhere is it more obvious than in gaming. Textures you’ll never use, translations included in the default download for no good reason, the same files duplicated many times over because it gives a slight improvement to load times on consoles, delta patches using up an entire CPU core and taking longer than simply redownloading the whole game, ten minutes spent compiling thousands of bespoke shaders on startup…
Ugh, shader compilation is the worst since it can ruin an entire planned gaming session. As annoying and performance-crippling as it is in its early stages, I can’t wait for ray tracing to become the default. Modern computer graphics are built on hacks upon hacks upon hacks. Ray tracing, by virtue of acting how light actually acts, cuts the Gordian Knot and vastly simplifies things. Hopefully it’ll help do away with the multitude of shaders used to imitate perfect lighting through imperfect means and we can just simply run our games again.
- Comment on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra's release may fall in Christmas 2025, according to the Black Panther 4 weeks ago:
I was ambivalent until the article mentioned Amy Hennig. There’s a chance this might actually be good!
I’m still salty about that canceled Star Wars heist game she worked on.
- Comment on Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver 4 weeks ago:
Someone should do a roundup of what all the old Bullfrog/Lionhead devs are up to these days.
I know a bunch of them teamed up to make Kynseed, an okay attempt to make a game that delivered on Fable’s promise of the world growing up/around your character, and which had the misfortune to compete against the sudden resurgence of life/farming sims due to Stardew Valley’s then-recent success.
And Peter Molyneux is… around, doing Peter Molyneux things (as he is wont to do).
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets a smaller download on Steam Deck 4 weeks ago:
I hope the Steam Deck-specific content depot gets used more often.
I also wonder if the Steam CLI can download from it on other platforms. I’m running a 4060, so being able to trim out all the texture boat I can’t even run would be a godsend.
- Comment on The Sims 4's Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack will let open your own business and tattoo your Sims 1 month ago:
Too little, too…
and it lets Sims open their own tattoo parlour, pottery studio or - if you have the right complementary expansion - a cat café.
Fuck.
- Comment on Release Flashpoint Launcher 14.0.0 · FlashpointProject/launcher 1 month ago:
It has pretty much every Flash game and animation ever made, no matter how niche, except for a few that the creators asked them to remove from the collection. I believe the full collection is over one and a half terabytes.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress has some exciting plans for the future 1 month ago:
Are certain features still introduced when you hit population milestones? I haven’t played since 40d, which was… a while ago, but I liked playing without worrying about nobles or the greater economy or any of the other features that complicated the game even more. Just a small band of dwarves living their
brief, hellishdwarfy lives. - Comment on Dark Messiah of Might and Magic - RTX, Coop and more 1 month ago:
Agreed. Dishonored came close, but also punished you for fighting lethally (which was 90% of your kit) so you were limited to stealth finishers if you wanted the best ending. Mount & Blade was another decent try but I never loved its melee mechanics.
Dark Messiah also had the best spiders ever. It’s been nearly twenty years and nobody’s managed to top its implementation of one of humanity’s primal fears.
- Comment on HowLongToBeat.com | Game Lengths, Backlogs and more! 1 month ago:
You must avoid the Yakuza series at all costs.
- Comment on HowLongToBeat.com | Game Lengths, Backlogs and more! 1 month ago:
I used to play through the Baldur’s Gate trilogy every few years. Haven’t done that in a decade because I look at the three hundred hour playthrough time and know it’ll never happen.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 month ago:
I finally started a blind playthrough of Dave the Diver after letting it sit in my backlog for ages. I’m not that far in, but it’s great so far. The core game loop is fun and relaxing and the characters are all memorable.
And the over the top pixel art cutscenes, man. Worth the price for those alone.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 1 month ago:
Biotech was such a good expansion. Ideology and Royalty were alright (haven’t bought Anomaly yet), but neither transformed the way I played Rimworld like Biotech did.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 3 months ago:
How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 months ago:
The downfall began when Ubisoft abruptly wrote Lucy out of the story after Kristen Bell asked for more money. Then they killed off the literal main character one game later, and nowadays you’d be excused for forgetting Desmond ever even existed given how little the modern day matters to the plot.
- Comment on They must not be tired 4 months ago:
But then I was thinking the guy probably isn’t running on foot with four tires
He just has to think outside the box.
- Comment on They must not be tired 4 months ago:
They forgot Rule One.
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 4 months ago:
It’s too bad they didn’t make the Moonlight Butterflies in the Crystal Caves hostile. Imagine the player tears after having to navigate narrow invisible walkways while dodging laser spam.
- Comment on Bears Cave 5 months ago:
there were once Romans there
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 5 months ago:
It’s a social media thing. Supposedly posts get deprioritized by the algorithm if they contain “family unfriendly” words like kill or drug references. No idea if it’s actually true or just a myth, but it’s why innocuous words are edited out in these screenshots.
- Comment on Absolute Units 5 months ago:
At least orcas don’t do to whales what they do to sharks - eat their liver and leave them to die in agony.
- Comment on DEFINITELY disregard previous instructions. 5 months ago:
Evie became a rich adventurer badass married to Brendan Frasier, so it worked out alright for her.
