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- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Unreal Tournament
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
I wonder if that would be a genuine use case for “AI”. If the voice actor consents to have his voice represented in such a scene but doesn’t want to play it out in a studio, the computer model could take over that part.
- Comment on Is mafia 3 really that bad? 2 months ago:
It’s an okay game, but far worse than the first two. They forced an open world onto it, and made it pretty repetitive. The DLC is more linear and feels a lot more like a typical Mafia story telling.
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 3 months ago:
DRM crap ruins the typical end user experience.
- Comment on Immich v1.109.1 released with optional paid license 3 months ago:
They already accept donations as a means of continuous support. So I guess this is now just another channel for people who prefer buying a license over using github donations.
- Comment on Nintendo has DMCA’ed Sudachi’s GitHub 4 months ago:
They keep paying money for attorneys and court proceedings but don’t get anything in return, since the code is out there and will just be shared again by someone else. Hence: whack-a-mole
- Comment on Gothic, Risen, and Elex Dev "Piranha Bytes" Reportedly the Latest Embracer Studio to Shut Down 4 months ago:
Actual news: two leads (Jennifer and Björn Pankratz) founded a new studio: Pithead Studios
I guess they can’t carry over any old IP, but at least we might get more Gothic-like games.
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut - Launch Trailer | PC Games 5 months ago:
I think the relevant news here is the PC support, not the directors cut. There is no other version for PC (AFAIK).
- Comment on Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio 5 months ago:
Gamepass isn’t cloud gaming, though. It’s a game subscription, but cloud gaming is only optional and only available for a subset of games. All of the games however can be downloaded and are played locally.
- Comment on Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio 5 months ago:
Yeah, like your crush telling you “I wish I met a guy/girl like you.” 😐️
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
Also there could (and should?) be “simply” two launch options. One with “hardcore anti cheat” and one with some much simpler anti-cheat. Then a lobby option what you want to allow. You want to play competitive/league/whatever? Then require the hardcore anti-cheat. Otherwise: why bother.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
Only if you want to cap the skill limit. Otherwise you would typically have a hand full of players that are genuinely just good or rather far outside the normal skill range. I guess with a lot of data collection one might be able to determine if there was some kind of natual progress or sudden skill jumps, but all in all it could weed out legitimate players.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
Uhhhh, people install shit like Vanguard just so that they can keep having their mother insulted in the ingame chat.
And many people put up with cascades of different lauchers (and accounts).
So I am glad that there was some push back this time, but it’s not like there would be some sane baseline of PC players in that regard.
- Comment on Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me. 6 months ago:
- Comment on Looking for MiTV box replacement 6 months ago:
If the AppleTV allowed side loading, it would be my dream device. The UX and the speed of Apple devices are just so damn pleasing. But the artificial limits they impose on what you can run on them is damn frustrating.
- Comment on Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE 6 months ago:
Reminds me of the Volkswagen boss when their emission cheating leaked. He said he didn’t know. Wow, you earn millions for managing a company that big and then claim to not know about something. The fuck did you do then? So either he was lying or admitting that he didn’t do his damn job. Both cases should have lead to him having to give back whatever he “earned” in his position.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 6 months ago:
I am not a marketing expert, but when headlines pile up implicating that Microsoft doesn’t fully stand behind XBox anymore, no wonder the number for new customers tank. I wouldn’t “invest” in something that seems to be on the way out either.
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 6 months ago:
So why didn’t he stop playing at level 100 or 200 or whatever but waited with this rant until almost level 300 in a stream with large attention? Pure coincidence? To me it looks like he wanted to go out with a bang and rage bait.
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 6 months ago:
Don’t you think that whole thing is simply a publicity stunt? Because it kinda looks like it and it seems to work…
- Comment on In search of software for managing like a helpdesk but in a lite format 6 months ago:
SiYuan is an opensource Notion alternative. (Not a clone.)
- Comment on Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity 6 months ago:
Do you mix game development with engine? Of course an engine doesn’t make an innovative game by itself. An engine is - hence the name - only the means to an end to help develop a game. Innovative games are all over the place in regards to the engines they use; from in-house/custom to products like unity, unreal, etc.
That you have the impression that engines like UE and Unity are “less innovative” by judging released games just shows how many games are developed using these engines - especially Unity. It’s so damn easy to build games with it, that many people do, even when they only build something simple. And that’s fine … it means that more people can channel their creativity into game development, even when it doesn’t yield anything ground breaking.
It also shows, though, that developers can focus more on the game development and have to deal less with engine development and now even asset creation, since these engines also bring asset catalogs. So it’s really quite a good time to dive into game development, which fosters creativity and in the end there will also be innovative games among them.
- Comment on Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity 6 months ago:
As much as I like to shit on Epic, but UE 5.x is pretty much innovative with each minor release. Watching the release videos of what the engine can do in realtime is always impressive. They are used as realtime backgrounds for movie sets.
- Comment on XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? 7 months ago:
I am surprised that no one mentioned snikket yet, which is essentially a distribution of Prosody with sane defaults and a custom client.
- Comment on Elder scrolls 7 months ago:
Not just scrollbars. Buttons, input fields, etc.
Dammit I sometimes have to search for elements I can interact with. Back in the day it was self explaining.
- Comment on Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week 7 months ago:
TIL
- Comment on Halo Infinite Update to Bring Networking Overhaul, Easy Anti-Cheat, and More Next Week 7 months ago:
EAC isn’t kernel level, AFAIK. It even works in Linux/Proton.
- Comment on Favourite developers 7 months ago:
I played it on PC. And I loved it.
- Comment on Favourite developers 7 months ago:
There are four studios whose games (and hardware) I buy almost blindly:
- Valve
- CD Project RED
- Rockstar Games
- Machine Games
They all have brought me tons of fun and jaw dropping moments.
- Comment on The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing 7 months ago:
I am a game collector. I don’t play them, I just collect them.
- Comment on God of War (PC) is now available on GOG 7 months ago:
What does that change about what I said? I don’t expect them to. I simply stated why I prefer Steam over GOG.