Poopfeast420

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it will take a bite out of Horizons sales numbers.

  Press X to doubt

  With the focus on PC and Mobile in China, the big console franchises don’t strike me as super popular over there (based on nothing but feelings).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox returns to gamescom next month with over 20 playable demos, including Hollow Knight: Silksong⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The layoffs were already yesterday’s news, with basically no one talking about them. I don’t think MS needs any diversion tactics for that, and even then, Silksong wouldn’t be it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mainly just talking to people, but if you want to fight as few times as possible, you probably need to know the game or tons of save-scumming. You’ll also have to be ok with just missing a bunch of stuff, or pick and choose your fights, which again, needs prior knowledge.

  I don’t think it’s a good way for a first playthrough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can only be non-lethal, not truly pacifist, if someone cares about this difference. You still need to knock people out and do stuff to them, even if they don’t die by your hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember playing this on my Voodoo graphics card back in the day.

  I always wanted to check it out again, but there are no proper discounts of this game anymore, and the price even increased to 20€ a couple of months back. Who thinks that anybody will buy Descent with DOSBox for 20€ in 2025? Might as well just use my old pirated copy on a burned CD I have somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC peripheral makers "deeply apologise" for hosting malware in their mouse software, by accident⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I followed this a bit on Reddit, from the original post. It really sucked that there was apparently no reaction from the EGG, until this got picked up by Igor’s Lab (which I didn’t know about).

  The OP on Reddit wasn’t even when EGG found out about this. According to a commenter, they were informed in their Discord, replaced the infected file, then did nothing for about two weeks.

  It sucks, because I was thinking of getting one of their mice, but now I’m not so sure if I want to support them, if that’s how they handle an issue like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vi Gameplay Reveal Trailer | 2XKO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  2XKO will never not sound like a dumb name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Works fine on my system” and so on.

  I played it on launch, and the only thing I remember is terrible performance in certain areas. Don’t think I had any real gameplay bugs, but maybe I just forgot.

  I still didn’t like the game, but bugs weren’t really the issue for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the former leads (or at least one of them) say the game was ready for Early Access, the publisher says it wasn’t. This could be the deciding factor if the studio gets the bonus or not.

  Although today the publisher said some previously leaked slides were real, that show how the potential EA release fell way behind schedule over the years and would have been pretty bare-bones and that a delay would have made sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latest Monster Hunter Wilds update aims to rally the Steam reviews and slay the wildest monster of all - FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capcom comment via MechaHitler.com.

  Did a double take, when I read that. I thought maybe a gaming site named itself after the Wolfenstein 3D boss, but it’s just Twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. That’s why I said nobody really knows at this point, except the people involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The leads allegedly also were looking to gain $225 Million dollars (supposedly 90% of a $250 Million bonus), so of course they are saying the game is ready.

  Charlie Cleveland did say they were going to split the bonus with the team, but imma be honest, why not put that into writing? Why take that huge cut in the first place, and then trust that the leads are going to do the right thing.

  I don’t think at this point you can really be sure of anything. Since the former leads have said they’ve filed a lawsuit (but not for what they’re suing), it’ll most likely come out at one point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My assumption is that Krafton expected the leads to put in 12 hour days 7 days a week to meet ridiculous expectations and the leads took some vacation time or something along those lines.

  This is from the lead himself, on his movie production website:

  I’m Charlie Cleveland and I’ve been designing video games for over 25 years. I founded Unknown Worlds and built games like Natural Selection, Natural Selection 2, Subnautica and Moonbreaker. I absolutely love making games but wanted to try something new.

  At the end of 2023, I left San Francisco after almost 20 years and moved to Los Angeles to reset my life. Instead of taking it easy, I now find myself working on multiple film projects. It’s amazing how fast it’s all happening - being right in the thick of things makes it so much easier to meet like-minded people!

  Doesn’t sound like the unreasonable expectations from the publisher are the problem.

  Also, according to this link, he’s taking a break from making video games, for a couple of months now, before all this stuff was out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 prices might climb due to tariff changes — US hikes Vietnam tariffs to 20%, up from 10% when the console launched⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden ring night reign single player⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In solo you’re fighting a boss intended for 3 players and if you die twice the game is over completely.

  Ok, but what if…you just kill bosses in five hits, because they don’t have any HP?

  It’s an overexaggeration of course, but the enemies definitely have a lot less HP than in coop, not even just 1/3 or whatever (seemingly).

  Also, are the enemies designed for multiplayer, except in scaling? Everything I’ve seen looks like standard Fromsoft stuff, no weird abilities that just fuck over solo players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden ring night reign single player⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I saw, solo is a lot easier than coop (streams of the game, not played it myself yet). Enemies have basically no HP, and you can predict what they do, just like in a normal Souls game. Also, you’re not getting matched with randoms.

  If you’re playing with friends, sit in voice chat, that might get easier for you again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods to get Age Verification in UK / EU for adult content, plus a new cross-platform app upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any change to the site = shit. The next time a mod gets removed, people are going to scream again, that this would never have happened with the old owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dave the Diver director addresses controversial “Best Indie Game” nomination from 2023. “There’s nothing indie about us, we didn’t apply for it”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the indie games genre is just a vibe, not if something is really independent or not.

  Like nobody is calling Witcher or Cyberpunk an indie game, even though it didn’t have an outside publisher. Conversley, most people would probably say Bastion or Journey are indie games, even though Warner and Sony published the games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds title update two aims to defeat the biggest beasts of all: shader compilation and VRAM issues⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered, and guessed it comes from consoles or maybe a Japanese thing, why is it called Title Update? What other kinds of updates do games get?

  Although not in this case, often it would also be clarified that it was a free update. Do people pay for game updates? For me an update is the same as a patch, mainly fixes, sometimes new stuff. Then you have expansions/add-ons or DLC that are mostly paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 slaps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, the game is and will probably always be spammy. Everyone has unlimited ammo. I definitely prefer this btw.

  There’s map control of course, just not like arena shooters. Most maps have changing objectives, around which the fights happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 slaps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing for about two months now, after a multi-year break from the game. Just casual, not competitive (although Stadium is classified as competitive). It’s great.

  Two bad things for me. Flex Queue means Tank, which sucks, because I’d like to play all roles, but now have to just queue DPS/Heal. Also, the matchmaker is shit, so most games are relatively one-sided (Quick Play and Stadium).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 4 may happen eventually, but not with Larian Studios⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  to this day, I still have no idea how DOS and DOS2 are related plotwise

  They’re in the same world, but a few thousand years apart or something, so there is no real connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did nightreign flop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a hypothetical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did nightreign flop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on who you ask. Square might have projected 15m sales on the first day, in which case it did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods is under new ownership⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of this sites post are blogspam “articles”, where you might as well just link to the original. But I think the posts here are just automated, with no real filter for what’s useful and what isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BG3 tried it with Bear sex. I guess we aren’t ready for that yet. But our kids are gonna love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BG3 and Cyberpunk have boobs and were a success, which would support that statement. But Wukong, Palword, and Monster Hunter Wilds were even more successful (according to concurrent Steam players), which means animals are the true secret to success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade PC launch Hits 99K+ Concurrent players, surpassing every other PlayStation-published single-player game on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I know is that access to the specific purchase might get blocked, if there’s a payment issue. Not Steam directly, but a friend of mine once bought Diablo 3 for WoW gold on Battle.net, something happened after a while, and he lost access to the game, dunno if the other side refunded the game or whatever. All the other games still worked, but he’d have to buy D3 again to play it. I would be surprised if Steam blocks the whole account.

  If they mean you buy a game, then there’s a problem with payment, but they should still let you download and play, that’s dumb.

  The part about Steam Support being extremely slow is also old news. I think that’s been a lot better for years now. I don’t know if it was around the time they were forced to implement refunds, but I think that’s all outsourced now, and you don’t have to hope a Valve dev checks the support mailbox anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 is already running custom graphics through exploit one day after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really interested in the Switch 2, but things like that are why I thought about buying one for like a second, just to have a low firmware one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Unreal Fest News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, some real examples, where EGS is better than Steam, that actually impact people and might make them use EGS. Price is probably the most important one. If someone from Argentina pays like half as much on EGS as they would on Steam (don’t know how much it actually is), because EGS actually accepts their local currency and they don’t have to pay in USD or something, then it makes sense to switch to EGS

  Also, EGS is better for devs than Steam, with revenue share, now even more so, as mentioned in the post. I don’t think a lot of people will buy on EGS solely for that reason, but it is something.

  The OP says global preloading and gifting are going live soon

  That’s why I mentioned them. You basically said, people (maybe unjustly) talk shit about EGS because of missing features like that, when they also have some advantages over Steam, and then talk about the most mundane stuff. “I might not be able to pre-load this game, but at least I can cap my download at 13468kb/s.” Those two are not the same.

  It was very convenient to have everything in one place

  As I said, with the button to switch to the Chat inside the Steam app, it’s basically the same. What is the real difference of clicking that button and switching to a different app, compared to clicking that button and switching to a new screen inside the same app? I genuinely can’t think of one. You could argue a separate app is better, because now you can open both apps at the same time in split screen, so you can browse the store or community pages, while chatting (I wouldn’t do that, but it’s possible).

  I’m not sure the discounts offered via bundles on Steam are an overall better deal compared to Epic offering cashback of 5% on everything, sometimes increased to 20% (like now)

  Probably not, most of the time, and this post doesn’t detail what bundling for EGS means. Steam has normal game bundles and the Complete-your-Collection bundles, which is dynamic and can give some extra discounts.

  However, with Steam keys from legit third-party sites, you might get an even better deal at times, maybe better than on EGS, so I don’t really know where it’s the cheapest.