ampersandrew
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- Comment on Eurogamer: we can't recommend the PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds 18 hours ago:
You don’t, but the “lazy devs” accusations are nonsense explanations for it being poorly optimized.
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 1 day ago:
By doing these kinds of experiments, they hone in on what people want. They know it’s closer to FF7 remake than it is to FF16, and they know that the game must not have exclusivity to and platform no matter what.
- Comment on Eurogamer: we can't recommend the PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds 1 day ago:
Have you ever worked on a game before? I’m curious how you think laziness plays into this when the entire industry is collapsing and everyone would love to hold on to their jobs.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 2 days ago:
Nah, that doesn’t make it sad. It’s just that some of my best memories of racing games come from the likes of Burnout Revenge or F-Zero GX in local multiplayer. Single player is cool. Online is cool. I’m just looking for that local multiplayer fix.
One of the other games that fit that bill is Star Wars: Episode One - Racer, which you can find on GOG. At least on Linux, it requires some mods to fix it, which I made sure were documented on the PC Gaming Wiki, but you can play that one on LAN on PC through the GOG version. I don’t think split-screen on PC games was something they were thinking about back then, but LAN will do in the meantime.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 2 days ago:
Do you have any local multiplayer racing game recommendations? That’s basically my only use case for a racing game, but most of that market dried up. I’ve got my eyes on a few, but I’m curious what you’ve found, especially if it’s on GOG.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 days ago:
Open source does not mean that the intellectual property is free. There’s a lot of good that comes from this, and it’s not like those games are expensive.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 days ago:
Correct. Doom and Quake still cost money as well.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 days ago:
I don’t have to give a shit “about their next live service game”
I care quite a lot about game preservation. This isn’t defending EA; it’s praising this particular action. Again, this can’t be taken away from us, so it doesn’t matter what their next shitty behavior is. It doesn’t take away from this being good news.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 days ago:
Fall for what? They did one of the most pro-consumer moves they possibly could. It’s legally solid and irrevocable. It doesn’t mean I have to give a shit about their next live service game or be happy that they monetize soccer video games with gambling for children.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 days ago:
Are you okay? They open sourced some classic video games. They didn’t roofie your drink.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 3 days ago:
Not when they do this.
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- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 days ago:
I love proc gen stuff for how it can make each playthrough feel different or even just make yours feel different from your friend’s. I appreciated that the enemy would remember how you defeated them in particular, because it called out those unique events. I also don’t know that there are a ton of settings where this mechanic makes sense outside of the two it appeared in already, so I won’t miss it too badly.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 days ago:
The first one I had was a GPD Win 2, in like 2018/2019-ish. You could do some fairly recent 3D stuff on it at the time, but it was better for 2D games.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 days ago:
Definitely not Batman villains. If they were Batman villains, they’d be puns like Egsek Yutiv or something to go along with the Harleen Quinzels and Edward Nigmas of its world.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 days ago:
The games that survived are doing fine. There’s a lot of reason to believe that what we’re seeing can at least be partially attributed to just how many games are coming out these days, even good ones. I’m already falling behind on games I want to get to just out of the ones released in 2025.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 days ago:
I’ll point out an additional post from Schreier:
I see a lot of people responding to this news with complaints about David Zaslav, but it was president David Haddad who ran Warner Bros. Games for the last decade and who was responsible for overseeing all of the studios and their output.
By the time David Zaslav took over WB Discovery in April 2022, Monolith had already gone almost five years without shipping a game and lost almost its entire leadership team under Haddad’s management
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 days ago:
With how long Wonder Woman was still going to have to cook, it was never going to make its money back. That’s more of a mistake that was made 7-8 years ago though.
- BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News.bsky.app ↗Submitted 5 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 days ago:
And the article we’re commenting on mentioned it.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 days ago:
Why would there never be a Steam Deck 2?
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 days ago:
If you’re just looking for sales numbers, which we haven’t had much of for a long time, the long and short of it is:
4M Steam Decks since launch, 2M of all of its competitors combined; expected that all handheld PCs sharing this AMD tech will sell about 2M more this year.
- Comment on Dauntless is shutting down on May 29, 2025 6 days ago:
Not when they’re built this way, no.
- Comment on Dauntless is shutting down on May 29, 2025 6 days ago:
Even if it was perfectly adequate, the game may have been doomed anyway. Such is live service.
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- Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025 1 week ago:
Oh my god, do you think this is some kind of hypocrisy? If I have internet now and download a GOG game’s installer to my hard drive now, I have it forever, even if I’m in a place without internet access like on a train. Even if GOG goes out of business. Even if Sony goes out of business. Even if the internet ceases to exist. When Blizzard turns the lights off on Diablo 4, that game is gone due to no fault of your own.
- Comment on [TerakJK] Avowed vs The Outer Worlds - Obsidian's previous game - Attention to detail. 1 week ago:
Perhaps expectations of it being like some other thing instead of being its own thing.
- Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025 1 week ago:
How do you require an online account without requiring internet access to that server?
- Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025 1 week ago:
They lifted it on four games but omitted some others, which isn’t great, and they’ve shown a willingness to patch this in after the fact, so I still don’t trust them. EA did the same thing with the likes of Jedi: Fallen Order and such, so they’re on the same shit list.
- Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025 1 week ago:
Even if I wanted to cheat in some old God of War games (I don’t), so what? Who does that hurt?
What I don’t trust, for good reason, is that that server will always be there to authenticate my game. Allegedly it requires talking to their server at first install, and that works now in the year 2025, but who’s to say it will be there in 2035?
Splinter Cell: Blacklist came out in 2013. A friend of mine bought it this past winter sale. The UPlay launcher that existed when that game came out has now been renamed and reworked, and the launcher that comes up when he tries to play it asks him for a product key that he was not provided (there is a function for this in the Steam overlay, and we checked, and it was not available for this game). Now I’m sure that he could eventually get it working if he had the patience to wait through Ubisoft support, but A) he shouldn’t have to, and B) what if Ubisoft goes out of business in the next couple of years? That’s not an unlikely scenario at this point, and all the online requirement did was introduce an additional point of failure in the thing that he paid money for. I’m old enough and have been playing games long enough to see these points of failure rear their heads plenty of times now.
The login requirement for the likes of Diablo 3 and 4 are exactly why I’m not buying Diablo 3 and 4. Honestly, even Steam’s DRM, which isn’t present on every game and usually works seamlessly, has still caused some friction for me lately, and every time it annoys me, I get that much closer to only buying games on GOG. The threat of these games getting an online requirement patched in after the fact is enough to make me rather emulate them than deal with that nonsense, if I was so inclined. If they put their games on GOG, I don’t have to trust them, because it’s impossible for them to do that to me.