MrFinnbean

@MrFinnbean@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some proper games for the phones. Most of them are ports like disco elysium, octopath traveller or balatro, but because the dont get a lot of downloads in app store and google play, the platforms tend to push free games over them. And that makes sense for them, because they also profit from every transaction and ad that those games show. Quality single pay games just have one purchase per player and the audience for them is way smaller.

  I personally as a consumer see so much wasted potential with mobile games. I remember when i had one hand held machine for tetris and another machine with shmup while my tamagotchi was dying somewhere. When i got gameboy it was crazy how i could take multible games with me when going on a long trip. Now we have almost always in our pocket a machine with multitudes more power than anything back then, but because how apple and google have build their enviroments devs dont have incentive to make quality single purchase products because they wont get the visibility they need.

  Sites like itch.io are too small to make a difference. It would need some big player like Steam to add mobile game category in to their app, but apple and google are making it really tedious to install and update anything outside their own controlled enviroments that understandably serve for their biggest audience, who are children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well go mod something else then. Ill manage just fine without your help.

  It sounds nitpicky because there are only like handfull of games that let people mod the game as much as skyrim does. The vast majority of the games just soils them selfs if you touch the files. Its not perfect, but its better than most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet still its one of the most modded engine of all times. Most games dont have any kind of mod support and they just stop working completelly if you do anything beond texture change.

  Bashing creation engines modding is like yelling in a desert about how the water in the oasis would be better with ice cubes. You are not wrong, but it seems really nitpicky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well its does not mean “fuck all”. It means the games are run based and randomised.

  Also Rogue had zero meta progression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. The romance of giving the right colour knicknack 20 times to somebody and get the relationship meter to green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think i might have touched this subject before, but im really torn how many games handle sexuality of the characters.

  I kind of hate how in many games every dateable character are main character-sexual. I feel like it robs the characters some depth when they dont care of the character is he/she/other. It makes the characters feel bland amd plastic.

  But on the other hand games are a medium where player should be able to craft their own story and feel accepted, so devs should limit and hinder the player as little as they can. Especially when the real world can be so hostile towards the sexual minorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been thinking about loosing the “romanticism” with games a lot and i feel internet and the large amount of games available are big factor to it.

  Back in the olden days as a kid living in the boonies i had only handfull of chances in the year to buy a new game. And when i had, i had allready made a decition that today i will buy something, before i even knew what was available in the store. Going in the game shop was a mystery. I did not know anything about the games beforehand unless i had seen one in the friends house. The purchase decition was made allready at home, but the product was chosen at the store by looking the package game was in and the few description words on the case. Some if those games i bought was really bad, but i could not just refund them so i played them anyway. And if i liked the game a lot i might play it trough multiple times a year.

  Now when im buying something i know allmost everything about the game beforehand from reviews, if the game does not click the moment i start it, i will just refund it and when i finish the game its likely that i will never start it again because i have allready something new to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I could say every Final Fantasy game after FF9

  But real answer is GTA V. I loved my first playtrough and enjoyed the game a lot. Since then i have tried to start it fresh half a dosen times and every time i just loose intrest about midway trough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I truly hate it when people call things they dont clearly have knowledge about a pseudoscience. Traditionaly ketchup contains lots of sugar. Both are condiments so they are pretty similiar in use.

  But amount you use either one is so small it does really matter which one you use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Trilogy Remake - Announcement Teaser | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nostalgia sells and people who have played those games when they were young are now working age so they have money to spend.

  Also the first game is over 20 years old so there are complete generation of people who havent played the original and getting more people intrested on the IP is good for the next new GoW game.

  You may groan, but i 100% see why companies are doing this. And personally i will play these and im glad they are being made. Its not like they are milking the same game like The Last of us remake was or how ever many different releases Skyrim has had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sell a barrel of oil to a man and he will soon buy a another. Sell a solar panel for a man and he wont need another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gas stations, tanker trucks, oil pipelines, ect

  These are big reason for the push back also. Companies have spend hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars building the infrastructure for fossil fuels and they will fight for keeping those investments alive.

  Another thing slowing down clean energy is that wind and solarpower arent yet as reliable as coal power. Cities and nations can calculate how much coal or fossil fuel they need to keep lights on and stockpile fossile fuels for future use easily and they work even if there is no wind or sky is cloudy.

  Hydroelectric is renewable and quite reliable, but its not neccessarilly good for enviroment either. Geothermal would be great, but its really expensive and its not possible to harvest everywhere in the world.

  My personal opinion is that nuclear power with auxilary solar, wind and hydroelectrics would be best compination. Especially since battery technology is currently taking big leap with solid state batteries and it seems we might soon have electric vechicles with reasonable range. Even more so if the new batteries are as safe as manufactorers claim and in case of accident there is less of an risk of the unholy hellfire batteryfires are currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the cant was more in the terms of “you cant have a viable business” than “its physically impossible”. I mean in a theory it would be possible to create moonbase and power it up with AA-batteries, but its just not something that can be done.

  Also with batteries you did not say anything about what would happen to the empty ones. There would be logistical hurdle to overcome with those. Even the cheapest industrial sized battery would still be leagues more expensive than the sheetmetal used to transport oil.

  Again, not talking trying to defend fossilfuels. Just making points why big companies are fighting against the change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens to those expensive batteries containing rare-earthminerals after whom ever has used them? Do you just let them have those or do you buy them back and transport them empty or what?

  Converting energy to create hydrogen is fairly inefficient and transporting it need lot of preparations and the buyer has to have magnitudes more expensive equipment to use it limiting the markets where to sell it.

  Im not advocating for fossil fuels here. Im just stating why its more convinient for big oil to sell easily transportable oil barrels that can be packed in to basically free steel sheets or plastics and are easy to redirect towards whom ever pays the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you propose you make those power cables from lets say USA to Australia? And if suddenly some other country wants to make a better deal for that energy you cant just redirect those cables to lets say Italy.

  Or with batteries. What happens to those expensive batteries containing rare-earthminerals after whom ever has used them? Do you just let them have those or do you buy them back and transport them empty or what?

  Im not advocating for fossil fuels here. Im just stating why its more convinient for big oil to sell easily transportable oil barrels that can be packed in to basically free steel sheets or plastics and are easy to redirect towards whom ever pays the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you can transport and sell a barrel of oil to anywhere on the planet, but you cant bottle wind or solar energy and transport it outside of your powergrid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love hating epic just as much as anybody else, but those exclusivity deals are not necessary just bribing the devs.

  The first Hades game would have been much smaller in scope and features, without epic funding them and helping them implementing something like EOS, the game would be definedly worse than it is.

  Remedy has also stated they could not make Alan Wake 2 without Epics funding. People often say the Epic exclusivity ruined its salea, but realistically without it there would not be a game.

  But even so, i think them suing Steam is a asshole move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So its a glorified a procedural generator that does not save anything it makes?

  What the fuck. Its like saying game devs are being replaced because people see dreams when they sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They would be capable of imitating a counter for some timeframe but to actually keep track of it over a long gaming session?

  The article was little light on the details, but if the whole game is run on ai thats what is going to happen. But if AI is creating real code and the game it creates has real files that are saved on the computer, things like point counters are not anymore tied by the limits of AI’s memory.

  But i just dont see how AI in its current state could make large cohesive projects.

  Also there is no such thing as artificial intellect. AI is just nice marketing word for something that tries to mimic what real AI would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be intresting to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well there is always the Bannister effect, where when somebody breaks some arbitary record previously tought as unbeatable, multiple people start to beat soon.

  Also i want to point out that before the 1991 long jump record was made in 1968. So it took 23 years for the record break that time and for those 23 years people also said we have found the human limit. Until the now standing record destroyed the previous one with 5cm. A huge increment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people out there who could utterly smash world records but no-one will never know as they haven't taken up that sport.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, i think most sim drivers could not physically handle driving a real F1 car. And by most i mean like 99% of them.

  I mean accelerating a formula can hit you with force of 4g and in corners it can be even more than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it any good game? It has been sitting in my library for ever, but i heard its kind of meh, so i have been putting it of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Morality systems are easy to break anyway.

  I would say its more that morality systems are hard to implement.

  If you make simple system where you loose karma from stealing and gain karma from donating money for orphans player can exploit that system easy. You would need to figure some other system. One could be system where after stealing or donating a certain amount you get a status that permanently raises/lowers your karma. But it really cant be permanent either because it takes away from player agency. How would you turn those things to a points. I mean stealing last coin from beggar cant be same that stealing a coin from a millionare. Also this kind of karma system makes so the quests in the game are black and white. You cant make a quest where dooming 12 orphans to die saves thousands from a plague.

  How to implement the karma? Everybody magically hating you for low karma is just unrealistic. Should karma effect only some random events and set story points? Sounds fine, but then devs need to implement that system to the storypoints and its not easy to do so without railroading the players. Like Paragon/Renegate in mass effect 2. It made it so everytime the opportunity came to choose from the two, it took away from the real choise and it became just desition to wich stat you want to raise. Also choosing neutral choice was never good option, because in the end game you need to have one or other stat high enough to get trough gated discussions. You could roleplay and choose what ever you feel right, but then some late game options are just locked from you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sneering was only half intentional. And personaly i quite enjoy discussing things like this.

  But i still strongly disagree with your view. Hello Games was small studio at the start, but they havent been ringing the indie bell for their game and in my opinion they havent stolen the limelight from indie devs. Games like Terraria and Stardew valley are still celebrated games and people are praising those games and the work devs have being doing with the updates.

  Following your logic one could argue, that companies behind those games are not anywhere near the small indie teams people imagine them. And we should be angry for them too, because they take the spotlight from games like Dwarf Fortress and Project Zomboid, that have been passion projects for years before those earlier two even were concepts.

  The main thing that makes No Man Sky different is that those succesfull indie games were good from the beginning, while NMS was horrible and borderline unsalvageable game, but the devs kept working on it and making it slowly better. A effort most companies wont do.

  So in my opinion people should be happy and support Hello Games, because that shows to the other companies, that even if the first release of the game is bad, it is possible (and profitable) to keep making the game better.

  Of course, if we lived in perfect world we could consider what HG is doing a bare minimum, but we live in a world where what they do is exceptional.

  Also i strongly disagree about they doing minimun professionally. They have kept the now almost ten years old game playable, added vr, new console supports. If you want to see what minimal is take a look of Assasins Creed Unitys state in 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like i got it now. You want to add drama. You are the neighbor yelling over the fence, the one who seems to have something against the houses, even if it literaly does not effect on their life at all.

  This is why i did not want to respond to your analogy from the beginning. It does not lead to anywhere as everything is makebeliview.

  Facts.

  The game is overwhelmingly positive status on steam. Recently almost 90% of the people are satisfied to the product.

  Its player base keeps getting bigger.

  The game is soon 10 years old, but it keeps getting updates.

  Hello Games have been working on the game in the situation where industry standard would have been to stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If i must abide by your original metafora i would say:

  They promised grandiose skycraper and delivered shotty apartment complex and the tenant who had bought the apartments were understandably angry. Very few of the tenants stayed anyway, but by all means the building was a failure to the point it would be completelly understandable to have the whole building just bulldozed.

  But where most companies would just disbanded and or disapeared with the money, they kept working on the building. Added new floors, made the yard nicer, lowered the prices of the apartments and the whole time tried their best to keep the remaining few people living there happy. And after few years (decates really if you think how much faster gaming industry develops than housing) the place started to be closer what the original brochure said.

  Eventually new people start to get intrested about the apartments and the people who originally bought the apartments started to move back in without paying any additional fees. And while the windows were little smaller and the shower tiling were little different than originally promised, people seem to like living there. In a way the constant repairs and the new additions to the place, make it even better to some people.

  The point that makes that building special is that nine times out of ten, in these situations the tenants are left with unhabitable home or even closed down building. And even more often the tenants need to pay additional fees to acces the fixed parts of the building.

  Is this purely genorosity from the builder? Of course not. They also have bills to pay and in the end its their livelyhood and they surely have investers waiting a return for their money. But is it monumental showing of backbone from the builder to say publicly “Hey, we messed things up and we are sorry, but we will keep working on it”. Absolutelly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you force other industry term on the gaming industry? Thats just silly. It like saying apple is a bad fruit because it is a lousy boat.

  Gaming is pretty unique platform in a way where the product is measured by unquantifiable metric called fun, but you want to compare it in terms of other products.

  Im the end they kept working on a bad product where others would have stopped and ended making it good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that at that point the game was allready 8 years old had had several large updates. Not counting few spikes from the updates first four years the game had under 2000 player/month in steam. Financially looking the pragmatic choice would have been to stop the development, but they did not.

  There has been several games from big publishers that were abandoned shortly after release, even if it still was possible to fix the game. Battleborn, Anthem, Concord. And even more games that are still in theory playable, but are just full if bugs or not fun to play.

  But so far i can think only three games that had bad start, but devs kept working on it and eventually managed to make fun games. No mans sky, Fallout 76 and Cyperpunk 2077

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not my fault⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is silly meme post, but somebody here needs to hear that pulling out is not a proper contraception.