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- Comment on Day 581 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
I’ve been playing this the last few days too. I got the game on the Switch for the kids during lockdown and it became an instant favourite with them, but it was disappointing that you could only have one profile that had their own island.
Several years later, we’ve all got MacBooks, and I have been messing about with emulation. There’s a particular emulator that Nintendo killed but forks are still maintained that run incredibly well on Macs. This past weekend saw the three of us reminiscing, each finally with our own island.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
I reckon it’s also because there are simply so many games available now, and countless devices to play them on. My generation had one console or computer max, and a handful of games. Now young gamers have half a dozen devices at home, and thousands of free or easily accessible titles on whatever platform is currently in reach. They don’t need to commit to a couple of titles, when an advert for the next one is a tap away.
I mentioned this before on another post, but I had 5 games on my PS1 as a kid. There are currently over 400 owned games available on the living room Xbox, there’s a Switch in the house, the kids have iPhones, iPads and laptops, there’s a Quest 2 gathering dust etc etc.
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 months ago:
Some of the comments on this and similar threads are wild. A dedicated major contributor to the fediverse as a whole, working almost entirely alone, who is solely responsible for bringing many of us to it that were looking to escape the social media capitalist hellscape via Pixelfed, creates another alternative with Loops and publishes some detail regarding how it works, and a bunch of keyboard-warrior nerds try to take it apart. So many people contribute entirely fuck-all to fediverse platforms beyond the odd bit of content, myself included, and it always amazes me how quickly they want to tell him he’s doing it wrong. So many opinions from so many people producing nothing.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 2 months ago:
I got you. It’s an entry in the Portal franchise, with the “2” indicating that it is the second in the series.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 3 months ago:
Goddammit, I loved that game too!
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 3 months ago:
X-Wing
Tie Fighter
X-Wing Alliance
Star Wars: KOTOR
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Hogwarts Legacy
The Thing
Aladdin
Blade RunnerAnd these are just a few off the top of my head that I’ve played.
Although to be fair, I guess we could just as easily reel off a list a garbage equivalents, but I think the throwaway that licensed games suck is a misconception.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, now on GOG 3 months ago:
I can highly recommend this if you’re any kind of Indy fan. It masterfully replicates the globetrotting adventure vibe and swashbuckling fighting of the movies, and Indy’s voice actor absolutely nails it.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If this releases with full support for existing Xbox libraries as suggested, this would be the absolute perfect device for my household, where we’ve accrued literally hundreds of Xbox games since 2001, and would love to open up to PC games from a device in the living room. For me, it’s the best of both. That said, it’s still dependent on avoiding exorbitant pricing.
- Submitted 4 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 4 months ago:
I’m exactly the same. Xbox gamer since the OG, and big fan of GamePass until recently. There’s no way I’m paying that much. Mine expires this month, and that’ll be that.
- Comment on Huawei unveils Atlas 950 SuperCluster — promises 1 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance and features hundreds of thousands of 950DT APUs 5 months ago:
Yeah well my Zeus 15GW Overcompensator desktop rig has 4 million FlappyCLAMS and a hundred ThrustForce WTFs.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 months ago:
I enjoyed this. A shooter with a different feel and a vibrant palette, and genuinely funny in parts.
I also got banned from the Xbox subreddit a couple of years ago because of this game. Apparently a photo of the in-game sounding rods was inappropriate. Mate, it's literally an unedited screenshot from an Xbox game.
- Comment on "It's The Game We Wish Had Existed 40 Years Ago" - Ulysses 31 Is Finally Getting A Video Game | Time Extension 5 months ago:
Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies...
Banger
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 6 months ago:
That is pretty much Max in every movie bar the first one though. Wanders about, reluctantly helps some people, wanders off on his own again.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 6 months ago:
Mirror's Edge is such an incredible game. The aesthetics and pace were utterly absorbing
- Comment on I want to go back 6 months ago:
There were definitely 911s here
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 6 months ago:
Minecraft also seems to get frequently forgotten about when taking about Microsoft gaming too. It makes Microsoft around £300m per year in games sales. That's just the game. Imagine what the merchandise figures are on top of that.
I don't think game pass is anywhere near unsustainable, when we consider what is actually sustaining it.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 6 months ago:
It's a shame because the Series X is an absolutely superb device. The fast storage, quick resume, performance, noise level etc are all incredible, and the backwards compatibility, console streaming, and appeal of game pass make the Series X a wonderful gaming machine. I couldn't be happier with it.
We all know the reasons why it isn't as successful as the PS5, but the Series X as a price-to-value product has been woefully under-appreciated.
- Comment on Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech 6 months ago:
Exactly the same. I've been a "developer" for decades, often using a new language for a single project, then never touching it again for years, until I've forgotten the basic syntax. I'm an expert in nothing.
Stack Overflow, random Indian YouTubers, Google and now AI have been _essential _ throughout my career.
You only need to know _enough _. Know what your want to achieve and the rough steps for how to get there, and somebody or something can fill in the blanks.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 6 months ago:
What I wouldn't give for a new Deus Ex game. The only news I ever read about one is another cancellation.
Robocop has a similar vibe, albeit a Fisher Price version. And weirdly the new Indiana Jones game kind of scratches that itch, where you're wandering around an open environment, with multiple access points and secrets hidden away that'll reward those paying attention. Neither come close to just how detailed and cool the Deus Ex games were though.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 6 months ago:
Nice one, thanks for that
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 6 months ago:
Yeah that's the badger. Absolute classic.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 6 months ago:
Cheers, I never know with all the similarly-named communities on the various instances. Downside of the fediverse is often not knowing where the best place to post something is.
- Comment on Robocop: Rouge City 6 months ago:
This is still my favourite:
- Submitted 6 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 6 months ago:
Which is essentially where we are now. Multiple services providing age verification.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 6 months ago:
I'd recommend Googling "device-based age verification" to get more information. I'm not here to convince you of anything.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 6 months ago:
You're welcome to Google "device-based age verification" to get any answers you need, from wiser minds than mine.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 6 months ago:
No, I don't know where you've got that idea from.
