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- Comment on Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games 15 hours ago:
Pretty sure these guys want to make an Assassins’ Creed gacha game.
Ezio limited banner is up for the next month! Soft pity (odds increase) at 80 pulls! Hard pity (guarantee pull) at 160 pulls! Pull for Ezio today! Ezio will not go to standard when his banner ends!
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 20 hours ago:
Much appreciated. I believe that it’s possible to own a shotgun in Japan for the purpose of hunting, but getting one is extremely regulated and difficult.
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 21 hours ago:
Unlike places like the US, people in Japan aren’t really supposed to have guns. So if some dude kicks your door in, threatens you with a knife, and then you shoot him with a gun you’re not supposed to have, you could still go to jail for illegal possession of a gun.
Even the Yakuza are hesitant to use guns.
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 22 hours ago:
Having done it myself, I find several big issues with Japanese -> English translation:
- Honorifics. Referring to someone with -kun or -chan or -sama or -bucho all have very different connotations. Sure, you could just include the honorifics as is but I don’t think that many people unfamiliar with the Japanese language know what -kohai means.
- Culture: Even if the translation is perfect, characters may act in bizarre ways for Westerners. “He knows that guy is evil, so why doesn’t he shoot him?” “Shooting people is very serious shit in Japan.” "Well no one told me!"
- Puns: The big one. To give an English -> Japanese example, how do you translate the joke, “I no that!”? Joke being, the “no” implies that the speaker doesn’t actually know what “that” is, with the “no” taking the place of “know” since they sound the same. “No” in Japan is “iie”, and “know” is “shiru”. They don’t sound alike at all, so how do you do it? Japanese is filled with puns like this, and most of them are completely lost on Westerners.
That said, I do support translators for giving Westerners a variant of the Japanese version. But there’s no mistake that a lot is lost.
- Comment on Is there anything like a strategy version of KSP? 1 day ago:
It sorta counts if you’re okay with a 2D KSP.
You have to plan out your ship design, like KSP. And you have to exploit weaknesses in enemy ships to take them out. You also have to deal with inertia when flying around.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 5 days ago:
There’s a recent one that came from China called The Real Face of a VTuber. It’s pretty good, and borrows heavily from Ace Attorney gameplay.
I’m pretty sure this one ( The Bygone Days of Her and the Flowers ) is a Genshin spinoff with Ace Attorney gameplay and surprisingly high production value, but there’s no English translation.
Whispers of the Luminaries counts for sure, and appears to be coming out either this month or the next. It also has a great demo to try out.
In Rose Academy, you collect clues on the murder, but I haven’t found anything where you actually use the clues in the demo. It’s unquestionably a mystery, though. This game comes out early April.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 5 days ago:
Steam fixes a lot of that with Proton.
The stuff you can’t really do on Linux is anything with Kernel Anti-Cheat, which you don’t want infesting your device anyways.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 5 days ago:
I’ve been enjoying the advances in escape room games. mc2games makes some good ones.
The HL2 VR mods are pretty good if you have a headset. Reloading a gun with your physical hands is pretty immersive.
There’s been a silent rise in mystery-themed (Ace Attorney adjacent) games in the East recently. The mysteries get better and better.
Russian games have been innovating a bit to attract Western customers. “No I’m not Human” is one of those. There are also some Russian visual novels that are good thrillers.
Of the games China makes that aren’t gachaslop, some have tried to innovate. This one syncs what the character doing with real world time. So if it would take 10 minutes for a character to do something, it would take 10 actual minutes. The game doesn’t even have to be on during those 10 minutes, so it can be something where you check in every now and then.
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- Comment on Next Fest demo for indie game about the Moon's impending collision with Earth 1 week ago:
That was a good series.
- Comment on Next Fest demo for indie game about the Moon's impending collision with Earth 1 week ago:
Last one. Everyone’s pretty much out of options for actually stopping it, and a big theme is preventing the remaining people from snapping under the pressure of the world’s imminent end.
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- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 2 weeks ago:
The way I specialize is:
- JAST USA for the rare occasion they have a game I want, and I don’t want to bother with getting a patch.
- DLSite for the robust catalog of R18 games that are outside of my government’s snooping.
- DMM (with some special browser cookies to even get in) if I want to be sure my government isn’t snooping when I buy games.
- itch io for free games or games made by small time creators
- GOG for games released around 1995 - 2005
- Steam for general purpose
- Patreon if there’s a particular paid early access game I’m looking for.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 2 weeks ago:
Only games I bought from these guys are the games I can’t get on Steam.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I fucking hate Zimos.
- Comment on Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games 2 weeks ago:
I fully expect gacha mechanics in the sequel.
Pull for Niko Bellic! Only available for one month! 0.1% drop rate, but pity triggers at 150 pulls!
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 2 weeks ago:
Already exists. Gacha H-games (which may accept crypto payment, not sure) happen to be extremely expensive to play, too.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 3 weeks ago:
Technically the final level of Manhunt 1 counts.
Rich dude lets a criminal on death row on the loose in some “TV sets”, with orders to kill everyone in sight. When the criminal survives the series finale, he fights through the cops and the rich guy’s personal guard, and chops the rich guy to pieces with a chainsaw.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. My feathers keep me safe from cuts.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 3 weeks ago:
So? Both options work great for me.
If a good alternative to Youtube is created, then I’ll use that. Great.
If a good alternative to Youtube never arises, and Youtube is constantly enshittified further, that’s great too. The human race deserves to suffer, so this option is also great.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 3 weeks ago:
Fine with me. Youtube needs some decent competition.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 3 weeks ago:
considering that is the site’s revenue (specifically the targeted ads based on user data)
I actually pay for youtube premium
pick one
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 3 weeks ago:
That’s the old way of doing news.
The new way of doing news is generating news that favors the news reporters’ financial backers.
- Comment on I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live) 3 weeks ago:
Sent the review! It’s good stuff.
- Comment on I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live) 3 weeks ago:
I’m playing through it now - I went through the playtest, and I like the new intro. I also want to let you know that the game was muted until I opened and closed the settings screen, for some reason.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 4 weeks ago:
That’s another Russian facebook, yes.
Telegram I feel is a mix between Facebook and Twitter. It doesn’t really push far enough in either direction to be a copy paste clone.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 4 weeks ago:
It’s a Russian copy of facebook. Non-Russians hate it for that reason alone.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 4 weeks ago:
I predict a Control gacha game.
A 50/50 soft pity at 100 pulls, with hard pity at 200. Pull your favorite Control character on the limited banner! Note the limited banner character won’t transfer to standard once the banner ends. Pity also will not carry over.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 4 weeks ago:
Well there is that one nsfw forum that is VERY active. Said forum also provides a list of file hosters that have escaped enshittification.
Those guys pirate the shit out of Japanese games but official nsfw game developers sometimes go there to advertise.