TalkingFlower
@TalkingFlower@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games 5 hours ago:
Or they can go the No Man’s Sky model, with slightly lower quality updates in a 4-months dev cycles, where one sprint could be a major update. Bug testing and marketing could be outsourced to the fanbase as an unwritten contract.
But since it is the developer’s only significant income, they have to keep the game going. Now, the game is quite bloated, so it becomes your problem to ignore it.
That’s why I don’t play live service games; the product is never finished.
- Comment on Is there anything like a strategy version of KSP? 13 hours ago:
Wow, I am in the same situation as OP, Aurora 4x is a time sink for sure.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 1 day ago:
Off topic, but I read books, and I can tell publishers leverage " judging a book by its cover" extremely well, because it is true, otherwise I couldn’t tell an academic edition or a general edition. A book with an AI cover is, in general, a bad idea, and it conveys low quality to the reader. Some open source books use AI to format an epub file; some use text recognition without professional formatting, and it is a disaster to read. You are better off getting an old pdf edition or paying a premium for a publisher’s modernised version.
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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:
GOG forums are mostly technical topics. Different builds for different storefronts can cause different problems, and good luck getting help from devs and mod authors on Steam if you have a GOG problem.
- 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:
It’s very sluggish compared to Steam; everything is slower in GOG client. I wonder if it is a server problem or my region.
- Comment on Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games 2 weeks ago:
I have only paid for three games with this kind of money:
-America and Euro Truck Simulator -Rimworld
Time to go back to retro gaming, they are free on abandonware or dirt cheap on GOG, I can handle the retrojank and graphics.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Ultima Underworld, I feel like getting back into retro gaming, so the first thing I have to do is to follow the tradition: read the manual. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have known I could make popcorn with a lit torch; that is an early prototype of “combine items” like in survival horror games.
I have tried a little Ultima 7: The Serpent Isle just to test how it runs on my machine; they definitely made sure that you pass the test of the history of Britannia before you can even continue the game.
Really like the old days when they still made booklets like History of Britannia (as told by Kyle the Younger), just so that you get immersed in the game world before you even play the game.
- Comment on Devil Daggers 2 is in development, as its creator confirms fewer than 1,500 people survived longer than 8 minutes in the original 2 weeks ago:
This game kicked my ass back then. I think 5 mins was my max.
- 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 3 weeks ago:
I still remember they put Deus Ex in the freezer, handed it over to Embracer, then they murdered it before the final chapter.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 weeks ago:
Well, many complex games have no budget on graphics, that’s why you can have one-man army dev making a monster of a game like Aurora 4x.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 3 weeks ago:
Hearts of Iron 2
When I realised Aurora 4x, a free space 4x game with an ugly UI, does ground trooper even more in-depth than a specialised WWII game, it starts to feel like a toy; there’s just no contest between these two when it comes to complexity in terms of moment-to-moment decision making.
- Comment on Silent Hill: Townfall - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
This looks inspired by Condemned: Criminal Origins, alright, count me in.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Nice, reminds me of DMC.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
No thanks, I have Children of a Dead Earth if I want to build ships, a much better sandbox when you can give your overpowered ships to the AI, and you can try to defeat it with default ships. NMS is too form over function to me.
If I want to build a dollhouse, I will just go with House Flipper, much more focused on interior design, even architects could take inspiration from its design.
NMS is a generalist open-world sandbox; it is not going to compete with specialist sandbox games in terms of depth.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
That’s not my argument, you tell that to Jollyllama, but then again:
6IX9INE- GOOBA - 922m views The Best of Beethoven - 66m views
Ouch, he is right, quote and quote with some modification "Some may not enjoy it and that’s their opinion but they are pulling more listener numbers and higher ratings and most other music artists.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
You tell that to the chill players when people mention “improve combat”, but why do fans complain when it is free, right? It is wild. xD
- Comment on Gothic 1 Remake | Release Date Trailer (June 5th) 3 weeks ago:
I have only played Gothic 2, so it’s time to revisit the games at some point. I heard there is a full-game-sized mod as well.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Appeal to popularity! Why do you think people like 6ix9ine instead of Beethoven? xD
Enjoy your slop!
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
A good game doesn’t have to be deep, but it has to be well-executed by a well-formulated concept.
ETS 2 is even simpler, and what do you do in there? You drive from point A to B, but the journey is the reward; it is fleeting, but it is a limited yet beautiful representation of Europe.
There are mountains of Diorama Builders trying to do exactly what the chill crowd want.
Those are way more honest chill games than a fanbase trying to claim to be the best space game, yet you do garbage collection.
I mean, sure, I love to turn off my brain as well when I watch Supernatural, but it is a shallow show despite its charm. xD
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Nah, the length of an artwork does not indicate depth, tons of TV shows lasting over 10 seasons and 42 mins per episodes and they are still shallow, still don’t pack a punch like the good old BBC Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Alec Guinness plays the role to perfection.
But remember, that’s where they spent their development time, instead of improving the original concept… Oh, wait, they still have the sandbox as the shield to widen the ocean as much as possible.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure the ***chill *** portion of the fanbase will disagree with the survival aspect of the game and note how mundane it is, unless you blindfold yourself and never use any scanner.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, I would rather pay for quality than be forced to accept a bad update like this one, at least with paid DLC you know what to avoid. The game is still wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 4 weeks ago:
AI is a very good summarizer, and I use it to reformat tons of modernising tons of legal texts into markdown and an easier-to-read format for my own reference at work, which I would not dare ask another human being to brave such mundane work. I really don’t see the appeal of AI in art other than place holder.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 4 weeks ago:
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
I spawned as a nun in-game on the rooftop of a cake restaurant. I’ve got nothing but a bible to wreck zombies. And there are so many, there is no tutorial, the controls are tanky, the devs are out of their mind.
0/10
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 4 weeks ago:
I have:
-Brave as my browser -Ublock Origin -DNS-wide AdBlock -Youtube sponser block
I barely see any ads now, except those that pop up as an overlay and nag you, and some of them can be block manaully.
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 4 weeks ago:
“Without some benefit of the doubt, many good games would be dropped and deemed bad. Wanting to like a game is a really important factor.”
That depends on what game and what crowd you are talking about. 4x/Grand Strategies/management crowds are much more patient; 70+ hrs/playthrough is common with a steep learning curve, and this is where a reputation for being complex overrides the need for intuitive tutorials.
Highguard is not one of those games; it was doomed to be Concord 2.0 at the beginning, but then again, I don’t really understand those crowds either, since I hardly play PVP shooters.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 5 weeks ago:
Victoria 3, still the undisputed king of world economic simulation. I had a blast with Vic 2, but I just can’t bring myself to support Paradox Interactive in their current form with ridiculous monetisation of DLC…
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 5 weeks ago:
For some reason, I just felt the humour was trying too hard, plus the price tag made the overall package unappealing to me.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 5 weeks ago:
I have no problem with Daggerfall Unity, why should Morrowind be a problem?
