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- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 17 hours ago:
Agreed. It could have been such an interesting concept if it was literally any other place. Zeta halo could have been so cool, but it felt so detached from the universe
- Comment on 2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one" 19 hours ago:
Yeah, all this gaming BS has taught me to never trust the official PR/marketing departments from these games. They will do anything to spin and hype, that’s their job. The truth is irrelevant.
Also, why would marketing or PR be the people who would know how the game is doing? They are at least 6 layers removed from the people who make the game. In my experience as an engineer it’s rare I’d even be allowed in the same meetings as them.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 19 hours ago:
343 could have done something really interesting if they had started with that idea vs just trying to go right for a mainline Chief story
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 20 hours ago:
Librarian, Didact, people they didn’t even take the time to introduce well and we were supposed to just jump on board with it. Buck was literally the only saving grace for Halo 5 in my opinion - and they introduced him in ODST
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 23 hours ago:
Watched a recent video on magic and writing and it applies for scifi too. Every time you add to the lore you now have to remember and support it forever. 4 just added so much that they clearly didn’t think through like that. Bungie dishes out lore in small bits from 1-3, and it was so exciting when you got just the small tiny bit of backstory. 4 and 5 then just dumped in on your plate in healing portions.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 23 hours ago:
4 felt like such a cash grab to me. No deep lore or story telling like with 1 through reach. Exposition was just spoon fed to us rather than a great mystery. Still, I plugged through, hoping maybe it’d turn around.
Then 5 came out and I gave up all hope on the franchise. Spent more time playing as Locke than we did Chief, story was more compelling than 4 but the storytelling and pacing were clunky, and it was completely disconnected from 4.
Infinite just got worse. “We lost, chief” (but we have no frame of reference, we have no idea what that means , we don’t know how the rest of the world has been affected, and then we’re put against some no name character when we really just want to know what the hell is happening off world)
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 day ago:
“Found themselves”? Wdym by that?
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 day ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 day ago:
Neat, I have no shame in admitting I picked it up, I’ve never played any of these - but if someone tells me I can’t try something (or tries to block access because of prudish reasons) I want to immediately see what the fuss is about.
So, anyone recommend one of these to start with? How would you recommend I try to run these on Linux? (It’s also my first experience with GoG, but seems neat!)
- Comment on GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming" 1 day ago:
Working retail and food service taught me even if you literally give something away for free, people will still find a reason to complain. “Free hamburgers today” But I don’t like hamburgers. “Today only, get a free 6 months to Spotify if you sign up for something else” But I don’t use Spotify.
Just, okay? Like fine it’s not for you, it doesn’t matter, it’s free.
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 3 days ago:
Yeah steams silence has been deafening through this. Itch came out and explained what was happening, GoG did this. All quiet from Steam.
- Comment on Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs 4 days ago:
Wait didn’t they kill off the self hosted a few years ago? Now it’s back?
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 4 days ago:
Fair, I usually poke into All every once in a while to see if there’s anything new, and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca is usually pretty good at letting folks know too
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 4 days ago:
I’ve been in the nerdy tech space for decades now and I will never understand how these people expect things like Linux to take charge while they’re also being the most gatekeepy and arrogant people. Sure, I’d love folks to try it out, but I’m not going to demonize them either for not. I also have done tech support and there are the people where I just say “Nope, get a mac” because otherwise I will be the person that they go and demand free support from every week.
There’s passion, but then there’s a line that is too often crossed that goes into ego and selfishness, and I think Lemmy just breeds that.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 4 days ago:
I think it matters community to community - but I don’t disagree with you. Personally, I suggest curating a list of communities that you like and subscribing to them. It’s been much more pleasant having that than the barrage of All.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 5 days ago:
I think that’s why it becomes so noticeable - it’s usually so calm and chill that when someone comes in to stir the pot it’s so obvious
- Comment on Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing" 5 days ago:
Battlefield has always had a cheating and skill issue. Battlefield 1 got the closest to being okay, I’d get in, have some fun, get heads hotter a few times and drop.
5 though was horrible. I’d have legit cheaters who could shoot me through mountains and people way higher skill than me. It wasn’t a place where I could just go and have some fun.
So yeah, I don’t see me picking up a new one
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 5 days ago:
Thank you! After Admiral Patrick left I felt like there was a void here, introducing Captain Swift!
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 5 days ago:
This has been in the Ask communities unfortunately
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 6 days ago:
That’s true in most places, but until now it’s been relatively quiet I’m here on the fediverse
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 6 days ago:
Interesting, I haven’t noticed this but I’ll keep an eye out on accounts
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 6 days ago:
Unsure personally, but I’m keeping an eye on it personally
- Comment on WordPress-ActivityPub v 7.1.0 Introduces Following Capabilities 6 days ago:
They always first focus on consuming the free content vs giving any back
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- Comment on Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material 6 days ago:
It’s important to know that it may not be visa and MasterCard directly, but rather Stripe, a popular middleware that provides an easy API for developers to access the card networks. To a user it’d be more or less transparent if they’re just swapping them out
- Comment on Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop 6 days ago:
What, you mean like a game you only buy once and just play online for free after that? Why would anyone want that?
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 1 week ago:
I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.
- Comment on Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution 1 week ago:
Try it out, just make sure their software isn’t so locked down that there’s no way to send files in remotely
- Comment on Ubisoft's annual report dictates that the consumers are the problem 1 week ago:
Yeah honestly I really can’t put my finger on it I like this guy or not.
- Comment on Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution 1 week ago:
oh yeah… they’re “white labeling” their own brand of drives and if you use anything else it’ll bitch at you. I think for now it still lets you, but their OS definitely shows you’re not using a “proper” drive. May want to keep an eye on that.