Katana314
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- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 15 hours ago:
This pattern is so predictable, The Outlast Trials (2024) was based around it; your character is given trials based around fascist manipulation following this (“protect the children”) among many other patterns.
You are the shepherd, who would save the poor little lambs from Mother. Deliver them to the warm embrace of the Church, and we will let you out.
- Comment on Random Things that I never expected: Infinity Nikki × Stardew Valley Collab Trailer 18 hours ago:
I might’ve tried out Nikki if it’d been okay with some amount of “sexy” outfits - like, I know not to expect any bikini-model type of garb, but there’s still a midpoint that could feel appealing but also classy.
Either way - still a gacha game with a pretty incomprehensible story.
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 2 days ago:
To clarify, the idea would be to have smaller studios each independently making games. So for half a year, one studio may only have the responsibility of a single 3-hour demo.
- Comment on Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? 2 days ago:
Damn man, I love Resident Evil and have never finished an SH game, but we have so many of the former (especially considering the indie scene) this seems like an excessively presumptuous comment.
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 2 days ago:
I definitely want to see more publisher-driven “game experiments”. Imagine a studio putting out a 3-hour vertical slice of a PS2-era-style experimental game idea for $5. Now imagine, a publisher puts out about 20 of these such games a year (and mostly loses money on them - since $5 isn’t a lot and those 3-hour segments need polish) but then, occasionally one of them hits it big - and then the publisher grants them a greenlight to make a trilogy of 14-hour games after figuring out that people enjoy it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 days ago:
While I’m not a furry, Steam has some interesting titles on offer from Anthrocon, even if you just find animals to be a unique aesthetic choice for characters. I’m an Ace Attorney fan, so I got the demo for “Dragon Detective” which just released yesterday.
- Comment on Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language 3 days ago:
Perfect for reviews like “Game is great, visuals are great, no bugs, it’s very fun, but the developer was not polite enough to the glorious Chinese Communist Party, and was a week late on providing a Chinese translation. Never support these xenophobes.”
God I wish I was exaggerating. Chinese gamers seem to have a huge victim complex.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
One of my similar learnings:
“Hey, Earl, can you pick a new track?”
“Why? I love these guys.”
“Martha’s gonna be here any minute, and I feel like she’s not going to enjoy hearing rap music from this guy ranting about his bitches are all crazy and need to respect their man.”
“Man it’s just music. But fine, if you’re so prude.”
Martha: “Hey guys, I’m here-OOH, I love this song! 🎶These bitches, they so craaay-say…!” - Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter adds Switch 2 version; ‘Prologue’ demo now available for PS5, Switch, and PC 4 days ago:
How well they reproduce some of those key drama stings is definitely key to the game’s rating imo.
A lot of game directors don’t quite appreciate just how short scenes like FF7’s death of Aeris are; or what made them compelling even with poor visuals on a struggling console. I’m a little bit worried some of these scenes will get over-acted, and leave players kind of “done with the scene” before they’ve wrapped up. Trails has way too much dialogue overall, but it ends up working well when it gives you a series of huge “WHAM” moments, and the credits are rolling before you’ve fully parsed it.
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But now that I think about it, they could likely wind down some of Weissman’s speech during his reveal.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
You’re claiming a pattern, but so far I’ve only been pointed to one example. On the other hand, the other participant in that conversation, you, has been posting giant screengrabs of this individual where they are claiming…that we shouldn’t generalize evil groups?
I’m all too aware of how people can “Sealion” the energy out of a discussion. But even your choice examples aren’t painting yourself in the best light here, nor a very strong impression towards Zorque. I could yet be convinced, but not so far.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
What I gather from the linked conversation: (In regards to a joke where a boy turns out to have a polygamous dad)
Sure, but that’s universal. Most of the Islamic theocratic have this problem, and it’s a point of general focus… but Islam is their excuse, not a functional cause. It’s not like Mormons did it any better.
Islamic theocratics are not the same as muslims. Theocracy is where the law of one’s god is seen as the ruling body, and tend to be more of the extremists of a religion - in Islam’s case, the ones more likely to use religion as a weapon of power to have multiple wives. Nothing in that conversation came across as “Being pro-Islam is being anti-feminism”.
I’d also point out, the user made several efforts to ask for better explanation from those disagreeing, but everyone was just digging for more words from him instead of discussing openly. This is how disagreement is manufactured.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I mean, I kind of guessed this way back when Collective Shout pushed their action.
I actually had a comment removed here on Lemmy when I brought up how this was “US politics/elections affecting your life as gamers”, because the mods insisted it was purely an Australian action, and my comment was off-topic. But we live in a global online world. There’s no way that US politics wouldn’t have a huge effect on this type of censorship.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 4 days ago:
Spoilers for Alyx for all those without VR headsets
Honestly, all it’s doing is retconning the ending of Episode 2 in a slightly different way while still presenting that cliffhanger. It made me lose a lot of faith in their writers, and it will be hell to explain such a janky twist to non-VR players.
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter adds Switch 2 version; ‘Prologue’ demo now available for PS5, Switch, and PC 4 days ago:
I’m interested in this one, but honestly a bit worried about increased realism effects.
The original was surprisingly VERY detailed about things like facial expressions in 2D character portraits - a good thing when the game has so many moments of growth and heartbreak. I’m a little worried about how well they’ll imitate a lot of that with increased graphics.
But hey, maybe I should play the demo to find out.
- Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter adds Switch 2 version; ‘Prologue’ demo now available for PS5, Switch, and PC 4 days ago:
Wtf, Azure was the worst of those issues. Crossbell gets attacked by about a dozen villains, and your police squadron never gets to actually “defeat” any of them until the very last chapter.
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees 5 days ago:
That’s fine, just have the AIs book random meetings with each other, while the humans meet for human meetings. Then bill the AI companies a full convention ticket for each AI that attended the other AIs’ meetings.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 5 days ago:
I think power on that scale gets harder to parse, a little bit like Dragonball Z fights. Many of Goku’s adversaries are capable of destroying whole planets, which makes anything else that happens in a season feel insignificant.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 5 days ago:
Maybe a decent Superman game could emphasize the D in DC comics; and have you mostly play as Clark Kent trying to solve a mystery, occasionally using X-Ray vision or Super Speed to gather facts. A common challenge might be trying to get past a security desk to find answers without triggering any alarms or causing the guard harm.
- Comment on LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight - Official Reveal Trailer 5 days ago:
Recommended feed also showed a snippet of gameplay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2faT1SksE8
- Comment on It's all very unclear 6 days ago:
Reminds me of how, when I see a red light, I roll up to it at 5mph rather than zooming to a stop; then starting from a light speed helps me accelerate much faster.
- Comment on Fairgame$ Has Been Canceled, Too, According to Michael Pachter, Who Says Sony Has ‘Lost Its Way’ 1 week ago:
I would say it’s no coincidence we’ve seen a drought of good singleplayer games around the same time as a drought of console exclusives.
Technology-wise, there’s no “reason” to buy any particular console. They’re all PCs. So, console makers have to invent that reason; and little things like a screenshot button, or family features, don’t pull people into the store. Exclusive games do.
And one key thing is, those exclusive games can’t be F2P microtransactions-laden casinos or live-service games. No one is spending $500 just to play something free; they’ll try to install that on a device they have. The exclusives have to be full, complete, well-voice-acted, well-written masterpieces respected by the gaming public - making anyone without that console envious.
But couldn’t devs just sell those games without making them exclusive? Perhaps not. Look at the credits for the latest God of War and you get a sense of how much they’re spending to make those types of games.
Yes, the game alone is still profitable. But A) It’s paying for a dozen failures Sony has also put out - no-name experiments they greenlit, and B) It might not be as profitable as many other reliable industries investors could put their money into. Why not just buy an index fund?
Thankfully, the equation works out better for indie studios; their games aren’t so massive as to need to account for millions in costs. So we’ll keep getting those. But big-budget singleplayer arrangements aren’t as likely when they’re not pushing some bigger product like a game console.
- Comment on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy 1 week ago:
FedNow is an option within the USA that uses a government-provided system to cheaply transfer money, and a number of banks have signed on. It’s not in use because it’s not as universally available yet.
- Comment on 90% of Games Developers Already Using AI in Workflows, According to New Google Cloud Research 1 week ago:
“See? This developer used an AI to help him work out how to resolve this Unity error”
Meanwhile the dev: “Wtf? I just wanted to do a regular search for that error, not AI.”
- Comment on Discoverability is the industry’s "Achilles’ heel," marketing survey finds 1 week ago:
I would hope most of the industry learned a big lesson from Apex Legends. The day before its release, no one knew of its existence. The sole reason that it blew up was because it was fun.
Viral sharing of interactivity is likely the most cost effective way to run a marketing campaign for games - not bus ads, pre-order hype, etc. In other words, Make good games.
- Comment on [Discussion] Ranking the highest-grossing video games 1 week ago:
I’ve heard that there’s a huge market for Hidden Object games. Like, double-digit percentage of the market.
Often the “mainstream, hardcore soulslike” gamer section of the market that’s targeted for discussion only ends up being a part of it. Most people who have a family member with a PlayStation are more likely to have a row of the latest sports games than anything else popular.
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I never felt like buying this full price, but this just reminded me to reserve it at my library for a borrow. Thanks.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I enjoyed this one a lot, but I eventually got stuck on a yeti boss, and quit.
It felt like his next move was somewhat randomized, and you needed to react in much less than a second to the type of move he was doing. While a lot of bosses develop patterns you can get used to, I couldn’t form any rules in my mind that could account for my reflexes not improving.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 week ago:
Wasn’t GTA V more expensive than most movies?
That’s the thing, a lot of investors almost don’t like the idea that video games are low budget. They want to be able to double their funding and quadruple their success, like with a lot of growth properties.
- Comment on Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Has Made Certain Bosses And NPCs Unkillable Following Backlash In China 1 week ago:
Didn’t Assassin’s Creed 2 have you fight/kill The Pope as a final boss because he’d been corrupted by an artifact of Eden?
Heck, I was playing a gooner game “Samurai Maiden” where famous warlord Nobunaga becomes corrupted by a demon and has to be put down.
So, China, you’re not the only country whose history gets toyed with in fiction. Wait till they see Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.