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- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 16 hours ago:
I guess it depends on how big the company is, if they have a long-standing team and work on multiple projects or if they’re mainly contractors brought in for one big project. I’d hope a company like Supergiant have enough other projects going on that nobody’s losing their job over this.
- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 23 hours ago:
Why would they fire the team instead of just moving everyone to other projects? Aren’t the tales you hear about projects being canned and the whole team made redundant specifically due to not having the money to do the project or because some new bigwig is trying to cut costs?
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 2 days ago:
Maybe this will finally make people realise that using an unencrypted corpo-controlled messenger for all of their communications is a bad idea
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 6 days ago:
Are you accessing it not from a UK IP? Always defaults to GBP for me.
- Comment on Space Chef (in development), a space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, releases demo on Steam. 1 week ago:
Ah space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, second only to hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid as my favourite genre of game
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
TimeSplitters 4. If they’d have stopped baiting us with teaser art and promises of someone new buying the bones of Free Radical every few years then it wouldn’t hurt so much.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 week ago:
I think you can do both of those with BotW too
- Comment on PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand 1 week ago:
Gaming is becoming less and less accessible and more and more of a luxury.
Lots of people do their gaming on their phone or PC. And on the subject of phones, look at the top-spec models: they cost thousands, because some people have the disposable income to burn. There are still plenty of affordable options available if you don’t fixate on having the latest best everything.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 week ago:
Interestingly I’d say the complete opposite: BotW was my fave and I feel I could replay it in quite a different style (e.g. trying to beat it without any dungeons, trying to 100% it), whereas the others are all very linear and my only option is to play it again in the same way.
(Obviously I don’t need to pay any additional money to do either though!)
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 week ago:
Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch
A new one, but pretty soon the market will be flooded with second hand switches
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 1 week ago:
ReactOS. Or TempleOS if you’re feeling holy.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 1 week ago:
We’d get a pretty good game format OS—if the players could agree to come together—and then licence that out. Just like we do with Blu-ray, just like we do with the compact disk—and let people compete on content.
I know this is the most Lemmy comment it’s possible to make, but oh, if only there were an OS that already exists that you could run games on and that didn’t even need licencing out!
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 1 week ago:
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 2 weeks ago:
I’d love this comment to be a sticky post on every new thing announcement. Trouble with us humans is we like to really get into a thing that’s completely out of our control, and then we get very upset when it goes in a direction we don’t like. Being able to take a step back and say “ah well, guess that’s not for me anymore” is much better for your own mental health than getting angry at consumerism.
- Comment on Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube 2 weeks ago:
I think putting something like
(Dunky)in the title would probably have helped - Comment on Best starter hands-down 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 2 weeks ago:
I remember reading this comic back in the day, don’t remember playing anything like it other than Nintendo Land
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 2 weeks ago:
GoldenEye on the N64 was the only game I’m aware of to have a control layout where you could use the left and centre prongs to get a proto-dual-stick experience
The WiiU’s second screen is great for asymmetric multiplayer or an auxiliary screen for things like inventories, most games just duplicated what was on the main screen
- Comment on Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget The Megas!
- Comment on Sintopia, a hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid (with an independent overworld where you can cast spells), releases demo on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Ah hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid, my favourite genre of game
- Comment on Did the EU just propose to add back doors to encryption mechanisms? 2 weeks ago:
An unanswered question?
- Comment on Did the EU just propose to add back doors to encryption mechanisms? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the actual relevant info in this massive wall of legalese?
- Comment on Mewgenics - Official Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I know as much as you do
- Comment on Mewgenics - Official Trailer 2 weeks ago:
If it didn’t say it at the start I think I’d still have recognised this as an Edmund McMillan game pretty soon
- Comment on Your TV is watching you 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I meant by “never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted device”, whether that’s a Chromecast or your PC you can always plug in something else you trust more than the TV. Obviously finding something you can trust that does everything you want is another story.
- Comment on Your TV is watching you 3 weeks ago:
My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)
- Comment on Your TV is watching you 3 weeks ago:
What games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?
- Comment on Nintendo GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch's Online Membership 3 weeks ago:
Apologies if I’m coming off too grumpy, I’ve just seen a hundred similar comments over the last 24 hours from people outraged that a company known for unfriendly practices in an industry full of other companies known for unfriendly business practices have continued doing the same unfriendly business practices that are already happening everywhere.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 3 weeks ago:
Fair point, but I still can’t imagine they’ll be double that price for long. The only GBP price I’ve seen for a Switch 2 game is the MKW bundle which is only £30 more than the console on its own.
- Comment on Nintendo GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch's Online Membership 3 weeks ago:
Same as the current Switch online, Microsoft’s game pass, and whatever Sony offers then?