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- Comment on Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year - to no avail 6 hours ago:
Ah, so the American equivalent of a kebab shop then?
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 21 hours ago:
The best time to buy a console is just after its sequel is released, lots of people upgrading and selling their old one with all the games and controllers
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 2 days ago:
You can view my unedited comment on my instance
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 2 days ago:
Absolutely loved Jazz Jackrabbit (2 specifically), but what the fuck were they thinking calling a character “Spaz”? Apparently the connotations are different in America, but over here that’s a more offensive version of the word “retard”!
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 5 days ago:
That’s a sensible way to buy all video games
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 6 days ago:
Not to blow my own trumpet, but I was able to memorise basic type relationships as a small child!
That is a summing-up of the criticism that I’ve seen a few times though: they refuse to accept that their players grow up and only ever aim the games at youngsters, difficulty-wise.
- Comment on Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature 1 week ago:
The bait points to this:
I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 week ago:
They gave the Heroic Launcher devs an affiliate link, so while they don’t really support Linux they at least approve of it
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 1 week ago:
I remember that being the “feature” which really highlighted the dumbing-down of the game. Work things out for yourself? Look them up? Remember what you’ve learned? No, we’ve solved the puzzle for you, don’t worry.
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 1 week ago:
As with all offers like this Amazon are hoping that it causes people who weren’t subscribed before to stat paying them regularly, and posts like this are kind of giving them free advertising.
It’s similar to recommending something like reward credit cards (where you can make money off them as long as you pay them off in full and never pay any interest), if you’re sensible enough with your money then you can get a freebie but the provider is looking to profit off you messing up or forgetting.
- Comment on Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet 1 week ago:
Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their customer base.
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 1 week ago:
As I post whenever someone complains about them not being free in !freegames@feddit.uk: you can sign up for a free trial of prime, claim the thirty or so games currently available, cancel, and keep all the games forever without having to give a penny to Amazon.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone’s claiming it’s difficult, it’s just more of a risk. If you’re the investor calling the shots with your big bag of money do you choose a new idea which might be great but people might not like, or to rehash an existing idea that already has fans who will buy more of the same? The decision is entirely financial.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 2 weeks ago:
So…dev stumbles, fans harass, and the project is dead.
Goodbye Winlator…for now?
Ugh, another amazing one-person project killed by harassment. The internet makes it so trivial to bombard someone with hate-mail, and I doubt many of us have been through the “media training” necessary to deal with it. I only have the tiniest of projects going and if the people I thought I was making a nice thing for suddenly turned on me then I think I’d be saying “fuck it then” too.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 2 weeks ago:
You can do a call in a group chat, right?
- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I think you can do both of those with BotW too
- Comment on PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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' 4 weeks 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' 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 5 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 5 weeks ago:
I think putting something like
(Dunky)in the title would probably have helped