There are console hackers?? Ugh.

I’m sad I stopped playing. By far the chillest way to unwind after work.

“The whole map is covered in snow… So we went up to Ambarino” kidding, yeah the snow is the absolute best. I’m gonna have to log in this week now.

What’s sad is how true this is. Companies enshitify once they have a solid hold on the market. But if they start to slip in numbers, do they ever deshitify to regain trust and users? Fuck no, they triple down on the enshitification to make one last cash grab as they prepare to abandon ship with life preservers full of bonuses for themselves

I just got it last week for holiday travel. I was pretty sure it was advertised on Google Play since it was on my front page. Kinda like how I feel like this article itself is an ad. But I guess it’s possible that it was front page because of the random sales boost

If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is left alive to hear it, does it make a sound?

This is where my brain went, too. Even looking at this Lemmy thread. 6 of the 10 most upvoted top level comments (including THE most upvoted) are “not meee”, “not alllll men”, defensive crap or “well she should have just…” and “even men have to deal with it toooo” like damn. We ARE fucked.

Or do the trial, find some games you like, then buy them for a couple bucks when the trial ends

I saw a trailer before it came out, but it may have been in the context of how much of a guardians knockoff it was.

I’ll go watch some Prince of Persia gameplay this morning!

Casual gamer here. I’d heard of Concord. Never knew another Prince of Persia game even existed.

When the image appears on the screen, he says, “we didn’t want the blade runner future. Well, maybe that cool duster he’s wearing.” So anyone there would likely assume that the image is from Blade Runner. The intent of the image was Blade Runner.

It also says the bezels are gone, but the photo looks like massive bezels. Feel like I’m missing something

I didn’t judge anyone.

Sorry I threw out a hyperbolic number to a future time for a conversational thought experiment, despite it being rationally accurate. Someone else shared some data that yes, most deaths are not gamers. 3/4 of deaths are old age over the age of 65, and 6% of people over the age of 65 play video games. But that doesn’t matter. I said you were being judgmental about me as a person for some reason and that wasn’t called for.

I think the opposite, if you want to adjust your jumping to judgemental conclusions. I’m old and social. I grew up in a place where nobody gamed or had computers.

Nearly all of the close people in my life did not/do not game. My circle is outdoorsy or go out somewhere people I guess. We have kids and families and precious little free time. I’ve never had friends come over to game or however that goes. I guess I could seek out people who want to game with me, but if someone has free time at the same time as I do, we’d rather do something else.

Hope this broadens your perspective of people.

I can’t even imagine 100 years from now when gamers are dying every day.

Right now I feel like I can change an account name and email pretty easily and nobody would care. But when that account is 130 years old, someone might start asking questions

Sadly points to the average young person’s attention span these days

I love announcements for announcements

I didn’t know we were playing the PC vs console argument. Nevermind, someone did that in another thread already. Yes PC without subscription is better. But anyone playing anything on a console buys the sequel every few years of whatever the game may be. Which was what I was replying to

Maybe it isn’t, but it’s hardly a reason to single out this game for it.

As do nearly all console online games

Are you imagining that this game should be like those constantly updating online games that rely on micro transactions or monthly subscription? It was a game to buy full price, but got updates and events for free for 2 years plus DLCs. The servers and game will still be online getting quality of life and security updates. Splatoon 1 servers were online for 9 years… On Wii U no less.

I’ve never heard of it. But we all live in our own spheres

What happens at IT camp stays at IT camp

But I need it for my ________. There are simply no alternatives.

That’s what they say.

Thanks, I’d never seen that! It’s pretty glorious itself

Best intro EVER

Maybe not a popular reply, but if you’re already in Windows ecosystem, the Microsoft launcher is pretty impressive features-wise.

As long as we start rephrasing for what it is. Premium users don’t get it 48hrs before release. It’s released and anyone who pays can get it.

It’s withheld from everyone else until the elites get their go at it.

I need a fix while waiting for silk song. So this looks like it!

Nobody told me, either. I just sort by Top-All. It was the top story on any gaming site for weeks. My son was also excited about this too, even he’d heard about it. It’s a cool story.

Yes, I took offense on the part of the people who I saw reacting very frustrated after they’d tried the level for hours without TAS. And it upset me his response wasn’t more apologetic. Team 0% having to include a statement not to attack him and keep the peace seems like I’m probably not the only one.

In all, though, that was my interpretation. I’ve never talked with anyone in 0% or Ahoyo. Maybe in Ahoyo talk, that’s a good apology.

But there was a level entry form. So he entered it, but then disqualified it? Or someone else entered it on his behalf?

This is why I asked, I wasn’t sure what exactly happened. I read multiple other articles (I didn’t come up with using ‘faked’ to describe it). There’s a difference using TAS vs using TAS but letting everyone believe that you didn’t for 6 years.

THH was gaming news for two weeks before he came clean. If he hadn’t heard the news, he still should be way more apologetic to all the people who wasted their time

The playdate is so cute and fun. There are so, so many indie developers having fun with it.

Tons of free games from devs just learning to code, and quick little fun games for $5 or less.

There is no backlighting and it’s really dark, so you’re kinda rewarded for playing outside, too

Not “crazy hard”. Cheated. I don’t know what kind of grief he’s getting, but he deserves it. If he didn’t want to sabotage their task, he should have admitted it right away when he uploaded it. Or 2 weeks ago when his level became the last level. Or a month ago when everyone learned about the task. Before people wasted hours of their life trying to beat a hacked level.

“I won’t deny them the victory” is a control statement. What he has done has allowed them to win. Delivery has connotation, and his whole message is one of explaining away what he did.

Yeah!

Wait, him or me?

“More and more people were uploading evidence that I faked it, so I finally confessed. But only after people wasted countless hours of their lives trying to beat it. I was gunna tell everyone I swearsies, but only after I got attention. It happened so quickly, only 2 weeks after 6 years that I could have said something. I’m so nice, I could have uploaded another one I faked, but I didn’t!”

I don’t understand why this guy is getting a pass by so many people. “I will not deny team 0% their victory” what kind of egotistic statement is that? Am I understanding that he entered it into a competition, too?

I do get that more energy should be spent celebrating Team 0%, but the fake level guy is mentioned in all those same articles as “congratulating team 0%” as if his thumbs up means fuck all. Hacking is fun and funny, but absolutely not if it is to the detriment of other users.

To the geriatrics in Congress, kid is anyone under 50

Thanks for reading!

I think with any grind game, it just has to be a grind you enjoy. That’s how Diablo was for me.

I do feel cheated like IF they have two seasons already queued up – isn’t that just content that could have been in the game already?? DLCs used to be “hey, this game is successful, let’s make more content for it” not “let’s withhold some and slow feed it to them!”

Suicide squad, though, each hero has the exact same ability. A melee strike that knocks the enemy to make them easier to shoot. Well kinda. Boomerang can knock from distance, shark can AOE knock. And the guns are completely interchangeable, too. Boomerang can be handed a sniper rifle and now he’s Deadshot.

I’m only a short way into the game, but I’m having fun. Maybe It helps that I’m playing with someone? I dunno

It’s not a great game. At all. But this article feels like a crappy hit piece. It’s a bit disingenuous.

There are 3 skill trees per character that unlock new mechanics and combos (with unique animations). You can pair those mechanics with different guns or even gun mods to make your build unique. One of the trees specifically enhances and alters how the character’s unique weapon functions (and in particular adds this really bad ass gruesome boomerang attack).

On that note, I really don’t understand the article’s complaint that you can’t stop a high tech alien invasion force with a baseball bat… And Harley uses all kinds of weapons in every iteration I’ve ever seen.

Plus, yes if you’re playing correctly, you should ‘knock’ the baddie with the bat (or boomerang), then blast them. Or don’t, if you had Ivy add pheromones to your bat, they’ll rage and attack each other instead. Or if you have any variety of freezing or toxic grenades or whatever, use those instead? The game is only boring if you don’t explore.

I really don’t see how this is different mechanically to, say, Spider-Man (which we absolutely loved – swinging is way more fun than traversals). Granted, I said it’s not a great game, and Spider-Man did all of it better. I’d take multiplayer Spider-Man easily over this.

But this article, along with some videos I’ve seen, show people using the basic default attack over and over. Sure, you can do that. You can do that in Diablo, too, or Spider-Man. Both are hugely popular, go to area and beat up slightly different bad guys type games that are also more fun if you use unique builds and tactics.

This game does merit tons of criticism. There’s any other game that did things better. Did every piece better. But the game can be really fun. The second it goes on sale, I’ll recommend it. The story is fun and funny (though a bit heavy on ‘a new reveal character showed up at the last second to save the team!’ narrative)

Ps. I’ve no intention of paying for any season passes or whatever, characters or outfits.

At the end of each chapter, the game reveals a choice tree of dialogue and cut scene branches to see how much content exists on other paths.

I watched my daughter play, and she loved the story so much, she wanted to see what the missing scenes were.

Since I noticed a lot of people didn’t replay due to slowness, I gotta say, I was genuinely surprised at how insanely different the outcomes that were available. Most choices only affected your relationship with the characters in the scene long term, which only affects the ending, but there was an impressive amount of additional content that made the game feel vastly different for us chapter by chapter

Chloe was fantastic