It’s really great but it’s taking a LOT of time.

Yeah and you can still see the impressive art team at play with marathon (in impressed they still managed to keep talented people, seeing how they fired people left and right).

However, is there really a market for extraction shooter these days? The choice of making this kind of game really feel like trend chasing and generaly this doesn’t end well…

I was extremely active on it until lightfall.

The way they added story “filler”, the nonsensical scenario, the fomo/mandatory grind as well as the “you have to pay for everything” finally pushed me over the edge of my rabbid “I need to play” and completionist tendency. It was the last straw.

I’m gland I left because it’s when shit started e to hit the fan:

• they started to make you pay for a lot of thing that was previously included in the expansions (dungeons, raid,…).
• They started to fire their (highly talented) staff en masse.
• FOMO was getting out of control indeed.
• You could feel the greed out of most of the decisions.
• Vaulting content (why???)

Shame because

• it was of the best shooting/power gameplay out there. The art and design was incredibly.
• The lore was deepd and with a lot of “hidden” link darksoul style (even if it’d be easy to argue it was just obscure and writer had no idea what they were doing)
• The sci/fantasy mix was working very well and for me is still unique so far.

I might give it a go again, but it’ll not be the same without my old clan.

Ouah destiny 2 is still alive? Bungie hasn’t managed to kill it by squeezing out for money yet?

Honestly, taking into account how important modding is for the TES serie, I’d say it’s better to aim PC for this one.

Thank you for these news/updates :D

As a lover of physical packaging and manual a bit saddened by the current full digital tendencies it was great to learn about all these info!

Hope you’ll enjoy the Switch 2! :)

If I were you, I’ll be on the lookout regarding Nintendo communication about possible improvements to the joycon drift problem of the Switch 1. Especially since they said they won’t be using Hall effect joystick.

I’m back into tears of the kingdom on switch 1 these days and I understand why I dropped the game in the first place: joycon drift can be… simply rage inducing.

This post show so much ignorance for how games are made these days…

Isn’t it like… Ridiculously small?

I’m not up to date on hardware evolution, so don’t hesitate to educate me if I’m wrong :)

Ouah

That’s great news but I have a hard time seeing this getting into effect. Oo

Destiny 2?!?

Damn even as a gutted zombie Bungie manage to rack in the cash…

Shame the infamous games are still not available/playable on PC or outside the PS3.

Loved Prototype a the time and I’d really like to give a try to Infamous.

I’m extremely frustrated by lineageOS only supporting SOME (could easily say the minority) version of the phones they describe as supported.

I wanted to give my old S8 a new life… Well the European version doesn’t seem to be supported…

I’m still extremely salty over Homeworld 2, that I waited like the messiah, for this…

Love amplitude and the universe they spanned across their games.

I hope they’ll be able to make it work and continue creating great games. :)

Japanese court also tend to privilege big companies…

And valid game keys so…

Same for me, started playing D2 at launch (No console sir wasn’t able to play D1). PvE only, PvP when cheese was possible.

Loved the game, the story, the great gameplay and shoot/power feeling.

Stayed in for years but, in indsight I played more and more because I felt I needed to instead of wanted to.

They started vaulting content with shitty excuses, made the game very hard for new players (best way to kill it long term), added monetisation and FOMO left and right.

FOMO finally burned me out before lightfall. Didn’t preco and that was the smart thing to do. This extension was simply scandalous: rushed, very poorly written, bad characters (and there wasn’t that much of them). It was hastly put together to be able to push final shape and it felt. Quite there and then.

On one hand I’m happy I stopped giving money to a Company that clearly didn’t give a fuck to both its players and employees.

On another hand it’s a shame because the game was good, art direction incredible, story - even if sometime badly narrated and complicated- was deep and great.

Edit: ah gambit was great, especially with a full team.

Yeah, completly agree with you.

I tried it again after a 10 years hiatus and… Forgot how good and game is and… how time consuming as well.

I stumbled upon an expression summarising it perfectly: EVE isn’t a video game, it’s a hobby. Requiring time and dedication.

It was fine during college, but now… Not anymore.

On their blog they explain they initially went for a reboot, but their editor refused to finance it and wanted “just” a remaster.

So they choose to do a remake instead.

Source: https://www.littlebigadventure.com/en/reboot-remaster-or-remake-the-answer/

Well I’d simply want to avoid giving biometric data to Google…

I meant, it just makes things more complicated than “classic” RTS, making the pause even more helpful (giving precise order can be complicated, but I’ve only tried one control type out of two-ish)

Honestly during the campaign it’s really helpful.

Compared to the two previous games, this one require more micro management (or at least benefit from it).

And “other RTS games [requires micro management] as well, without pause”: indeed, but playing in full 3D/volume complicate things.

Edit: trying to rephrase for clarity

To be fair, thy said the one player game campaign doesn’t need it, but multiplayer did.

That’s still the case and that’s why steam is giving refund: people are basically buying the game with part missing.

I’d be curious to see the sale results of the games while takeling the amount of console/PC present as well as the market size during the release year.

We might have surprise about results of all the games with these parameters.

Same here!

I had to get rid of the 2nd edition one year ago because of a contact/short issue. :(

So useful to know who was speaking in mumble/teamspeak when I had only one screen…

And the shortcut keys were useful at the time (I don’t have much use for them now).

Edit: I’ve seen the video and yes, I forgot how CLEAR the software was. It was extremely easy to set, set the shortcuts to work as you wanted.

The current new logitec soft/driver is an utter shit, buggy, extremely confusing (I gave up on trying to setup the backlight how I want it because how stupidly confusing the UI is) and crashing all the time.

Went back to it last month after a 10 years yatus.

Game still here, with a lot of changes since.

However, it’s still requiring a lot of time an commitment. And I realized that I don’t have either to give to a video game now.

Ahaha I have the same problem. https://sh.itjust.works/post/13148131

Another thing is that the pixel8a has been leaked and that it solves the biggest Pixel 8 issue: The camera bar is thinner.

I was Impressed by the Google traduction from Polish to English, the article was Was to read!

Yeah I agree, I’m more concerned by security patches than major overall.

I don’t know much about GrapheneOS, but if there is a S23 compatible version, I think I’ll tend toward this phone.

From what I’ve noted down, the main problem I had with the zenfone was a short update coverage (up to 2025 for the Zenfone 10 I think?)

Ah I might have confused the two phones. I had read it in a comment on this community a while back.

Ah, good to know I’ll check for my specific banking app. Thanks!

Yeah I was going to say: who’s this guy?

Found this after a very quick search: https://www.npd.com/about-npd/industry-experts/mat-piscatella/

Mat Piscatella’s career has spanned the entertainment software industry, including tenure with Warner Bros and Activision. His industry experience ranges from business planning, analysis, and forecasting to operational and strategic planning. A self-proclaimed “game geek,” Piscatella has worked in the industry for close to 15 years.

Video game brands he has worked on include Call of Duty, LEGO, Batman: Arkham, Guitar Hero, DreamWorks, Mortal Kombat, and Marvel. Piscatella regularly works with key industry trade associations and is collaborating with colleagues on new initiatives for NPD. He has extensive experience presenting to and advising senior leadership for the video game industry.

His experience outside of entertainment software include marketing and sales roles for IRI and Banana Boat Suncare. He has an MBA in marketing from San Diego State University, and a BA in political science from California State University, San Bernardino.

Whouah, okay so all the good things removed.

Fuck the employees I guess?

Damn I was also thinking of taking the FP5, but your report of it being sluggish really make me reconsider.

It’s really a shames they do a home run on everything else and then fails just on the UX at the end…

Edit: ans reading below, slow and irregular security update is even worse…

I played the first two, but not Arkham Knight.

I’ve heard a lot of good thing about the batmobile addition in it and would love to use this opportunity to test it out :)

Never touched the “shadow of…” license but heard a lot of good as well. Curious to try them out as well (even if batman probably more my thing).

Ah you ça change the data storage easily? Hmmmm thanks for pointing this out.

Hadn’t had much news on bungie since I left Destiny when discovered the hybrid cashgrab/turd that was Lightfall. Reddit was my main source of info, so leaving it for Lemmy didn’t help.

I had no idea they went trough a massive layoff.

It’s a shame, most of what I had against D2 was clearly management-related and the team feelt so talented (Arts, Gameplay, story…).