You got a top of the line machine coming out and it still uses dynamic resolution for a 2021 game? How much of a scam is this device, lol.

I ain’t shitting on PSSR though, I think that’s neat.

Now this is the niche content that makes Lemmy great. I’ve never really dabbled in multiplayer a lot as even though I have hundreds of hours, I never actually finished the whole thing, opting to start over every time I picked it back up.

Just wanted to thank you for your post, it was fun to read

I’m not disagreeing with you

And that’s how they get clicks. And now you’re talking about it. And me. So it’s working

No, a museum is part of culture and arts. They aren’t there to make bank.

It’s not a business, it’s a museum

Had the pleasure of playing an early version last year, very cool to see how much of it has “settled” and the direction is crystal clear now. Love the little mechanics

If it was a bug, why did he delete his post?

The article itself admits that it’s hinged on two “substantial what if’s”

Just be patient and wait until more information comes out.

Let’s see what the suit will actually be about (which patent) and then judge accordingly

I would argue that the radio tower stuff bleeding in from Assassins Creed already messed up the formula that Far Cry 2 was building on. I do admit Far Cry 3 had some cool points, but overall it’s where in my view the series took a step in the wrong direction.

Latter titles doubled down on making combat less meaningful, exploration just like any other Ubi title, and realistic animations, AI and physics thrown out the window in favor of cheap mechanics

Like, in Far Cry 2 enemies would try to heal their wounded or mercy kill them, in Far Cry 5 a baddie hover his hands above a body to revive their mate.

Far Cry 2 was the last game that brought something interesting to the mix. After that, the mechanics kept getting more dumbed down and turned into the Ubisoup we know today

I hate that this is probably true. Good thing they released it for free

Well, Sid Meier did originally design Civ, Todd Howard was “just” a director / producer.

Can it still be called “Sid Meier’s” Civilization when he doesn’t even know what the game ships with?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been playing since CIV2 and it’s been pretty good, but that just strikes me as weird.

Cherry picking here but what use is this category when it lists the required size right on the store page?

It just makes it impossible to provide any nuance related to the elements of a review. It’s not just important to say “audio is very good”, but also what makes this audio very good. Everyone has a different idea of what good and bad means, rendering a bunch of biased multiple choice questions mostly useless for readers

It’s a simpler game for sure. There were only 4 civilizations (Norse, Egyptian, Greek, Atlantian) and they were all very different from one another compared to AoE. Each civilization had multiple deities to choose from for some more specific buffs and abilities. Every type had unique mythical units as well, and these units are quite large so maps felt a bit smaller in comparison. Overall the maps were smaller than AoE anyway, but not in a bad way.

Then instead of stone there was favor, a resource like the rest (food, wood, gold), acquired by putting townies at your temple to pray. All in all it was pretty similar to AoE but it felt a lot less serious. I played a lot at LAN parties and we always had a blast though!

That template is part of the problem

Fucking finally. I love a funny joke but if you’re looking for serious reviews, you currently have to wade through a sea of trolls, jokes and copy-pasted meme reviews in order to figure out if a game is interesting to you.

Community features are cool but if you’re the most popular platform of your kind, you’re gonna attract a lot of trolls who’s content can be really out there. Filters are a good solution to this!

Stop expecting handouts with 0 effort especially when the answer is one tap away.

Read the article and find out

Preorders will be refunded and preorder items are made available on the new launch date.

While I acknowledge this, it’s good to be cautious, still. It seems like they have learned their lesson from CS2. Hopefully they keep it up and earn some trust back.

Whoops, not a native speaker

I don’t think lemmy supports markdown in the title, right? The article has the words Once Human in cursiveitalics to clarify

Yeah I got that vibe but I wanted to include all the accessibility stuff because 1) it’s awesome and 2) it can be used as a custom difficulty slider, which fits into the “I don’t want to work hard on this” on a very personalised level. Either enable something, everything, or nothing at all. Your choice!

Tchia just oozes summer vibes, and is inspired by the culture of New Caledonia. No failing, tons of extra accessibility options, skip gameplay segments if you feel like it, autoplay QTA’s, and so on.

Personally I like a little bit of a challenge even in my cozy games, but Tchia has so much character that I didn’t mind.

Ah yes, let’s enable the whales even more in throwing away money to fuel their addiction! I feel like this is something for the EU to look at, after loot boxes and other gacha mechanics. In my country they tried to ban them but failed.

I think the crime here is to post those images online? I don’t know the specifics of US copyright law. This article is about leaking though, the datamining wasn’t the problem.

The parent literally asked whether their kid was in trouble. Wouldn’t it be disingenuous to not answer truthfully (at the caveat that it was actually the truth)?

I saw it more as a way to resolve it peacefully without getting to the stuff nobody likes

‘So you’re saying he hacked your game.’ And I hear in the background: ‘I didn’t hack anything!’ I start describing it more technically. She says, ‘Is this a problem?’ I say, ‘Hacking software, that’s a federal crime, but I don’t want that to be the conversation. Why don’t we make it a conversation about the good and bad things he can do with a computer?’

To the people saying he threatened a kid, I think he did the exact opposite? He made them aware that technically it’s a crime, to convey the severity, but also said he doesn’t want that to be the conversation he’s having with the parents.

To me that sounds like he didn’t want to threaten with legal action, but the parents did need to be aware that it was a crime, technically speaking.

Blame SEO. Website creators either abuse SEO keywords or they get no traffic from search engines.

Yep, I was only summarizing their angle. Here are the specifics for anyone who wants to read the source documentation: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3

The only thing that doesn’t sit right with me is developers stating Steam threatened to delist the game when they expressed wanting to sell elsewhere. I haven’t seen any proof except just the statements, but it would be weird for a developer to lie about that stuff. If anyone has any more sources on that, it would be appreciated

That’s exactly what they’re trying to say. It could have been cheaper if Valve didn’t have pricing clauses that doesn’t allow developers to price things cheaper elsewhere.

Total noob here but wouldn’t it be possible to have an ARM device stream the content to your browser? So you got a viewport of a compatible device that shows you how it would look like?

True parity would be impossible without porting it to x86, but that would give you a glimpse if the UX is decent enough

Seems like a lot of folks are not really interested in the quirky sport, so saying fans are rejoicing because of this announcement sounds like they don’t really understand why people played HL.

Its like saying Dark Souls fans rejoice because From Software announced a fitness spinoff called Yoga with Solaire. Okay actually, they might. Bad example.

Is the level in the demo? Gonna check it out regardless, I love games that are meta and turn themselves inside out

They are just covering what a rando on Xitter is saying. Sadly this is the news cycle nowadays:

Unverified / unknown person posts a claim on X > “news” websites write a 6 paragraph article about this single post

And instead of being critical, people just gobble up anything as if it was true.

It would make sense to require a company to release the code for players to host their own servers, which has been done by many games in the past. Not to continue to run it themselves.

That’s basically what people are asking for. Instead of not being playable anymore, give consumers the means to keep it going for themselves.

This could mean always-online having to be gutted from the game after it’s support ends so you can play it offline. Or server hosting files to host your own private or public server.

The goal is to have games not be impossible to play after X amount of time. How companies reach that goal is up to them.

For those who haven’t heard of PYPrime, it’s an open-source RAM benchmark based on Python that scales with processor and memory overclocking. However, the latter is more important, so Splave beat the previous record set by Korean overclocker safedisk despite the former having an older chip and running at a lower clock speed. Splave’s Core i9-11900K was operating at 6,957.82 MHz compared to safedisk’s Core i9-14900KS, which was overclocked to 8,374.91 MHz.

Yeah no regular joe is going to OC their CPU, let alone by that much. Still, older CPUs perform absolutely fine if we’re talking about gaming.

How’s game support on Apple nowadays?