As an American, the Japanese market actually prefers bad games. /s

For me it was seeing people say that the character mechanics of Total War: Three Kingdoms were like a watered down version of CK. I hadn’t heard of it before. CK2 was the latest at the time and the UI in it is awful. Luckily CK3 came out soon.

CK3 is really cool. It’s completely spoiled me on games like Civilization now. Being able to play as a person instead of some abstract concept of your empire is so fascinating to me. Things like worrying about how your child’s holdings will look once you die based on succession is fun.

I don’t see any new posts since 7 months ago. (Unless my instance stopped federating.)

You can’t say something like that without elaborating! How did it change you?

I think Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was amazing. The only gripe I have is that the Switch just can’t handle it very well.

It’s hard to answer this because if you’d asked me 5 years ago my answer would be different (not just because TotK hadn’t released) because my tastes change.

Yeah, I remembered Super Auto Pets and immediately realized I’d made an enormous mistake.

It’s a really stupid way to differentiate the two as well. Rogue like is the original term and will obviously be the blanket term, but people want to insist that a subset of such games are not actually a subset (“it’s not a rogue like, it’s a rogue lite”) because of the addition of a feature. When in reality most people view all rogue lites as rogue likes.

I thought they were auto battlers?

This is just a guess, I might have some availability bias (or whatever it’s called, not gonna bother looking it up), but I think a lot of the hate stems from how inaccessible content in Discord is without having access to the server or a Discord account. It’s not indexed by search engines. So many projects use it (because it’s so easy to make a server and get it going) and post documentation, issues, etc. exclusively there.

The Lemmy community is not very diverse yet. There are a lot of tech enthusiasts, FLOSS enthusiasts, privacy enthusiasts, and leftists. Most of these groups of people have reasons to dislike Discord. Tech folks hate it because of what I said above. FLOSS enthusiasts hate it because it’s not FLOSS. Privacy enthusiasts hate it because it’s not end to end encrypted. Leftists hate it because it’s it’s a company.

So while everything you’re saying is true, I think it’s that most of the types of people who use Lemmy have various reasons to dislike it.

Doesn’t “nice but short but the meat is in the world and side missions” describe most RPGs nowadays?

I’m not ignoring anything, I don’t know what is and isn’t in the game, what’s why I asked.

Couldn’t you just kill primary quest givers and be locked out of the game?

How breaking was it? I guess that’s more important context

A positive thing to be able to accidentally not be able to progress in the story?

You think they intentionally released a patch just to screw over some mod devs?

How? I don’t care how long a game takes to make, I want it to be good.

Couldn’t you just kill primary quest givers and be locked out of the game?

Oblivion’s scaling was so wonky. Especially compared with what I really believe to be one of the worst leveling systems of all time. Anyone defending the leveling in Oblivion is nostalgic or thinks things are good just because they’re complicated. Being able to both under AND over level was such weird design.

How did they screw over Fallout London devs?

I really hate when game devs don’t make all characters opportunistically bisexual.

I thought you said Outer Wilds.

Romance in video games is fun, yeah, but it’s usually just something extra. It’s rarely the main focus and I’m hard-pressed to really imagine how to make it the main focus without making a gooner game. Usually romance/sex is sort of the cherry on top of an otherwise good game.

I think the need to be online was what bothered me more, I remember a few times having trouble launching stuff.

I always forget about loot boxes tbh, because I don’t use them. But you’re totally right.

It would be so easy for another store front to just take a 20% cut instead of 30% and pass the savings on to the end consumer. That would be a pretty strong start. But nope. They just want to charge the same base price.

This is something from before 2010, but I distinctly remember not being able to play Borderlands 1 with my friends because the site I bought it from didn’t have a patch yet that Steam did. This was one of the things that sold me on Steam. Prior to that I hated it. It’s nearly two decades ago so it’s hard to really remember why, but it wasn’t always viewed as favorably as now.

This isn’t some dig at Steam, like I said, this was over a decade ago.

Steam Workshop is pretty nice to.

I feel similarly, but I don’t (often) see people forgiving Steam’s faults. You can like a product and a company for doing good things for you without believing they’re beyond fault. Steam is pretty fucking nice. Saying you like it doesn’t mean you believe it’s 100% good and Gaben can do no wrong.

As if HDR makes all the anti consumer shit okay?

More like they’re going to start enforcing people using Docker Desktop at work without a license.

Use Racher Desktop instead. https://rancherdesktop.io/

Literally a single boolean lol

There’s also a place in hell for devs who don’t include a “save and quit” in rogue like games because they’re worried people will save scum. As if honest people who can’t devote enough time for a full playthrough are less important than people lying about progress in a non competitive single player game.

Or even just “Has the menu been closed since it was saved?”

People should only be buying EA titles if the current state of the game is worth the price they’re paying for it.

The android app asks me for a trial or to pay, but if I close it then it doesn’t seem to bother me (at least not right away). Maybe only the web version is FLOSS.

Either way, this is useful, but I was more interested in something I could my phone to measure the walls than manually put them in. Thanks though!

I can see your point to an extent. Good style is more important than hyper realism. But that doesn’t mean hyper realistic with good style can’t be good.

I got a 3070ti but my old one was something like a 780? I don’t remember exactly. Before that I had a Radeon 5970. That’s an upgrade roughly every 7 years I guess.

As a casual sims enjoyer, it genuinely does feel like they’re salty people liked Sims 3 more than Sims 4 and won’t release an “everything” version of it.

Nah, I feel bad for them. I was part of a similar minority in that my computer was old enough to not have SecureBoot so I couldn’t upgrade to Windows 11. Now I’m happily on Linux.

Wine is a totally different topic and unrelated. But my point is that if it’s so seamless, even if it’s internally launching it in some compatibility mode, why mention it in the article? On 64 bit Windows I’ve never had to actively think about programs compiled for 32 bit Windows (old programs for previous versions of Windows being a totally different topic). That’s why I’m saying this article sounds like AI slop.