Well, then they should shut up about half-life until they’ve played all the half-life already released.

and most people don’t realise how it ended, but keep bitching about hl3

POINPY is a fantastic Netflix owned mobile game.

Don’t just downvote because ‘Netflix bad, not for gamers’. Go play it, you can just log in with netflix and get a great game.

It’s an absolute joke that fans of SC say ‘when you get a clear server it runs perfect’, because it doesn’t. I’ve been in a brand new, freshly populating, rebooted server. The game runs like ass, the bugs are still everywhere. it’s just a badly made game and the design ethos is “we added more time wasting for realism!” (when they’re pretending not to just be ship salesmen)

Also, haven’t they STILL not decided on the final flight model for the game?

I don’t even own the game yet but after watching one gameplay video, i looked to see if there’s a mod to speed up the airlock doors. Thankfully yes.

Looks like theme park world

Or just play openrct2 and relive the joy again.

wtf has Starfield got to do with anything?

They both were received badly. Because they were both disappointing.

What are you talking about. It had a bad rating because it was received badly, what stats show that everyone loved it 😂

I’m talking about the world on the whole, because unfortunately I got bored and was so disappointed in the offerings that I probably didn’t play the missions you mentioned, and dropped it out of my to-play list, as other games have been more engaging.

Saying something wasn’t broken when it was, is whitewashing.

The statistics are that the majority of people were disappointed in the release.

Again, no it wasn’t perfectly fine. Of course, I had it on an M2 drive. No amount of whitewashing can cover up the fact it was broken and unfinished on launch, and that’s why there was such a well deserved backlash.

They promised things that simply weren’t in the game. There were clear unfinished parts of the world, the story, and the gameplay.

Starfield is Skyrim in space. If you like that formula, great, you got Skyrim in space.

It was not the only true sin of cyberpunk. I played on release on a 3090 and it was bland, felt rushed, full of bugs, and the city felt hollow with things spawning in and out breaking immersion. It just wasn’t a fun game unless you stuck to the rails, and even then it felt half-assed. The intro where I’m rushed into the city and then they just skip over all the character introductions with a cutscene really left a sour taste in my mouth.

They hyped it up to be this living breathing city with ultimate freedom and they simply didn’t deliver.

Starfield, however, everyone knew they were using the same old engine, with the same old game design, it was just going to be Skyrim in space. And it was.

Almost as if they spent 163 million dollars on marketing. That’s why there’s so much astroturfing and constant press releases. They’re paying big money to turn the reputation around.

“gamign”, said the gaming journalist

It sounds great from your description and it looks fantastic with a really nice aesthetic. Why do you think people disliked it?

Especially if they released a really successful game and then they released a really bad one that got them sued by their shareholders and they had to issue a public apology but internet sentiment is somehow still positive. Especially if that game had a $163 MILLION marketing budget.

It’s modern advertising. Just start a friendly discussion on social media about your product or service with some purchased or fresh accounts, or just upvoted anything positive and downvote anything negative! Imagine the effect you could have on discussions if just a single person focused on this 8 hours a day for weeks, compared to organic discourse.

People worry about Russian or Chinese botfarms but don’t stop to think that corporations are the ones with the most to gain from altering public perception worldwide.

Is gamepass dies the Xbox on pc store will too… Then they’ll come grovelling to steam and the deals come back 😅

This game was great

Of course games should be everywhere, but exclusives sell consoles.

To answer your question about PC gamers, it’s not that we don’t want games to be everywhere, its because they already have the system where all the games go, so why should they even think about it? We don’t care about your console wars, just get a PC and stop complaining.

‘Madmen elevator meme’

I’m confused. You’re angry because you want games on the PlayStation? Nobody forced you to buy it. There are plenty of good games on there, and Sony do the same. I’m not crying that Bloodborne isn’t on PC. (not publicly)

Also, your wording was CONSOLE exclusive, so my comment pointed out that they’re not only on consoles, which is great! They’re open for more people to play.

Just get a PC and play everything! (except bloodborne)

That’s not so bad now gamepass is a thing, usually they’re on pc at launch

I mean, yeah, that’s literally how the story went, V was new to the city and had never been there before.

Yes, most games, films, books, with a story do introduce you to the characters.

It’s more likely that auto manufacturers put the oldest shittest slowest chips in cars that crash constantly because they can’t handle any load at all.

Fair point about starfield, I haven’t played it yet but have heard many negative things.

But your point about cyberpunk, in response to me is “It was too buggy to enjoy on release and I haven’t played the late, updated version” , but you’re glad it’s being marketed on every platform?

That doesn’t do it any favours 😅

oh no my brain can’t take it again

Ah so they didn’t just blow past the city and character introductions with a cutscene and then you start getting calls from fixers you don’t know, who talk to you like you have an existing relationship?

Tell me more about the incredible storyline that introduced you to the city and its inhabitants at the start

Mine was “car chase for a lizard” then the guy I just met dies, who was apparently my best friend because we played 2 missions together

I am not the same person

Yeah nobody knew how to tell stories 10 years ago, it’s only thanks to new storytelling technology that cyberpunk can tell such a boring story with barely any variations. (YOUR BACKGROUND WILL SHAPE YOUR STORY! lol)

Cyberpunk put ALL their money into marketing, and they’re heavily investor-pressured into showing the game is better received than it actually is. I still firmly believe that a large percentage of the praise is astroturfing. Especially when they downvote everything negative without a response

It blows my mind that people praise cyberpunk. They skipped straight past the character building and introduction to the city and its characters with a fucking 30 second cutscene, and then you just start getting calls from people you’ve never met like they know you. It didn’t interest me at all.

Yeah those bathroom mirrors on psycho, raytracing at its finest.

(Gray non-reflective planes on the wall because they didn’t make the third person model properly and wanted to hide it, really shattered the immersion 😅)

Activision didn’t have 2fa, my account got hacked and stolen, and sold on the black market (I assume because I had a Damascus skin on cod mw) after months of talking to support with proof of purchase (I think 4 months) they still hadn’t helped, and I realised my steam account was still linked and I regained access.

I changed the password instantly, and I had my account back. Almost immediately I received an email saying “fuck you, you sold me an account and changed the password!” This is how I learned it’s fate, after an argument dissolving into a conversation with them, it turns out he just bought my account from the hacker.

I relay ALL this information to chat support (who take an hour to contact and are only open at 3am) who can see my purchase history and extensive chat logs about the issues I’ve had. They congratulate me on managing to recover my account and help me remove the hackers linked accounts.

And then they ban me within that same week.

They won’t unban me, it’s permanent, they won’t review it or look at the chat logs, they don’t care. They didn’t ban it when it got hacked or when it got sold for four months, but they did once I recovered it.

Fuck actiblizzard

LOL star citizen is taking its time to vacuum up money, not develop a good game. They haven’t even decided on a flight model. In a flight game. After a decade.

Yeah alyx’s horror areas were an experience, I’m glad it didn’t have a ravenholm level

Alyx absolutely broke that mould for me. it started off good but built up to incredible as it progressed. I just wish more developers would do similarly. But then this article is the reason why they don’t

First time I’ve seen a post from that side of the verse. This seems pointless and harder to read than standard Lemmy 😅 I’m assuming the mastadon UI makes it make more sense.

SMS is just old fashioned and outdated around the time we stopped using flipphones and T9

I know more normies on signal than I have online friends, so it’s just subjective

What’s going on with all these @ tags