Is the difficulty in 4 as broken as it is in 3? I gave up in disgust after realizing I could win most encounters by literally just standing still and holding down the A button.

There are studios out there making games with the QoL improvements modern gamers demand without without modern bullshit like subscriptions and microtransactions. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a particularly prominent example of a studio doing the right thing and being massively rewarded with sales.

So a From Software DLC, basically?

Also not a squash.

I work there and I’m not surprised.

The real nightmare is the kerning.

Man, we’re getting close to the point where the release a game at the same time as its remaster.

Not wanting to fix a problem includes not caring if it’s fixed or not.

I’ve never been much of a Nintendo fan, but news like this makes me want to get into using Nintendo emulators.

Silly me for thinking it was cool that Sony finally decided to port their high-profile games to PC. Why must they fuck everything up?

UAC POPUS sounds like a new Doom character.

Such a great game. And The Last Guardian is criminally underrated.

Then you have to make sure it’s reasonably straightforward to figure everything out without the tutorial, so then why bother with the tutorial at all? As a player I’d hate to get stuck because I missed something that’s clearly spelled out in a tutorial I skipped.

Why is that supposed to matter?

I think what he means is that AI is needed to keep making substantial improvements in graphic quality, and he phrased it badly. Your interpretation kind of presumes he’s not only lying, but that he thinks we’re all idiots. Given that he’s not running for office as a Republican, I think that’s a very flawed assumption.

Compared to the US, the EU is lightning fast. California probably beats them sometimes, though.

I’m looking at Resurgence on Steam in the US and it doesn’t seem to be on sale.

Man, if I had any illusions about Lemmy being filled with literal children, this thread would clear them right up. Sexual objectification is gross and it does have consequences, y’all.

Nah, objectification of people is fucking gross. That doesn’t change if you say “it’s just a joke, bro.” And it does matter when enough individually powerless people take up an idea. That’s literally how movements start. Like the MRA movement, for example, and now we have Andrew fucking Tate.

That’s about $32k in today’s money, using the “Other goods and services” category at in2013dollars.com.

I would assume they’re taking about platform exclusives. I bet Nintendo is the only company making games just for Nintendo platforms. Any other company making games for the Switch has a strong inventive to port their game to other, more powerful platforms.

For most games that’s a ridiculous requirement but it makes a lot of sense in this case.

Not really. I didn’t and it was fine.

Too late! 😁

A lot of people learned it wrong, myself included. I found out when I went to confirm that “Hap’s Burgers” is a funny as I thought. Sadly no.

I swore off early access after Phoenix Point. It sucks to already be bored with a game before it has the major kinks worked out.

Dead Cells is kind of a counterpoint, though. I’m not sure if I got it as “early access” per se, but since I bought it, they made some major balance changes that completely changed the meta, and those changes got me playing way more enthusiastically than I was before.

Who are “these companies”? Game publishers and developers certainly aren’t a monolith. To me, this publisher’s complaint seems like an implicit critique of how big publishers have trained gamers to have expectations that are unrealistic for all but the most high-profile games.

I was thinking about how Hollow Knight got included in this post. It’s fantastic but not even a little bit Roguelike.

Y’all, Metroidvanias are not Rouguelikes. Randomly generated levels are an essential element for a game to be a Rouguelike, and fixed levels you can memorize are an equally essential feature of a Metroidvania.

Civ IV is the GOAT.

Microsoft is kind of infamous for different internal groups working against each other.

In my experience with telemetry, it’s100% about understanding how the product is performing and being used, and 0% about monitoring individual users. Telemetry data has little to no value for anyone not directly supporting the product.

The original PoP is 2D.

Making money isn’t capitalism. A market economy isn’t capitalism. You can look up the textbook definition, but to me capitalism means organizing absolutely everything around the pursuit of profit for the ownership class. Indie developers by and large aren’t in it for the money; that would make no sense, because they could make better money doing something else.

Ever heard of indie games?

White supremacists trend to be white for some reason.

Why is the logo from the new Dune adaptation but the sandworm looks like it’s from the David Lynch version?

I think if I really wanted to contribute open source have code, I’d look into working on something longer Godot.

The main issue i see with open source gaming is that most games rely at least as much on things like artwork and level design as they do on coding, but the open source ethos isn’t very popular with artists and art-adjacent professionals, so fully open source games usually have to make do with very little art, or amateurish art.

If you contribute to an open source engine, you’re writing code that will go into real games without needing non-software people to work for free.

So the headline is just a lie.