Also Barotrauma

Within an enthusiast bubble, PC handhelds are a big deal, but they do not exist in the same universe as Nintendo consoles.

I keep hearing this shit and it seems like stupid wishful thinking, because in a locked-down universe where Switch 2 is not a shitty proposition for way too much cash compared to getting a PC with 10k+ PC games from the get go and also emulating anything you wish because it’s your hardware and it’s just bits - in that universe, Polygon is a much needed pool of experts that people go to for advice instead of a source of stupid ragebait titles telling them a log of shit is the new snickers.

Nintendo will not have true competition in handhelds until its peers in the console space get involved.

Yeah, sure, fuck you Polygon

Hardly ruin, you have to purposefully go find them gloating over Steam charts. But it’s too funny that people really have choice enough now in the good graphics segment that Ubisoft is sinking. It’s my fault, I cursed them when they left Steam for their 4-UAC-prompts-whenever-you-start PoS. They showed total contempt for their users with Breakpoint, tried an nft grift on the side, evolved all cosmetics to clown shoes level and totally failed to offer anything new. Where’s Reflextions? Stuff like Grow Up / Home, metroidvanias on UbiArt Framework? They have great 3D engines and can’t keep a team happy or unfired enough to have people that know how to use it and optimize a game and are able to take some risks with game design. It’s all either heavily monetized multiplayer dreck or incremental QoL features in ever larger and shallower sandboxes in one of few large franchise flavors. There’s not that much to discuss, woo bamboo cutting tech, a new coat of paint and some gimmicks. People claiming it’s failing because it’s either woke or culture appropriating are ascribing cultural import to a happy meal.

I was misinformed by an Azerbaijani home electronics swap meet board

They’ve also kind of devalued them by giving the old ones for free. I got Black Flag and Unity for nothing that I haven’t gotten around to playing yet; Unity’s graphics still looks better than the recent ones, scope and world size notwithstanding.

I’d expect it to be a failure because it’s a 70$ ubishit paint-by-numbers, but I’ll find out in two years when it’s 15$

It was already barely tolerable, and only because gaben’s webrtc doesn’t have noise filtering as good as discord, but this new shit is either fully toggleable or it can fuck itself.

It’s pretty okay if you’re like me, i.e. have no needs above full hd res and can either take or leave rtx

If you like RPGs, I highly recommend giving it a try.

At 15€ or less certainly, they can get fucked with 70€.

there’s no reason not to check it out!

I wouldn’t pay Microsoft for a subscription if it was the last way to play games left.

Windows 11 is shit and you’d be much happier with Fedora. You don’t need a nrćew computer, just install it on this one. That said, you can move the start button to the left and even install https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu if you force yourself to try sticking with Windows

If it’s single player, then it being “a dead game” (i.e. not selling enough by whatever standards) is completely beside the point.

Two was horrible, the end boss skeleton is the stupidest shit. I liked the first, endured the second to the end and never touched the third or Andromeda

He was playing using a neuralink prototype, that’s why he looked as if he was abusing ketamine

It’s not even Lionel Richie.

Did you just all-black-people-look-the-same yourself

I was hoping I’d fly under the radar will they have their heads deep in llm ass, but Gaben basically mortally wounded Windows and it’s bleeding out

Fuck off with this industry bullshit. Eurogamer. Veilguard is shit, Indiana can be in the lower half of the 50 and Nine Sols, which is a better game than 75% of those is absent.

This is well done and much needed, Valve pretending nothing is happening because they’re sitting pretty with cs is pretty disgusting. It’s a monster they created and they need to cut it off in the backend even if it means a huge loss of revenue.

UE5

Fuck, I was hoping they’re working on their own engine still.

More power to them, I’ll stick to my hobby of schadenfreude while AAA burns.

That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw the scores, I’m not reading reviews of Bethesda’s games other than players’ reviews on Steam.

I thought it was going to be mediocre at best.

I fully expect it to be a mediocre shooter with some good environmental puzzles and nice graphics, Starfield had 85+/100 reviews before coming out. We’ll find out once it actually releases, in two years with all of the hypothetical DLC included for 15€. Bethesda can fuck right off with their 50€ offerings.

Eurogamer has scraped the barrel

Quelle putaclique

That’s what I do, but not until “it releases”, but “it’s on sale, asking not more than 15€ for a patched product with DLC”. Usually at least a year.

Advanced capeshit with gun-toting sharks and microtransactions is these days so unappealing that disk space and time needed to download/install/compile shaders is now more than enough deterrent even if that shit was free.

They also don’t have enough games for their last generation to justify a new console, it’s a lot of work populating a library and their ex-exclusives are now playable on Deck. Which, even if it didn’t have thousands of games out of the gate, would actually be a cool mobile PC with guaranteed Linux drivers.

Those who don’t understand Steam Deck are doomed to reinvent it

I know and don’t mind the jokes, you folks are doing a good job on communities that I follow. I started “teachers” and “education” subreddits a lifetime ago with a free-speech-absolutist mindset and quickly realized that they become a cesspool without someone grinding through reports 24/7.

“Still kinda related”

Please, Lord, let me never become a moderator, keep my reasoning intact.

Nostalgia edition is a sure sign it’s bleeding players and they obviously have no idea how to replicate that success with fresh gameplay under a fresh name. It would be of immense help for Epic if their store took off (it even has cart now), but they destroyed a lot more goodwill with exclusives than they got with freebies. I hate-claimed 300+ games for free, never install anything from there and still wouldn’t pay for an exclusive. Even if I didn’t hate EGS I would never buy a game unless it’s been out for a few years and is deeply discounted. Good luck, Epic, you’ll need it, you overextended yourself and it’s downhill from here.

Technically very good, looks like a good use of engine and art direction. However, as an extraction shooter that requires slow and tactical gameplay, it has an uphill battle to make people stick around and it better offer a huge pool of game-changing loot or it will have 30k max daily players. Also, the robot enemies don’t look like something you’d want to shoot at for a 100 hours, Helldivers 2 has two (about to become three) completely distinct enemy factions, one with blood and guts and the environments change all the time.

How many people have flypaper’d themselves to that shit, I haven’t seen any numbers

Can’t believe Nine Sols got robbed

Take my lemmy gold kind stranger

Its problem is not that it’s woke, but that it’s shit.

Quality as well. Ass vikings had audio mastering that’s outrageously bad for a title made with so much money and the omnipresent vaseline smear of TAA in the recent titles hasn’t done their art direction any favors.

Same. It was dissapointingly shallow in characterization and the dialogues could have used some editing but ot was a fun and functional game that looked great and had well-designed gameplay. I played it through the end ana am looking to get a sequel in a few years on a deep sale.

It’s all insultingly preachy and puerile, apart from taking me right out of the setting. GTA didn’t make me a serial killer, this whiny shit won’t make anyone a decent person.

To quote Homestar Runner, like a flaming sack of crap

I’d love to play it, but I’m not paying more than 15€ for it, I’m very patient.