Carighan
@Carighan@lemmy.world
The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
- Comment on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Review Thread 11 months ago:
Damn.
This seems to be down to “do you like Ubisoft games” (the genre)? If yes, you’ll love this. If not, you’ll be bored out of your mind.
- Comment on Paradox's The Lamplighters League adds new playable character and Events system in latest free update 11 months ago:
Wondering the same thing. From the aesthetics I was originally really excited about it, then it came out to tepid reviews and I was busy player other games at the time anyways so I completely forgot about it.
- Comment on Insurgency Developer New World Interactive Shut Down 11 months ago:
Embracer has truly advanced to the Extinguisher stage. :<
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Patch Notes 11 months ago:
Pretty good examples for how disappointing it is, tbh aye.
If you told me both sides were different settings of baked lighting, I’d instantly believe it. Sure, the RT looks like it is the higher quality one, but it doesn’t feel like a cyberpunk game with raytracing should “pop”. Good scenes are for it when driving around at night with wet streets. That gives the proper cyberpunk feel. But that’s about the only scenario where I’ve seen it truly work magic.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.1 Patch Notes 11 months ago:
Although I will say that by now the goalpost has long moved from 60 FPS and you really want to be aiming at 144 or more. That being said, without raytracing on - which is mostly disappointing anyways - there are some really high framerates achieveable by now.
- Comment on 'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077' 11 months ago:
Ah yeah, definitely.
As someone who personally enjoys a told story more than a lot of directionless freedom (because I get bored after a few dozen hours, so I want the game to get its thing told and then I’m ready for the next game, basically) I of course enjoyed Geralt’s directed character more, but the two are definitely incompatible at a very basic level.
And honestly, none is inherently better, though I wish studios understood more readily just how different the underlying approach is. If someone creates a defined story then give me those fully defined characters. Give me a cool story through which I learn of them. With a few surprises. Make it like a book! On the other hand, if something is freeform, then go hard the opposite way. Make it sandbox-y! Allow me to create narrative myself through what I do, don’t hold my hand and try to guide me back onto rails.
(That is, the main story was just about the part I enjoyed the least in CP2077 next to the bugs, and I really don’t think V’s character fits the gameplay and what we players do in it very well. V is an interesting character, but not for an open world do-whatever-you-want game, and the game they created doesn’t fit a character that is supposed to have a specific design very well.)
- Comment on Final Fantasy 16 actor criticizes job security in the games industry amid thousands of lay offs: "Honestly, are we going to get serious?" 11 months ago:
As long as laws don’t constrain this rampant drive for short-term profit maximisation, and as long as laws permit the only truly valuable customer to be the shareholders and the C-suite’s own bonus programs, this won’t ever change.
Which in turn also already implies what needs to happen: Companies need to be prevented from caring more about the above two groups than the actual workers.
But this is difficult to pull off. The CEO (etc) should ultimately have the responsibility for the overall direction, but directly tieing them to the stability fo the workforce is tricky. It would be a way of doing it, of course. As in, loss of income of individual workers is directly judged against whatever payment/share program the C-suite managers enjoy, making them directly reponsible for not fostering an environment in which regular mass-layoffs are desirable.
Likewise, if shares automatically lost value whenever personel cost is cut (instead of gaining), firing workers would be heavily discouraged as it would decrease short-term profits and (correctly) flag a destabilizing event in the company.All really tricky though, especially on an international level. But something ought to happen to keep this shit in check.
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- Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog 11 months ago:
Master Chief, Conker, Commander Keen and Vault Boy in Heroes of the Storm, got it!
- Comment on Paramount+ unskipabble ads 11 months ago:
No no, you misunderstand. The subscription is so you’re allowed to watch ads. It’s a privilege! 😅
- Comment on Microsoft Wants Game Pass On PlayStation, Nintendo, And "Every Screen" Possible 11 months ago:
“GamePass Deck you say?” <– MS Exec
- Comment on Once again, I am calling on manufacturers to improve their sealing glues 11 months ago:
Hence the name ‘migraine medication’, yeah!
- Comment on Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4 11 months ago:
Yeah but one of the biggest pitfalls is seeing another company catch lightning in a bottle, then thinking that this can be freely recreated. Just that BG3 could do a user-created character with a good story does not at all imply that any other company can do it. Nevermind will.
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 11 months ago:
Puuuh, a fair few over the years.
- Same one as you, Rosalina’s backstory made me tear up a little bit. It was really really well done, and so unexpected in a Mario game of all places.
- When first reading through Katawa Shoujo, Shizune’s path (botched as it is) still hit me really hard with Misha being an aside that can’t fit in, then later Rin’s neutral ending also got me really bad.
- Teenage me at the end of disc 1 of FF7, of course.
- The ending of Signalis just recently.
And probably a lot more. FFXIV has a lot of sad and emotional moments, although none of them hit me quite as hard as some other games did.
- Comment on Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4 11 months ago:
That sounds really bad on paper, tbh. The cool parts about the player character all stem from how it’s a defined person with an existing personality and place in the world. If it becomes Skyrim: Witcher Edition, we’d probably also inherit the shallow~inexistent storytelling of that.
- Comment on Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4 11 months ago:
Not sure I’ll be into Ciri based gameplay.
I’d love that. Sure they’d have to really re-do her combat style since it was only a brief intermission before, but it feels natural to progress to her eventually. And honestly, it’s high time Geralt takes a bow after 3 games as big as they are, and as awesome as those were. Exit before they eventually ruin him. 😅
- Comment on Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4 11 months ago:
Cyberpunk’s patching has showed me that ~1-1,5 years after release is a really good time to jump in.
By which time, between patches and mods, the worst stuff is dealt with and the experience can be really nice, if a bit tepid due to bad design decisions that mods cannot fix. Still, enjoyable game after patches and as a discount.
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- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 11 months ago:
Starfield, the epitome of scientifically correcty simulations. Why would I expcet my Starship Travel Simulator 2000 to be a fun-focused game after all, durr.
- Comment on SteamWorld Build - Review Thread 11 months ago:
I tried the demo months ago, and this is one of my big hype games for December.
It’s so relaxed! And on top of that, it oozes style the same way the other Steamworld games do. And it sounds like they added a whole lot to it.
- Comment on US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas 11 months ago:
Unchecked “free market” capitalism, if I had to guess.
Companies should never have been able to run outside of a very tight yoke. Yeah sure, capitalism. But not unchecked and especially not unchecked-across-borders so they can start escaping shit by moving legal entities around. Oh and speaking of that, maybe “corporations as entities” is another really really big one we fucked up, allowing the people who make the truly shitty decisions to shirk responsibility for them.
- Comment on I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray 11 months ago:
I am sadly quite old already, but no worries.
But to me, modern home consumption media is like going to the cinema. I don’t own a movie if I paid for a ticket to the movies. I just watched it once. Streaming is a monthly less-than-one-ticket and of course the quality of the presentation is lesser, but in return I also get some upsides: A selection multiple orders of magnitude than at the cinema, ability to select the time I watch, and freely pause and resume.
Neither is a way of oncsuming movies in a way where ownership is relevant to my consumption, and long before home media was a big thing going to the movies worked perfectly fine. Plus let’s not delude ourselves here (and now apologies if I assume you’re older than you are 😛): In the times of VHS, we owned very few actual movies on tape. We copied them all, and of course re-used the tapes when we no longer needed the movie around, tapes were costly. Our library was - mostly - ephemeral then as it is now.
- Comment on I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray 11 months ago:
I’ll be honest, as someone who never understood the concept of “owning” a movie - that is, why would I need that, at best I’ll have one more time I play it to watch it with someone in particular but then it’s just collecting dust and movies aren’t a collectible of value to me - streaming is exactly right for me:
It offers me a maybe-ephemeral but also near endless ocean of lightweight content to consume. That’s what I need movies or TV shows for, they’re not a central hobby for me, they’re not a big enrichment of my mental state (I got books for that, tbh), so yeah, I fit the target audience. Just put on some shit, and luckily “shit” never runs on any streaming platform.
- Comment on Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch 11 months ago:
Damn, I’d get not a single recommendation. That’d be wild. 🤣
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
Plus, since he’s just testifying, it sucks on a climate level to make him jet around for absolutely no reason, too.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 11 months ago:
If 30% we’re too high, surely just by offering a competitor that takes a lot less if a cut (say, 12,%), developers would flock to thst competitor because it saves them so much money, right?
Right, Sweeney?