ryathal
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- Comment on Sweeping, strafing and suppression: Total War: Warhammer 40,000 threatens to blow up Total War's combat fundamentals 1 week ago:
Line of sight is simulated from individual to individual, rather than the unit as a whole, and the game will also track the contents of individual magazines.
RIP my PC of I try to run this.
- Comment on Reported lead of Obsidian's new Fallout game wants you to feel a "sense of agony" when playing an RPG, rather than being an all-powerful god-splatterer 1 week ago:
That’s generally how cult classics work. You see praise for The Big Lebowski because those that don’t like it mostly ignore it.
- Comment on Reported lead of Obsidian's new Fallout game wants you to feel a "sense of agony" when playing an RPG, rather than being an all-powerful god-splatterer 1 week ago:
It’s considered the best by those that like it, New Vegas is very much a cult classic.
- Comment on Palworld Hits Nearly 1 Million Concurrent Players 10 Days After 1.0 Launch 1 week ago:
If you’ve played before, 1.0 is a pretty significant change. If you quit playing shortly after it blew up on 2024, it’s nearly a different game.
- Comment on Reported lead of Obsidian's new Fallout game wants you to feel a "sense of agony" when playing an RPG, rather than being an all-powerful god-splatterer 1 week ago:
That’s 2/3 of what has been released this millennium. At this point it’s what the series is.
- Comment on Reported lead of Obsidian's new Fallout game wants you to feel a "sense of agony" when playing an RPG, rather than being an all-powerful god-splatterer 1 week ago:
I think that misses the point of the series though, or at least 3 and 4. The point is that you become the god that saved or destroyed the wasteland. You become the legend for the next generation.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 1 month ago:
Digital makes it much easier for steam to track. They can more easily identify steam accounts and emails that are part of scam networks. They have options like not allowing sales to be delivered to scammer@scam.com, or reverting transactions they believe are scams within 24 hours.
- Comment on Audiobooks can help students learn new words—especially when paired with one-on-one instruction 3 months ago:
Meth paired with one on one instruction would also increase a students ability to learn new words.
- Comment on Do you think we should have an index of how ethical gaming companies are? 3 months ago:
Fact is a defense for defamation/libel, but it can still be costly because anti slapp laws aren’t very effective. The big companies can afford to hire an attorney full time to send notices to and sue any site they feel is overly negative about them.
- Comment on Do you think we should have an index of how ethical gaming companies are? 3 months ago:
There’s a number of problems with a site like that.
- The need to have some level of ranking for bad and good things is very problematic.
- Even if it’s true, being a catalog of all sorts of negative things a large company does will likely come with a lawyer bill that makes it not worth it.
- Game companies change a lot, is it fair to carry over bad deeds if a company gets acquired? What if a large amount of people leave company A and found company B, is that a clean slate or should the harassment concerns be noted for them as well?
- Should there be a forgiveness period on bad things or a forget period for good things?
- Does good things with tax incentives or in the midst of scandal even count as good?
- Comment on "We can't just continue making the map bigger and bigger": Why Bethesda want to expand Fallout 76 inwards, not just outwards 5 months ago:
I think there was a beautiful 2 week period where games had open worlds that weren’t just dead empty space everywhere.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 6 months ago:
They might have better lawyers, but generally the big club of the government is the inevitability factor. Federal departments are basically immortal and have no profit motive to justify the continued budget.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 6 months ago:
It doesn’t strip power though, it just moves it to something that hits the news cycle multiple times.
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 6 months ago:
This seems shortsighted by these companies. A jury trial is way more expensive and public with a chance of paying as much or more fines anyway. Sure it takes longer to get a ruling, but that seems like a small win.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 6 months ago:
He did that in the run up to fable too, but games media wasn’t very widespread then.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 7 months ago:
Cyberpunk isn’t a new release though. It might be new to you, but it still wouldn’t count for new releases.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 7 months ago:
2025: 14%
2024: 15%
2023: 9%
2022: 17%There’s room to be concerned with those numbers.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 7 months ago:
It’s only listed if you filter to Linux. It’s called steamOS Holo 64 bit.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 7 months ago:
Steam OS is listed in the survey, it’s 26% of Linux os use.
Tracking game use by device id isn’t that crazy, the steam app should know what OS it’s installed on.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 7 months ago:
The stats they show are pretty basic usage stats many are in the UI already. No one is showing the actual valuable data they are harvesting.
They aren’t really hiding the OS stats, it’s regularly published in the hardware and software survey. Showing my steam deck time is over the average of 0% isn’t really surprising news.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 7 months ago:
I haven’t even bought a game released in 2025. I think these stats are showing a real problem for the gaming industry in general. It’s probably a better use of resources to continue supporting a years old game with moderate popularity than making another new game.
- Comment on Hytale won't be on Steam right away, as its devs want to avoid "overindexing on negative reviews" from players who "aren't as well-informed yet" 7 months ago:
We want money, but can’t actually provide true value for that money yet.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 8 months ago:
They may very well be thinking “steam says this works for everything I own” though, the OS likely isn’t relevant if it still has a browser.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 8 months ago:
Ot9a pc first, so that makes sense.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 8 months ago:
The steam deck is likely the target machine at that price.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 8 months ago:
I think the goal is providing an alternate path for people migrating from windows 10 as much as it is a living room pc.
- Comment on Get a bunch of Devil May Cry and Monster Hunter in two new Humble Bundles 8 months ago:
If you don’t have Rise or World, it’s a decent price for them. These are by far the most approachable titles in the series. Rise is a bit more fast paced and has more QoL features. World + iceborne has more interesting combat mechanics with the clutch claw and environment interaction. Killing giant monsters with absurd weapons is fun in both games.
Stories is a totally different type of game in the same universe. It seems to be well received.
- Comment on If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store 1 year ago:
A crappy game for a crappy store.
- Comment on Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder 1 year ago:
I had a free trial for PC and came to a similar conclusion. It’s a good way to try some games, but the value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games. Also the download speed was atrocious.
- Comment on Are AAA Games too bloated? 1 year ago:
It’s not so much that the games are bloated (they are), it’s that many are incredibly gated as well. There’s always been super grindy and bloated games, but the degree it’s done today is just different. You can’t just spend two weeks putting in 100+ hours into a modern game and complete everything. It’s no longer kill a million mobs to get this achievement, it’s kill 100 mobs max a day until you kill a million. It’s do this phase and wait a month for the next phase.
Diablo 2 is honest and open about it’s grinding, modern day games aren’t.