djsoren19

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct on 13 November - WoW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern WoW at least seems to be moving in a good direction, though I haven’t personally played since BFA. At least we now have official vanilla servers if you want to play the “good” WoW.

  I feel big fear and trepidation at the shout-out to Warcraft: Orcs Vs Humans though. Hope we’re not getting another WC3 Reforged situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modders negate God of War Ragnarök PSN requirement after a brief review bombing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  probably, at which point you might as well pirate the game anyway. At least then you’re not financially supporting Sony’a dumbass decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular APRG 'Last Epoch' to get Steam Deck Verified with a big update on September 19⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a fan of ARPGs and haven’t yet given Last Epoch a go, I highly recommend it. It’s probably the single best casual ARPG currently available, meaning you don’t need a galaxy brain to figure out your own builds. I’ve levelled 5 characters to endgame just kinda fucking around and putting together simple synergies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The extra A stands for Ass!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’d love to explore more of Fallout London’s brilliant world, but it keeps crashing every few minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This really shouldn’t have been much of a surprise. From my limited work on modding, QA just isn’t a thing you can actually do. It’ll work on your machine, and maybe you can have one or two other people test something on their machine once or twice, but once it hits the wild you’ll quickly find bits that don’t work on thousands of machines.

  I’m very excited for Fallout London, but I’m excited to play it in like a year, once things are stable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Character Creator Is BioWare’s Most Robust Yet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I don’t wanna undercut this accomplishment, but Bioware games have pretty much always had trash character creators. We’ll need to get our hands on this one to see, but the competition is Elden Ring and Dragon’s Dogma 2, which both have pretty incredible options that have allowed users to recreate tons of characters from real life/pop culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision unveil new studio working on ‘narrative AAA franchise’, days after Microsoft shut Prey and Evil Within devs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I could maybe get behind AAA narrative-focused games being the hot new trend to chase, but Actiblizz just cancelled a massive internal project late last year and laid off all the devs working on it. I think it was also some trend chasing bullshit, some survival craft-em-up style live service nonsense, so why the hell didn’t they just scrap the project and shuffle the existing devs around. What was the point of shuttering that team just to make a new one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumours point to Total War: Star Wars in the works at Creative Assembly⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Not exactly the IP I was expecting them to adapt next, I really had my money on Lord of the Rings. That being said, I guess Star Wars works too? I can’t really think of what melee infantry would look like though outside of Force users though, and it’s not like there were really factions that made heavy use of monsters… Is it really just going to be all gun lines all the time, with a couple very powerful characters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Walks Back Helldivers 2 Changes, PSN Account Linking No Longer Required⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, because this still doesn’t suddenly mean I’m raring to play Helldivers 2 again, and I’m still going to be wary of any future Sony titles on PC now.

  These companies need to learn to put a number on consumer trust, because they seem to keep throwing it away first in the pursuit of immediate profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve published single-player games. For single-player games, the only metric that matters is sales. If the game sold well, they can make a sequel, and if it sold poorly, they won’t make another. For live-service games, the metric that matters is Monthly Active Users, because the more users you have the more likely some of them will buy something in your live-service cash shop.

  Hey has anyone checked on Destiny recently? They’re also published by Sony, do they require a PSN account? or do they get away with it because Destiny 2 was originally more of a partnership?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but it’s not a game dev. It’s the publisher wanting to boost active user numbers for shareholder purposes, Arrowhead doesn’t gain anything from this happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you playing this week? April 29 2024 Edition⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very hopeful that CreativeAssembly has finally come to their senses after the Hyenas fiasco and is ready to actually support their primary income stream in Total War: Warhammer 3. There’s a huge patch coming tomorrow, with free reworks of multiple faction mechanics, a new free legendary lord to play, and ideally the last of many, many required bug fixes to make the game fun to play again. I was a huge fan of Total Warhammer 2, so if this patch successfully rekindles my love it’ll probably be what I play all month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some mainstream game series where you really do need to start from the first game?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda see DOOM (2016) as the tutorial for DOOM Eternal. The sequel isn’t really interested in elaborating or even giving you time to process Doomguys arsenal, it just wants to lob even more new stuff at you. When played directly after DOOM, it feels like you’ve had a warm-up and are prepared to master more advanced concepts like juggling your flamethrower + ice bomb to supply your hp. When played without any of the original, it feels pretty overwhelming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld CEO says “many” clones of Pokémon-with-guns game are coming, with “Genshin Impact-level” successors⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, all Palworld really did was show that there is an absolutely ravenous hunger for more in this genre. Of course other developers would take note.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you get wakestones like candy though, basically every pawn quest at the start rewards wakestone fragments, and most of the pawn quests are just “travel together for a night and a day.”

  I cannot reiterate this enough times; having played the game for four hours, every microtransaction is pointless. They’re a complete waste of money, and I never even had the thought cross my mind that I would need one. All of the items you can pay for are incredible simple to obtain in-game, barring the ferrystones which are kept specifically rare in order to incentivize exploration on foot. Even then, you used to end up with a ton of them in endgame in Dragon’s Dogma 1, and I don’t expect it to be ditf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh don’t get me wrong, drag Capcom through the coals all you like, I’m just asking for consistency. People should have been just as pissed at it all the other times, the reason it’s still here is because it was normalized. It’s like everyone is frothing mad because they shot themselves in the foot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but you don’t need it, you can find an item in-game to do it like an hour in. The microtransactions all being pointless is kinda par-for-course in Capcom games, but not having multiple saved game functionality? I cannot even name another game released in the last decade without that feature, including the original Dragon’s Dogma!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more confusing, the character creator you could download before launch had save slots for five characters? But there aren’t at least five save slots for the full game?

  Absolutely baffling decision, hoping that a patch for it is coming soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but the time to tell Capcom that was 5 years ago. DMC 5 had this kinda dumb shit back in 2019. Their microtransactions are never necessary, and it’s honestly confusing why they keep pushing them in every single one of their games, unless it’s working. What’s even more confusing is why people are so hyper-focused on DD2s microtransactions when this is such a well-known issue among anyone who plays Capcom games. Hate Capcom all you like, but this shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't get to lead a holy war in Dune: Awakening, but you do have to think about religion⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The more I hear about the game the more I’m confused by it. No sandwalking, no Fremen, no serious themes of religious war…

  It’s almost like they’re making a generic live-service survival crafting game set in a desert and shamelessly slapping the Dune branding on it to try and dupe fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very interested in how much money they’re willing to throw at this. The broad strokes plot of Neuromancer makes for a pretty compelling heist story, but it’s a heist that takes place in space, mostly from the perspective of cyberspace, and all of it reads like it would cost a lot of money to recreate. It’s also near certain that all of the subtext is going to get scrubbed out of the show, because Wintermute is the kinda dangerous AI that spooks people, and to my understanding Apple doesn’t like negative portrayals of AI.

  It might have some pretty visuals, but it’s hard to trust Apple to make anything punk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Into the Spiderverse was pretty stellar though, and Across the Spiderverse was a good sequel. I’d say both are on par with the original Sam Reimi trilogy, with the caveat that they are fully animated productions instead of live-action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re looking too hard for a controversy that isn’t there. This is a Sony live-action Spiderman adjacent film. All of them have been terrible. Madam Web is terrible too.

  People criticized Venom, Venom 2, Morbius, and now Madame Web. People will probably criticize the solo Kraven movie whenever that comes out too. It’s not a conspiracy against women, it’s that Sony seems to fundamentally not understand how to make a good superhero flick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until Dawn Movie Adaptation Announced, Annabelle: Creation's David F. Sandberg To Direct⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really understand the idea behind adapting what is basically a movie into… another movie.

  Not to mention, this game was livestreamed and recorded to hell, you absolutely can just watch it.

  I guess someone really thinks the plot has merit, despite it being an incredibly generic horror plot? This just sounds like a really dumb idea thought up by an out of touch studio exec, so I guess the FNAF movie did pretty well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the Dying DVD Business Could Be Headed for a Resurrection⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll admit to arrogance on blu-ray, I have never owned a blu-ray player. My assertion was in regards to DVD, which I do still own a player for and use reasonably regularly. I don’t seriously think anyone is buying DVDs for the purpose of quality, since afaik they are still only 1080p max. At the very least, most of the DVDs that I personally own are still SD, and as such look about as good as 4k streamed with compression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the Dying DVD Business Could Be Headed for a Resurrection⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not going to mimic the revival of vinyl, because vinyl has been revived by audiophiles who can appreciate the quality afforded by the format. Unless your internet moves at a snails pace, you’re unlikely to see any increase in quality between streaming and owning a DVD/Blu-ray.

  In my eyes, this is a battle of preservation. For very crucial, personally important media, the only two ways to obtain permanent access to the content are owning a physical copy, or downloading a pirated copy. All other access is temporary, and can be taken from you by the company. With that in mind, the only real question is whether you want to financially support the same companies who put us in this mess by making legal digital media an ephemeral product.