MurrayL

@MurrayL@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve saw a record-breaking 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting harder and harder for new games - even good ones - to find an audience.

  I don’t think an abundance of releases is necessarily a bad thing, because more art is more art, but I also don’t know what a solution might look like to help prevent otherwise great games from vanishing into the masses immediately on release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve added an invisible wall to this sewer pipe in Half-Life 2 in their anniversary update - but it only annoyed speedrunners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Barely a bug IMO - Valve wanted an invisible wall to block players from being able to skip a small environmental puzzle, but invisible walls are a lazy solution. If the player can find an alternate route to climb up into the pipe, more power to them I say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because the developers working on hair physics were definitely the same people that would have otherwise been working on narrative design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto: The Definitive Edition trilogy on PC gets a classic lighting update from the mobile version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great! It’s a shame the remasters still suck.

  I wouldn’t even mind that much, but they removed the actual originals from sale completely, so this crappy cash-grab is the only official way to buy them now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx gets shut down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you, Nintendo. You used to be cool.

  Nintendo have always been like this, even as far back as the NES days. They were super protective over who was allowed to make and sell cartridges, and repeatedly filed lawsuits against companies making unlicensed carts.

  They’ve always been ultra-protective over their IP and hardware, and will happily sue fan projects and emulation into oblivion any chance they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a lot of fond nostalgia for A Final Unity, but the two TOS point & click games are way better designed. Plus they’re far easier to get hold of, since they’re sold on GOG while Final Unity isn’t available digitally anywhere.

  That said, Final Unity is still good and if you prefer TNG then find a way to play that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those Old Scientists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heroic Games Launcher v2.15 has expanded GOG support, EA games from Epic Store support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I used to use GOG Galaxy as a meta launcher, but switched to Playnite and never looked back. Supports way more libraries, and has some fantastic metadata plugins like HowLongToBeat integration, so I can sift through my backlog based on time to finish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some mainstream game series where you really do need to start from the first game?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jumping into the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series from a random point would be incredibly confusing because of the storyline.

  There are actually 3 good entry points (Yakuza 0, Yakuza 1/Kiwami, or Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon) but couldn’t recommend starting outside one of that set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Fable devs reveal a new co-op RPG, then announce its development is on hold amid layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flaming Fowl were founded back in 2016 by a bunch of former Fable devs out of original studio Lionhead

  Literally just had to scroll a tiny bit further