shani66
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- Comment on There's a playable Disco Elysium 2 prototype in the wilds, according to a report on clashes between the "spiritual successors" 3 days ago:
I mean, a spiritual successor is absolutely on the horizon. It’s a genuine masterpiece, artists will be emulating it in some way for decades at least.
- Comment on Hybrid gaming controller MoveMaster has a new website, shipping to the UK now available and 10% off 4 days ago:
That looks so weird
- Comment on Sony is in talks to buy Dark Souls and Elden Ring parent company Kadokawa 4 days ago:
This could unironically be a dark age for Japanese culture, if our experience with sony in Western circles is indicative of anything
- Comment on Sony reportedly looking to acquire Kadokawa, owner of ELDEN RING dev FromSoftware 4 days ago:
More than just that, they are big novel publishers, they own spike chunsoft, hell they even have their hands in tourism and some science labs! Idk the broader culture of Sony, but experience with their gaming branch says this will be the disaster of our times for otaku.
- Comment on Sony is in talks to buy Dark Souls and Elden Ring parent company Kadokawa 4 days ago:
That’s not just what’s at stake. Kadokawa is a massive company and this will hurt industries from books to anime to game development outside of fromsoft. On the publishing and consumer facing sides, btw. Apparently they even own a few scientific and tourism endeavors!
- Comment on Sony reportedly looking to acquire Kadokawa, owner of ELDEN RING dev FromSoftware 4 days ago:
Not just a few games, this is gonna hurt anime too.
- Comment on Pokemon TCG Pocket Craze Continues To Hit New Highs 4 days ago:
Pokemon is never gonna get better, is it
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles' 1 week ago:
No, it’s pretty mid action combat.
- Comment on Terraria hits over 60 million sales with Terraria 1.4.5 shaping up to be another big update 3 weeks ago:
The sequel hasn’t fallen through
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 weeks ago:
Huh. This is literally the best advertising veilguard has ever had.
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 weeks ago:
You know, i prefer my cyberpunk dystopias to be ballsy enough to just say it with their chest. You’d never catch Lofwyr groveling like this.
I’d also very much prefer dragons, or at least technological implants, but whatever.
- Comment on Former Paradox, CD Projekt and 11-bit devs reveal new 4X strategy RPG that splices Manor Lords with Crusader Kings 4 weeks ago:
I am very interested
- Comment on I hope Straftat is 2024's breakout shooter, because the demo's 25 maps are gloriously unwholesome 5 weeks ago:
Sounds neat
- Comment on Jump and climb through huge structures in the creepy and atmospheric Lorn's Lure 1 month ago:
It’s a wonderful game, you always feel a little lost but somehow going in the right direction
- Comment on In pagan party-based RPG Banquet For Fools, you can doodle your own spells in blood 1 month ago:
I’m interested
- Comment on Minecraft's Bundles Of Bravery update will add hardcore mode and carrier bags 1 month ago:
Ew gross, they need to drop that bedrock nonsense already.
- Comment on Minecraft is getting a new biome and The Creaking, a creepy mob that only moves when you look away 1 month ago:
A new, unique mob that can actually be threatening in a place that isn’t borderline impossible to come across without deliberately looking for it? Not perfect, but it’s a step up from their usual. Now if they bothered to add some more trees…
- Comment on Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure 1 month ago:
I’ll never how these people don’t know they’re the bad guys, and how they just accept it if they do. Like, they only make things worse, they’ve never once added to the world.
- Comment on Metaphor: ReFantazio, the high-fantasy RPG from Persona's designers, now has a playable demo 1 month ago:
Well I’m in
- Comment on Pocketpair respond to the Nintendo and Pokemon Company lawsuit for Palworld 2 months ago:
Patent trolling should be illegal and, not being a crime of passion and thus able to be deterred by consequences, should have insanely harsh consequences. I’m talking the dissolution of a company or trillions in fines.
- Comment on STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor gets Denuvo DRM removed, plus performance improvements 2 months ago:
The only people denuvo helps is the denuvo owners and Empress.
- Comment on An Ubisoft investor wants to dethrone Ubisoft's founders so Ubisoft can lay more developers off 2 months ago:
Because they don’t care. They talked a big game, pointing out obvious flaws for normal people, but they just want to get a profit on their day trading. Investors are also terminally stupid, they have no pattern recognition, so when a company cuts operating costs the evaluation will go up even if it’s objectively a bad thing in every possible way. I assume the grift is clear going forward from there.
- Comment on Minecraft's new faster update schedule will probably fill modders with both despair and nostalgia 2 months ago:
I… Don’t think frequency was the issue? If anything most people would probably prefer slow updates. The issue was how completely vapid their updates are.
- Comment on Heed the Dark Urge and check out Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7, which adds 13 new evil endings plus official mod tools 2 months ago:
Mod support is always great, but it’d have to be pretty in depth to give me the only thing that’ll make me play more; a harder break from the crappy 5e mechanics.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 months ago:
I feel there is absolutely a space for games that push boundaries at a higher price point. Games that push a, frankly, ridiculous level of graphics fidelity, games that have a genuine branching narrative on a demanding scale, games with handcrafted worlds that dwarf other games, new technology in general. Just anything that needs an inordinate amount of work when compared to the average game.
But that isn’t most games. You can make a pretty good game out of your garage on a shoestring budget (or even for free, if you cut costs) these days. The real cost of making a game isn’t rising, major studios are just bloated beyond belief and just making a profit isn’t enough for the leeches.
For bg3 in particular; they had average (around 100mil) AAA dev costs afaik, but for some stupid reason they had (a guesstimated) 200mil ad budget! They seriously do not need even 1 million to get their game in front of the targeted audience, that’s so insanely excessive.
- Comment on Bloody on-foot racer Deathsprint 66 is getting singleplayer PvE modes with grisly challenges 2 months ago:
Never heard of it, but it sounds really fun.
- Comment on Glamtime never ends in Infinity Nikki, the open world dress-up game from Zelda talent 2 months ago:
Open world dress up game? Intriguing.
- Comment on Amazingly grim retro sci-fi android spelunker Lorn’s Lure finally has a release date 2 months ago:
Oh hell yes, I’ve been dying to explore more. Between the dreary atmosphere and the megastructure itself, this game scratches an itch I’ve had since Blame!.
Also try out NaissanceE!
- Comment on Go capture and breed some Frogs in the Mudborne demo, from the devs of beekeeping sim APICO 3 months ago:
Eh, it’s better than most modern sites.
- Comment on The Dead Rising remaster no longer gives you points for "Erotica" creepshots because it's not "required" or "appropriate" 3 months ago:
This issue itself is tiny, but it really shows that these guys do not get the game. It’d be like giving Bayonetta normal legs, or taking the bad Japanese out of Princess the Hopeful.