aleph

@aleph@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s HiFi add-on could cost an extra $5 per month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, plus lossless is kinda pointless for streaming anyway since the difference between high-bitrate OGG Vorbis is basically undetectable even when using high-end gear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is my six-year-old daughter isn’t going to be playing Spec Ops: The Line for Call of Duty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head. After hearing the dev’s justification I can see what they were going for, but it’s really poorly handled in-game IMO.

  They way it plays out in the story feels neither darkly comic nor a poignant commentary on parents going though a divorce; instead it just comes across as unnecessarily cruel, and the player has no choice but to go along with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue isn’t the use of conflict as a dramatic device per se; it is essentially forcing the player(s) to perform a seemingly unnecessary and unpleasant action against their will.

  The fact that both main characters in the game appear to immediately decide that violently murdering their child’s favorite toy is the only course of action and that no alternative is offered is really jarring. Giving the player some agency in choosing an alternative way to to go about would have solved the problem completely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explanation, although I don’t find it a particularly acceptable one. The sequence wasn’t funny enough to justify the dramatic shift in tone in an otherwise family-friendly game, IMO. Also, making the protagonists unlikable in a game where you’re supposed to find them sympathetic is a very weird design decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Takes Two does not require EA app anymore and its Steam Deck Verified now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that part was a distinct bum note in an otherwise enjoyable game. Why the developers thought it was good idea, I’ll never know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can’t delete and reset your game save to do a new character

  Wait, what?