DarkThoughts
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- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 5 days ago:
I doubt it is coming anytime soon. Especially since the updated version just came out.
- Comment on I’m fascinated by this open-world delivery game that sounds like Death Stranding on a horse in 13th-century Mongolia, with “unparalleled equine realism” 5 days ago:
Loverslab: 👀
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 week ago:
Unfortunately true. The majority of people do not have enough of a spine, or simply don't even care. That's why the market gets shittier and shittier each year for the past couple decades.
- Comment on All three remastered Mass Effect games and their DLC are 90% off on Steam 1 week ago:
Yep. Origin and ME3's exclusivity was exactly the last straw for me when it came to EA and what caused them to be on my boycott list ever since. People keep saying we should "encourage" the company by buying the stuff the do right, but I just don't see any effort in that regards and I also don't see how that makes up for all the shit they have pulled over the last couple decades. They ruined so many games, franchises and studios, so why should I rewards them with my money? It's up to EA to make some proper concessions and do better first, and then we'll see whether they can win me back as a customer or not.
- Comment on The huge life-sim Life by You from Paradox hits Early Access on June 4 1 week ago:
At least it will be fitting if they cost about as much as the whole Sims package with its DLCs. lol
Honestly though, the videos they released did not fill me with confidence either. - Comment on Game of Thrones reportedly has an MMO in the works, nearly a decade after the last one was cancelled 2 weeks ago:
They're indeed very much infamous within the genre. At least years back they were. But I doubt they had some sort of process of enlightenment.
- Comment on Game of Thrones reportedly has an MMO in the works, nearly a decade after the last one was cancelled 2 weeks ago:
I remember how impressed I was by the visuals of the Ha'tak explosion, particularly the smoke particles.
- Comment on Game of Thrones reportedly has an MMO in the works, nearly a decade after the last one was cancelled 2 weeks ago:
That may be cool for lore aspects but I don't see how that could safe the very flawed genre aspects of it.
- Comment on Game of Thrones reportedly has an MMO in the works, nearly a decade after the last one was cancelled 2 weeks ago:
F2P & "micro" transactions completely killed the genre for me. They also had a tendency to be way too samey in their theme park structure. Sandbox ones imo aren't feasible today anymore either though because the whole mainstream aspect brought just the worst of people into those games. So they kinda turn from a game with interesting possibilities into a pure pvp gank feast.
- Comment on Over 10 years later 7 Days to Die is going to leave Early Access 3 weeks ago:
Personally I hate those tower defense wave type of games. Project Zomboid does the whole zombie survival thing better imo.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 3 weeks ago:
We're like ~50 years behind, but have transistors. In the 2070 we're supposed to have Iter, a massive big regular fusion prototype that is still far away from any sort of commercially viable product. If you really think some 1950s based society developing all this shit is "hyper realistic" when we can't achieve something even resembling it despite our technological advancement, then you're simply delusional.
- Comment on Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
The intelligent and thoughtful response we're used from you.
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 3 weeks ago:
We have nothing that comes even close to those examples I listed.
- Comment on Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
Neither. And if you think the show OR the games had a focus on gore rather than story then you also did not pay the slightest attention to either one. I'm sorry but it's just an idiotic take no matter how you want to spin it and it looks like you're just trying to get outraged over nothing.
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 3 weeks ago:
No idea, I only played F3 a very long time ago, and the very beginning / intro of NV.
But I feel that would only prove my point further because they clearly did not get surprised by a foreign launch if they were already in the vault but already preparing for it, which would be hard to do since they likely did not have knowledge of a possible Chinese launch long in advance. The whole cold war state of getting nuked was going on for quite a long time in that universe so that feeling was already there anyway. I don't think they strictly stated that they nuke themselves either, Vault-Tec might've just attacked China with them, which then retaliated due to MAD and became the scapegoat. - Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 3 weeks ago:
I'm fairly convinced that Cooper's 200 year long revenge that they mentioned in I think episode 6 or 7 or whatever is targeted towards his I assume ex-wife. Her being the one who suggested to launch the nukes likely destroyed the entire relationship and he decided not to go with her into one of the vaults. She likely did not have much control over the launch anymore at that point either and, being safe herself, ended up nuking him and her daughter basically.
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 3 weeks ago:
Considering that all the employees in vault 31 are in cryo or little brain robots I'm not so sure about that. It kinda implies that they were very much ready.
- Comment on The Fallout TV show might have answered a decades-old question in the video games 3 weeks ago:
It really isn't hyper realistic at all. It's an alternate reality universe where they had tiny fusion energy cores, exoskeleton power armors, and goofy AI robots in the 1950s. And past the apocalypse you have even more nonsense that really doesn't make sense. In the show we even have magical cold fusion tech, which is apparently different to the fusion cores, which are already so powerful, long lasting and small enough that I don't see too much of a net gain if you don't know how to make more of it anyway since both are proprietary designs and the knowledge behind them lost in both cases.
- Comment on Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
No, as in it makes sense to have gore in a TV adaptation of a gory video game franchise. Imagine they do a live TV adaptation of Dead Space but remove all the gore. It wouldn't make sense at all. Removing iconic things that the games are known for would just piss off the fans of the franchise and not do it justice because you're changing the formula that makes it great and what it is.
- Comment on Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
How do you play Fallout 3 without noticing the gore? It's an integral part of the franchise.
- Comment on Fallout TV creators saved “iconic elements” for season 2 so it doesn’t feel like they just skimmed Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
You clearly have not played any of the games.
- Comment on Former Blizzard president wants to be able to leave a "tip" after completing $70 games: "I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20" 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, some do indeed have some form of donation system.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress hits 800,000 sales and no sign of it stopping 5 weeks ago:
How'd you judge the Steam / GUI version?
I did like one playthrough of the original a long time ago, maxed out at 200 dwarfs and then eventually stopped, just to never touch it again because I could not be arsed to learn the controls & UI again.
I like the depth of DF but there's titles like Odd Realm or Songs of Syx that are much easier to get into after taking a break. - Comment on Dwarf Fortress hits 800,000 sales and no sign of it stopping 5 weeks ago:
What a bunch of rubbish. Vegeta does in fact use a variation of destructo disc to cut off Gohan's tail when he's transformed.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 4.6 'Orbital' adds starship customization and a space station overhaul 1 month ago:
They could have just taken everyone’s money and ran and told everyone to get bent. Too many indie game studios do exactly this.
Those who do basically won't sell much ever again if they decide to do anything else after that. But in the end it's just damage control by a studio that wants to keep existing past their failure of a game. I'm sure Light No Fire will be gobbled up regardless of the release state it is going to be in, and that wouldn't be the case if they didn't touch NMS again.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 4.6 'Orbital' adds starship customization and a space station overhaul 1 month ago:
I find it hard to praise them for that since they're the one who highly over-promised and even more so under-delivered. It sets a dangerous precedence when we praise developers for this, because it could easily become a marketing tactic.
Purposely hold back content and introduce some issues, gaining a shitstorm (which is, excluding the intent, all kinda the norm at this point), just to then slowly drip feed things back into the game and fix the issues, so that you see a huge shift / turnaround and become the legends who stand with their games and the community against the terrible practices that have taken over the gaming industry.I hope people are more cautious with Light No Fire, as Murray is already out there making big promises as if he's the new Peter Molyneux.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 4.6 'Orbital' adds starship customization and a space station overhaul 1 month ago:
Honestly the first really good feature addition that I've seen for this game and literally what I wanted from day 1. Not sure if that's enough to look past the mundane self serving grindy gameplay loop though.
- Comment on Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions 1 month ago:
Prime example are MMORPGs. F2P MMOs pretty much destroyed the whole genre. You can see it in other multiplayer live service games too, because ultimately games end up being tailored around micro transactions. So saying "you can get this and that through gameplay too!" is a non-argument, as you just end up having to grind ridiculous amounts for it. They'll make things harder and harder to get, then maybe add some time limitations to invoke FOMO, and eventually it will be micro transaction only and at ridiculous prices too. But by that time everyone already accepted it anyway because people can't think back for any longer than their last TicTok video.
- Comment on Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions 1 month ago:
Not everyone buys & plays every Capcom title. Most of them are overly expensive anyway, with overly expensive DLC on top of it.