SolarMonkey

@SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On console you still have to wait an absurdly long time for the ubishit to load, even if you never use any of it. Pretty sure they threw their launcher in there, too, and just hid it a bit.

  Fenyx, a game I love from 2020, takes several extra minutes to boot (and the launch screen completely freezes for the duration, so you don’t know if it’s going to launch successfully or hang) because it has to query the server every single damned time to see if there’s new dlc or news nobody cares about or whatever. Like guys, I didn’t care the first dozen times you tried to get me to check out ways to give you money…

  The worst part is I actually did buy one of the dlc for it on switch. I was intensely disappointed. It was not just not worth the money, it wasn’t worth the time to download it; I didn’t even bother finishing it. And still every time it boots up it tells me all about this marvelous new dlc I could buy (there’s another dlc I didn’t buy, but that’s not the one it showcases)! So it takes forever to query the server and then does fuckall with that information. Cool.

• ⁨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:

  You aren’t wrong. I freakin love mobile games, very addictive. I don’t play them anymore… bad habits form for me…

  Roguelike games can have a similar appeal tho; turn it on, do a dive or two for 20-40 min, then come back next time.

• ⁨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 found so many adorable little short games that are nonetheless amazing fun. Tinykin, cat quest, troll hunters, stray… none of those are over 10 hours, even if you achievement hunt. Maybe stray, since you have to beat it more than once.

  Like they don’t have to be super long to be super good. And sometimes you only have the energy to play my little pony (actually fun and super quick because it’s made for small kids, and sometimes you just want something that takes 2 hours to get 100% on because that’s the mood…)

  I normally prefer super long exploration games, but those get old. Especially when they are all filler content like run here run there kill 5 things then go back to the same place 6 more times for dumb little quests you could have done all at once if they just gave them to you… I like 100%, but man they often make that so very tedious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing though…

  I’ve bought now three single-player (with online features) games on console not realizing the servers had already been shut down for whatever reason within a year or two of launch. I can’t play them, and I really wanted to.

  Sure they might not have made money off me this time around, but if they put out a game in the future and I’d been able to play these, I’d be more likely to try those and give them my money. Instead, because I wasted money on these year-old games that were already trashed, I just won’t touch anything from those studios ever again, since they clearly don’t believe in their games at all. It makes me look real long and hard into how “online” they are… if I need an internet connection to solo play? Immediately not interested, which is becoming much more limiting as that gets more common.

  Meanwhile, if I ever bother setting up my ps2 with an Ethernet cable, I can play with other people who have the same setup with 20+ year old games (like champions of norrath, last I played that “online” was about 10 years ago, but it seems to spin up an on-demand server for whomever is available).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fall In Love With Sexy Household Objects In Date Everything⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not into dating sims but… this looks entertaining all the same.

  I probably wouldn’t buy it, but I’d love to play a demo or excerpt. Because maybe I would buy it.