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Apeman42, to games in Like a Dragon: Yakuza Live-Action Series Announced for Amazon Prime Video This Fall
@Apeman42@lemmy.world avatar

Well they had better take the time to do some unnecessary karaoke scenes. Live action “24-hour Cinderella” or I’m out.

Tripp1976, to pcgaming in The Last of Us 2 Reportedly Set for PC

Let’s see how bad they fuck up the port this time. Not holding my breath.

DarkThoughts,

Really hope they learned from the Part 1 disaster.

WereCat,

To be fair the Part 1 port is fairly good now but the release was quite janky… But I haven’t bought it until it went on sale anyways so…

Zoot,
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What was wrong with the 1st port? I ended up playing after finishing the TV series, and didn’t run into any bugs. I think I can recall having to restart maybe once cause a scene didn’t start. Beyond that, it was one of the first games I almost played twice just for NG+

ILikeBoobies,

On release it was poorly optimized

Even high end hardware had struggles, the worst part of 3d games is the cache though. That’s why some games put up a loading screen for it then load every asset behind that loading screen

A godot dev even recorded (inputs) a full playthrough of his then played it behind a loading screen at 10x speed

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

wait a year before playing it and it will probably be good

garretble, to games in Like a Dragon: Yakuza Live-Action Series Announced for Amazon Prime Video This Fall
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

I like the games but hate Amazon so I’ll skip it.

But hopefully the show itself is good.

prole, to games in Like a Dragon: Yakuza Live-Action Series Announced for Amazon Prime Video This Fall

I really hope this isn’t shit.

By “original”, I assume they mean Yakuza [Kiwami] 1 not Yakuza 0?

KuroiKaze,

Yeah Y0 is too far back to go for a show I imagine

Aielman15, to games in Like a Dragon: Yakuza Live-Action Series Announced for Amazon Prime Video This Fall
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

I gave Amazon the benefit of the doubt with Wheel of Time. Never again.

nave,
@nave@lemmy.ca avatar

I mean they also made Fallout…

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe it’s because I’m not a Fallout fan, but I didn’t like that one either. I didn’t finish it, to be fair, but I watched the first 3-4 episodes and I found it nonsensical for the most part.

From people and animals healing within seconds of them injecting some sort of Jesus juice, to armor suits protecting against explosions and extreme fall damage but not angry bears, or people living for centuries in the surface but from the looks of it the apocalypse happened just two days earlier, with no one bothering to clean up their own house a bit. In one scene you see soldiers wearing thick metal armor flying around on helicopters, in the next scene there’s people using bottle caps as a barter resource.

And that’s just about the verisimilitude of the setting and the events. The writing felt very amateurish/childish for the most part. Again, I have no reference to the source material, but from an outside perspective, I wasn’t impressed.

The visuals are very good (not ground-breaking by any means, but they do their job well), but that’s the extent of the praise I’d give to that series.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Fallout’s success is on Jonathan Nolan, not Amazon.

nave,
@nave@lemmy.ca avatar

Well then wheel of times failure is based on whoever wrote it too. Either way OPs comment doesn’t really make sense.

KuroiKaze,

As a wheel of time, invincible, the boys, and fallout fan I feel extremely targeted. I’m a Yakuza superfan so I will have to watch this but I hope they don’t mess it up. I’m still playing infinite wealth but once I’m done I’ll have completed every rgg game except of the end and that PSP exclusive neither of which I’m going to go back to.

stardust, to games in Like a Dragon: Yakuza Live-Action Series Announced for Amazon Prime Video This Fall

I wish it was an anime adaptation so the voice actors could reprise their roles.

ZC3rr0r, to pcgaming in Sony Announces PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter for August

It’s a shame some of the cool features such as the eye tracking and HDR are going to get lost in the transition. It might still be worth it to replace many of the soon-obsolete WMR headsets on the market, but only if Sony adjusts the price of the headset accordingly.

IntiPogo, to pcgaming in Sony Announces PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter for August

Expensive Adapter, no cable, less features … No thanks.

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly the adapter isn’t too bad price wise, but the lack of eye tracking is pretty brutal

Aussiemandeus, to games in Manor Lords First Major Patch Available Now
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Overly high ale consumption is a patch fix haha.

Them peasants be drinking

InternetUser2012, to games in Embracer Boss Mulls Increasing the Price of Video Games Beyond $70

I’ll wait till they’re on sale for under 30. Over 70??? Yeah, if I really want it, i’d hit the high seas for it.

ExfilBravo, to games in Embracer Boss Mulls Increasing the Price of Video Games Beyond $70

Lol I pirated a game the other day just because the company was charging full price for a remaster.

Aussiemandeus, to games in Manor Lords First Major Patch Available Now
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

How is manor lords going?

I’m playing farthest frontier at the moment again. I’m curious on this but I do t wa t to buy into to the hype either

TwoBeeSan,

Curious as well.

How is farthest frontier?

Normally stay away from early access but like the grim dawn people.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

It’s good, plenty of mechanics to play with.

I really enjoy the farming and rotation of crops etc to keep soil quality up.

Later fame it gets frame rate drops but that could be my pc too struggling to keep up.

egonallanon,

It’s alright so far. It’s very barebones and there’s a decent number of bugs and glitches but nothing gambreaking for me so far but overall the game has a very good solid base to it and every sign it’ll be very good when done.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Awesome, I might get it. Is there enough to play it for a while?

egonallanon,

I got 7-8 hours out of before putting it down and I’ll probably wait a while before coming back to it but I only played the super peaceful mode.

Blackmist, to games in Embracer Boss Mulls Increasing the Price of Video Games Beyond $70

Have you tried spending less on making them?

Guntrigger,

Well, they have tried shutting down most of their studios. So… kinda?

Annoyed_Crabby,

Maybe he should start by paying himself no bonus and cut his own salary, seeing that the company is in a nosedive position when he’s in charge.

Aux,

Back in 1996 AAA games sold for $60 to $75. If we take the lowest price of $60 and adjust it for inflation, that would be $119 today. Computer games today are unrealistically cheap. And if you look at how much more effort goes into development, they’re pretty much free.

DrSteveBrule,

I think there is a bigger market for them now though. What was the most popular video game in the 90s and how many copies sold vs the biggest games now? And now with steam and other sevices you don’t even have to manufacture as many discs. Even freemium mobile games are making billions in revenue.

Aux,

There’s a bigger market now for many products, but their prices are usually keeping up with inflation.

Holyginz,

And yet they tend to be a worse experience, release before they are ready with DLC already ready to go, riddled with microtransactions and other awful issues. They aren’t worth more.

GeneralVincent,

Back in 1996, the average computer cost $2-6k adjusted for inflation. Now they are also much more difficult and complex to make, are much more powerful, and cost less.

Yes, a bunch of effort has gone into development, but that development doesn’t disappear after the game is done. And now we have free, open source game engines that can be filled with assets made in free, open source 3d modeling software, using free, open source high level programming languages. A little bit of learning and the average person could make an early 2000s video game solo in a couple of weeks.

NigelFrobisher, to games in Embracer Boss Mulls Increasing the Price of Video Games Beyond $70

Games from last year will still be less than half of that though, right?

Annoyed_Crabby,

Sekiro still sell for 60 dollar. The industry figured out they can use scarcity in a form of limited time discount to encourage customer to make purchase, so there’s no need to lower the base price forever.

RabbitMix, to games in Embracer Boss Mulls Increasing the Price of Video Games Beyond $70

They can make them more than $70USD and I’ll just keep waiting for a sale. I haven’t bought one at $70 yet, I’m certainly not going to pay even more.

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

I haven’t bought a game for more than $30 in over a decade.

And that was a nostalgia purchase.

Increasing the price just makes me want to go sailing.

perviouslyiner,

Satisfactory £28, Farming simulator £24, House flipper £21, the good games are all less than £30

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Hell I’ve got THREE versions of farming simulator I got free from steam, epic, or somewhere else (legitimately)

I could start on my backlog of sub $15 games and be fine until current releases are sub $15.

Appoxo,

Recently started up Crysis 3.

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Very nice! I just picked up watch dogs and watch dogs 2 deluxe editions as a bundle for like $13 after tax.

I’m even eyeing the rdr2 sale on epic right nowcfor under 25.

There are so many good options that don’t look dated at all to me.

Honestly, crysis looked amazing on my 10 year old laptop. I kind of want to replay them again on my new one to see how much better everything looks on ultra.

Appoxo,

I loved to bully the bad guys with the cop and gang calling feature in Watch Dogs 2.
I would just sit there and wait until the NPCs killed themselves. ;D
Have yet to play Watch Dogs 1.

Kind of have a track record of playing a series in reverse

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Gang wars were my jam while playing WD2. Cruising around the block scanning people for botnet recharges, and calling in reinforcements every time one side gets wiped out… Good times.

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