AMillionNames

@AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works

Playing the world’s smallest violin in lieu of the admin listing of my least favorite lemmy instance. I probably didn’t have anything to do with it, but lying smearing dipshits have a way of garnering hostility towards themselves. Party time!

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AMillionNames,

I imagine there are a few mod remakes of them already in the works.

AMillionNames, (edited )

The Creation Store is definitely way too predatory. The Tracking Alliance faction definitely seems tailored for future “elite bounties”, and so far does not seem to have any singular faction questline with a conclusion. The quality is better than I expected and I suspect they will continue expanding it through the free patches as they also release new bounties Creations to go with it. If you don’t purchase them, you are left with the empty space on the board reminding you of it, and paying for plushies? Decorations? Greed upon greed, but no different from what they did with Skyrim.

If Bethesda had any brains they would force developers to only post those as free and only as hooks and essentially free promotion for the content rich expansions they could be involved with, but instead they’ve been trying to push for MMOesque purchases for their singleplayer games for a while now, additions which I wouldn’t even want because of how grossly they intrude upon the game universe. Sudden overpowered suit or base for no reason ahoy! The Anniversary Edition spoiled the Skyrim experience so much …

Starfield was on its lasts legs and needed something that would revive it, not greed, but then again this sort of shit is why Bethsoft isn’t one of the studios Microsoft has shut down. Makes you wonder just how much whales spend on this practice. Judging by the Sims and looking through posts regarding Skyrim, quite a lot, so move over traditional market and let the whales pass. Shame there’s so little competition, I love this particular niche of a genre.

I am not going to look forward to TES6, although I doubt the MMO will curtail its development much. After all, they are already turning singleplayer into MMOs without the service cost.

AMillionNames,

That’s either awesome or diplomatic. But a court order shouldn’t be needed, that implies going to court which isn’t necessary in some countries.

AMillionNames,

I think they may have meant a probate court. Steam can ignore or argue against a probate court on several grounds and might have to be taken to a judicial court, GOG may be claiming they would accept the judgement of a probate court. Definitely needs to be expanded upon and clarified.

AMillionNames,

Really not looking forward to it, even though I’ve played every other game including Tiny Tina’s. They really dropped the ball with the Wonderlands DLC, they undid any and all trust I had in their post-release expansions, so they are really going to have to be announcing some ground-breaking new features if they want me to pay on release. Otherwise, I guess I’ll be playing it in 2028 when it’s discounted, if the state of the world allows it.

I can look past not having iconic villains, as much DLC, or having new releases that are just minor upgrades, but the drop in the expectations for post-release quality, I guess that’s where I draw the line, no pre-orders from me.

AMillionNames,

Sort of hate that they never worked in New Game Plus into the game. Their excuses don’t jibe when there are ways to do it manually, but they are a hassle.

AMillionNames,

Haven’t you run into bugs with the newly added car chases going CTD? I eventually realized it was due to using my choice of non-lethal quickhacks messing up the scripts, why didn’t CD Projekt RED? Player experience can vary based on playstyle.

AMillionNames,

Another way to influence companies is with your money, and GOG allows you to download entire DRM-less backups of your game.

AMillionNames,

I just assume at this point that it is a problem with any publisher.

AMillionNames,

I think the problem is that games with deep strategy are timeless, no real need for a new release.

AMillionNames,

Really shortsighted view of it. Just because you make a new RTS that is more generally appealing is not going to change the existence of those that preceded it or their fanbase.

AMillionNames,

The problem with that is the back catalogue of games that developers have to compete with. There already are better games with worse graphics, the big studios aren’t going to risk competing in that crowded market that already has its crowned victors.

AMillionNames,

Profit incentive wins the day again! Although there are times even it doesn’t seem to.

AMillionNames,

Helldivers will never be what it was from now on, shame I missed that train. Specially considering it’s now essentially a free Steam refund (if you insist past the automated responses).

AMillionNames,

It’d be impossible to create a competitor in this day in age, because what made Steam win out is that it was the first and that it hasn’t acted like a greedy dick trying (too much) to monetize their platform dominance. Arguably, GOG is a better platform because it is much more against DRM, but when you get right down to it, gamers don’t really care enough about those issues to put a dent in it even if the loudest voices do, so I doubt Steam’s success has much to do with being a ‘democratic platform’.

AMillionNames,

Valve tried to Android their gaming platform under SteamOS, yes. They really didn’t do it for Linux. Rather, they know Linux distros can’t really complete with their specialized house advantage for gaming, in the general consumer sense.

AMillionNames,

Have they never had to deal with a Bethesda patch before!?

AMillionNames,

Imagine if Bethesda actually really listened to and catered to their modding community instead of just trying to monetize them. They would be legend right now.

AMillionNames,

They used an actual photo from their offices as the thumbnail.

AMillionNames,

In my experience, this is the norm.

AMillionNames,

Roguelike is getting a random brand new dessert from a wide variety of desserts and not knowing whether you will get the same one next time. Roguelite is getting a vanilla cone ice cream, and each time you get the same vanilla cone ice cream but more options for toppings.

Original Fallout lead Tim Cain loves the new show, but remains baffled by how 'destructive' fans can act toward 'people who are trying to create things' (www.pcgamer.com)

Cain appreciated the performances and storytelling, but singled out how the show nailed the Fallout “vibe” as its biggest achievement. “I was just looking at all the props,” he said of one scene. “I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it...

AMillionNames,

I like the show, the only problem is that it reduces the universe for the purpose of its medium, and factions essentially become people. Otherwise, the show is what I would expect from a Fallout game, a slowly developing main quest where a lot of the experience is in the random encounters and side quests. I’m looking forward to the possibility of them talking about THE courier and their legend, and perhaps even bring out the lore of the random stranger. Worst criticism I have is that its removing a lot of the mystery surrounding Vault-Tec lore by serving it out on a silver platter, it was basically the one mystery that stretched out and was never fully revealed throughout the games, where you actually had to dig into to know more, now being served to any person who watched the show whether they want it or not. It’s sort of like my problem with Starfield, it brings you too close to all the major players in that universe way too quickly, making the world smaller and eliminating mystery, anticipation, and depth before it has had time to ripen.

AMillionNames,

Had this happened with an MMO, completely drove me away from the publisher of that and other MMOs it held. Good guy shitty MMO publisher, helping you to overcome MMO addictions.

AMillionNames,

Then for this singular “experience” I would expect it to cost much less than the competing games I get to keep and replay, just like renting and buying movies used to be. Normally, it’s the opposite, and those “experiences” are being sold for much more. That word play you are trying to suggest just sounds like an EA quote that’s going to be making the rounds and getting mocked in the future, if they ever tried to sell it as such.

AMillionNames,

Ding! You are correct.

AMillionNames,

Conflating correlation with causation, I think.

AMillionNames,

I think it’s pretty clear they were struggling to incorporate all the elements together, which ate a lot of their time. In the end, that resulted in player colonies basically getting thrown out and the game being a lot smaller than if they had just dedicated all of their time to worldbuilding.

AMillionNames,

It would depend on the skill of the team doing it. A lot of people are praising the FF7 remake even though the gameplay is completely different because of not only how it builds upon and unites all the lore that exists, but how it expands it and subverts expections, and it can only do this when it isn’t just a remake cash grab.

What I want in a Chrono Trigger remake is rather than asking us, asking the original visionaries that created it what they would want to add into it if they created it today, and to put in the effort into making and ensuring that vision works out.

AMillionNames,

I’d say it’s more because they’ve established a reputation and they’ve kept it up, which is were Japanese culture really shines. Compare it to, say, Blizzard, which cashed out and pissed its reputation away mostly. Sure, Japanese companies will try to cash out sometimes, but if there’s the possibility of them losing their reputation because of it, they will back off even at a loss and try to make up for it. Do not confuse with South Korean companies, by the way.

AMillionNames,

I wouldn’t be surprised, but you also get those claims with a lot of Western developers as well. The only difference I’m seeing is how much more reputation is valued as opposed to something that can be sold off to the highest bidder.

AMillionNames,

The only thing I hated about it was how disappointed with the DLC expectations they had set in previous Borderlands games.

AMillionNames,

It’s an uphill battle. Better to focus on allowing players to police themselves in close knit community servers.

AMillionNames,

I’m trying to stay away from MMOs, which is were all these practices were really born.

AMillionNames,

Because it’s about greed, not culture. And anything having to do with culture has itself been traditionally appropriated by greed anyway.

AMillionNames,

Piecing this to what they’ve also said elsewhere, I’m just going to assume that GTA6 will be sold as a service.

AMillionNames,

But there was a sequel to Okami, it just wasn’t as popular.

AMillionNames,

Nice advert.

AMillionNames,

I never said it was a paid advert, and if I had a serious problem with it, I wouldn’t have called it nice. I think the game has promise given their developers. But it’s still an advert, which are largely a problem only when quality, saturation, and relevance are questionable, so don’t take it as a complaint.

AMillionNames,

Talk about projecting …

AMillionNames,

You’ll be sad to know, steamship Mickey is now in the public domain. Why can’t people just continue to give companies that have already made billions their money forever!? Don’t they realize that they are never allowed to base themselves off of the culture they’ve grown surrounded by!? Vague accusations should be enough to take these guys down on the ethics scale.

AMillionNames, (edited )

I’ve been playing it for a while now, quite fun. It reminded me of tech modpacks that incorporated Pixelmon in Minecraft, although this is much more refined. It has much less of a Pokemon vibe as people give it credit for. Other than mounts, you have no control of what abilities your pal uses, and it is much less focused on rock-paper-scissors and more on the terrain and damage delivery because of its real-time FPS nature.

AMillionNames,

Who knew that jumping onto a confidence game meme stock fueled crypto craze would not really work out for GameStop in the long term?

AMillionNames,

Basically, product placement in games that also double as one click purchase options from what I read.

AMillionNames,

Grimdark? That’s not the way I remember it.

They moved away with procedural generation when they worked on the creation kit first released with Morrowind, which has gotten a lot of use since then: Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4. So, uhm, I don’t think it had gone that bad for BGS just because it’s latest release is a flawed update of the engine.

Daggerfall is a fun slog where everything is pseudo procedurally generated and the boredom aspect comes when you become aware of the general repetitiveness of the engine, but it is very grindable because it is essentially all radiant quests and because it has very dynamic systems - which also work out to very exploitable systems to easily reach godlike power with little effort. Because you don’t have to listen to exposition and can just go nuts on the gameplay, it’s very replayable. Unfortunately, they seem to want to go back to the Daggerfall procedural generation system without really having the engine, which was designed to move away from that, configured for it, and it’s going to be much harder.

AMillionNames,

You mean like when people say they like Starfield?

AMillionNames,

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Is this new game news?

AMillionNames, (edited )

It doesn’t matter whether it is accurate, lots of other comments in the thread about that.

A random YouTube channel kicking a dead horse is just not gaming news, it’s just a desperate grab for content.

AMillionNames,

So Lethal Company doesn’t have it so it sucks? Bad logic is bad, in doesn’t even need to be a feature for half the games listed in the PC Gamer article this post is about … But you do your “basic features”.

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