DebatableRaccoon

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DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. 3 and VC are good but SA just puts them to shame in scope alone and I think it had a better story.

Other than that, like many are saying, Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Shadow of the Colossus. Prince of Persia The Sands of Time. The whole trilogy if you can but I think the first was the best with The Two Thrones coming in at a close second thanks to improved mechanics and the banter between characters feeling more confident. Oh, and Spider-man 2. It’s still the gold standard for webswinging for a reason.

DebatableRaccoon,

Typical lazy writer buzz words. I know exactly what you mean.

DebatableRaccoon,

You really believe that mess called Starfield took a decade to make? That’s funny

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

More because I don’t believe a single word that comes out of Bugthesda and the fact that what they made was their same old shit but even more tedious somehow. It’s not about denial, it’s about Todd Howard being a pathological liar.

DebatableRaccoon,

Because ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAA’ is what I scream while running away from anything that gets announced to be a GaaS game.

DebatableRaccoon,

Well it’s about time they released more. There are still plenty of games PC players are waiting to hear on

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

This game is absolutely marvellous. The only problem I’ve had with it personally is the apartments system is a bit annoying since I’ve never been able to find a high tier apartment that is furnished, and rarely one with a good view of the city. I understand some of the fun for some is decorating your own apartment but that’s just not my jam and any attempt of mine to decorate is lackluster at best. I’d be fine if it cost extra, just let me choose if the place comes furnished or not at purchase.

DebatableRaccoon,

My guess is Palworld has done their homework on how to be “legally distinct” enough. It’s quite a different gameplay loop, after all and Nintendo can’t copyright “cute little animals that do the manual labour for the humies” otherwise things like Digimon already wouldn’t exist.

DebatableRaccoon,

Slow news day for games journalism and writers trying to justify their paychecks. Plus, I’d imagine it helps those who were running bets not on if Nintendo would crush it, but how long before they did.

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

You don’t necessarily need a lawyer on-hand to figure out “legally distinct”. Everything that Nintendo has taken down before has blatantly used the name and existing characters in both name and likeness. Even if the core idea when they started the game was “pokemon but with guns” - which I doubt - it’s still a good start in the vein of “inspired by” instead of “ripping off” and I bet Nintendo knows this otherwise Palworld would have been hit just as quickly as the mod was considering this is a company who made themselves infamous for going after youtubers making let’s plays of a basic racing game. They’re famously litigious so they’re going to be watching Pocketpair and Palworld like vultures after their next meal but either Pocketpair are more careful than they’d like the public to believe or their idea is different enough from the get-go that Nintendo will never get anything on them.

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

Not to mention in a more impressive format. I thought Arceus looked graphically barren and I know there are still plenty of people annoyed at the pop-in in Scarlet and Violet. I know it isn’t really Nintendo’s thing to play into the performance competition but a lot of people just expect better these days and the much bigger scope of Breath of the Wild and impressive level of expansion in Tears of the Kingdom has made even Nintendo fans see that there’s better out there.

DebatableRaccoon,

I’d generally have to agree. When it came out, I definitely recall saying that I’d’ve grown up a pokemon fan (because Digimon was superior in anime 💪🏻😜) if Arceus had come out back then. That said, there’s still plenty of places it could be better. The lack of many of my favourite pokemon was why I ended up quickly dropping it.

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

Now that is a business strategy. Just make them ownable and not all looter shooters and people will probably buy them

Edit: typing whoopsie

DebatableRaccoon,

Here’s hoping we’ll get the game we deserve instead of the game WB thinks we need

DebatableRaccoon,

I really wish I wasn’t surprised they’d be this petty. Yet another day in the greedy corpo world

DebatableRaccoon,

I don’t see it going well but I’d love to see it happen. “One rule for ye, another for me” and all that

DebatableRaccoon,

Not even slightly. I tried to explain this concept to my friend some weeks back and he downright refused to believe Steam or other platforms would leave players without their games if they were to go belly-up, for example.

DebatableRaccoon,

Good old fee-2-play. Not sure how much microtransactiin crap is going to be shoehorned in but they’ve already announced a season pass scheme. They’ve tried to cash in on the Arkham brand history and are promoting it on Steam. The comments are less than happy, let’s just say

DebatableRaccoon,

Nah, take a look at the Steam discussions. People are tired of the GaaS shitfest. Rocksteady have tarmished their reputation just by announcing this game.

DebatableRaccoon,

I can’t say for sure with 8bitdo but I can say the KK2’s motion controls work on PC so long as the emulator has them. I’d assume this is the case with 8bitdo but I can’t check as I found the problem I had with them to be the neutral wrist/hand position to be uncomfortable very quickly.

DebatableRaccoon,

Oh no, he will be sorely missed. Just don’t forget the bleach once you’ve shoved his toxic ass down the drain.

DebatableRaccoon,

At the very least, go to a therapist to get your Stockholm syndrome sorted.

DebatableRaccoon,

Sorry to the console players but I really hope we get the PC release of Ghost of Tsushima before the sequel comes out. That’ll just sting otherwise

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

Not too unpopular, actually. I’ve seen the usual complaints against it. I’ve avoided it enough to not have any spoilers but seen enough to know to not get my hopes too high. I’m just looking to scratch the itch that Sekiro left behind and it was very much the shinobi stuff that got me through that game rather than the souls-like elements so GoT seems to be the right fit.

DebatableRaccoon,

This isn’t even a slap on the wrist for a company like that anymore. This is more like an untimely poke

Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)

apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy,...

DebatableRaccoon,

Oh cry me a river. These hacks don’t deserve the pity they’re clearly trying to win because they have already proven they don’t know how to make a technologically sound game. Every single one of their games has suffered from save-breaking glitches, and yeah I might be one of the unlucky ones to have experienced at least one in all of their games but I can count the amount of developers that have given me a similar experience on one fist (yes, I mean “fist”, not hand).

I have an up-to-date system, more than meet the requirements for this flaming turd of a game and even among the insane amount of loading screens, there are still frequent hang-ups from the game needing to load while walking through a plaza while the game is running on my SSD. That’s simply not good enough. The last time I experienced such behaviour in a game was when I was playing on a potato over a decade ago or playing online with abysmal internet.

Critics don’t have to be developers to be able to spot in what ways a game is bad and neither does the general public. This is very different from “I don’t like this so it’s bad.”. This is a case of “It runs like ass, the writing is boring and the traversal of their mostly-empty crafted universe is little more than a lag-hung menu with a stupid amount of layers to access what you’re actually looking for and a whole ton of loading screens and thus it is bad.”. They haven’t crafted some grand open universe like they advertised, they made a bunch of levels, added a slow fast travel system and a standard fast travel system and called it quits. They’re now finally being called out as the bunch of half-asses they really are and they have more than earned it.

“We were riding the limits of what was possible” is a common excuse given. Then maybe don’t bite off more than you can chew. “Overcome technology itself”. A bad craftsman blames his tools. Maybe stop using an engine that isn’t fit for purpose. The “Creation” engine - or as we might as well call it, Gamebryo - has long been cited as the cause of many problems and barely workable. Take time to retrain your developers to a user-friendly engine and you’ll quickly make up the lost time in efficiency but they insist on holding on to that dinosaur of an engine.

As a member of the general public, I can’t say I know how to make a game, let alone a good one but given the constant stutters, mostly empty world, boring writing, frequent instances of forcing grind to pad play time and ever-increasing tedium in their gameplay loop, I have to assume that Bugthesda doesn’t either. The fact they saw to set team members on reviews instead of fixing all the problems with their games, I have to say their priorities aren’t in the right place and the ones who are “disconnected” are Bethesda who seem to be under the delusion that they’ll get nothing but praise just for releasing a game, no matter the state it’s in.

DebatableRaccoon,

Just make sure to temper expectations. We’ve been here before, remember?

DebatableRaccoon,

Can we get the internet checked for alzheimer’s?

DebatableRaccoon,

One will be missed

DebatableRaccoon, (edited )

You can’t learn something if you don’t ask. Never put someone down for seeking information. That’s how you get people who are too self-conscious to ask basic questions, go through their lives knowing nothing and being mistaken for idiots.

DebatableRaccoon,

I noticed even Keighley was picking his words as if to remind people to not start expecting a lot.

DebatableRaccoon,

Not to mention there seems to be a not insubstantial amount of reused assets from all of those additions.

DebatableRaccoon,

True. It’s just after all this time between releases, I don’t know, I was just expecting better. For anyone who has been foaming at the mouth over Online, this one’s been a decade in the making. Or however long since they decided to not bother with singleplayer content additions.

DebatableRaccoon,

True but those games came out at a time when they were releasing a game every year or so and there were often still reworks to most of the assets they reused. This is a game that’s coming after a decade of money grubbing. They aren’t a plucky little upstart anymore.

DebatableRaccoon,

Yup which is why it isn’t newsworthy

DebatableRaccoon,

This isn’t news. They’ve always done this

DebatableRaccoon,

They’ve made it known they don’t care for PC players in the past. It’s like that toxic ex that occasionally turns up at your door to gice you a pity fuck before slapping you in the face then leaving again

DebatableRaccoon,

Luckily I wasn’t referring to my own though I did already know that for other reasons

DebatableRaccoon,

Change “micro” to “macro” and you’ve got it. You get a game then additionally buy all of the assets. “Fee2Pay” is a term that got coined a few years ago and it fits here too.

DebatableRaccoon,

Gambling and a lot of pyramid schemes come out of these “games”

DebatableRaccoon,

Ladies and gentlemen, this is why we only pay for finished products.

DebatableRaccoon,

The impatience of Man

DebatableRaccoon,

Ubisoft can go fuck themselves with their little “accident”. I haven’t bought one of their games in years amd this greedy corpo shit paired with lackluster games is exactly why.

DebatableRaccoon,

The nerve of this prick to talk as if he’s some selfless saviour fighting for the great good…

DebatableRaccoon,

Looks like Steam just became a service issue.

DebatableRaccoon,

And, ya know, poverty

DebatableRaccoon,

Corpos gonna corp. Here’s to the death of their kind

DebatableRaccoon,

It’s 10 extra dollars for a game you already own which is why it’s greedy.

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