ram, 9 months ago

I beat Kingdom Hearts 1 last week, so this week I’m doing Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories! I think I’m about halfway through now, just finishing floor 12 I think, but the battle’s been rough on me to say the least. I think I’m gonna need to grind up some cards and levels today to get past it.

ram, 9 months ago

X/Tweet/thing from Stephen Totilo

NEW - I got a major update from Unity about their new fees

• Unity “regrouped” and now says ONLY the initial installation of a game triggers a fee
• Demos mostly won’t trigger fees
• Devs not on the hook for Game Pass

This is a truly pathetic attempt to save face. Fuck Unity, its now proven definitively that they cannot be trusted for current and future projects. The only thing they’ll learn from this is to not be so loud about these sorts of changes.

ram, 9 months ago

Unity: YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND! YOU DON’T KNOW THE FULL STORY
Devs: You’re charging us based on how many times a game gets installed and reinstalled, or opened in streaming services?
Unity: Oh so you do have the full story. What’s wrong with that?

Plainly, whoever’s at the head of this doesn’t understand developers or the industry, and is likely refusing to listen to their subordinates.

ram, 9 months ago

Housing should be a human right, but now it’s not even a utility; it’s a luxury good for the wealthy that even the poor must find a way to afford.

ram, 9 months ago

When I mean “specific,” I mean things like something dedicated to a certain genre, a certain video game, to gaming suggestions, to asking whether you should buy a certain game… anything that isn’t just one catch-all for any video gaming topic. So I’m not including the various !games@instance or !gaming@instance links.

I know about the following and will be adding to this list with links people comment with:

Game Design/Development

!destroy_my_game
!game_design
!gamedev
!gamedev
!gamedev
!gamedev
!godot
!haxe
!inat
!pico8
!play_my_game
!roguelikedev
!unity
!unrealengine
!voxel_dev

Games

!2007scape
!2007scape
!anothereden
!arknights
!baldurs_gate_3
!battlebit
!battlebitremastered
!celeste
!crusaderkings
!cs
!cyberpunk2077
!darksouls
!dayz
!dayz
!undertale_deltarune
!deltarune
!destiny
!diablo
!doom
!dota2
!drg
!DwarfFortress
!factorio
!fireemblem
!ffxiv
!genshin_impact
!genshin_impact_leaks
!geometrydash
!girlsfrontline
!guildwars2
!guildwars2
!guiltygear
!hellletloose
!leagueoflegends
!league
!leagueoflegends
!legendofzelda
!lemmings
!lolesports
!lolfanart
!masseffect
!Minecraft
!minecraft
!minecraft
!mountandblade
!neverwinternights
!nomanssky
!osu
!pokemedia
!pokemon
!pokemon
!pokemongo
!rocket_league
!rocketleague
!satisfactory
!skyrimmods
!splatoon
!splatoon
!starcitizen
!starcitizen
!starcitizen
!starfield
!startrekonline
!templeofelementalevil
!tf2
!thesims
!titanfall
!totk
!touhou
!trackmania
!warframe
!witchfire
!wow
!xcom
!xenoblade

Genres

!arpg
!automation_games
!cozygames
!incremental_games
!interactive_fiction
!jrpgs
!jrpg
!lifesimulation
!Otomegames
!visualnovels

Miscellaneous

!currentlyplaying
!freegames
!gamedeals
!gamingcirclejerk
!GirlGames
!gog
!gyrogaming
!OldGames4OldGamers
!paradoxgames
!patientgamers
!patientgamers
!photomode
!retrogaming
!retrogaming
!steam
!truegaming

Platforms

!3ds
!amiga
!amiga
!amiga
!amiga
!atari
!c64
!c64
!commodore64
!commodore64
!commodore_64
!dosgaming
!fpgagaming
!iosgaming
!leagueoflinux
!linux_gaming
!linux_gaming
!linux_gaming
!nintendo
!NintendoSwitch
!switch
!PCGaming
!plus4
!sbcgaming
!steamdeck
!steamdeck
!xbox
!xbox
!zxspectrum
!zxspectrum

ram, 9 months ago

This is a Lemmy instance, I’d recommend posting Lemmy-formatted links (!game@instance.xyz) here, and kbin-formatted (@instance.xyz@game) links in a kbin-hosted instance.

ram, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

• Majora’s Mask: a 3-day timeloop where everything resets when you go back
• Katamari: A giant ball gets rolled around and collects stuff forever
• Baba Is You: Movable text is rules to the game
• Untitled Goose Game: You have to piss people off the right way
• Billie Bust Up^[unreleased]^: Musicals tell you upcoming platforming challenges
• Celeste: every time you die you quickly reset on the same “page”/small tile of map
• Splatoon: you shoot at the ground to go faster, hide, and/or win
• Odama: real-time tactical wargame pinball
• Golf Story: Golf-based fetch quests
• Astral Chain: asynchronously control a companion in combat
• Okami: paint skills on-screen in combat
• Astro Bears: Snake but in 3D
• Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime: Up to 4 players pilot parts of a ship together
• Pokemon Ranger: draw circles around monsters to catch them
• Viva Pinata: breed pinatas to create new species
• Spore: create and evolve a creature

ram, 9 months ago

Ya, never trust US companies. Their government’s crazy to jump in and take anything they want; you may not even know they took it.

ram, 9 months ago

Dropout.tv (formerly CollegeHumour) is also an unstruck company.

ram, 9 months ago

It doesn’t, unfortunately. Programmers, animators, concept artists, designers, each need to unionize in order to leverage collective action grants at the bargaining table. With last week’s decision by the NLRB though, it’s certain to be easier than ever to get unionized. Still, the amount of coordination it gets to even petition the NLRB to have your union recognized is no small feat. Just now it’ll be that much more difficult to bust a union election

ram, 9 months ago

Sony just shot themselves in the foot.

I don’t know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I’m an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It’s not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want PlayStation+, nor will they purchase any of Sony’s games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Sony has alienated an entire market with this move. Sony, publicly apologize and cancel your 30% price hike for PS+ or you can kiss your business goodbye.

ram, 9 months ago

It’s a 15 year old copypasta lol

ram, 9 months ago

Fair! The og was about Square “shooting themselves” in the foot over releasing FFXIII on the 360. It’s one of my favs

ram, 9 months ago

It’s only Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Do not expect, nor hope for, literally anything else.

ram, 9 months ago

I’ve not played enough of the other FF games since 7 to say with certainty, but FF7,12,14, and 15 were extremely explicit political dramas. That was their entire plots

ram, 9 months ago

$9.99 for a month of gamepass PC, or $10.99 for console (ultimate you’re paying for cloud access or online play, so it’s a disingenuous comparison) You can play starfield for a month, then buy it for 20% off through gamepass, so $55.99. $55.99+10.99 = $66.98.

So you basically get a $11 month-long trial, then $2 off the full price if you decide you like it enough to keep.

ram, 9 months ago

Fr you’re a mod, you’re not allowed to be a human with feelings and ideas and opinions! Just blindly care about the community, don’t contribute to the discourse!!

ram, 9 months ago

Fuck him, not for trying to get the game out there, but for trying to make a profit off it.

ram, 9 months ago

Arguing is a large part of discord.

ram, 9 months ago

Steam and GOG also take 30%. Nintendo, Microsoft, Google, and Apple too for that matter. The only exception is Epic who takes IIRC 12%?

ram, 9 months ago

You know all these companies have investments from the same Chinese company, right?

ram, 9 months ago

This is great news. Glad to see Xbox players will get to play this fantastic game!!

ram, 10 months ago

If they go against that now, then they’ve engaged in false advertising and will immediately get slapped with a huge lawsuit and/or fine,

No they won’t. Companies aren’t beholden to their commitments from advertisements in perpetuity. In the first place, someone would need to sue, or begin a class action. That’d drag out for years, and almost certainly lose.

ram, 10 months ago

A Youtube thumbnail of a video titled “THIS NEW FORTNITE UPDATE JUST CHANGED THE GAME FOREVER…”, featuring a child with a shocked face, and an arrow pointing at some Fortnite item that appears to be a machine trying to look like a dinosaur.

ram, 10 months ago

Cloud streaming is their sole complaint, but yes the regulators are idiot.s

ram, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

a game of this magnitude isn’t a common occurrence.

It kind of is though. We’ve already had at least 3 games of this magnitude drop this year alone.

ram, 10 months ago

None are baldur’s gate. While I’m loving baldur’s gate, it’s far from a market disruptor. The three games I was thinking of were TOTK, Diablo 4, and FFXVI.

ram, 10 months ago

To be clear, of the ones listed I only care about TOTK and BG3. I’m looking at “megaton games” by a general ascertainment of how relevant they are to the enthusiast gamers, and how much they sell. FFXVI came out and kinda did not great for an FF game so I’ll concede there. No idea about Diablo 4, I assume it was middling or “as expected”, while TOTK sold 18 million in its first 6 weeks; though I may largely be familiar with that due to being in proximity of Nintendo-related circles.

It really is subjective what measure we’re using though. BG3’s been amazing in relative terms to what would typically be expected of “DnD RPG” (maybe there’s a better term), and developers have been reacting to it far more than they would most other megaton games. TOTK’s no slouch on its own, impressing developers over its extremely impressive yet performent physics engine.

polygon.com/…/tears-of-the-kingdom-bridge-physics…

Anyways, not really interested in arguing my perspective though, since like you said this is extremely subjective, and honestly quite arbitrary.

ram, 10 months ago

Fair say! I’m personally not someone who particularly vibes with the aesthetic of bethesda games so I’ll be missing out, but I hope it’s as good as fans expect ❤️

ram, 10 months ago

Mine is simply a more specific example of the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” argument that has been repeated here many times.

You mean the argument saying we cannot fix the system without abolishing the system? You’re using it to instead justify the inequities of the system and henceforth ignoring them because you completely missed the point of the phrase?

ram, 10 months ago

Ah, disregard my last comment. You’re clearly in bad faith, there’s no discussion to be had with you.

ram, 1 year ago

If the FTC has any credibility at all, or even an illusion of credibility, at least that would be too big an acquisition.

ram, 1 year ago

They don't know the keys on G2A and the like unless they buy them themselves. And these unauthorized key sellers aren't in the business to cooperate with them, since the money laundering is their bread and butter.

ram, 1 year ago

How would they know which keys are on G2A? They're bought through an intermediary before being resold on G2A.

ram, 1 year ago

Yes they were given to an intermediary like green man gaming who then sold it to what they believed was a customer but was actually a credit card scammer laundering money

ram, 11 months ago

If I steal your credit card and buy a key to the new FNAF that costs $60, I can sell that key on G2A. Let’s say I make $50. That $50 is mine, the third person has the key and thus the game, the developers have your $60.

But your CC was stolen. You shouldn’t pay for that. So you contact your financial institution and are like “hey wtf I don’t wanna pay for this.” They respond “yes sir/ma’am, sorry sir/ma’am” and return the funds to your credit card.

Now your financial institution isn’t just gonna take the hit. So they’re like “well, this money is with the weird dude who made FNAF, so let’s take that money back.” They issue what’s called a chargeback, reclaiming the $60. But that’s not enough, right? Because “We don’t want them putting their products in sketchy places that might make us do this more, so we’re gonna add a punitive fee.” These punitive fees range from $30 to $100 depending on your institution.

So now, I have the G2A user’s $50, you have your $60 back, the third person has the key, and the FNAF developers? They had $60, but after the chargeback that turned to $0, and then there was a punitive fee. They now have -$30.

Epilogue:

After losing the money, and in fact paying for someone else to have the game consider their options. They’d be right to revoke the key as the person who used it didn’t actually pay them for it. But if they did, they’d get bad reviews, the G2A customer might be mad at the FNAF devs, and you may just go and buy another key from G2A. So in all likelihood they just cut their losses and let you keep the game as it causes less problems that way.

ram, 1 year ago

I did this by hand

ram, 1 year ago

Someone posted the picture of the original PS5 TOTK skin. I saw it and was like "ya and they'll play Horizon" since that and BOTW get compared a ton.

ram, 1 year ago

Oh ya, I had to upscale it to be workable and that's just how the upscaling algo worked on it.

After that I clipped all the images and super-imposed some over others.

ram, 1 year ago

DragonFangZ is a cute, anime themed traditional roguelike that's noteworthy for its cute chibi artstyle, and its rather poor localization. It's not bad in that the translation choices are bad, but in that the person who did the translation, they did their best and it's really endearing!

The gimmick of this game is the Fang system, wherein sometimes when you kill a monster, they'll drop a "Fang" which can be consumed for a permanent upgrade, or equipped for access to an ability. These are themed around the monster the Fang dropped from and can be combined. Further, there's the Brave system that incentivizes players to leave corridors and battle with 8 spaces surrounding them for an attack boost.

Overall, it's a really sweet and endearing game, and I wish more people would give it a shot!

ram, 1 year ago

First person tile based dungeon crawlers! Like SMT I and II, or the Labyrinth of Refrain games! The less map and info, the better, so I can get full immersion in exploring and getting lost in a dungeon for days!