Various video game stuff not deserving its own thread

[psychic_dream]

Calling it now, how long do you think it'll take before all the major AAA publishers start jacking up game prices?

https://www.comicbasics.com/randy-pitch ... not-happy/

[Nessa]

It's true so the complaining is gay, the problem is rockstar games feel like they're made by two separate teams playing a game of telephone.
You have ultra detailed simulated poker with all kinds of minor details, chitchat, tapping the table, etc.,
But the actual missions are basically interactive movie scenes

Yeah, overly detailed in an unessential area yet essential parts of the game have lax detail. Case of very bad management.

[Nessa]

Calling it now, how long do you think it'll take before all the major AAA publishers start jacking up game prices?

https://www.comicbasics.com/randy-pitch ... not-happy/

I hope they do it as soon as possible. Will quicken their demise.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

But they never mentioned copies sold.

[Breathe]

But they never mentioned copies sold.

It's so much cope. Seeing Doom there with 3 million... that's nothing.

Just noticed the "7x faster to 3mil!" lol. They're grasping.

[rusty_shackleford]

The indie game experiment failed, steam needs to close the floodgates.
More experimental games actually trying out new ideas were released in a single year in the late 90s/early 00s than have been released on steam total.

[rusty_shackleford]

ahhh noooo what will we do without 37 soulslike deckbuilder roguelike metroidvanias releasing per day?!

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The issue isn't that everything is available for purchase. The issue is that curator groups need to be promoted more. Same thing with what happened with indie book publishing on Amazon where eventually there was too much crap to search through using Amazon's search function and you instead needed to rely on word of mouth or to find circles of people who were actively curating the new releases for you.

[rusty_shackleford]

The issue isn't that everything is available for purchase. The issue is that curator groups need to be promoted more. Same thing with what happened with indie book publishing on Amazon where eventually there was too much crap to search through using Amazon's search function and you instead needed to rely on word of mouth or to find circles of people who were actively curating the new releases for you.

If developers knew their games actually had to stand out to get approved — either by Greenlight, or a publisher, etc., — to actually be sold, I think you'd see a lot more experimental titles.

[MrTwinkls]

Some people look at all those titles and see experimental underappreciated indie games which are ready and waiting to tickle your brains in a wholesome way and some me see copy-pasted low effort attempts at cash grab that feel like swf games from thirty years ago. That's why I"m here actually. You guys consistently recommend **** good games.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

The issue isn't that everything is available for purchase. The issue is that curator groups need to be promoted more. Same thing with what happened with indie book publishing on Amazon where eventually there was too much crap to search through using Amazon's search function and you instead needed to rely on word of mouth or to find circles of people who were actively curating the new releases for you.

If developers knew their games actually had to stand out to get approved — either by Greenlight, or a publisher, etc., — to actually be sold, I think you'd see a lot more experimental titles.

I’m reminded about that video you link about indie games and marking and rings very true.

[rusty_shackleford]

The issue isn't that everything is available for purchase. The issue is that curator groups need to be promoted more. Same thing with what happened with indie book publishing on Amazon where eventually there was too much crap to search through using Amazon's search function and you instead needed to rely on word of mouth or to find circles of people who were actively curating the new releases for you.

If developers knew their games actually had to stand out to get approved — either by Greenlight, or a publisher, etc., — to actually be sold, I think you'd see a lot more experimental titles.

I’m reminded about that video you link about indie games and marking and rings very true.

A lot of indie devs have no idea why their game even fails to sell.

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TLDR is: He essentially flat out told devs that their games aren't good and they have a very poor grasp of what a small title is, and they need to learn more about video games before they try to sell one.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

If developers knew their games actually had to stand out to get approved — either by Greenlight, or a publisher, etc., — to actually be sold, I think you'd see a lot more experimental titles.

I’m reminded about that video you link about indie games and marking and rings very true.

A lot of indie devs have no idea why their game even fails to sell.

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TLDR is: He essentially flat out told devs that their games aren't good and they have a very poor grasp of what a small title is, and they need to learn more about video games before they try to sell one.

Indie devs are still arguing with him to this day , saying there are the exception and when the creator responds in the nicest way possible with proveable metrics to the contrary they still ignore him and say he has no idea what’s he’s talking about.


These people are completely delusional to the highest degree.

[rusty_shackleford]

[Oyster Sauce]

The angel/devil wings covering the mastectomy scars are badass

[Tangerine]

There's something funny about how afraid of masculinity they are that they can't even make their imaginary ****** have an ounce of it.

[fork]

What a game:

[gerey]

A lot of indie devs have no idea why their game even fails to sell.

A lot of devs, period, have no idea why their games are successful or why their fans like them. It's why so many sequels miss the mark entirely.

There's something funny about how afraid of masculinity they are that they can't even make their imaginary ****** have an ounce of it.

I struggle to think how a 160cm tall woman with a bad haircut is supposed to project masculinity and not come across as a joke.

One of the easiest ways to tell if someone is a ******, even if you can't see how they look IRL, or hear their voice, is to take not of their behavior.

Since ******, both the MtF and FtM variety, are emotionally stunted and autistics, they have no actual idea on how to behave like their own sex, let alone how to play pretend as the opposite, so their mimicry is always based on either porn or fiction.

They basically behave and dress like a parody of a man or a woman.

[rusty_shackleford]

A lot of indie devs have no idea why their game even fails to sell.

A lot of devs, period, have no idea why their games are successful or why their fans like them. It's why so many sequels miss the mark entirely.

There's something funny about how afraid of masculinity they are that they can't even make their imaginary ****** have an ounce of it.

I struggle to think how a 160cm tall woman with a bad haircut is supposed to project masculinity and not come across as a joke.

One of the easiest ways to tell if someone is a ******, even if you can't see how they look IRL, or hear their voice, is to take not of their behavior.

Since ******, both the MtF and FtM variety, are emotionally stunted and autistics, they have no actual idea on how to behave like their own sex, let alone how to play pretend as the opposite, so their mimicry is always based on either porn or fiction.

They basically behave and dress like a parody of a man or a woman.

Warning issued for using communist units

[psychic_dream]

Do you consider the PS3 and Xbox 360 retro? Personally, I don’t. Although the mid to late 00s feel distant from today, the features these consoles offer still seem too recent to be considered outdated.

Online multiplayer, downloadable games and content from company servers, in-game achievements, and their graphical quality and scale don’t differ much from what we saw on 7th and 8th generation systems. They’re just too modern to be truly labeled as retro.

[gerey]

Do you consider the PS3 and Xbox 360 retro?

Mate, the PS3 got discontinued in 2016. That was a decade ago.

These consoles are retro, and you're getting old. The reason you're experiencing such dissonance is that the technological leaps between when the PS3 was released and now have not been anywhere near as significant as those between 1995 and 2005.

I still sometimes catch myself thinking that the PS2 is a fairly recent console, only to remember that it launched in the year 2000.

Growing older sucks.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Reminds me of that meme from a few years ago.



4 years until FF13's 20th anniversary.

[DagothGeas5]

I wanted to share and ask for more information if anyone here has played this as the download link is dead and, thus, I cannot test for myself if it indeed is the game I used to play. I recall it was a sort of roaming around the moon (I recall I would try to do jumps and acrobatics, but can't be sure) but I have reason to believe it truly might be this "study-game" called AstroEngineer: Moon Rover

https://serious.gameclassification.com/ ... _avoid ASC

Does anyone know of it? Does a link to it still exist out there?

[Statesman]

Do you consider the PS3 and Xbox 360 retro?

Mate, the PS3 got discontinued in 2016. That was a decade ago.

These consoles are retro, and you're getting old. The reason you're experiencing such dissonance is that the technological leaps between when the PS3 was released and now have not been anywhere near as significant as those between 1995 and 2005.

I still sometimes catch myself thinking that the PS2 is a fairly recent console, only to remember that it launched in the year 2000.

Growing older sucks.

Retro is not strictly defined by a specific number of years but rather by an aesthetic that evokes/imitates past styles. This absence of a significant technological leap probably explains why so many consider the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era as "not retro." Would games from that period seem out of place today (aside from their slightly lower graphical fidelity and reduced wokeness)?

[asf]

console is crap

[Roguey]

Retro is not strictly defined by a specific number of years but rather by an aesthetic that evokes/imitates past styles. This absence of a significant technological leap could explain why many consider the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 era as "not retro." Would games from that period would seem out of place today, aside from their slightly lower graphical fidelity and reduced wokeness?

There are 18 year olds now who weren't even alive when Oblivion was released, yeah it's retro.

Meanwhile Skyrim from five years later is still a forever-game.

[rusty_shackleford]

oblivion isn't retro because the medium hasn't advanced enough to make it outdated

Forever stuck at ~2013

[Roguey]

oblivion isn't retro because the medium hasn't advanced enough to make it outdated

Forever stuck at ~2013

Skyrim made it outdated.

Anything made prior to 2010 looks and feels outdated, made with design philosophies that are no longer in style.

[rusty_shackleford]

oblivion isn't retro because the medium hasn't advanced enough to make it outdated

Forever stuck at ~2013

Skyrim made it outdated.

Anything made prior to 2010 looks and feels outdated, made with design philosophies that are no longer in style.

Skyrim's UI feels more dated than Oblivion's at this point, it had a very console-first UI that aged like milk.

[Roguey]

Skyrim's UI feels more dated than Oblivion's at this point, it had a very console-first UI that aged like milk.

Skyrim's UI has more in common with Fallout 4's and Starfield's than Oblivion's. Oblivion's UI with its themed style, that's incredibly dated. A hold-over from the 90s.