PunchingWood @ PunchingWood @lemmy.world

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Did he release this game?

Considering the downvotes I take that as a no, and ya'll ran out of other dumb arguments. 🙄

Well that explains something, but honestly it has nothing to do with the actual game itself. Would be kinda weird if reviewers focused on that instead of the game.

I'm not sure how that's supposed to be relevant to the game and reviews of it anyway?

I read some reviews comparing it more to God of War and Jedi Survivor games.

Which sounds pretty good to me, although the style of the game hasn't been really been appealing to me (yet).

Not sure why people downvote you, but most must be. Because I checked the player count this morning in Europe and it was also at 1,5 million. The only ones that play games in early hours of Europe are a majority in Asia, more specifically China. This has also been my experience with online matchmaking in early hours of the day, it's 9 out of 10 chance I got matched with either Chinese or Koreans during those hours.

I knew of this game but had already forgotten about it. Just got notified recently because the benchmark was downloaded a lot past week.

I can't remember if that mod had squad spawns. But I definitely remember playing it a lot, that was an absolutely revolutionary mod with so much content, not to distract from other great BF1942 mods though. I believe the original DICE team originated from that mod team to create Battlefield 2 as well.

First thing that came to mind are the Dragon Age games before, at least Inquisition was sort of action RPG.

Before that in a lesser extent the Assassin's Creed games, although they were more action than RPG.

That said, I greatly enjoyed all these games, including Witcher 3.

Well that came like 10 years too late lol

I don't think I'll ever use it considering it was already easily possible with flexbox, and before that (although dirtier) with tables as well.

I don't remember being possible to spawn on teammates in BF1942, but definitely remember it as a first to select spawn points on map like Battlefield always did.

Battlefield 1942 always stands out to me as the one that popularized large scale online battles on big maps with vehicles. At the time it was revolutionary in online gaming.

Command & Conquer: Renegade came out around the same time as well, with similar features. I kinda wish that game had a sequel as well.

Another gameplay feature that comes to mind is the exclamation/question mark above NPC characters for quests. I remember it first from WarCraft 3, but I think it really kicked off with World of WarCraft to get adopted by many more games.

I was practically forced to move to other platforms, including Lemmy, because Reddit's way of dealing with things is absolute garbage. Their app is garbage, their ethics are garbage, their admins and moderators are garbage.

In short I got permabanned on the entirety of Reddit after confronting a moderator in my favorite sub violating their own (and Reddit's) rules and content policy. Which eventually led being banned on the sub by said moderator, and later Reddit got triggered as I was "avoiding a ban" with an alternative account (which happened accidentally).

Since then it's been impossible to get in contact with admins, and they've been autobanning any new accounts I tried to set up. I've been trying to appeal my bans dozens of times in the past year, but never get an actual response from an actual admin, I doubt they even have humans working at Reddit at this point. That's on my 8+ year old account..

Previously I also got permabanned on dozens of subs for commenting in a sub that was supposedly brigading, I didn't even have any harmful intention or said anything worthwhile of a ban, yet all those completely unrelated subs banned me for "participating" in the brigade thing.

It just shows what absolute trash moderators and admins of Reddit are. They're all only playing their own little agendas. They're only destroying their own community with stuff like this. I miss my favorite communities, but I absolutely don't miss the garbage surrounding it.

Good, the Steam reviews were in dire need of an overhaul. The amount of absolute garbage in the reviews and how it's practically only used to bomb games for whatever reason is getting out of hand and it was often very difficult to get to the good informative reviews about the actual game.

The next problem will probably be that the people that review bomb games are now likely going to target helpful reviews instead. Because nothing is more obnoxious than haters taking down games and people who actually enjoy them, even if provided with helpful and informative descriptions.

A good example right now would be Star Wars Outlaws, most people who got to try the game are mostly optimistic about the game, while still being realistic about flaws and issues. But on the other side there are a load of haters using various excuses elevating the toxicity to a new level. Some of these reviewers are scared to even post their opinions because they get targeted by toxic trolls trying to take down their content because the reviewer's opinion doesn't fit their narrative. Some reviewers even ended up having to remove their content because it was hurting their image they've been working on for so long.

I think that Steam would really need are truly neutral curators judging whether reviews on Steam are legit helpful and informative or not. But with the amount of games on Steam that might be an impossible job.

This is the most ridiculous American thing I've read in a long time.

They really went above and beyond to look for any "legal" excuse to get away with it. Whoever suggested to even use this as a defense can't possibly be a human being. What an absolutely disgusting low-point for such a company..

Yeah it doesn't compare to old-school demos like stuff that came on discs with magazines, but at least it's a lot better getting the option to try something instead of buying and refunding everything. And at least some bigger studios and indi games are picking up on this as well.

To imagine there was a long time games didn't offer enough demos anymore, and now we get so much that they need to be filtered 😂

Those free to play games might cost nothing, but they still got lots of people bringing in loads and loads of money. Otherwise they wouldn't even exist in the first place, I'm willing to bet some of those free games even make more money than WoW does (because those actually are riddled with microtransactions to the point they're often pay-to-win).

Also WoW announces their downtimes ahead and they're part of the agreement you accept when buying into the game, which also includes extended downtime. There's no way to maintain a game like that without downtime anyway, especially around new expansion launches and big events when it gets more hectic.

Also, just complaining how they "can't get maintenance done in less than 9 hours" makes me believe you have absolutely no clue how insane the infrastructure behind these kind of games are. Especially those that have been running for nearly 20 years.

So first thing I notice was the top 1/3rd of the page being a blank space.

Then I remembered I had an adblocker.

That said, I rarely ever visit the website, but it looks like every generic blog/news theme format I've seen in the past 10 years or so lol. Never change a winning team, but it's nothing to write home about to be honest.

I had to Google what the hell endorphins was lol