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  • "Modernism" is a term used to refer to art and culture from 1930s-1940s America. Searching for something like furniture or architecture in that style would mean you use search terms like "modern furniture" or "modern architecture." Can that really be considered "modern" anymore?

    When the PS4 and Xbox One are no longer the "previous gen" I will be calling them "next gen," as that is the term most associated with those consoles. Even after the consoles were released and well into their lifespan they were still called "next gen."

    I call future consoles that haven't released yet "upcoming gen" or "future gen" interchangeably.

  • "We have considered it and have decided to price our console exactly what we had already decided, which is below what real video game consoles cost, but we will still overcharge you for the hardware we sell to you. But don't worry, we considered it."

  • Anything before the GameCube, PS2, and Original Xbox.

    So PS1, Sega Saturn, and Nintendo64 and older are "retro."

    The Atari 2600 and Colecovision are "vintage."

    Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey are "antique."

  • Eh, I have spent about a year on Lemmy and I have seen way, way more calls of direct violence and inciting violence here in the last few months on Lemmy than I ever saw in multiple years on Reddit. If I had known how Lemmy would turn out, I wouldn't have come here. It was cool in the beginning when the people were still nice, but Lemmy users have become so aggressive lately. I can see why someone might consider Lemmy a platform that incites violence, the users give plenty of ammo for that.

    I think you got hit with a wrong timing thing. Almost like poking a hornets nest, you might have thought you were being helpful or whatever, but things are so volatile there that it wasn't the right time.

  • This, but there was also the WoW situation, and when he filed a false DMCA claim against an indie developers game, which got removed from Steam (but is back up now) over content shown in a video that was not actually present in the game files (Thor did not verify that what he was claiming was actually true).

  • I am nearly certain it is getting botted. No way that many people want to get in for Battlefield Labs just to tell DICE how to make a game. Its been consistently over 200k since about an hour after it opened.

    BF4 guns felt great except when your opponent was using a shotgun. The bullet drop on long rifles was nice and predictable, even if it was unrealistically strong. But the long rifles themselves were powerful too. I was the biggest fan of Assault class weapons, but I ended up always playing Engineer and using PDWs because vehicles were so massively overpowered and if you were any class other than Engineer you were basically dead if you were in an area with no cover and a vehicle saw you.

    Playing against a helicopter whore with a 245 kill streak is not fun. Especially when small arms fire does nothing to the helicopter in the game, but in real life the thing would have been demolished by small arms fire. Im not saying it needs to die in a single RPK mag like in BF Vietnam, but at least give players who play any class except Engineer some options.

  • People already got invited? I guess that means I wasn't invited. Would have been nice to at least get an email telling me I was not picked. Like when you go in for an interview and they tell you they will call you but never do. Like, just tell me I am not getting hired lol.

  • I agree, but also not every game works with coop campaign.

    A game like Metroid Prime or Hollow Knight would be fundamentally different if they had coop campaign. Meanwhile, some games like Call of Duty and other shooters, generally having more players does not detract from the game overall, and would generally make little difference other than needing encounters to be balanced for more than one player.

    Basically, put it in where it belongs. Not a fan of shoving stuff in that does not fit or belong in the game.

  • Me, thinking I can probably give them feedback I hope they listen to, having played Battlefield since 2142 and Modern Combat (the mod):

    EA: There are 200k users in line ahead of you

    Well I guess they must not have wanted my feedback anyways? Probably they're just looking for fake positive feedback to stroke their ego as they move in to ruin yet another Battlefield title.

    Battlefield players are similar to most other gamers, really. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. We love playing a game with the same formula, as long as the formula works. Bad Company 2 and the games that preceeded it worked. BF3 worked. BF4 worked after they fixed it with numerous patches. BF1 was the beginning of the downward trend, for various reasons. Some people may have liked BF1, but there is no denying that it was very different from BF4, and many users chose to stay on BF4, even to this day. Lots of people playing BF4, at least on PC. I almost always have to wait in a queue to join a server, and once I join the server is consistently full at 64 players.

    They could literally recycle nearly the exact same gameplay from release to release, making new maps, minor adjustments, and changing the setting / graphics, and Battlefield players would be happy. Its crazy how they have managed to mess this up so reliably.

  • Battlefield 4, after they fixed it (mostly) and released all the DLC, was great. Still is regularly played.

    Something happened starting with BF1, and I just didn't like it. The physics felt wrong, the gameplay loop felt annoying. I tried BFV, which was a joke at launch. The Pacific Theatre DLC was alright, but the physics still felt bad, and I found the UI to be ugly. Then DICE just completely dropped the game, I guess it must have not been very popular. Surprise surprise.

  • Need for Speed Underground 2 still has not been topped. The physics felt the best in the series, because slides still felt controllable by using throttle and the wheel. Nowadays slides feel like a mobile drift game that forces gyro controls.

    Carbon was the last NFS game I enjoyed, but it didn't match NFSU2, not even close.

    The Run was the last NFS game I played that I liked, but it was quite different from any other NFS game. Fine as a one time spinoff but not how I want the next 10 NFS games to feel like.

    I tried NFS Unbound and didnt make it more than 2 hours into the game because the game was too interested in preaching at me or talking at me than it was letting me race. Also, the driving model felt really bad, just like the other Criterion NFS games.

    Crazy to me that almost universally everyone says NFSU2s driving model was the best and the developers can completely ignore that and instead make something new that nobody likes.

  • The mod seems right? Someone posted something that was not related to Fresno, the mod removed it, then the OP kept creating new posts about how the mod removed it. And people started calling the mod names.

    As a moderator, I am siding with the moderator. Not because we are both moderators, but because the way this moderator handled the situation looks like the same way I would have handled the same situation.

  • There are very few reason why I might choose to pre-order a game:

    • I know for sure I want to play the game on launch day and dont want to deal with downloading the game all day
    • the pre-order comes with physical goods that I want
    • the game is made by FromSoftware or Yoko Taro, I know I am basically guaranteed to like anything from either of these
    • the game is part of an intellectual property that I like and I want that property to be successful, and I would have purchased the game anyways

    Thats really it. Generally niche instances, I don't find myself pre-ordering games all that often anymore. I pre-ordered the Collectors Edition of Elden Ring, the White Snow edition of NieR Replicant 1.22 (still waiting on that Gestalt 1.22 DLC). But other than those two, I haven't felt compelled to pre-order anything else. I learned about Dino Crisis on GOG too late if it even had a pre-order period, but I did buy it on release day.

  • Wasn't gaming basically synonymous with gambling at that time though?

    I think gaming as a recreation without gambling didnt really come about until the 1940s - 1950s, right? Commonly, of course.

    EDIT: Also of important note, in 1638 the Puritans in the US state of Massachusetts (colonial at the time) enacted a law that made gambling illegal. It outlawed ownership of everything gaming related from dice to cards, and citizens were not allowed to even play in their own home.