RightHandOfIkaros @ RightHandOfIkaros @lemmy.world

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I don't think its so much the microtransactions as it is games with a highly competitive spirit. PvP games in particular. I don't find myself having any negative feelings after playing a game like Zenless Zone Zero or Goddess of Victory NIKKE, but after about two matches of Dead by Daylight, a game with a notoriously toxic playerbase, I definitely feel worse than before I play, particularly if the matches do not go well for me.

Im the kind of player that doesn't spend money unless I feel like something provides me value. Ive played ZZZ since release and haven't spent a single cent, and NIKKE since its release and only spent $25 total. I have enough self-control to handle those games and can spot bad value in games like gacha games pretty fast. So for me it isn't really about microtransactions, its definitely about competition with other players, and interactions with them. Playing a game of DBD, winning, and then having everyone (usually TTV streamers) call you names in chat or on their stream and report/mercilessly harrass you ( for winning in a video game, mind you) is a completly different level of toxic that I doubt many would be able to properly handle long term.

Its why I pretty much never recommend DBD to people.

They couldn't even pay me to play Concord.

I hope this is like Morbius, and comes back only to another monumental flop. This game is already so far in the hole at $400 million I dont see how them spending more money on it to develop it more will ever make a profit. They would have to put the most egregious loot box gacha monetization ever known to man to even try, there is no chance it ever makes money.

As a Silent Hill fan myself, just wait until you find out how much people are demanding for games like Kuon and Panzer Dragoon Saga (USA).

100% just emulate them. Used sales do not give the original developers or publishers money anyway, so they couldn't argue about "lost sales" (stupid term BTW) anyways.

Plus, disks succumb to disk rot eventually, people are starting to see it happening with laser disks. Cartridges go bad, etc. It can be nice to have a physical copy, but only get them for ones that are affordable and need the physical as part of the experience. Steel Battalion, for example, requires the 40 button, 3 joystick, 3 footpedal controller as part of the experience.

I know I might sound like I am complaining or hating, but please understand I am a huge fan of Silent Hill and want this to be successful, but I also want it to be faithful. No spoiler warnings, its a remake of a 20+ year old game.

There are a lot of things changed that didn't need to be. Like they changed stuff purely for the sake of changing it, when it was completely fine in the original as is.

They made the fog thicker in some places than the original and thinner than the original in others.

Quicktime events still exist. Actual war crime.

You can take damage and be interrupted when interacting with items, objects, puzzles, the map, and notes, which is awful and needs to be patched to fix it. That type of gameplay mechanic is not suitable for this kind of game. Its Silent Hill, not Dark Souls.

Still wish they gave us a fixed camera option, but I can at least know that modders will 100% fix that blunder.

Don't like the changes to the Pyramid Head intro scene, also don't like that you now meet Eddit before PH and James no longer asks about whether Eddie saw the "Red Pyramid Thing." And actually, I don't like that they changed the dialogue at all. The original dialogue was fine and easy to understand. It didn't need to change, and is another example to me of changing it just for the sake of changing it.

Angela's voice actor is easily the worst in the game. The actress might be okay and maybe the direction was bad, but she just sounds flat and wooden in the remake, which by comparison in the original Angela had a "rollercoaster" type of voice direction, she was quite animated compared to James. The remake just makes her sound like she doesn't care at all about anything, which is how James should sound, but whatever. Her intro scene in the cemetary is her best acted scene, and it only gets worse from there.

Don't like how Angela acts with the mirror scene. In the original when she turns the knife on James her pose shows fear, like she is cowering away from James. Given this character's backstory, that is completely understandable and expected. But in the remake for some reason she holds the knife out like a combat trained Navy Seal or some greaser from Michael Jackson's BAD music video when they show the knife duel. And the cry of "no" doesn't really sound like a cry of fear, more like disciplining a child when they take cookies from the cookie jar.

Avoiding enemies, the best strategy of the original and the entire point of survival horror as a genre, is pretty much impossible in the remake. In the original you were only required to fight the Flesh Lips, Abstract Daddy (boss), and Maria. You never even actually had to fight Pyramid Head, you just waited it out and he left on his own. But now I can't seem to avoid enemies like I could before. Mostly pacifist runs will not be likely doable anymore.

I havent played too much beyond this yet.

I like the graphics. Not crazy about the controls/camera. One note about the graphics- the fog not rendering in the puddle reflections on the ground is really distracting.

Don't like how they made Eddie look, I much prefer his original design. James is okay, glad they fixed him.

The music is hit and miss for me, unlike the original. Some iconic tracks are too different IMO and lose that charm the original had.

PC performance is bad. Just like every other Bloober game, not only is it difficult to maintain 60 fps (needing DLSS and other options on just for 1080p), but even if you can hit 60 fps the game stutters anyway. Sometimes stuttering in a spot that moments ago did not stutter, it doesn't seem to have any reliable pattern to it and is unavoidable. About the same as all of Bloobers other games, which is a real shame.

Monster designs are okay but they all seem to have a strange eggshell sheen on them where they were more shiny/wet looking in the original. Especially the Mannequins.

"We dont have yellow paint, we have white paint" is kinda annoying but at least thematic I guess.

Bungie did not have gaming veterans when they made Halo. They had worked on small stuff like a rip off of Pong for Macs, Marathon, Myth and the like. That'd be kinda like saying an indie team are game veterans because they released one successful game. Plus they only had like 50-100 people that made Halo CE.

Compare that with 343s like 500+, thats massively embarrassing.

Just make a good one. 343/halo studios just seems to hate the original Halos. Fire all those people and bring in people that love the originals and you already have a way higher chance of getting something successful.

That is what I wanted. I love tank controls, and I wish more game would utilize them.

I hope he wins but it isn't looking good.

Skyrocketing from $11/share to $15/share? Huge jump, surely this is not a desperate scheme by the Guillemot family mafia that own Ubisoft.

I am pretty sure Ubisoft already tried to get bought out and everyone laughed at them because they wanted too much money and overvalued the worth of their company and IP.

Mobile? Really?

Better mental health.

This game is still around? I thought the developer delisted it and took the servers down.

And development teams are too big. No game should realistically be having 500+ people working on it. That's too many people, too big a ship to steer fast enough for the changes that happen in game development. Even the biggest games have done very well with teams of 250 or less, including all staff that work on the game, how about development studios pay attention to that?

It is similar to Steam Big Picture Mode, yeah. Its got a special mode called BigBox mode, its designed to mimic console UIs. There are a lot of community made themes that change up how it looks.

You could probably use something like autohotkey or some gamepad mapper to link Chrome into LaunchBox. I have never tried it, but you can technically add any executable with a field for launch arguments.

Steam Deck is not any closer to real ownership than Xbox or PlayStation. Video Games have had "non-ownership" clauses in their EULAs long before the Xbox or PlaysStation existed, sadly.

It is great for video games. Other content can work with it but that would be more finnicky. I have successfully got movies and downloaded TV shows to appear in it but you have to set them up like emulated games. The neat part is for older content, you can actually load it up in Retroarch and gain access to Retroarch's screen shaders like the CRT shaders, which can add a nice touch to older 4:3 content.

I have the same one. Works well for what I need it for.

Yes, the keyboard wont require regular use but you should still have one. You can use a frontend like I do, but there will always be little quirks or issues with updates so youll have to keep a mouse and keyboard handy, but you dont need to have it always visible or to use for the system, just for correcting problems.

I set up an HTPC for emulation and gaming. LaunchBox is my frontend of choice. Set up the PC to autoreboot every day at 3am. It only occasionally has an issue where LaunchBox crashes and needs to be manually restarted or something needs an update.

Could?

Will. By design.

Never forget, releasing your game means you already made it farther than 90% of the other game developers.