weirdo_from_space @ weirdo_from_space @sh.itjust.works

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Today I've been playing My Friend Pedro and man it's been incredible.

You can't fault his logic. /s

Why. I mean it could've been worth something if Sonic remasters were still stuck on the phone but those times have passed.

Not FIFA though.

Because it's the Killer Bean! Watch the movie here.

Fuck yeah, Killer Bean is back let's go!

I wonder how the story will shape up because the first sequel series we've got was trash.

The game is not dead, it's undead, wavering towards the finish line so it could be put out of it's misery.

It's two years late. Nobody will touch it at this point.

Because mobile games are an entirely different beast.

Mobile gamers either don't know better or simply can't access to anything else. Gaming hardware is expensive, even budget gear is unaffordable to many people. So them accepting predatory monetization is excusable (not all of whom do by the way, there is a market for traditional games on mobile).

No such excuse applies to hardcore gamers. They had something great and it was apparent what overmonetization would do to it, and yet they supported the aforementioned monetization anyway. They even came up with excuses like "it's fine, they are just cosmetics".

Oh well, at least indies are great and require highend gaming setups.

I never had trouble with where to go honestly, except for one of the later areas that I don't remember the name of. For me wherever I needed to go was always pretty obvious. ROTT though...

Every week some other game seems to claim that title.

Almost every AAA release these days seems to earn that title.

MTX wasn't an invention of mobile games.

All the way back in 2010 the EA CEO of the era thought about charging players for reloading in Battlefield (at critical moments at that, to increase the chance of purchase), Bethesda had horse armor, Double Dragon 3 required extra coins for more powerups.

Nobody ruined or corrupted the gaming industry other than the gamers. In other entertainment sectors usually when a company starts making poor quality products the customer goes elsewhere. But never the gamers. Best selling games are still GTA V, CoD whatever, Diablo 4 and Pokémon; you hear people being unhappy with these series time and time again but it's basically filler conversation. We hear about how ridiculously broken the game is and the absurd monetization and after getting it all off their chest people ultimately leave to grab their copy of the thing they just trashed.

And unless the game goes viral like Undertale, Hollow Knight or Stardew Valley you never hear about indie games. Even though they are one hundred times more varied, poloshed, fun and made by people who care; most channels would rather keep talking about the AAA shit. Indie channels don't get nearly as much following, even though even at it's best AAA gaming weren't that creative or varied.

There is nothing wrong with mobile games, especially at this point even the ones the people would refer to as some of the worst are not any worse than AAA games at monetization. The only problem is one of curation, good mobile games get made like Questlord but get lost under the mountain overmonetized generic trash. If Android had it's own storefronts like Steam and GOG for the dedicated gamers things could've been different, but as far as I know nothing of the sort has been done yet.

I'm playing indie games and having a blast, just recently finished Prodeus for example.

Aw, that sucks. It seems like Yamagi will continue to be the better option in the future. Kind of like the Shadow Warrior Redux vs VoidSW situation.

a new infinite use item that shows the player where to go next

Why? Isn't Quake II a little too linear as is? This would've been much more welcome in ROTT remaster honestly.

Isn't that what Quake Champions technically is?

Spending too much time with games or internet either implies serious problems the person is trying to escape from, or a lack of alternative activities. Trying to force the people to stop won't do anything, the goal should be to make it so people don't feel the need to rely on these two as much.

BG3 guys continuing to be awesome.

Damn right it is, hell yeah!

Probably not much in all honestly, Quake II isn't nearly as beloved as the other shooters of the era.

Wait, so the remaster is open source?