jacobvandy wrote on Jun 16, 2025, 14:35:

phinn wrote on Jun 16, 2025, 13:37:
Nintendo: we can go higher.

So they're charging $80 upfront for Mario Kart World, but at least they aren't trying to up-sell you on $100 or $130 editions for additional content... Or if you prefer direct comparison to another kart racer releasing this year, Sonic Racing Crossworlds will be $70, but they're asking $90 for the deluxe edition that includes a season pass with additional tracks to be drip-fed over a year following its launch (which combined with the base game's content will still fall short of the number of tracks they have in MKW, nevermind the latter's additional game modes including open-world free roam and battles). Obviously the sticker shock is real for a lot of folks, but I find Nintendo's strategy to be far more honest. And it's not even that every one of their games will carry the same pricetag -- the next major release is a 3D-platforming adventure with destructible terrain starring Donkey Kong, selling for $70, period.

Nintendo also has a reputation for never discounting their first-party titles ever, regardless of how old the titles are. Nintendo's only positive is that you can always expect this to be the case.

phinn wrote on Jun 6, 2025, 15:37:

RogueSix wrote on Jun 6, 2025, 15:21:
Haha so glad I still didn't buy (let alone play) this unfinished POS yet. So, CD Projekt? What about that "Ultimate Edition"? Which "creative" twist big fat outright LIES are we going to invent this time to justify that the game, after nearly FIVE YEARS, still is neither feature- nor content-complete? Weeellll? Let's hear it so I can have a really good laugh...

So you're complaining that they are still improving the game... What great game dev these days doesn't have longterm patch support. CDPR makes great games what are you going on about?

I'm sure you're going to get some long diatribe about "never complete" from him, which is why I think most of the people here have blocked him. Still, he'll never understand how thematically complete the original game was before Phantom Liberty any more than he would understand why anyone would want to have a continued experience in any post-release setting.

In this game, in particular, I think creating extra content is something that people actively want because it further fleshes out the world of that game (which is why I think there are so many modders out there creating more story-involved additions). The game, itself, has been pretty solid in performance and stability on my system for a long time, so anything that they add is just going to be extra on top of what is already out there and ultimately a net positive experience.

opie wrote on May 15, 2025, 22:22:
The game was meh. no word on if you will ever not be looking at a desert. it gets old. (yes I know it is a desert planet...). you also get a mount in the first 10 hours of gameplay. not that hard to work for. gone are the days of WoW mounts at what was it? level 40 starting?

I am not entirely sure what you're expecting. You even state that it's a desert planet, so to expect locales other than desert or desert-adjacent is a bit odd.

As for mounts, the sandbike isn't what I'd call a good mount, especially against the Sandworm; the ornithopter is the better by far, and it's not exactly the easiest to build.

El Pit wrote on Apr 28, 2025, 05:19:

DarkCntry wrote on Apr 28, 2025, 04:02:

VaranDragon wrote on Apr 28, 2025, 03:37:
Oh great, another Souls-Like.....

It's not really anything close to a souls-like except that it uses a bonfire-like system.

The dodging and parrying systems sound VERY souls-like to me, too. Unforgiving and based on perfect timing or start again.

The window for dodging is so massive that you'd have to be actively trying to screw up to fail it. Parrying's window is far less forgiving because it acts as an extra attack.

On the easiest of difficulties, only the hardest of optional bosses will give you trouble with either.

The whole fight mechanic is more turn-based rhythm game than souls-like as it has sound cues you can use to help get timing down after you understand enemy moves.

As for the QTE'S, those can be effectively turned off on any difficulty.

This comment was edited on Apr 28, 2025, 16:29.

VaranDragon wrote on Apr 28, 2025, 03:37:
Oh great, another Souls-Like.....

It's not really anything close to a souls-like except that it uses a bonfire-like system.

A fairly well done, if not a bit repetitive, game that I found pretty entertaining overall. For me, it looks absolutely gorgeous using similar animation techniques of stop-motion and Into the Spiderverse. It is a bit repetitive in the fight mechanics, but it doesn't really detract from a very well done story. The only real problem I had was interface controls use backspace a lot and it isn't very fluid to use.

If you like the art style and Southern/Creole storytelling, then give the game a shot in Gamepass.

AlexSledge wrote on Apr 1, 2025, 05:43:
Unless it’s a free remaster, don’t care, just recently bought the game. Remastering a game this new seems like a poor financial decision to me.

It literally says in the post that it will be free to existing owners...

ZeroPike1 wrote on Apr 1, 2025, 05:20:
It’s down to how much you trust police. Do you? If not this should worry you. If yes this is nothing important.

You must not know that Flock is a subcontractor and not a law enforcement agency...

It's another cloud service that can work with municipalities, which like any digital service can be breached, and considering the information that they gather, I don't think you quite understand how damaging it could be for it to get leaked/stolen.

My town just recently denied the use of Flock cameras due to privacy concerns, which I agree with, but more so that there is little evidence that it lowers vehicle related crimes or aids in apprehension.

Of course there are folks in my community that state that people like me want more crime and want to hobble the police in combating them, with many trying to claim it'd cut into car theft crimes (something I believe these systems are not great at doing). Not one person whom I have spoken to had even thought of how this could be used in ways the writer of this article put forth, despite it being a blatantly obvious thing.

1a2a3aGG wrote on Mar 31, 2025, 16:28:
Terrible game due to the awful UI and performance. Unfortunately for me I came to this conclusion after the 2 hour refund period (and likely many others). Many are complaining, mixed reviews on steam. This is my first and I won't be buying another monster hunter game, and maybe not even another capcom game. 10m may have bought into the hype but I doubt as many will fall for it again. "game ran fine for me" It objectively does not. You simply have low standards (I am jealous!).

I have an above standard system so as expected the game runs mostly fine for me, but that doesn't mean I have low standards, it means I have a system that will run it at the settings I want. You might want to understand what objective is when you make statements that aren't objective.

I have had a few crashes in my 45 hours or so played, which feels about on par with other entries in the series. The UI feels really no different from the previous entries. The gameplay is, at worst, feeling more simplified that World. I don't know if Monster Hunter needs a seamless open world map, but I cannot say if it impacts positively or negatively. The in-game map is infinitely better than the previous ones because it renders height.

This series is not for everyone and the gameplay takes learning to get the most out of it, but to me the only real difference between this and the rest of the franchise is that it seems far and away more story driven and a bit too much downtime for cutscenes.

ShadowofWard wrote on Mar 31, 2025, 01:26:
* REMOVED *

That's nice, but who asked?

This comment was edited on Mar 31, 2025, 08:10.

WitcherOntheProwl wrote on Mar 28, 2025, 22:44:
I'd take a console over some crappy mobile phone game. Keep your crappy mobile games away from us. Just like those ads on premium tier for those crappy mobile games.

Might help to actually read the article...

It's about using a phone as a controller, not creating mobile games.

Sepharo wrote on Mar 18, 2025, 02:24:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 17, 2025, 22:57:
Quick, raise your hand if any developer of any game that you own that forces you to Discord for support or patch notes offers voice and video support via Discord.

Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

Of the 16 "servers" (Christ, what a joke to call them that is) that are on my Discord account, a grand total of zero of them offer voice or video rooms or subchannels. It is allll text. Usually with a whole gaggle of morons spewing text and emojis. Just like IRC.

Moreover, Discord doesn't offer full end to end encryption. Just on voice and video. Text, which is the predominant use? Wide open and unencrypted because "moderation", even in private chats. So it's only marginally secure.

As I said, based upon my usage, I fail to see the appeal. It's IRC on all 16 channels.

You've got the bizarro version of my discord... I've got about 15 servers and they're all used primarily for voice and streaming video.

Same with me, except all the servers I'm in have voice channels.

For official game ones, I've got Subnautica, Medieval Dynasty, Marvel Rivals, Palia, and a couple I cannot disclose due to NDA but will transition to public later.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Mar 17, 2025, 13:34:
I'll never understand the appeal of Discord. It's just a shittier version of IRC.

It's worse still when lazy, stupid devs use it as the only means of support.

Back in 2003; "I'll never understand the appeal of Steam. It's just a shittier version of buying retail."

It fills a niche that most people didn't know there was a demand for. Also, I'm not sure how you're comparing Discord to IRC, seeing as from the get-go, Discord was about voice chat that facilitates text where-as it wasn't until this decade that some IRC servers started to employ voice capabilities.

_Cory wrote on Mar 13, 2025, 15:08:
I miss getting trading cards for the discovery queue.

Well, you get 9 stickers this time around...it's 'cheaper' for Steam to do that than run the risk of losing a couple pennies on the trading cards

Midnight wrote on Feb 19, 2025, 22:42:

Sepharo wrote on Feb 19, 2025, 21:37:
Dunno why people say stuff like that all the time.
Generative AI absolutely can do synthesis and create new things that it's never seen.

People say stuff like that because they understand how Gen-AI works - it doesn't create, it only remixes. In technical terms it's a probabilistic copier pulling from an extremely large dataset. If a piece of AI generated "art" looks original to you, it's not because it's new, it's because you're unfamiliar with the original works that were copied, or because it's changed just enough to make it hard to identify. They're glorified plagiarism machines.

The same thing could be said about human-created "art"...as we've reached a point in civilization where most things that aren't abstract have already been created in some fashion and the result is that we iterate on what has come before. Music is a pertinent aspect of art creation that has hit an almost insurmountable climb to find sound that hasn't already been formulated elsewhere in some way.

Blue wrote on Feb 12, 2025, 14:22:

Cutter wrote on Feb 12, 2025, 14:06:

Blue wrote on Feb 12, 2025, 12:51:

Cutter wrote on Feb 12, 2025, 12:18:
And they wonder why their CEO got offed? And his killer generally regarded as a folk hero now? Who the fuck is running that place? Satan?

Cut it out.

You're seriously defending them? Well, I'm sure that'll come as cold comfort to all the people that paid their premiums in good faith but died because of their delay/deny tactics.

I am so not in the mood for this. Even implying that I'm defending anyone when I'm just asking you to stop posting like a sociopath really says something.

You've pulled this before. The next time you're moderated for posting like a nutjob and you want to accuse me of shilling for whomever you are attacking, you better add a goodbye to everyone here at the end of it.

Imagine thinking that telling someone to stop glorifying pre-meditated murder is somehow defending the indefensible actions of a corporation.

As someone at the whims of an insurance company that hopefully not deny me getting medication, I don't agree with what Mangione did regardless of how focused on the bottom line leading to the CEO's heartless actions ended up being.

Cutter wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 23:08:

DarkCntry wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 21:36:
At worst, the politicians on the left are just status quo hardliners unwilling to rock a boat. At best, the ones in the right are about fully enriching themselves at the cost of the Average Joe...

Yeah, 'cause that would sure explain the 11 years Menendez got in prison, or Joe pardoning his son. Fuck man, it's almost comical the lengths the left will contort themselves into trying to prove they're not as bad as their counterparts on the right of the aisle. It's not the right who outlaw thoughts or words. Most of you guys don't even get that I'm a centrist opposed to both extremes of the political aisle. If you honestly believe the radical left isn't as bad as the radical right I own several bridges in NYC I'd love to sell you cheap.

This is a joke, right? You seem to think you have a gotcha there, but you actually have nothing...

And you're not a centrist.

Cutter wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 21:16:

Solemn-Philosopher wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 21:07:

Timmeh wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 20:18:
None of these leftist judges have the power to do what they are doing. THEY are the constitutional crisis.

as soon as these cases hit appeal they will be rejected.

leftist activist democrats are the real threat to the constitution and the democracy.

I dislike how many Americans judge things by left or right politics. How about we judge right or wrong according to the best logic and ethics instead simply siding with a political party by default?

Uh, that ship sailed when they got away with murdering JFK and Nixon got pardoned. The right-wing - anywhere - is always and only about do as I say and not as I do. The left, conversely, is all about Big Brother and thought-crime. We really need to get away from them both. In that context I've always like the old saying, 'Dear Lord, please save me from your followers.'

At worst, the politicians on the left are just status quo hardliners unwilling to rock a boat. At best, the ones in the right are about fully enriching themselves at the cost of the Average Joe...

Timmeh wrote on Feb 11, 2025, 20:18:
None of these leftist judges have the power to do what they are doing. THEY are the constitutional crisis.

as soon as these cases hit appeal they will be rejected.

leftist activist democrats are the real threat to the constitution and the democracy.

Junior high social studies wasn't a strong subject for you, was it?