Games

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2128252

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I will likely get this game over Dragon's Dogma 2, to be honest.

But first: gotta finish Elden Ring.

Has anyone else played this game at all?

There's rumors FFXIV will announce the release date for the next expansion, but I'm not so sure. What other games will have panels or interesting things going on there?

Uhhh...

...Idk.

Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?

(Same as last time.)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2066783

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I have played all soulslike games except the original Demon Souls and completed all of them except the first Dark Souls. I was familiar with how the lore is laid out in these games but I never found the lore compelling enough.

I think compared to Dark Souls, Elden Ring's lore is much much more interesting. I say this as someone who never took interest in high fantasy settings like LotR, Game of Thrones, etc. But I really enjoy Elden Ring's. Don't know why. I feel it is mostly because of the plot is convoluted yet coherent. There is a sense of mystique because much of the world's ontology is written rather than shown so it feels like reading a book or being told a story orally. It's a really unique way of experiencing high fantasy fiction.

I had heard of VaatiVidya and watched all his Elden Ring videos. Then I stumbled upon some guys called Tarnished Archeologist and SmoughTown who I find much better. I have some tens of hours of their video in my backlog and I really enjoy watching them when I have time to unwind.

Update: I have named seamoth "Triton"

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1962454

Khajit has wares if you have coin.

Wait, wrong race.

First time I think I've ever seen anything positive about the USSR in a video game.

This is pretty disastrous, the things Nintendo is suing over are things that apply to pretty much all emulators, it would be a very dangerous precedent to set if Nintendo were to win this one

And even if they don't win, it's still very shit that they're even able to use lawsuits as a scare tactic, that they can ruin people's lives even without needing to win

Also, daily reminder that "piracy equals lost sales" is nothing but corporate propaganda, often it's the opposite actually:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more-likely-to-pay-for-legal-content-choice-survey/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pirates-tend-to-be-the-biggest-buyers-of-legal-content

Will be streamed here among other places: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZenOn7WUo&pp=ygUec2hhZG93IG9mIHRoZSBlcmR0cmVlIHRyYWlsZXIg

I tried looking it up but didn't get any useful results

I am in the Halo modding community.

CAAAApitalism, the highest stage of CAAApitalism

Great article to revisit throughout the year if you care about game developers over game stock.

Most folks didn’t expect 2024 to be much better, but I’m not sure anyone was ready for it to be possibly worse—yet this year has kicked off with a string of big and small layoffs signaling that the corporate bloodletting rituals aren’t ending anytime soon. So Kotaku is going to try and track all of 2024’s layoffs as they happen. Hopefully, we don’t have to update this post that much.

I don't doubt it, but I think what's really happening is that they're getting rid of spam reviews by people who don't actually own the game and just leaving negative feedback for culture war purposes.

A lot of outrage over Kill the Justice League. Just imagine how much better life would be if young people could get this spun up over real problems like, you know, genocide or gas prices.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1716829

George Lucas be like:

"And they fight."

Shows pages of otherwise blank pages.

(Nobody's gonna get this reference.)

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1716710

Some of the comments be like "We have Hades at home" but honestly most of them seem Sinophobic.

Like, China isn't the only one making rogue-likes by the thousand or whatever they call them; America does that well enough.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1715560

Maybe I'll have a reason to play my PS5 now!

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1700516

Damn.

10,000 puzzles and counting?

And I love puzzle games, but this seems excessive (but also tempting).

We all know what a geogame is. You got Pokémon GO and Pokémon GO's edgy older brother (Ingress). And to be honest, most of them kinda suck. Sure, it's all the hype when it comes out, but then it just dies. And the main problem is that devs treat geogames as "Open World RPG + gimmick". Sure, Niantic does experiment with factions in their geogames, but what's the point if there's no real-world connection between faction members and factions just boil down to what your favorite color is? And yet Niantic has the audacity to call them teams? Most of your "teammates" live on other parts of the world and you'll never meet any of them! Pokémon go is trying to be both a singleplayer and a multiplayer game at the same time and it's sucking at that. But why are gamedevs limiting themselves of the potential of a geogame? The geogame should not be a gimmick that's added onto the idea, the geogame should be the idea. Geogames have so much potential! Start by actually achieving connections within factions by rotating the faction-player array 90°. Rather than having a few factions with a crapton of unrelated players in each faction, have a crapton of factions with a few close-knit players in each!

Steam, lemmy and reddit are currently creaming themselves over a game which devs makes multiple really cringe "jokes" about slavery and exploitation. Read the steam page descriptions.

Those "pals" are clearly antropomorphised creatures being dogwhistle for humans. And if you read the game reviews, even the g*mers are not lost on that fact (just they love that):