• Idk, I guess if your goal in making a game is to have some beautiful scenery that’s also realistic, knock yourself out. But I love games that are focused on enjoyment first and foremost. The games I spend the most time on are really simple graphically.

    That’s why I maintain that the Switch is the GOAT of systems, it’s just really fun. Shitty company that’s gotten worse over time, sure, but they don’t exactly take the crown and at least I get something enjoyable out of it.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      59 months ago

      That reminds me I need to finish Into the Breach on Unfair for all squads. I think I’m only halfway. I’m terrible at FTL and don’t even have every ship unlocked, despite over 150 hours :cri:

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        I’ve been playing the multiverse mod for FTL and no joke there are over 100 ships you can unlock.

        I tried into the breach but it didn’t click with me the same way FTL did

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      39 months ago

      So glad I stopped playing Dota, but I still kinda miss playing Ability Draft for the weird interactions.

      • Sausage [none/use name]
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        39 months ago

        Yeah it’s a dumb time sink and loosing makes me feel awful. I’m just so burnt out with life in every possible way that I don’t know what else to do with myself. Dota is just this mindless thing I can do that kills time.

    • IWantToMakeProgress [any]
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      69 months ago

      Yeah. Skyrim still has graphic mods today, people mod Minecraft to look better. Play enough of pretty graphic games and the standard is set, it’s hard to go back.

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    9 months ago

    Maybe want something a bit more imersice than shoddy 2D pixel art?

    You got this super computer with a dedicated super super computer add on. I want that super duper HDR 4K cinema experience. Not all the time, but I would like to actually use the hardware / justify my bougie-wink treat that I saved up for over a few years. (That and it really cranks out BOINC workloads)

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    69 months ago

    after you’ve played the first two missions of sm2, you’ve already seen everything it has to offer.

    I also don’t think it looks that impressive? Its definitely not bad looking, but nothing has touched Alan Wake 2 in the looks department yet so

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      59 months ago

      There’s the other set of enemies to face later in the game, but yeah, that game is mostly for playing the co-op missions with friends

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    209 months ago

    because they need to somehow fool themselves into thinking spending 500 bucks on a console with no games is worthwhile

    also ideologically they can’t accept a world in which relevant technological progress has basically slowed to a stop

  • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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    99 months ago

    Are you going to pretend the new Zelda game doesn’t have good graphics? The nintendo obsession is just mindboggling

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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    89 months ago

    It was a struggle for me to finish spesh muhreen 2 because my computer couldn’t optimize the game for shit and everything was a janky junky choppy mess for me.

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    229 months ago

    It is very very funny to me that the AAA gaming industry has basically made their own projects completely untenable to produce because they need so many engineers and artists producing the highest fidelity content and engines possible and so now they need like at minimum 500 people over a 4-6 year period to produce a game that typically has the exact same gameplay as something produced 15 years ago. And they’re like “wow we need to raise the price of games to compensate for all this added cost we added to the production of our games”. And the solution is right there, quit wasting time with chasing constantly new art assets and better engines, and just reuse the shit you already have. Fromsoft and RGG (Yakuza devs) ship more games with more interesting things than all the western AAA publishers produce in ten years. And they need like 8 months of patches to make them actually run anyways.

    Oh and let’s not forget most consumers probably can’t even tell the difference between 1080 and 420, let alone 4k versus 1080. I know all my normie family over the age of 50 can’t. So they’re pursuing ever higher graphical fidelity for literally no reason.

    The industry is a joke. Indie games are all I need.