this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
184 points (91.4% liked)

Games

39974 readers
1351 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago (4 children)

it's like AAA games are only early access these days

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In two years they can get the award for “best ongoing game” then, just like Cyberpunk :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

God, what a dick sucking award. Cyberpunk may be playable now, but it did fuck all to deserve that.

Better games launched excellent and got better with age. Launching to get removed from online stores and taking years to reach playable is not the best ongoing anything.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank corporate morons forcing devs to the door to meet ridiculous timelines, they don’t give a fuck if it’s ready or not.

I’m a SWE and my manager would tell me shit like “even Apple pushed out the iPhone with some bugs”, “at some point you have to wrap it and ship it”, etc. Mgmt uses this bullshit to feel better about their (or their bosses) poorly balanced priorities and decisions.

It’s all about announce early, bag as much interest and money as possible and then ship it regardless if it’s reached the definition of done or not (you better believe mgmt will throw those goalposts around as they see fit)

Pre-ordering morons hold some blame here as well as they play right into the bullshit I’m talking about

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Glad to see they're still improving it. When I get the Ultra Game of the Year Turbo Deluxe edition for $20 in years to come, I no doubt will enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm gonna wait for the Ultra Game of the Year Turbo Deluxe edition Complete

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Can't forget the Ultra Game of the Year Turbo Deluxe Complete Anniversary edition, now with built-in mods.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

i didnt play new vegas until the ultimate edition was 5 bucks at wal mart. thankfully avoiding the horrid bugs it had on launch

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oh boy, now i get to enjoy... basic features that should have been there at launch?

seems this is a recurring thing nowadays. i pray to god fable 4 doesn't suck the big one.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Putting your faith in a fable game to live up to expectations is a terrible move.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Peter Molyneux is not involved with the project or studio so there’s actually a chance we might have both reasonable expectations and promises delivered. I had to google around to make sure; initially I was going to link some stuff about how trusting Molyneux is really dumb.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When a city map is a luxury.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Insane that wasnt in the list of "must ship" features

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Nakey Jakey recently did a super indepth video on what is wrong with Starfield. And suffice it to say, I've removed the game from my wishlist. There's betterr games to spend my money on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

If you too have an unhealthy relationship with absurdly long video essays, I'd point you in the direction of PatricianTV's Starfield analysis.

load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah yeah, wake me up when AI modders recreate Daggerfall in the ES6 engine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think people would hate it again, seeing how they hated Starfield that is also procedural.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Until I can navigate in space like I can in FREELANCER...which BTW is from 2003....

I want nothing to do with it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Friiiiick I miss freelancer so much. Best space sim to date.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag 6 points 2 years ago

It's free to download mate! Plus there's a huge mod that turns it into an MMO that is still being worked on

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's abandon ware now

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I'd say "i will pick it up on a sale in a year or two" but they're just going to release the enhanced / special / anniversary / superspace edition down the line too, so why bother

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The main feature I want is better optimization. It’s really not good still and I’ve played with the settings more than I wanted to

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Last months patch did a lot for optimization, especially on the cpu and non amd gpu builds, seeing double digit gains.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still not buying that garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly I let my Gamepass lapse and was considering re-upping it to play Starfield. And now I am for sure not going to re-up it for Starfield. Maybe I’ll visit it in a few years, but it sounds like not a great time from Nakey Jakey’s review on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He provided so many examples of how it's worse than Skyrim 😅

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just the fact that the ship combat is awful AND you don’t get to fly your ship TO other planets makes this a pass for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

It's nice Bethesda wants to pull a Cyberpunk, but Starfield at it's core just isn't as good. I'm all for some redeeming updates though, because at least there would be something to come back to

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Pro tip: finish game first, THEN release it!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven't bought Starfield, was waiting for sub-$25. If there are no mods, I'm lowering that to sub-$10.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When will game companies learn that they could be doing so much better if they just released their games AFTER they're finished?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reminder that Todd wanted to release this last year, imagine the state it was in lol

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I should probably pick this up when it’s on sale. I bought it on release after playing CyberPunk with ray tracing and asked for a refund after playing for 20 minutes because it just looked like garbage in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Part of the reason why Bethesda games visually looks bad is because their tied to the hip with creation engine for modders to use. Part of the reason why bethesda games have soo many mods is because of how much of the games engine is open to modders to modify.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I agree. I was fine with it for Skyrim and Fallout 4 but after getting used to how gorgeous CP2077 was, the difference was jarring for a AAA title in 2023.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing is, cyberpunk also has mod support, and it's pretty good, I use a climbing mod, a drone mancer class mod, and before the 2.1 update it already had a metro system via mod.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz 5 points 2 years ago

Starfield is a fucking joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

"all new ways of traveling"

Will they add a metro?

load more comments
view more: next ›