[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Know a guy who refuses to eat cheese hotdogs and other similar food because he hates "food that nuts in my mouth"

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[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Am American, couldn't get past the second season. Characters were unlikable. Why would I watch a cast I dont like, for hours at a time.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The original one yeah. Most of them were these small reasons to pull you out of super speed and make space feel a little more inhabited, and not just empty a to b travel.

Link for all the Anomalies wiki link

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The original variation doesn't have any loot then they added a new one that has loot.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Occasionally when using the highest speed setting you will encounter an "anomaly" one of these is indeed the "derelict freighter", there's nothing really to do. Sometimes there's cargo pods you can destroy and in turn cause a pirate attack, but otherwise you're good to just speed off again if you were doing something else. Most Anomalies are "oh that's neat ok bye"

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

But when is the boobs update

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

This is probably the most honest review I have seen, that points to gripes I would have playing through it, as opposed to the way other articles and videos have glossed over those very concerns I had while watching gameplay footage. Thanks for including it!

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[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

The meme is because Skull and bones is so bad of a fumble, to also just fumble its name. I picked it up from some review but I can't remember who it was. Dunkey? Ah too long ago.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To elaborate a bit more than just budget/marketing, AAA games used to be distinguished from AA titles. Modest mid level titles from a studio between tentpole releases that would pay your bills and didn't break the company if they didn't sell well. It also generally related to the price you would be expected to pay. These days a AA/Indie game is $40, and a AAA title is $60/70. The rise of AAAA is a self aggrandizing to try and justify slapping a higher pricetag on products.

A great example would be an excerpt from Activision in 2004. Doom 3 in August would be AAA, then in September a bunch of AA games - cod game "united offensive", X-Men legends, Rome:total war, and Shark Tale. Then in October a AAA title with Tony Hawks underground 2.

History Lesson enclosed

Nowadays it's either AAA or Indie. Around the turn of PS3/x360 games became seen as a product and companies became more focused on individual games moneymaking, so fewer and fewer AA games got made in favor of big blockbusters. Game companies went broke trying to compete in this new market, and because so much rides on individual games that when they fail the company is in danger of going belly up - and so gets bought. This is why you heard about all those acquisitions and power consolidation in the past 20 years of the game industry. Big boys with money to spend buying up the losers tables when they lose their win streak.

About the turn of the 2010s and the changeover from PS4/XOne, the Indie Scene exploded in the vacuum left behind in the wake of those buyouts. Older Millennials who had been in college for programming games graduated and came to market and began publishing through steams Greenlight and even finding publishers not bought yet to make it to market. Games that were either easier to make or play and needed word of mouth. Sometimes you would have a real break out like Minecraft, super meat boy, Celeste, that would catch the attention of big studios and get the offer of a lifetime to sell out and go big.

And that brings us to today. Now because of market stagnation AAA has kind of lost meaning, because so many games are releasing in a poor state. In an effort to set a title above the others, a couple of people have tried to dub a game "AAAA" to try and reinvoke that sense of quality and polish that used to come with AAA. This started in 2020 with a Perfect Dark reboot (The Initiative) from Microsoft. The game has yet to release. It was subsequently laughed at and dismissed as silly corpo nonsense. Then Ubisoft stated Beyond Good and Evil 2 would be AAAA, this went under the radar because the game is vaporware and no one cares. And so this brings us to Skibidi Bonesacks where Yves (the CEO) called it a "truly AAAA game" to try and set it above games like assassin's creed and call of duty. And because it's nothing more than a buzzword to allow a ceo to stand on a stage self-felating, it released as a fucking disaster, like so many AAA games now anyway.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And for $70 more you can play it 2 days early! For why? No fucking reason other than to flex! Gotta flex on those poors by getting it earlier than them amirite?? This ensures you will be invested in our product from the very start and you are the type of person who we can do no wrong.

And for $30 there's 2 extra skins that are just the worst looking piles of shit. But again if you don't have them how will you flex on the poors? This is lumped in with the earlier assurance that we can do no wrong in your eyes.

And the battle pass is $10 - every 30 days. It has nothing of value except at tier 150, which is a new flagrantly pay to win weapon. This ensures we own your time, every month.

But also we didn't finish the game, instead we released a roadmap. We will scrap this roadmap a week and a half after the disastrous launch because the game sucks so my donkey dick we cannot possibly add content to the absolute bugfest of a game. This is an abuse of loyalty to our brand, but you've stated you don't care as long as you get to play it.

Now that the game is out for a month, we've added a cash shop. This flies in the face of regulation on the box not indicating gambling elements, but fuck those stooges standing in the way of our profits! We can make a new box with the proper markings on them in a month. Surely you would like to buy a sword skin or character skin beyond looking like normal Mario right? Also there will be at least 1 skin that blends in with the background a little too well and attracts p2w allegations for the multiplayer mode. We don't care and neither do you because you will buy it. You wanna be a winner right?

We noticed you're already level 8, congratulations! We halved level reward drops, but increased rarity of those items by 30% but from here on we tripled enemy hp at every 10 levels to make sure the game is a slog, so you buy overpowered shit from the shop and battle pass.

You reached level 10 in only 5 hours? That's amazing! How about a XP Booster? Like the above we actually made progression become ungodly slow after level 10 unless you pay us $35 for an XP booster - in a single player game. We will make sure this pops up every time you level up to remind you we intentionally slowed progression so you make this purchase.

Also we can't help but notice you picked up a Fancy Locked Box. You can divert from the main quest to grind the crafting materials and it will take 6 hours to craft, OR you can buy a key for ONLY $5! This will pop up EVERY time you pick up a Locked Box with the option to go to the shop, and be SUPER disruptive, to get you to cave.

And lastly, a "donate" button on the main menu where you just give us money for nothing, because at this point why not right?

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

In a single player game no one should give a shit. Give yourself a million dollars. Mod in a gun that does 50,000 damage. A car that does 350mph.

It's pvp where people notice/care you're cheating

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

indulged in. When a company does not lay off people from the upper tier, they are indulging in layoffs.

"Hit with" implies an unavoidable, tragic, and forced event. They knew this would happen months ago when KTJL face planted. Videogame companies complain about the "cost of making games" but they're the fucks what spent the money. Maybe spend less on your marketing and budget, and when a game doesn't sell well it isn't a cataclysmic event that sinks the whole company.

But really, if game companies weren't constantly at risk to have implosions from bad decisions, the board wouldn't get their "please don't leave us" money. So really this always comes back to - fuck the management, and the board. Videogames are treated as products so here we are.

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Not my dog, I just find the memes, don't @ me with abuse stuff

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Struck by 2 kamikaze planes and set alight. I seem to have a cropped version, as there's one with a destroyer on the right side.

Anyway, like most kamikaze accounts, it's hard to believe so few planes (just 2 plane crashes) can do such tremendous damage and sometimes bring down massive ships built to withstand hits from large caliber guns.

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