Every year became a competition, and it was unsustainable. Companies could spend millions on their presentation only to “lose” and get their reveals drowned out because Sony announced FF7 or Microsoft got Elder Scrolls etc. On all sides there was a rush to be the winner of the year, and it led to more and more CGI trailers of things 5+ years away just for the big reveal moment. I imagine both Sony and Microsoft would prefer to announce individual games as they come throughout the year, so their reveal is the only big gaming news of the week and everyone is talking about it.

I love the colour. It looks like Dr. Seuss soup haha

Meta deliberately provokes that kind of stuff since rage baiting is good for engagement. They’ve cultivated and minmaxed that kind of behaviour for years. I’m sure it exists in small pockets here already, but nowhere near the same level.

Do you honestly think only the positive, friendly people would hop over? The entire fediverse will be overrun by crazy political conspiracy theories and hostile homophobic/transphobic/anti abortion stuff in no time.

Lemmy doesn’t need to be #1 in popularity. I’d prefer it to split and maintain a higher level of quality, even if it’s smaller as a result. Even if Meta can grab data either way, it should be disconnected on principle.

My favourite memory is playing Freedom Unite solo, and finally reaching G rank on my own. It’s a tough game, and making it that far without being carried was the most satisfying moment in any game for me. When I first started Freedom 2 (the previous version) I struggled to hunt even basic small monsters, and looking back on that journey made the 200+ hour playtime completely worth it for me. I think G rank took another 100 on top of that lol.

It still feels weird to class the 360 era as retro, even though the launch is approaching 20 years ago. I’d say anything PS2/GC and earlier.

Separating the two sounds like it would make the problem a lot worse. Nobody would have a reason to create smaller duplicate communities anymore so things would end up centralised and easier to abuse, like what happened with Reddit. You could hop your account to a new instance, but doing so means nothing if there’s only one instance of the community.

Do you remember the genre or visuals at all? Like perspective, artstyle etc?

I’m new to lemmy so I might be wrong on this, but say if we have one big community for a certain hobby/interest and the moderators get power trippy or there are other problems, people into that hobby essentially have nowhere to go right? Having lots of smaller places and subscribing to them all makes it easier to cut one out and be less reliant on a specific group of people.

Agreed. I think Horizon and Days Gone are a reasonable price atm, but the rest are too expensive compared to their price on console.

Just picked it up, thanks. Shame about Halo Wars 2, hopefully it gets added to Steam in the future.

Thanks for this! That competitive gameplay was fun to watch. Turns out I already have it in my steam library too, definitely going to give it a try.

Give her a try! She’s the perfect balance of accessibility and complexity IMO. At a very basic level you can stick to her normals in neutral and combo into lightning kicks for simple combos, with a focus on spacing. Her normals are some of the best in the game, and she has really fast walk speed for baiting. Once you get that down you can add in her charge inputs, including spinning bird kick combos for a bit more damage and better oki, and then you have her stance and crazy combo potential later on. She’s not intimidating to learn at all though compared to other technical fighting game characters. Just sprinkle in some more stuff once you feel ready for it.

Still no pixel remaster discounts ;-;

Thanks for all the recommendations. It’s always nice to have new stuff to watch.

Women should be equally welcome and safe in all spaces. I don’t think we need to splinter into female-only variations of existing subs unless there’s a specific reason. I’d prefer inclusive communities.

I have Gulikit’s own controller with hall effect sticks, and they feel way smoother than other controllers to me. Since it’s all magnetic, there’s no feeling of friction or scraping of plastic against plastic that I immediately felt after comparing to my Series X controller. I guess a good equivalent would be an on vs off air hockey table. I haven’t tried their joycon replacements though, so not sure if the same feeling carries over to them. There’s not much of a precision difference, but you can get the deadzones down to pretty much nothing without any rogue inputs so it helps a little in certain games.

Loving it so far. I’m climbing very slowly with Chun Li, but having a great time learning the nuances of her stance and the huge amount of options she has at any moment. I think it’s a sign of a great game that I have just as much fun losing a game as winning.

DS1 remastered has cloud saving now. It definitely wasn’t a thing at launch, but I’ve been playing it on my steam deck over the past few days and my saves synced just fine. I think it might’ve been added after they brought back the online servers. I haven’t gotten around to replaying 2/3 since the return of online, but they might have cloud saves too.