• Re: 7 Worst Gaming Trends

    From Rin Stowleigh@21:1/5 to spallshurgenson@gmail.com on Wed Jan 22 12:30:48 2025
    On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:56:16 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    [...]
    * Apps needing its own launcher or account
    * Hateful anti-consumer policies (e.g., DRM, account linking, etc.)
    * Microtransactions that aren't micro
    * Shipping buggy games
    * Open worlds with nothing to do in 'em
    * Just so Gog-damned many Remasters, Remakes and Reboots
    * Focus on graphics instead of artistry
    [...]

    They could address those items if they want, but if they don't get rid
    of the DEI bullshit it won't do any good, the industry will continue
    to cave in on itself.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Black Pearl on Mon Feb 17 20:00:03 2025
    Black Pearl <j63480576@gmail.com> wrote at 18:16 this Wednesday (GMT):
    Rin Stowleigh wrote:
    On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:56:16 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
    <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    [...]
    * Apps needing its own launcher or account
    * Hateful anti-consumer policies (e.g., DRM, account linking, etc.)
    * Microtransactions that aren't micro
    * Shipping buggy games
    * Open worlds with nothing to do in 'em
    * Just so Gog-damned many Remasters, Remakes and Reboots
    * Focus on graphics instead of artistry
    [...]

    They could address those items if they want, but if they don't get rid
    of the DEI bullshit it won't do any good, the industry will continue
    to cave in on itself.



    It's not that DEI is inherently bad, it's that the US has implemented it
    so poorly and inefficiently that it needed to be axed. I believe in a
    need for a diverse ruling cabinet, but not if they are going to penalize white males to get there. It's time for some discussion about what was sought.

    To contribute to the thread:

    Worst trend = wall climbing

    I don't mind wall running, but wall climbing is 1) unrealistic 2) Not
    the way controls were meant to be worked. 3) deliberate obfuscation of
    what could be a good feature.

    Maybe it could work if you didn't have to pull a 'Ken uppercut' each
    time to do it. On every wall.


    I think Zelda BOTW did it pretty good.
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