Hope it remains readily available after the holidays too

Hopefully supporters remember The Game Before the developers next one lol

Wait, its not Nintendo this time?

Stellarblade is requesting Shift Up and Sony be prevented from using Stellar Blade or any other similar name in the future - and that all Stellar Blade material in their possession is handed over to be destroyed.

LOL. This is rich.

Life is more comfortable, but it’s a lot more miserable too. Incredibly high levels of poverty, overcrowded cities, too many work activites tried to pack into just one day, etc.

Life back in the 1910s, for example, was a lot simpler. There was less work that people were expected to do in a day, so they could take their time getting done what needed to be done. And had more time for themselves when they were off work. The general cost of living was way lower than it is now. A person could have a family with a nice home and a big plot of land on a single income. Cities were less noisy and less overcrowded than they are now. They still had plumbing, electricity, radio even, and they also had ways they could be more social in person. They didn’t have cell phones that their boss could hound them to show up to work at any hour of the day. They didn’t have smart devices that could provide immediate and addicting stimulus in their pocket all day long. They didn’t have social media wreaking all sorts of havoc on the entire global society of humanity. People were much more patient back then because they had to be, unlike now when everyone wants everything done instantly. They had a lot of jobs that are mostly gone now because technology and robots replaced them. Paperboys and Milk Men, for example. The food was less processed, restaurants either had fresh, real ingredients or they served rotten food and lost business quickly. With all the information available to people today, people back in the 1910s were significantly more informed on topics than now, especially on topics about their local community. Depression, anxiety, and other sorts of disorders were way lower than they are today, primarily because the causes of those things either didn’t exist back then or were not accessible to the general public.

All the modern amenities can be nice, but for all the good things like the internet do, they also sure do a lot of harm. Plenty of criminals abuse the internet every day, and commit disgusting, unspeakable crimes they otherwise would not be able to without internet access. Terrorists are able to organize much more efficiently than before when they would have to rely on physical messengers, letters, or some contrived telegraph system.

People may live longer now, but is that really a big win? I mean, what, we get on average 10 or 20 more years of suffering? Being old is not fun, they’re not the good years of a person’s life. Even if you make them more comfortable, they’re still old and still have to lose independence and autonomy. They have to just watch as life takes away the freedoms that they had, and the joy those freedoms gave them fades away.

Should the world reset to the 1910s? I don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter since that will never happen. But looking back on how humanity has progressed until now, I personally can’t say that the condition of humanity has got any better.

This is how progress in gaming dies. Big companies abusing the law. This needs to be stopped, but unfortunately nothing will be done and things will continue to get worse.

The worst part? This is going to happen to everything. Not just gaming.

Life sucks. Right now is literally the worst time to be alive, and it will only get worse.

May your Ls be massive, and your wenches dry, Nintendo.

They could not have paid enough people to download the game and play it, let alone get people to do it for free.

There is a lot more than that.

Lemmy is almost as anti-Xbox as gaming journalists, sheesh.

There are more than two dozen Xbox players, come on now.

I was not saying that this was retroactive. Merely that new games in the Mario Party series could be rated R18+ because of this, perhaps I was not concise enough. Of course, this also applies to any game, Mario Party was only an example because even if a casino is not explicitly used, gameplay which imitates gambling such as a slot machine or some other “randomized reward” element of a game, is gameplay that is pretty common to Mario Party’s minigames.

Fire Emblem Heroes is a mobile gacha game by Nintendo that is still ongoing and was released in 2017. In just 3 years the game grossed $656 million USD globally, which makes it Nintendo’s most lucrative mobile game. Gacha is considered gambling by this regulation.

I agree with engaging in discussion. I was voicing my frustration at a behaviour that was common to Reddit, and Lemmy is supposed to be different from Reddit. Better. So I was both disappointed and frustrated to see the exact same behaviour as what happened over there. Because someone will say something someone else follows it up and then everyone bases their entire opinion on the reply, then regardless of if the second comment is edited or not people.just completely disregard everything the first commenter says. Its a terrible way to foster a community and a behaviour I hope dies off very quickly. Unfortunately it would seem that social media is conditioning people to do the opposite.

60fps only in 864p though. If you want 1080p youll have to live with 30fps, of course.

I love when people comment and vote before they actually read the article.

Mario 64 DS had Luigi’s Casino, and Mario Kart had the Wario (?) themed Casino map. Its not outlandish to think Mario Party could include such elements in the future.

Mario Party could also be effected if they feature a Casino or Casino-like minigame.

Yeah, because the developers realized that the game being hard and unfun was hurting their player numbers.

I think maybe a better thing to do is to include a new label for the cover of the game box and digital storefronts stating something like “This game contains simulated or real gambling,” rather than an instant R18+ rating. Mario Party being R18+ for example is a bit excessive, IMO.

So a game that has a casino in it, regardless of whether it needs the player to spend real money or not, is going to have to be rated R18+? I wonder what this means for games like Mario on the DS or some Mario Party titles.

Also, “in-game purchases with an element of chance,” does that mean any element of chance or a chance to not win? As an example, if I spend money for a currency in a gacha game, and then trade that currency for some character pulls, does that count? There is an element of chance, but I am guaranteed to win something. Essentially, I paid for a character, and I still get a character, I just don’t know which one I will get. I am curious if there is any nuance to this choice or if they just used the black and white blanket like most politicians do.

EDIT: Also, lol at anyone thinking kids care about the rating system. You all know you played GTA when you were like 7.

That is true, but sometimes technology advances and it gets difficult to get the older titles to play nice with newer hardware. That doesn’t mean the gameplay needs to be completely changed up in the next iteration.

back to basics

Boy, haven’t we heard this one before?

Oh, before Battlefield V. And then again before 2042. Not sparking a whole lot of confidence.

The best thing they could do is trash their current engine and just open the source for Battlefield 4. Swap out the graphics renderer with a newer one and make minor adjustments to the rest of the source code. BF4 was nearly perfect on a mechanical level, bugs not withstanding. If they get the bugs ironed out there is no reason I would see for them to have to make changes to the framework of the game, and then they can do what EA has been doing with their sports games for forever. Easy money AND the players are happy.

People who like Civ usually don’t like it when y’all make changes, so it’s kinda surprising that Civ changes so much.

This is the webpage for the project. It will have everything you want to know, and if you can’t find it there or the forums, there is also a wiki.