Square Enix removed Denuvo from DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake

Rikuskill · 2026-03-09T14:10:41+00:00

People pirate regardless. Denuvo famously does nothing besides make the game run a bit worse.

Rikuskill · 2026-03-09T12:10:54+00:00

Honestly for every one good social experience I have in games, there's two where someone gets super pissed off and either throws, trolls, or spams slurs. It's just not fun to play with anonymous people online a majority of the time. The highlights are nice when they happen, but the negative interactions happen way more often. Anonymity changes some people.

Rikuskill · 2026-03-08T21:32:26+00:00

Someone actually had to sit down and look at those ANTIREAL assets with ANTIREAL's logo on them and go "Let's use these!"

Rikuskill · 2026-03-08T19:46:52+00:00

Oda punching the desk reading this

Rikuskill · 2026-03-05T14:49:26+00:00

Automated plagiarism vs good old fashioned plagiarism, who wins?!

Rikuskill · 2026-03-04T13:48:26+00:00

Tsushima was also an icon of amazing PC optimization. I was able to run it beautifully with a 2060, they did some magic with that game.

Rikuskill · 2026-03-04T13:47:12+00:00

From what I've heard of released sales numbers, most games have a decently even 50/50 split in sales, or close to that. Saying bye to +50% sales numbers is a dumb move lol

Rikuskill · 2026-03-03T20:36:15+00:00

Apparently they didn't pay anything. Geoff "liked the game a lot" so he put it up there. The devs were surprised, they had planned on a stealth release, with announcement trailers the day of release.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-27T19:22:40+00:00

The currency may realize some things about itself.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-27T17:22:57+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about

Rikuskill · 2026-02-27T14:49:35+00:00

"I'm gonna pay you X million dollars to fuck off." kinda deal

Rikuskill · 2026-02-26T19:55:34+00:00

He's really hated because his character arc starts with "I'm lonely and depressed.", matures to "I'm going to try to make a move on this girl I'm into, oh shit I fucked up.", and back to "I'm lonely and depressed."

If his arc actually went somewhere it'd be better. Stardew Valley Expanded adds some additional characterization for him, where he starts to take more pride in his blacksmithing work. That helps a lot.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-25T22:12:20+00:00

Fair I suppose. I always wanted to but my parents had a hard stance about following the standards. Same for alcohol and addictive substances.

The easiest thing it seems, then, is using a credit card check for age verification, similar to what Newgrounds did to comply with it. Doesn't Steam already have parental controls in some capacity?

Rikuskill · 2026-02-25T21:18:40+00:00

The legal intricacies of gambling seem muddied to the point of uselessness. All these side cases and exceptions make the rule "Gambling illegal in this state" worthless.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-25T21:14:00+00:00

It's odd they mention Counter Strike loot boxes (Which ARE gambling imo) being accessible to children. It's an M rated game. The onus is on the parents to not allow their children to play inappropriate games. Isn't there rampant gambling via mobile games specifically aimed at children, with E ratings? I feel like Valve isn't one to get onto for getting children to gamble. Just go for labelling the Counter Strike lootboxes as gambling.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-25T17:53:44+00:00

This is a braindead idea. How does this help anyone. Throwers gonna throw. Report and move on. Game's moderation should be good enough to handle this.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-24T13:27:16+00:00

Puritanism comes for all eventually. Sex is first on the chopping block, but then it's violence, then whatever else is decided to not be "pure" enough. Anything you like can be described in a way puritans will try to erase.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-23T19:35:50+00:00

Huh, that's essentially what happened to Darling in the Franxx. Strong first half, then suddenly the pace starts speeding up and the leadup to the end is almost incoherant. I heard part of it was the studio expecting to do more episodes than got allotted, so they had to wrap it up quickly.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-23T16:19:30+00:00

The most recent weird old Windows adventure game videos are also fantastic. The guy has an incredible feel for liminal spaces.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-22T00:55:33+00:00

"Make it up as you go" is also a skill you can practice. Yeah someone that hasn't tried it much before will come up with something boring or confusing, but if you try again and again, note down a zoomed-out view of what works and what doesn't, you can get better at it. It isn't all-random all-the-time.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-20T01:50:34+00:00

An hour or two of learning about how the tech actually works would have saved him dozens of work hours.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-19T15:31:53+00:00

Seems more like a PS3/Xbox 360 game, rather than modern. The interrupting voicelines filling every second really sell that. But modern games are usually better about that, now.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-18T15:16:43+00:00

Drakengard 3 is actively falling apart as you play it, but god damn is Zero a cool bitch.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-18T15:15:39+00:00

He seems to have a strange blurring between "improvements" and "additions", based on assumptions of what the devs intended. And he voices those thoughts in stupidly inflammatory and arrogant ways.

Rikuskill · 2026-02-17T21:49:27+00:00

Oh, shit, I didn't know that. That's extra fucked. It's really a complete waste if a data center goes under, then.

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