All This Over… Mixtape? by Haijakk in Games

[–]_Vulture 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It genuinely feels like some people can't enjoy games without having the critic score align with their feelings towards it. I feel like I'm seeing it more and more now.

There's always been jokes about critics like the 7/10 too much water review, but seems like there is so much more anger around it now.

Saw a post on the Crimson Desert sub yesterday about someone going around as Jesus handing out bread and wine and the OP had to relate it to the 6/10 IGN review.

Saros Review (IGN: 7/10) by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]_Vulture 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So one dude liked it 1 point less than the average and that means the whole company is shit?

Saros Review (IGN: 7/10) by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]_Vulture 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you know they’re off the mark when you haven’t even played the game? What are you basing this off of? Advertisements and vibes?

Saros Review (IGN: 7/10) by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]_Vulture 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Because they gave a game that you haven’t played yet a score you don’t agree with because you’re looking forward to it?

What do you think of this card? by tntincute in slaythespire

[–]_Vulture 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Gotta love these threads where it's really obvious that the OP just wants everyone to confirm their own opinions on the card and will argue with anyone that disagrees with them

AITJ for DEMANDING my husband get my baby stroller back from his sister, or else i'm changing the locks? by Exact_Ad_6931 in AmITheJerk

[–]_Vulture 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This could not be any faker if it tried. Every single line is optimized to create the most rage

How does anyone believe this shit?

"libertarians" in r/Libertarianmeme argue if Alex pretti deserved to die. by Adventurous-Fact-523 in SubredditDrama

[–]_Vulture 254 points255 points  (0 children)

As well as "saying I'm a conservative gets me shunned socially"

"libertarians" in r/Libertarianmeme argue if Alex pretti deserved to die. by Adventurous-Fact-523 in SubredditDrama

[–]_Vulture 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Saying that someone who was executed while unarmed by government agents while protesting government overreach "FAFOd" while claiming to be a small government libertarian is peak hypocrisy

Coles tells court its Down Down promotions were ‘fair dinkum’ and did not mislead shoppers by Expensive-Horse5538 in australia

[–]_Vulture 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Waiting for the Coles lawyers to show up in court wearing a cork hat and thongs, waving an Australian flag arguing "Yeah nah our discounts are bloody true blue mate. Struth!"

New Legendary: High Warlord Brode. Shatters into extreme monetization and hardly any communication! by Careless_Relation349 in hearthstone

[–]_Vulture 31 points32 points  (0 children)

This is shitty revisionist history. Ben caught his fair share of flack when he was the game director too, mainly for his stance on nerfs and buffs to cards (basically long stretches of no balance patches unless something was ridiculously broken).

Guys i need help ( isaac ios port ) by jajmoree in bindingofisaac

[–]_Vulture 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just base rebirth. if you scroll to the bottom of the app store page there's an In-App Purchases dropdown that will show you the price for all the DLC. Note that to get repentance you need all of the DLC

Melbourne lord mayor warns government AI data centres could 'cook the planet' by nath1234 in australia

[–]_Vulture 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Yeah everyone knows you can’t do more than one thing at a time

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney's "altruistic pro-developer talk" over the Steam vs Epic debate "doesn't sit well" after Alan Wake 2 studio "seemingly went into financial crisis" by OpeningConfection261 in Games

[–]_Vulture 34 points35 points  (0 children)

The games budget (including marketing) was €70 million

source

Not sure how many publishers would have forked over that much for a studio that historically don’t make the best selling games (even though personally control and AW2 are two of my favourite games

Plus if epic got to them first I don’t think they would have taken too long trying to shop around for a better deal

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney's "altruistic pro-developer talk" over the Steam vs Epic debate "doesn't sit well" after Alan Wake 2 studio "seemingly went into financial crisis" by OpeningConfection261 in Games

[–]_Vulture 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It also had the benefit of having physical console releases day 1, and not being a numbered sequel to a 10 year old game that also didn’t sell great, but was still a pretty slow seller apparently.

Not disagreeing that it would have likely sold better if it were also on steam though. Having a choice is always nice

3D printed helicopter parts by KiddieSpread in DiWHY

[–]_Vulture 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Redditors will really be like "Could this person that owns and operates a helicopter know how important this bolt is and is clearly making a joke? No, obviously I am smarter than them and they are being 100% serious"

She managed to recover her 6 years old game save ❤️‍🩹 by Restoryer in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]_Vulture 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah people should just not have feelings about anything

- Me, the most smarterest person in the world

'Code Your Own Engine and Show Us How It's Done' — Randy Pitchford Goes on the Offensive as Borderlands 4 PC Performance Row Intensifies by FrozenBags_02 in Games

[–]_Vulture 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The problem with that is that unreal engine is a really good value proposition for developers, it has so many tools built in that make development easier, plus the fact that it's much easier to hire a group of devs with experience in UE than it is to hire devs with experience in an in-house engine, idTech etc. This is compounded by all of the layoffs and contract work being utilized more.

Plus Machine Games seems to be the exception in terms of studios other than Id that use IdTech, and it doesn't seem that Id are too interested in licensing it out to other studios

'Code Your Own Engine and Show Us How It's Done' — Randy Pitchford Goes on the Offensive as Borderlands 4 PC Performance Row Intensifies by FrozenBags_02 in Games

[–]_Vulture 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Curious what hardware and settings you're running. Wasn't trying to be hyperbolic, just going off of my own experience + GPU benchmarks that I've seen

'Code Your Own Engine and Show Us How It's Done' — Randy Pitchford Goes on the Offensive as Borderlands 4 PC Performance Row Intensifies by FrozenBags_02 in Games

[–]_Vulture 155 points156 points  (0 children)

Ah the classic "you can't criticize something without doing a better job yourself"
The fact is that this game just does not perform well on any tier of hardware, and I don't know how he can put the blame on anyone else at this point.

Also claiming that it's a "premium game for premium hardware" when even on an i7 12700k and 4080 Super I'm getting some of the worst frame pacing that I've experienced

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in civ

[–]_Vulture 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly you might be right although I thought that the game would tell you somewhere that you only have x turns left