I expect people have moved onto other and better games, and never bothered to update their review from years ago - I definitely fall into that category.

Arkham Knight is decent except for the batmobile sections - as others have already mentioned.

I’d still argue it’s better than Origins though. From memory, memorising all the different toolbelt skills isn’t really necessary - you can definitely get through the game by just abusing jumps, cloak and counters - some special enemies might need a specific ability to make vulnerable, but the game normally warns you the first time you fight them, so I don’t think it ever feels too overwhelming - it just feels like a lot if you run through it very quickly.

Have to disagree with you on echoes - I loved the game, but IMO it was much easier than Prime 1 - the most difficult boss was the probably the boost guardian midway through rather than any of the endgame bosses. The ammo system made the standard power beam too centralising which was boring, and the dark world damage just served to slow the player down, since the light fields regenerated your health.

No one’s suggested it yet, so I’ll say Fire Emblem: Three Houses - lots of gameplay hours, especially if you want to go through each of the four storylines, albeit can be a bit repetitive getting to that point.

Lazy Web devs who took the ‘mobile first’ mantra to mean ‘mobile only’ 🙄

But if it gets to the point where Ubisoft goes and every studio starts making their own, I don’t think that will work if they don’t have the game catalogue to support it, that would mean Ubisoft could just start churning out horrible games to build their stupid catalogue.

I feel like we’re starting to see a rerun of the streaming service wars - if this takes off across the industry I can definitely see people going back to piracy. I don’t want game pass, ubisoft+, Blizzard Prime, Nintendo Online Super Premium Expansion Pass or whatever stupid names these companies come up with just to play a few games that I’m interested in, just because they’re spread across different publishers.

While I don’t think using RNG is a good mechanic (and in Overwatch, most ‘random’ things aren’t actually very random - bullet spread is actually based on a set pattern, and the only randomness is the rotation of that pattern.

However there are interesting ways you could dress up ‘randomness’ as an actual game mechanic that’s reproducible - causing allies to have a slight bullet magnetism (not full on aimbot, but a bit like a ‘lite’ version of S76’s ult) could be an interesting idea to play around with.

Another option could be to force things to bounce, and otherwise orient themselves onto a specific target - though I guess this might be more along the lines of someone controlling magnetism than ‘luck’ per se.

I played him a bit yesterday, and I actually really like the changes. For such a small difference, the inclusion of the trap and the heal/damage reduction being on a resource allows you to be a bit more strategic in his general play, and reduces a lot of the brainlessness that comes in the gap between hook coming off cooldown.

There isn’t quite the dopamine hit of insta-deleting someone once they’re hooked, but you can still do it (even if it’s much harder) and by pulling people into pig-pen it’s largely still possible.

Bobby Kotick is likely on the way out at least (probably via golden parachute).

Again, revenue. They report revenue because it’s a nice big number, but it’s different to profit (which is why a lot of people suspect they don’t make much actual money, if any).

Revenue, sure - I don’t believe Google shares profit numbers for Youtube separately to the rest of the portfolio. I could be misinformed though.

Like legit, some of these comments are utterly deranged. YouTube has ZERO competition in the mass market consumer space, everyone else is a niche player, and it’s debatable whether YouTube even turns a profit despite that.

Yeah I do understand the reasoning and honestly can’t fault them for it - they are a for-profit company after all.

Doesn’t mean that it’s not a good example of them throwing their weight around (which is admittedly rare).

I had this exact fight with my team several months ago, and lost to popular opinion since the rest of my team are either zoomers or indifferent.

Ironically this is actually an example of Valve using its dominant marketshare to suppress rivals - Steam’s ToS require devs to have equivalent pricing across all storefronts if they want to sell on Steam at all, so making it harder for cheaper storefront cuts to translate to lower prices to consumers, who might otherwise move to a different storefront.

Devs aren’t going to drop Steam as a store, so they’re stuck.

That may be so, but that’s not the way that the initial tweet is using the term, and not the commonly understood definition.

I’m not denying that Valve as a whole have been a force for good in the PC gaming market, but it’s pointless to argue semantics and make up definitions to better suit personal bias instead of debating the actual point that’s being made.

People saying Steam doesn’t have a monopoly because other stores exist, is the same as saying Microsoft doesn’t have a monopoly on PC Gaming because Mac and Linux exist. Technically true, but ultimately meaningless because its their market power that determines a monopoly, not whether there are other niche players.

While Valve and Steam have generally been a good player, and currently do offer the best product, they still wield an ungodly amount of influence over the PC gaming market space.

Epic is chasing that because they really want what Valve has, though no doubt they plan to speedrun the enshittification process as soon as they think it safe.

Can confirm that the first doesn’t work on Alexandrite, but the second works as expected.

I think you’re right and it’s frontend-specific - I’m using Alexandrite and it shows perfectly, but I just checked the default Lemmy UI and it doesn’t handle it properly either.

Tbh it sounds more and more like it’s a kbin interaction problem rather than anything you’re doing…

Not sure if there’s any way for you to resolve it other than getting a Beehaw mod to update it for you.