Kelly

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[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Interesting:

A Season Pass must include at least one released DLC when it is made available for purchase*
.*with the exception of Season Passes included in a Pre-Purchase of a deluxe edition.

[...]

You may include a Season Pass as part of a game's pre-purchase. [...]

When a Season Pass DLC is in pre-purchase mode, you are not required to release at least one DLC in the Season Pass at the time it goes on sale (as you are usually required to do when you launch a Season Pass). However, when the game launches, you will need to release the Season Pass out of pre-purchase--this will entail releasing at least one of the DLCs included in the Season Pass.

My reading of this is that deluxe/gold/ultimate editions will need to include some "day one" DLC content. Many of them already do but publishers are now further incentivised to include something small like a bonus skin if they want to sell the season pass before its major content is ready.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I was thinking more of "Roy: A Life Well Lived".

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Wikipedia lists their gaming properties as:

  • Spike Chunsoft
  • FromSoftware (69.66%)
  • Acquire

Acquire is a name I associate most with Tenchu but it looks like the developed the Mario & Luigi game that released a week or so ago.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Given that each charge is only for $33,000, so about $100,000 total, I expect a settlement will be reached instead of going on this fight.

Unfortunately that would be the worst outcome for everyone else.

The patents need to be contested and invalidated or smaller devs will feel they can't use these mechanics.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This kind of makes sense they have been using the term uncontested for a decade now.

Its surprising they haven't taken the trademark earlier.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

They've opened up the licence lately.

Over the last 5 years we've seen games developed not just by Traveller's Tales but also Red Games Co, Gameloft, ClockStone Studio, Visual Concepts, Epic Games and now Guerrilla Games / Studio Gobo.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Not at random retailers anywhere in the world, but yes, if you get the same quality story for a third of the launch price, that matters.

I was comparing the Australian PSN prices, I assume ratios are probably similar across other regions but couldn't be bothered checking.

I'm a bargain hunter as much as the next person but I want the annual Narrative award to go to the game with a 9/10 story, not the game with a 8/10 story and 4/10 price.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Last year the nominations for Best Narrative were:

  • Alan Wake 2
  • Baldur's Gate 3 
  • Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
  • Final Fantasy XVI
  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2

On my local digital shop front Phantom Liberty was au$45 while Spider-Man was au$125. Should Phantom Liberty be given an advantage because it is priced at only 36% of its competition? I feel like those commercial value considerations might be appropriate for a review but for an annual Best Narrative award I want it to go to the Narrative that is actually Best.

That said if they added a best value in gaming award I would would be happy for them to consider games or hardware that offer significantly more value than their price would imply.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

The Game Awards aims to recognize the best creative and technical work each year, irrespective of the format of that content’s release. Expansion packs, new game seasons, DLCs, remakes and remasters are eligible in all categories, if the jury deems the new creative and technical work to be worthy of a nomination. Factors such as the newness of the content and its price/value should be taken into consideration.

https://thegameawards.com/faq

Its a bit weird but I can understand their starting argument that they are reviewing works on their creative and technical merits (the actual format is incidental) but then they shoot it all down by saying price/value is taken into consideration.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If rockstar and grove street games are distancing from each other the latter probably needs to rebrand.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It had different names depending on publisher/region:

Little Big Adventure [...] was published in Europe by Electronic Arts, and by Activision in North America, Asia and Oceania under the name Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Adventure

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Its out? Its out!!

Now I know what I'm doing tonight.

 

The Australian Government has announced changes to the way video games are classified in Australia. Starting from September 22nd, 2024, two new rules will apply to games that include “in-game purchases with an element of chance,” such as loot boxes [now M], and games that feature “simulated gambling,” like casino games [now R18+].

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