this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
413 points (99.3% liked)

Games

16742 readers
666 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
413
Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?" (www.gamesradar.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

And that the requirements for those minimal improvements are vast. If you need to pull down 200GB for a minor graphical upgrade, that's just not really worth it compared to an older game that is a bit graphically worse, but is both smaller, and runs better on newer hardware.