[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

That's literally what AAA means...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry)

And to think Larian is some small company is also silly. It has over 400 employees and 7 offices. It's privately owned, yes, but it hasn't been an AA studio since the success of Divinity Original Sin 2 and most definitely not since the massive success of BG3.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larian_Studios

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

Meanwhile, he also held degenerate parties at the WH (actually pretty cool) and committed horrible wholesale atrocities against native Americans (very not cool).

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Agreed for the most part, but that's not really the gaming industry's fault. I will say environmental graphics (e.g. ambient details, texture depth, lighting, amount of miscellaneous background and ground clutter density) have gotten much better. If you play The original W3 (before the official "remake" and/or mods), it definitely looks very aged versus something like Black Myth Wukong or Cyberpunk 2077. Bloodborne even more so (although, I'd argue that game's graphics were never its strong point to begin with, but it did have excellent art direction, as From's games always tend to have).

That being said, they all have aged pretty well for the most part. And the difference between a game made in 2000 vs 2010 is definitely a way bigger difference than something made in 2010 vs 2020.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

BG3 is not an AA game, lol. The A's simply mean budget, and BG3 had a budget of over $100 million.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

I think it's more the fact that games like Witcher 3 and Bloodborne are still discussed so much despite being a decade old now. Just kind of crazy 10 years have passed already.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

But tons of restaurants didn't offer delivery before. That's what the other commenter was saying. For many places, especially smaller, locally owned restaurants, a 3rd party enabling delivery for them is a huge boon. But like the other commenter said, it needs to be implemented well and fairly, which it currently is not.

Also, comparing 3rd party food delivery to health insurance is definitely something...

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago

It's an indication of both stupidity and also desperation. Remember, this isn't happening just in the US, either. It's occurring worldwide, unfortunately.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Also active military get universal healthcare, too. Damn communist service members...

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

They're not entirely wrong about it increasing the value of debt and that being undesirable to some governments, though. I agree with you as well.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I thought everything just went to the 4x formula and/or the micro/hero focused route. I actually wish there were more simplistic Warcraft 1/2 or C&C type games to come out, but I'll admit I haven't paid much attention to the genre for awhile, pretty much since StarCraft 2.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 222 points 1 year ago

Yikes, when did we become the majority workforce demographic?

But seriously, 72 million working people don't even account for 5% of wealth... What a broken fucking system.

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