this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
111 points (93.7% liked)

Games

16758 readers
746 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
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Nima@leminal.space -4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nexus hosts tons of switch mods. I'm not sure why this is suddenly "scary".

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Visability and liability.

No one cares about 10k downloads to turn Fallout ghouls into Gengars, but turning a Pokemon knockoff into an actual Pokemon game is a bit different.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 9 months ago

that's fair, I suppose. But golly it makes game freak look weak. at least imho.

[–] HedonismB0t@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Mods for switch games aren't putting Nintendo IP characters into non-Nintendo games.