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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No regular races or championships for single player is a weird omission, though. Arcade mode is nice, but jusst a different thing.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Komplett anders. Aber an sich egal, weil hier eigentlich Social Media- bzw Creator- Richtlinien relevant sein sollten und die sind extrem von den Limits her (wenn man keinen anderweitigen Support organisiert bekommt) -> YT min. 250k Abos z.B.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Music I agree on, it's the main thing of the game and using generic tracks would lessen the experience. The limited animations very much not, though so. They're no dealbraker, but for me they do impact the enjoyment somewhat. But unlike almost everyone else I also like The Artful Escape a lot more.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I wish they wouldn‘t insist on that rather distracting stop motion animation for the characters instead of making it optional like South of Midnight did.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Fair warning: If this contains something along the lines of "30 fps actually is okay here because of awesome motion blur" again, I'll convince @tapirfortuna.bsky.social to give you a smack on the head next time you meet.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'll admit I don't remember exactly how long Nintendo kept up their servers for older systems, but it's probably going to last longer nowadays with digital being way more relevant. But I honestly feel 10+ years into the future I'll probably have more relevant issues to deal with than old games.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

But these are two different things - and while game-key cards aren't great (particularly for collector's purposes), they are still infinitely better than a code-in-a-box as at the very least you can lend or re-sell them to others.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Immer wieder eine Freude, wenn man seine Freizeit für ein optionales Projekt einsetzt und also erste Reaktion dann "Mach was anderes!" und "Wehe du bist nicht angemessen unterwürfig und dankbar, wenn jemand drüber meckert!" aufgetischt wird. Motivitation pur.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

And what I'd really like to know is why there is no option to pick between Quality/Performancy on PS5 Pro (assuming PS5 Base also doesn't have that) when Switch 2 has it.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Performance mode on Switch 2 seems reaonsonably decent fps wise from what I have seen so far, vertainly much better than the current Pro state. Xbox no one knows because there is no Xbox version.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I also are puzzled how the first few PS5 reviews up on MC/OC fail to mention the technical performance issues at all - you really can't miss them in this particular game.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

In regards to the Switch 2 version, that one actually does have the option to use quality / performance and from the (so far very little) bit I played at least performance actually did keep to 60 fps where PS5 Pro already had drops. So I do have some hope left for that one.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Just sent a mail - honenstly didn't see a roll-call, though?

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I believe The Swindle got console versions at launch back in the days? I'd like to imagine your current publisher would help you achieve that now as well as I actually have no clue why else you'd actually need them.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I'd be pretty surprised if this is still going to happen unless it's already printed as well.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Classifying King of Dragons and Knights of the Round as RPGs pretty much would have told enough of what to make of that as well.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Funnily enough I did not see (the press release, that is) because years ago, your glorious publisher decided to blacklist me and the entire team I work with on oour magazine for the crime of... actually wanting to review one of his games. Oh well.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Having just contributed my required poking for Henry (and looking forward to reviwing it, of course), I hope you will forgive me for poking about what's happening with codes for Is This Seat Taken on Switch?

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I suspect that also depends on the outcome? Having someone say they like it despite usually not being into VNs clearly must feel great, but someone going straight to "this sucks because there's no action/gameplay" (I've seen such "reviews" for e.g. Steins;Gate) on the other hand...

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

To put an obvious example, handing somebody who hates reading a Visual Novel for a review surely most likely won't result in a something useful for anyone.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I respect that, though I find it problematic if reviews are written by people who show an active dislike to the source material or a genre. While they might provide an interesting second opion, I feel it's more suitable if the main review is done by someone who doesn't have negative preconceptions.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I'm curious, if I may: How do you feel about people reviewing your game while repeatedly claiming that Legacy is a crap movie, therefore showing they are not really that qualified to judge TRON-related things?

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Darf ich mich ein bisschen wundern, warum mir wohl jemand auf LinkedIn eine Vernetzungseinladung schickt, der mich vor nicht allzu langer Zeit mit einem Burner-Account (nicht endgültig beweisbar, aber die Indizien waren doch recht eindeutig) wüst in einem Forum beschimpft hat?

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is apparently really good. Definitely has a lovely pixely look and as added bonus for people who still care about this, it also just got a non-FOMO physical release for PS5 & Switch as well.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'd like to hope on Switch 2 it's running with 60 fps while Old Switch pretty surely will stick to 30, which would make quite a bit of difference imho. Personally, I almost always stick to PS5/Xbox over Switch for multi-system releases whenever performance comes into play.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Only if technical performance doesn't matter at all. Which I assume what many Switch users actually feel about that because portable use is the only thing mattering to them. I'd still prefer better framerates and so on.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

No, they are not. As also shown by Switch 2 releases that are actual codes in a box like Split Fiction or Civ 7.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Assuming I'd want to stick to a portable version (as in there's no PS5 version around, which in this case obviously there is) and actually play it, I would go for the one with better performance even, so that's still making sense.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Kaum noch zu glauben, dass man sich früher mal auf Google-Infos einigermaßen verlassen konnte.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Ohne Übertreibung die mit Abstand beschissendste Interaktion, die ich mit irgendwem auf Publisher/PR-Seite in den letzten 15 Jahren (mindestens) hatte. Seitdem natürlich auch nix mehr von denen gestestet, was nachvollziehbar sein dürfte.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Erst abgewiesen nach dem Motto "Nur wer bei MC auftaucht, ist für mich überhaupt relevant" und weil man es eine Woche später nochmal höflich probiert hat, seitdem sogar vom Verteiler der Pressemitteilunge gestrichen (alle in der Redaktion, nicht nur ich). Mittelkleiner Indieschuppen, wohlgemerkt.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Da juckt es mich ja schon in den Fingern, wenn in meine Timeline jemand reingequotet wird, der jetzt um mehr Aufmerksamkeit für sein gerade veröffentlichtes Spiel bettelt, das wegen Oblivion keiner beachtet, aber uns vor Jahren nach einer Musteranfrage dermaßen großkotzig-aggressiv abgekanzelt hat.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The disc (or cart) is there so you can put a box on your shelf and to work as a dongle. Obviously not what we'd ideally want it to be, but still much better than a code-in-a-box or just no physical avilability at all.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'll run a review pretty much instantly the moment you send me Behold the Kickmen: Revenge of the Ball for Switch 2.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

You conducted the interview, helped making it possible for us to use it and provided the fotographs of Carol, that‘s plenty in my opinion.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

@bitmapbooks.com Hi there! Is it really not possible to change my email adress use for my account on the web shop by myself? In that case, hopefully you can change it from our end?

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Geht ein alter Mann in die Tanzlounge…

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Eigentlich hätte ich ja schon erwartet, dass McDonald's wenigstens auf der eigenen Webseite bzw. in der App korrekte Öffnungszeiten der Filialen aufführen kann. Aber dem ist tatsächlich nicht so. Pfft.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

People using a Funko as their avatar automatically are disqualified from basically everything.

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

1. Buch auf Kickstarter mit 5x-Zielsumme durchbringen 2. Jahre länger als geplant brauchen, dann aber als erstes auf Amazon verkaufen 3. Backer noch fast 2 Jahre warten lassen 4. Nicht damit glückliche Backer als "unausstehlischer Trottel" und "unerträglicher Arsch" beschimpfen Kann man machen...

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Ulrich Steppberger @steppberger.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I feel it's somewhat relevant to see the context of where that article was published.

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