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fox2263, do gaming w We don't have to make it complicated

I still want an actual remaster of FF7

salacious_coaster,

I just watched the “movie” of FF7 Remake on YT, and holy fuck, what the actual hell was that ending. Off the goddamn rails

funkless_eck,

I mean the OG ended with the soul of the protagonist fighting the dead ghost of the antagonist in the afterlife, killing the already dead guy (who you have killed at least 3 times, maybe more already) in the afterlife before a cut to 500 years later and everything is plants.

salacious_coaster,

Yeah, and the remake had all those same elements, plus

Tap for spoilerThe regular story jarringly derailed to bring us a space battle with plot device ghosts at the singularity at the edge of creation, and multiverses or time travel or some shit that undo the most dramatic moment of the whole franchise, IMO

elvith, do gaming w We don't have to make it complicated

What’s the original strip about? Upselling something?

EightLeggedFreak,

Jarhead just wants coffee. Old (for the internet) boomer humor comic.

JimVanDeventer,
Buddahriffic,

Those darn millenials and their forcing everyone to drink their fancy drinks and then Karen gets mad at me, the poor veteran just trying to give this business my dollar!

aGlassDarkly,

…yeah I’m trying to imagine a scenario when this would ever happen. I’ve never seen someone try to upsell someone else on coffee before.

Buddahriffic,

And even if they did upsell like that, it was probably because some boomer insisted (at least at the time of this comic). Out of all the things I associate with “millenials”, wanting to upsell shit to make their employer more money isn’t one of them.

Lifter,

I get uppselling a lot. “Extra shot?”, " Cookie?", “Membership App?”, etc.

Buddahriffic,

Yeah but how often do they persist after the first decline? I mean, it comes more down to the individual than there generation, but it’s more common to hear “sorry, I have to ask this, but upsell? No, ok cool, that’ll be total” than seeing someone try to argue after the first no thanks.

JimVanDeventer,

I’ve never seen someone try to upsell someone else on coffee before.

“Would you like whipped cream on that” gets me a lot.

Rusty,

I drink black coffee and that never happened to me. I think the baristas would prefer to make a simpler drink.

JimVanDeventer,

I often enjoy a simple black coffee, myself, and have never had anyone try to convince me otherwise as if they are dying to do more work. It’s just an ‘other people having choices feels like a threat to my tradition’ kind of comic, I guess. The lady yelling at him is kind of funny, though; I have seen worse boomer humour.

LucidNightmare, do games w Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation

People are always going to suck. By conceding and backing away from the project or limelight, the idiots or bots or trolls or whatever they are have “won”. This emboldens things like that. You can see this type of behavior on the Steam forums too. Sometimes you just have to ignore these weird facets of the internet.

The discord blew up when it released. I’d be so much more excited about that than whatever that garbage is on the other side.

I understand Nemo, but I wish they would’ve been able to stand tall and accept the praise from the larger side of the internet.

Nima, do games w Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation
@Nima@leminal.space avatar

people really need to stop giving shitty twitter trolls the time of day. they now get to cheerfully read an article that mentions their behavior.

should have just cut that part out and focus on how kickass this romhack is. don’t even give them a second of time in anyone’s mind. let them rot in their little cesspools.

while we have a kickass time playing a cool pokemon hack =D

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

My article can be pretty easily broken down into:

  • What ROM hacks are
  • Pokémon ROM hacks in particular
  • Lazarus
  • The dev’s own response to shitty behavior

I don’t think I focused on Twitter’s behavior. I didn’t share any screenshots of tweets, nor did I quote any. There’s not much I can see I wrote here that can be glorified by the losers.

Should I…not write about how shitty the situation is for the developer (and so many others in this space) because a handful of idiots might think they’re being mentioned? I’m struggling to find what I should cut out of my article there!

Nima,
@Nima@leminal.space avatar

I meant no disrespect. only meant these people aren’t worth it. I know you didn’t focus on it.

just makes me sad that the dev mentioned it.

MourningDove, do games w What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?

The entire Mass Effect series. Many of the missions were dredging through mostly empty buildings that had copy-pasted boxes and random shit in them. Just generic buildings with generic crap stuffed into them. The world felt purposeless, sterile, and generic to me.

Also, the story just didn’t really grab me that much as I cringe at the romance parts of any story. And lastly, the gameplay was just clunky and awkward to me.

jaycifer,

Out of curiosity, who did you romance, and why?

MourningDove,

No one. Because it’s incredibly cringy.

jaycifer,

So am I to assume there was more to the story that didn’t click with you than the optional narrative sub-branch that you chose not to engage with?

Brkdncr,

I played through fhe whole series thinking the good part was about to happen since there was hype for the game.

ms_lane,

I do wish they’d done more with the buildings.

The structures being carbon-copy was lore, they’re built in factories and dropped from ships.

But that doesn’t mean they all need the same boxes in a row layout internally, some personality would have been great and pretty easy to implement.

BenjiRenji,

I love the series, but I played the games when they came out. It’s true that the level design of ML2 suffers from it being a cover shooter and ML1 is very dated now.

Which of the three titles did you hate most/represents your dislike best?

Tattorack, do games w What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Mario Kart World.

Soundtrack is 11/10. But they dropped the ball hard on the entire open world aspect. Completely wasted the entire potential.

Instead we get lame ass intermission tracks that count as the first two laps of the next race, so you don’t even get to enjoy the new and remade tracks during championships, because you’ll blink and miss them.

arc99, do gaming w Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games

Some poor bastard actually buys a Kojima game to watch the cut scenes.

taiyang, do gaming w Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games

Yup. I don’t like easy modes at all, but they’re not for me. If I can’t die horribly in the tutorial, what are we even doing here?

Sculptor9157,

Thanks, Elon.

Evotech,

Yeah, just take the gameplay out and serve me the cut scenes as a TV show at that point

taiyang,

That’s my wife’s style. She did Exposition 33 the opposite way from me and we both enjoyed it in our own ways. It was way more fun to break the game by perfect dodging things I had no business fighting, lol.

prole,

Exposition 33

Can’t tell if this is a typo or a clever joke

taiyang,

More like I shouldn’t let my phone’s auto correct do whatever it wants but I’m leaving it, lol

RizzRustbolt,

I want a game where I can die during the character creation.

taiyang,

I only know an RPG where the protagonist dies before the title drop. Lol

Apeman42,
@Apeman42@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve never played but I understand that’s a distinct possibility in the TTRPG Traveller.

RizzRustbolt,

Paranoia as well.

theorangeninja, do gaming w Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games

And what are the games they talk about?

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world avatar

Kojima is talking about Death Stranding. Miyazaki is talking about one of the Dark Souls games. Itagaki is known for the early 2000s Ninja Gaidens and Dead or Alive, so I'm pretty sure this would have been in reference to Ninja Gaiden.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

I like the Dead or Alive where they play beach volleyball and their lady bits jiggle.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world avatar

Well, you can thank Itagaki for that.

https://media.piefed.world/posts/Id/1D/Id1DPlIi3LlSZEb.jpg

LyD,

Rest in peace

Deconceptualist,

Oh damn, he just died a couple weeks ago. Age 58. That’s sad, I hadn’t heard until now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomonobu_Itagaki

PieMePlenty,

Rocking that Rukia Kuchiki haircut.

prole, do games w "...Mommy!!.." (Hades)

Man, the visual style of both Hades games is breathtaking sometimes

tdawg, do gaming w A cold take on balancing
@tdawg@lemmy.world avatar

are these not the same just changing who’s good vs what?

Peruvian_Skies,

In the first panel, each class is considered in its interactions with each other class. In the second, each class is strong against one, weak against one and their relationship with the others isn’t considered.

tdawg,
@tdawg@lemmy.world avatar

I read it as the adjacent ones being neutral or a 50:50 odds. But it sounds like ur interpretation might be the intention

Goretantath, do gaming w A cold take on balancing

THANK YOU. People don’t care about balance, they just want their fave class to stomp others without having to put in the work to avoid their counter.

evujumenuk,

Maybe there’s something I’m not getting, but doesn’t the second setup preclude basically anyone from stomping anyone? If stomping others is one’s goal, it’d be through picking a class and then picking on any other class that’s weak to one’s own, no?

justdaveisfine,

Yeah, the point of this comic is less about people buffing their favorite class (though people do tend to lean towards that) and more about people generally thinking ‘balanced’ means everything is equal.

Though the man in the purple shirt is definitely wanting to get rid of the advantages rogues have on mages… The mages symbol also being purple lol.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Assuming this is for a team game, predator-prey relationships create interesting dynamics where teammates have to protect each other from their counters, while also aiming to create situations where they can isolate a countered opponent to press the advantage.

In a 1v1 game though, you do want panel 2. It would be very bad if Street Fighter was decided by playing rock-paper-scissors on the character select screen.

Windex007,

I mean, there is some nuance. Sucks for memes, because they thrive on the lack of nuance, but anyways…

Depending on implementation, you gotta be careful to avoid the top panel becoming rock paper scissors.

If class switching is cheap (say, every respawn), you’ve just built a very very expensive rock paper scissors simulator.

SolarPunker, do games w Which year was the most stacked for game releases?

2001 is hard to beat:

  • Metal Gear Solid 2
  • Ico
  • Silent Hill 2
  • Final Fantasy X
  • Devil May Cry
  • Grand Theft Auto III
  • Halo
UltraMagnus,

Oh yeah, that’s definitely around the time when games started getting “big”, especially with Halo.

Zoomboingding,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

Also Smash Bros Melee, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, and Luigi’s Mansion. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle too, but that was a port with added features. Gamecube lineup was STACKED that year.

yakko, do gaming w They literally don't know they were born

Can relate. Our home server has every single NDS ROM and several thousands of other games, that will all play without ads on my kid’s phone or laptop, but he will go straight to the shitty browser games and feel totally bereft without them.

RightHandOfIkaros,

To be fair, playing a DS game with touch screen buttons feels pretty bad compared to playing Fruit Ninja or whatever that was designed specifically for phone touch controls.

yakko,

That’s true. I just wish he’d give his laptop a chance, he has a controller for that

RightHandOfIkaros,

Even then, the DS is pretty specific for its dual screen setup, and makes playing on anything that isnt a DS or similar form factor feel pretty unapproachable. Have you tried other consoles, like the PSP? Since it only has one screen, and does not have touch support, it can feel like it was designed for normal console style play.

Its only a suggestion, there may be other reasons he doesn’t play. Maybe the games just don’t interest him?

yakko,

I did say “and several thousand other games”. It’s a pretty big collection. Everything from NES to PS2.

deranger, do games w What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?

STALKER. The Zone is amazing. Currently replaying Call of Pripyat for my third or fourth time through, a year after playing the shit out of Heart of Chernobyl, and I’m absolutely loving it.

Flagstaff,
@Flagstaff@programming.dev avatar

Dang. I wish I could enjoy replaying it, but nothing will capture the magic of the first time. I always love watching others experience my enjoyed titles live for their first time, though.

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