Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

“Quit boo-hooin’ 'bout having blue eyes and being strong as fuck. ‘Oh woe is me! My eyes look sick as hell and I can swing a Buick like a butter-knife. Wah wah wah!’ That’s what you sound like!”

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I remember liking this game, but can’t remember if it was the one that’s like a combination of Burnout and Trials or the one like Stuntman Behind the Wheel but actually good. 🤔

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I actually dislike most adaptive game music because most games that use that term just use it for having combat music that swaps in dynamically when you’re near a hostile mob.

The games where the music is just a combination of things based on what’s going on, however, are fucking dope as hell. It’s not something I see (er… Hear) all that often though which is disappointing.

It’s awesome when you notice that you can affect the music that’s playing by jumping or doing specific attacks/actions or based on how many/what kind of enemies are around, etc and not just “the music is this now because you’re fighting.”

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

The voice acting has quite a range of stereotyped accents. Nothing they say is overtly racist, but the over the top accents themselves are insensitive.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Torchlight 1 and 2 (diablo 1 and 2 but better)

Path of Exile (diablo the MMO)

Titanquest (my personal favorite non-diablo diablo game)

The Ascent (diablo with guns!)

Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance (D&D diablo on consoles)

Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (Fallout Diablo on consoles)

And so many more… There was a time in the 90’s after the success of Diablo 1 where everyone and their mother was making clones of Diablo.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Because this is about the 4th recent trailer I’ve seen playback at this weird slow frame rate: is it just me? The Death Stranding 2 trailer was also slow and choppy like this but it was super early footage so I just assumed it was from that, but now I’m wondering if a setting is messed up on my browser.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I’ve never looked at that before so I’m not sure what it means that more than 80% of the frames were being dropped. Is that bad?

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

This is on my phone, actually.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

This kinda stuff makes me wonder how animations work that they can do all that without it being done on purpose.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

The only numbers I dislike in games are the kind that fly off things when you attack them. That shit is visually annoying and I hate every game that uses it without an option to turn it off outside of old turn-based JRPGs. So I totally understand that.

They’re not meaningless, per se, but most of the time you also have a gauge indicating health and it’s far less distracting than a ton of numbers flying off obscuring the action.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

So they really did copy Sea of Thieves. 🤔

Or is it even worse than that was on launch?

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

The real SMB2 was on Super Mario All-Stars for the SNES and I gotta say… The reskinned Doki Doki Panic is a better game.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Even back then, when you jumped onto the first enemy and just… Stood on them instead of killing them was pretty different.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Curious about something, I installed Dragon’s Dogma since I had it from sometime it was given out free. It wasn’t what I thought it was. I must’ve confused it with this other game because I’m actually getting into DD here. Still no clue what the name of the game I was confusing it for is though.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

That’s the thing; I’m not even sure they had a similar name. I had thought that Dragon’s Dogma was this Monster Hunter knock-off built on the Source engine. I didn’t care much for it so just wrote it off until I saw a video on DD2 which also showed the first game and made me go “huh… That’s not what I remember.” lol

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Street Fighter feels better as a competitive game and Mortal Kombat has always felt more button-mashy and arcade like.

I never really liked Mortal Kombat’s game play over Street Fighter because of this. I’ve continued with Street Fighter to modern times, but having not really cared for it back with the original trilogy, I haven’t touched modern MK games much.

I do however like the lore and story for the MK games way more than SF. I watch all the movies and anime and stuff; those are way more fun for me than the games lol

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Didn’t Aragorn have to tell those ghost dudes he was the king to get them to fulfill their oath? 🤔

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I kinda figured those rumors were bullshit. They may be secretive, but Fromsoft still wouldn’t just quietly release a major dlc for one of the biggest titles they’ve ever made.

Shit must be massive for it to take this long, though, without much news other than a title, and two updates that they are still working on it.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Is this why the site was down for maintenance almost all day the other day? I just wanted to log in and see if I owned a game on there or not and was getting time out errors most of the day. Tried in the evening and loaded to a message about extra maintenance because they were migrating to a new system (and still couldn’t log in to check anything).

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I have to admit, upon seeing the teaser for this I thought it was live action for some parts.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

There was no gameplay; it was just a tech teaser that showed a bunch of digitized actors looking super realistic (mostly).

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

All I can think of is a Donald Glover bit where he said he had a fear of someone just putting a gun on him and telling him to put his dick in his butt and came to realization he can just tuck underneath instead of trying to reach around his waist. So I’m incapacitated by laughter to think of my own times this has happened.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

They saw it was called Acquire, and so they did.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I haven’t played the first to really compare them, but as someone who hasn’t really been into the old school Squaresoft style RPG for a long time: It’s fantastic.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Mickey Mouse is about to get a Victory Royale.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Factorio.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Sometimes I feel like the only person in North America that actually liked Bubsy.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

looks like a blobfish that’s been brought to the surface

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Can’t vouch for performance or technical stuff on PC, but I was checking out Lost Judgment on PS+ after hearing a lot about the Yakuza series and I’m loving it. It’s kinda like Shenmue, but with real, good combat and not QTEs. Or a Japanese GTA with all the extra side stuff you can do as you wander around the neighborhoods the game takes place in. I definitely want to check out the others in the series now.

Infinite looks just as good, but I am probably going to go backwards because I am not sure if I would like the new turn based combat system. I like the more Sifu-ish combat.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s literally every game. The only thing being omitted is the how and why adding flavor and context to going from A to B.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

You can go to a virtual titty bar and see virtual titties.

Point A is not the titty bar and point B is the titty bar. That’s why it’s number 1. It’s also why you’re murdering everything in your way and trying to get to B as fast as possible. Because it’s a titty bar.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Like Tetris or one of those Eye Spy games? Games where you go nowhere, or do nothing? Guarantee, you’re still moving something from A to B. Even if it’s just the mouse cursor.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Best ending dialogue to a video game ever.

“It’s time to punch a mountain… Into space!”

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

If not for Planescape being on there I would have assumed they meant only more recent games. No Jade Empire. No KOTOR. Not even Neverwinter Nights or Fallout 1 & 2 or Icewind Dale. Let alone all the classic SSI Goldbox games or even Bard’s Tale (the original from the 80’s not that shit on Xbox).

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I got bored with chess so I started playing Shogi. It’s the same thing, but different.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

I had no intention of getting it after finding out it’s less like Pokemon with guns and more like Rust with Pokemon, but a friend got it for me a few days ago.

I am already bored. I never got into shit like Rust or Ark before, either. The loop is the same, except with the addition of capturing critters to use as laborers in your base or to help in combat; not the sole means of combat and relying on them sucks because you don’t command them like you do in Pokemon but like you would in Elder Scrolls with AI about as smart. You level up to learn new tech that ultimately just helps you do higher level areas or lower level areas faster.

I think with most players it is just going to be forgotten in a few months; but the people who really like Rust and Ark and things like that, will keep Palworld going a long time because it is, at least on a technical standpoint, better than those and does have quite a lengthy tech tree to unlock. Plus it’s cuter.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Too bad you can’t dodge or move out of the way for shit. And some of them (especially bosses and shineys) are so big, it fucks with aiming.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

With how the purple elk things (I’m so bad at remembering the names lol) double jump, I immediately thought of Torrent from Elden Ring. You can dodge on him (kinda) and doing it that way would at least feel like you’re not just taking a huge disadvantage by fighting mounted to control the attacks.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Whoa what the fuck? How does it even work? It looked like you can control the direction the floor itself is moving the things on it (the way they are “force pushing” the box or when the old guy is in the chair) but it also looked like it wasn’t even moving, or uses power.

This shit looks like magic.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

I had that thing. It did “work;” just not how you’d expect and not very well. Kinda like a PowerGlove. Games that didn’t require much movement were playable; but I got it because I figured I should be able to aim way faster in Counter-Strike with my mind than with my hands on a mouse.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

They get a cozy bed, a warm fire, and prepared meals to eat in exchange for their servitude. You can also catch them by sneaking or while they are sleeping and not need to hurt them. There are also caged ones in bandit camps you rescue and they join you; presumably willingly.

You could also just catch the bad humans that shoot you on sight and make a prison camp without resorting to enslaving innocent chibi animals. We all know humans suck anyway.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

The aesthetic is very similar, but the only thing I’ve seen that looked like it was straight up ripped off was a statue of a Lugia, the Lizard Punk dudes look very much like a creature from Final Fantasy, and the fact there is an area of the map that is the Altus Plateau from Elden Ring; like nearly 1:1 except the scale is smaller.

Everything else could just be chalked up to the fact the designs are pretty simplistic representations of real animals, but you can also see clear inspiration taken from a plethora of games even if they aren’t straight up duplicating anything.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Basic? I built them things a stone castle while I sleep in a wooden shack. I eat nothing but berries and feed them the finest meats and cakes. They have a bath house that I can’t even use! My Kinguins live like kings!

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

To be fair, half the of them were already probably eating the other half before I showed up 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

They hated it because it fucking sucked, dude. Just one look at the final product and you can tell you how fucked up it is. You don’t even need to play it to see it sucks; that’s how bad it fucking sucked.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

If a car rear-ended me, I’m not sure it matters what I happen to be playing at the time. 🤔

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Lol “anonymous people.”

Plenty of reviewers whose face and name are in the lime light also said a lot of the same shit about it.

But of course the grifters are gonna try and grift the fact they were grifting once they’re caught and called out for being grifters.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

To clarify here: It’s not really the game specifically; I just know it’s the latest example of the type of game and super popular atm. It might be the best game of that genre; I still don’t like the genre itself, which is why I’m not getting Palworld.