Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Does it have to specifically be semi-realistic, have old guns, be military themed and in first person? Cuz I know some fine twin-stick sci-fi co-op shooters that can fill the same “shoot everything that moves with minimal effort” itch but they aren’t realistic, military themed or first person.

Like Synthetic 1 and 2 or The Ascent. I know of a couple WW2 games also similar but they completely lack co-op (or any kind of multiplayer for that matter) except for Jagged Alliance. And those games are old (except for the F2P thing that might not even be around anymore).

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

I’ve been calling it the Soap Opera of gaming since first playing Lost Judgment.

The games are about various yakuza/ex-yakuza just living their best lives basically. The main plot differs from game to game, but most of them are what I would call an “every game.” It’s got a little bit of everything; the majority of them are absolutely batshit insane side missions and mini games while the main game is a brawler/dialogue heavy RPG.

If you like video games and anime, this is a series for you because it’s basically both at once and every game is both self-contained and enjoyable on its own, but also references past games a lot and has impeccable continuity.

This one with pirates I have a feeling is going to be a lot like Infinite Wealth with Kasuuga being either one of if not the main character. He has a super wild imagination; every time you get into combat in Infinite Wealth, everyone changes to some fantastical creature or hero. Like you get into a fight with some drunk business men and suddenly they’re fire breathing zombies. It’s great.

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I don’t know how they expected to succeed without any marketing. I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of this game, even on my PS5 (where they usually advertise the absolute hell out of a 1st party title like this), until the day it released.

Or how their game being just another hero shooter/moba crossover in a sea of such games would differentiate itself enough to warrant also costing $40 instead of being like its competition which is FREE.

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Smite. Apex Legends. Team Fortress 2. Valorant. Rainbow Six Siege.

And these are just the popular ones.

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Considering they’re going for patent infringement and not copyright infringement, it’s possible it just took this long for Nintendo’s legal department to find something even remotely tangible that they could sue over. And since they haven’t said what patents Palworld infringes on, I have to assume whatever it is, is very flimsy.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

They’re just gonna wing it and hope they have something.

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Furry smash?! :O

Gimme!

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

This looks more like a Smash clone, which while technically a fighting game, is generally more accessible for people who don’t play fighting games. You can be pretty good just mashing buttons at random unlike Tekken or Street Fighter. Just FYI.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Sims multiplayer sounds like it could be fun

Me, who remembers The Sims Online: 🤣

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

There wasn’t anything to do. The whole loop of the game was basically akin to making a carnival midway and trying to sucker other players into your home to have their sims pay your sims for crap they could have used in their own home. All so you can buy better attractions for more money.

I imagine a new version would simply change the sims paying other sims to players paying EA directly.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Subnautica can straight up give you thlassophobia.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

MarioKart: Bowser

Smash: Solid Snake (or Link depending on which Smash Bros)

I dunno what the Kart says about me but I am pretty sure my Smash character says my snake is solid and I wanna play with your box.

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You could wait a bit for Splitgate 2, I suppose. It is set to come out next year.

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Is ~20k and dropping daily players enough to warrant a live service model? 🤔

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Yes, it’s a live service game. Most major free to play games are. Instead of selling you the game or selling adspace to advertisers, they sell you bits and pieces of the game like skins and such.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

I always really liked Abbadox on NES.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

The Ascent.

Bit of diablo, bit of Borderlands; good game but lacks variety and also has some insane jumps in the difficulty. Playing on Normal is hard enough with no extra payout. Hard is impossible unless you are absolutely perfect in execution. Might as well put it on Easy and just have fun endlessly blasting punks, mutants and machines because when you start dying in the first 2 seconds of every boss fight, it stops being fun.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

I just wall myself up inside with a gate and wait out the sieges. I also place two dogs outside the main entrance to catch kidnappers. Has the same effect without needing to mod the game or alter the settings.

Of course once I can build ballastas or make use of water/lava, I can set up winding paths with Dwarven Shotguns (basically using water pressure and garbage I can fire minecarts full of crap at high speeds) to obliterate trespassers.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah. It’s a bit amateurish, but it’s a cheap game too. They clearly spent a lot more time on the writing and visuals but really my only heavy criticism is that there isn’t enough variety in how you play. There’s basically just 1 build and 1 set of viable weapons. But if you just wanna turn your brain off and blow things up, it’s an awesome game.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

THPS: The RPG

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So what’s actually new or different about what has already existed for quite a while now?

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If you have a choice of buying food for a month or buying a video game, and you choose the video game, I am not sure the problem is with the game.

Not having enough in-game smut is a bigger issue.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

I never uninstalled Disco Elysium and I still can play it even though my subscription ended.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Because of the lore I know why we fight Maliketh. But also because of the lore I don’t know why we fight Maliketh instead of just asking for Destined Death.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

That is the beauty of these games; you only get told the story if you go looking for it. You can still play the entire game and even all the extra content and not have a single thing straight told to you that’s out of your control. Every time I go and play something else, the biggest frustration for me is that I’m just there for the game part, but it takes control away a lot just to give me half an hour of exposition to a story I’m not paying attention to.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Of course he thinks generative AI is the shit. Anyone remember Project Milo? He probably thinks that could actually be made. Again.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Barrens chat was wild back in the day. Can’t imagine how it is now a days with how every online game is so full of toxicity that the most common thing I do the first time I play anything now is disable chat entirely.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Getting banned for an “inappropriate name” isn’t new… I had a toon banned for the name of “sofakingkewl” when I was playing BC back in the day.

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At least 1. And it’s compatible with the big race mod that adds basically every single race that ever existed in D&D to the game.

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Can I make my own campaign yet?

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Remaking them in the same tired-ass engine would only make them worse and it’s not likely they will ever give up their Frankenstein’s monster of GameBryo in favor of something that isn’t a pile of dogshit.

The last few re-releases of Skyrim where they updated some visual features and added new content (most of which they didn’t make) is as close to a remaster or remake they will actually do.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

I feel like the best you could possibly find is a game that uses a resource as payment that isn’t called “money,” but mechanically it would be the same.

But there is Minecraft. You can farm in that and you don’t need money (even though it exists in the form mentioned above). Or Project Zomboid which money exists as money but is only useful as toilet paper.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

What even is the point, though? The number of games made specifically for the PS5 can be counted on 1 hand and it’s not like those have significant performance issues that warrant even more powerful hardware.

Do any of these bigger numbers mean one would at least be able to play an existing game in 4k with ray tracing at higher than 30fps?

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Speaking of Fallout, do Fallout 1 and 2 have any proper spiritual successors? I’d love to play one!

Wasteland. Though, technically speaking, Fallout is the successor to it.

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To be fair, the graphics had been improved at least twice when I still played back before the Panda race expansion was added. It hasn’t always looked the way it looks today.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Used to be the Logitech F310. Simple, reliable, used my preferred layout, inexpensive, and durable.

Then I got a PS5 and experienced the DualSense’s adaptive triggers and I can’t go back.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Could just be dirty. The only time I had weird stick issues was because a hair got caught under the right stick and kept making my aim jump around willy nilly. They’re pretty easy to take apart and put back together if you have the right screwdrivers.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

They’ll just use AI to make it.

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Dirty Bomb, Monday Night Combat

These aren’t even hero shooters. They’re just basic arena shooters. Unless they have drastically changed since they released (which was the last time I played either).

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Just the idea of a trailer for a board game is funny as hell to me.

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I remember when the best NES emulator was NESticle. Hard to not pronounce it “ness” after that.

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Yes. The 4th A was to the front and it stands for Awful AAA game.

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It might have sold better if they actually named it Skibidi Bonesacks.

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How is this only blowing your mind now and not the entire past decade or so where this has become the norm for the giant corpo devs like Blizz, EA, and Ubisoft? This has been common long enough that I’ve become completely numb to it now.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

They’ve always been more about Hollywood realism than actual realism.

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That’s a good policy. I highly recommend sticking with it. 🫠

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It’s pretty hard to make levels of difficulty that actually change things enough outside of either giving the enemies more damage and HP or simply adding more enemies, or in scored games having higher score thresholds for higher ranks (these can be anything from an actual score to the speed you finished and everything in between that’s basically just a number that you can compare to another number).

It certainly can be done, though. I can’t help but think about the bots in counter-strike. They range from braindead drooling moving targets to Terminator machines that can 1 tap you with a pistol from across the map. They actually have a difficulty scale that’s more than simply being tougher to kill and hurting you more. It affects how they move around, the speed they begin shooting, their accuracy, etc. I don’t know why these kind of bots do not extend to pretty much any game with enemies. Just give them 3 sets of behavior that makes them easier or harder to deal with.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Not to mention that if you’re already playing PS4 games, a PS5 isn’t opening up a lot more games for you and many PS4 ports to PS5 run worse than their PS4 counterparts.