Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

It’s not a phase, dad!

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Switch games not also on PS5

Pretty much first-party Nintendo games and a handful of independent games. I had the same desires as you, so all I really had and played and liked was:

• Animal Crossing
• Tears of the Kingdom (Breath of the Wild was good but TOTK is basically the same game but 1000x better and after playing it I have no desire to go back to BOTW)
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Clubhouse Games

And if I had known it existed while I still had the thing, I would have gotten Switch Sports.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Reporting them at the very least sends a message to the mods of the community the reported post/comment was on. Not sure about how/when it goes to instance admins, though. Which is where they really need to be reported to. Mods can block them from their community, but a spammer (human or bot) generally affects the entire server so it needs to go all the way to the top.

Blocking them also works to at least reduce the bots’ effectiveness. If everyone blocks it, it isn’t doing anything but wasting bandwidth, and if it’s not having the desired effect whoever deployed it might give up.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

My main criticism is that they have done literally nothing to establish or explain the rules/quirks of the world. If I wasn’t already a fan of the games, this show would be confusing as fuck. They expect you to just know about the NCR, the Brotherhood, what a ghoul is, what caps are, etc. Like, I hate exposition, but this is going too far in the opposite direction with it.

The other is the place and time. I watched all 8 episodes and it seemed like it took place in multiple parts of the country between at least Massachusetts and California considering they say they are in the Commonwealth at the beginning, but clearly are in Los Angeles pretty much the rest of the time, and it’s unclear how long McClane and Maximus’ journey had been due to the weird time compression. It’s almost like a TV show done like a linear game where you just move from set piece to set piece, while losing all the stuff you do in between.

Other than that I loved it. If it didn’t have actors I recognize and have the studio logos in the opening credits, I could easily believe this was made by hardcore fans of the games as a independent project.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I remember next to nothing about the game’s “plot”, if there was any to begin with.

I only remember the first 2 TM games and the plot was some rich fuck made a death match competition and the winner gets a single wish granted as their prize; but the wish every character makes in their ending (by beating the game as that character) is always corrupted Monkey’s Paw style.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

“Eat verification bullet to continue”

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

They cited poor sales? Wasn’t the remake of the first one a hit? Even though it was competing with a bunch of great new shit at the time?

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I think the last good Ubisoft game I truly loved was Beyond Good & Evil. And I am pretty sure they merely published that, but it’s been a long time I could be misremembering.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Blast Corps was my favorite single player game on the system that wasn’t Ocarina of Time. Though, I still think the ending to the story was awful and anti-climatic.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Are you the quiet nerdy guy with a Prius? 🤔

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Used to be Link to the Past but now the title is held by Tears of the Kingdom.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Mame emulator of the actual arcade releases. The graphics are better, there’s no censorship, and it’s really the more authentic way to play them, since they first were arcade machines before they came to home consoles.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I remember printing these out, too. They were usually hundreds of pages. And we still had a printer that used paper with the holes on the side. Shit took forever. Just grrrntchchgrrrntchchgrrrntchchgrrrntchch (printer sounds) all day.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Are pinhole glasses safe? Just a pinhole made between two pieces of cardboard? We made those when I was a kid, though we never got to see an eclipse.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I can’t see it anyway from my part of the world :( I was just curious because it doesn’t seem like it would be safe, but it was literally taught to me in elementary school.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

“NO TOILETS!”

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Already a thing for Roku/Android TVs.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Should be able to with Roku since they are also Android based. I’ve found a bunch of things to side load or modify any TV running on Android or based on Android… Which only sucks because I was looking for that kind of stuff for my shit-ass Samsung TV which isn’t Android based 😩

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Aren’t .APKs only usable with Android systems? I’ve sideloaded .apks to my old Roku stick for things that weren’t on the official app manager.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I’ve heard that it’s still by and large like the original game in many areas, so I could see it not hitting with that crowd. But among the old geezers like myself who never stopped playing the old stuff, it’s got nothing but praise. Personally haven’t played it (or even the original game for that matter; only ever had SS2) but both look amazing, and I want to play it.

I have a lot of other remake games and engine ports from Night Dive and almost all of them are absolutely phenomenal.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Doubtful. The Dreamcast mostly failed due to lack of faith in the product from SEGA. They stopped development on them only like a year after they came out, IIRC, despite having a super solid and amazing catalogue already.

Microsoft will probably kill the Xbox, but not because they just don’t think it will go anywhere. More because they will make changes trying to sell more of them, until nobody wants them because they suck.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Does your app have an option to open links in the default external browser (which I would assume you have Firefox as)?

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Is this picture from a children’s Bible or from a Jojo story board? 🤔

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Google Nintendo Cardboard

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I’m less upset by what the MTX is or that it’s there in a seventy dollar single player game, than I am that they did not disclose it would even have MTX until the day it launched.

If it has been known before hand, I wouldn’t have really cared too much. RE4 has the same kind of MTX, it does not affect the game, but it was also known before launch that it would have it.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I find this whole thread hilarious because it’s exactly the kind of dialogue I have come to expect from a dating sim style game.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I remember when he was harder. Day 1, he was like a level 90 boss because of a bug when he was meant to be a level 60 one. Beat him before they fixed it; now he feels too easy. lol

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

The story’s been basically the same since the first game anyway: Gannon bad. Zelda missing. Kill Gannon; rescue Zelda. Oh and there’s maybe a triangle to find depending on the game.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Ocarina of Time, Zelda was a badass ninja warrior that was constantly helping you.

And is then captured by gannon toward the end of the game and you must rescue her.

Doesn’t appear in Majora’s Mask

I am not even counting the games she doesn’t appear in at all. Link’s Awakening and pretty much all the GBA games are like that. But they aren’t the main series, either.

In Wind Waker, Zelda was the leader of a gang of pirates. She had their respect and undying loyalty despite all being twice her size, because of her toughness and bravery.

And she is kidnapped at some point in the game, and you must rescue her.

Don’t remember Twilight Princess

Like Link to the Past, OOT and WW: Shes kidnapped toward the end by Ganon, and you must rescue her.

Skyward Sword

Zelda is literally trapped in a crystal and must be rescued by killing Demise. Sure, she put herself in that crystal, but you still save her from being imprisoned forever.

BOTW

Like Skyward Sword, Zelda is trapped as energy in a constant battle to keep Ganon at bay. Since she comes back in TOTK, you obviously rescued her.

TOTK

I haven’t beat the whole game yet, but either it’s the only main series one where you don’t rescue Zelda, or Link finds a way to turn her back to normal, which would be like rescuing her, much like Skyward Sword and BOTW. And please don’t spoil it for me; the big twist was already spoiled by all the memes and it’s impact when seeing it happen in the game wasn’t nearly as cool as it would have been otherwise.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Every Miyazaki Fromsoft game ever.

I have no idea how I’m not bored yet. They’re all just so damn satisfying to play. I went from mostly online FPS to these games after I got Prepare to Die Edition back in the day. Any given time I play a game now, there’s an 80% chance it’s one of these or something similar to them (like The Surge, Mortal Shell, Lies of P, etc).

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

The switch natively can tune the performance, which you might notice going from docked to handheld mode and seeing the quality dip.

The emulated setup is probably bypassing some of this, which would likely have a “safety” zone it never leaves to make sure the performance is always smooth and the battery isn’t being drained too fast, and it’s likely pretty conservative.

The Quest 3 does the same thing and using some tools, you can adjust the hidden visual settings of a game to make it look better or run faster at the cost of some more heat and battery usage. Natively, it really holds back what it will allow the software to do with the hardware because it’s focused more on battery life, and cranking up, say, Wrath of Asgard 2, you might only get an hour of battery but it looks and runs way better.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I agree, but I mean… Nintendo’s primary audience are children and adults who aren’t necessarily tech savvy. The Deck’s primary audience is practically the exact opposite. Having it work is more important than squeezing out every last ounce of power for most consumers. The same applies to the Quest (though it is much simpler to unlock that power if you’re a dev or power user than a Nintendo product).

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I would assume the cart slot is directly connected to the bus and should be faster than going through the USB port, but that’s just a wild guess since I don’t know enough about hardware let alone the specifics of the Switch’s.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I just think of giving some mercy to the tech support team by not having the options where someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing could fiddle with it. The way you enable developer options in Android would be nice though. Fun even; it’s like finding an Easter egg.

In a perfect world, we’d be able to just use the hardware however the fuck we wanted without any barriers. 😞

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Can’t help but wonder how much of this is due to Hasbro’s mismanagement.

All of it.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Unless the sequel is using way better tech and requires a new engine or massive engine tweaks, a sequel that comes shortly after the original release could be done better, faster and cheaper as an expansion pack.

Other than EUIV though, whose expansions are a money grab way to make the game cost 150 bucks, I haven’t ever played DLC I can think of.

Well there ya go. Paradox DLC is just bullshit. Most of them just add like 1-2 units or characters or factions which mostly boil down to an aesthetic change. Most big games get real additions via DLC that can add up to 50% more game.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I’ll just wait until it gets the Dark Arisen treatment and all the MTX and pre-order content becomes freely available in the game and the limits on port stones and the random currencies that aren’t just gold for shops are removed.

The original game originally had limited fast travel, too. But it was eventually made non shitty and you can just buy the stones you drop as FT points at a shop in the main city.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

They added this shit after the reviews and shit came out and said it didn’t have any of this garbage though, so it’s a bit unfair.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I want more Sam & Max but with the Wolf Among Us style mechanics. 😩

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Brilliant. It would allow for having HL3 while also not for ing Valve to make a 3rd thing.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

What’s the other game? Because if it’s not Arcanum we have a 3rd.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

It’s not like the UI in Death Stranding is unique, so I find it a bit odd that anyone would be this upset by it and not also most other video games.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

According to Vaati, from interviews given to Japanese magazines, the entrance to the DLC is Miquella’s arm coming from the cocoon at the back of Mogwyn palace. So you’ll likely have to at least get past Mogh, Lord of Blood, to enter.

Honestly, he’s easier than the one in the sewer. At least Lord of Blood bleeds.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

The Steam version makes 90% of the learning curve (learning the UI) disappear because it is so, so much better than the legacy version lol

The game itself is really rather straightforward and easy to figure out. It was always the presentation and layout of the UI and hotkeys that made it a challenge to actually start playing since you could know what you needed to do, but not know how to reach the command for it.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

The only things I currently want are Helldivers 2 and Shadow of the Erdtree. Neither of which are likely to go on sale soon. 😞

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

+1 for Lies of P. It’s the most Fromsoft-like game of that style not made by Fromsoft I’ve ever played. So if you’re a big Soulsebornering fan, it’s right up there with those.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

8,000,000 x 40 is 320,000,000. So they’ve made a few bucks.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I’m still sure the devs got a couple bucks. At least a pizza party.