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ICastFist, 7 miesięcy temu

I remember a similar story some time ago, of another map that was just a big arena filled to the brim with all the enemies. Part of the strategy was circle strafing the whole place while enemies killed one another, then using the ammo to deal with whatever was left. Can’t remember the map name

ICastFist, 7 miesięcy temu

Still better than magic in Skyrim, which by level 10 wouldn’t be causing enough damage even on mudcrabs anymore

ICastFist, 7 miesięcy temu

I find that very likely, which will be extremely on character, as Oblivion was the first single player game to sell cosmetic DLC: horse armor.

ICastFist, 7 miesięcy temu

A more apt comparison would be with film reviewers. Before the internet, knowing what a movie was about, if you didn’t care about spoilers, would require either someone watching and telling you, or reading a piece on a newspaper (or, in some places, watching TV). It’s almost the same with “professional” game reviews and how they completely lost space to random dudes on the internet.

Also, watching a video usually feels more like entertainment, whereas reading a review or walkthrough feels more like doing some research.

ICastFist, 7 miesięcy temu

Let’s see if the physical disc once said anything about needing an online connection for single play. Oh look, it did not, the subscription required was only for 2-8 players network play.

Let’s compare with Destiny 2’s back cover, a game that is a MMO and thus “cannot be owned” by the players. Hey, a “Online Play (Required)*” sticker that is not present on The Crew! The fine print has a bit that states that “Activision makes no guarantee of regarding availability of online play or features, and may modify or discontinue online services at its discretion without notice.”

FF14 . It clearly states on the rectangular bit above the T Rating: “Users are granted only a limited, revocable license and do not own any intellectual property in the game or game data”

You deceived consumers, Ubisoft. “Online Play Required” is not there, so the game should remain playable offline.

ICastFist, 7 miesięcy temu

if the soyjak was hugging the shitty ghibli AI slop while complaining about the rest, this would’ve been 10/10

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

Isn’t that exactly what’s happening as soon as you install win11?

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

Not to mention the many deals with hardware manufacturers in order to avoid competing OSs to have any chance. They managed to kill BeOS and dominate the Japanese market in the 90s

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

I filled the survey as well. It’s mostly focused on “games preservation”. I’m not up to pay subscription for anything they’re willing to offer and even made sure to tell them that I’m willing to pay a premium for whatever useful content (games) end up exclusive to subscribers

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

Someone high up in WB asked for it, clearly someone who knows better than all those developers and consumers

/s

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

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ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

Those old computer dungeon crawler games, like Wizardry or Might and Magic 1-2. Jesus, they’re absolute exercises in patience. You don’t even have to play anything very recent to see how poorly they aged, even SNES JRPGs of 1992-4 were much better.

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

I remember that the dev of Legend of Grimrock added an option for movement with the mouse because a disabled gamer wanted to play. Maybe that second friend should check that and the 2nd game out.

Using a mouse with your non dominant hand is annoying…

Yeah, for PC they’ll probably have to grit their teeth and power through the discomfort. An alternative is getting a hand in some old emulated games. Anything from the NES era can be mapped to 4 movements + 4 buttons (start, select, A, B), which on a keyboard could be WASD + Q, E, R and F. Dunno how to set something similar on a Deck.

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

Might finally try the game sometime, I bought it during a Steam sale, before Palworld was announced, but never even installed it.

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

Roblox isn’t so much “a game” but a collection of thousands of player created games (or “experiences” as the company calls them). You can find a bit of everything, from obstacle courses to first person shooters to casinos.

Since Roblox is so heavily targeted at children, it’s very easy to find pedophiles or other people with ill intent. Moderation doesn’t exist, afaik

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

What about FF14 or Guild Wars 2? Don’t they count as pre-live service MMORPGs, too?

ICastFist, 8 miesięcy temu

I hate it that you may be right

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

The freedom that Morrowind gives you has never been matched by other Bethesda titles. I think the only path that’s blocked to the player is joining the Sixth House, but at least you can kill Vivec before confronting Dagoth Ur

I can’t speak for Daggerfall’s freedom as I haven’t really delved into it, but I know it has 6 different endings depending on which faction you ally with.

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

FromSoft had been making those games for the better part of 15 years, building and iterating on what came before.

Longer, if we really want to get pedantic. King’s Field, the game and series that is now the spiritual predecessor to the Souls genre, is from 1994, so we could probably say they have been refining their own flavor of action RPG for over 30 years now.

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

Half the options of the original FF7

I’m pretty sure nobody had the option to save Aeris, side with Sephiroth, finish blowing up Shinra before having to change to disc 2, etc

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

I wonder if that’s the most expensive Doom. 75 dollars, yikes

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

The generational leap from PS3 -> PS4 wasn’t that significant already, and that happened more than 10 years ago. The biggest difference seem to be lights/shadows and texture size, the latter of which balloons game size and can tank performance

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

Final Fantasy 4 (2 on USA)

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

What those leaps do result in, however, is major performance gains.

Which many devs will make sure you never feel them by “optimizing” the game for only the most bleeding edge hardware

Then there’s efficiency. What if you could run Monster Hunter Wilds at max graphics, on battery, for hours? The first gen M1 Max MacBook Pro can comfortably run Baldur’s Gate III. Reducing power draw would have immense benefits on top of graphical improvements.

See, if the games were made with a performance first mindset, that’d be possible already. Not to dunk on performance gains, but there’s a saying that every time hardware gets faster, programmers make their code slower. I mean, you can totally play emulated SNES games with minimal impact compared to leaving the computer idling.

Saying “diminishing returns” is like saying that fire burns you when you touch it.

Unless chip fabrication can figure a way to make transistors “stack” on top of one another, effectively making 3D chips, they’ll continue to be “flat” sheets that can only increase core count horizontally. Single core frequency peaked in early 2000s, from then on it’s been about adding more cores. Even the gains from a RTX 5090 vs a RTX 4090 aren’t that big. Now compare with the gains from a GTX 980 vs a GTX 1080

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

I guess the joke can’t run Crysis

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

What about fifa my player carreer mode? It’s both RPG and sports

ICastFist, 9 miesięcy temu

Is there any minecraft clone that uses non-blocky character models? Or how would one go to mod Luanti to use different meshes for some of the characters?

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

I remember reading a review, i think from Ars Technica, that said that the dad was by far the worst parent and, as a character, someone who didn’t evolve or learn anything. Is that right?

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Yea yea, it’s all sweetbaby and DEI fault and not corporations being greedy hellholes that only worry about quarterly profits since forever. /s

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Activision is a lefty company with a lefty culture. Dear fucking lord, that has to be one of the worst takes I’ve read on lemmy. What’s next, Mark Zuckerberg is a deep cover lefty librul?

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

ITT we can see hardcore gamurs that eat the shit from gamergate and gamergate 2: sweetbaby boogaloo without putting 2 and 2 together

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Please point out where I implied that corporations got greedy “only now”. Hint: i said “since forever”, the implication is that they were always shit. Then again, can’t expect much from you.

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

I thought the first gamergate was about gatekeeping women away from games games journalism. Imagine getting mad at trans people existing in a game where shapeshifting monsters and magic exist.

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Metal Gear 2

Sneaky Snake at the Slug!!

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

I started Elex but probably stopped around the 3 horu mark, went to play something else. The character you control is a fucking unlikable asshole during those initial hours.

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

2 has very interesting character development and interaction, but I agree that the final boss is a fucking joke, both as a fight and as something within the lore. Those collector praetors were much harder for me to deal with, the fuckers would easily kill off my team and fully restore barrier as soon as I started hitting its actual health

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

My friends actually took good care of borrowed CDs. My older brother, on the other hand… One time I handed him down a PSOne (back in 2006 i think, he was never big in videogames, but he played once in a while) - the dense fucker kept a thesaurus on top because he couldn’t figure how to close the lid (there was a small, bumpy part next to the open button, you had to press the lid there so it’d click close). That almost fucked the actual clicky thing

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Battlestar Galactica boardgame. It’s mostly cooperative, with the chance of having one or two players being traitors, but even without them, it’s very unlikely the humans win in the end. It’s expensive and needs a lot of table space to play, tho.

Captain Sonar can be an interesting choice, since it can be played turn-by-turn or in real time, with two teams of 1-4 each. If you working with your team doesn’t create a sense of connection, I don’t know what will.

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Mentioning the releases costs USD1.99

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

They move in realtime, but they finish a meal in 10 seconds. Bathroom breaks and baths also take ~10 seconds. Not to mention that clothes changing is a single spinning jump. Wish it was that easy in real life

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

“I’m willing to sacrifice potential sales in order to have an easier dev cycle” - I’m frankly amazed that the higher ups ok-d that

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

CRT? What’s wrong with cathode ray tubes?

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Frankly, I’ve never touched the online part in GTA5 but I hear it’s quite successful.

The microtransactions kept a very steady flow of hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter to Rockstar, so yeah, it’s absurdly successful

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Only on PVP focused games

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Damn, I’ll have to give that a try. I’ve tried to get back into DW via emulation and man, the game is ruthless! The enemies you fight on the first screen (after beating Agumon) will wipe you if don’t bother training at least one entire day first.

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Battling against wild Digimon is a waste of time in the original game

And required for certain evolutions. Not fun times heh

Made a few mistakes on the way, and now you’re stuck with a Numemon, Sukamon, or another Digimon you don’t like? Just buy a Reset Radish to revert to an egg and try again (younger me would’ve loved that item).

Back in my PSX days, I would “save up” the poop so that my 'mon would evolve straight from a baby into Sukamon on the first missed potty. Since that evolution halved all stats, and a baby’s stats were super low, it was easily a net positive as training a champion had much larger gains than a baby.

providing a fix to the “bonus try” in the gym

So now it’s possible to actually hit all marks? Because I couldn’t get it with fucking save states.

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Yeah, there were also some areas where you’d pretty much get fucked because you’d hear the digimon footsteps and, as soon as the screen faded back in, SURPRISE BATTLE. Your mon having to fight up to 3 enemies made things even harder

ICastFist, 10 miesięcy temu

Considering all the problems Bethesda had with simply making space work at all, I’m not surprised they didn’t even try to look into better games to copy from