Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 15 godzin temu

it turns out “country” has a double meaning in English

You mean how it’s used to describe rural areas, too? It still works the way you expect it to, even under that definition. 🤷‍♂️

Or do you mean the genre of music? 🤔

Kolanaki, 14 godzin temu

What makes a game roguish?

• Random level design
• Death is permanent
• Turn based gameplay
• Grid based movement

Most modern roguelikes tend to only have the first two of these, tho. But those are the 4 main elements of the original game for which the genre derives its own, Rogue.

And Rogue-lites tend to make progression persist after death, at least partially. Such as with the unlockable weapons and things in Hades, while the boons and other abilities are pick ups you only have until death untill you pick them up again the next run.

Kolanaki, 3 dni temu

Everything should be controllable. Give me all the options. Every graphical feature, every UI element, even gameplay mechanics. If it is as simple as adjusting a number or selecting something from a table, give me the option to control it myself.

Kolanaki, 3 dni temu

This is also hella common in a lot of online or multiplayer live service games recently. Forces you to alt-F4 if on PC. Especially bad with Sony’s playstation ports; they treat it like you’re on the PS5 and can just switch games to automatically close the running one.

Kolanaki, 4 dni temu

I remember an ad for Half-Life that was like “Most shooters just have you run and shoot, but Half-Life will make you think.”

It did not. The puzzles weren’t anything a toddler couldnt solve in 2 seconds, there are barely any of them anyway, and most of the game is just running and shooting.

Kolanaki, 5 dni temu

The majority of gamers buy into the lie that kernel level anti-cheats are more effective, when they really aren’t.

Kolanaki, 5 dni temu

Possibly one that sometimes becomes a wolf or wears lady clothes.

Kolanaki, 5 dni temu (edited 5 dni temu)

I avoided B4B because I remembered why Turtle Rock broke up with Valve after L4D and the disaster that was Evolve.

Kolanaki, 5 dni temu

I like playing Supermarket Simulator and it’s basically like what it was like working at Walmart. It’s oddly relaxing when you don’t have to actually move your body and lift shit while stocking shelves. 🤷‍♂️

Kolanaki, 6 dni temu

This year has been quite shit compared to previous one’s

The number of games being voted on for GOTY this year is pretty hard to choose from since there’s so many. They just aren’t AAA games. They’re all AA or indies.

Kolanaki, 6 dni temu

Because I no longer play (have the visual acuity for) fps I’ve heard I’m not a real gamer.

Bah! Real gamers play Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.

Kolanaki, 6 dni temu

Is it because you’re just a disembodied mouth, eating pills in the dark while being haunted by ghosts?

Kolanaki, 6 dni temu

I didn’t play Detroit for so long because I expected it to be like most other interactive movie type games where you maybe make 3 total decisions that actually have an effect on the whole story. Checked it out on PS+ and still felt that way up until I finished the first level and it shows the fucking massive decision tree of all the possible choices you could have made in that segment and was blown away. Hella them I didn’t even notice were viable things I could have tried.

This is what these kinds of games should be. It’s fucking amazing. It actually gives replayability to something that, in the past, was more of a one and done deal.

Kolanaki, 6 dni temu

No.

They haven’t released the current version of SteamOS to be installed on any machine and imaging the actual Deck’s OS won’t work on all hardware. You could do the old steam machine OS; but it is not anywhere the same as what the Deck and this new Steam Machine use other than being based on Linux.

There is Bazzite, though, which is not the same OS, but strives to offer the same experience.

Kolanaki, 7 dni temu

• No quit button or hiding it in the settings menus
• No ability to rebind controls
• Endless, unskippable intro videos
• Taking control away to have a cutscene that is all dialogue and no action that could have just as easily been something you control as you walk and listen. Especially if it’s not even an in-engine, real-time scripted thing but a pre-rendered video that doesn’t even show your actual character as you have them dressed.
• FOMO and most MTX in general.
• No ping/latency stats for everyone on the server

Kolanaki, 7 dni temu

To be fair, Zork is also just a simple text-based adventure game. I’m not even sure what could be learned by looking at its source code unless you wanted to learn that obscure, proprietary forked language itself. Text-based adventures are little more than spicy Hello World programs. 🤷‍♂️

Kolanaki, 7 dni temu

I am now imagining Microsoft making a new Zork game that is a graphical feast and not at all similar to the OG other than killing you outright if you spend too long in the dark.

Kolanaki, 7 dni temu

I had a similar softlock in Skyrim at release that wasn’t fixed until the toolset came out and I was able to go in and see that the script that was meant to fire was never actually added to the trigger. So a dude is supposed to come up to a door and open a little window to talk to you, but he would just stay sitting down in the room since the script telling him to go to the door and begin the dialogue that leads to the trigger that opens the door was written and available, but wasn’t tied to the trigger of activating the door. I just put the script into the trigger and Bam! finally was able to get through the MQ.

Ever since, I have been salty AF about Bethesda’s ability to build games. This was such a stupidly simple mistske and it persisted for months only to be fixed by modders with a simple 5 second change.

Kolanaki, 6 dni temu

The only way I think I’d be mostly okay with a remake replacing an original is if they’re remaking a shit game to make it good, but they never do that.

They remade Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing. So it has happened once. Kinda. They just forgot to make it good. It’s still just as bad.

Kolanaki, 9 dni temu

Metroid Prime. It’s the only series I know of that is fully in the genre and is also not a 2D platformer.

It’s insane to me how many Souls Likes could be 3D Metroidvanias if they used special powers to clear obstacles instead of just keys or random triggers to unlock new areas. That’s really the only thing I see that separates the genres.

Sekiro is closer than any other, but it’s mainly just 1 thing you don’t have in the prologue (the grappling hook). I would love a game that is 3D over a 2D platformer, but also has the unlockable traversal tools the way Metroid or Syphony of the Night had.

Kolanaki, 9 dni temu

I suppose it is. 🤔

You have traversal tools, but also the different guns are used to solve puzzles and progression may be locked behind having the right guns. I only have 2 of the guns so far where I am in the game but I know there’s several more.

Kolanaki, 9 dni temu

Ouya? More like Oi Vey!

Kolanaki, 9 dni temu

VLC already exists.

Unless you mean streaming services like Netflix?

Kolanaki, 9 dni temu

PotPlayer looks the same as any other media player for PC and it’s only for Windows. What about it makes VLC suck by comparison? 🤨

Kolanaki, 11 dni temu

If I bring in some old Bad Dragon toys, am I gonna get more than $5? 🤔

Kolanaki, 11 dni temu

Only if your name is not Charlie Brown.

Kolanaki, 10 dni temu

Totally sounds like it will only stops kids talking to adults but not adults talking to kids. The creeps already try to get their victims to communicate off-platform using unmoderated services. Unless this blocks the kids’ from seeing the adults’ messages, the adults trying to fuck with kids could just tell them to use a different messenger.

Kolanaki, 10 dni temu

Are you mad that kids can’t talk to you in Roblox anymore, or that nothing is being done legally about all the pedos in the game? 🤨

Kolanaki, 12 dni temu

It’s kinda up to the judges of the specific event, and they clearly aren’t interested as much in puzzle games. It never had a chance for GOTY, despite being an extremely good puzzle game.

Kolanaki, 14 dni temu

Marathon being brought back as a live servive extraction shooter/battle royale was an immediate turn off for me, personally.

Kolanaki, 14 dni temu

I wonder things would have been like if Apple, not Microsoft, bought Bungie for exclusive rights to Halo. 🤔

Kolanaki, 14 dni temu

The irony is that they actually have some pretty unique and creative ideas spread out in most of their open-world games despite the jokes about how they’re all the same. If they cared about making good shit and not just money, they could have a game that rivals or surpasses Grand Theft Auto.

Kolanaki, 17 dni temu

I was thinking about this in another thread where someone made this joke: With how much stuff Valve does outside of gaming, are we sure they have never done a 3rd iteration of something before? Like, they do business stuff too and are into a ton of random tech related things like BCIs. We only ever really hear about the game related stuff, tho. Or possibly when Gabe gets a new boat since they interview him on it.

Kolanaki, 17 dni temu

I’m just more committed to the bit.

Kolanaki, 17 dni temu

The only thing ever called a Steam Machine before was the PC architecture they tried to push over a decade ago that was more or less just cheaper PCs of various builds that all ran on the original SteamOS. None of them were made or sold by Valve itself.

The only other steam hardware that was cancelled was the Link; because you can do what it did through an app without the need for specialized hardware now.

Kolanaki, 17 dni temu

Okay what the hell is up with the Frame?

It says it is a stand alone headset and doesn’t need a PC… Right before it goes on to say it’s meant to be used with a PC but wirelessly. Is it stand alone or not? If I have Beat Saber in my library, do I have to stream it from an actual dedicated PC or can it run straight off the headset like I can with a Quest?

Kolanaki, 17 dni temu

I hope the Frame is as cheap or cheaper than a Meta Quest 3. It’s almost identical in the specs, but goes back to monochrome external cameras instead of full color. But also has eye tracking which the Q3 does not. I want eye tracking so fucking bad… I set up cameras for it before I was like “Hold up… They can’t see my eyes with the headset on 😬” lol

Kolanaki, 17 dni temu

I could have had one and didn’t get it because I never really go anywhere other than work. But boy did I regret it when I was at BLFC recently. My hotel roommates all had one and were playing Helldivers and Rocket League every night 😩

I could have brought my Quest… But I don’t have anything for the stand alone system; all my VR games are on Steam.

Kolanaki, 17 dni temu

I’ve been under the impression that it is very likely to be a sequel to Alyx. Possibly a launch title for the Frame.

But I don’t think any of the rumors expected a new Steam Machine. We thought it was gonna be a new Deck.

Kolanaki, 18 dni temu

I was kinda wondering if this whole thing is even real or just PR to hype up GTA6.

They have done some pretty questionable advertising by manufacturing controversies in the past for previous GTA games.

Kolanaki, 18 dni temu

World has everything 3 introduced and more with better visuals. So SMW is the right answer.

Really it comes down to level design. And IMO, the secret star road levels are some of the best even counting later games. Tubular! Gnarly! Radical!

But if Yoshi’s Island was an option…

Kolanaki, 18 dni temu

Gimme this and the zipline tool.

Kolanaki, 19 dni temu

Friend of mine in high school was super into Star Wars Galaxy. Was pretty much all he did after school at the time. One day he got into an argument with his guild leader or some other member with thw power to remove him, and they kicked him from the guild. This pissed him off enough that he recruited another friend of ours to infiltrate the guild and then spent the next month or so getting to a position of power within it so they could re-add the original friend and kick everyone else out while also draining the guild coffers. Effectively destroying the entire guild.

Kolanaki, 19 dni temu

So I basically started using it the year it was made. Cool.

Kolanaki, 21 dni temu

Compared to Dishonored, Prey lacks all the movement. But I wouldn’t have compared it to Dishonored anyway; It’s more like System Shock 2 and is pretty good compared to that.

Unless they’re talking about the older Prey… 🤔

Kolanaki, 21 dni temu

The new Silent Hill 2.

The use of DLSS makes it look like a fugly, smudged mess unless you’re totally motionless. The combat is inconsistent; hit a monster, it gets stunned but then jankily cancels the stun animation to grab you or attack through your attack so it hits you but you don’t hit it.

Not sure what is better than the original other than the graphics when standing still. Even the voice acting is the same not good delivery as the OG, despite having been re-done.

Kolanaki, 22 dni temu

What’s the last guy’s games?

Kolanaki, 22 dni temu

“You think this is hard? This is just the TUTORIAL LEVEL!”

Just become Dog Ninja. It’s better than being forced to wear a chicken hat at least.