Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 2 hours ago

None of these games are very PC. Even the most modern ones have humor and ideas stuck firmly in the early 90s and can be in extremely poor taste across all manner of things from misoginy, classism, racism, agism and ablism.

Kolanaki, 1 hour ago

What am I supposed to explore when I am going back the way I came? The simplest way of doing fast travel still generally requires you find POIs by actually going to their location before you can travel to them instantly.

I’ve done my exploring, now I want to sell all the shit I found and get back to finding more!

Kolanaki, 1 hour ago

And those get pretty repetitive and aren’t rewarding enough that I wanna go through that every time. Especially RDR2’s fucking habit of spawning some kind of big animal right the fuck on top of me giving me zero chance to react and making me lose all the animal pelts I’d been collecting right as I am walking up to the motherfucker who buys 'em. 🤬

(I’ve been playing that one recently and it’s reminding me why I stopped)

Kolanaki, 2 hours ago

What did that guy do to end up inside a burning man effigy?

What the fuck just grew from his blood?

What the fuck was that billowing from his back boil?

Did those pigs eat that orc’s vomit?

Kolanaki, 2 days ago

Nah the best bug was cats dying of alcohol poisoning because they’d walk through the tavern, get booze spilled on them, and then lick it off themselves when cleaning. Since they weren’t programmed to drink booze directly, they had 0 tolerance for it and would easily die from it.

Kolanaki, 1 day ago

You and me both. I want to mod shit into the game that can’t be done through the RAWs. 😩

Kolanaki, 2 days ago

“It just works!”

As in it just barely is functional at all.

Kolanaki, 2 days ago

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Kolanaki, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I feel like the only winners here are straight Russian kids who no longer have their brains rotted and creativity exploited by Roblox.

Kolanaki, 10 days ago

Maybe people are finally getting bored of the ssme old shit repackaged year after year 🤷‍♂️

Kolanaki, 10 days ago

Free for existing Guild Wars owners

I have (or had) the first one. Does it mean GW1 or GW2? I’m not even sure it I have it on a digital library or if I had it physically, it’s so old. 🤔

Kolanaki, 10 days ago

I am just gonna pretend like Epic and HB banned it only after see all this PR work they’re trying to do to save this god awful looking piece of “art.”

And just becsuse the comments here don’t seem to know the real root issue: The game originally featured a child protagonist, and that was what Valve was sent to review. They only changed the protag to an adult after the rejection and now they are throwing a hissy fit over their pedo game being banned.

Kolanaki, 10 days ago

From the title I was thinking of, like, Grognak’s Adventure inside of Fallout 4.

But from the body text… Yeah, I don’t really do that. I am usually pretty annoyed by how many servers for games I want to play aren’t actually playing the game itself, but their own game inside the game and making up their own rules. Which is totally fine, but it should advertise it somehow or not even be public as many of these groups just kick randos out anyway.

I do like a lot of mods that were inspired by these games within games tho. ARMA Life only exists because people were already trying to play the normal game that way, and with the mod the rules can be more easily enforced through scripts instead of requiring hands-on management from an admin.

Kolanaki, 12 days ago

I kinda stopped cheating in games when cheats stopped being button combos or console commands. I never cared enough about using them that I am gonna go out of my way to modify the game or use a 3rd party tool to be able to cheat.

If the game has them built in, I might partake. Tho even back in the day, the one I used most just made everyone have a larger head (idk why this was even such a common “cheat”).

Kolanaki, 12 days ago

True; a lot of cheats are now found as Accessibility Options. Like a lot of action games have a god mode option in the same place you’d turn text to speech on and select colorblind modes.

Kolanaki, 13 days ago

I’ve been playing GTA5’s story mode again. I haven’t played through it since it first came out on PC. I missed the fun dialogue, over the top situations, and the actually good gameplay that isn’t marred by “bugs” that are so consistent in the Online portion that it’s hard to see them as actual bugs and not intentional annoyances designed to discourage griding for cash to buy the fun stuff.

Honestly the most annoying thing in the story mode is how Franklin immediately goes home to wear the laziest bum outfit imaginable after I just spent like a million dollars buying him actually good drip and then switching to Micheal or Trevor to do a mission.

I could write a book on how many little niggling annoyances exist in GTAO.

Kolanaki, 13 days ago

I think we should keep them out of America, too.

Kolanaki, 14 days ago

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 days ago

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, 17 days ago

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, 17 days ago

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, 18 days ago

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, 19 days ago

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

Kolanaki, 19 days ago

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

Kolanaki, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

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

Kolanaki, 19 days ago

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, 20 days ago

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, 20 days ago

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, 20 days ago

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

Kolanaki, 20 days ago

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, 20 days ago

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, 21 days ago

• 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, 21 days ago

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, 21 days ago

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, 21 days ago

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, 20 days ago

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, 23 days ago

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, 23 days ago

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, 23 days ago

Ouya? More like Oi Vey!

Kolanaki, 23 days ago

VLC already exists.

Unless you mean streaming services like Netflix?

Kolanaki, 23 days ago

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, 25 days ago

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

Kolanaki, 25 days ago

Only if your name is not Charlie Brown.

Kolanaki, 24 days ago

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, 24 days ago

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, 26 days ago

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, 28 days ago

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

Kolanaki, 28 days ago

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.