MajorHavoc

MajorHavoc, 2 dni temu

More frequent updates means more version mismatches and more trouble to modders and server hosters to have to constantly update.

Yep. As someone who hosts servers and writes mods, I’ve moved over to MineTest for exactly that reason.

MajorHavoc, 6 dni temu

I look forward to the economics research paper that this will cause:

“A study of the effects of ‘Balatro’ on GDP”

MajorHavoc, 10 dni temu

Idk why you are downvoted.

Calling unions “legacy institutions” is a dangerous take that could get some of our kids or grandkids killed in coal mines.

I’ll admit my kids aren’t perfect, but they deserve better than to be victims of the current blatant strategic communications agenda to turn their kids into wage slaves at age 8, so that Elon Musk can build an even bigger penis shaped rocket.

MajorHavoc, 9 dni temu

Thanks! That is the thread I thought I replied to.

I’m gonna claim my Lemmy client got lost. Or maybe I just got lost in the context.

MajorHavoc, 15 dni temu

Yeah.

And I’ve started avoiding thumb sticks in portables because my old retro controllers with (non-hall effect) thumb sticks now have so much control drift that the D-pad is also unusable.

(While my retro controllers and systems that just had D-pads are still fine.)

MajorHavoc, 17 dni temu

Whether I buy this game may depend entirely on whether abducted humans can be turned into chuaua hybrids.

I hope they understand that this game needs to be deeply deeply weird, to succeed.

MajorHavoc, 16 dni temu

As someone who missed Monkey Island the first time around, I would be very down for a FFVII style remaster.

I want to go back and play it, but I worry the controls on the classic will be too much of a drag for me to get through it.

MajorHavoc, 16 dni temu

Agreed. The lack of a modern remake of Sid Meijer’s Pirates is tragic.

MajorHavoc, 21 dni temu

It’s a pretty flawless game

Indeed. It’s a little spooky.

After completing the whole game I thought, that was really fun, other than…wait… The whole thing was fun. That can’t be right…?

MajorHavoc, 21 dni temu

Ooh. Sweet.

MajorHavoc, 21 dni temu (edited 21 dni temu)

Overcooked

I too choose to try to break up this person’s friendship.

I’m kidding… Mostly.

MajorHavoc, 23 dni temu (edited 20 dni temu)

for a while it was the most played videogame in the world.

I see what you did there!

Space War historySpaceWar is the first game to be frequently ported to different computers, back when computers took up a big portion of the room they sat it, and when “porting” was practically re-coding, from scratch, in Assembler.

MajorHavoc, miesiąc temu

I can’t wait to watch the YouTube “How did this get made?!” series on the upcoming AI voice acted games that bomb so hard that only angry YouTube personalities remember them.

MajorHavoc, miesiąc temu

They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.

MajorHavoc, miesiąc temu

Let’s see how he union negotiations go.

MajorHavoc, miesiąc temu

The work of these innovative new AIs is Coming Soon! to a VHS $3.00 bin near you!

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Asshole lawsuits and “day one patches” finally killed my love for the Switch.

I don’t feel good about sending money to Nintendo anymore. And I don’t feel confident that my physical media Switch cartridges will stand the test of time after Nintendo shuts the patch servers down.

But I’ll always appreciate the innovation. I’m not buying games for it anymore, but it’s a fun part of my home game setup.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu

Mini Motor Racing might be a good match. It has some DLC available (additional cars), but none of it is necessary to enjoy the game.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

Fury Unleashed is charming as hell, but it’s the buttery smooth controls that make it so replayable.

As an old-school platform and bullet hell player, I don’t play many modern platform or bullet hell games, because I’ve been spoiled by tight controls from the 8-bit era, and so many modern games don’t match the responsiveness.

But I found Fury Unleashed incredibly accessible, mostly because the controls are so responsive.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

Overcooked 2 has one of those perfect gaming moments: the balloon crashes into a another restaurant, and instead of a cutscene, we just start getting orders off a different menu. It really sets the tone for the game.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu

Rekt is a stunt game in the spirit of Tony Hawks Pro Skater.

The controls are fantastic. The levels are interesting. Various unlockable cars are fun. The gameplay loop is satisfying.

It was a fair deal back when it was $15.00. At $1.50 it’s an absolute steal.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu

The Halo Anniversary collection shines on SteamDeck. It was my first purchase after getting mine, I think.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu

constrained in order to not break the game.

While that’s true, I suspect that whoever gets there first will get a free pass in the court of public opinion, so long as it’s a single player game.

“Look how awful my Sims are” is already a recurring gag hobby, anyway.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu

Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I’m somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from “patient gamer” to “gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo’s and EA’s bullshit” honestly wasn’t a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

MajorHavoc, 2 miesiące temu

Switch 2 is coming which I have no desire for.

I was hyped for the Switch 2 until the latest round of bullshit lawsuits. Now I’m going to pass.

I’ll be sure to buy an emulator from China pre-loaded with every Switch 2 title in about a decade, though.

MajorHavoc, 3 miesiące temu

Civ6 was buggy as hell on Switch. Anyone know if it’s stable on PC?

I want the hours I played back before it corrupted my game save, so $3 is still be too much to ask, to me.

MajorHavoc, 3 miesiące temu

As someone who sometimes buys these, the price, when on sale, is often cheaper than buying wood and hardware to build my own outer cabinet, control deck and screen.

There’s trade-offs - the materials used aren’t quite as nice as I would pick, but then the included, already applied, art is very nice. And there’s the convenience of not having to plan out all the details like control layout, monitor, side art, top bezel.

To me, it’s really a piece of furniture, rather an affordable way to play the included games.

The CPU cores also only last about 5 years, for me. Which isn’t good, considering that a cheap modern computer will easily last 8-15 years.

I, personally, don’t give a ton of consideration to the included games. I’m really just buying the outer shell and licensed artwork. That’s what I’ll be looking at when not playing.

I’ll replace the innards with a Raspberry Pi when it dies, if not sooner. So I’ll play whatever games I want that fit the control scheme.

I also replace all of the controls, about half the time. The included controls outlast the CPU core, but don’t feel as nice to play on as a set that’s reasonably easy to replace them with.

MajorHavoc, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

So, they are just a fancy decoration?

Exactly. There’s so many better ways to play these games:

• Pandora’s Box
• Batocera / Emulation Station / RetroPi on a Raspberry Pi
• Various mini systems with a jailbreak (Sega Genesis Mini and PlayStation Classic are particularly good)
• SteamDeck or PC with Emulation Station and RetroArch

So the price is really only justifiable, to me, by thinking of the cabinet being a piece of the decorated furniture.

MajorHavoc, 3 miesiące temu

Pandora’s Box is a game machine, with games pre-loaded. It tends to have thousands of arcade games pre-loaded.

It’s a popular choice for restoring actual full size arcade machines, with dead motherboards. It’s also an option to upgrade (or just revive from motherboard death) an Arcade1Up.

With some effort, a cheap PC will do the same job, but some folks like that they’re premade and ready to use.

MajorHavoc, 3 miesiące temu

Yeah. You’re both right.

The board is a usually a cheap single board computer (usually running Android, and an emulator or two).

The board is custom to the extent that the operating system has been optimized to know that it’s running inside an arcade cabinet.

MajorHavoc, 3 miesiące temu

This is fantastic. Well done!

MajorHavoc, 3 miesiące temu

Sunset Riders is a great run and gun.

MajorHavoc, 4 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

I’ve had my eye on Helldiver’s 2, but I’m not creating a PSN account. (Serious)

I know my $40.00 is pretty important to them, so I thought I would mention it here. (Sarcasm)

MajorHavoc, 4 miesiące temu

Lol. Yeah.

Sorry, I left off the /s there.

MajorHavoc, 4 miesiące temu

A third party login requirement is usually a deal-breaker for me, but not in an exciting way. I just have a lot of games to catch up on that don’t require me to go make an account.

MajorHavoc, 5 miesięcy temu

Exactly. The last year of news full of mistreating game developers caused my to retune my news feeds and Steam wishlist to completely exclude all triple A titles.

There’s years and years worth of great gameplay I haven’t experienced yet in the Indie game market.

I suspect I’m not alone in that.

MajorHavoc, 5 miesięcy temu

“We can say that, during his time at Telltale, Zak was one of the most talented, balanced and inclusive game directors we have ever worked with, and that is evident in the games he has delivered.”

That statement doesn’t read as the defense they think it reads as.

It reads as “all of our other game directors are somehow actually worse.”

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s my username. I’m a diehard fan, but MajorHavoc still kicks my ass around level 6 or 7.

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s hard to understand how this happened unless Microsoft wanted to close the studio and offered them independence instead.

Could be. Microsoft closing a studio wholesale after acquiring Activision would invite anti-trust action from various governments.

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

If funny now, but if we’re honest with ourselves, it still pissed us off, then.

It felt like I would always find that damn screen sitting there waiting on an answer, after leaving the installer running overnight. I would click “no thank you” and then see “your installer is starting, progress 0%”.

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

and we probably learned a lesson of some kind.

From now on, I’m going to tack that to the end of every game studio announcement I read, just to see how it fits.

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

My wife played it for about 15 mins.

Heck yeah!

To me, few things compare to when my life partner is briefly mildly engaged with my hobby project:

third place celebration meme

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

In my case: laziness. This version is just what came up in a quick search.

I thought it was odd, but I didn’t want to let the fellow kids know that I don’t know why it changed.

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

Shit like this is why I moved away from Nintendo for my gaming platform of choice.

But take heart, Nintendo, I’ll try to make time to enjoy Nintendo first party games later on a pre-loaded cheap Chinese knock-off device.

Except, I definitely won’t because Nintendo will definitely succeed in stuffing the genie back into the bottle, and preventing their games from being enjoyed on un-approved platforms in un-approved ways. /s

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

Nice. I’m rooting for Survivor to succeed, from the sidelines.

I’m not going to bother while it’s single player, but I’m cautiously optimistic for a multiplayer variant of DRG:Survivor in the future, should they make one.

It strikes me that a DOTA style game, built for the DRG player base, could be a ton of fun, and Survivor might grow in that direction.

I can’t be bothered by most current DOTA clones because their communities are famously toxic. Of course, I’m sure there’s already exceptions, but I’m not so desperate for a DOTA that I’ll do the research.

In any case, bringing the DRG community to a DOTA clone sounds like a good time. So I’ll keep an ear out for how Survivor develops.

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

Marvel: Midnight Suns went on sale this week, and is living up to the early positive reviews.

I’m not far enough in to say if it will rival similar games I enjoy, or will replace Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance.

But the early game is fun, and the mechanics feel like they may get better as the learning curve and progress hit full gear.

Edit: And it’s already fun, in the early game.

MajorHavoc, 6 miesięcy temu

It might not have been the mod, honestly.

The difficulty curve is all over the place, even unmodded.