Quazatron

Quazatron, 5 days ago

Maybe 1985, but 1986 and 1987 were good too.

Quazatron, 7 days ago

Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:

Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.

Quazatron, 16 days ago

I feel this is true about much of what you see online currently. Videos that could have been an short how-to, articles that contain mostly AI generated filler. Also, if you want support on that you better join our discord.

I have genuine gratitude to people who share their in depth knowledge online using old fashion HTML.

Quazatron, 20 days ago

TIL. Thank you.

Quazatron, 20 days ago

I was lazy and just copy/pasted the Steam page blurb.

Quazatron, 18 days ago

Nah, I have nothing to do with this, only a happy gamer.

Quazatron, 30 days ago

You maybe high, but you are right nonetheless.

Quazatron, 30 days ago

“Oh. It’s you.”

Such a loveable heap of junk.

Quazatron, 1 month ago

I’m still playing Doom, the original!

Quazatron, 1 month ago

Gimme!

Quazatron, 1 month ago

Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?

Quazatron, 2 months ago

Regarding difficulty: I’ve lived through the 80’s, where difficulty was ramped up to make the game last longer, as you only had precious few kilobytes to fill with content. I’ve grown to hate difficult games.

It is your right as creator to go that way if you wish, but it is my right as player to hate your guts if I buy your game and it kills me over and over again in the first minutes.

Quazatron, 2 months ago

If it is clear that the topic is Impressionist art, I would not go. If I buy the ticket to see Expressionism and get Impressionism instead, I would fell upset.

(Actually, I’d go either way, I love art)

Quazatron, 2 months ago

One factor they don’t seem to consider is that they are competing for a finite resource: consumer attention.

There has never been so much content to consume: not only games, movies, series, music, books, podcasts, and even old games.

New games have to compete with and stand above all that content to justify the price.

As others have said, purchase power is down, people subscribe to more services (net, mobile, streaming music and video), all that bites into the available budget to buy games.

Bottom line: it’s getting hard to justify spending that amount on a game you don’t have time to play.

Quazatron, 3 months ago

Only nerds and dweebs and losers play single player games.

Some people actively avoid multiplayer games to avoid obnoxious, entitled kids.

Quazatron, 3 months ago

I was very happy with The Print Shop. You could print huge signs and banners by stitching smaller pages together. Fun times.

Quazatron, 4 months ago

To me it is the inverse of socializing. It’s an escape to a world where I don’t have to deal with people.

Quazatron, 4 months ago

Faraway 1, 2 and 3.

Really chill first person puzzle game.

Quazatron, 4 months ago

Any platform that restricts how and what I can run in it has inherently less value to me. This is why I mostrly avoided consoles all my life.

The only console I bought was the original Wii. The games were extremely expensive, and they disabled all the services that made the console useful after a few years (weather channel, news channel, store).

Fortunately I added a few SNES, PCEngine, Genesis/Megadrive and Gamecube emulators otherwise I would now have a very pretty white doorstop.

Quazatron, 4 months ago

There was the Homebrew Channel back then, but it seemed to have gone offline. I assumed people just lost interest and moved on.

Based on what you said I did a quick search and found that there’s still an active community around the console, so thank you!

I’m updating my Homebrew Browser to see what’s new.

Quazatron, 4 months ago

This is one of the games that I always keep installed. Just chilling, gliding around, trying to climb higher and higher. Love it.

Quazatron, 4 months ago

I have never encountered the bugs you describe. Maybe you got a bad version?

Quazatron, 4 months ago

That may be the reason. I play the GoG version on Linux and it’s great.

Quazatron, 4 months ago

The Halo series.

I like shooters, so I got the full bundle and I tried hard to like it.

None of the games gave me a lasting impression. The plot didn’t stick with me, the enemies were weird, the guns felt weak and flimsy, the rooms kept repeating in some sections and it got very boring. There were some fun bits with the vehicles, etc., but overall the experience was… pretty much average.

I was expecting something like the Half-Life series, but this wasn’t it.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

Well, for starters, games are going to get more expensive.

That is their prerogative. Mine is not buying overpriced games.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

I’ve sunk nearly 800 hours on it.

Good luck.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

Finally installed Doom 2016. It’s nice, but the gameplay is not clicking with me.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

Now that you put it like that, I think what puts me off is all the melee and glory kills. Not my cup of tea. I need my social distancing from hellspawn. That, and the puny amounts of ammo. When I play a boomer shooter, I want to shoot. If I wanted melee, I’d play Mortal Kombat or something.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

Torchlight and Torchlight 2 are great games and even have mods available.

I hear 3 and Infinite are not, though.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

I guess so.

The first two (mainly the first) had that special something you get in indie games.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

I never uninstall it, in fact I have several copies: Steam, GOG…

Quazatron, 5 months ago

Different tastes.

The simplicity, artwork and playability appeals to me.

Quazatron, 5 months ago

Amen.

Quazatron, 6 months ago

Here are the ones that don’t get uninstalled from my potato box:

• Sable
• Ion Fury
• Torchlight
• Ziggurat
• Baba Is You
• Edritch
• Fez
• Plunge
• Valley
• Into The Breach
• Journey

(Disclaimer: some are very old, some may not be indie, eh, I did my best.)

Quazatron, 6 months ago

I played this two weeks ago and it still rocks.

Quazatron, 6 months ago

The first and only console I bought was the original Wii. Games were expensive so I did not have many. I managed to install a few emulators and use it for older console emulation.

After some years they started pulling the plug on the online services. That’s when I decided I would never buy another console again. I will not feed any more walled gardens. I have more games than I can play on my PC, a lot of them are DRM free.

Quazatron, 7 months ago

I loved Black Mesa up to this point. They turned Gonarch into a RPG sponge in an arena full of hard to avoid clutter which makes it nearly impossible to dodge the attacks.

Quazatron, 7 months ago

Finally, someone who understands my pain. Thank you for the insights.

Quazatron, 7 months ago

I think upscaling is a good idea. Most of the time I’m running around while dodging bullets, arrows or fireballs, so I don’t really have time to examine the details of the foliage around me at the pixel level. I also will not buy an overpowered space heater so that the grass in my game looks more realistic. I don’t want a triple fan monster sounding like a turbojet near me.

Quazatron, 7 months ago

It’s both financial (huge investment for a single game) and not. Playing with a thing strapped to your face does not sound fun. Especially with glasses. Or in the summertime. Plus I’m a Linux gamer, so I’d probably run into a lot of issues before I could run it.

Quazatron, 7 months ago

Thanks, that’s nice to know in case I decide to get a VR headset in the future.

Quazatron, 7 months ago

Good luck guys, do let us know how it turned out.

Quazatron, 9 months ago

Looks like PatientGamers’ membership numbers will be on the rise soon.

Quazatron, 9 months ago

This is the way.

Thank you for the first link, kind stranger.

Quazatron, 10 months ago

As someone who grew up when you could physically count the bloody pixels on the screen, this whining about a miserable invisible miniscule artifact makes me palmface very hard.

Quazatron, 10 months ago

I focus on the playability and addictiveness of the game; you focus on the immersiveness and photo-realism of the experience.

That does not make either of us right or wrong, we’re just weighing different aspects differently.

Quazatron, 10 months ago

Over 700 hours in Skyrim. I don’t know how that happened as it’s not my usual game type. I usually go for shooters like Half-life or Serious Sam,b or puzzles like Portal or Talos Principle.