Quetzalcutlass

Quetzalcutlass, 26 dni temu

The only cookie that melts in your mouth. I swear the dough is just densely packed powdered sugar.

Quetzalcutlass, miesiąc temu

Half-Life, and more recently Abiotic Factor (which is basically Half-Life reimagined as a survival crafting game).

Quetzalcutlass, miesiąc temu

He’s excellent, but I’ll stress the “not a review” part. He’s hilarious but you usually won’t get a good look at the games from watching his videos. He’ll often take a single mechanic and spend the entire video breaking the game in half using it, which means he won’t show 90% of the game’s content or how it normally plays.

Quetzalcutlass, 3 miesiące temu

Spec Ops actually did have choices where you could be good (or at least less bad), but ironically people missed them because they didn’t think being good would work.

For example, at one point you’re being harassed by an angry mob of locals. A lot of players simply shot them because a lifetime of experience with shooters told them that no other input would be recognized. But in actuality, if you fired warning shots at the ground or over their heads the civilians would flee without incident.

Quetzalcutlass, 3 miesiące temu

Both can be played on modern Windows with Krimsky’s patches. They’d probably work in Wine, but I’ve never tested them.

Quetzalcutlass, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

I liked how SimCopter actually used the same systems as SimCity 2000, with cop cars coming from police stations and fire trucks from the firefighters. Well thought out SimCity maps actually made your life easier, rather than being window dressing.

I wish someone would bring back the concept. There was a SimCopter mod for Cities: Skylines back when it first released, though I think it was abandoned. That would be the perfect game for it, since half of SimCopter was dealing with traffic and Skylines had an amazing traffic simulation.

Mostly, I just liked the Apache helicopter you could use to blow everything up

Until you hit a nuclear power plant and it wiped out half the city (and probably fried your copter too) once it burned down.

UFOs would also start spawning when an Apache was present on the map and start abducting civilians and blowing up buildings until you shot them down. I think that was the only other disaster the game simulated?

Quetzalcutlass, 3 miesiące temu

You may enjoy Dungeon Keeper.

Quetzalcutlass, 3 miesiące temu

I believe the last pre-Paradox build is still available under Steam Betas.

It’s a damn shame what Paradox did to the game. It turned from a near-perfect sim with excellent optimization and stability into a laggy, buggy mess with loads of DLCs that both fixed and introduced more bugs. So the usual Paradox product, where stability is completely random based on which DLCs you own.

Quetzalcutlass, 4 miesiące temu

Or to bump up the price by twenty bucks. And it still won’t be finished, either - stuff like the story and bandits will come in future updates after 1.0.

Quetzalcutlass, 4 miesiące temu

Why does your mouse have a flared base?

Quetzalcutlass, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

My G500 started double clicking within a month of purchasing it. I just bound left click to a side button and never looked back. I’ve been using that broken mouse for over a decade now because they’re just that good.

Logitech was so close to creating the perfect mouse. Why they haven’t fixed their terrible internals is beyond me (planned obsolescence aside).

Quetzalcutlass, 4 miesiące temu

Not only that, but he has enough clout that he can usually convince GOG to put whatever game he’s reviewing on sale when his video comes out. He’s a great channel to follow for patient gamers.

Quetzalcutlass, 5 miesięcy temu

I would have been happy with the change if they dropped the slot system entirely for cargo now that it serves no purpose (equipment gets bonuses based on slot and adjacent gear, cargo does not). For some unfathomable reason they kept the manual slots for cargo and it makes finding anything specific in a large cargo hold a nightmare.

This is compounded by their terrible crafting system where you have to manually pick every single component of a recipe rather than just clicking on the recipe and having it grab stuff from cargo for you. Cargo should have been turned into a sortable list like in nearly every other RPG.

The inventory has been one of the primary sources of complaints since day one, but despite several major overhauls they haven’t fixed the core issues, just made it slightly less inconvenient to use each update.

Quetzalcutlass, 6 miesięcy temu

Ha, reminds me of Warframe, where I started out playing a stealth assassin build. The first time I tried co-op I was shocked when the other three players finished the level within like 30 seconds.

Quetzalcutlass, 6 miesięcy temu

You need an account for update checks? Yet another stupid NVidia antifeature that NVCleanstall saves me from, I guess…

Quetzalcutlass, 7 miesięcy temu

Their earlier game Nehrim: At Fate’s Edge is also worth a play. It runs on the Oblivion engine so it’s a little dated graphically, but story- and gameplay-wise it holds up fine.

Quetzalcutlass, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s Ark, but with all the terrible mechanics and blatant playtime stretching removed. The longest anything takes in Palworld with default settings is hatching a large egg, which is entirely passive and caps at 2 hours on Normal (according to the settings page, but I’ve yet to see a hatch timer longer than 30 minutes), and even that can be greatly sped up by matching the egg’s preferred climate with a heater or cooler next to the incubator. Most things that require player intervention take minutes at most. After Ark’s “this basic task takes hours, you have to be there for the whole process, and any mistake means you might as well start over”, this game is a breath of fresh air.

Definitely room for growth though, especially on the automation and AI side of things. Even in its current state it’s still one of the best survival games I’ve played in years. Between it and Enshrouded, 2024 has already spoiled me.

Quetzalcutlass, 7 miesięcy temu

If I wanted to watch old men showing off their balls in the wilderness, I’d have joined the Scouts.

Quetzalcutlass, 8 miesięcy temu

I welcome our robot middle-lords.

Quetzalcutlass, 8 miesięcy temu

The Adeptus Mechanicus would be indoctrinated within a week.

Quetzalcutlass, 8 miesięcy temu

The red lightning makes it go faster!

Quetzalcutlass, 8 miesięcy temu

Armored Core? That was dormant for a decade and two console generations before FromSoft brought it back.

(Still hoping for a new Kings Field.)

Quetzalcutlass, 8 miesięcy temu

I hadn’t heard of Lunacid, thanks for the recommendation! It looks good; I’ll probably pick it up during the current Steam sale.

Quetzalcutlass, 3 miesiące temu

Hey, I just wanted to say I bought Lunacid right after your comment and finally got around to playing it. I’m only at the Catacombs, but so far it’s excellent and a great throwback to Kings Field (though I miss having armor; with only weapons and rings there’s far less exciting loot).

Thanks for the recommendation, my friend!

Quetzalcutlass, 9 miesięcy temu

Arcanum’s main theme gets my vote.

It’s weird. It’s terrible as music - just random strings with almost no recognizable tune outside of the first few seconds - but it sets a mood better than any other. It’s distilled melancholy in music form.

Quetzalcutlass, 9 miesięcy temu

!When the last guy to attack you gets smacked down by his own men and the rest just watch in silence as you leave.!<

Quetzalcutlass, 9 miesięcy temu

Most space used by games is taken up by textures and audio. Textures can be downscaled (halving texture resolution reduces the size by 75%) and audio can be resampled at a lower bitrate without the quality drop being too noticeable on tiny phone screens/speakers.