RightHandOfIkaros

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Day 124 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (pxscdn.com) angielski

Today’s game is Halo CE. I needed to debug an issue i was having with a SymLink on my SSD with the game’s Proton data. After that i made sure to double check everything was working fine. I ended up playing through the first two levels. The main screenshot is from the Start of the second level where you have to evade covenant...

RightHandOfIkaros,

Its so unfortunate that 343 messed up CE Anniversary so badly. But at least they did a lot better with Halo 2 Anniversary (though that is also not without its issues).

Now with a rebrand to Halo Studios, which was 100% caused by their poor stewardship of the series and the ruining of their own reputation beyond redemption, 343 will have to super-over-deliver with whatever they come out with next.

And I pray it is not a CE Remake. They messed it up already once before, just leave it alone and do something different with Halo. Make ODST 2 or some new story about a new Spartan entirely, I am tired of my favorite characters and stories being butchered these days.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Is it stealing though? Theft, as it is legally defined, requires depriving the original owner of the thing you are stealing. Stealing a car for example, means the owner cannot drive the car since you have it.

If you could take someone else’s car, but they still have access to their car as if it was never taken, is that really stealing?

RightHandOfIkaros,

So I guess Aftermath is the new Kotaku? Theyre hiring all the people that used to work there, and Kotaku didn’t exactly have the best reputation lately. I don’t see Aftermath’s angle where they think things will be better for them.

Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away (insider-gaming.com) angielski

What Microsoft has been saying about Xbox lately strongly implies that this is a Windows handheld designed to solve software and user experience problems with using current Windows handhelds. And signs are pointing toward the next Xbox console coming sooner than the next PlayStation and essentially being a PC running a console...

RightHandOfIkaros,

I would prefer if gyros and accelerometers die off in controllers for gaming. Tilting and shaking the controller is not something I have ever enjoyed, except when the controller is a light gun for a game like Time Crisis or Silent Hill The Arcade.

RightHandOfIkaros,

I have used it. Played Metroid Prime 3, which is probably the best implementation of motion controls by far in any game.

I still would prefer using a normal controller with no motion controls. I would really prefer a trackball on a controller, but that likely won’t happen.

RightHandOfIkaros,

I will try it as long as it doesn’t require a PSN account. I enjoy Shift Up’s other game, arcade shooter Goddess of Victory NIKKE, so I am curious to see their other forrays into gaming.

RightHandOfIkaros,

This article was written by Luke Plunkett, who used to work at Kotaku. Some of his past articles include real whiz-bangers like: “Oh No, There Are Women In Battlefield”, and “There Is No Saving Cyberpunk 2077.” That pretty much tells you everything you need to know.

Sensationalist e-begging for clicks with ragebait articles. Nothing new from a former Kotaku employee.

RightHandOfIkaros,

We lost Yuzu because of a Windows 7 user. Whoever that guy was, he deserved this.

RightHandOfIkaros,

He got upset at the Yuzu developers for dropping support for Windows 7, and after throwing a tantrum in a GitHub Issue report, he directly emailed Nintendo and their legal team with a massive word salad directly linking to Yuzu. Multiple times. Then within around a month or two Nintendo initiated a lawsuit.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Because those characters dont fit the themes of most games.

Some games, like those in the FATE series, can make use of those kind of characters because it fits the theme. Other games can’t, since it wouldn’t make sense.

RightHandOfIkaros,

So they only expected to sell 100?

RightHandOfIkaros,

The fact that this game is $20 is kinda criminal. It is a really good game.

RightHandOfIkaros,

To be fair, Totoki has a bit of a point when it comes to safety concerns, as PlayStation will be required to oversee interactions between players in its multiplayer games, but that doesn’t really explain why single-player games force players to create PSN accounts.

What ever happened to “Online interactions are not rated by the ESRB” and “Online interactions may lead to a different or unintended experience” and other such concepts?

I mean, this is pretty rich coming from one of the most hackable companies in history. But still.

RightHandOfIkaros,

No online interaction is going to be as harmful as a product exploding and taking out your eye. Except in the case of children and pedos, perhaps. But in that case, most responsibility (all, in my opinion) is on the parents to monitor their child’s online gaming. Additionally, a system that doesnt require PSN accounts that monitors in game chat for words and phrases that flags for human interception could easily be implemented. Something like that could be caught quickly and dealt with easily before actual damage occurs.

RightHandOfIkaros,

You mean Maple Story?

Horse Armor/Bethesda was not the solitary cause of what we have today, even if it was pretty ridiculous.

RightHandOfIkaros,

The most disgusting part of this is that all of these patents were filed this year, meaning their only purpose is for giving Nintendo an avenue to sue Pocket Pair.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Yes, if you ignore the fact that Nintendo has very deep pockets and Japanese courts are very bribable.

RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

Kotaku became a laughing stock like 10 years ago, so with most of the writers that seemed to have either been a part of the cause of that or ones that were stirring the pot now gone, maybe G/O can turn things around and Kotaku can go back to actually just reporting on video games again.

I won’t hold my breath, but that would certainly be a pleasant surprise.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Ive been using this in beta, and it has been phenomenal. Absolutely love this feature.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Not sure, I have never had that issue. For a tiny amount of time, I did have an issue with it not recording Discord in the background, but switching to record system audio did the job just fine.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Okay, maybe I will be buying the game afterall. As long as “No Denuvo” doesn’t mean “no denuvo, but we added a different DRM instead.” Except Steam’s built in DRM, I guess. It doesn’t seem to negatively effect the performance in my Steam games.

A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed (kotaku.com) angielski

Not to continue beating a dead horse, this article is really about mainstream media’s relationship with video games, or the lack thereof. For the first time in my life, I pay for a subscription to news, because the same problems that crop up from getting news from reddit happen just as easily here in the fediverse. There are...

RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

The American mainstream news media has been obsessed with pushing/covering politics for the last 6 or 7 months, and both political parties are giving the media massive stockpiles of ammo for ragebait-fuelled ad revenue. Why would they ever cover video games, something mainstream media outlets have historically blamed some of the worst tradgedies in American history on, when it will neither give them free ad revenue, nor continue to villanize video games?

RightHandOfIkaros,

As a fan of the books, the movie was pretty bad. The only good parts I can recall were the CG, and the actors who played Tars Tarkus and Kantos Kan. Everyone else in the film was mid to bad.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Aerith from Final Fantasy VII?

For all the crap the game gets, Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk was actually an incredibly written companion character. Plus bonus points because of Keanu Reeves.

Kainé from NieR Gestalt/Replicant?

KOSMOS from XenoSaga?

Geno from Super Mario RPG?

Karlach from BG3?

Heck, even Serana from Skyrim could be there.

Many characters I would consider at the very least to be contenders for top spot, if not outright surpassing Morrigan.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Turns out when you actually make video games and sell them, you can record higher profits than years you didn’t do that.

RightHandOfIkaros,

I don’t know if goading Take Two into a lawsuit is a good idea. These guys may have good lawyers, but Take Two undoubtedly has deeper pockets.

RightHandOfIkaros,

I will be playing Stellaris intead, lol.

Not a fan of Fortnite and never got into CoD after World at War came out. Felt like they were less and less about the soldiers that gave their lives protecting their country, and more about being some romanticized war hero shooter. War is bad but I don’t think that soldiers who fought in them should be disrespected. I just feel like the new CoD games glorify war and violence more than the older games did, and I am not about that.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Interesting choice. I hope it is successful.

ryujin470, (edited ) do gaming angielski

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    RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

    Which Zelda do you mean? Real Zelda like A Link to the Past/Ocarina of Time, or Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom?

    For BotW/TotK, pretty much any open world ARPG will do.

    For real Zelda, I would absolutely recommend Tunic. Link’s Awakening remake was quite good, performance issues not withstanding, and Echoes of Wisdom was a fun spinoff in the same vein.

    RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

    Yes. BotW and TotK departed very dramatically from what consumers would expect from Zelda. TotK was a bit closer but still was not the same. I suppose another way to say it is “true Zelda” or “pure Zelda,” but it is all the same meaning.

    BotW, and to a lesser degree TotK, is to Zelda what Star Fox Adventures is to Star Fox. Not necessarily a bad game, but when someone talks about Star Fox, or “real Star Fox” they are not referring to Star Fox Adventures because it deviated so drastically from the expected gameplay of a Star Fox game.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    There will be no war, you can have your own opinion, and I can think your opinion is wrong. Nothing wrong with that, no need for a war.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Elden Ring is vastly superior IMO. I found there was less empty space compared to BotW, and far better combat mechanics.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Honestly, looking at how modern game development studios handle remakes, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near any of my beloved games. I haven’t played a single remake in the last 20 years where I felt like the studio that made it knocked it out of the park.

    Also, I strongly believe good games should not be remade, and only remastered/ “deluxe remastered” (where even if the game is remade, its a 1:1 faithful recreation with additional features and gameplay mechanics being optional). Remake the games that weren’t great, give them another chance at big success.

    • Sonic 2006
    • the XenoSaga games (don’t @ me XS fans, you know the combat and boss design in those games were terrible, 1 had DOMO Carrier, Tiamat, and whatever was going on in Song of Nephilim)
    • Most Konami games in the late 90s - mid 2010s
    • LAPD Future Cop
    • etc
    RightHandOfIkaros,

    I dont think.any Switch emulators run on the Xbox platform. The Xbox is obviously powerful enough, but none of the emulators are ported to the console.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Copying my reply from the other post, lol.

    This is a great King’s Field game in terms of accessibility, but King’s Field 2 and 3 (JP) are where the real DNA is at. KF3 Pilot Style is kinda cool but ultimately just feels like a romhack of the 3rd game. Which I guess it kinda is, it is a demo that a really small number of fans got, and it has differences from King’s Field 3.

    King’s Field is a slow game. It is designed to be played slow and to progress slow, not so dissimilar to the best games in the Survival Horror genre like Resident Evil 1, Silent Hill 1-4, Kuon, Haunting Ground, etc. Making any part of it faster detracts from the overall experience. My biggest recommendation for people playing King’s Field is to play it the way it was designed. Use the original controls, don’t use speed hacks to make the game faster or run with a higher framerate (doing this easily makes the game uncontrollable), and get out a trusty pen and notepad. The reward from completing the game in this way is not even remotely comparable to looking everything up online or using cheats to make it easier, plus you get a fun souvenir for your time with the game at the end. If you aren’t going to enjoy the game like this, then King’s Field just isn’t for you, as it will have other inconveniences you will absolutely find annoying enough to drop the game for. And that’s okay, not every game is designed for every person on the planet to enjoy.

    As far as games similar to King’s Field, many claim to be similar but are actually not. The only game that looks truly similar is Monomyth, but that has some significant deviances from the KF formula as well.

    Lunacid is not realy much like King’s Field IMO, it is Shadow Tower, but not Shadow Tower Abyss (which was way better IMO than the original in basically every way). Personally, I did not really like Lunacid that much. I was sold on the game by the idea that it was a faithful successor to King’s Field, but it just isn’t. Too much of the game is different, to the point that I would say the only similarity is that the game is a first person RPG and that it features a bubble compass. The theme, setting, gameplay pacing, and characters are more fittingly Shadow Tower. Also, the anime style characters stick out compared to the rest of the game’s art style. I love anime, but felt that the game should have featured more realistic/stylized-realistic characters like in King’s Field. The music was also very much Shadow Tower and did not sound like King’s Field.

    Also, I am fairly sure Sword of Moonlight has received fan updates in order to keep it running on modern operating systems.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    I definitely think ones wanting to get into King’s Field should work backwards from the 4th game. The storylines are not really that connected, and the farther back you go the more annoying certain users can find the lack of various features. 4 is a good start to see if someone will like the overall feeling of the game, and the farther back you go the more hardcore of a fan you are to like the games.

    I wasn’t invalidating your way of playing, only mentioning my opinion that the reward is better if you play it the original way. Also, some may think that the modified experience is the way the game is supposed to be played when that isn’t the case.

    Yeah, Lunacid wasn’t bad it just wasn’t what I was expecting. That and Kira and I just don’t get along, he tried to argue with me on Discord and I just didn’t care enough to argue back. As I said, it definitely felt far more like Shadow Tower, which isn’t a bad thing but it is disappointing to me to taste an orange when I bite into an apple.

    The limitations may be gone, but for some games like King’s Field, the limitations are part of the games identity, IMO. And perhaps this is because I played the games in release order rather than reverse. For example, a big part of Resident Evil’s identity to me will always be fixed cameras and tank controls. To me, playing an RE game without them doesn’t give me the same experience as the ones that do. Games like RE4 and newer Resident Evil games just feel like action shooters, not survival horror. Which is fine, just different. They’re not made for me and that’s fine. I can have Crow County and Hollow Body instead.

    I love King’s Field, and have enjoyed it even before YouTubers like Iron Pineapple, Josh Strife Hayes, and Majuular “popularized” them. It is exciting that more people are starting to play them, but it is also worrying in the same way that anything starting to go mainstream is worrying. The fear of the experience being watered down to the point that two players have vastly different experiences and cannot even communicate about the same game anymore.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Everything is in a tough spot. Wait for the global economy to not be literal garbage and you’ll see stuff like gaming consoles pick back up.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    I will only do this for games I know I will like, from studios I want to support.

    I literally will wait until a sale ends to buy a game made by Yoko Taro or FromSoftware at full price.

    abovearth, do Gaming angielski
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    What game has the best thunderstorm?
    @games

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Super Metroid.

    Surface of Crateria has a thunderstorm for the entire length of the game.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Or how many ISPs are going to accuse people of illegal internet activity due to constant large data transfers when its literally just a Flight Simulator lol.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Gauntlet Legends.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    You’d rather use the four C Buttons to aim? Controllers don’t exactly have a lot of options. Sure, the most accurate option is “trackball,” but those were only on high end arcade cabinets and PCs at the time. Couldn’t get any of them for under $300 USD. And lightguns woyld have needed more inputs on them than they had at the time, not to mention the N64 never had a lightgun peripheral for it to my knowledge.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Too bad the N64 mouse only launched with the 64DD in Japan then. Either way, GoldenEye could never be played with a mouse back then. It only took someone creating a special build of an emulator to get it to support it only within the last like 5 years.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Theyre not as good as the original sticks though. Bigger deadzone and a different gate. Cool, but not a very accurate replacement. Steel Sticks is a better, if more exclusive, option.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Yeah, GoldenEye (and Perfect Dark) with mouse injection has been around for a while. Same with TimeSplitters and Metroid Prime. Only for emulators on PC though.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    There is barely any gameplay because the developers chose to focus solely on writing, art, and music instead.

    Tsukihime and the whole Fate series also started from visual novels.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    Rather not, seems like an easy way to phish for Steam account names. Which is granted not particularly hard, but most probably don’t want that linked with their Lemmy account.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    $400M, $200M, whatever. Sony lost a crap ton of money. They had to pay staff for a game that was in development for 8 years and they had close to 1000 people on payroll for it at one point.

    It definitely cost more than GTA V. I mean, Genshin Impact has a dev cost of over ~$700M and that game was in development for only 3 years, and has been actively developed after release for 4 years. Thats ~$100M per year. Cyberpunk 2077 began development in 2013 and when it released 7 years later in 2020 had a development cost of ~$350M. Concord being in development for 8 years and costing less than $400M would almost be absurd.

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