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Dying Light 2 Removes Stamina from Parkour System (store.steampowered.com) angielski

Still going to have narrative limitations and swimming based stamina (I assume there are some progress gates with that). But holy crap the number of times I tried to enjoy Dying Light 2 and just hated that I couldn’t scale a wall or even effectively run away at night.

SnotFlickerman,

That seems like a big change to be making 3 and a half years after release.

SnotFlickerman,

Devil’s Advocate: This is for the adult gamer set who only have a prescribed amount of time they can spend on gaming. They get a chance for a few hours every few weeks. Their lives are overwhelming with details and information they need to remember regarding every day life. They simply don’t have the mental capacity to remember all the details from a game they spend two to three hours on once every few weeks, not when their mental focus is given to you know, real fucking life.

While I understand the frustration with such writing, because it bothers me as well… I don’t have a job where I work 60 hours a week nor do I have children. I’m kind of the exception to the rule when it comes to being able to give a game my full attention. Further, I have always had an incredibly good memory and attention to detail. Most people I have met in my life simply… do not have incredibly good memories or attention to detail. That doesn’t make them bad people who are living life wrong, it just means their brains work differently or they’re putting that mental energy to different things.

If we want people to pay attention to these stories, well, we’ve got to change fucking society from the ground up so they have the free time to actually be able to do so. Whinging about it like this isn’t going to magically make people pay better attention when they have to split their time with taking care of their children, which obviously should take priority over a fucking video game.

People act like the Netflixication is because people are all busy staring at their phones… I posit that it’s actually people cooking meals, doing dishes, doing laundry, ironing clothes, and a thousand other tedious daily activities where they’re trying to squeeze in some entertainment while also paying attention to something else entirely.

SnotFlickerman,

Blue Prince

I am ashamed to say how long it took me to get the pun in the title for this game.

https://i.redd.it/e6bvgbml1sne1.gif

SnotFlickerman,

From my youth:

Mega Man 2
Super Metroid
Fallout

Current, as games have grown as a medium:

Borderlands
NieR Automata
Baldur’s Gate 3

My favorite type of games were really always the story-rich non-linear storytelling of the Baldur’s Gate/Fallout style but in my youth I was far more attracted to Fallout than Baldur’s Gate. However, there are no modern iterations of Fallout in the same style. New Vegas is fun and all, but what I would give for a modern fallout in the style of BG3.

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SnotFlickerman,

Rock and stone, brother.

SnotFlickerman,

I’ve been curious about LISA: The Painful for a long time.

SnotFlickerman,

The official game of /c/FuckCars!

SnotFlickerman,

You control a character with the keyboard and a tiny moon with your mouse (it will also be playable with a controller). Explore a small open world and uncover secrets and mechanics hiding right under your nose. Use the moon to manipulate creatures and the environment and explore a tiny open world. Curiosity, knowledge, and discovery of game mechanics are the primary ways to progress.

From the announcement in /r/godot on reddit.

itch.io now seemingly affected by same payment processor rules as Steam (bsky.app) angielski

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with ‘nsfw’, ‘adult’, or ‘erotic’ so they don’t show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning...

SnotFlickerman,

itch.io is also a lot “smaller” than Steam in terms of the teams behind it I’d wager, and they probably have a lot less money for legal representation and probably had the screws turned to them a lot harder due to that.

Yes how little was communicated sucks, but they genuinely might have not had a lot of choice if the payment processors were really turning the screws to them. They don’t have the wealth to fight something like this like Valve does, and even Valve bent over for this.

SnotFlickerman,

no reason to give him more work

Unpopular opinion but setting up a whole recording studio and cutting a video without fucking up a bunch is a lot more fucking work than just writing a damn text document.

SnotFlickerman,

People generally prefer audio-visual content more than reading.

That’s because people are generally fucking morons who can’t, or worse, won’t fuckin’ read.

Bring on the downvotes. I don’t give a fuck. It’s been proven without a shadow of a doubt that watching things makes you more passive and digest less information than reading. I understand some things make more sense to share in a video format (like a how-to video showing how to fix something) but someone just talking at a camera is not one of them.

Maybe if we stopped enabling the fucking neanderthals among us the world wouldn’t be in such a shitty place as it already is.

SnotFlickerman,

This guy gets it.

SnotFlickerman,

I don’t necessarily agree with all of Kaldaien’s points, but I can’t say they aren’t well argued. Their opinions are valid if you’re willing to accept and consider their perspective.

I personally don’t see the point playing games on the original hardware, and I think keeping them updated for modern systems is a good thing, but I can see why someone might disagree and prefer running them in a VM on a traditional operating system, especially in terms of keeping the original way the game ran intact. I also disagree about the value of Microsoft’s game rental service, but I also see the value in saying “if I don’t actually own my games anyway, why not take it to it’s logical conclusion of just renting them.”

As I said, their points are well argued, even if I don’t necessarily agree on them.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

The entire back-end has changed.

Literally. People miss the fact that Steam is still a 32-bit app just to support older games. The rest of the world has moved onto 64-bit operating systems and applications. It’s shocking they still support 32-bit in 2025. So the argument that they aren’t supporting older titles is a little misleading because that’s the whole reason they still run a 32-bit client.

Most operating systems are no longer even offered in a 32-bit variant, 64-bit only.

I haven’t had a device with 32-bit hardware in almost 15 years. The last device I can even think of that was still 32-bit within the last 15 years was a Google Nexus 6 in 2014. All the Pixel line have been 64-bit.

Steam is literally one of the last 32-bit holdouts. Everything else has moved on. Even Discord dropped 32-bit support last year.

EDIT: Also, for reference, since Windows 98 is heavily mentioned in the arguments, those operating systems included 16-bit code. We’re talking about dropping 32-bit code, 16-bit code is deader than a doornail. Windows 3.11 was the first introduction of 32-bit code. Windows XP seems to be where they dropped all 16-bit code in 2001. We’re talking over 30 years of hardware changes.

All versions of MS-DOS and the below versions of Windows had 16 bit code:

MS-DOS (all versions)
Windows 1.x/2.x/3.x (all versions)
Windows 4.x or 9x (Windows 95/98/Millennium Edition) (all versions)

SnotFlickerman,

GoG also famously uses a model where GoG does not care what OS you’re using.

I could have sworn their model was keeping old games updated to work functionally on newer hardware.

www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program

The GOG Preservation Program ensures classic games remain playable on modern systems, even after their developers stopped supporting them. By maintaining these iconic titles, GOG helps you protect and relive the memories that shaped you, DRM-free and with dedicated tech support.

SnotFlickerman,

I need DOS Box

It’s Valve’s responsibility that Microsoft stripped DOS support from their OS in Windows 10?

Starting with Windows 10, the ability to create a MS-DOS startup disk has been removed, and so either a virtual machine running MS-DOS or an older version (in a virtual machine or dual boot) must be used to format a floppy disk, or an image must be obtained from an external source.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

They keep a bunch of 32-bit libraries for backwards compatibility with older games that they launch. You can find numerous discussions about this in the Steam forums as well as on sites like Hackernews.

If you want, I can give it to you from a Valve employee:

github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/…/179#is…

We will not drop support for the many games that have shipped on Steam with only 32-bit builds, so Steam will continue to deploy a 32-bit execution environment. To that end, it will continue to need some basic 32-bit support from the host distribution (a 32-bit glibc, ELF loader, and OpenGL driver library).

Whether the Steam client graphical interface component itself gets ported to 64-bit is a different question altogether, and is largely irrelevant as the need for the 32-bit execution environment would still be there because of the many 32-bit games to support.

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Maybe do some cursory research before talking out of your ass.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

But if they keep it updated for modern systems that means as time goes on the files they are offering to install… won’t work on old hardware because they’ve been updated to the modern era.

Sure if you grab a file from them and never get a newer, more maintained version, it will play on exactly the hardware and software you had when you bought it… But if you lost the install file somehow and went to grab a new copy five years later the updated ones may no longer run on your old hardware

SnotFlickerman,

Also, they can still offer the olde versions of the file for download.

Except in a lot of cases they really don’t.

SnotFlickerman,

Microsoft probably were thinking “He’s just making another Daikatana, anyway.”

For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing? angielski

I sold my PC yesterday because of financial struggles and as far as I’m aware, I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again. That said, I still want to somehow experience the games I would otherwise want to play on PC. I’m thinking of watching let’s plays but of course, that’s not the same as actually...

SnotFlickerman,

and as far as I’m aware, I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again.

I don’t have any suggestions but I am so, so sorry and I really hope things turn around for you for the better.

SnotFlickerman,

https://c.tenor.com/z5V6OVLdSkQAAAAC/tenor.gif

But seriously this is tragic as hell for all the people losing their jobs and seeing all the work they did on the game go up in a puff of smoke.

SnotFlickerman,

We have come so far that we have gone from “maybe the world should be a better place” to “if we are really going to do this capitalism shit, could we at least follow the fundamental foundational concepts instead of a corporate free-for-all where the rules of the game have been tossed out?”

SnotFlickerman,

Right, socialism doesn’t necessarily say that markets themselves are evil, but rather that the workers should have direct control over their own workplaces and reap the value of their labor instead of being siphoned off to a parasite class. A socialist business owned by the workers would still be selling their goods in the marketplace. It’s just a fairer distribution of control of the company through democracy and a fairer distribution of the value generated by the labor.

As I often say, it’s not like Jeff Bezos can deliver every Amazon package or manage every AWS server on his own. No, the value he has is leeched from all the workers who make his business function. Without the workers, he is effectively useless on his own.

But it feels like we’re regressing and we can’t even get to that socialist ideal because we’re busy fighting for the basic rules of capitalism that produce an actually healthy economy where everyone is involved be followed.

SnotFlickerman,

Are there even any really good games coming out this year?

Further, didn’t the Switch 2 already break sales records? 5.4 million consoles? 1.8 million of them in the US?

Looking at the roster of games that have come out so far this year, it looks pretty barren for genuinely quality games. Maybe people just haven’t bought a lot of the kind of forgettable titles? The only games that seem popular that aren’t remakes or re-releases of previous games are Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Blue Prince, Split Fiction, Death Stranding 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Elden Ring Nightreign. Of those, only the first four listed score above 90 on Metacritic. Even stuff like Monster Hunter Wilds has been deeply panned.

I think it’s probably a mixture of high prices, lack of money, Switch 2 sales and waiting on better Switch 2 titles other than just Mario Kart World, as well as a lackluster roster of other quality games.

SnotFlickerman,

You look like you could use some… Surgery…

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SnotFlickerman,

Insult Sword Fighting taken to a new level.

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I’m gonna love/hate this game just like the original.

SnotFlickerman,

Justin Roiland hasn’t been with Squanch Games since the abuse allegations and lawsuit regarding his sexual harassment of an employee. Roiland was not named specifically in the suit, but the suit was settled out of court and Roiland left Squanch at the same time, so we can all put 2 and 2 together and make “Roiland is a disgusting freak.”

He wasn’t even in the DLC from the first game, High on Knife.

So yeah, no worries on that front.

SnotFlickerman,

They lost their main VA because he’s a creep. I wonder if they’re gonna hire the same guys Adult Swim hired to replace Roiland on Rick and Morty. The obviously had to emphasize something other than the voice acting, so they went with the skateboarding mechanic.

SnotFlickerman,

The story in 1 was also weak. When you’ve got shit like Disco Elysium out there, the pandering “ooh capitalism is big bad” while also not giving it a serious critique falls pretty flat.

The trailer for 2 even jokes about how its “by capitalism.”

SnotFlickerman,

Absolutely. Fucking. Hyped.

Patapon was one of my favorite PSP games. Always wanted it outside of the PSP. Ratatan looks amazing!

SnotFlickerman,

That might be more suited to me, I feel wrecked by Ratatan already because it wants me to keep up a beat and control my herald for my Ratatans outside of the beat. That might be more than I can handle haha.

SnotFlickerman,

Shades of the Neverhood.

Self insert power fantasy recommendations? angielski

I’ve been working really hard on a big project, I finally finished it, and now I’m bored. I want to play an RPG where I can slaughter hordes of enemies as a pretty girl who looks like me. Yes, I want self-indulgent trash. I’m tired of trying at things, I want to relax, kill things, and see boobs. No MMOs please, I want a...

SnotFlickerman,

Bonus: you also get to play as a pretty boy.

SnotFlickerman,

To be clear, the early 2D series of Sonic was relatively story-light, the detailed stories and characters didn’t really arrive until Sonic Adventure. Some of these you will need emulators on your PC to play. Make sure you have a good gamepad, either an Xbox controller or PS4/PS5 controller or a knockoff in the same style are ideal.

Best 2D Sonic (light on story, heavy on gameplay): Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Close 2nd 2D Sonic: Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles

Best 3D Sonic (heavy on story and gameplay): Sonic Adventure

Close 2nd 3D Sonic: Sonic Adventure 2

3D “Sonic” with a cult following: Shadow the Hedgehog

Honorable Mention because it’s so fun in terms of gameplay and story: Sonic Generations and/or Shadow Generations

SnotFlickerman,

If I recall correctly it’s related to licensing issues with the person who composed the original music in Sonic 3. Some people see it as evidence of the rumor that Michael Jackson was involved in the Sonic 3 music development.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

Holy shit somehow no one has mentioned:

Nier Automata

It counts as a masterpiece because of how well it blends game design, gameplay and story. I have played very few games as thoughtful, or that weaved the gameplay together into the story it was telling in such a meaningful way. I never thought once in my life that I would think philosophically about bullet hell but somehow Nier Automata has something profound to say and even manages to say it using bullet hell as a gameplay mechanic.

On top of all this, it also has a lot to say about classical philosophers, their works, and honestly deeply subverts things they had to say. It asks tough questions about their thoughts and ideas, once again, through gameplay. Numerous characters are named for classical philosophers: Pascal, Jean-Paul, Simone, Engels, Immanuel… (Yoko Taro obviously has feelings about how Jean-Paul Sartre treated Simone de Beauvoir.)

Further, Yoko Taro is doing something that a lot of game developers fail to manage to do: He is embracing gaming as a storytelling medium and eschewing the traditional three-act arc from film. Because gaming is not film. As Marshall McLuhan posited, “the medium is the message” and unlike other developers Taro’s writing is aimed at the medium he is working in instead of leaning on the ropes and tropes of other mediums. (Referring back to above, tying the gameplay into the story, focusing on the medium)

It’s basically impossible to not break down into tears at the ending.

Don’t write it off because of the scantily clad anime women. Stay for the depth of the human condition. It is truly a masterwork in multiple respects.

SnotFlickerman,

For a moment I thought you were talking about the Newsmax host and I was very offended and confused, but it looks like there is another, lesser known Chris Plante in gaming journalism.

SnotFlickerman,

spoilerThe wild part is that he’s so good at subverting anime tropes, too. The “killing god” trope is mentioned in the first lines of the game… and then going on to battling the end credits themselves?? Literally killing the gods who created the world this all exists in? Taking it to the absurd yet logical extreme, so brilliant.

https://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tim-and-eric-mind-blown.gif

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

It actually is directly tied to the movies. The character who first gives Furiosa a chassis to build from isn’t quite as hunchbacked as in the game but he is credited as “Chumbucket!”

SnotFlickerman,

Yeah for a third person isometric RPG with non-linear branching storylines and deep thoughtful story, Disco Elysium positively blows BG3 out of the water.

SnotFlickerman,

Props for DE being at the top of your list.

SnotFlickerman,

Glad to see some love for Shenmue

SnotFlickerman,

From what I understand it is actually the most plot heavy Doom to date, so some people might actually care.

SnotFlickerman,

I wholeheartedly agree… but then I think getting upset about spoilers is silly in general. If a plot point or piece of information wrecks a book/film/television show/video game for you, odds are it wasn’t a very quality one anyway.

Still, I try to respect that I’m deeply in the minority in that opinion.

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