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Sonotsugipaa, miesiąc temu

CrossCode, for the third time in about two weeks.

I’m 5 years late to it because for some reason I thought it was a JRPG…

Sonotsugipaa, miesiąc temu

If you want to comb the game for unique dialogue and Lea expressions, make sure to start and finish a Sergey Hax run when you do get back to it

Sonotsugipaa, 22 dni temu

The cheaty gameplay isn’t that bad, as long as it’s not the first playthrough. It’s definitely way too easy to give you a sense of accomplishment against all odds, but it also allows you to skip all the grind and the sidequests that you should’ve already done (as those, AFAIK, have no Lea-dependent dialogue).

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I didn’t know Iconoclasts was usually compared to CrossCode!
I can’t really see any similarities. It’s a great game, definitely on the level of CC if a bit less git gud in nature, but the only similarity I can think of is both games using pixel art.

Sonotsugipaa, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

I have a few in my library:

• Signalis (low-poly (not that you can notice), low-res, CRT effect)
• CrossCode (2D, low-res)
• Valheim (low-poly, low-res, still graphically intensive due to lighting)
• Lethal Company (low-res, bitcoin miner levels of GPU load)
• Super Alloy Ranger (2D, low-res)
• Terraria (you know Terraria, don’t lie)
• Iconoclasts (2D, low-res)
• Starbound (Terraria, but a bit worse and in space)

I don’t think these games aim for nostalgia, nostalgia alone is not a good reason to choose low-poly or low-res graphics.

Low-res textures and sprites have the advantage of being much easier for artists not only to hand draw, but to explicitly choose what details to give to a certain surface.
3D games with low-res rendering also have their own appeal, like you say: they tell you what you’re looking at but still leaves your imagination the burden of filling in the details.

To me low-poly models don’t really have their own appeal, unlike pixelated visuals, however I also don’t mind them at all.
I still occasionally play games like Perfect Dark and TLoZ: OoT on their recompiled PC ports, they look good despite their low-poly nature because they don’t need high-poly models and their animations would look uncanny if they did (goofy ahh textures though).

However, there are some retro effects that I find to be straight up ugly: Signalis applies a CRT effect occasionally, which I can’t say I’m fond of.

Sonotsugipaa, 2 miesiące temu

Ship Of Harkinian (and similar projects) have kept gping for a long time, and they don’t do anything remotely illegal either

Sonotsugipaa, 2 miesiące temu

With the last two big things I’ve heard about (Yuzu and… Dolphin, I think?) they were legally in the right, but at least where I live there is absolutely no way to spin a recompiler + asset extractor as something illegal - they can’t even claim the developers are circumventing DRM, because OOT and MM didn’t have any.

Though, I would not be surprised if there’s something in US law that can be exploited for this.

Sonotsugipaa, 3 miesiące temu

I’d imagine some of them are here:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/e0b3b8cd-173c-49ee-a704-fac06f6ba937.png

(edit: forgot to un-dox the user)

Sonotsugipaa, 3 miesiące temu

Agreed. For detecting cheaters, statistics work like a Dream

Sonotsugipaa, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

10% is a lot by I WANT MORE MONEY RIGHT NOW shareholder metrics

Sonotsugipaa, 3 miesiące temu

I see it more like a “we’re good for now I guess, fuck around again and I’ll change it back to negative”

Sonotsugipaa, 3 miesiące temu

If that’s the only problem, can’t you make a new one?

Sonotsugipaa, 5 miesięcy temu

Huh, judging by the fact that X3 and X4 run natively on Linux this surprises me only a bit

… does X4 run natively? idr

Sonotsugipaa, 5 miesięcy temu

I tried getting BtF bto work but for some reason it’s a constant slow-motion for me, I had to give up and watch some playthrough for the lore

Sonotsugipaa, 5 miesięcy temu

X3: Farnham’s Legacy with mods and plots from the Terran Conflict and Albion Prelude.

This is gonna take me more than a week…

Sonotsugipaa, 5 miesięcy temu

I don’t think it’s that bad compared to X3, in fact I would say X3 is a better candidate than X4 for a “love/hate” award due to the almost constant jank and the… harsher consequences of unplanned rapid deceleration.

spoilerX3 is still better though

Sonotsugipaa, 9 miesięcy temu

Rule 2 of the videogame industry: if you think something can’t get worse, it absolutely fucking will within a month or two

Sonotsugipaa, 9 miesięcy temu

My epiphany was when I was almost successfully gaslit that Halo Infinite was actually a nice game and that I just grew out of the franchise

Sonotsugipaa, 9 miesięcy temu

If you see a wall with a weird texture, just light a bomb next to it.

Sonotsugipaa, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m currently going through X4 and I don’t feel the need for Starfield, tbh

Sonotsugipaa, 11 miesięcy temu

I’m being peer-pressured into playing it with friends, it’s an ok game. The quality is there, it’s full of content, though I wouldn’t say my lack of hype was misplaced - I’d still rather play some other niche games in my library.

What rubs me the wrong way is it’s GPU load even with lower graphical settings, and the hundred gigabytes of mandatory high-res textures and whatnot;
I find the UX clunky and infuriating at times, which is not ideal but acceptable for the genre.

What I really respect BG3 (and Larian) for is that its overall a very solid game and it’s making the AAA industry seethe, apparently.
It’s also DRM-free, but I would definitely buy it rather than Steam-Familying it if I were into its subgenre (and if it wasn’t a GPU hog).

Sonotsugipaa, rok temu

I absolutely loathe double tap to dodge mechanics.
Terraria does this, everyone who played it with me thinks it’s reasonable to fear accidentally dodging into an enemy when trying to walk slowly with a keyboard.
This is 10 times worse on controllers, because dodging just becomes irritating and janky as fuck - if I need to dodge a bullet, I don’t want to fight the kinetic energy of my finger for an entire fourth of a second and hope I am fast enough.

Sonotsugipaa, rok temu

I’m absolutely baffled as to why more than one game I’ve ever played had fishing in it.

I love the X series (despite the unfortunate name), but the literal real-time days you spend waiting for money to appear in your account are still more engaging than any fishing minigame ever.