VindictiveJudge

VindictiveJudge, 10 dni temu

They had all that free marketting from people assuming the third one would be the 720 and they ditched it in favor of calling it the Xbox One, which everyone was already using for the name of the first Xbox. Still baffled by that one.

VindictiveJudge, 15 dni temu

That was the industry standard for a long time and it still pops up sporadically.

VindictiveJudge, 20 dni temu

In other words, they’re exactly the same as a lot of the games on disc for Xbox and PlayStation.

VindictiveJudge, 27 dni temu

I think the Great Plateau is roughly the size of OOT’s entire world, so if she only played classic titles that may feel reasonable.

VindictiveJudge, 28 dni temu

You can knock her out instead of killing her. You can then save her from execution in Act 2 to recruit her. She can even have a bit if a redemption arc, iirc.

VindictiveJudge, 28 dni temu

You don’t need a mod. They added it in Patch 6.

VindictiveJudge, 29 dni temu

Don’t forget that the Wii U had one of the most incompetent console marketing campaigns of all time. Just two years ago I met someone who still didn’t know it was a console and not an accessory.

VindictiveJudge, miesiąc temu

You get a fair-play Minesweeper-like, such as Hexcells Infinite, which can always be beaten without any guessing.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Doesn’t work in the remaster; they changed so that all skills contribute to level up progress.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Oblivion and Skyrim are 200 years apart, but geographically border each other. Classic Oblivion didn’t render Skyrim, but that was more for technical reasons than anything else. If you get high enough up in Skyrim on a clear day you can see the entire continent.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

I like to describe classic Oblivion characters as looking like they were all carved from the same potato.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Also, Skyblivion will, at worst, only cut into their PC sales. The official remake will be the only option available on consoles due to the nature of the mod.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

I’m fine with almost any changes to the combat. Oblivion’s combat felt worse than both Morrowind’s and Skyrim’s to me.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

It’s also from the era when people were expected to read the manual while the game installed, so the game never has tutorials for certain things, most prominent being fatigue. New players tend to run everywhere, drain their fatigue meter, and struggle to hit anything or cast a spell. Just reading the manual, as the devs originally expected, solves a lot.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Also note that Owlcat’s other Pathfinder game, Kingmaker, is absurdly punishing. Start with Wrath.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Kingmaker also has the problem of every encounter being designed for a full party but not actually having access to a full party until late in Act 1, after many mandatory combat encounters. The RNG also seems to hate me.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Uh, enemies are actually less bullet spongey on high difficulties, just like the player. Some humans have armor that you have to either spend bullets shooting off or shoot around by aiming at unarmored portions, but enemies typically go down really quick.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu

Turn based tactics or 4x games would absolutely benefit from both, and the touch screen. Being able to play Fire Emblem with any of the three depending on what’s comfortable at the time would be wonderful.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu

Even then, it’s not a full stop on incompatibility, it just means that you need to own Switch 1 joycons to pair to the system instead of using the new ones. So you can play Ringfit on Switch 2, if you have the old joycons and a way to charge them.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu

Judging by the bit of Prime 4 they showed, I think their first party titles will just skip ray tracing and use relatively low-poly models.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu

Same with Paradox games. 4X in general is just really hard to get right on release because of how many interlinking systems there are, so waiting for balance updates at a minimum is never a bad idea.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu

Bethesda has actually been consistently supportive of Skyblivion, Morroblivion, and Skywind.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu

I genuinely didn’t know it was still big. Everyone I know who played it quit ten years ago and expansion launches no longer hit my feeds.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

Though do also note that of these four, TD and RA1 were already made freeware years ago.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

That’s only the HD remaster of TD and RA1.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

IIRC, a few years ago EA hired some of the original devs, put them in charge of the franchise, and then went very hands-off, but with very little budget. So far they’ve done this, and a very reasonably priced 4K remaster of TD and RA1.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

At least some of the remaster source code is in the repo, too. If the TS or RA2 source code is found, people will be immediately able to do that graphics switch for them, too.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

I think the old Westwood dev they put in charge of the franchise just doesn’t have any oversight.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

No. The repo has Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1, Generals with Zero Hour, Renegade, and components for the HD ports of TD and RA1 they put out a few years ago.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Not exactly a suggestion, but why emulate Okami instead of just running the PC version?

Edit: If you get the PC version, you should be able to use the touch screen to draw the brush techniques directly thanks to mouse support rather than having to fuck with the sticks. You also don’t get the input lag from emulation.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

The fully lit portions of this map have been fully NPCd and quested. You might have enabled the preview landmass, which includes (or included, not sure if they still distribute it) a bunch of mostly mapped exteriors with partial interiors and typically no NPCs.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

Unity’s gameplay was a glorious return to form. Unity’s writing… not so much.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

FF8 didn’t do it for me, mostly because the gameplay was a terribly broken mess. I loved 12, though; the story is like the love child of Final Fantasy, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars, and the gameplay felt like a logical evolution of the ATB system for a fully 3D world.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

I still haven’t played Part 2, but I’m pretty sure the remake trilogy is a stealth sequel.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

I wouldn’t be surprised if the era system is partially to mitigate the late-game AI issues.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

Culture victories are never really explained, but that was also a Civ5 issue. I never completely figured out how luxuries/amenities are distributed between your cities, and cities don’t show a breakdown, just how many they have. I do like 6 better than 5 over all, though, but I’m also not OP.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

IIRC from when I first got the game, the tutorial hadn’t been updated to account for changes from patches and expansions. It was probably fine for launch day, but decidedly not for the final game.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

Wait until there’s a steep sale on the Complete Edition later on. I only paid $5 for Civ5 Complete, and I think $15 for Civ6 Complete.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

There was that time Sega suddenly dropped the Saturn into the US market months ahead of schedule. Shot themselves in the foot doing it, too.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

I’m guessing the all grey model probably sold better than the one with colorful joycons so they lead with that this time.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

Would the NFC system in the stick interfere with hall effect sensors?

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

Sure, but the game sets the resolution, not the console. The game might get a performance boost or a more stable frame rate on better hardware, but unless it gets a patch to detect which system it’s running on and adjust the resolution accordingly, most games will still run in 720p.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

A mouse mode could be extremely useful for things like Civilization or Fire Emblem. Of course, the touch screen is also great for that and Three Houses and Triangle Strategy didn’t support it.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

Maybe in three or four years when the mid-gen refresh comes out.

VindictiveJudge, 6 miesięcy temu

RROD was actually 3/4ths of a circle. A full red circle was a different and less troubling error.

VindictiveJudge, 6 miesięcy temu

Unfortunately, that’s the anti-scalper countermeasure. Crippling their crypto mining potential didn’t impact scalping very much, so they increased the price with the RTX 40 series. The RTX 40s were much easier to find than the RTX 30s were, so here we are for the RTX 50s. They’re already on the edge of what people will pay, so they’re less attractive to scalpers. We’ll probably see an initial wave of scalped 3090s for $3500-$4000, then it will drop off after a few months and the market will mostly have un-scalped ones with fancy coolers for $2200-$2500 from Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.

VindictiveJudge, 6 miesięcy temu

too focused on figuring out the gun/enemy type mechanics.

I haven’t finished Eternal and would probably need to drop the difficulty to the lowest setting to try. I just can’t keep up with combat that fast, especially when it feels like I have less freedom to choose my weapon than in 2016. 2016 wanted me to rip and tear, but Eternal wants me to play 3D chess while skateboarding.

VindictiveJudge, 6 miesięcy temu

Micro is actually tactics since it’s on the level of a single engagement. Strategy is more about the game as a whole, like scouting and map control.