Zarxrax

Zarxrax, 26 dni temu

Having not played either one of them yet, what do you think makes the first one so much better?

Zarxrax, miesiąc temu

Jesus Christ, the ending of that 3rd Strike match was incredible!

Zarxrax, 2 miesiące temu

When a bunch of RPGs start doing that, they are all just going to start feeling the same.

Zarxrax, 2 miesiące temu

I guess I just don’t see the appeal. If I wanted to interact with an AI, I can do it right now without launching a game to do it. And pointless NPCs are already one of the most annoying parts of games for me. I don’t want to waste my time reading meaningless dialogue from 100 characters trying to find the 1 person who will actually let me advance and continue playing the game. It will be even worse when they are all taking an unlimited stream of shit instead of 1 or 2 canned responses, because it will just be even harder to know who is wasting your time.

Zarxrax, 2 miesiące temu

I’m willing to keep an open mind until it releases, but that tells me that the gameplay will be nothing like the original.

Zarxrax, 3 miesiące temu

For me it’s the NES and N64. While they both have some great games to be sure, I feel that a lot of the games outside of their top 10 simply don’t hold up very well today. These systems were both limited by technical issues and were in eras when developers were still learning what makes a good 2d or 3d game.

Zarxrax, 3 miesiące temu

I enjoyed it a lot during the open beta. Really looking forward to playing again soon.

Zarxrax, 4 miesiące temu

For the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros, Nintendo released Super Mario All Stars for the Wii. It was just an emulation of the SNES game from years before. It was released for $30 even though you could buy all of the original games on the Wii shop for like $21 total. It just reeked of “We know you’ve already bought these games like 4 times, but please buy them again”. They did do a better job on the 35th anniversary though.

Zarxrax, 4 miesiące temu

Well I mean, they also ADDED Super Mario Bros 35 to the eShop, for free. You can’t just mention the removal as if it had always been there. I agree it was shitty for them to remove it though, it was one of my all time favorite games. But I’m at least happy that I got to play it.

Zarxrax, 6 miesięcy temu

I have no problem with developers continuing to create new content and give customers the option to buy it or not.

Loot boxes and gambling stuff and types of micro transactions where you are basically paying a fee to avoid artificial annoyance/grinding are a cancer on the industry.

Zarxrax, 9 miesięcy temu

Good to see some new content, the online modes have been kinda dead recently.

Zarxrax, 9 miesięcy temu

This is the dude from zero punctuation!

Zarxrax, 9 miesięcy temu

Super Mario Wonder. It was an enjoyable game, but just too easy, and no reason to keep playing once you finish. There were only maybe 3 stages in the entire game that offer a real challenge. It would be so much more replayable if it just had a time trial mode or something.

Zarxrax, 9 miesięcy temu

I think there is a middle ground though. It’s fine to have easy settings to help people get though a game if they want. The online functionality in Mario wonder, and the ability of Yoshis to not take damage are great examples of that. But on the other hand, I also don’t want to just steamroll the game, fully clearing most of the stages in a matter of minutes. How many man hours of work did they put into each of these stages, just for me to blaze through it in 3 minutes and then never look back?

Like I previously mentioned, something as simple as just a time trial mode could give me an actual incentive to go back and enjoy the content a little more.

Zarxrax, 9 miesięcy temu

I feel like the issue could be largely resolved if developers would just make a lot of the downloads optional. For as long as I remember, installers for PC applications have given the user options for which parts of the applications they want to install. Yet for games these days, they just take an all or nothing approach. Let me skip the ultra textures, and all the extra choices in languages I don’t need. It seems like it should be such an easy thing to implement!

Zarxrax, 10 miesięcy temu

With the huge improvements that have been putting into their drivers, I think their 2nd generation cards will actually be worth getting. At least in comparison to a Radeon.

Zarxrax, 10 miesięcy temu

Well, looks like they have finally succeeded in killing off the tournament scene. There will probably still be some holdouts trying to adhere to the ridiculous rules, but this is effectively the end.

Zarxrax, 11 miesięcy temu

Games rarely work with an open source business model, so that’s why there aren’t any really great ones.