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gonzo-rand19, 24 dni temu

Letterboxd and Goodreads both use a star rating system in addition to long-form reviews and it seems to work out great. I have my disagreements with how the sites are run, but the rating system isn't one of them.

YouTube star ratings never included the opportunity to review (in text) a specific video, so I think your comparison isn't very applicable or helpful in this specific situation. The Steam review system isn't very analogous to how YouTube used to work.

gonzo-rand19, 24 dni temu

Seconding this. I got a used Wii and hacked it to play pirated games from an SD card, including Just Dance. Literally every commercially sold Wii can be hacked now, it's super easy. No money given to Nintendo.

Also, the Just Dance modding scene is still pretty active and there are Wii ports for newer songs/games. But you can emulate stuff instead if you don't have/want a Wii.

gonzo-rand19, 24 dni temu

Childhood? You don't understand everything's fucked yet, and you have no responsibilities other than light chores and homework.

gonzo-rand19, 24 dni temu

Can you articulate your problem or are you just going to down vote?

gonzo-rand19, 25 dni temu

I guess they're hoping no one buying 2 has played the original or has much familiarity with the source material. Not the worst move from a marketing standpoint, but not really inspiring confidence for me since VtMB is probably one of my favourite linear/sandbox RPGs purely because of the atmosphere and dialog.

No, the combat in VtMB wasn't very good, but that doesn't mean the sequel has to be an ARPG. I really hope this is just one person's opinion and it's not that bad. Also, Phyre is a cringe name that hasn't grown on me at all, so that sucks considering she apparently fucking says it constantly.

gonzo-rand19, 30 dni temu

Hell yeah, Shipbreaker had some cool worldbuilding that I vibed with while tearing shit down. Who knows when it's actually coming, but I'm looking forward to more stuff in that universe.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

I hate using the Steam client to browse the store because it stutters all the time and doesn't support tabs. Not to mention that the Enhanced Steam browser extension adds support for 3rd party sellers so I can see if there's a better price without leaving the page.

Without tabs, I can't browse a specific tag without having to go back and forth constantly, which is super annoying because page listings are dynamically loaded, so going back means starting from the top of the list all over again.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Really? You don't understand why people might look back fondly on the hardware limitations of early games that they now feel nostalgic for? There are still people making Game Boy games and physically releasing them, to the point that there's now third-party handhelds that can play GB/GBC cartridges. There's still a thriving Commodore 64 gaming community, for fuck's sake.

Edited for tone, I was having a bad day earlier.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

It's not really meant to be beautiful or functional or push boundaries, it's meant to create (or recreate) a certain atmosphere or aesthetic sense. And you can't forget that Puppet Combo's games got really popular on YouTube and Twitch, so their style inspired and was iterated on by others. Mouthwashing was also really influential.

Sometimes things are intentionally ugly or weird or messy or technologically outdated. Sometimes people think it's cool to make a car out of rusty parts.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

If you like retro-inspired arcade racers, Slipstream is a fucking blast. You can use your own music if you want to and there are mods to add more cars.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

I'm going to say The Last of Us 2. I loved the first one so much, and then 2 was not what I wanted or was expecting, which completely killed any love I had for it and any desire for a larger franchise.

I was hoping for an anthology series where each game focused on a different group of people in the same universe. I loved Joel and Ellie, but I wanted their story to be over and to get a look at how other people had dealt with things.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Specifying commentarial satire seems redundant, no? All satire is commentary, that's the point.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

It's funny to me that AMEX is supposed to be the fancy card considering that we accepted it at the rural Canadian grocery store I worked at as a teenager. We also accepted Discover.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

I've noticed the slight increase in vertical space when I've used paragraph breaks in Markdown editors in the past and I thought it was some sort of rendering error. I feel like I've unlocked secret knowledge. Thanks for your post!

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

You're going to start mailing cash to Valve with a little note listing your Steam account and what games you want?

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

A gift card isn't cash, legally or literally. Gift cards also require processors. So this could happen again with gift cards, just with a different set of processing companies.

So what's your answer? Cheques, money orders, cash in the mail? Or maybe MasterCard, Visa, and their ilk shouldn't legally be allowed to limit legal purchases that haven't been flagged as fraud.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

Any gift card still needs to be processed by a processor, who could get all up in arms just like MasterCard and Visa.

I mentioned digital transactions because that's what has been restricted in essentially all cases. They don't seem to care if you buy porn in person, they just don't want you buying porn online.

gonzo-rand19, miesiąc temu

As Steph Sterling has said multiple times, they're making the games boring and grindy so they can sell you the convenience of skipping the boring and grindy parts. How fun.

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu

Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head. Obviously sales go down when people don't have to buy the game to play it.

Why does Arkane suck so much now?

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu

I got the game for free in 2015 as part of a choose-your-own-bundle promo for the AMD R9 270X. Haven't paid a cent for it and I still sorta feel ripped off.

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu

It would be so cool if this meant Funcom had extra money to put into The Secret World (now known as Secret World Legends). Love that game, wish there was more. I know there's a TTRPG now but it's not the same.

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu

ran perfectly

had some glitches

???

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu

Oh, I didn't know that about Warframe chat! That's an interesting way to implement chat in an MMO. Uplink is an excellent game.

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu

Just for reference, a year of full-time work is about 2000 hours. This dude did the equivalent of 5 years of working for this.

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

I remember feeling this way about Die Hard: Vendetta for GC. Strong meh/10.

gonzo-rand19, 2 miesiące temu

Lmao, whoops. Too early in the morning.

gonzo-rand19, 3 miesiące temu

Bloober Team again? They have the delicate touch of a rhinoceros on meth. Goddamnit.

gonzo-rand19, 3 miesiące temu

They are heavy-handed and it comes at the expense of atmosphere and tension; a lot of their efforts come across as cheap even though there're obvious signs of attention and care.

I think the remake of Silent Hill 2 suffers for it. They shouldn't be given this franchise IMO. You can see it in Layers of Fear and The Medium, and even in The Observer and Blair Witch to some extent.

I like Bloober Team (I've played a ton of their games, obviously) but they just haven't impressed me to the point of convincing me they can remake of Silent Hill properly. It's an important franchise and they miss the mark on all of the subtleties that made the originals excellent.

gonzo-rand19, 3 miesiące temu

Not in 10+ years when you can't download the rest of the game from the servers because they don't put the whole game on the cartridge anymore. Not to mention patches and DLC aren't on the cartridge either.

gonzo-rand19, 3 miesiące temu

Did you read this article? It literally says this:

As you can see, the number of Switch 2 titles not on Game-Key Cards is very slim.

The only games that will be fully available on the cartridge are the ones explicitly singled out. There are 10. How is that significant?

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

Steam has the games Nintendon't. For everything else, there's emulation.

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

I want him to stop because he keeps breaking the mods that I need to make this game how I want it. I haven't played anything past 1.4 or 1.5 because the update broke one of my favourite mods and I can no longer enjoy the game the way I did for years.

Work on Haunted Chocolatier or make Stardew Valley 2 so I can pick up the pieces and finish this fucking game. Otherwise I just can't fucking play without immense fear that a really important mod will break again at some point. Literally the opposite of a chill time.

Edit: I'm mentally ill, if that wasn't clear. I don't expect him to stop, I just want him to. Don't care if that's unpopular.

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

That's awesome, thank you, but the damage is already done and the mods are already broken. I am mostly interested now in hearing that it's done being updated so that I can go through it at my own pace with all of the content it will ever have and QoL and visual mods that still work. I appreciate you though.

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

You don't need a patent to protect the IP of a game. That's what copyright is for.

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

Maybe you're just not an expert yet?

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

Me! They have a decent collection of Switch games and my wife will try out the games she's seen reviews of at the library to see if she wants to add them to her wishlist.

Our library network is rather large so there's often an available copy of whatever we're looking for (unless it's new).

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

Generally, I don't buy games over $18 CAD. I've made exceptions (Temtem, Civ 6, Super Mega Baseball 3, My Time at Portia, Satisfactory, a couple of others) but never paid more than $40 unless it's a gift for someone I really like (I pre-ordered Fallout 4 for my ex for her birthday).

I will happily wait years for something to come down in price. I have 600+ games on Steam: I always have other options.

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

I'm currently playing Research Story, that one is pretty cute. There are romances. I don't know about combat since I haven't gotten that far (just a few hours of play); it doesn't really seem like there will be combat, but there could be.

I'd also recommend Apico, Mudborne, Littlewood, or Fields of Mistria. I'm sure I'm missing a ton. I think Steam has "Cute," "Romance," and "Slice of Life" tags if you wanted to browse those on the storefront.

gonzo-rand19, 4 miesiące temu

This isn't a 3rd party tool, it's a separate Steam Support page that lists your total purchases. It basically takes the data from the Purchase History section (assuming that you usually pay directly and not using Steam gift cards) and totals it so that you don't have to do that manually.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

Nintendo said it might not be compatible. People reported on what Nintendo said, with the caveat that they have said similar things in the past that did not turn out to be true.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

So it's a $10 tutorial? Don't care how expansive and cool it is, that's just fucked. The project scope should've been adjusted to make sure it would be free.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

With no PS5 the only games that make sense to build for PCs are targeting integrated graphics and lowest-common-denominator CPUs.

Are we just ignoring all of the PC-exclusive games PS5 players will never get to play? And the games that were PC-exclusive until their success prompted a console port? The PC catalog dwarfs the PS5 catalog by hundreds of modern titles, and thousands if you count retro games. Steam (just one of the PC software distribution platforms) added over 14,000 games in the last year and there are fewer than 3,500 PS5 games in total. I can tell you that "targeting integrated graphics and lowest-common-denominator CPUs" has never really been a priority in the PC space; you can see this trend even before consoles like the SNES existed.

That's why PC games in the 2000s used to look like World of Warcraft even though PCs could do Crysis.

A lot of PCs couldn't do Crisis. It was a hardware seller because a lot of people significantly upgraded just to play it. Games in the 2000s looked like that because highly-detailed 3D polygonal models used too many resources (mostly CPU at the time). It made more sense, for developer and user, to limit the polygon count for everyone's sake.

Even in the modern day, World of Warcraft is an MMO and the textures and other assets are deliberately less detailed to optimize performance, so this isn't really a fair comparison and doesn't really demonstrate that consoles prop up the PC market (especially since WoW wasn't available for consoles during the peak of its success and was also a hardware seller due to that exclusivity). It's like comparing Plants vs. Zombies and Half-Life 2, or Destiny and Alien: Isolation.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

The average PC is an old-ass laptop used by a broke-ass student. Presumably that still is a factor on why CounterStrike, of all things, is Steam's biggest game.

It's because of the high percentage of players from developing countries, countries where high-end electronics aren't accessible, or countries with weak economies. Russia, Brazil, etc.

It sure was a factor on why WoW or The Sims were persistent PC hits despite looking way below the expectations of contemporary PC hardware.

When Sims 4 came out, people upgraded. They cancelled Sims 5 so Sims 4 remains, with largely the same specs. That's not something consoles can change. WoW is similar, which is why there's no WoW for PS5.

The beginning of competent console ports in the Xbox 360 era revolutionized that. Suddenly there was a standard PC controller that had parity to mainstream consoles and a close-enough architecture running games on a reliably stable hardware.

That's because Microsoft owns Windows and Xbox, not because Xbox revolutionized gaming. They had the ownership of 2 platforms with significant lock-in. It's like if Nintendo owned both the Switch and PlayStation (which they almost did lol).

Sure, there are PC exclusives because they rely on PC-specific controls or are trying to do some tech-demoy stuff or because they're tiny indies with no money for ports or licensing fees, or because they're made in a region where consoles aren't popular or supported or commercially viable.

So there are 14,000 titles new to Steam in the last year and your conclusion is that they are all either keyboard-only, tech demos, indies, or from a poor nation? Wild. You just said that the Xbox controller opened up a new world over 10 years ago and yet you also believe that these new games just aren't usable with a controller?

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

No, it's not just developing countries on older hardware

I was talking about Counter Strike specifically, because you used it as an example.

Microsoft doesn't own Windows

They literally do. Look it up. Windows is developed and maintained by Microsoft. They own all trademarks and intellectual property related to Windows.

Valve runs steam as a gig economy app, there are very few guardrails and instead very strong algorithmic discoverability management tools. Steam has shovelware for the same reason Google Play has shovelware, Steam is just WAY better at surfacing things specifically to gamers.

I never disputed this, but you are arguing that PC games are all shit for some reason or another unless they're ported either from or to PS5.

Incidentally, most of these new games support controllers because the newly standardized Xinput just works.

Newly standardized? Xinput was created in 2005. It has "just worked" for ages, because it is officially supported by Microsoft through Windows. Because they own Xbox, Xinput, and Windows.

Valve has a whole extra controller translation layer because everything else kinda doesn't and they wanted full compatibility

So that they can support other controllers that aren't Xbox...

You're talking out of your ass here and not even paying attention to context which you yourself brought up. Not to mention you aren't even aware of why Xbox had such stellar support (Microsoft is one of the largest tech companies in the world and own the PC OS with the largest market share by a longshot) and how that support translated to the modern rise of PC gaming.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

For gaming, people often recommend Pop!_OS, Bazzite, or Zorin, but you can use whatever you want if you are a tinkerer. I use Debian and have a great time gaming.

Outside of gaming and if Windows software compatibility isn't really something you're worried about, you can use any distro you want.

You can try some of them out using a web browser with DistroSea if you feel like it, though they don't have every distro because that would be nuts.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

I'm not familiar enough with KDE to know what you mean by a Windows-esque update step, but if you can explain further I'll see if I can find something for you.

Alternatively, someone else might pop in with some options.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

Hmm, I suppose the big difference between Fedora and Kubuntu is that Fedora is a fixed point release distro (similar to rolling release but less frequent) that applies updates only on restart, so it's possible that it needs a moment to ensure that everything is compatible.

It's certainly a weird choice to kidnap your desktop, so I don't blame you for being annoyed. If that's causing this, then you might want to try a stable release distro. This is part of why I like Debian, because it doesn't change very quickly and updates are unlikely to need special care to ensure stability. Debian also doesn't have the issue you're talking about, it updates right away in the background.

Kubuntu is Ubuntu-based (duh) so if you like how it behaves, you could try Debian (which Ubuntu is based on) or try another flavour of Ubuntu. Pop!_OS and Zorin are both Ubuntu-based and should definitely be on DistroSea.

gonzo-rand19, 5 miesięcy temu

Ah, damn. I did buy it many years ago, but it's unfortunate that new users can't access it.