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thingsiplay, 8 godzin temu

If DLCs can be Game of the Year, then Mods should be too.

thingsiplay, 15 godzin temu

There aren’t ripoffs of Breath of the Wild. Maybe Immortals Fenyx Rising is inspired by BotW, but I can hardly call it a ripoff. It’s a unique game that stands on its own. Otherwise there is no increase in Breath of the Wild ripoffs in 2020.

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• interactive 3D maps: noclip.website (Edit: Note this site does not work for me anymore, but seem to work for others. It could be my browser Firefox or an addon, I have no idea.)
• overview maps for all kind of systems: vgmaps.com
• SNES games, various overworld or stage maps: www.snesmaps.com

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The double tilde was an attempt to strike through the text. For me site does not work. I mean the site itself works, but nothing when I click and load a scenery. Can you load a map and use it interactively?

Edit: Oh, looks like my browser or its configuration does not work, maybe a plugin or Firefox itself: noclip.website/?webgpu

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/dcd8d222-f771-4a2f-8c39-cedeb9501a2a.webp

thingsiplay, wczoraj

I’m on Linux. No clue what is needed, because the error message is not specific enough. I have created an issue on the Github page. Hopefully this can be resolved.

thingsiplay, wczoraj

I tested this with a fresh Firefox profile, which is basically like a new installation without any customization. So looks like its not because of my personal customization or addons. Same results. On my old machine I remember using this website and I could navigate through the levels. But that’s 2 years ago or so, don’t remember.

Just had the genius idea to look in the Browser console and this is the message:

14:23:43.794 NotFoundError: No such JSProcessActor ‘BrowserToolboxDevToolsProcess’ 3

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Digital Foundry did an analysis. It’s a mixed bag, some games may look better, some worse. The core problem seems to be the new upscaling technology PSSR from Sony (for haters its pronounced like “pisser”, oh I see in your other comment you are already aware of this lol).

Imagine paying a premium price of 800 Euros and then getting this. Fanboys will defend it no matter what, just like Apple fans defend if they purchase crap.

thingsiplay, 4 dni temu (edited 4 dni temu)

An absolute Legend! Here is a documentation from Karl Jobst, about Suigi almost having all 5 records from 2 weeks ago: youtu.be/zUn6HPwNk9k or same video watched through Invidious (a more private YouTube): inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zUn6HPwNk9k

(Edit: rephrase as the previous statement sounded misleading)

thingsiplay, 4 dni temu

I personally don’t care which game wins the awards. I’m there watching for entertainment. I see lot of discussions and people take the awards too serious in my opinion. It’s like taking IGN scores serious. :D

What’s wild to me is, that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom didn’t appear once on this list.

thingsiplay, 4 dni temu

Not exactly. Per year are multiple games listed. Its just incredible that Zelda didn’t won a single award, based on this list.

thingsiplay, 4 dni temu

I literally did that last night, playing Half-Life 2 the first time. Yes, its true, I never played the game before.

thingsiplay, 4 dni temu

Ah, I missed that comment. They even build an entire physics engine for this website, to resemble the physics in Half-Life 2. Objects like text and images interact with each other and stack on top. Love it!

thingsiplay, 4 dni temu

You are right. I just tested it on my mobile browser and it just says “Perhaps on a desktop browser?”.

But I found a way to make it kind of work, but its not as good or seemless like on a real desktop PC. It halfway works if you switch your browser mode to Desktop mode. In your browser menu (the 3 dots, what’s called? hamburger menu?) should have an option to enable “Desktop site”. Then reload page and if you click the gun, it should pop out. Now try to click an element on the webpage, maybe the text. If it does not fall, click again. Unfortunately you can’t (or I can’t) hold an element and drag it around.

It’s really a shame.

thingsiplay, 5 dni temu

Buy the game before it gets unlisted. It’s currently in on sale: …steampowered.com/…/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/

thingsiplay, 5 dni temu

With that logic we should never buy a game, unless it is directly going to the developers hands? If you want it in your Steam library, then its the best time to buy it now probably while there is a sale active and before you cannot in the future, in case it gets unlisted caused by these legal issues. BTW I’m not doing the FOMO: FEAR OF MISSING OUT here. This is for people like me who rely on Steam library for convenience.

thingsiplay, 5 dni temu

Piracy doesn’t solve what I was saying. It is still not integrated into Steam and my account after pirating the game.

thingsiplay, 7 dni temu

www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program direct link to GOG, because the link provided in the The Verge article is goskimresource that is blocked by my browser extension uMatrix. From the original articles FAQ at GOG:

What about macOS and Linux?

The GOG Preservation Program is currently Windows-only. Our priority is to preserve as many games as possible under the Program, before expanding to other operating systems.

Sad. How about supporting Linux? This would be the right direction to preserve games, as they are no longer tied to the Windows operating system. That’s why I use Steam and do not buy on GOG.

thingsiplay, 7 dni temu

Yes, the DRM free games is a huge win for preservation. I’m not discounting the value of GOG. But that’s something we had already. My critique was about the focus on Windows only, which is not the best idea if games should be preserved “forever”. Because Windows 11 will be the only supported one soon.

But any efforts trying to make games work forever is always good. At least they didn’t rule out other OS in the future. While my initial reaction was a bit negative in the nature, because I was very disappointment, I’m still happy they do something about it. It’s even more bitter because they supported Linux in the past… But let’s see how this is going. I don’t want to end this in a negative note. I mean it can only get better with such a goal.

thingsiplay, 7 dni temu

This has nothing to do with current market share.

thingsiplay, 6 dni temu

I’m not suggesting to preserve a Linux version only. If anything, I meant to test and make sure the Windows build works with Proton on Linux, in addition to making sure it works on Windows. Some games have Linux versions, they just do not care about them either. And maybe make a Linux version of the GOG launcher as well.

thingsiplay, 5 dni temu

Yes, I have uBlock Origin and uMatrix active at the same time, on Firefox. Maybe if you are using a Chromium based browser, it does not work the same? After all Google made changes. Otherwise, I’m not sure which setting in uMatrix will cause to block this. Therefore I’m not sure how to help with that at the moment.

thingsiplay, 5 dni temu (edited 5 dni temu)

I’ve looked again and it’s probably one of the lists that contain hostnames to block. skimresources appears in all of these three, so enable them manually if they are not enabled: Dan Pollock’s hosts file, MVPS HOSTS, Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/d0200b3e-7304-431b-9778-e260498896c9.webp

Edit: In the addon menu you can enable or block the domain dynamically when you are on the page. Unless you save the setting this is only temporarily changed.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/adbbd12c-2641-4e4b-a9d9-291e6a933358.webp

thingsiplay, 11 dni temu

This mod had some clever tricks to avoid detection from Antivir scanner. Not sure how deep and complex the Steam Workshop antivir scanner goes (if any). Hard to say if they would have found and prevented it. However, all antivir and other scanner software learned from this and now every malware using this technique could be detected instantly. At least in theory.

thingsiplay, 10 dni temu

I would assume so. Did this happen in Steam Workshop?

thingsiplay, 15 dni temu

I assume its not possible, otherwise anyone would have done that already. From what I read through online research, it looks like Xbox Cloud is using an API for Cloud streaming by Google. And only Chromium based browser have this implemented and Firefox does not support it. If this is correct, then there is nothing you can do about it. People try to make Xbox Cloud work with Firefox for a long time now, without success.

Not this streaming is not just showing video files like YouTube. Game streaming involves gamepad (or other input) in realtime to coordinate with the server. Therefore the browser has to support these functionalities.

thingsiplay, 20 dni temu (edited 20 dni temu)

I thought the contributors list would be reset when uploading to a new location. At least that’s for forks, so that was my assumption without checking actually. I mean for the forks, gdkchan still have the commit history too, like any other contributor.

I think you are right: docs.github.com/en/…/transferring-a-repository

If the transferred repository has any forks, then those forks will remain associated with the repository after the transfer is complete.

And looking in the list of forks, the oldest one seem to be 1 month old or so.

thingsiplay, 21 dni temu

Half-Life 3 fans: Your first time?

thingsiplay, 20 dni temu

Understandable. Just to be clear, I wasn’t serious, it is a meme reply. It’s so satisfying if a long awaited game finally comes out. From technical point game seems to be on a good level, without being bug riddled and with good performance. Hopefully it was worth the wait.

thingsiplay, 20 dni temu

Ban real guns, not Fortnite guns.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

I enjoyed the first Tomb Raider of the reboot series shockingly more than I thought I would. A few years later then played the sequel and wrote a big letter of complains in a review. Maybe I was a bit overly negative because of some frustrations, but overall it was boring, bloated. Skills weren’t interesting or any game changing, collectibles were annoying but needed and part of the gameplay. There wasn’t even interesting enemies, they were the same all over again.

It started fun, but overall was the same again and again, without interesting story parts, and always climbing and climbing. There was no challenge I liked to do. Too many checkpoints and all the hints what to do next if I get stuck just a little bit took any tension and challenge from the game. Especially the third half of game was a huge time waste. The “Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch”-DLC was actually pretty good.

And then after finishing it, the cliffhanger at the end… man that was frustrating ending without answering the questions.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

that these run on AA batteries

Its actually a plus for me. I don’t want to use proprietary batteries and rather use standard AA sized (rechargable) batteries. They can be charged with any battery charger, you can have multiple of them and each pair lasts much longer than any builtin battery. I agree on the other parts for missing gyro and price though.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

If latency was an issue for you, I can assure that its not even for competitive gaming. I played years with friends Fighting games in a competitive manner (offline) and since 360 days it was wireless. And in general with modern controller and batteries, a pair lasts for me at least a week if no longer, when I play at least 5 hours per day. Can’t beat that! Replacement is also cheap. Good if you don’t want to rely on original batteries in the future.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

Agreed. It’s a flaw I should have taken care off. I wish I had done that.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

Carrion - Steam

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/eacbdae5-ad79-46b9-adf4-bf8ff1799870.webp

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

Let’s see how many units are sold during holiday season. Also if the new Nintendo console gets out, then the old Switch will get (hopefully) a discount and it sells a lot more. Keep in mind the PS2 and DS sold even after their successor came out. Wikipedia lists the numbers: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_best-selling_game_cons…

<span style="color:#323232;">PlayStation 2       Home        Sony        2000    >155 million
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Nintendo DS         Handheld    Nintendo    2004    154.02 million
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Nintendo Switch #   Hybrid      Nintendo    2017    143.42 million
</span>

And just for fun, people call the Xbox One a failure, but look and compare to some legendary consoles:

<span style="color:#323232;">Xbox One            Home    Microsoft   2013    ~58 million
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Super Nintendo      Home    Nintendo    1990    49.1 million
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Nintendo 64         Home    Nintendo    1996    32.93 million
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Nintendo GameCube   Home    Nintendo    2001    21.74 million
</span>

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

I know, but its still funny that the XBOne sold more than iconic N64 and Gamecube combined. I know this has to be seen in context, that’s why I said “just for furn”. Also this brings into perspective how insane the PS2 sold, where gaming was in less mainstream position than today. It was Sony with the PS1 and 2 who made gaming mainstream. The PS3 came out 6 years after the 2, while the Switch has a longer period of time without its successor (currently 7, we enter in 8th) and still could not catch up. It’s crazy how the PS2 sold.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

Why shouldn’t it be allowed? The company does not violate any copyright, trademark or patent. Otherwise Nintendo would have sued them for their similar project, but for Game Boy, the Analogue Pocket.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

Agreed. I also want to add that this is not a mass market product, plus its not current gen either. So Nintendo does probably not care at all, in addition to what you already said.

thingsiplay, miesiąc temu

We don’t know. If I guess, it will be a full priced 69 Dollar game with 100 Dollar special edition for preorder. Other than that, Ubisoft is desperate and they said they won’t do this microtransaction shit they did before, so the integrity of the actual game is kept. I believe it when I see it, but that’s what they said. They even want to release it on Steam without the Ubisoft launcher on PC. Hell thats an improvement!

If the game truly has no bullshit, then I might check it out. Didn’t play an Assassins Creed since Black Flag on the Xbox 360. And I like Japan, so good oppurnity to hit me.