Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Are most video games protagonists straight? Cuz I have played way more games where the protagonist is mute and doesn’t show sexual interest in anything at all.

Like… Is Gordon Freeman straight? Doom guy? Kirby? Capt. Olimar? Red? The Prince of All Cosmos? 🤔

I’d say that video games have the most asexual representation of all forms of media.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

PS5 is nice if you can’t afford a PC capable of 4K or Ray Tracing for the games that are on every system ($500 for a machine capable of high fidelity gaming is a good value; couldn’t build a PC for that price with the same capabilities atm).

It might be more worthwhile if the exclusives for it weren’t able to be counted on 1 hand. There’s very little to warrant buying a whole system if you’re only interested in the exclusives.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

The bleakness is why I assume the “age of dark” endings are the good ones. They’re the only endings that also end all the suffering of those fucked up worlds. The only weird one is Elden Ring. You can end all suffering, but it’s presented as the worst possible end for that particular game.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

• Detroit: Become Human has some pretty tough decision trees. Not just in how you have to find the options, but even when you only have a few, it’s difficult to choose one because none of them are wrong (or right, for that matter).
• Papers, Please seems incredibly easy, but then you’re given a choice like “this person doesn’t have a permit but their husband did and they say they will be killed if they have to go back; do you do your job or do you take pity on them?”
• Jeopardy. The newest one I know of is multiple choice and some of the answers are hard.
• MGS5? It’s not a choice, but damn do I have to take pause every time I get to the part where you have to put down your entire army while they stand saluting you because they’re infected by vocal chord zombie parasites. You never even talked to these people to get to know them and it’s still like “fuck man these are my friends…”

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

AI with a sense of humor?

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Flash-in-the-pan multiplayer games that may not have anyone left to play with if you don’t join in while the pan is still hot. Heck even ones that stick around a while just get harder to start in when most players have built up skill in the game and know all the little nuances. It’s a lot easier to grow along with everyone when a game first drops, IMO if you care at all about the competitive side.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m patient for SP games, but I also sometimes jump on bandwagons for MP games from time to time. Especially when they’re cheap, like Lethal Company or Fall Guys.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Character so inconsequential, they forgot to hire a VA and record the lines.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Seeing the down votes I have to say this: He has a point here. TF2 is a F2P game that generates its revenue these days from marketplace and key transactions. If someone were to remake the entire game and it was allowed to release, it would most assuredly damage TF2’s revenue. A mod for Portal 2 has more potential to generate revenue because anyone interested in the mod that doesn’t currently own Portal 2, would have to buy the game.

At the end of the day, Valve is still a business. This news sucks for people who love playing games, but is entirely not unexpected.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

If this were any other company people would be raging

If this were any other company, I’d be saying the same thing. Nintendo shuts down shit left and right; most of them are mods for games that the only way to use the mods is via emulation. And it’s a lot easier to pirate a game for that than it is to dump one you own legitimately.

It’s certainly within their right to protect their shit. The ethics and morality of what that shit happens to be is irrelevant to the copyright discussion.

Also: TF2 is still supported… It still receives regular updates. It had one on the 9th.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Space Engineers.

Satisfactory.

Factorio (actually not sure what the MP limit is without mods; but I know there’s a mod that makes it infinite due to seeing the Spiffing Brit playing with like 300 people at once).

EVE Online (the bigger your group the stronger you’d be. Get 100 of 'em; start your own corporation)

Actually while thinking about what supports more than 4 it’s mostly creative games and MMORPGs (that know of). Damn near everything centers on groups of just 3-4 with the exception of the 5v5 competitive shooters.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

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Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Don’t even need the hardware anymore. The Android app is really good on its own. I can even play games while not on my own home network with minimal lag so long as I am on 5G or wifi. I use it to play a few rounds of Civilization when waiting at the doctor.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Fucked if I’ll ever beat Nethack without wizard mode.

Death Stranding is another, though for a completely different reason. I know there’s some super cool fun shit somewhere in there; but getting through the first few hours of the game to get to that point is so boring I always end up putting it down before getting to anything worthwhile. And that’s with actually thinking the walking system is pretty kick ass.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

I don’t think a Bethesda game has been innovative ever.

Arena was pretty special in 1994. Day/night cycles, dynamic weather, procedural generation to create one of the biggest maps for a game even now…

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Surpassed all other human attempts at beating it.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

If the PS1 is more powerful than God, then what is the PS5? 😮

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

The other day someone posted an NES cover and it straight up said “ultra realistic computer generated graphics” on it. 🤣

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

Mobile vs PC.

Looking at those low reviews from the Play Store the most common complaint is poor controls and difficulty selecting exactly what you want with the touch screen.

Kolanaki, 10 miesięcy temu

From this year: BG3

From before this year: Dwarf Fortress

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

I started up Cult of the Lamb more seriously. I had it at launch, but it didn’t hold my attention between Hades for the roguelite action and RimWorld for the colony stuff.

But I’m currently bored of those two, so I’m playing this. Shit was getting frustrating with the gains for going and doing the dungeons… Until I learned that I wasnt actually cooking all my fish and had tons of fish meant to be sold. Money solved literally all my problems. Just like it would in real life 😭

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Everything on the left prior to 2003 (which looks like everything on there other than Dragon Quest IIRC) was just SquareSoft. They began going downhill in the spring of 2003 when they actually merged with Enix.

IMO, Dragon Quest is the only game Enix made that was actually worth a shit and it still paled in comparison to the likes of Final Fantasy. It sucks that instead of Square elevating Enix, it just feels like Enix drug Square down.

Also, wtf is “Various Daylife?” That one sounds more like it could be a competitor to The Sims and not a JRPG. lol

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

Someone mentioned SpaceBourne 2 in another thread the other day, so I checked the reviews which made it sound like a pretty good game and it was on sale so I bought it.

Mechanically, it’s awesome. Polish wise… It needs work. Text-to-speech voice overs (which I hope are placeholders because they are jarring as fuck), kind of a mishmash of aesthetic design that makes me think the assets are merely freebies on the Unreal store, just missing that general pizazz that shows off the quality.

Not that it takes away from the fun, which is the most important part. The best way to even describe the game is “Mount & Blade in space.” It combines some of the best aspects of Elite Dangerous, X3/X4, NMS, and Stellaris into its own thing, and it is super cool to play if not look at (though the crazy set piece things in the MQ are super fucking cool; like being eaten by a space kraken and then escaping in a smaller ship while avoiding thousands of little squiddy things, and they’re actually there not like some BS particle effect or optical illusion).

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

I just question why they have to use those rooms at all when they have the ability to do a site-to-site transport. Just beam my ass from the bridge; the fuck do I gotta walk down to another room for?

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Sometimes.

Most of the time, I just make myself and I’m a guy. But in games where I am constantly making characters, like Elden Ring or something, I just slap the random button a bunch and whatever it gives me I accept.

Well… Fallout 2 I am always a woman because it makes dealing with the slaver leader a helluva lot easier.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

So like how they tried and failed to stop Tengen back in the day with their unlicensed NES carts?

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

Ugh who designed the page to have a gray background and gray text?

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Give it some contrast, FFS. 🤦‍♂️

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

Unless they pull a mega hit out of their behind

Maybe they could do, I dunno… Soul Reaver?

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

My brother got me Lethal Company and I’ve been enjoying being told what to do and how to survive by a random 13 year old through a walkie talkie while 2 other random 13 year olds try to hit me with shovels and ladders.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

I’m in that 9%. I played 40 different games. 21 of them were released in 2023. 83% of my total playtime was in games released this year. Most of that time was specifically in BG3.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

The hand can be used to fondle the balls or tickle the asshole.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

I only ever played the first 2 until I got a PS5 that came with Ragnarok.

They’re not even the same game anymore. The originals were more akin to Devil May Cry while Ragnarok felt like it could have been an Assassin’s Creed game.

I can’t say much for the story since I haven’t gone very far in Ragnarok (and only beat 1 and 2 back in the day so my memory on details is a bit hazy) but the game play is definitely a lot different than it started.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

The game itself is kind of lame. The fun comes from the other players.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

I would not think there is much incentive to do so when the game is good and selling well.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

For example, one thing I read again and again was “Starfield just wasn’t optimized, they easily could have reduced memory and bumped framerates”. Which any actual programmer will immediately feel a pit of dread in their stomach because we’ve been asked to reduce ram usage or speed something up, and that is a daunting task in our simple little apps - let alone a major AAA game.

This thing in particular was picked apart by actual devs in news articles and editorials that showed that Bethesda really didn’t optimize the game at all along with all the technical reasoning and proof showing how it could have been improved.

It’s not just the players, who for the most part, have been citing those articles when they make that particular critique. I mean, shit, they haven’t even used their own texture compression system for the last few games they made, and that’s so easy even someone with minimal modding knowledge can fix because the game already has the tools to make it work better.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

They have games on Netflix already that you play using your TV remote. They’re basically just choose your own adventure books, but in a TV show/movie format instead of a book.

There is also old crap like Doodle Jump, too, on other services that work on a TV using your remote.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

Chip

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

On one hand, I love the aesthetic and have been saying we need more games with cartoon vibes and physics.

On the other, I can’t say I’m digging the monochrome color scheme. The first full color cartoon came only 2 years after Steamboat Willie. Most classic Disney cartoons other than that first one were in color.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

holy shit I just realized: this is an entire game based on GMod Nextbots. You’re just shooting at animated PNGs that shoot back. Holy fuck.

So like Doom.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

I’ve been wondering when the fuck he would jump into film since he has the money, the talent, the desire and now the recognition to do so.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

I simply got good enough that they never screamed. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

“Rainbows? I hate those fuckin’ things.”

“Nobody hates rainbows.”

“Yeah, what’s there to hate about rainbows?”

“Well, you know, you’ll just be sitting there, minding your own business, and they’ll come, marching in and crawl up your leg and start biting the inside of your ass, and you’ll be all like: ‘EHY! GET OUT OF MY ASS YOU STUPID RAINBOWS!’”

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

pirating sucks!

Not as much as supporting anticompetitive practices such as digital marketplace exclusivity.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

Except that Valve revamped Steam loads of times before anyone else was even competing with them. The biggest was when The Orange Box launched and they had added better Friends support as well as literally all the community features and achievement systems. EGS didn’t launch until 2018. Origin didn’t launch until 2011.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

GOG still has that niche of the “old games.” Can’t think of anywhere else I could get DOS games from my childhood that also come with patches and updates to make them work on modern systems.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

Only ever cared for the OG, Minecraft, because it was new and innovative. Mostly why I don’t really like the genre is that most of them are “me too” games that don’t do a lot more than the first game that spawned the genre to begin with. More of the same with different aesthetics or balance. But not really different enough that I can even decide which is better than another; they all get homogenized into a single bland blend where if you’ve played one, you’ve played them all situation.

Unless roguelikes such as Nethack could count as “survival” games. That would be a much bigger list.

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

Ok but what about all the games you bought but haven’t even installed yet?

Kolanaki, 11 miesięcy temu

They have already started showing ads of the game. It certainly looks pretty but nothing shown, so far, is technically impressive or even indicative of any actual game behind the visuals. Unless they plan to release it soon, this just feels like building up a huge hype train years ahead of launch and that they haven’t learned their lesson from NMS.