Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

This means the story part is finished, right? I had a perfect run up to the point where the story wasn’t finished last time I played, I wonder if my old save file will still work so I can just continue where I left off… 🤔

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

You won’t be able to pirate the PS6. Not unless technology gets really fucking gnarly by the time it releases so you can download hardware. You’d have to rely on real theft.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Just a few hours ago when they announced that there would be an announcement.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I have not been let down by Ssethtzeentach on YouTube. He only seems to cover super deep, complex games; most of which ends up being indie games. How I found out about Kenshi and that Earth Defense Force is way deeper than it looks.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

At this point, if BG&E2 ever comes out, it’s gonna be like a repeat of Duke Nukem Forever.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

The fryers at all the McDonald’s locations I work at are on wheels. You can detach the gas line. I have to regularly pull them out to clean spilled oil and shit from under and behind them (and all the other big appliances as well, which are the same). It sucks worse than cleaning the bathrooms.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Since they count DLC in the mix, it’ll probably be Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Never played the first one, but I was all about Tribes 2 when it came out.

Ascend was pretty good too, but mostly just the skiing mechanic wasn’t sloppy because it was built in and not relying on a bug.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

The most excited I have ever been for a trailer was when I saw an ad for Secret of Mana on TV; and it’s entirely because it was the first time I ever saw a video game advertised on TV and not just in magazines.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

It used to. I haven’t used it in years, and I’m no longer sure if it still exists or where to find it if it does, since the UI has changed a few times over the years; the last of which was less than a year ago and it really overhauled everything. But also, so many games can literally just be copied from their install directory and work on another machine without Steam or cracks. There’s no good way of knowing which ones without trying it, though. At least not to my knowledge.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

There used to be a couple… Back when the default skin for Steam was just that ugly green shit? There was a couple different 3rd party clients that offered customizing the look before they added that function officially.

The only one I think might still be relevant is the one centered around filtering shovelware from the store. And I don’t know if you download that, or if it’s just a web client, since it is focused on the store and not much else (I also never used it personally).

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Even the small print on a physical disk’s packaging said that.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I definitely don’t see a fixation of performance lol

The reliance on AI upscaling and frame generation, while the entire game takes up half or your entire SSD shows that optimization is an after thought. These solutions make everything look pretty and smooth, at the cost of how it actually feels to play (input lag up the fucking ass that makes the game feel way worse). Couple that with the myriad of performance issues the majority of AAA games have at launch.

The focus is entirely on making something visually good looking that will sell millions in pre-orders alone.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Elden Ring is still a stuttery mess on PC and barely hits 60 fps on consoles, even the $700 one, yet it’s beloved.

I have an old ass PC and a PS5 with the game on both and they run smooth as shit unless you’re using raytracing, which literally doesn’t even change the visuals in the game; it just makes it slower.

Stalker 2 is a busted mess. The performance issues have been fixed mostly after 3 patches, but the game itself shits itself once you get to a certain story mission. Literally nothing works beyond that point. The A-Life system does not work, scripted events are all jacked up, IDK if anyone else is getting this but every now and then I have my secondary weapon replaced with a random other weapon that I didn’t even have in my inventory, sound effects don’t play properly, the hud completely disappears, and so many more things that make me glad I’m only playing through GamePass and didn’t actually buy the game. There’s a good game under the mess, somewhere. But they should have just bit the bullet and delayed it another month or two instead of releasing what they did for the holidays.

The reason they sold so many copies though, is because pre-ordering. People bought them before they ever saw the game in action. And games like Stalker 2 are the reason why you shouldn’t pre-order. Because the chances of getting burned by busted-ass shit like this is increasingly more common. Again, because people pre-order the fuck out of games.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

MDK. Bizarre game.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I love being a mutant mushroom man who survives by eating his own budding body, and protects himself by budding clones. Also I once found juice that allowed me to make literally any object sentient, so I had a big metal wall for a companion.

I fucking love this game.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Death Domain clerics? Fuck yeah! I can make my actual PnP Cleric now.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I miss that game… And real arcades. All the “arcades” around here have nothing bullshit mobile games you can literally download and play for free on your phone, and they want like $1-2 per play at the cabinet now. I ain’t paying any money to play Angry Birds or Flappy Bird.

At least they still have skeeball and the basketball things…

As for light gun games on PC, the only things I’ve ever seen are emulated. Either arcade games like that Terminator one with the machine guns that actually have kick to them, or NES/SNES games using the zapper/super scope 6. The emulators do support the actual hardware if you have it and a way to connect it, and there used to be light guns made for PC, but I don’t know if they would be USB or serial port (they were from the 80’s and 90’s).

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Personally, I find it frustrating to see the buzz Baldur’s Gate 3 gets because I remember a time when games like BG3 weren’t a rare sight. I mean, shit, BG3 is just a logical evolution from BG1 and 2. It’s got modern graphics, modern UI, modern controls… Same basic gameplay, same kind of choice that can lead to many replays because there are so many ways to do any given quest, etc.

It isn’t that BG3 isn’t deserving of praise; it definitely is. But the fact it is like a breath of fresh air shows just how awful the industry itself is. They didn’t do anything that hadn’t been done before, and instead went back to old-school roots and fucking dominated the scene by simply not making their game watered down garbage with a lack of agency.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

The lack of static servers and prevalence of random matchmaking has made multiplayer gaming so bad. At best nobody talks. At worst, the people talking are toxic as fuck. Who cares, right? Never gonna see these players ever again. Nobody accepts friend requests either anymore because 9 times out of 10, they only wanted to add you to talk shit.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Stalker 2, RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress and Project Zomboid.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Riiight… The streamers are the toxic ones and not just every player of the game.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

There isn’t a game that exists that isn’t better going in knowing very little, if anything at all, about it. I don’t even understand reading an entire guide or wiki about a game before you ever even load it up and play.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

It happens all the time on Steam and physical retail. Especially when the game is critically panned or is old enough that it’s not selling at the original price anymore.

Pretty funny to see the big budget “AAAA” games going from $70 to $5 in just a few months, while seeing an independent game like RimWorld never go on sale and have multiple DLCs that aren’t much cheaper than the base game because the former loses interest hella fast, while the latter seems to keep gaining popularity.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Bruh… :(

I just bought Biotech and Anamoly for regular price like 2 weeks ago. I hate not being able to predict the future. This way of perceiving time sucks ass.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I completely agree with that. Even the games that made the big companies big back in the day started off being like 3-5 people, tops. Now they have hundreds of people, tons of ideas, along with limited time and tons of bureaucracy. Even if there’s just one person making the decisions, it can’t be easy frequently hearing good suggestions from other people working on the thing under you and not wanting to try and incorporate them.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

“If you betray us, Ubisoft, I’m going to cut off your balls and shove them up your ass so the next time you take a shit, you shit all over your balls!”

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I’m tempted to ask for Scorn even though I know it’s really short and not super great.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

“Elon Musk is gonna make you his bitch.”

But this time, actually true if you buy his games.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

NGL: I hope that is not the final design because it looks rather cumbersome to actually hold.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

It’d be cool if controllers could just be adjustable size. Hand sizes are wild. My fingers are pretty short; my best friend has E.T. length fingers. We are otherwise about the same height and build.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Steam says my top 3, in order, are ARMA3 (though more than half of that has to be with the game minimized as I work on scripts for mods), Team Fortress 2, and Rocket League. All have over 2000 hours, Arma 3 has slightly over 3k.

However, from 1997 to 2007 (literally haven’t played it since The Orange Box released), I was playing Ultima Online for at least 8 hours a day, every day. So if that kept track of my play time, it would likely be numero uno. Diablo 2 and EverQuest would be right behind it.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Idk… RimWorld feels less genuine when they anthropomorphize the RNG, so it feels like it’s doing shit to you on purpose (because it kinda is).

Fuck you, Randy! I bet you thought that destroying my colony with 137 manhunting Boomalopes was pretty fuckin’ funny, you sick son of a bitch.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I am kinda sick of the rhetoric around this game like it actually turned itself around after all the added content and such… It’s just as vapid and boring; but now there’s way more things to get bored with 🤷🏻‍♂️

It still ain’t the game they promised it to be.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Some people do. And that game exists. My sister has been playing some MMO exactly like that.

I, too, like simulations. Though, I want to simulate fake shit so I don’t know if that’s quite the same because I totally understand the realism vs fun design aspects and I’m not necessarily looking for realistic but believable based on real physics. Dwarf Fortress is the only example of what I mean that I can offer.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Dwarf Fortress.

They’re even making sequels to “the carp stands up” now. They added exercise to the game, and now carps get ducking ripped as fuck just swimming upstream, so when they start walking on land they’re there to just destroy you and everything you hold dear.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

“That is why we do not eyeball it! We are not cowboys shooting from the hip!”

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

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Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Reach?

If I wasn’t on Lemmy, I wouldn’t even know about Mastodon. It’s not really something you hear of outside of the fediverse, in my experience. Meanwhile, BlueSky is gaining traction and talked about everywhere. Most people don’t care that it’s not exactly decentralized. Most of the things the users on the fediverse care about are not things the average, not-very-tech-saavy person cares about.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

“Toss me a bluesky, there feller.”

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I think he would be pretty happy, since it would mean more sales of Fallout 4 when all the new people show up to play London. Like how Bohemia Interactive leaned into DayZ because it was causing a huge uptick in sales of ARMA 2 before they made it standalone.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I want to play it but it doesn’t play well with the Steam version of the game for some reason, and none of the workarounds have actually worked for me.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

I don’t get how kids can be unsafe because of other kids being dumbasses. I guarantee the majority of the hate symbolism and speech on Steam’s forums, is from people under the age of 18. Kids are fucking little shits. Especially when they have no supervision, like on the Steam forums.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Good point.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

You literally just need to go into the discussion boards for trending games or check out the curation pages for groups like “DEI watch.” Guaranteed to find comments and posts of huge ASCII swastikas eventually. There’s next to no moderation for any given game’s discussion board or comments for anything related to it (workshop, screenshots, other media, etc).

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu

Check out the comments on Helldiver’s 2 's latest patch notes.

Kolanaki, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

Tell me you haven’t played the original Legend of Zelda without saying you haven’t played the original Legend of Zelda.

BOTW/TOTK are more like the very first Zelda game than any other Zelda titles.

Just like BG3 really isn’t all that different from BG1 and 2. Everyone so blown away by it saying it raised the bar must be young as fuck, because it didn’t raise the bar. It just put it back where it was in the 90’s after it fell off the post. That isn’t to say it’s not great or deserving of GOTY over TOTK, though. Ideally, they both would win for different reasons.