Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Used to be the Logitech F310. Simple, reliable, used my preferred layout, inexpensive, and durable.

Then I got a PS5 and experienced the DualSense’s adaptive triggers and I can’t go back.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

They’ll just use AI to make it.

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I remember when the best NES emulator was NESticle. Hard to not pronounce it “ness” after that.

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Yes. The 4th A was to the front and it stands for Awful AAA game.

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It might have sold better if they actually named it Skibidi Bonesacks.

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How is this only blowing your mind now and not the entire past decade or so where this has become the norm for the giant corpo devs like Blizz, EA, and Ubisoft? This has been common long enough that I’ve become completely numb to it now.

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They’ve always been more about Hollywood realism than actual realism.

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That’s a good policy. I highly recommend sticking with it. 🫠

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It’s pretty hard to make levels of difficulty that actually change things enough outside of either giving the enemies more damage and HP or simply adding more enemies, or in scored games having higher score thresholds for higher ranks (these can be anything from an actual score to the speed you finished and everything in between that’s basically just a number that you can compare to another number).

It certainly can be done, though. I can’t help but think about the bots in counter-strike. They range from braindead drooling moving targets to Terminator machines that can 1 tap you with a pistol from across the map. They actually have a difficulty scale that’s more than simply being tougher to kill and hurting you more. It affects how they move around, the speed they begin shooting, their accuracy, etc. I don’t know why these kind of bots do not extend to pretty much any game with enemies. Just give them 3 sets of behavior that makes them easier or harder to deal with.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

I’m not giving them my money anymore so I don’t really care.

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Not to mention that if you’re already playing PS4 games, a PS5 isn’t opening up a lot more games for you and many PS4 ports to PS5 run worse than their PS4 counterparts.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

There is a tech difference with a DualSense controller that other controllers don’t have, and that’s the adaptive triggers. As far as I am aware, they’re the only ones with that. It’s a cool effect. Makes shooting in games feel more like handling a gun than vibration effects do.

Other than something like that, button layout is a choice. Parallel sticks or off-set sticks. Off center buttons. The way the D-pad functions (rolling style like Xbox or just 4 buttons like PlayStation). Etc.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

The only thing I can think of to make 6 even better is if it used 5’s job system. 5 single handedly killed having static classes for the characters for me. I want to be able to make anyone anything if they’re not going to straight up let me make my own character.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

I’ve been thinking about this while I switch back and forth playing Elden Ring’s DLC and Infinite Wealth.

In Elden Ring my motivation is simply that they are in the way and I want to go through them. The excitement of defeating someone is only strengthened by how many times I didn’t before I finally do.

Infinite Wealth, on the other hand, introduces complete assholes you want to beat up and then you get to. Which is just way more cathartic and the build up is always going to be the same for nearly every player, because the bad guy is actually shown doing shit most people hate so you start to actually hate them and want to defeat them.

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My hope is that Gabe actually gets direct brain connection technology off the ground and he uploads his consciousness into an everlasting machine so he never has to retire.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Civilization is like a board game. It’s over when you hit the turn limit.

Fighting games usually do have campaigns, of a sort. It’s each character’s story line. It can be over when you beat every character or if you go through every character’s story (ie run through the main mode all the way through with each character you can play as).

Racing games also have campaigns usually, and some even have progression systems. But the campaign is just going through progressively more difficult races. They’re complete when you’ve gotten the best rank on every track and/or collected every part.

They’re all meant to be played over and over again though; often against other humans. These are also the types of games that come with a lot of options, settings and modes to facilitate playing the same game slightly differently and keep things fun. So I guess the real answer is: whenever you want. If you’re playing then because they’re fun they never have to end. If you’re playing as a completionist, it’s over when you’ve gotten all the achievements/experienced every piece of content you can access.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu

Rocket League, Smash Bros, Armored Core 6, Elden Ring…

I’ve actually done a local smash bros tourney before. Came in 4th. Pretty much anything I already play for fun, I would sign up for a tourney because I usually play competitive games (or at least games with a fun competitive aspect, as with Elden Ring duels and invasions) and I’m not too bad.

When I still played RL, I really wanted to find some good team mates and try out for RLCS. I was already regularly playing with pros I knew by name due to being in the highest ranking bracket.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Intelligent Qube

Not a series, but I’d like another.

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“Surprisingly alright” doesn’t sound like much praise.

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Imagine if Steam and EGS were hotdog vendors.

Steam offers all the condiments; mustard, ketchup, mayo, relish, onions, pickles, tomatoes, bacon, cheese, chili, etc.

EGS is just a plain hotdog. No condiments. You’re lucky to even get a bun.

Both are equal price.

Which hotdog are you getting?

Now imagine that the plain hotdog guy keeps whining that nobody wants his hotdogs.

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the second hot-dog vendor wants to offer customers lower prices, and the first says they can’t because otherwise those hot dogs will be banned from their stand

It’s more accurate to say that the plain hotdog vendor wants to sell the other vendor’s hotdogs at a lower price at his own stand, thereby undercutting the sales of the first vendor for their own hotdogs.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

The keys that put the game in your Steam library are. And that’s what those pricing guidelines are about; Steam keys, not the actual game.

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I want a way for my shitty, old computer to emulate a new, kick-ass computer.

“Never upgrade your PC again with this one weird trick!”

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Does it actually move faster than sprinting?

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I had been so focused on that Italian souls like coming out in September, I totally forgot about this one until it blew up on release. But seeing their review guidelines trying to silence certain topics means I don’t even want it anymore.

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Boktai!

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I never understood this for first-person shooters. You can’t walk forward and backward at the same time, so I don’t see why being able to press the forward and backward movement keys at the same time would be useful at all.

Top down games with 8+ directions of movement it’s great, though.

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Wait for Deadlock to come out or find someone in the beta who can get you into it.

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The Demoman is optionally a melee class. For some reason 🤷🏻‍♂️

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If you’re not playing with friends and someone calls you by your full real name in a game of randomly selected players, that would be pretty scary.

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BG3. The sex scenes in that are just a slight camera angle away from full blown porn.

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Elden Ring.

You’re either going to hate it long before you 100% it or you will 100% it because you love it so much.

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Usually the first line in these agreements is “by using this software you agree…” And not “by pressing okay you agree…”

Though I also am not sure how that itself would hold up in court.

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At best they ignore it. At worst, they never invite the user to test anything again. I doubt they’d issue an account ban for that. Not even sure if they can straight up ban you from the platform anyway and lock you out of your games entirely; pretty sure the bans are limited to VAC secured servers for online play and the array of community features like posting on the forums.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Hal’s argument sounds more like pedentry about what a remaster is vs what a remake is, and I would have to agree that this game sounds like a complete remake, and not simply a remastering of the original with what has been detailed about it.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret.

Controls kinda fucking suck in the modern day, but the games are still solid fun.

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There are also 3 of them on PC and are quite cheap.

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Now I want to make a mod for Fallout called “Bug Removal” and all it does is replace all the insect enemies with non-insect enemies.

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There are official tools… There just isn’t like a map editor or an easy to use visual toolset like Skyrim has. It’s a bunch of command line conversion tools and injectors.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

Yeah, I’m not sure how the engine handles flying things. Do they actually change their Z axis or is it merely an animation trick and they are actually “walking” on the ground, like Dark Souls. 🤔

Pretty sure they actually fly though, considering dragons in Skyrim and vertibirds in Fallout 4 don’t fall if they fly over a steep elevation change. But maybe they just work better than Dark Souls flying enemies 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

I think I’ve either beaten Elden Ring or DS3 the most. I very rarely replay games; I usually finish the story or get 100% completion and then don’t play again for years.

But I loved PVP in these and the way you gather items to make builds kinda requires playing through practically the whole game (especially if you want to use an item only dropped by the final boss).

Before these, the only other two games I beat many, many times in a short time span before I got tired of them was Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and Silent Hill 3. And they were all just to get the badass super weapon that they all only gave you after beating the game like 5 or 6 times. Ico’s and Shadow’s weren’t even worth it. That maul in SH3 so is though. I love that thing 😋

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First thing I thought of was “I wonder if I can recreate the original game’s levels with this.”

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The 1993 game.

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The only thing about the level design I think would get broken is the fact you can jump and other traversal methods. The original maps weren’t designed around that, and even Brutal Doom breaks them with the addition of jumping. But what’s broken is the intended progression and access to secrets and is also an easy fix. Just make the barriers higher or gaps further, etc.

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

IDK about the Xbox, but the PS5 is not really all that worth it considering most of the games that aren’t multiplatform titles are PS4 titles still. There’s not much at all that requires the PS5’s hardware, so why would most people pay the higher price for a PS5 when PS4 is still being sold and is cheaper?

Kolanaki, 3 miesiące temu

That thing the Dragon Priestess gives you to fight Bayle. Supposed to “greatly” increase your damage negation. It adds a flat 15 to it. Which is nothing lol

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Yeah, what? It takes up 110GB less on PS5. Are the textures bigger? Is there more content? Or is it simply uncompressed?

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The other games that have had this requirement at least had some kind of store/online function somewhere. AFAIK, GOW:R doesn’t have any online functions. What in the hell is the account even for?