Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

It upsets me that the sexy gerudo outfit isn’t in TOTK.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Gameplay really is about how much agency you have. Visual Novels are usually not games, as plenty of them have zero user agency. You’re just reading a comic book at that point, not playing a game.

I’ve been reading a ton of these things the last few weeks. I can’t bring myself to say “I’m playing these games” over “I’m reading these novels.” Because most of them have had literally no choices to make, or the choices you make have zero effect on anything and are just there as a joke.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Dragon’s Dogma is pretty good at making you both the center of the world and being surrounded by people that want you to succeed with how the pawns constantly talk, and even out in the middle of nowhere, you’ll run into people just walking around between settlements so the world never feels empty, even in places it maybe should.

Echo

Have you tried Adastra? That story can make you feel pretty good… Until it ends…

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

They’ll never be able to make Wirral Untethered.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

What the hell happened to Steam’s built in offline backup system, anyway? It used to have that when it was brand new.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

It had a way of packing a game into a CD/DVD when it launched. I used it all of two times. It was slow as fuck. If it still has it, as another commenter suggests, I don’t know how to access it.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I remember before the first Fable came out, in an interview or preview of the game in one of the magazines I subscribed to mentioned that you would be able to carve your name into a tree and then see it scar the tree as it aged over time, and even then as a teenager, I was like “bull fucking shit.”

They didn’t even have that as, like, a cutscene. Let alone a mechanic.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

If you wish to keep your sanity through the entire game, I suggest only doing the really big side quests and ignoring the majority of the others. The game is fucking huge, and it can easily become repetitive doing everything.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Can’t wait to find someone who will play It Takes Two with me. As the name suggests, it takes two people to play and I am but one person. :(

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I think I also have that because It Takes Two came in a bundle with it.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

With the prices of PC parts these days, you’re not wrong. However, my nearly decade old machine that was only around $600 to build at the time is still working strong with modern games. I just don’t have RTX or DLSS because my GPU was made before those existed; and I don’t even use them on my PS5 because I prefer 60+ FPS to graphical fidelity I can’t even see the difference in.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Epic got their big break by ripping off and trying to out-Quake Quake. I’m not sure they were ever brave enough to even have an original idea.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu (edited 5 miesięcy temu)

It’s only bad when the game isn’t a stealth game and also has shittastic stealth mechanics.

It’s worse when it’s the opposite, like Deus Ex: Human Revolution where the game is meant to be played in stealth, but then the boss battles are straight up FPS style shootouts when most players probably didn’t put points into combat skills or armor because they’re supposed to be a sneaky spy.

I honestly think the most egregious bullshit that has to do with stealth is Elden Ring and Sekiro. They have decent enough stealth mechanics, but they also have enemies that straight up don’t give a fuck that you’re in stealth so you’re never actually able to sneak around the entire time. It’s not that upsetting in ER, given it’s not the intended method of play, but in Sekiro you’re a literal god damn ninja who relies on being unseen. And iirc, Fromsoft also made Tenchu; one of the best stealth games of all time.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Skyward Sword was also the least Zelda feeling game of all the Zelda games I’ve played. And I played at least 2 of the CD-I games.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

It’s also regularly on sale for around $15-20. OP would do well to wait. They probably don’t even have to wait long.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

The PC side of this is not all that bad, outside of EA and Ubisoft.

Meanwhile, Nintendo doesn’t even have sales. Games that launched with the switch are still $60-70.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

My sister loves Beyond Earth; I still prefer Alpha Centauri.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

The article being posted…

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Because Fortnite isn’t on Steam. Super sure if it was, it would have usurped CS for the top spot.

Keep in mind that Counter-Strike has been a massively popular competitive shooter with tournaments and the biggest pro scene in the West for decades. It’s had years to cultivate its massive following. Most of the other games on the top 10 are babies by comparison to CS’s old man status.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Minecraft is so moddable, most people playing Minecraft might actually just be playing another game built inside Minecraft lol

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

The front-end launchers that are most popular basically work that way. The Bedrock edition also somewhat works that way, it just has fewer impressive mods and they’re not free.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

The bug was that it was rolled out prior to when they wanted to roll it out.

They’re definitely gonna try and put ads in there in the future. 😬 Was just comparing experiences with another user here last night about this (they had the ads but I did not) and seeing as they were across the pond from me and don’t even have the hub yet, it’s like they were just testing the waters in a specific region.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

How come Steven Spielberg hasn’t done a video game movie? I envision a heartwarming tale of a young boy befriending a Strogg from Quake by giving it Reece’s Pieces.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

I mean… It’s about video games, kinda. But I wouldn’t call it a video game movie considering it’s based on a book not a video game lol

I mean like why hasn’t he done something like Borderlands? Surely he would have done a better job than Eli Roth even with a bad script.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

I was shocked to find his highest rated movie was Postal. Maybe not that shocked, since it’s actually kinda good. At least, strictly as a comedy; didn’t follow the game at all. But it’s not like the game has a real story, either lol

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

• Negligible performance/visual increases.
• Expensive
• PS5 still has NO GAMES

If you buy this thing, congratulations! You are an idiot!

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Ok but why are you replacing the regular PS5 with the PS5 Pro?

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Yeah … And I asked why. 🤦‍♂️

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

There are only like 2 or 3 games that can only be played on a PS5 and nowhere else. Exclusives are one of, if not the most important part of getting a console, IMO. Like, why would I get this specific console if I could get any console or a PC and play the same games? I’m either going to get what’s cheapest or go full bells and whistles and build a beefy PC.

Most of the PS5’s exclusive games are actually just PS4 games and don’t even have the enhancement features offered by the PS5’s hardware. If you have a PS4, there’s really no reason to upgrade to a PS5 unless you really wanna play the Demon Souls remaster or Astro Bot. Out of all the games you mentioned, only GT7 (and Retrograde tho I don’t know if that is timed or completely exclusive; they pulled some fucky-wucky with that one) is exclusive. All the others are multiplatform.

That’s also why the PS5 Pro is just dumb. There’s not much taking advantage of the current hardware, and they wanna sell you more hardware to go underutilized ?

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s gotta have some reason to buy it. If it’s not the price, and it’s not the power, it’s the library. Sunk costs don’t even come into play for someone who is looking to get a game machine trying to decide what to buy.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

The last time I tried to play the originals, the controls were so awful… I would love to have modern style controls with it so much.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

Definitly the D.

• Doom.
• Dune 2.
• Disco Elysium.
• Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 as well as Demon Souls.
• Dwarf Fortress.
• Dark Messiah.
• Diablo 1 and 2
• Day of Defeat
• Dead Space
• Death Stranding.
• Deep Rock Galactic.
• Deus Ex.
• Dying Light

And that’s just what I have in my Steam library ('cept Demon Souls obviously). There’s so many more D games that are also great.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Also dune 2?

It’s what all modern day RTS games derive from.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_II

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Can you only use the in-game mod browser or something? Put the mod up somewhere else that Bethesda doesn’t control. It’s not like it’s hard to modify DOOM manually by dropping the files in the folder.

Additionally, extend the mod to include the CEO of ZeniMax as a Baron of Hell or Revenant.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

“Buy game” where you own your digital copy and can do whatever you want with it.

We ain’t ever seein’ that one.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

IMO, a lot of them suck as games because they’re not really games in the traditional sense. They are experiences. Or even just art pieces. What annoys me most about them is they are usually touted and tagged as being “experimental” and yet don’t do anything new or unique or anything one could legitimately say is experimental.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Can it play directly on the skin of my wrist?

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Back in the day I would use NO CD cracks for games I legit owned because I just didn’t want to have to change discs all the time when switching games.

DRM tends to negatively affect paying customers more than pirates, so I could easily see legitimate owners still using cracks to remove DRM that is causing them issues in their legally obtained game.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

Did you know that a shitton of RPG elements first came from Adventure of Link and are still present in modern games? That’s the silver lining.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

I forget which platform it was, but one version of that TMNT game was literally impossible because someone fucked up the distance of a jump in one of the sewer levels, making it an impossible jump to make.

I had it on PC as a kid and it was hard enough just reading the codes out of the booklet using that piece of red cellophane to get the fucker to start up lol

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

I think so. On the working versions you can just walk across but on the broken one it’s too far to do that and jumping makes you hit the ceiling and also not make it. Though it’s been a while since I’ve both played it or seen the little videos pointing out the error on one of the versions.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

FF style? Hate 'em. I’m not a fan of the turn-based combat in those types of games either. Outside of boss fights/special enemies, you’re usually just spamming A to select the first option (attack) until you win. It gets hella old, hella fast and the random encounters happen every so many steps you take.

Fallout style, on the other hand, is awesome. More like Fallout 3 and beyond than 1 or 2 which are still a bit like FF in that you can’t see shit, you just walk the map and then FF battle music fade to black and pop into the encounter.

The Yakuza series does them well. They’re visible when wandering around, but they’ll also just appear at random all over the city walking down streets or chilling in alleys. You can’t always tell exactly what you’ll fight but you’ll know how to get around them if you don’t want to fight.

Of course I also like roguelikes. The entire game is a random encounter.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Oh yeah, Undertale is gnar. They actually did something new and different with the style, which is what I’m really about here. Octopath Traveller is another good one; the thing that it has going for it is the sheer number of options you actually have. It’s not just “attack, item, magic, defend, or run away.” It also has a lot of other Western RPG elements in it like actually having dialogue choices that matter making it an actual game with branching paths and not simply a story with some minimal interactive elements.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Does it have to specifically be semi-realistic, have old guns, be military themed and in first person? Cuz I know some fine twin-stick sci-fi co-op shooters that can fill the same “shoot everything that moves with minimal effort” itch but they aren’t realistic, military themed or first person.

Like Synthetic 1 and 2 or The Ascent. I know of a couple WW2 games also similar but they completely lack co-op (or any kind of multiplayer for that matter) except for Jagged Alliance. And those games are old (except for the F2P thing that might not even be around anymore).

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

I’ve been calling it the Soap Opera of gaming since first playing Lost Judgment.

The games are about various yakuza/ex-yakuza just living their best lives basically. The main plot differs from game to game, but most of them are what I would call an “every game.” It’s got a little bit of everything; the majority of them are absolutely batshit insane side missions and mini games while the main game is a brawler/dialogue heavy RPG.

If you like video games and anime, this is a series for you because it’s basically both at once and every game is both self-contained and enjoyable on its own, but also references past games a lot and has impeccable continuity.

This one with pirates I have a feeling is going to be a lot like Infinite Wealth with Kasuuga being either one of if not the main character. He has a super wild imagination; every time you get into combat in Infinite Wealth, everyone changes to some fantastical creature or hero. Like you get into a fight with some drunk business men and suddenly they’re fire breathing zombies. It’s great.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

I don’t know how they expected to succeed without any marketing. I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of this game, even on my PS5 (where they usually advertise the absolute hell out of a 1st party title like this), until the day it released.

Or how their game being just another hero shooter/moba crossover in a sea of such games would differentiate itself enough to warrant also costing $40 instead of being like its competition which is FREE.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Smite. Apex Legends. Team Fortress 2. Valorant. Rainbow Six Siege.

And these are just the popular ones.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

There wasn’t anything to do. The whole loop of the game was basically akin to making a carnival midway and trying to sucker other players into your home to have their sims pay your sims for crap they could have used in their own home. All so you can buy better attractions for more money.

I imagine a new version would simply change the sims paying other sims to players paying EA directly.