Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

When I think “space game” I usually have a specific genre in mind and Mass Effect isn’t it. You don’t even do anything in space unless you count the hub area since it’s your spaceship. For Starfield to be an honorable mention but Elite completely devoid from the list has dealt me near lethal psychic damage. 😩

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

The mods only work with ROMs, so the idea is to take down anything that might make people want ROMs to emulate. Whether they have a legal right to do so or not.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Sony probably just learned their lesson when they lost their case against the Bleem! emulator back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. They were, originally, just as rabid as Nintendo against emulation. And perhaps they also learned that you attract more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Then again, while Sony isn’t as aggressive as Nintendo, they are a bit slow on the up take and sometimes do really dumb things. Like their current strategy of releasing the first thing of a series on PC but the followups only on the PS5 to try and get PC gamers to buy PS5s. Why would I do that if my save isn’t on that platform and there’s no way to convert them?

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Aren’t these rules specifically for Steam keys?

Like it’s fine if they sell their game on Steam for $40 and another store for $60 as long as the thing on the other store is for that platform and not a key to activate it on Steam.

They just want the price of a game that’s on your Steam library no matter the source to be the same no matter where you purchase it.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

The agreement is only between the dev and Valve; 3rd party key sellers like G2A or Eneba usually obtain their keys through trades, buying them from the original seller, or by stealing them (which is an entirely different can of worms). They’re entitely user-driven marketplaces selling second-hand merch.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

It’s gonna take twice as long as Starfield all to contain the same jank in an even larger, more barren, world where nothing is interesting and you’re just going through the motions because that’s what Todd Howard thinks games are.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

It’s smaller but I would not say it was dumbed down like Oblivion was to Morrowind. Morrowind feels more or less the same as Arena or Daggerfall, except in how character progressiom works and that you didn’t have to swing your mouse around trying to hit things with your weapon.

It literally still has all the deeper mechanics like performing rituals during certain times of the day/months/year and what not. Just not a procedurally generated world with RNG quests or dungeons. And thank God for that because Daggerfall and Arena both could literally break by generating a dungeon you couldn’t actually finish.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu (edited 5 miesięcy temu)

I don’t remember any FF game having a rat killing side quest even at the beginning of the game, let alone at the end after you’ve killed gods. Shit… I don’t even recall FF having side quests at all until, like, 7 with the optional boss battles for powerful materia.

Killing rats is more of a western RPG trope.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Perfect Dark: Deus Ex

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Same. Not what I had expected to see for Perfect Dark, but absolutely welcome. I hope it ends up better than the last two Deus Ex games.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Once it started showing off the shield, it stopped looking like Doom and started looking like a first-person Rygar game.

I liked the gun that crushes up and shoots skulls tho. That’s metal as fuck. But God damn do I wish they would truly go back to the roots of Doom with the labrynthine map design instead of the linear arenas.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

And no nausea-inducing jumping puzzles

I take it you’re not a Rise of the Triad fan. 😆

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Have you tried nuts.wad?

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I had already resigned this movie to the shit bin just because they cast a comedian for the role of the only character in the games that was a serious straight man (as in the comedy trope) instead of someone more suitable like Idris Elba.

Then again, maybe they wanted someone else but Hart was the only one who accepted to work on this turd.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

The only thing that would potentially save it, is if all this shit was promo trolling and the actual movie used completely different better suited people with better lines etc.

That would be hilarious as shit.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Shadow Boxer maybe. It’s an arcade boxing game with the same kind of format as Punch-Out but not as easy.

If you want something a little more realistic, there’s Undisputed; a Fight Night clone currently in early access on Steam. But it’s not remotely like Punch-Out other than being a boxing game.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I’ve played so much Punch-Out, I tend to think of it more like a puzzle game. Especially Super Punch-Out since your opponents don’t even seem to randomize their patterns like they do in the original NES one. 😅

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Between 4, 5 and 6, I don’t even know if I want another Civ game. I usually just play 4, despite having 1-6. 4 is like the peak of the series.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

“Roguelike.” <- 44 years on and we still don’t have a real name for this genre that isn’t just “first game of its type with ‘like’ at the end.”

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

whereas a single journalist saying something like “Theme Hospital-like” is not a genre.

Exactly. Which is why your comments here do not make any sense at all; they’re not saying it’s a genre. They’re saying these games are like the games of a long gone company of the past. There’s no established way of saying that other than “Bullfrog-like.”

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Do I even have cloud saves if I just use the DRM free installers and not GOG Galaxy? 🤔

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Variables.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

They would remain 0 until flipped. They did say heavily modded, so like if you added more quests to the game, these all need some way of knowing what legs have been completed. The more modded quests completed, the bigger the save. And that’s just for one thing that a save would keep track of.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I guess if you never got gud it would feel that way, what with constantly being destroyed by the same roadblock over and over again.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

That place has gone hollow. Maybe the call of Miquella will implore those previously subscribed users to rise again.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I’ll finally get to play this \o/

Never had it when it was new, and playing the original on a modern machine (even with GOG’s version) doesn’t really work. Riven and Creatures 2 are the only GOG games that refuse to work for me, and it sucks because those are the two I have wanted to play the most, the longest since I knew of them as a kid, but never had them.

I fuckin’ love Myst’s lore. My favorite book of all time became The Book of Ti’ana because of it going into great detail about the height and fall of D’ni. I’ve even made models of the city in Minecraft based on the descriptions of it in that book.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Adaptive triggers make sense because not many games use it even on PS5 and it’s a very specific function that isn’t replicated by any other hardware yet; but why doesn’t eye tracking or HDR work with existing software on the PC side?

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I still wonder if they will eventually go the other way around, too, and let me use my Quest with the PS5 for things like RE4 VR. Doing the remote play method is jank af.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

But why would I have to use their software? There’s no other options for the triggers that I am aware of, but there’s tons of software for HDR and face tracking. A lot of it is FOSS, too.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I’m just wondering if the internal camera would at least be picked up as a generic camera so you could use any of the things that let you get face tracking just from a camera feed (as I do now), or if they literally have no translation drivers for it to even be detected on Windows or Linux as hardware.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

They do work in a couple of PS5 ported PC games. IIRC, Returnal and R&C: A Rift Apart have working adaptive triggers on PC. But you also have to have the controller plugged in with the cable; it doesn’t work via BT.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I was excited when I saw full DualSense support, including adaptive triggers, in the patch notes, but then disappointed when it didn’t work wirelessly. I don’t understand why it doesn’t work over BT on PC; it does on the actual PS5 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Those things are complicated as fuck. An arcade cabinet is relatively simple compared to a pinball machine. Even modern ones still need all the moving parts for the board; video game just needs the computer, a controller and a screen.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Depends on when it was made. A modern, multi-game cabinet could run entirely on a Raspberry Pi and cost far less to build than a console.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

They want your data so they can market you a PS5 better.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Wait… Like the tech demo game that comes pre-loaded on the PS5?

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Playstation players are upset by the lack of exclusives. There are like 4 or 5 games that are only on the PS5 and one of them is Astro’s Playroom; a tech demo platformer that comes with the system to show off everything it and the new controller can do. There is nary a reason to move from PS4 to PS5 even if you’re a hardcore Playstation fan.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Why oh why is MGS4 the only one not on any other system? It can’t even be streamed on PS4 or 5. 😩

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I subscribed to Game pass when it was just $1 for a while because it was just $1.

I subscribed to PS+ Premium for a year when I got my PS5 because it was cheaper than buying games unseen to see if I liked them.

I had Nintendo Online specifically because I got Rocket League on my Switch when my previous PC died and I needed my fix. This was before RL was F2P and thus you needed NO to play online.

I stopped with GamePass when it went to a regular price and it stopped being worth it for me since most of what’s on it does not interest me, or I already own it elsewhere.

I didn’t renew PS+ because they jacked the price up and I couldn’t afford it, even though I still feel the year is worth what you get out of it since it’s still cheaper than buying every individual game I might want to play, and a whole year is plenty of time for me to complete several games.

Ditched NO as soon as I got a new PC and could play Rocket League on my regular account.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

The “food so bad, it has to be censored” trope is one of the best.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

I’ve only played Lost Judgment so far and it’s awesome. It’s kinda like a smaller GTA if GTA was an anime.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Accountable to whom? There’s no victim.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

You could also say you’re a doctor fighting against an epidemic.

Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

“I always play the good guys!”

“Which faction do you side with in Fallout?”

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Kolanaki, 5 miesięcy temu

Man… Read the title as “Politicians” at first and was like “I could have been teabagging Trump and not even know it.”

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

Thats exactly it. I think it was Phil Spencer who said he’d want Microsoft to buy Valve if the chance came up. In the same sentence he said he would buy Nintendo, too. In the same way a Gen Z’er might say “I’d like to buy a house someday.”

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

They could have done nothing and been okay because Paradox apparently put their competitor Sims game on indefinite hold so we’re still stuck with just EA’s bullshit instead of having a choice of which life sim with an outrageous amount of paid for DLC we want to play.

Kolanaki, 6 miesięcy temu

I went from getting everything to maybe playing up to 3 new games a year about the same time the PS3 came out. I know what I like and what I want, and the vast majority of games do not deliver these days.