Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I just want games made by people who are trying to make a good game, and not games made by people or companies that are only trying to make money. Not one GaaS game is actually special enough to warrant spending more than the base price of the game on (and many aren’t even worth that when their next best competitor is fuckin’ free to play.)

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

What in the hell equivalent on modern system requirements would a 1660 Super be? The thing is still getting me good performance in most things, even new things, but the requirement lists have all moved on to RTX models for nVidia’s side of things. I can guess from this I might still get 60fps at 1080p on Medium settings; but maybe not if that all depends on DLSS being employed which my card doesn’t have.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

It sounds like you can access your actual PS network friends and earn PS trophies. I hope that is in addition to achievements on Steam itself and not a replacement. I would imagine many people getting the PC version don’t have a PlayStation in the first place.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Pong can’t be that old, can it?

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s not a phase, dad!

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Me: “I wonder if I can find this dude’s kid in game and reunite them… 🤔”

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

If my game preference determines how I want the world to be: I must want the world to be a fucked up, cursed wasteland where everything is in a state of constant suffering, and the best outcome is killing everyone so they at least stop suffering.

I’ll let y’all figure out what kind of games I play.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

outside

Thinking about it, real life isn’t much different than Dark Souls. But I would like the IRL monsters to look better than just a poorly re-skinned default character.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Switch games not also on PS5

Pretty much first-party Nintendo games and a handful of independent games. I had the same desires as you, so all I really had and played and liked was:

• Animal Crossing
• Tears of the Kingdom (Breath of the Wild was good but TOTK is basically the same game but 1000x better and after playing it I have no desire to go back to BOTW)
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Clubhouse Games

And if I had known it existed while I still had the thing, I would have gotten Switch Sports.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Reporting them at the very least sends a message to the mods of the community the reported post/comment was on. Not sure about how/when it goes to instance admins, though. Which is where they really need to be reported to. Mods can block them from their community, but a spammer (human or bot) generally affects the entire server so it needs to go all the way to the top.

Blocking them also works to at least reduce the bots’ effectiveness. If everyone blocks it, it isn’t doing anything but wasting bandwidth, and if it’s not having the desired effect whoever deployed it might give up.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

My main criticism is that they have done literally nothing to establish or explain the rules/quirks of the world. If I wasn’t already a fan of the games, this show would be confusing as fuck. They expect you to just know about the NCR, the Brotherhood, what a ghoul is, what caps are, etc. Like, I hate exposition, but this is going too far in the opposite direction with it.

The other is the place and time. I watched all 8 episodes and it seemed like it took place in multiple parts of the country between at least Massachusetts and California considering they say they are in the Commonwealth at the beginning, but clearly are in Los Angeles pretty much the rest of the time, and it’s unclear how long McClane and Maximus’ journey had been due to the weird time compression. It’s almost like a TV show done like a linear game where you just move from set piece to set piece, while losing all the stuff you do in between.

Other than that I loved it. If it didn’t have actors I recognize and have the studio logos in the opening credits, I could easily believe this was made by hardcore fans of the games as a independent project.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I remember next to nothing about the game’s “plot”, if there was any to begin with.

I only remember the first 2 TM games and the plot was some rich fuck made a death match competition and the winner gets a single wish granted as their prize; but the wish every character makes in their ending (by beating the game as that character) is always corrupted Monkey’s Paw style.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

“Eat verification bullet to continue”

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

They cited poor sales? Wasn’t the remake of the first one a hit? Even though it was competing with a bunch of great new shit at the time?

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I think the last good Ubisoft game I truly loved was Beyond Good & Evil. And I am pretty sure they merely published that, but it’s been a long time I could be misremembering.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Blast Corps was my favorite single player game on the system that wasn’t Ocarina of Time. Though, I still think the ending to the story was awful and anti-climatic.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Are you the quiet nerdy guy with a Prius? 🤔

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Used to be Link to the Past but now the title is held by Tears of the Kingdom.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Mame emulator of the actual arcade releases. The graphics are better, there’s no censorship, and it’s really the more authentic way to play them, since they first were arcade machines before they came to home consoles.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I remember printing these out, too. They were usually hundreds of pages. And we still had a printer that used paper with the holes on the side. Shit took forever. Just grrrntchchgrrrntchchgrrrntchchgrrrntchch (printer sounds) all day.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Are pinhole glasses safe? Just a pinhole made between two pieces of cardboard? We made those when I was a kid, though we never got to see an eclipse.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I can’t see it anyway from my part of the world :( I was just curious because it doesn’t seem like it would be safe, but it was literally taught to me in elementary school.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

“NO TOILETS!”

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Already a thing for Roku/Android TVs.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Should be able to with Roku since they are also Android based. I’ve found a bunch of things to side load or modify any TV running on Android or based on Android… Which only sucks because I was looking for that kind of stuff for my shit-ass Samsung TV which isn’t Android based 😩

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Aren’t .APKs only usable with Android systems? I’ve sideloaded .apks to my old Roku stick for things that weren’t on the official app manager.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I’ve heard that it’s still by and large like the original game in many areas, so I could see it not hitting with that crowd. But among the old geezers like myself who never stopped playing the old stuff, it’s got nothing but praise. Personally haven’t played it (or even the original game for that matter; only ever had SS2) but both look amazing, and I want to play it.

I have a lot of other remake games and engine ports from Night Dive and almost all of them are absolutely phenomenal.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Doubtful. The Dreamcast mostly failed due to lack of faith in the product from SEGA. They stopped development on them only like a year after they came out, IIRC, despite having a super solid and amazing catalogue already.

Microsoft will probably kill the Xbox, but not because they just don’t think it will go anywhere. More because they will make changes trying to sell more of them, until nobody wants them because they suck.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Does your app have an option to open links in the default external browser (which I would assume you have Firefox as)?

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Is this picture from a children’s Bible or from a Jojo story board? 🤔

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Google Nintendo Cardboard

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I’m less upset by what the MTX is or that it’s there in a seventy dollar single player game, than I am that they did not disclose it would even have MTX until the day it launched.

If it has been known before hand, I wouldn’t have really cared too much. RE4 has the same kind of MTX, it does not affect the game, but it was also known before launch that it would have it.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I find this whole thread hilarious because it’s exactly the kind of dialogue I have come to expect from a dating sim style game.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

I remember when he was harder. Day 1, he was like a level 90 boss because of a bug when he was meant to be a level 60 one. Beat him before they fixed it; now he feels too easy. lol

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

The story’s been basically the same since the first game anyway: Gannon bad. Zelda missing. Kill Gannon; rescue Zelda. Oh and there’s maybe a triangle to find depending on the game.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

Ocarina of Time, Zelda was a badass ninja warrior that was constantly helping you.

And is then captured by gannon toward the end of the game and you must rescue her.

Doesn’t appear in Majora’s Mask

I am not even counting the games she doesn’t appear in at all. Link’s Awakening and pretty much all the GBA games are like that. But they aren’t the main series, either.

In Wind Waker, Zelda was the leader of a gang of pirates. She had their respect and undying loyalty despite all being twice her size, because of her toughness and bravery.

And she is kidnapped at some point in the game, and you must rescue her.

Don’t remember Twilight Princess

Like Link to the Past, OOT and WW: Shes kidnapped toward the end by Ganon, and you must rescue her.

Skyward Sword

Zelda is literally trapped in a crystal and must be rescued by killing Demise. Sure, she put herself in that crystal, but you still save her from being imprisoned forever.

BOTW

Like Skyward Sword, Zelda is trapped as energy in a constant battle to keep Ganon at bay. Since she comes back in TOTK, you obviously rescued her.

TOTK

I haven’t beat the whole game yet, but either it’s the only main series one where you don’t rescue Zelda, or Link finds a way to turn her back to normal, which would be like rescuing her, much like Skyward Sword and BOTW. And please don’t spoil it for me; the big twist was already spoiled by all the memes and it’s impact when seeing it happen in the game wasn’t nearly as cool as it would have been otherwise.

Kolanaki, 7 miesięcy temu

Every Miyazaki Fromsoft game ever.

I have no idea how I’m not bored yet. They’re all just so damn satisfying to play. I went from mostly online FPS to these games after I got Prepare to Die Edition back in the day. Any given time I play a game now, there’s an 80% chance it’s one of these or something similar to them (like The Surge, Mortal Shell, Lies of P, etc).

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

The switch natively can tune the performance, which you might notice going from docked to handheld mode and seeing the quality dip.

The emulated setup is probably bypassing some of this, which would likely have a “safety” zone it never leaves to make sure the performance is always smooth and the battery isn’t being drained too fast, and it’s likely pretty conservative.

The Quest 3 does the same thing and using some tools, you can adjust the hidden visual settings of a game to make it look better or run faster at the cost of some more heat and battery usage. Natively, it really holds back what it will allow the software to do with the hardware because it’s focused more on battery life, and cranking up, say, Wrath of Asgard 2, you might only get an hour of battery but it looks and runs way better.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I agree, but I mean… Nintendo’s primary audience are children and adults who aren’t necessarily tech savvy. The Deck’s primary audience is practically the exact opposite. Having it work is more important than squeezing out every last ounce of power for most consumers. The same applies to the Quest (though it is much simpler to unlock that power if you’re a dev or power user than a Nintendo product).

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I would assume the cart slot is directly connected to the bus and should be faster than going through the USB port, but that’s just a wild guess since I don’t know enough about hardware let alone the specifics of the Switch’s.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I just think of giving some mercy to the tech support team by not having the options where someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing could fiddle with it. The way you enable developer options in Android would be nice though. Fun even; it’s like finding an Easter egg.

In a perfect world, we’d be able to just use the hardware however the fuck we wanted without any barriers. 😞

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Can’t help but wonder how much of this is due to Hasbro’s mismanagement.

All of it.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

Unless the sequel is using way better tech and requires a new engine or massive engine tweaks, a sequel that comes shortly after the original release could be done better, faster and cheaper as an expansion pack.

Other than EUIV though, whose expansions are a money grab way to make the game cost 150 bucks, I haven’t ever played DLC I can think of.

Well there ya go. Paradox DLC is just bullshit. Most of them just add like 1-2 units or characters or factions which mostly boil down to an aesthetic change. Most big games get real additions via DLC that can add up to 50% more game.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I’ll just wait until it gets the Dark Arisen treatment and all the MTX and pre-order content becomes freely available in the game and the limits on port stones and the random currencies that aren’t just gold for shops are removed.

The original game originally had limited fast travel, too. But it was eventually made non shitty and you can just buy the stones you drop as FT points at a shop in the main city.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

They added this shit after the reviews and shit came out and said it didn’t have any of this garbage though, so it’s a bit unfair.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I want more Sam & Max but with the Wolf Among Us style mechanics. 😩

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Brilliant. It would allow for having HL3 while also not for ing Valve to make a 3rd thing.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

What’s the other game? Because if it’s not Arcanum we have a 3rd.