Kolanaki

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

It’s not like the UI in Death Stranding is unique, so I find it a bit odd that anyone would be this upset by it and not also most other video games.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

According to Vaati, from interviews given to Japanese magazines, the entrance to the DLC is Miquella’s arm coming from the cocoon at the back of Mogwyn palace. So you’ll likely have to at least get past Mogh, Lord of Blood, to enter.

Honestly, he’s easier than the one in the sewer. At least Lord of Blood bleeds.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

The Steam version makes 90% of the learning curve (learning the UI) disappear because it is so, so much better than the legacy version lol

The game itself is really rather straightforward and easy to figure out. It was always the presentation and layout of the UI and hotkeys that made it a challenge to actually start playing since you could know what you needed to do, but not know how to reach the command for it.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

The only things I currently want are Helldivers 2 and Shadow of the Erdtree. Neither of which are likely to go on sale soon. 😞

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

+1 for Lies of P. It’s the most Fromsoft-like game of that style not made by Fromsoft I’ve ever played. So if you’re a big Soulsebornering fan, it’s right up there with those.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

8,000,000 x 40 is 320,000,000. So they’ve made a few bucks.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I’m still sure the devs got a couple bucks. At least a pizza party.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I just think of it like boom as in explosions. Boom-boom shooty-shoot; or boomer shooter if you prefer brevity.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

You mean besides bootlicking Nintendo fanboys?

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Work Time Fun! 😋

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Counting Lethal Company as something other than a cheap cashgrab seems bold.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I don’t have the game yet, but I’m planning on getting it and… That sounds annoying as fuck and needlessly complicated. What’s wrong with just having a single currency? What you earn by playing is a single currency, everything you buy in game only uses that 1 currency. Everything you only get with real money is just purchased outright, without the need for some BS currency that only has value in that 1 game. Why the hell does nobody do that?

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

You’re being down voted but I see it.

(OP has a typo in the image that says "short but repayable game)

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Maybe they should learn how to manage their finances before they start another game.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Seems like a major case of Redditors being able to dish it out but not take anything in return.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Mount & Blade Warband’s Gekukoju mod.

Still waiting for a similar mod to come out for Bannerlord.

Sekiro is also good, but with Japanese myth and fantasy and not, like, based in reality other than the cultural similarities and aesthetics of the world.

Ghosts of Tsushima.

For an older maybe somewhat unheard of game, Way of the Samurai on PS2 was really fun.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I’m more shocked learning that Rooster Teeth was owned by one of these companies to begin with.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Of course the vice president of Sony would say that.

I’m sure the people that actually made the game, however, will find even greater success once the exclusivity time ends, since it’s not even a true exclusive.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

9 times outta 10 when I see someone complaining about the overcompetitive player, the overcompetitive player is just winning while the dude playing for fun is getting destroyed, then whining about “try hards.”

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Yeah… That’s the 10th player in the “9 out 10” or the whiner who is complaining about the “try hards” I already mentioned.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Literally anything focused entirely on telling a story.

They’re only worth replaying if you forget the story.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Phoenix Wright comes to mind since I’m just watching someone else play the games I don’t have because there’s not much player agency so watching it is as good as playing it 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I would say something like ICO is the latter kind for me. It is focused on the gameplay, but the gameplay is the same exact thing from the first moment to the last and you can find all the secrets in the levels themselves pretty easy the first time through (since the rooms ain’t that big there’s not much room to hide things), the only reason to replay it multiple times is for the special weapons you can get; which are more like skins than actual weapons, except for the energy sword that OHKOs everything. But you only get that after like, 5 or 7 completions I think? It wasn’t worth it. By the time you get it, a normal person would be totally over playing the game lol

I think Dark Souls and Elden Ring and such would be the same for me, if not for the PvP multiplayer. Other games copying that style without any multiplayer at all, I have so far only played once and then never touched again. But I keep coming back to the ones with PvP to make new builds and fight other players. And because of how you obtain items, making an entirely new character means playing through the entire game, or at least a good deal of it. Currently building a dude to be ready for Shadow of the Erdtree and seeing just how low level I can beat Mogh at. So far it’s been 60. 😄

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Pretty sure they mean that they have never been made to not want to play a game just because you had to register an account, not that they’ve never needed to register an account.

If logging in to something causes that much ire, I have to wonder if the people who think that way know how to make a throwaway email and use fake names. Because it’s one of the most ridiculous reasons to not use something.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Ubisoft games have asked, but it hasn’t been required.

What games? All the Ubisoft games I have on Steam require me to use Uplay, which requires a login. The same way GTAV uses the Rockstar launcher.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I loved Doom. But I remember playing Heretic a whole lot more. And even so, my favorite game on the engine is Strife.

I kinda want more shooters like Doom or rather the Build engine era games. But Doom’s design is still very much at the heart of those, they just have the nifty interactive things in the world like pool tables and toilets and such. I don’t like the linearity of most SP shooters these days. I want to be dropped into a labyrinth and have to fight my way out. I want to actually need a map because I got lost.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

It has a request playtest button and it instantly accepted me. Fuck yeah. 😃

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I’ve hated them from the moment they started. I was looking forward to it before any game had it, thinking it would be like getting well made mods for like fifty cents or a dollar. But then it ends up being a color swap for $15 and shit. Low effort, and expensive for what you’re actually getting.

Let me just go back to being able to drop a file into a folder and now I am Spider-Man, like I could do in Quake.

Give me back reasonably priced expansions that were like an entire sequel for half the price of the base game instead of $30 for a single dungeon.

And while we’re at it: give me back server executables and a browser so I can host my own shit and find good, moderated places to hang out.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

Dark Souls/Bloodborne/Elden Ring/Sekiro

Love 'em. But also hate 'em.

The love should be obvious to other fans. The hate isn’t from the difficulty, though. The hate comes from little niggling bullshit like the size or shape of certain hitboxes, the way the input queue works, the delay in rolling because roll and run are the same button, the fact enemies don’t use up stamina or mana, etc. There’s always one thing or another that will make me fume in all these types of games related to one of the above mentioned things. Like in Fromsoft’s offerings specifically I regularly get upset by the camera and lock on not doing what I expect or want. But Lies of P has a really nasty habit of totally eating my inputs where sometimes my dude won’t even swing his god damn weapon. And The Surge has the most funky input queue so if you accidentally press a button twice, you are fucked.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Every time I fire up X4, I play for an hour or two, get frustrated with it and go back to X3 instead. I don’t think I’ve ever even left the first area of the map because the first couple of missions require obtaining things that are only sold by pirates and also it’s RNG whether a place has it or not.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

There’s no delay in rolling in any of the games, it’s starting to sprint that’s delayed

It’s delayed in the sense that it doesn’t happen on pressing the button but on letting it go, so it takes a split second longer than you might expect. If it went on press it would not appear to be delayed by a millisecond, as any game where the dodge is it’s own dedicated button would show. It’s super easy to hold the button down longer than intended in an intense moment and end up taking a hit because of it.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Now if I could just get advice for the one game I haven’t 100% achievements in: Sekiro.

It’s not the inputs, or the patterns, or my timing… It’s that I can’t see through all the flashes and sparks that fly up when you’re in a fight. I’ve been stuck on Owl forever because the second half of the fight is so crazy, I end up losing sight of the man and can’t react to him. 🤣

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I had SimCopter and Streets of SimCity just to get up close looks at my cities.

It’d be sweet if City Skylines had stuff like that… I mean, you can drive cars in it, it just doesn’t change the camera to first person while doing so.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Not having the right to repair doesn’t mean I can’t actually repair the thing myself. It just means I can no longer get official support from the maker of the thing if I do. Which isn’t an issue if I know how to fix it myself.

What’s wild to me is that those stupid fucking warranty void stickers they use to determine if you attempted to repair your shit? Yeah, those are illegal. They have been illegal since before I was born. And yet I don’t think I have ever opened up an electronic device that did not have one.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Couldn’t you, like… Connect the pins directly to a power source while pushing them together to make the contacts on the pogo touch or something to bypass any of that?

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

Everything except The Witcher, Shin Megami and Yaluza I am a fan of because of the first 2 games.

The Witcher 3 I skipped out on because the first 2 were jank as fuck and I couldn’t actually finish either of them despite thinking the ideas and story were rad. It wasn’t until way later I gave it a shot and it was definitely a better game than the first 2, but the combat got super stale after 20 hours and that’s not even like 1/5th of the story.

I don’t know why I never got into Persona or his other games. Just never tickled me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yakuza I only recently found to be awesome with Lost Judgement.

My friends usually wanted to hang out at my house because I was the only one with a PC and the only way they could ever check out shit like Fallout and Diablo.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

And I really liked 1 because of all that. I just didn’t like the game breaking bugs that didn’t allow me to finish it :(

Maybe it might work better now… 🤔

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

I am legally allowed to make backups of my hardcopies. I can very legally buy TOTK and dump a ROM for Yuzu. In fact, that is precisely what I did to get my copy for Yuzu.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

The authorized cartridge thing would hopefully be ignored due to several other times Nintendo tried to stop developers like Tengen from bypassing their licensing system and developing their own carts for the NES (you know those weird ones that were usually blue or black? Those were “illegal” in Nintendo’s eyes but they lost every single case they took against them to try and stop them from being made).

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

by allowing you to game on a GeForce PC for free

Are they implying that soon they’re gonna charge you a subscription just to have one of their fuckin’ graphics cards?

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s only $40 in the US which is what I expected it to be.

If that translates to $61 bucks in CAD: How much is the base game? Because I wouldn’t expect it to be the same $60 base price of a AAA game like it is in USD.

Edit: Just looked on SteamDB, the price of the base game in Canada is $80. Which appears to be typical for anything that’s $60 here in the states.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

Heat VR. Not even for the adult content; just staring into the character’s eyes or mussing their hair is incredibly relaxing.

VRChat, too, but since those are all real people you can’t just necessarily go around admiring them up close since it would disrupt their experience. Just as rude IRL, imo.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics.

Shadowrun Returns.

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader.

XCOM.

This does only assume by setting you mean “fantasy.” If you just mean Forgotten Realms, there are tons of fantasy turn based tactical RPGs. Owlcat has a bunch of good shit like Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

start with 1, then 2 then 3

Do you mean the DLCs or have they actually made 2 sequels that I somehow never heard about?

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Start her on Dark Souls so that nothing she plays after will seem difficult.

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Er… Yeah I totally misunderstood. I wasn’t thinking about using the PSVR2 on a PC, but using PCVR HMDs on the PS5. 🤦‍♂️

Kolanaki, 9 miesięcy temu

Sometimes they say funny things involving dicks or poop. Or both at once like that time a dude named some monsters “boner farts.” I laugh.

Kolanaki, 8 miesięcy temu

What about mods?