1984

1984, 13 days ago

Better to cancel than to release shit.

1984, 17 days ago

Frostpunk 2 is about politics. I hated it and don’t play it at all. It’s not even similar to the first amazing game. You may be disappointed unless you like politics.

1984, 29 days ago

Path of Exile and Counterstrike both are over 1000 hours for me.

1984, 1 month ago

It’s linked to social media. I guess they can’t criticize that.

1984, 1 month ago

I’m going to get into Path of Exile 2 this week. Seems like most players are happy with it.

1984, 1 month ago

Yep getting smashed a lot now. Will have to switch some skills around and try to improve.

1984, 1 month ago

Path of Exile is much more flexible and advanced than Diablo - you have almost unlimited flexibility in what your character can do. Everything stacks too, so your jewel slots, ring slots, armor slots… Everything works together.

So this is not just hack and slash, you won’t actually be able to complete the game even unless you understand some of that complexity.

If you stick with it, you will have many aha moments where your character suddenly doubles his damage because you figured out a good way to build it and combine it’s items to maximize its potential.

I played a lot before but I have grown tired of it. But it probably gave me several hundreds of hours of semi-fun gameplay.

1984, 1 month ago

Sounds like you should reconsider how you spend your life on earth.

1984, 2 months ago

Every time I hear about eve, I remember how much I wished it was a slightly different game. There is no way to play eve without investing many hours each time. Everything takes a very long time.

On the plus side, just the feeling that someone may come up and kill you and take your stuff makes the game feel quite scary. I was doing wormholes for a while and pretty much was constantly nervous about getting killed. Never happened though.

1984, 3 months ago

If you look at games that get overwhelmingly positive on stream, most of them have only ok graphics. It’s the feeling of the game that matters.

1984, 3 months ago

I have no idea what woke even means anymore. It seems to mean “social awareness”. Black lives matters kind of a thing. Equal rights for trans people too of course. That doesn’t mean that everyone should support games being forced into having all genders, or races, or include trans people. Or all books or movies should be forced to have those things.

If you create something, it’s up to you how you want that to be. You are the artist.

This is not equal to hating trans people, and anyone with some iq points realizes this. We can’t turn every creation into a vehicle for trans rights.

1984, 3 months ago

I didn’t know that was what was happening here. Did the article say that?

1984, 3 months ago

It’s part of an effort to normalize seeing it. I think it’s probably good, but it’s just a bit unrealistic sometimes and feels very forced. ':)

1984, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I think I’m on the other side - I think it’s way too much woke agenda in a lot of popular TV shows we watch. Disney competely wrecked a lot of shows because they kept pushing in gender/race related things that felt competely out of place.

I couldn’t even watch the acolyte. They wrecked it competely. Many web pages have described what’s wrong with it so won’t repeat that here, but hopefully you already know what I mean.

1984, 3 months ago

In what way? I don’t even know what “telling on himself” means. I’m just expression my opinion about this. Why is that so upsetting?

1984, 3 months ago

Yeah andor was amazing. Took me a while to get into it but once I did, I wanted to finish. :)

1984, 3 months ago

I have no idea. I don’t read about games very much and don’t follow what’s happening. I guess games are like movies, we like to identify with the characters to feel the game is good. Sometimes it’s hard if they are very different from us, and then the movie / game is very boring or even annoying.

1984, 3 months ago

Good point, you are probably right :)

1984, 3 months ago

I think gaming in general have it hard now. There are millions of games and only a handful are best sellers.

I feel the same about movies. So many, but just a few are worth watching because they are original.

1984, 4 months ago

Nope.

1984, 4 months ago

Ok I read the article… Answer is still nope.

Russian game companies are not our enemy. The leadership of the country may be, but so what? You going to try and influence that by choosing non-russian games? That’s ridiculous… :)

1984, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I think it’s silly. You can’t fight dictators with gaming choices. That stuff is real life.

1984, 4 months ago

I don’t think it will be as good as the first one. That game had a unique feeling. I spent many hours trying to beat the big storm and had tons of fun. Played it over and over again many times until I finally understood how to get through the storm.

I hope this one is also difficult and rewarding, but I doubt it will be as good as the first one, now that we expect so much from it.

1984, 4 months ago

This is technical but you could set up a wireguard vpn server and let your friends connect to your computer. Then you all look like you are sitting in your home network from the steam servers point of view.

Or just install Tailscale which makes it even easier and is free for like 3 computers.

Your friends will have a bit of lag though since all their connections have to go through your computer to the steam network. But I believe it may not be noticeable.

1984, 4 months ago

That’s very generous of them. I thought it was just 3. :)

1984, 4 months ago

Fishing fits that game… I always had the feeling that there was no point to doing anything in the game. I guess I like some kind of progress feeling.

1984, 5 months ago

I played the game when it first came out but it’s still there after all these years… Crazy.

1984, 5 months ago

I wish I could get into no man’s sky but it just bores me. Similar to everyone else who don’t like it, I quickly got tired of everything being so similar everywhere. But I guess it’s good for people who like seeing random animals.

1984, 7 months ago

I just see white dots.

1984, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I would like to understand how they infer these things without becoming a science major. Is it just math equations based on what they think is the distance to the planet and then more math based on what they think the atmosphere is, and so on? Because they can’t actually see the planet.

1984, 8 months ago

“So you are saying there is a chance”

1984, 9 months ago

I bought it but haven’t played it nearly at all. Just lost interest in it when everything felt slow.

It will probably become quite popular in a few years when better hardware is default.

1984, 9 months ago

No I bought it after the reviews were bad, but figured they would quickly fix the issues. They did not

1984, 9 months ago

I stopped watching in the first episode when the tiny girl beat up a muscular huge man.

Felt like avengers but she is supposed to be a normal girl right? I felt it was so dumb.

1984, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Yeah I don’t know the fallout backstory at all, but A+ doesn’t change things like physics.

1984, 9 months ago

Yeah I’ve heard about that actually :) Funny…

1984, 9 months ago

Really? So interesting to me that someone would think she could even hurt the guy.

1984, 9 months ago

Well I guess, if the TV show is supposed to be like a game, then at least I understand why she is overpowered.

1984, 9 months ago

I mean, as the previous posters have said, if this is supposed to be like a game, then sure. Anything is possible. But if it was reality, she would have no chance against that guy.

1984, 9 months ago

I removed the smiley since I didn’t intend it to be condescending. But I’m 100% certain that guy would knock that girl out in a second. It wasn’t just “a man”, it was a fit fighter man with tons of muscles.

But like I said, if it’s a game, there is no real physics so anything is possible.

1984, 9 months ago

Yeah it’s fine. Let’s move on to other topics. :)

1984, 9 months ago

Yeah makes sense. I don’t know the backstory at all so in that light, it makes sense. Guess they wanted to cast some sexy actor rather than someone who looks the part.

1984, 9 months ago

I don’t see why it’s suddenly the best space game… The core mechanic seems to be the same as the original. Mine materials that are the same on every planet, so you can build space ships and better miners that take more materials and do it over and over again.

When I was playing on launch day, I had a really good first impression but it turned into disappointment, since all the planets had the same minerals. May as well stay on the first planet forever.

1984, 9 months ago

I agree, they did the right thing and much more. But the game still doesn’t feel very fun. It’s missing a reason to do things beyond just exploration and seeing new randomly generated animals and colors.

I was hoping for it to have some Elite qualities where you would travel with rare cargo to make money, but it doesn’t even have any rare cargo or any demand for unique minerals on planets…

It’s not fun, which is the main problem. The devs have built a universe to explore but hasn’t accounted for that humans don’t think different shapes and colors are very interesting when it’s the same otherwise.

1984, 9 months ago

Yeah maybe you are right. It’s just not the game I want it to be, but they do have players and it’s going well for them, so… :)

1984, 9 months ago

You said what I wanted to say, so yeah, can only agree with everything.

1984, 10 months ago

I guess this is nice for nostalgic value, but where is new, modern real time strategy games like this? It’s been a very long time since anything new existed.

1984, 10 months ago

I wanted to but the reviews show it’s a train wreck.