CorrodedCranium

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

I get what you are saying. I think it also depends on how the game is divided up. If it’s just one continuous romp with autosave points it can feel like it’s dragging on but if there’s clearcut levels and checkpoints I feel like it helps divide up a game into digestible chunks.

I feel like that’s not really present with a lot of open world or sandbox games

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

Do you like online games that continuously receive new content? Like subscription based games for example

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

Maybe that’s part of the reason why I value shorter games. I know if it does hit a lull I can push through it

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

I mean some people like the comradarie of tackling a story together. I wish I knew enough people to be one of those people at times

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

I actually have a category for short games, because sometimes the 2-3 hour experience is what I’m looking for.

Can you provide an example?

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

then there are also multi-ending games which might take longer than a regular story game since you have to replay them.

That’s something I have a hard time doing depending on the game. Sometimes you can get a wildly different experience like in Fallout NV and see your actions having consequences while you play but a lot of the games I have been playing only are linear up until the ending cut scene.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

It’s a shame they don’t have a sex based reputation system like Fallout 2 did.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

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CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

If you read the title of the article you’ve read the article. It doesn’t really elaborate on it anymore than that sentence.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

When you put it like that yeah but I was forcing myself through games I wasn’t necessarily enjoying.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

I get what you are saying but a lot of the time it’s just a mediocre experience and I’m not necessarily disliking it. More indifferent than anything. Occasionally a game has made a pretty solid turn around in the last act

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

I guess I meant it more so in the fear of missing out on something culturally relevant. Whether it’s a modern multiplayer game like Destiny 2 or a classic that is frequently referenced like Half Life. Not being able to be part of the conversation when it’s brought up

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

Even then I’d argue the lines are blurred with so many online marketplaces going down and how secondhand games have exponentially increased in price.

As far as I’m concerned emulation is the solution to this but I could see it being a hurdle for those that do want to play them legitimately

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

No Man’s Sky. It looked slow and grindy but people kept hyping it up. I caved, and forced myself to play 20 hours trying to find the good bits. I never found them.

That’s a game I tried as well but I feel like I set myself up for failure by trying to see everything the beginning of the game had to offer versus exploring naturally.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

There’s no single player game you played because your friends were hyping it up?

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

I think for me it’s going to end up depending on the modding community and how linear the game feels.

I played The Outer Worlds due to the hype around Obsidian releasing a game but it just felt kind of flat and lifeless. Maybe it’s just because it seems similar in atmosphere but I’m worried Starfield is going to end up feeling the same.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

Did you two play much afterwards? I’ve played a few times with friends but I find it usually fizzles out after a couple months then it’s just me who hosts occasionally messing around.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

Have you played since the release of the Wastelanders DLC? I’ve heard that was the turning point for a lot of people

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

Nice. That’s one of those games I wish I got into at the same time as my friends. Portal co-op looks like a lot of fun

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

There has to be an example of that happening but I can’t find one. Can you think of anything?

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

Sometimes the portability is nice.

There’s also a ton of emulation handhelds out there that can likely do the same thing with better firmware for around $100. Look at the RG35XX or the Miyoo Mini. Both devices can play up to PSX.

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

Here’s a photo taken from their website.

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The triggers look like they would get very tiring to use. There’s also only two so you wouldn’t be able to play PSX.

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

May want to check archive.org. That’s where the GTA 6 footage stayed up for a while

CorrodedCranium, 10 miesięcy temu

There’s always base64

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CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

Looks like there’s a plugin you can use

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CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

That’s how I feel about most farming sim games like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

The OG Splinter Cell. I modded my original Xbox not top long ago and am looking to play games on it so it wasn’t a waste so I figured why not give it a try?

I am enjoying it so far but I’m used to playing the new Hitman games where the AI is rather predictable and I can gun my way out of most situations. I just beat the Kalinatek level and feel like I need to finish the game at this point.

I don’t know if I need to play one game after the other to full understand the overall plot or what game I should stop at if I just want to play the best in the series.

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Not sure if I’ll play Baldur’s Gate 3 because I own the first two on multiple systems and haven’t beaten them

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

In Minecraft I run in one direction for half an hour and build little forts. I don’t sleep in the bed and when I die I die. There’s a neat sense of satisfaction finding all the little things I’ve left behind.

I used to do pixel art too so I’ve run into giant glowstone Pikachus in the past

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

I kind of hope they add dystopian elements. It would be an extra thing on top of my message of my sewage canals

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

Can anyone think of an example of a game released moved back to release earlier?

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

Even so it made it significantly harder for people to make the dated throwaway comment that you’ll lose access to a majority of your games by switching to Linux.

With that I feel like people will see it’s just as usable as MacOS and Windows in a majority of circumstances.

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

I’m not too sure. I used to browse /r/MacGaming despite not owning a Mac but I lost of track of things when they killed 32 bit support

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

VR headsets and games with anti-cheat software still have issues. I haven’t been able to get Oculus Rift S to work for example.

I think some headsets like the ones made by Valve and HTC work better though. I’m not sure if there’s currently the same degree of rapid advancements for VR Linux gaming as there are for gaming in general on Linux. I know OpenHMD exists but I haven’t tried it out myself.

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

Have you tried using the PSVR on your computer?

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

I would have linked an article. I haven’t experimented with it myself but it seems like there’s one paid project available through Steam that aims to support the PSVR

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

Me too. Messing around with hardware is something that’s always stuck with me from when I was a teenager. If you give the PSVR thing a test mind messaging me or commenting so I can hear how it goes?

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

Just take your John Madden Football Sega Genesis ROM and use this tool to update the roster yourself. Who’d be able to tell the difference?

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

I wonder if they’d have a hard time selling a service that doesn’t include the micro-transactions.

CorrodedCranium, 11 miesięcy temu

For Windows I’ve used Game Save Manger for years, since it’ll auto find save locations that you want to select to be backed up.

On Linux you could use a program like Timeshift and specify the general directory your save files are located in and have them backed up on a schedule as well.

As for saves. I’ve had some luck finding them from nexusmods and sometimes steam message boards or guides.

That sounds like what I’m going to end up doing. I wasn’t sure if there was a general well known hub for save files I was unaware of.