Flamekebab

Flamekebab, 15 godzin temu

Looks like your optimizer link didn't make it into the post. Good shout on Cemu, btw, as I'm wondering if I'd like BotW.

Flamekebab, 2 dni temu

I feel like it's rare to encounter another person that doesn't love San Andreas. It was fine, I guess, but I really didn't find the setting compelling. The kitchen sink approach to game mechanics didn't help either.

Flamekebab, 13 dni temu

I feel like I'm the only person that grew up with Mario 64 but doesn't love it. I was really excited by it initially but when I played the game properly it just had this oppressive feeling of isolation and melancholy to it that was so off-putting.

Flamekebab, 13 dni temu

I'm rather a fan of Apogee's Secret Agent. I loved it back in the day and then enjoyed the HD remaster of it a few years back.

Flamekebab, 13 dni temu

But... but... the line has to go up! Don't you understand? It's not going up! Panic!

Flamekebab, 13 dni temu

I'm still waiting on the killer titles for the current generation of consoles. I'm frankly amazed that games have become so difficult to make, given how the graphical improvements aren't leaps. Build a stylish lighting system, make sure your textures and geometry aren't too ropey, and then make something creative.

I know it's not that simple, obviously, but I was playing through a fifteen year old FPS yesterday and the difference between now and then is just not that big. It's not nothing but the Gameboy philosophy of doing more with less would go a long way.

Flamekebab, 14 dni temu

Fallout 2 is probably one of my favourite games of all time. Absolutely amazing game, if a bit sprawly. I've played through it many times and expect I will do again.

Red Alert 2 - the pinnacle of the isometric RTS genre. Bordering on too silly but without tipping into absolute farce. Mechanically very strong, the art is lovely, and even has nostalgia for me.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. Massive game but a run can be completed relatively quickly. I always disable the music because I don't like games that try to scare and intimidate me. I'm pretty good at the game so it tends to be pretty relaxing for me, if a bit fugue-state-y.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2: the apex of the Battlefield multiplayer games for me. The others have plenty going for them, but BFBC2 was the best compromise between destructibility, player counts, etc. for my tastes. Sniping took significant skill and one couldn't go prone - it meant that open areas didn't feel like a death sentence (looking at you, later BF games!).

Assassin's Creed: Origins/Odyssey two open world games with beautiful maps and locations to explore. I think I preferred the setting of Origins but the story of Odyssey. A bit of escapist fantasy, I suppose. I loved the Ezio trilogy too, mind you.

Flamekebab, 14 dni temu

I agree that the original is tighter, but I love the free-form adventure of 2.

Did you ever play it modded? The Restoration Project, Updated has two amazing addons that add more talking heads and more voice acting and they're both of phenomenal, basically seamless quality. It's really like putting on a fresh coat of paint on the old thing.

Played it? I voiced a talking dog in it!

Flamekebab, 21 dni temu

I buy games to have a library to pull from when the mood takes me. If I finished them all then I would no longer have that, which seems bad.

The reward for finishing a "backlog" of games is having nothing more to play. That's like trying to finish a meal in a restaurant quickly to get to the after dinner mint.

I despise treating gaming as an obligation like this. I have a collection of games, not a "backlog".

Flamekebab, 21 dni temu (edited 21 dni temu)

I have something in the region of a thousand games collected over about twenty years. If the price is good and it looks like I might like it (and I can afford to fritter the money away) then I buy it.

That's a thousand (ish) opportunities for entertainment, not a thousand (ish) obligations.

Flamekebab, 21 dni temu

To be fair, FoMO can be justified. That multiplayer game isn't going to be worth playing in five years time. That game that has cool new tech isn't going to dazzle once things move on, etc..

Flamekebab, 20 dni temu

That only holds true if the price doesn't vary over time.

Flamekebab, 19 dni temu

As long as you're enjoying your gaming time, you're doing it right!

Optimising the fun out of it is an own-goal.

Flamekebab, 22 dni temu

Sounds like I'm never going to have a reason to buy a current generation console.

Flamekebab, 22 dni temu

I installed Unciv from F-Droid. That's what happened to my Sunday.

Flamekebab, 22 dni temu

I watched the video they released the other day and stopped half way through. It looked rather dull and also ugly, unfortunately.

How is there no middleware available for NPC movement? It looked tremendously stilted. Similarly the lighting and environments looked worse than things I was playing fifteen years ago. I don't need cutting edge but it looks distractingly ugly to me.

Flamekebab, 23 dni temu

Mechanically I like 64. I'd like a few more tracks, particularly for the battle mode. The later versions add far too much cruft for my tastes.

Flamekebab, 27 dni temu

Isn't that what the Skate series is for?

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I gave the build a go and it was great fun!

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu

Do your best.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu

I played it when it was new and I'm afraid some people just don't get the magic of the gameplay. I'm one of those people. The setting is gorgeous but the action side of things bored me. It felt like homework I had to do before the game would let me see the next bit of the setting.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu

What would I even play on it?

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu

I wouldn't really call it a "trap". If you're buying a console when it's new at full price, sure, you're being taken for a ride, but give it a couple of years for stuff to be cheaper and it can work out reasonably well.

I used to be a major PC gamer but eventually the cost/benefit calculation went completely off the rails.

That said, I've not upgraded to the current console generation because I'm still waiting on something to justify it.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu

I'm still waiting for enough titles to come out on either platform to make the jump from my Xbox One X.

Flamekebab, 2 miesiące temu

The only full price game I recall ever buying was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (back when £35 was the standard "full price" price point). Now that one was worth it, but no other AAA game that I can think of has justified the cost to me. Once we're talking about that amount of money there's a lot of other things I would get more enjoyment from.

I think I paid about £10 for GTA V. I'd maybe go to £15 or £20 these days, but beyond that I simply have other things I could play.

Flamekebab, miesiąc temu

There are many things I'd spend more on, but gaming is something that I can spend a lot of hours on without necessarily enjoying. As in, the experiences are often weirdly compulsive and before I know it I've tanked eighty hours without really enjoying it all that much.

I collected all the submarine collectibles in GTA V - do I think that was more fun than a party with friends? Absolutely not. Did it take more time? Most definitely.

Flamekebab, 2 miesiące temu

Windows 2000 Pro?

Flamekebab, 2 miesiące temu

I don't, because if that happens either others will have done a more thorough job (because it's something they care about - I have my own obsessive areas that I'm the one doing that stuff for), or if they haven't then I have much bigger problems to deal with (e.g. war in Europe).

Flamekebab, 3 miesiące temu

I've got an Xbox One X, and have had since 2018. I'm still waiting on a reason to care about the current generation of consoles.

Flamekebab, 3 miesiące temu

I don't have a Windows PC though?

Flamekebab, 3 miesiące temu

I had Xbox game pass for a while (I converted XBL time for a token amount) but once it ended last year I couldn't see any reason to pay the asking price. I've been waiting on this generation but it looks like it's not going anywhere interesting.

Flamekebab, 3 miesiące temu

I am thoroughly confused by both your replies now. I haven't got a platform they sell games for, AFAIK, but I had one. This generation they've failed to provide enough to get me to buy anything from them.

Flamekebab, 3 miesiące temu

Oh joy. What an important cultural contribution that will be.

Flamekebab, 3 miesiące temu

How have we still not mastered animating arms?

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

Third time's the charm, eh?

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

I tend to think of "the world is ending" as being terrible writing from the outset. If you're starting from that, you've only yourself to blame.

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

No love for Washing Machine Emulator?

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.

A "pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre" category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

"Our community" feels a bit monolithic. It's like saying "film watchers" or "readers". Lumping anyone that plays video games regularly into a single social group feels unhelpfully reductive.

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

Manchester United: 3

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

I absolutely loved the modern day story. I was so very invested and it still smarts a bit that they lost interest in doing it justice.

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You'd hope that they'd just automatically stop asking if I'm old enough to view store pages, right?

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

I'm tickled that the code hasn't been digitised and the scans are only just barely high enough resolution to make out the text.

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

I played through 1 - 4 and honestly, I think 4 was the only one that was actively good. The others might once have been fun, but they didn't really hold up. However I had a great time with 4. I particularly liked the epilogue.

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

I remember it dawning on me and making me grin. "Is that, oh it so is!"

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

The article is pretty bloody vague...

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

Indeed, I read the article. That's literally what I was moaning about!

I was expecting a bit more. Some before and after screenshots, for example, some specifics about what these "several issues" that were fixed were would be nice too.

Flamekebab, 4 miesiące temu

That's a lot more like it! Thanks for sharing.