ICastFist

ICastFist, 15 dni temu

Sega relies entirely on Sonic fans’ goodwill to remain “reputable”, everything else they’re absolute assholes. Good time to remember that Sammy, a pachinko business, saved Sega with a merger back in 2004. Execs knew damn well that it was much better for their PR to be called Sega, despite Sammy calling the shots.

ICastFist, 15 dni temu

I’m willing to bet the fault lies with Epic and their shitty store app

ICastFist, 15 dni temu

Does the game still have denuvo nowadays?

ICastFist, 17 dni temu

4k textures that crash the game

ICastFist, 16 dni temu

I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Whether they bothered to load them is a different matter.

ICastFist, 26 dni temu

Huh, turns out I posted this link 11 months ago

ICastFist, 28 dni temu

Indeed. <absurdly long wall of expository text>, that’s why you must press on with the mission!

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Hentai games are my guilty pleasures in that regard

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

There are a few that are actually fun as games, Tifa Tanx2 being the only example that comes to mind, it’s a fun Kung Fu (NES) like beat’em up with easy combos. There are even some work-safe gameplay videos of it on YT

A lot of the games are visual novels, this is where you find a decent variety of styles, though a lot of them use daz3d models, which I don’t like. I’d wager that hentai games are like 60% VNs, 30% RPG Maker, 10% everything else

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

If it would be available in stores like nintendo, I doubt people there would be much issue regarding high price.

Depends. I still remember when the PS4 price was unveiled in Brazil. Back then, it cost the equivalent of ~1700 dollars

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ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Obligatory tutorials. Make it a choice.

QTE “final bosses”. Seemed to be a much bigger problem in the PS3/360 era.

“Open world” or “Sandbox” games that don’t care about your progress, where it’s painfully obvious that your actions don’t matter at all. Yes, this is mostly about Starfield

Games where you can win by a landslide but the computer/story goes “Hah, you were just lucky!”

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Pretty sure Club Penguin only let you choose from a predetermined list of ready phrases, it worked well afaik. Roblox could do that, but something something engagement

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

• is free to play
• runs on potato computers
• runs on potato phones
• easy to play with friends
• has new games experiences every day

I think the 2 last points are what really end up making it such a success with kids - low attrition to start and lots of different games in one place. It takes 2 clicks to go from a parkour race to a pet care sim.

When you’re targeting kids, your graphics should be easy to understand. Bright colors, simple shapes, it’s enough. If you think about it, those graphics wouldn’t be too different from what a kid can usually draw.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

As much as I love SMB3’s powerups (hammer bro 4 life), I’d go with World because you can replay levels and even castles with L+R. Fuck Tubular, tho

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Wow, it sure is a unique game experience! I’m ordering a deluxe account right now!!

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

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NTH: Hello everyone, I just found out this old game, Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, it looks super cool!

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Printers worked better back then. Also the cartridges came with more ink lol

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

RIP Kolanaki’s SNES

I loved Secret of Mana and on several playthroughs, the hardest boss, for me, has always been that damn tiger in the witch’s castle. When it zig-zagged like a spike ball, the chances of getting wiped were huge. One hit = unconscious.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Firestorm if you want to play the most recent version, or close enough to it, for free. Last I played there it was on BfA

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Capcom is 100% betting on their Japanese viewers, the west is just a “sad casualty”, so to speak. If this ends up working in their favor, expect this shit to expand to other companies and tournaments, just like pay2win did.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

That’d be funny as hell

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

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ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Considering how dependent on M$ servers and products the 'murican government is, Microsoft could easily push for a MAD standoff against them

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Does it have a HDMI port to connect to a TV? Since it’s Android, I suppose pairing a new controller would be easy, so stuff you emulate from home consoles can be played with 2-4 people

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Copilot on PS5, somehow

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Yes. Kinda. Some games from the X1 era aren’t available on PC, like Halo 5. X360 games that are backwards compatible but weren’t actually released for PC, like Red Dead Redemption, won’t be available either.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

PCs are becoming consoles

The Amiga dream is finally coming true

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

It can’t be worse than whatever the fuck UE5 does by default

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Important to note, the current chip fabrication process of 5nm is very close to limits imposed by the laws of physics. Unless a wholly different chip making process is invented that can go even smaller, we might be looking at the actual limit of the tech.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Marcin Paczynski told The Game Business he could “write a book”

Please do

He didn’t even know that he owned the rights because this was just a package with his inheritance … we have a lot of stories like that.

Wow, no wonder the dude wasn’t aware. “Oh, just a box with papers. Meh”

stories like developers whose physical documentation of IP ownership was torched in a fire

It’s always interesting to know which games’ rights might seem “completely lost”, just so we can 🏴‍☠️ in peace. Say, wasn’t this strategy something GOG did originally? Just sell and see if the current rights-holder shows up?

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

It’s a game that, as you build up money, it becomes less about flying around and more about managing fleets and your little economic empire. Still, one of the few that actually let you pilot fighters AND huge stuff like the carriers

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Unless they did a proper rework of space combat, it’ll get old fast, just like ground combat. I also remember you could pile up dozens of “Kill space pirate Whoever” from several systems, travel super far away so that you could reset the quests, reset said quests, then manage to complete ALL of them by killing only one target

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

You might want to check out Chorus, it’s on sale super cheap on GOG right now. It’s an action game with some levels on foot and others in space.

An honorable mention is Star Wars Battlefront 2 (classic) - maybe not exactly what you want, but it has space combat where most of the action is with ship dogfights, where you can also attack the opposing capital ship and disable its core systems to win the match. The whole single player game ensures you’ll get one hell of a power fantasy as the ace/hero, even on harder difficulties.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

A cherry on top would be if the announcement was “Now your PC can run Crysis”

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Fable 1 was a game I had lots of fun with. Being Brazilian, I was more or less immune to the hype buildup around the game, so I had no clue what was promised vs. what was delivered until years later

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

I mean, you can set up a gaming pc or laptop to mostly work with a controller and have a general interface akin to that of consoles. Retro stuff like Lakka or RetroPie already do it super well. The “set up” part is where you’ll likely spend several hours, though

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

I want a subscription free Console that supports online play.

Sorry, best we can do is a PC or phone

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Never too late to introduce them to all of your favourite classic games, either

Easier if you start with Bomberman Party on the PS1 or the arcade Neo Bomberman. I think those play much better than anything Bomberman released after 2004

If the kid enjoys strategy, starting out with Age of Empires should be easy. Or just leave them messing around with Settlers 2

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Westwood, my beloved 😢

Would be good if Maxis also got out of their throes, though that’s extremely unlikely, given The Sims

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

You won’t lose productivity, you will merely divert it into the factory, who will use its full efficiency for growth

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

The dreams/nightmares could use a “skip” button, as other than the very first, they serve no purpose whatsoever.

Other than that, my headcanon is that Mae gets back together with Bea over Gregg, the latter has his boyfriend and Bea really needs a friend.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

While I never saw the credit rolls (because the game doesn’t have it), Dwarf Fortress definitely changed something in my head.

From my initial attempts where I couldn’t even figure how to make my dorfs get food or dig, to reaching a point where most of my forts would be retired due to low FPS and, to this day, only failed attempts at taming an evil biome for more than 2 years, the game showed that procgen, by itself, is not an excuse for shitty looking worlds or terrains. Hell, the procgen can even generate interesting stories and situations, though no longer absurdly awesome ones like the story of Cacame Awemedinade. Quote:

Cacame, at the ripe old age of 12, he became a Guard. Two years later, an elven attack from the Field of Kindling’s city of Fish of Magic injured him in the lower body and killed his wife Nemo Ruyavaiyici (who was then eaten by Amoya Themarifa, the elf who killed her). Maddened with grief, Cacame set off to the nearest front as soon as he healed enough to fight.

During his first combat he took up his fallen commander’s legendary warhammer[name?] and slew many elves with it, being noted as the battle’s fiercest and deadliest warrior; for his deeds, the dwarves’ second-in-command acknowledged that Cacame would best put the warhammer to use and should keep it.

Two years after that, in 99, the Battle of Both Kings was fought. In this battle Cacame struck down King Nithe of Field of Kindling (who was finished off by another dwarf called Sibrek Handpages, though); however the other king slain was the dwarven king himself. The dwarves decided that Cacame, by now dubbed “The Immortal Onslaught”, should take over as their king.

Once made King, Cacame left in a brief quest to resurrect his wife. He returned riding a zombie wyvern, but without achieving his goal. In 111, at the age of 28, he moved his capital to the Gamildodók (Trustclasps) Fortress.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Sounds like Roblox

ICastFist, 3 miesiące temu

One of them is even linked in the article lol

ICastFist, 3 miesiące temu

Except More Than Just Pals is actually being developed

Really? The community hub on steam has nothing ever since the announcement. I don’t follow pocketpair on any social media, so there’s that

ICastFist, 3 miesiące temu

For an Animal Crossing-ish experience on PC, you can try Dinkum (indie, solo dev) or Hello Kitty Island Adventures (unironically good, but also limits some activities per real day, like AC New Horizons)

ICastFist, 3 miesiące temu

Damn, if that gives Palworld a dungeon where the poor pals can get blasted into bloody gibs, I’m so fucking down - probably won’t get that violent, I suppose we might get some 2 or 3 weapons and 2 sets of armor + 1 raid boss