ICastFist

ICastFist, 10 dni temu

NMS certainly evolved a lot, but I wouldn’t call it incredible. Also, despite the game universe being absurdly large, you can see everything there is to see visiting less than 20 star systems

All the daily quicksilver quests are a fucking chore, too.

ICastFist, 13 dni temu (edited 13 dni temu)

I hate that youtube lacks any means to block entire channels

edit: i’m dumb, you can block channels

ICastFist, 13 dni temu

Yeah, having a way to define certain themes, tags or whatever to be completely blocked off would be great. My first use would be for blocking certain music, but also most roblox and minecraft gaming content. I end up watching mostly english gaming content because pt-br seems completely dominated by roblox and minecraft, the algorithm almost never suggests actually similar channels or videos and there’s a never ending number of roblox shit.

I suspect most of the roblox shit came because of that People Make Games video, which is super ironic.

ICastFist, 16 dni temu

I’m still pissed that Capcom added Denuvo months after release to Street Fighter 6

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

For squad mates that function better, Star Wars Republic Commando is a damn fine FPS.

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

Teenage me was blown away by the “free, unlimited” use of Guardian Force (summons in previous games). First time summoning Shiva was magical.

The worst part, for me, was the excessive use of FMV parts, mostly because my PSX suffered a cousin-related accident and would, more often than not, fail to properly play videos. It was like 5s, freeze for 3s, 1s play, another second frozen, 10s…

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

Tactics is my favorite by far, possibly because of how grounded its story feels compared to most other Final Fantasy. The tactical combat is also amazing, unlocking the jobs from playing and leveling up different combos instead of at set points of the story (FF3, FF5) was very engaging. There was a lot to discover and teen me didn’t access GameFaqs often back then.

Anyday now I’m going to spend “decades” playing just to get the child prince into his teen years. I’m 99% sure the texts of the game won’t change, but it’ll be funny nonetheless.

ICastFist, 16 dni temu

Hopefully one where they don’t fuck up magic effects and summons dropping FPS because of shitty code that the community figured a 4kb fix on the PSP

ICastFist, 16 dni temu

I love how the 3 first music you hear are one of inner calm, with Ovelia praying, suddenly changing to tension with the arrival of enemy soldiers and finally one of the best combat music of the game

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

Comparing P2W to cheating is spot on, especially as these are much more heavily advertised and used in PvP games. What really annoys me is when these players, or similars that never go after equivalent players, feel all superior despite showing zero skill

On WoW, I remember playing a few times on instant 255 private servers, back in 2007-2010. It felt so damn pointless to me, especially as the raids still needed you to make a raid group. I enjoyed a portion of the grind, even as a mostly solo player.

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

WoW auction house feelings right there. Dunno how it is nowadays, but I remember that back on Battle for Azeroth, that was the only way to get the 5 million gold for a super exclusive mount

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

Not every game needs a story or campaign you can finish to be enjoyable. Playing random skirmishes in Age of Empires 2 or Supreme Commander can be loads of fun. Civilization 5 has scenarios that I suspect most players don’t even know exist (also, you can play Unciv for free). You can pick up and put down much like you’d do to boardgames.

Then there’s “infinite” games like Cities Skyline, RimWorld, Dwarf Fortress, Satisfactory. It’s ok to want once and done games, but games that you want to replay when they lack any mtx or dark patterns speaks something about your enjoyment

ICastFist, 18 dni temu

He’ll be so pissed off that he can barely speak as he powers through game after game to get them done so he can go to bed.

If you want to help him get out of that, give him a burn or two every once in a while: “How are your second, third and fourth jobs coming along?” - “With all that work you do, you should ask for a raise!”

Hopefully he’ll realize he’s not playing, but working, and give up on that. Hopefully.

ICastFist, 25 dni temu

Coming from their director of monetization, all I hear is “waaah waaah booo waaah”

All this nickel and diming is super profitable and it shows. Just because it makes them fuckloads of money doesn’t mean we should applaud it, because it awful for the customers.

ICastFist, 27 dni temu

I guess stealing the hard work of “the woke” is based af or something

ICastFist, 27 dni temu

Albion Online has a fully player-driven economy (or at least had last time I played it, back in 2022, prolly still does)

You can play it almost entirely as a gatherer, crafter or merchant (auction houses/markets are local to the cities they’re in), avoiding combat nearly everywhere. It does put a lot of emphasis on PVP tho, but at least the areas/maps where that can happen are clearly marked. Higher level materials are only found in these pvp maps, though it can take quite a while until you can even start gathering them.

AFAIK, all gear that drops from dungeons can be crafted as well. Nothing is character bound and being on red or black maps means that you lose all your stuff being carried on death.

ICastFist, 27 dni temu

This for real?

ICastFist, 28 dni temu

I never figured a reason to even bother with multiplayer in NMS, except maybe to speed up base building. The only real challenge of the game is surviving the first hour, even on hardcore/permadeath.

ICastFist, 28 dni temu

Reading it like that, the loop sounds straight off Diablo 1 on PSX. Get quests, head to the dungeon, loading screen, wipe the floor, loading screen, wipe next floor, back to town, loading screen, turn in.

That kind of loop is not bad in itself, but Bethesda applied it to the wrong type of game.

ICastFist, 28 dni temu

It certainly sold a lot. Bethesda once claimed to have over 10 million players across all platforms. Even if we assume half of those were using gamepass, that’s still 5 million sales.

Of course, if you compare it to Fallout 4’s first 6 months, with reported 12 million sales on day-one, that’s a significant letdown.

Starfield is a very real “could have been”, if only [huge list of changes] happened.

ICastFist, 28 dni temu

Story and worldbuilding wise, ES6 has a very bleak future ahead. Emilio Pagliarulo, the de facto director of Starfield and lead writer, has shown that no hole is deep enough that he won’t dig it further down when it comes to lack of quality and consistency. Not that Skyrim’s main story was good, but it was certainly better than Starfield’s. There’s also the disturbing indifference of “the world” to everything happening around it. Literally nothing you do in Starfield affects anything outside its own storyline. Hell, shooting up in the air or using fucking space magic in the middle of a city generates no reaction from npcs if nobody is hit.

ICastFist, 28 dni temu

If the 32X and Saturn never released and instead the Dreamcast came out in place of the Saturn

The problem here is roughly 4 years, Sega was one of the big players in 1994, waiting until the Dreamcast was ready at the very end of 1998 and living off the Mega Drive (Genesis) + Arcades would be financial suicide

In fact, the GameCube sold very badly in some SEA countries because it was too hard to pirate games for. Piracy literally leads to hardware sales in some countries.

True, both PS1 and PS2 absolutely ruled sales in Brazil given how cheap and easy it was to get pirate games, which usually sold for BRL10 from 1999-2006, while original games would cost well over 10x that.

ICastFist, 28 dni temu

I mostly agree, except for this

If the Dreamcast had started development instead of the Saturn, and released even 2 years after the Saturns release date in 1996, the console would have fared significantly better.

You’re effectively saying that development of the Dreamcast should’ve begun before the tech for it even existed. The Saturn’s development began back in 1992, after the release of the Model 1, when 3D graphics were a wild dream for home consumers. The Sega Model 3, which served as a basis for the Dreamcast, saw its first arcade release in 1996. M3 was super powerful, but in 1996 it’d also be prohibitively expensive for any home consumer to afford. The Dreamcast that the world saw in 1998/1999 was literally impossible to achieve back in 1996, the “best” thing would’ve been something like a Saturn 2.5 which maaayyybeee could’ve run Model 3 games at significantly lower quality.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

I wish they’d bring back transforming into a faerie to skip everything inside dungeons and wrong-warp everywhere

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Does that damn mask appear in other games? It always gave me the creeps back when I was smaller, like the angry sun in SMB3

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

They are Billions

All it needs is One. Single. Fucking. Mistake.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Pretty sure they figured that out more than a decade ago. Blizzard (RIP) certainly did.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

The real irony is that OpenMW is a better engine than anything bethesda managed to come up with in the past 20 years.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

Maybe you should try a more chaotic approach to solving the crimes in that game, like Josh does in this video

• That’s a link to a video from Let’s Game it Out. Josh’s thing is playing games the “wrongest” way possible.

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

so someone else picks up the IP and runs with it.

My bet is that either Disney or EA would pick it up

ICastFist, miesiąc temu

That or the realization “Ah”, as in: “AAAAh, so that’s what <sequence of bad adjectives> looks like”

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Overcooked 2 tournament. It has a 2v2 mode. I want to see blood

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

You know how E3 and other game expos used to have these people dressed up as game characters that company stands would hire to promote their games? All these characters look like that.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Evochron Legacy if you want a space game that also lets you fly down onto planet’s atmospheres, with the appropriate air drag limiting your max speed.

I should probably try playing it again sometime, it’s very rough around the edges, but can be fun for people that enjoy ship piloting in space.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Damn, I remember that game being included as a bonus in an old magazine CD with lots of RPG Maker 2000 stuff

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Guess it’s more well known than I’d thought!

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

The first game plays so much better than the 2nd! Never finished the 2nd game, now that I think about it.

Another thing that I have a (possibly fake) memory from the 1st game is, near the start, with those carnivorous egg-looking-plants and farting peaches, I remember once managing to get one of those plants to go up right as the peach farted, which triggered a small event and turned the plant into a mini thing-item to collect. Maybe it was only in the demo and scrapped for the full game?

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Would have to be a reboot then, because he dies at the end of the 2nd game.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Man, to think Fortnite, of all things, killed UT. Very sad

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Jazz Jackrabbit. Poor fella’s been abandoned for over 2 decades now. Really fun platformer, a 3rd game was in early works, but Epic ditched it to focus entirely on Unreal

Star Wars Jedi Knight series. As is, there’s Dark Forces (Star Wars Doom), Jedi Knight (Star Wars Quake 2), Jedi Outcast (awesome) and Jedi Academy (good, but JO is overall more polished). Thank fuck the years of EA-exclusive Star Wars games is over. There are several other SW game series that deserve to make a return (Republic Commando, X-Wing/Tie-Fighter, KotOR), but my first vote would go for Jedi Knight

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

I am Emperor Hong, I am proof it works, look at all the courtesans, aides, statesmen and guards I’m employing!

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Complete with the convoy of imperial soldiers, Ulfric Stormcloak, and that thief over there

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

They didn’t add exploration

Fixd

Seriously, what is there to explore at all, in the first place? It’s always an uneventful time-wasting jog to whatever point of interest you want to go. When said PoI is a dungeon (building with enemies to kill and loot), you can tell from the outside how the inside will be, 100% of the time. No unique loot, no unique quests, no unique anything

Scanning flora and fauna? What for? The slimmest exp gain, a “completed” thingy item that you can sell, it’s one of the saddest attempts at padding. Besides, whatever drops you could get from them, you can buy straight from vendors.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

My biggest gripe with the quests within Starfield is that everything feels absolutely pointless, every story, every quest, is completely isolated from everything else. I’ve never played a game that gave me such a strong feeling of “you’re achieving absolutely nothing”

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Not to mention that like 99% of Starfield depends on any sort of instant communication not existing. I don’t even mean interplanetary, FTL communication, even cell phones and walkie talkies are completely missing from the game. I think the only time a character speaks to you via radio while you’re on foot, is during that “mandatory stealth mission” in Neon with billionaire idiot.

Oh, a significant portion of the stories also rely on portable cameras not being a thing. You know, the thing that every cell phone has had for well over 10 years now? That went completely missing 200 years in the future. Photographs? Video recordings? You speak funny, spaceman.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

There were several prop rovers on a number of locations, but they were just set dressing. This is obviously the only working rover in the universe

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

Right now, it’s sitting at #153 on steam charts. It’s still averaging some 6-7k players with peaks of 10k, so yes, people are playing. Less than half of what Skyrim is pulling and roughly half of what FO4 was pulling before the show premiered.

ICastFist, 2 miesiące temu

It’s probably easier to control that effect over there, not so much on western countries.