Swedneck

Swedneck, 22 dni temu

like beeing seen by others not putting away the shopping cart, now everyone knows you’re incapable of the basic decency test

Swedneck, 26 dni temu

thing is, games aren’t pretty because they model every cell in every lifeform and have 5 gigabyte textures for each individual leaf, they’re pretty because they have good graphical design.

Just lighting alone is like 50% of making a scene look nice, you can literally just slap together a low-poly flat-colour scene in blender and set up nice lighting and people will call you talented.

A prime example of this is valheim: ps2-style models and textures and yet the lighting and general graphical design makes it look lovely and atmospheric, especially combined with the music.

Swedneck, 26 dni temu

it annoys me to no end that people think minecraft looks terrible and attribute that to the textures, it’s literally just pixel art! Other games are praised for having pixel art! aurgh!

Minecraft might be considered ugly, but in that case it’s probably moreso because its lighting is… rudimentary… or that person specifically just doesn’t like the artstyle.

Also something that almost no one ever talks about is render distance! Games with a gargantuan render distance look SOOOOOO much more appealing and are easier to navigate, but people just don’t think about it!

I recently played Satisfactory and holy shit that render distance, when i called down the space elevator it’s the only time i can recall a game ever making me just sit there in awe, never before have i felt such a visceral sense of scale from something on a display!

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

i’ll turn off my adblocker when i can be confident that your site won’t show me ads for child porn or actual fucking scams.

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

All anticheat is far from flawless lol

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

music, lighting, and basic game design.

nail those 3 things and don’t fuck up anything else, and people will throw money at your game, because the rest of the industry seems to refuse to provide games that are simply enjoyable without trying to turn you into a dairy cow.

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

eric barone cinematic universe: only unifying feature is the presence of jojamart

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

god this is like when everyone called first person shooters “doom clones”, overwatch is absolutely not a tf2 ripoff lmao, and making a hero shooter does not mean it’s an overwatch ripoff either.

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

based obsidian dying to save new vegas, modern day jesus christ

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

it couldn’t possibly be that people are applying basic pattern recognition

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

and this is why i wish people would make it profitable, fuck AAA titles, give your money to indies who respect the consumers and actually just want to make a fun game.

I wish game devs would found a union that helps developers fund and publish games with no profit incentive, it seems like such an obvious thing to do and has the potential to revolutionizing how people create and play games.

No longer would we be beholden to companies, no longer would developers have to compromise their works for profit, no longer would players have to tolerate predatory bullshit.
Just good games made by passionate people who are happy to have people enjoy their works while being able to afford to live on it.

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

which is why the steam deck was such a breath of fresh air, it’s what consoles SHOULD be.

A computer built primarily for gaming, sold at a reasonable price, that merrily lets you switch to desktop mode and launch excel for some office work if you want to.

Swedneck, miesiąc temu

i mean, you don’t need to host a git server lol, you can just download a compressed archive of the repo.

Swedneck, 2 miesiące temu

just buy indie games lol

Swedneck, 2 miesiące temu

there are plenty of modern games without micropayments, play smaller indie titles.

Swedneck, 2 miesiące temu

It was genuinely fun when i started and had to hunt for materials and actually had the threat of death, i hid in a cave to recover heat protection and had to do that a few times before i entered space and then the game all but ended

Swedneck, 2 miesiące temu

I think ideally it would work like it does in Endless Space, ships have varying amounts of space for equipment and cargo, and you can install upgrades to convert between them somewhat.

E.g. with a freighter you could convert enough cargo space to equipment space that you can slap on some extra guns, or you could make a bootleg fighter by taking a standard ship and jamming equipment into most of the cargo space.

Swedneck, 3 miesiące temu

ideally i’d want games to have NPCs react to if you’re wearing a helmet or not, and a real risk of getting attacked when in populated areas, so you have a choice to make whether you want to keep your helmet on or take it off (and that should be a simple button press)

that way there’s a bit of added flavour, and you have an actual reason to see your character without a helmet.

Swedneck, 3 miesiące temu

i’m amazed to see that there are people who don’t just set the skin color to bright purple and move sliders all the way to either side

if i can’t play as fuckhands mcmike what’s the point?

Swedneck, 3 miesiące temu

good to see steam being accepting of poly relationships and communes

Swedneck, 3 miesiące temu

i mean theoretically they could just make it count as a strike, and if your account gets 3 strikes this way then your account is out as well

Swedneck, 3 miesiące temu

and every other company would wait for every country to threaten them before enabling it there, because that’s 5 more months of extra profit!

Swedneck, 4 miesiące temu

understandable from a business point of view? sure

Understandable from a customer point of view? get bent

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

just pirate it

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

they basically just looked at the recent popular games and yoinked the good bits, which entirely unsurprisingly results in a fun game when executed decently

like honestly palworld feels like something that should be used as an example in game design courses: this is what it looks like when you just set out to make a successful game, without any particular vision. Resist the whisperings of satan telling you to add microtransactions and charge 60 bucks for it, and people will eat that shit up

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

the default setting is literally called humane, too, where the pals will just stop working if they feel cranky

if’s effectively a commune with extremely suspect recruting methods

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

and if understand the game right one of the “bad guy” groups you fight thinks this is fucked up and wants to kill you because you make pals fight

you’re kind of explicitly playing as the bad guy, and considering the stuff the game has you do you’re basically a cartoon villain in a massive lair filled with grunts who are just sort of there and go on lunch breaks between shifts of building death rays

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

most of them even keep moving

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

the optimization is weird because yeah you can see far as hell and it looks good enough, but at the same time my entirely decent GPU can’t run it in 1080p on lowest settings

i just wish they’d implemented the resolution setting to only apply to the game world, it’s kind of idiotic to have it affect the UI as well…

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

the only explanation i can come up with is that they wanted the free PR, i mean would the game really have been so popular if it wasn’t teetering on the knife’s edge of plagiarism?

if they made the creature designs comfortably different from pokemon it would kinda just be yet another game

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

the raids are definitely something i’d polish if i were them, it’s rather arbitrary and not really fun in any way.

i like the idea of having a reason to build defenses, and the risk of losing stuff, but it’s rather wack to start by flinging gravel at you and then at some point start dropping meteors, neither are particularly engaging and with the swarm of pals you’ll have after just a short while there’s not really much you yourself can do to affect things other than build walls…

i think it’d work better if it sent a mini-boss and some normal pals, so you could either focus on the miniboss or pick off the small ones.

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

i mean they’ve sold like a million copies, i don’t think they’re going to be hurting for cash any time soon, just pirate it and maybe buy it later if you feel a desire to.

Swedneck, 4 miesiące temu

and like, that decision has probably earned them way more money than they would ever have seen otherwise, along with the sustainability to KEEP earning hideous amounts of dosh for a good long while

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

we need to set up new lan parties and create our own fun

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

if i’m exposed to lgbt content i might be forced to confront that my repressed attraction to hairy man ass actually means i’m gay, and that’s much too frightening a prospect

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

this is like half the reason why DRG is so good, there’s so many rituals the community has developed and most of them have voice lines from mission control telling you to knock it off (which of course makes it that much funnier)

it’s kinda strange there’s no crouching though, i want to see my fellow dwarves crouching at light speed before doing something incredibly stupid

Swedneck, 5 miesięcy temu

PC, steam deck

Swedneck, 6 miesięcy temu

you can use p2p services behind cgnat, like how do you think torrent works?

Swedneck, 6 miesięcy temu

not sure where you’re getting that from, all you need is some server to establish connections via and then it works mostly fine

Swedneck, 6 miesięcy temu

i plug my motor cortex directly into the USB port

Swedneck, 6 miesięcy temu

watch them work just fine in proton (i don’t actually know if that works but i wouldn’t be the least surprised)

Swedneck, 7 miesięcy temu

so is it the good kind of colour-blind settings or did they fall for the old “this is just fucking filters that simulate colourblindness” chestnut?

Swedneck, 7 miesięcy temu

at this point the confusing naming is a pretty good shibboleth to show if you know what you’re talking about

you failed

Swedneck, 8 miesięcy temu

i just want a VR headset that i can afford and won’t send retinal scans to facebook…

Swedneck, 8 miesięcy temu

okayh so you’re just scrambling to justify something thaṭ, deep down, you know is an addiction and not something good in your life.

Swedneck, 8 miesięcy temu

you do realize you’re just saying that the predatory business has to be predatory otherwise they couldn’t operate their predatory business, right? It’s like a sheep defending wolves because if they didn’t eat sheep they wouldn’t be able to continue eating sheep.

Swedneck, 8 miesięcy temu

yeah uh, you do realize stockholm is infamous for having shit traffic, right? Precisely because it took a lot of the road design from the US.

Your example only proves my point.

Swedneck, 8 miesięcy temu

there’s a difference between a road and a street, a road is meant for quick throughfare and streets are destinations.

what happens a lot especially in america is trying to do both at once, which results in a street that is incredibly stressful to try and enter/leave and is miserable to be near outside of a car, and yet doesn’t allow traffic to flow smoothly and quickly.

These are commonly referred to as “stroads”, and the solution is to decide whether you want a street or a road and design it as such. In dense areas this means you have to bite the sour apple and accept that not everything can be a dedicated throughfare, the best solution is a backbone network of throughfares with streets branching off.
In less dense areas you can have the best of both worlds by simply putting a street on the side of the road, with some greenery between them so people have somewhat of an enjoyable view, and then connect the streets to the road at either end.