VindictiveJudge

VindictiveJudge, 6 dni temu

Final Fantasy 9 had you learn skills from equipment.

VindictiveJudge, 6 dni temu

I would love if Civilization or Crusader Kings implemented this.

VindictiveJudge, 6 dni temu

If you’re only interested in multiplayer then those are solid options. If you like campaign then you should definitely check out 2, ODST, and Reach.

VindictiveJudge, 8 dni temu

Relatedly, I’ve noticed ports of console games, particularly by Japanese devs, and especially Sqeenix, not actually having an option to quit to desktop. Sometimes hitting Esc will pop a plain system theme window with an option to close the program, but I’ve seen ones that didn’t even have that and had to be killed externally. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even exiting DragonQuest 11 is a pain.

VindictiveJudge, 8 dni temu

And x-axis, just to be thorough. Especially for third person games since they still can’t all agree on what the default should be.

VindictiveJudge, 8 dni temu

And I’m hoping for them to be flatpacks so they still run five years later. I’ve had to resort to running Windows builds via Proton for games that have native Linux builds because they don’t work anymore.

VindictiveJudge, 20 dni temu

Playing as Emily in 2 is really fun. You have the option to ignore stealth, go all out with your powers, and still not kill anyone.

VindictiveJudge, 22 dni temu

I have carpal tunnel syndrome and mouse heavy games hurt, but playing with a controller is great. If this can easily replace a mouse and keyboard setup then I’ll be playing with it a lot, and those track pads are a big reason why.

They’re also good for emulating certain consoles with quirky controllers, like the N64.

VindictiveJudge, 22 dni temu

PlayStation is probably going to still have exclusives, or at least timed exclusives, driving some sales. But this announcement may be the final nail in Xbox’s coffin.

VindictiveJudge, miesiąc temu

Gameplay-wise, Rogue is even better than Black Flag. Narratively, Rogue is a disaster fueled by Shay being painfully stupid.

VindictiveJudge, miesiąc temu

The 360 had far less RAM than the average PC of 2010, and the engine has had a memory leak since Morrowind. I never finished New Vegas due to that, even on PC. Moving to a 64-bit version of the engine with Fallout 4 helped a lot, just because it took longer to run out of memory.

VindictiveJudge, miesiąc temu

Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.

Freedom Cry, the standalone expansion for Black Flag, was essentially this concept in the Carribean. You play as Adewale, a slave turned pirate turned Assassin, and liberate plantations.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

The Tower is bad, but The Devil may be worse. Once you know what Yorinobu is up to, the one ending where he’s stopped before he can pull it off is pretty bad.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Kane Westwood lives in death!

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

I could be wrong, but doesn’t he own the company?

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

Microsoft, Sony, EA, Activision, or Square Enix would be my guess.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

You made a comment that is typically meant with complete seriousness without any indication you were joking. PETA, for example, has an entire anti-Pokemon campaign built on the premise that Pokemon is animal cruelty.

VindictiveJudge, 2 miesiące temu

I bought it heavily discounted and knowing it got bad reviews and still felt like I got ripped off. The reviews I read did not do justice to just how bad the shooting feels and how terrible the level design is.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu

Only for backwards compatibility titles. PS5 titles have to be run off of either the integrated storage or an M.2 SSD.

VindictiveJudge, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but they made an ARG as part of the early VTMB2 promotion stuff. You had to do stuff within a fake dating app called Tender that was made in-universe to help vampires find feeding targets.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

Anything with a cohesive narrative would have been better than the sequel trilogy, including Dark Empire. Hell, Abrams did Dark Empire anyway, he just compressed it into a single film along with ESB and ROTJ because he’s never had a single original idea about Star Wars.

VindictiveJudge, 4 miesiące temu

Unbound was basically Underground 3. Story wasn’t exceptional or anything, though.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

They had all that free marketting from people assuming the third one would be the 720 and they ditched it in favor of calling it the Xbox One, which everyone was already using for the name of the first Xbox. Still baffled by that one.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

That was the industry standard for a long time and it still pops up sporadically.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

In other words, they’re exactly the same as a lot of the games on disc for Xbox and PlayStation.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

I think the Great Plateau is roughly the size of OOT’s entire world, so if she only played classic titles that may feel reasonable.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

You can knock her out instead of killing her. You can then save her from execution in Act 2 to recruit her. She can even have a bit if a redemption arc, iirc.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

You don’t need a mod. They added it in Patch 6.

VindictiveJudge, 5 miesięcy temu

Don’t forget that the Wii U had one of the most incompetent console marketing campaigns of all time. Just two years ago I met someone who still didn’t know it was a console and not an accessory.

VindictiveJudge, 6 miesięcy temu

You get a fair-play Minesweeper-like, such as Hexcells Infinite, which can always be beaten without any guessing.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

Doesn’t work in the remaster; they changed so that all skills contribute to level up progress.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

Oblivion and Skyrim are 200 years apart, but geographically border each other. Classic Oblivion didn’t render Skyrim, but that was more for technical reasons than anything else. If you get high enough up in Skyrim on a clear day you can see the entire continent.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

I like to describe classic Oblivion characters as looking like they were all carved from the same potato.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

Also, Skyblivion will, at worst, only cut into their PC sales. The official remake will be the only option available on consoles due to the nature of the mod.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

I’m fine with almost any changes to the combat. Oblivion’s combat felt worse than both Morrowind’s and Skyrim’s to me.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s also from the era when people were expected to read the manual while the game installed, so the game never has tutorials for certain things, most prominent being fatigue. New players tend to run everywhere, drain their fatigue meter, and struggle to hit anything or cast a spell. Just reading the manual, as the devs originally expected, solves a lot.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

Also note that Owlcat’s other Pathfinder game, Kingmaker, is absurdly punishing. Start with Wrath.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

Kingmaker also has the problem of every encounter being designed for a full party but not actually having access to a full party until late in Act 1, after many mandatory combat encounters. The RNG also seems to hate me.

VindictiveJudge, 7 miesięcy temu

Uh, enemies are actually less bullet spongey on high difficulties, just like the player. Some humans have armor that you have to either spend bullets shooting off or shoot around by aiming at unarmored portions, but enemies typically go down really quick.

VindictiveJudge, 8 miesięcy temu

Turn based tactics or 4x games would absolutely benefit from both, and the touch screen. Being able to play Fire Emblem with any of the three depending on what’s comfortable at the time would be wonderful.

VindictiveJudge, 8 miesięcy temu

Even then, it’s not a full stop on incompatibility, it just means that you need to own Switch 1 joycons to pair to the system instead of using the new ones. So you can play Ringfit on Switch 2, if you have the old joycons and a way to charge them.

VindictiveJudge, 8 miesięcy temu

Judging by the bit of Prime 4 they showed, I think their first party titles will just skip ray tracing and use relatively low-poly models.

VindictiveJudge, 8 miesięcy temu

Same with Paradox games. 4X in general is just really hard to get right on release because of how many interlinking systems there are, so waiting for balance updates at a minimum is never a bad idea.

VindictiveJudge, 8 miesięcy temu

Bethesda has actually been consistently supportive of Skyblivion, Morroblivion, and Skywind.

VindictiveJudge, 8 miesięcy temu

I genuinely didn’t know it was still big. Everyone I know who played it quit ten years ago and expansion launches no longer hit my feeds.

VindictiveJudge, 9 miesięcy temu

At least some of the remaster source code is in the repo, too. If the TS or RA2 source code is found, people will be immediately able to do that graphics switch for them, too.

VindictiveJudge, 9 miesięcy temu

I think the old Westwood dev they put in charge of the franchise just doesn’t have any oversight.

VindictiveJudge, 9 miesięcy temu

No. The repo has Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1, Generals with Zero Hour, Renegade, and components for the HD ports of TD and RA1 they put out a few years ago.