VinesNFluff

VinesNFluff, 7 dni temu

While I had some fun playing torchlight 2 with a friend back in the day, in reality I never got on with the entire genre (or its sibling the Looter-Shooter)

It’s like

Every video game is on some level a skinner box, but arpgs and lootershooters are the most transparent and cynical about it, idk. Well no, the SECOND most transparent and cynical about it, MMOs still take the cake.

VinesNFluff, 9 dni temu

I guess this means I’ll finally get to actually play it

My playthrough on release got aborted midway through act 3 because I was using mods before official support and the constant updating and mod breaking eventually destroyed my savefile.

VinesNFluff, 16 dni temu

Is history repeating? Didn’t this happen like 2 years ago?

VinesNFluff, miesiąc temu

Likely the PS2. Simply for the breadth of stuff it can play.

VinesNFluff, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

Dark Souls has more in common with Castlevania than with anything “RPG”.

As for Diablo type games, I personally call them “looter RPGs” as a retroactive term. Because the “looter shooter” genre that popped up about a decade after diablo is literally just Diablo but FPS.

Genre names are wack anyway. The “[other game]-like” moniker will always be more descriptive and clear, plus being a reminder that every new thing in video games is a refreshed take on some pre existing thing.

VinesNFluff, 2 miesiące temu

Dendy Deck.

VinesNFluff, 3 miesiące temu

Now I am ALSO a Final Fantasy 8 hater (and a Roman Numerals hater. I refuse.)

– But this is pretty fricking clever. I will never not appreciate this kind of spite. The FUCKING. SPINE.

VinesNFluff, 7 miesięcy temu

Real-time Strategy. Specifically single-player campaign oriented RTS.

Genre peaked at, like, Red Alert 3 or Starcraft II, either-or. And the only notable title in the past (N) years has been like… Age of Empires 4. Which is good but also… It’s AoE. It’ll always be more of a multiplayer oriented game yanno? Give me my cheesy campaign stories with cool hero units and/or cheesy FMV uwu

VinesNFluff, 8 miesięcy temu

Well.

I don’t know or care about the industry. Execs can lick my dick;

Player-side we can expect half a dozen well-known IPs to become Microsoft-platform exclusive. Like locking players from using Wine/Proton and only working on XBox and Windows.

Mind you, talking about it selfishly… It will not affect me. The only game from Blizz I played in the past 15 years is StarCraft 2, and only for the campaign, and I finished that quite a while ago. And on Activision’s side there’s… Crash and Spyro. Kinda cool nostalgia-bait games but I can do without. Plus I doubt we’ll be seeing them again after the remakes from a couple years back.

I actually don’t play many “AAA” games. All the titles I played in the past 2 years, with the exception of the Zeldas and Baldur’s 3 have been either Low-Scale industry releases or straight up Indie projects.

VinesNFluff, 8 miesięcy temu

Depends on how much shooting is involved.

Mouse aim trumps controller aim after all. But for games that aren’t shooting-focussed I favour controllers because I can flop back.

VinesNFluff, 9 miesięcy temu

Unreal for “commercial, highly documented, also an industry standard”

Godot for “this is actually libre software and you can trust it to not enshittify itself in a couple years”

VinesNFluff, 10 miesięcy temu

Afaik you are not correct. Copyrights for a corporation also have an expiration date.

Except – The expiration date can be extended by just continuing to use the IP – Ever wondered why movies get remakes/reimaginings every 30 years or so? We meme about them being “Out of ideas”, but really it’s so they can hold down their copyright.