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Zozano, 10 dni temu

I just finished playing X3: Terrain Conflict, and I’ll never play another X game.

As an achievement hunter, I normally play past the point of normal enjoyment, but this game told me, more or less, to go fuck myself.

The first kick in the nuts was completing “Dead Is Dead” mode.

You don’t get to save (with the exception of shutting the game down, but the save will delete upon starting it back up).

The game is prone to crashes, meaning you can have your entire save wiped in an instant because the game decides it doesn’t like it when you use the fast forward function within 10 seconds of a cut scene.

On top of that, one of the campaigns requires you to set up a massive complex of microchips and silicon, which also has a chance of triggering a crash each time you place a factory down.

The final 2 achievements are basically “grind until we say stop”. Which functionally resulted in me leaving my computer on overnight, four nights in a row.

The fact that the devs left the game in this state is inconsiderate at best, and disrespectful at worst.

Besides, the game is basically just an excel sheet simulator, it really isn’t very engaging.

Zozano, 10 dni temu

It’s bound to happen.

Sony has been breaking into the PC space for a bit now.

Zozano, 27 dni temu

When I was 12 my Mum gave me my first PC, it was a second hand work PC with a tiny HDD.

There wasn’t enough space to install The Sims, so I deleted the Program Files folder, thinking I don’t need any programs, only games.

I bricked my PC lol. Needed a tech to reinstall Windows. Thankfully, I could tell him I needed enough space for the game and he debloated it as much as he could. Legend.

Zozano, miesiąc temu

I realised all these years later that so many games from my childhood had the issue of “floaty characters”.

Mario 64 felt so good because you could run at full speed, snap the alalog stick back and jump, and Mario would pivot on a bees dick and launch himself at your face.

Zozano, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

The only backstory you need is right after the prelude, it showed that she was really good at judo.

A woman beating the shit out of a man does not defy physics.

Zozano, 2 miesiące temu

Being strong doesn’t make you a capable fighter.

Knocking someone out is not as easy as it may seem, it takes skill, more than strength.

One in eight men think they could score a point against Serena Williams

Who do you think would win between an Olympic level male swimmer, or an amateur level female UFC fighter?

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

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Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

Double Witch!

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

I don’t suppose in your heart you have but one desire?

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s almost hard to get Fallout wrong. Unless you shove a kid into a fridge for 200 years, or retcon the creation of the super mutants.

Todd Howard is involved, so I wager they’ll get the themes right.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

People rewatch movies because they love them.

I’m about to watch the final episode of the One Piece adaptation, even though I know exactly what has happened.

The adaptation has deviated slightly from the manga, but that’s to be expected of a series known for filler.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

Plus One Piece

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

I agree that their games have been shit for a while, I didn’t even think F4 was good, and NV demonstrated that Bethesda shouldn’t be the ones developing the series.

F3 was great at the time, but after playing NV, you can see that Bethesda is interested in creating a very railroaded experience (pun not intended).

However, I think a TV show might be fine, seeing as though the stories of Fallout haven’t been bad; it has just been bad mechanically.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

Wow. I used to follow the development of Overgrowth, and now they’re suing Steam? What dickheads…

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

One of the most helpful mindsets I’ve adopted was accepting that I don’t want to be wrong any longer than I have to be.

Strangers on the internet don’t care. The only person you’re hurting is yourself.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

I wasn’t strictly talking about the definition of covidiot, I was referring to the virus’ transmissibility; indoors vs outdoors.

There has been a lot of misinformation during covid, from both sides, and virtually everyone needs to accept that they were wrong about certain things.

For example, I was forced to change my mind about the safety of the vaccine. I still personally believe most people should have been vaccinated, but we need to accept that it didn’t do what was expected.

At the end of the day, Covid is a respiratory virus, and the consensus of indoors vs outdoors transmissibility had been reached decades ago.

I appreciated the measured response, it’s rare to see people sincerely reflect on their beliefs so quickly without feeling condescended.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

If anticompetitive means “it’s your choice to enter into an agreement in which we host your game for 30%, and distribute it on our platform, with unlimited patch updates, and unlimited user downloads, and a fuckton of features like community forums, guides, groups etc., also if your game is good we will promote it free of charge”

Then I suppose companies like Epic who choose to run at a loss, as opposed to providing a good service, have no chance, and Steam is anticompetitive.

The counter narrative exists though, Steam is just a good service, and if you want to compete with them, you need to provide a good service, like GOG.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

I’ve never heard of Valve trying to prevent a developer from distributing their game on other PC store platforms, it’s quite an assertion.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

Again, it just sounds like Valve is offering a good service and other companies don’t want to compete. If it’s Valves fault for providing a good service and lots of users choose to use their platform instead of others, I fail to see what they could do to rectify that.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

I still don’t see what you’re seeing.

Just to play devils advocate, what do you think Valve should do differently?

After learning more about it, I’m understanding the problem is that Wolfire (and every other developer/publisher) has a contract with Valve, in which they aren’t allowed to sell their game on another PC market for a cheaper price than Steam.

Though, I wouldn’t describe that as anticompetitive, rather, neutrally-competitive. Valve is offering a level playing field, they can take it or leave it. This is a fairly standard practice among businesses (though I understand this does not make it right).

If valve wanted to be anticompetitive they would dictate that games published on Steam are exclusive to Steam on PC.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

So Wolfire’s idea of being anticompetitive is to restrict how many features a platform may offer?

Honestly, it just sounds like Wolfire has an axe to grind. Steam doesn’t price in the features it offers, their 30% cut existed a long time before most of this stuff was added.

Something like this will never be implemented. Consider the outcome: Steam decouples the marketplace from the extra services, so they create a separate application and offer it as a free service, and creates a link between the two services. There are a hundred ways around this, and all of them inconvenience the consumer.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

They should be.

Zozano, 6 miesięcy temu

Sorry, as aforementioned, I’m just not seeing what you’re seeing.

Zozano, 7 miesięcy temu

I wonder how long before someone starts getting offended on behalf of cavemen for the phrase Ooga Booga.

Seriously though, perhaps RPG’s just aren’t for OP. Some people get enjoyment from taking things slow, learning all the mechanics, and building the most powerful character possible within the limits of the game.

Many people choose not to cheat in games like this to give yourself max stats because that’s where the fun is, as opposed to a a game like borderlands, where an already maxxed out character can still be challenged with the endgame content which scales to their level.

Zozano, 7 miesięcy temu

I don’t think it will happen. Enshittification has a predictable life cycle. Valve has had years of opportunity to sell out, but haven’t.

Zozano, 8 miesięcy temu

And Very Hard is still a cake walk :(

They supposedly increased the combat AI, I suppose that only matter to Gear of War style players

Zozano, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

“I like nuka cola”

“That’s not a luxury”

“Whats a luxury then?”

“Private prydwen”

“Larry, I’m on Swan-tales”

Zozano, 9 miesięcy temu

Is Pokemon just going to act as a thinly veiled privacy invasion tool?

Pokemon Go encourages you to share your location at all times. Now they want to know when you’re sleeping.

Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!

Zozano, 9 miesięcy temu

This weeks special! Catch a Mewtwo by purchasing any two tabacco products or a combined total of one litre of products containing high-fructose corn syrup!

Zozano, 10 miesięcy temu

Fucking Konami. Do not buy this shit. Let Konami rot in the grave they dug themselves into.

Zozano, 10 miesięcy temu

Anyone else play Airblade? It was like a Tony Hawk game but with a hoverboard.

With only six levels, it was quite short, but really fun. Eventually I started speed running it before I knew what speed running was.

If I recall correctly I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes.

Zozano, 10 miesięcy temu

I personally really like cyberpunk, I wish the launch went better. Adding more features would have made it truly great.

I’m an achievement hunter. Normally once beating a game I uninstall and move on to the next game. But cyberpunk, I did three full playthroughs on very hard with different builds.

The story is really great the first playthrough, but for my second and third playthrough, I rush to level 14, grab the double jump, and just go exploring. I hit level 50 before talking to Takemura at the diner.

My favorite character is my third one, my corpo netrunner. Pre-patched contagion was just bonkers. You could walk into an enemy stronghold, look at someone, and command the whole building to die.

The game becomes a whole lot less fun when you’re that OP, but it felt like a reward, since the early stages of a netrunner build is the weakest build in the game.

Zozano, 10 miesięcy temu

Reimagine deez nuts.