angstylittlecatboy

angstylittlecatboy, miesiąc temu

Game Pass is a profoundly stupid decision. It doesn’t make it’s money back and now Xbox users are used to not paying for games. And from a consumer perspective, enshittification always eventually happens with subscriptions.

angstylittlecatboy, 5 miesięcy temu

Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Kirby Planet Robobot for the same reason: while not the most innovative games and not necessarily my favorites in their respective franchises, they represent nearly flawless implementations of their respective franchise’s ideas.

Sometimes I feel like Mario and a couple popular indie games are the only platformers that get taken seriously honestly.

angstylittlecatboy, 6 miesięcy temu

If the game has a good enough character creator I’ll play a male. But most games and especially most Western games with character creators don’t allow me to make a male character I’d actually want to look like or at.

angstylittlecatboy, 6 miesięcy temu

Terraria.

Because to me Terraria feels more like a freer version of a Metroidvania than a survival game. And while you start weak you get downright overpowered.

angstylittlecatboy, 8 miesięcy temu

I’m about as old as OP, but every time I remember that my generation grew up on mostly 360/PS3 it reminds me that I was weird, my dad got an Original Xbox when it came out, which was the year I was born, and even though we had a Wii, I think we actually played games on OG Xbox more (we relied on the Wii to access the internet through neighbors’ unprotected Wi-Fi for a while though.)

angstylittlecatboy, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

I could see there being fatigue with particular genres of indie games (Metroidvanias, Rougelites, First-Person Horror without combat, speedrunner-oriented 2D platformers) but not with the very concept.

angstylittlecatboy, 8 miesięcy temu

Michael Eisner once called himself “the last of the creative types in Hollywood” after he left Disney, and I can’t help but see what he meant when he said that when I look at the current American film and TV landscape. It’s like today’s Hollywood bigwigs don’t even understand why people watch TV and movies.

I kinda think this happened to Western video games too (yeah Sony is a Japanese company…but PlayStation has shown a pretty square focus on the Western market in the past 10 years.) From a consumer perspective I don’t think a new CEO is the answer. It wasn’t for Disney’s fans with Bob Chapek.

angstylittlecatboy, 8 miesięcy temu

They were originally on Gamepedia, which got bought out by Fandom.

angstylittlecatboy, 9 miesięcy temu

No, GameMaker Studio. That engine had it’s own controversy over moving to a subscription model, but nothing as egregious as Unity.

angstylittlecatboy, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

I still think the N64’s overall technical superiority over the PS1 is very visible. Notice how much more closed in most PS1 games’ environments are. Spyro is the main exception, but that needed a lot of special tricks where N64 just does that. I say this as someone who doesn’t really like the N64 library.

angstylittlecatboy, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

I don’t disagree (or at least there should be a disc drive-included version and the ability to connect any USB Blu-Ray drive,) but obviously GameStop has a motive here.

And I think disc based games should have a legal requirement to have a playable version of the game on disc.

angstylittlecatboy, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Considering piracy equivalent to hardware theft is just intellectually dishonest. In a lot of ways, but relevant to this discussion is that piracy is way less risky, so more people do it. If you try to steal a PS5 from a store I’d go as far to say you’d probably get caught and jailed. With piracy you almost definitely won’t get caught.

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m okay with this on the condition that that platform is PC.

Even that might become an x86-64 vs ARM divide.

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

By that logic the remaining one is also PC with a locked down crapware system (Switch is ARM, people have gotten Android running)

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

While only the Steam Deck has achieved massive success, it shows there are ways to reduce the prep time for PC gaming, to almost as little as modern consoles (since you do, ultimately, have to install drivers on console.)

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

If I was seeing RISC-V get widespread adoption in consumer-grade hardware, I’d be thinking about it (granted, having X86-64 and ARM on the market could make room for a third competitor compared to the 15-year x86 hegemony.) But I don’t see a push for that, and there probably won’t be unless RISC-V delivers better results than ARM. Keep in mind that you and I probably care more about CPU architecture than the average gamer.

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

PC is an open platform and not a “specific set” of hardware requirements.

Do you even know what a personal computer is?

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

Street Fighter V.

That was a mistake.

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

I’d say they are. “Mom groups who want to play Animal Crossing-esque games” certainly aren’t what I’d think of when I’d think “dedicated gaming enthusiasts,” at least not what most people are thinking of.

Steam Deck lacks publicity relative to Nintendo Switch or even traditional PC gaming, but the product itself is absolutely more accessible than traditional PC gaming, even if not as accessible as consoles.

angstylittlecatboy, 10 miesięcy temu

Basically all games of note going all the way back to the OG Xbox

angstylittlecatboy, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

I’d think:

1. Gaming PC (PC games plus emulation of most systems, including Android and arcades)

2, 3, and 4. Some combination of three systems with large exclusive libraries for which emulation isn’t quite there yet or have unique features that make emulation suboptimal (Sega Saturn, Original Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS3, and PS5 come to mind)

angstylittlecatboy, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

Also just due to sheer age, which makes it the platform with the most games period, dating back to 1995 in terms of games you can play on modern hardware without an emulator (I know it’s getting harder to run Windows 95/98 games now but it should still be possible with effort for a lot of games, unless Windows 11 got rid of something)