billiam0202

billiam0202, 12 dni temu

Let’s face it: that trailer was just bad. We already knew MP4 was in the works; there was nothing that was shown for us to get excited for. No new enemies, no new suits, no new abilities, no new weapons. If I had to guess, I’d say the team was told to put something together for Nintendo Direct at the last minute, so they threw together footage from the intro level. It worries me that Nintendo wants to drive the hype from the existence of MP4, instead of the content of MP4.

billiam0202, 19 dni temu

Good news!

Perfect Dark was remastered in 2010 and is part of the Rare Replay you can buy for the XBox. Exactly the same, but with HD graphics.

billiam0202, 19 dni temu

I don’t know; I’ve not had any issues personally.

billiam0202, 30 dni temu

I guess the genre is just dead.

Diablo IV’s current season is pretty well regarded, from what I’ve read.

The Last Epoch is good.

Grim Dawn is fantastic.

And of course, Path of Exile is doing Path of Exile things.

What’s this “genre is dead” thing?

billiam0202, 30 dni temu

Oh, you don’t actually like ARPGs. So why are you complaining about them?

billiam0202, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Warframe players: That’s not a war crime. This is a war crime!

Murders an entire battalion with biochemical weapons

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

1. You gotta love grindy looter-shooters
2. The game doesn’t do a lot of directing new players, so you gotta be willing to ask other players and read the wiki to figure out what you should be doing.

Assuming those don’t faze you, the community is one of the best and the story is really good- once you get that far.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

On a micro level, it’s very easy to jump in and out when you feel like it. Each mission usually takes under 10 minutes even for fresh players, while a veteran can blitz through some missions in under 90 seconds. You can choose to play either solo or in up to a four-player squad, and if you are in a squad you can get a share of the xp from kills your mates get. Loot is instanced so you never have to worry about fighting to get what you see on the ground.

On a macro level, it’s a free-to-play looter shooter, with all the good and bad that entails. You have about a billion different types of resources you need to craft new weapons and frames, and almost every time new content is added new resources are too (to force veterans to engage in that content). Some things in the game are timegated heavily- for example, once you have the parts and resources to craft a new frame, it takes at a minimum 3 and a half real time days to craft it (unless you pay to skip that, or just buy the frame outright from their shop). The drop rates for some of the things you want might mean you’d take a while to get them if you’re not playing a lot- DE has a published list of the drop chances and the wiki lists the expected number of times you’d have to do an activity before you’d get that item, but I do want to stress the grindy looter-shooter part of the game.

Most of the real-money transactions are in the form of skipping time gates or pure cosmetics. I personally feel their monetization is fair for the most part.

All it all, it’s a F2P game. Go ahead and try it if it sounds fun, and if you don’t like it all you’ve lost is some time.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

Star Wars Rogue Squadron?

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer?

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

Speaking of innovation, the N64 was the, if not first then what I would call the first modern, console to use thumbsticks. The Dualshock was the second controller made for the PlayStation.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

Did platform fighters exist before Smash?

By “platform fighter” do you mean a game where your goal is to increase damage to your opponents in order to knock them out of the arena, as opposed to draining a health bar?

If so, I don’t recall any before Smash, though my interest in pre-Smash fighters ended with the SNES.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

Someone should remind the angry mobs that they should be angry mobs.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

It’s not; you’re just looking at the beginning of automating creativity when labor automation has been going on for over a hundred years. The introduction of new tech is always more disruptive than refining established tech. Besides which, VA is particularly sensitive to disruption because every VA does essentially the same job- one AI can be programmed to speak in thousands (millions?) of different voices, whereas one manual labor job doesn’t necessarily require the same actions as another.

Also it’s funny you complain about laundry, given how much doing laundry has been automated.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

Geralt’s flowing locks caused Nvidia cards to crash comes to mind.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

So uh…

For someone who loves N64 games but has literally never used git, how would one go about compiling this?

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

60hours of content

That’s a weird way to spell “microtransacted live service”.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

1. Nobody is locked out. Nothing has as yet changed.
2. The Steam page has said “PSN account required” since day one. Anyone opposed to creating a PSN account on moral grounds and bought HD2 has no one to blame but themselves.

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

And I’m sure the reason you’re mad about this now, and not three months ago, is because of ethics in gaming journalism, right?

billiam0202, miesiąc temu

… But you’re right that it is often considered the cause of many of their problems: Valve’s unusual corporate structure causes its problems, report suggests

If you look at the list of games developed by Valve it kinda becomes apparent that the only reason Valve is still around (or operates in such a free-flow manner) is because Steam is so profitable. Their release of notable titles is spotty, at best:

• CS 2, 2023
• HL:Alyx, 2020
• DOTA: Underlords 2020
• Artifact (RIP) 2018
• DOTA 2 2013

billiam0202, 2 miesiące temu

There were other, better recognizable games in there. Like Red Dead 2 is from 6 years ago.

That’s what the “Labor of Love” award is supposed to be for: games that are older, but the devs have continued to support them as a passion project.

Both of those games being ironically nominated for those awards is apropos.

billiam0202, 2 miesiące temu

We already have the 500kg bomb though.

billiam0202, 2 miesiące temu

We (the market) need to encourage quality over quantity.

But how will I get the dopamine hit and instant gratification the first time I start a new game?

billiam0202, 2 miesiące temu

There’s a whole fucking galaxy in Star Wars and you want to see the same things you’ve already seen before? Hell no, show me new people and places and characters! Why does the fate of the entire galaxy hinge on like 20 people in two or three families? Surely there are other, equally important people who exist in the galaxy far, far away?

billiam0202, 2 miesiące temu

Lol I didn’t think you sounded whiny, but I did think it would be funny to counter your opinion of “Star Wars should never change!” with “Star Wars should be something different!” so we encompass the spectrum of complaining Star Wars fans. :D

billiam0202, 2 miesiące temu

The Series S doesn’t have a disk drive.

The rumored Series X refresh doesn’t have a disk drive.

It’d be hard for Microsoft to remain committed to game preservation in that way without them.

To me, this sounds more like they’re looking at Nintendo’s virtual store playbook and wondering how many times they can sell the same games to their customer base.

billiam0202, 3 miesiące temu

Entire pack is priced under $20, with a 50% discount. So less than $10.

billiam0202, 3 miesiące temu

If you liked Limbo, you’d like the next game Playdead did, Inside.

billiam0202, 3 miesiące temu

You’re so god damn wrong. Battlefront 2 was far and away better than Battlefront 2 and I’ll fight anyone who says differently.

I do agree that Battlefront 2 was garbage though.

billiam0202, 4 miesiące temu

I don’t think I’ve ever killed a teammate by shooting them.

Tell me you don’t have the Fatboy OC, without telling me you don’t have the Fatboy OC.

Rock and Stone!

billiam0202, 4 miesiące temu

The four I’ve tried and would recommend:

Homeworld 3 looks gorgeous. I’m not good at RTS games but I’m interested in this one just for the nostalgia and it hits that just right.

Lightyear Frontier is a good “just chill and work on your farm” kind of game. It seems relaxing.

Pacific Drive is like The Forest but instead of feeding and protecting yourself, you’re fueling and repairing your car.

And for a surprise hit I just tried on a whim, Space Trucker. A sci-fi twist on the Euro Truck Simulator style game.

billiam0202, 5 miesięcy temu

Fun fact: there’s actually a name for that.

The glass cliff.

billiam0202, 5 miesięcy temu

What, you don’t want to run around as Homelander or Nikki Minaj? They perfectly fit in with the feel of a semi-tactical first person shooter!

billiam0202, 6 miesięcy temu

If I remember it correctly, everything in E:D is procedurally generated, but every player has the same seed so it generates everything identically. That’s how they keep the installation a manageable size.

billiam0202, 6 miesięcy temu

I wish Nintendo still sold old games. This is selling old games as a service.

billiam0202, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s probably the best multiplayer shooter out there

Maybe on console, but if you’re on PC you should be playing Battlebit Remastered.

billiam0202, 6 miesięcy temu

Remember, Brotherhood of Steel: Don’t feed the yao guai! That is all.

billiam0202, 7 miesięcy temu

Super Smash Kart?

billiam0202, 7 miesięcy temu

Wouldn’t it be Steam Deck 2 Episode 2?

billiam0202, 8 miesięcy temu

or a game that no one ever gets to play because some perfectionists working on it will never be satisfied.

That’s literally the reason Chris Roberts was kicked off Freelancer.

billiam0202, 8 miesięcy temu

No, clearly they’re talking about Sim City on SNES!

billiam0202, 9 miesięcy temu

I’ve played about 40 hours so far on a Series X. It froze on loading twice in that time, but otherwise I’ve had no performance problems. I even tried remote play streaming from my Series X to my PC and it worked well also.

That said, Starfield is fine. It’s not great- I don’t think it would be considered GotY even if BG3 and TotK hadn’t come out this year- but it’s otherwise solid. If you like the Bethesda formula, Starfield plays it absolutely straight (for better or worse). The usual critiques of Bethesda games in general apply- it has that look of a Bethesda game, the NPCs have the facial animation range of a post-botox Barbie, Radiant quests abound, the exploration gameplay loop is pretty shallow, etc.

Don’t get me wrong- there’s a lot it could do better, much of which other games already do. It’s a sci-fi fi version of Skyrim, and that’s good enough for me, but it probably won’t live on in the gaming zeitgeist.

billiam0202, 9 miesięcy temu

I would agree with you in that if Starfield has any longevity, it would be because it would serve as the foundation for mods rather than on its own merits. But I disagree that it could stand on its own as-is.

billiam0202, 10 miesięcy temu

Not really.

Optical discs are dirt cheap. This old answer from Quora says physical media (disc, case, artwork, inserts, etc) accounted for $2-$5 of the cost of a game.

billiam0202, 10 miesięcy temu

Yes, if you’re selling millions of units. But if you’re buying just one, $2-$5 probably isn’t going to matter to you. Not many people would buy a game at $68 they wouldn’t buy at $70.