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celeste, 10 dni temu

It feels like companies like this eventually become vehicles for like 5 people to make lots of money. You can't let go the guy making these mistakes - lining his pocket is the purpose of the company! It'd be ridiculous to fire him! Unless some of the other 4 people making money decide he's keeping them from lining their pockets.

celeste, 14 dni temu

Is Coral Island too anime in style?

celeste, 14 dni temu

Raft was kind of interesting, and chill if you turn off "sharks keep attacking for some reason" mode.

I watched someone play Satisfactory and they had a blast.

Dinkum was fun and not stressful, but the characters have big heads and it's got some typical farming life sim elements that were inspired by harvest moon and animal crossing.

celeste, 17 dni temu

I get reminded of this quote from their studio exec:

“You can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor,’ right? Or you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income,” Corazza said. “So I can be like, 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now with just a laptop, I can create something, make money, and then sustain my life.”

When I read that quote a few weeks ago, I thought about how that's the kind of argument people who travel abroad to rape kids use to justify themselves.

It feels related to this, somehow. Maybe something about how children are treated like a disposable resource or an object to be used unless the person who owns them (parents?) are powerful, well to do, white, etc, etc. And that's because their owner is those things, so they're valuable property. I'm not sure if I'm articulating myself well. Too much sun.

celeste, 27 dni temu

Thanks for sharing! I'd only heard of dragonsweeper before.

celeste, miesiąc temu

If we're sharing honest opinions minus filter here: if you worded your question differently, more people would answer, and they would be less defensive and have more interesting answers. You've limited the people who will reply.

Condescensing and annoying people like myself will still have a lot to say, but people with fun stories and heartwarming anecdotes will not want to put themselves out there for what seems like will be a snarky put-down as a response.

Specifically, the "kiddie game" opening was fine, but the way you worded the followup came across less like you were confused and more like you wanted to have a group shit-on of adults who play mario kart. Being a little more vague would've been your friend here. "but it looks like i was wrong" might've convinced people who don't want to be shit on to give an answer.

The part about it being unfair by design was fine, but the last paragraph again comes across as "anyone want to hang here and make fun of the losers who like this obvious bullshit?"

anyway, i don't play party video games generally but my impression is they want to appeal to different skill levels, abilities, and ages, so they often have additions that level the playing field so it's not just Gamer Frieda winning while everyone else gets bored and gets out the playing cards (which can also have a random quality that means sometimes the newbie will win or at least not be bored and frustrated).

These catch up elements add extra elements for dedicated players to account for, which is more memorization and reflex training, which is a kind of fun for the type of people who play outside parties.

celeste, miesiąc temu

I like that they put some guides up ahead of their announcement. At some point I followed polygon on here, and I remember the guides being some of the most frequent updates.

celeste, miesiąc temu

I watched some streamers play it and was just wondering why they weren't anymore. Now I know!

celeste, miesiąc temu

Always wanted to play this one, but never enough to buy a console.

celeste, miesiąc temu

With most games, I don't mind just watching a playthrough, but this is one I'd actually want to play. Maybe in a few more years the emulator will have fewer bugs or I'll get a cheap 360 (or a new computer ). I'd forgotten how disappointed I was back then I couldn't play it on pc!

celeste, miesiąc temu

I thought they were more interesting than average, even when I disagreed with a take. The kind of site there should be a ton of, with varying takes for people to despise to a baffling degree. Sad to see it gone, or "gone" and turned intp a slop factory with known terrible working conditions for the people left.

Regardless of feelings about the people themselves, it's awful that they fired the union members probably deliberately at this point in the sale so they wouldn't have to go along with their contracts.

celeste, miesiąc temu

Checking what boxes?

celeste, 2 miesiące temu

It rarely works out, but it'd be great if some of the fired staff tried going independent. A couple of my favorite groups managed it after they were fired in similar circumstances.

celeste, 2 miesiące temu

The initial appeal for me was that I enjoyed harvest moon, except for how the old tech made the experience of playing it suck so bad, I couldn't replay it. It was annoying doing any of the basic tasks like switching tools iirc. so there was a huge opening in the market for a new harvest moon that wasn't annoying to play. And where you were allowed to be gay.

So the initial buzz came from that, imo. the people who wanted a new harvest moon game were like 'wow, finally!' and then word of mouth did its thing. these days, nostalgia for it specifically drives people back to play, along with extensive modding and occasional free updates keeping things fresh.

i think other people can explain better why the harvest moon formula itself is so appealing, but i just think it's interesting how an indie game can get so popular by just being like "what if i made this big corporation game people want a new entry from, but fixed the stuff in it that sucks?'

celeste, 2 miesiące temu

iirc, there was one old harvest moon game where you played as a woman and you could marry a guy OR live forever with your female bestie. i don't remember if that one made it to the english speaking world.

stardew valley really upped the game when the guy who made it decided it'd be no big deal if you wanted to pursue a same sex relationship in it. now it feels like a standard of the genre to let you do that, and it really wasn't always like that. other games did it, too, but it still felt exceptional back then.

(but, yeah, the gay thing was a big deal for me personally, especially at the time sdv came out. i don't know if it was generally a big deal for most players, but that's definitely a reason for it to catch a certain sort of player's eye back when it was first becoming popular.)

celeste, 2 miesiące temu

The ideal is that it's just in there and no big deal. I know that's all I wanted when I was young.

celeste, 2 miesiące temu

I guess he canonically dies in a videogame, which is a reason they might not bring him back

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

I can't afford a new computer right now and tariffs meaning higher prices means I can't anticipate affording one in the near future. My plan is to see where everything's at when they stop doing updates. Unfortunately.

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

I'm somewhat open to the idea, but the thought of messing up and not having any computer other than my phone until i figure it out is tough to get over.

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

Is this something that's relatively fool proof to do? I'm very good at imagining disasters. That's the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

That sounds pretty cool, actually, that it.s protected against me breaking it. I've always got that worry

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

Thank you! The wall in my brain keeping me from doing it is a bit smaller now

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

I've heard of it before and considered playing it, but I have a tough time committing to play a game with sexual violence as a theme. It's nothing against the game, which looks interesting. If anyone knows of a good let's play for the series, I'd love to experience it in some way, even if it's a dulled experience.

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

They're pretty strict about depictions of violence against minors, right?

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

My nostalgia faves are still The Longest Journey and Grim Fandango. My love of stories told with games started here. I do need to think about what my all time favorites are, though. That's a big question.

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

One thing I really loved about it was even though the character models were as weird looking as you'd expect from the era, the backgrounds were beautiful and when i played it years later with more modern sensibilities, I still was fond of them. The story took advantage of the fact that the main character was an artist, so there were a number of colorful or visually interesting segments.

The whole experience felt so vast, and even not being a child any more (which can make stories seem vast because of your own imagination), there still feels like there's a lot to both worlds. And history to characters, just out of view.

It also lives up pretty well to its name. There's a lot of it. A lot of lore and locations and puzzles. Some of the puzzles are obtuse to the extreme, and silly. There's one that's almost legendarily bad, so it has that bit of history if you're interested lol.

It's tough to say what's nostalgia and what's my preference and what's genuinely great. You'd probably have to play it to find out!

celeste, 3 miesiące temu

This sure isn't true lol

celeste, 4 miesiące temu

Not the kind of game I enjoy playing very often, but it's been great watching streamers try it out. It just looks fun.

celeste, 4 miesiące temu

I don't know if it's amazing writing, but I was cringing less often with this one than i was with 'it takes two'

celeste, 4 miesiące temu

I've heard them called "search-action" games before, for people who dislike "metroidvania."

celeste, 5 miesięcy temu

I hate inventory management, because it takes away from the fun parts of the game. When it is the game, they've made the effort to make it fun (or it's just a bad game).
If you like puzzle games, an inventory managenent game is just one of those, basically. It stands on how good the puzzles are.

celeste, 6 miesięcy temu

Interesting to read what the modding community has been doing with old handholds.

celeste, 6 miesięcy temu

His controversy section on wikipedia is fascinating. Is he still a Q believer?

celeste, 6 miesięcy temu

His positions have swung around a lot, and apparently he's inclined to depression and moods swings? I hope he's come out of the cult thinking, at least, and making a new game is a sign he's not in that obsessive mindset anymore. I'm not interested in giving him my money, but it'd be better for everyone if he wasn't into conspiracies.

celeste, 6 miesięcy temu

idle dice 2

celeste, 6 miesięcy temu

It's generally implemented in a way that takes away fun. If a game had fun fights that were always intended to be strategic, it'd be ok, but when you have to kill identical mob after identical mob to progress in the plot, i don't see the point.

i remember getting bored and annoyed near the end of oblivion.

celeste, 6 miesięcy temu

Mario looks so depressed in that first screenshot for some reason

celeste, 7 miesięcy temu

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. The genres I like keep getting new games, but if most games now were precision platformers or MMORPGs, I'd read more lol.

Just try to hold back the good ol days mentality, try new stuff if it catches your interest, and let yourself enjoy your 10000th replay of your favorites? You aren't against new things entirely, after all. You just don't make yourself play games you don't like. Somewhere out there is an indie developer with similar taste, also frustrated they can't find a game they want to play, and I hope you find them and add a new game to your list.

celeste, 8 miesięcy temu

This is one game that makes me wish I enjoyed playing horror games more.

celeste, 8 miesięcy temu

enjoying jumpscares is probably like enjoying rollercoasters (which i do). the adrenaline burst feels great for some people, and other people hate it. It seems a shame to have lots of them in games where that sort of feeling isn't the point.

celeste, 8 miesięcy temu

That's a shame, because it really doesn't seem to benefit a game like Alan Wake 2 at all, atmosphere or story-wise, while turning lots of people away.

celeste, 9 miesięcy temu

I watched someone play a bunch of these and her theory is they were inspired by that pt silent hills demo

celeste, 9 miesięcy temu

Played it and loved it. I know I should hold off and wait until it's complete before I play again, bit it's going to be tough not loading it up the second there's another update.

celeste, 10 miesięcy temu

2 for me. 1 took longer to parse.

celeste, 10 miesięcy temu

I can't say I've ever really liked a controller, so I never experimented with fancy ones. The one that was the most fine was the ps controller. the joycon was ok until drift kicked in. The xbox controller made my hands hurt after too long. I think if I'd had more xbox games back then I would have gotten more into controllers to find one for my tiny hands. I mostly prefer a keyboard.

celeste, 11 miesięcy temu

I had a fun time playing in early access, even with the bugs. I should check it out again when it hits 1.0. I recall generating a new location and immediately falling through the ground to my death and deciding i would wait a bit to play more.

celeste, 11 miesięcy temu

aesthetically, it reminds me of 'going under,' but the corporate visuals were the point in that one.

celeste, rok temu

Does anyone have a link to a source on the age of the kid? I'm wondering if I'm missing it. People keep saying she's 17. Was that in one of his edits?