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johannesvanderwhales, miesiąc temu

I know when I played SMTV I was thinking the whole time that I should’ve waited for it to arrive on another platform. The performance on Switch was ass.

johannesvanderwhales, miesiąc temu

I think it’s Junpei.

johannesvanderwhales, miesiąc temu

Yeah, but at the same time it makes the PS4 games a much better experience. I dunno if that justifies the spend for a lot of people, but I don’t regret getting one.

johannesvanderwhales, 2 miesiące temu

Games were also significantly less complex then. It takes teams of 100s of people to make a AAA game now. But don’t kid yourself, there were definitely game-breaking bugs back then. And in the pc world, patches arrived much, much earlier than in the console world.

johannesvanderwhales, 2 miesiące temu

Cart version revisions weren’t uncommon either. But they would only be for new purchases.

johannesvanderwhales, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah I thought this one was a bit underrated. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

johannesvanderwhales, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah I’m guessing a lot of people don’t even know it’s there.

johannesvanderwhales, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

Don’t think that’s actually true, though. Edit: top selling games of 2023. Pretty sure the idea that “old games were higher quality” is a example of a cognitive bias, too. I say this as someone that’s been gaming since the 80s.

johannesvanderwhales, 2 miesiące temu

The people who are vocal and discuss games on the internet are a small fraction of the population that actually buys games. Doesn’t mean there isn’t a market for that stuff. Gaming market is bigger than it’s ever been. Direct delivery makes it incredibly easy for small indie devs to get their games out there. But that’s not the stuff that’s making the most money

johannesvanderwhales, 2 miesiące temu

BG3 did this in a few places. It might have even been a sign that you could’ve interacted with this person had you gone about things a different way.

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

I really wonder how the palworld devs feel about being gamepass day 1. I have no idea what the payouts look like for them. It probably got a lot more people to try their game, but would they have done better selling it only on steam? They probably weren’t in a position to negotiate a very favorable contract with Microsoft.

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

And even if the equipment was better, you might have to do several levels of upgrades first. I wasn’t a real fan of the equipment in forbidden west.

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

Why’s that? Haven’t really kept up with the updates recently.

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

Ehhh, maybe. While the game is so much better than it was at launch, it’s still pretty sandboxy and repetitive. I found myself dropping it after I realized I was trying to build bases to get better at gathering resources to make money to buy bigger ships to make more money to… What exactly?

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

Yeah, I’m glad they put the work in and I’ve gotten a lot of hours, but…certain things about the game seem broken by design. I just don’t feel like buying a more expensive ship is letting me do things that I couldn’t do without it. So personally I’m looking forward to their next game, and seeing what they do with all the lessons they’ve learned here. But I’m probably done with NMS.

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

Does uh… Galactus find a lot of partners?

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

Pretty overinflated number (most new players don’t really do a lot of side stuff until they get caught up on story) but yeah the new player experience could definitely be improved (more). I have more of an issue with how long it takes to get a decent rotation of skills. The early dungeons are very boring, even if it’s teaching you how to play the game.

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

Would be much more interested if I could download the crap Amazon gives me on luna with gog.

johannesvanderwhales, 3 miesiące temu

Not as true as it used to be, luckily

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

I think it’s worth noting that if you’re playing the Pixel Remaster version, it’s significantly less jank than the original from the NES. They also made the trap rooms a lot less brutal. That said the game is overheated for sure. It had ideas that didn’t pan out but it also was pretty ambitious for a NES game.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

Not surprising after the initial hype wears off. It’s not like this is a game that has a ton of long-term things to do. And it’s still very buggy. I imagine a lot of people will sit it out until there’s some sort of major content update.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

Not sure I buy this. I don’t think there’s a lot of appetite for a half-generation update when most people don’t even feel there’s much that takes advantage of the PS5.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

I’m male. If the game has much of a fashion/customization aspect to it I tend to play female characters, since I guess I’m more interested in how female characters look than male ones. I think a lot of this has to do with whether you view your in-game avatar as an extension of “you” or not - personally, I do not identify much with my avatars regardless of their gender.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

The collection has both a remastered graphics mode and an option to switch to the original graphics.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

Kadokawa seems like a good fit for them. Their track record is a little spotty but I think a lot of their games have a spark of something great.

Still need to get on Octopath 2.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

Note that Acquire worked on Tenchu in the past.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah that blanket rec for Dragon Age is kind of not great, especially since I don’t think 2 in particular is very similar to BG.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

I mean it did get forked into shogi.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

It’s surprisingly entertaining, but you might want to wait until it leaves early access if you’re on the fence. It’s very buggy and there’s big aspects of the game that aren’t filled out yet.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

FYI, when you get more pal tools it lets you do things like riding pals where you have direct control over them.

johannesvanderwhales, 4 miesiące temu

Yeah I definitely think that the whole direct control of pals could be improved. I’d like to see something like holding a trigger to issue direct commands to your pal with face buttons. Would require rearranging the buttons a bit though.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

I recommend Nex Machina if you enjoyed that one.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

Sorry, Assault Android Cactus. The formatting in my app made it look like two separate comments when I was skimming quickly.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

DAE games bad now??

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

Roguelikes are a pretty specific genre of game that generally feature procedurally generated levels, permadeath, no meta progression, tile-based gameplay, hunger systems, randomized loot appearances, etc. Nethack is probably the best known example of a true roguelike.

Roguelights are a wide variety of games that feature some of the features of true roguelike but not all of them, most commonly procedural generation and permadeath, but most of them feature meta progression.

Honestly if you’ve ever played a true roguelike, the difference is immediately apparent. They’re usually not very similar at all. There’s just a very good chance that you’ve never played one, they’re not exactly wildly popular.

And just to stress: if a game features meta progression it is not a true roguelike. In true roguelikes, you start from zero every time.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

It’s not really gatekeeping to say that not every game that features procedural generation is part of a very old and well-defined genre. Something like Rogue Legacy or Hades are pretty obviously not in the same genre as nethack, angband, or adom.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

That’s a good question, actually. I’ve played a fair bit of FTL and I do think it hews very close to the spirit of a true roguelike, since starting a game with the same ship is always the same experience. I do think meta unlocks change the way you play the game a bit, though, since you may target unlocks and achievements over victory. I’d ultimately put it on the “light” side, but I agree that the game skirts the line.

I haven’t played slay the spire, but I’m thinking of games like Binding of Isaac with a lot of unlocks, and I’d say that those change the game experience quite a bit depending on what you have unlocked.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

Yeah, don’t think we’re seeing a PS5 release of starfield any time soon.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

Yes but it also means that the studios can only hire someone who will sign off on it.

johannesvanderwhales, 5 miesięcy temu

That’s fine for people who are established, but unions are supposed to protect all members, especially the ones just getting started who don’t have as much bargaining power.

johannesvanderwhales, 6 miesięcy temu

I think it’s not a coincidence that they’re all by the same team at SE.

johannesvanderwhales, 7 miesięcy temu

I don’t think that’s what they said. They said they had no dlc planned and that they wanted to see how it did before deciding what to do next.

johannesvanderwhales, 7 miesięcy temu

If you think the WOW grind is bad, you should’ve seen Everquest or Ultima Online.

johannesvanderwhales, 7 miesięcy temu

Don’t forget how much you had to grind for armor upgrades.