Coelacanth
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- Comment on Demo for the fangame Pokemon Gamma Emerald is out! 21 hours ago:
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone - Enhanced Edition Trailer 2 days ago:
Well needed to be honest. I love the original trilogy but they could do with a fresh coat of paint. I wish they’d touched up the animations too, the gunplay of the originals can feel quite… early 00’s.
- Comment on Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server 2 days ago:
Not sure this is the ideal long term solution but anything that combats Discord’s status of being an absolute information black hole is good.
- Comment on WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere 2 days ago:
Man, reading that old 2005 PC Gamer article really brings me back to older, better and happier times of gaming journalism too. It even mentions the bundled DVD with demos, mods and goodies you’d get each month. Those really were the days.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I think there is some memorable side content, and I don’t think there are too many main story sequences that are that bad. However, I agree with you that a fundamental problem no patch could fix is that the story CDPR wanted to tell marries really poorly with an open-world RPG. It’s often immersion breaking and it frequently messes up the pacing.
It almost feels like they felt pressured into including an open world from outside expectations when what they really wanted to make was a linear, cinematic action game.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Yes, plenty. This mod is what you want, but make sure to go into the comments and check the pinned posts. A user there has made an incredible compilation of essentially all the mods out there that makes the game harder and gritter. Just pick the ones that sound appealing from that list.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
There are so many amazing mods that it’s easy to sink probably the equivalent of an entire playthroughs worth of hours into setting up a modlist. I have like 250 mods going or something like that.
Highly recommend it.
- Comment on There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds 5 days ago:
How did I not know about that. Maybe because I haven’t been on Facebook for over ten years.
- Comment on I Spent the Last 2 weeks Playing Every Leisure Suit Larry Game Ever Made. Here's My Review 1 week ago:
Great high effort post that hopefully will help some people interested in taking a look at this series before it’s delisted. Very interesting that both the modern-day Larry’s ended up so high, I can’t say I hear about them that often. Apart from Larry 1 for historical reasons it’s usually Love For Sail I hear about.
- Comment on When making recommendations to someone getting into a genre we know we usually recommend them the best examples of it... 1 week ago:
You could start at the Empty Child/The Doctor Dances too for another quality Moffat episode with more Doctor in it than Blink.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
It’s definitely a game that is split in three parts: one part roguelite resource management and house-building, one part puzzles and one part detective game about putting together the narrative and lore. And I can absolutely see how it is frustrating if you don’t enjoy all three aspects. Which is a shame because some of the puzzles are really great puzzles.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Conservatory can only be drafted on the corners of the manor, and it’s an Unusual room I believe. Helps trying to put stuff like Solarium and Greenhouse on the board before opening a corner room to maximise your chances.
But in the end if you’re not having fun then you’re not having fun. Better play something else then.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Well, it looks like you have a pretty solid list of tasks to work on. Have you been back to room 46? That should be on your list as well. Have you been through the Garage?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
You do get RNG control eventually, but like everything in Blue Prince it’s locked behind a puzzle. Well, that and certain room upgrades like taking any upgrade that gives you +2 Dice.
spoiler
Have you gotten to the bottom of the sheet music you can find around the house? That’s what you want to investigate otherwise.
It takes some time, but you have tools to mould the house however you want. However, RNG is definitely a factor there is no denying that. In the beginning though I didn’t mind so much as there are so many mysteries to investigate that no run ever feels “dead” - you always learn something or progress somewhere. It’s mostly towards the end where it can get frustrating as you’re looking for for example specific room combinations, but as I said - by then you have the tools to control it somewhat.
I also never really got frustrated because there is no time limit and no penalty to calling it a day. If a run doesn’t work out it’s so quick and easy to just go again.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
It’ll be all over the Game Awards this year, I think. It’s sold 2 million copies for a reason. Absolutely gorgeous music too. Heavily recommended!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
For the first week in almost a month I’m taking a break from Blue Prince. I’m still enamored with it and am watching a couple or let’s plays of it still, but I’m now at the very end-endgame and I have probably only the final puzzle left and I’m stumped. My brain is fried and I’m taking a breather and hoping my sister and her fiancé catch up to me so we can all have a crack at the last puzzle together potentially.
In the meantime I’m continuing my extremely impatient gaming by jumping on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I promise I will get back to my backlog soon and do this sub justice. I have F.E.A.R. installed and everything.
Anyway, Clair Obscur is amazingly good. Actually worth paying full price for and I don’t mind supporting small developers either. Could this be the best AA game of all time? I honestly can’t believe a small studio pulled this off. The gameplay feels like a fresh take on turn based while still giving Souls-like satisfaction at beating a tough boss. The story has been stellar so far and the voice acting is phenomenal. I’m playing with French VAs because it just feels right for this game and this setting. If you don’t mind reading subtitles I highly recommend it, the french voices are fantastic and Maelle in particular is stealing the show. I actually prefer her to the English one.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #14 1 week ago:
Will the Larry games still be up on GOG I wonder? I’ve played the (remake of the) first one and have been curious about Love For Sail as well as it’s apparently the best one (?). For better or worse they are iconic games that are part of the cultural landscape of gaming.
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
I don’t really think it’s a matter of perspective. These sites all omit the title of whatever thing it is they’re talking about so you have to click through to find out. They do it because research has shown it works to increase clicks. That is well within the definition of clickbait.
- Comment on Post flair in PieFed 1 week ago:
It’s great that Piefed is adding them, but as long as Lemmy is the largest bulk of users it won’t really be all that impactful. Flairs lose their utility (or fun, depending on the type and context) when only like 1% of the users can see them.
- Comment on Post flair in PieFed 1 week ago:
I do miss user flairs. I hope Lemmy adds then too eventually.
- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 2 weeks ago:
This is the way to go for sure. Actually sounds like a really interesting setup for a game.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 2 weeks ago:
Like that post said on here some weeks back: the 90’s was ten years ago. 2005 was also ten years ago. Doesn’t make sense but that’s how it feels in my brain.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 2 weeks ago:
I’m not even a huge platformer guy, but Rayman Legends is absolute peak and a fantastic, chill co-op game. The music levels in particular - where the already great soundtrack is synced in time to your jumps and hits - are incredibly satisfying and so well made.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t suggest Blue Prince. It’s not co-op per se as it’d only be one person at a time “driving”, but the game is about puzzle solving so who holds the controller doesn’t really matter. It’s a fantastic game if you enjoy puzzles and escape rooms. My sister isn’t even a gamer at all but I recommended it to her fiancé and they’ve been playing together and even she’s been enjoying it a lot. From my own experience playing it on my own I also think it would be much more fun if playing alongside someone else. I’ve often missed having someone to bounce ideas off when stuck.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like Lost Records: Bloom & Rage that came out recently might be a candidate? I haven’t played it myself because I don’t think I’m the target audience but it seems like sort of what you’re looking for?
- Comment on What were your go-to Games (or programs! We're all nerds here) from your childhood 2 weeks ago:
Heroes of Might and Magic III (but also 4 to a lesser extent and 5 briefly) were mainstays as hot-seat multiplayer when hanging around at somebody’s house. Always a good time.
The other real defining game of my childhood was Diablo 2. We played that on and off for probably over a decade growing up, every couple of years people would get the itch again and everybody would tag along. Was a real cultural touchstone in school.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 2 weeks ago:
The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.
It’s a good start but we gotta pump those numbers up.
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 2 weeks ago:
FF7 was the slam dunk choice because it is not only so iconic, but as the first 3D entry the original is also absolutely god-fucking butt ugly. I can see why FF8 would be logical in a sense, but I’m not sure it has the popularity to capitalise on. It has its charm but it’s hardly most people’s favourite Final Fantasy. It would be a cool choice though.
I don’t necessarily think any of the other entries need remakes as badly. I think FF6 is absolute peak as it is but it would probably be most likely in my opinion. It is also vastly popular and iconic so there is a lot of money to be made there. And I can’t deny that even I would be curious to see what it would be like if given the full remake treatment.
- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 2 weeks ago:
I mean I am all for criticising creatively bankrupt mush like Ubisoft et al pushes out and Call of Duty 420: Black Ops 69 or FIFA or whatever but we can’t pretend there are literally no good games being released nowadays either. Just now we had a month with both Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 being released within weeks of each other. BG3 and Alan Wake 2 releasing in the same year was just two years ago.
There are plenty of not just good but great recent games.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #12 2 weeks ago:
I just spot interesting projects and creations others create and then just write my own thoughts on them
Soo… journalism?
In any case, do whatever makes you happy, whether remaining solely on here or creating your own thing from this like a website or blog. Your content is among the best on the platform and I hope you know how much we all appreciate you.
- Comment on Day 283 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Story wise though, i’m a bit mixed on. I’m really liking the story, just not as a Max Payne story. The Brazil setting isn’t really doing it for me and it feels a bit more GTA Coded than Noir, at least until i detach it from the first two games.
This is pretty much the general consensus of the game overall I think. Good game, just not a good Max Payne game.