Coelacanth

@Coelacanth@feddit.nu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Reportedly Cancelled A Co-op Multiplayer Assassin's Creed Title⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame, I feel like stealth co-op can be a really fun gameplay setup. Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven was the go-to game for me and my childhood friend whenever we went for couch co-op. I also had some fun with Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow back in the day

  I’ve heard about people enjoying the co-op missions in AC: Unity, but unfortunately I personally never had any friends to play that game with, and I don’t really want to team up with strangers. But I feel like a co-op Assassin’s Creed could be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EVE Online - the Ikitursa Haeav Assault Cruiser helping clear out a wormhole⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, a Rooks and Kings reference in 2026? You’re making me want to go back too. Anatomy of a Fight was always my favourite vid of theirs, personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EVE Online - the Ikitursa Haeav Assault Cruiser helping clear out a wormhole⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You were pretty much there for its peak, then. Those were the good days. I don’t know that I would be up for the time commitment these days, but I still miss those times now and then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What digital indie games would you like to see at libraries?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Return of the Obra Dinn would be a good fit, I think. A library setting would be a great reason to get players looking up books on nautical history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I haven’t played it but I heard the stories. I haven’t played every year, but in general I would recommend either

  • FM 2024 The latest “classic” version, has the most support, mods, relevant player database etc. Probably recommended for most players. Most feature-rich while still not being completely fucked like 2026 apparently is.

  • FM 2017 I have this game still installed, though I haven’t played it in over a year now I think. I have my longest running save on this edition. Often comes up on top in votes for which FM has the best match engine. It still has some exploits if you look for them hard enough (every edition does), but for the most part all tactics are viable, the match engine feels good and you’re not forced into any one archetype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now he is essentially an untouchable king according to the supreme court, so the only way I see him getting tried for anything is if he happens to die while still in office but before he gets the chance to pardon himself, and the trial goes ahead posthumously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone have any ideas for games where you can have shorter or longer term “projects”? Like building a character in an ARPG or building a base in a base builder? Or grinding for something specific? I want to have my brain locked in a project for leisure. Sorry if not the right place to ask, thought I’d throw this in here.

  Build a dynasty at a lower leagues club in Football Manager. That’ll be the next few months of your life sorted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Team Ninja and the way they do character action, so I’m happy both Ninja Gaiden 4 and Nioh 3 were well reviewed and successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid you’re conflating “Fallout” with “Bethesda”. Fallout 1&2 are peak Fallout, and they are neither shallow nor janky. Well, maybe slightly janky but more in the sense of “dated” than Bethesda type jank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re specifically looking for gaming then there are two gaming-focused distros to look at: Bazzite and CachyOS. Former is based on Fedora and latter on Arch, if that makes any difference to you. I’ve heard good things about both.

  Do note that Linux doesn’t support kernel-level anti cheat of any kind, so if you want to play any multiplayer games that require this you categorically cannot use Linux, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Viva New Vegas for Fallout: New Vegas and the Unofficial Patch for VtM: Bloodlines are my go-to examples. Not a mod but Ninja Gaiden Black is the definitive version and much better than both Ninja Gaiden (2004) and Ninja Gaiden Sigma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is Now on the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Loops has a For You page, but the algorithm seems much worse than TikTok (unsurprisingly). Partly I’m sure simply because there is so much less content to pull from, so it might seem worse than it is purely because there might not actually be anything worthwhile on it to recommend to you in the first place. But TikTok’s algorithm is famously extremely good at identifying things you would like, even things you might not know you would like yourself. To be able to be an alternative in the brainrot delivery market, Loops needs to be able to come at least closer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PipePipe is a fork of NewPipe, with more and better features (like built in SponsorBlock). I was watching videos on it just an hour ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, and I think it’s a shame it has gotten to this point, but I understand his viewpoint completely and have seen the interactions myself. At this point it’s simply more efficient to promote Piefed on Reddit instead of Lemmy, because you want the absolute least amount of friction for potential new users. Literally any single minor inconvenience/negative thing will cause people to not even consider trying it out. Lemmy has unfortunately already accumulated a reputation, and if you promote it you are very likely to run into comments about tankies which is typically enough to scare potential new users away.

  At the end of the day it shouldn’t matter to us which software people use, as long as we get more new users into the ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PipePipe has never let me down yet. In case you still need to interact with YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, part of why they want to follow the latest monetisation trends is that the idea of a subscription-based game is a much harder sell these days than it was 20 years ago. The landscape is just different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loops is Now on the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For content creators it needs a built-in editor instead of forcing every video to be one take. And for consumers it needs a really good recommendation algorithm. The reason TikTok is so successful is that its absurdly efficient (and incredibly invasive) algorithm will find you content you’d like within probably minutes of setting up an account.

  I like that this exists, but I don’t think it’s ready for mass adoption yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprised. I had a friend who was all hyped up about this years ago and I didn’t want to tell him then that it looked like pipe dream that was never going to pan out.

  The MMORPG genre is dead, you have the big existing titles that exist simply because they’re too big to fail or already have an entrenched user base, but I just can’t see a new release - especially a new IP - breaking into the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road to Vostok Early Access Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re surviving on the Finland-Russia border in a post-apocalyptic setting, the army threat kinda made sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was it was a complete coincidence, I literally just pulled something clickbaity out of my ass to illustrate the point. Just tells you how similar and boilerplate these headlines are becoming, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just made up a typical clickbait headline, I wasn’t talking about any game in particular…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road to Vostok Early Access Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Been hearing about this game for years now, even played an early test build of it a year or two ago. Glad to see it’s shaping up, and glad to hear he has a small little team working on it now and is not just a solo developer. What he was doing on his own was impressive, but it still felt like a massively overambitious project for a solo dev, and when I played the previous test build I was left with the feeling that it was a lot of cool gun-related things in a neat setting in search for an actual game.

  I’m glad to see the trailer include both some new stuff like seemingly emphasising the survival elements more with hunting and fishing and also developing the setting further and leaning into the post apocalypse thing. Not the most original concept, but at least it’s looking more like there is an idea of what the game wants to actually be now, gameplay wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant in video games, of course. In films there are a ton of examples. I usually go for Ingrid Bergman’s accent in the Murder on the Orient Express movie, although that one - while accurate - is slightly exaggerated for effect, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (…) complete with rubbish accents (as a Swede, we don’t sound like that here in the Nordics)

  If you want a better viking game with much better Nordic sounding accents, Banner Saga is out there. Though there is only like 10 minutes of voice acting per game - but what is there is good! They used an Icelandic VA studio to make sure it’s authentic.

  The best swedish accent I ever heard was that one blonde knight in Witcher 3 - Blood & Wine. Which is funny as I don’t think it makes sense for the setting at all, but accent voice direction in that whole expansion is a complete clusterfuck with zero consistency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate this on gaming communities:

  This fast-paced shooter is reinventing the format, taking the Steam charts by storm!

  Just tell me the fucking name of the game so I can tell if I’ve already heard of it or if this is actually new information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ninja Gaiden 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s unfortunate. Too bad Sony has patented the haptics/adaptive triggers. It’s such a good feature, I would kill for an Xbox style form factor controller with triggers like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s the nice thing about using AI for this, she can have unlimited dialogue - as can anyone else in the game. You can talk to anyone and have full conversations with them, and they have a working memory too. Your companions have unique personalities and unique random backstories and even some character development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same! I love the form factor of it and it still hasn’t given out yet. Only thing that made me even think about wanting to replace it was the haptic/adaptive triggers on the PS5 controller. Don’t like the form factor but man those triggers are nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t realise you were an Anomaly enjoyer! I love that game too, between the mood and the atmosphere, the hunger/thirst/sleep system along with the FDDA animations and of course Alife I think Anomaly is one of the most immersive games for me.

  I’ve actually been working on a mod lately that uses AI to produce dynamic dialogue for NPCs in Anomaly, which leads to even more immersion.