Coelacanth
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu
- Comment on Avowed Launches to Strong Reviews – WGB 8 hours ago:
That was my biggest gripe watching the Luke Stephens video on it as well. The announcement trailer looked great, why the hard pivot into an oversaturated mushroom kingdom aesthetic? Especially since it sounds like the actual game is pretty solid, beyond technical issues (that may or maybe fixed by now with a day 1 patch).
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 day ago:
Like the other person said, 99% of users never create communities anyway. I don’t really know what this read-only instance is meant to solve.
- Comment on Is there some type of "unfinished business" community? 1 day ago:
Yeah I feel the same way. I’m trying my best to curate my feed right now to minimise the amount of posts that make me want to not be alive.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 day ago:
That’s fair I guess. I remember that. That was around the same time as well, so someone registered to say Beehaw or Hexbear during the Threads fediverse announcement period would probably get the idea that federation wars is all that’s going, at least if they stopped visiting Lemmy shortly thereafter.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 day ago:
The analysis paralysis of having to pick an instance is definitely the biggest hurdle in my opinion. I don’t think a read-only instance is the solution though, at least not one that requires registration. That just adds another step, which I think would further confuse people. The simplest way to onboard new people is to just shove them onto the biggest instance, but I know that kind of goes against the ideology and creed of the fediverse. There were endless debates about it during the Reddit exodus of 2023.
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 1 day ago:
Sync on Android. I’ll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I’ll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I’ve yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.
- Comment on Is there some type of "unfinished business" community? 1 day ago:
I didn’t know this existed, that’s a neat community. Might want to get the word out on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 day ago:
The only real federation dramas I can think of were relating to Hexbear and Beehaw. If Greenleaf was on one of those instances then maybe it could explain their skewed perspective. Otherwise yeah, I don’t get it.
- Comment on Lemmy vs Mbin vs PieFed 5 days ago:
What the fuck is “Magazines”
This but unironically. I could never get over it with Kbin and still can’t with Mbin. It’s a bad name for a community/sub and I’ll die on that hill. You can never get me to call a meme shitpost an “article” in a “magazine”.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 1 week ago:
Rayman Legends is an amazing couch co-op game if you like platformers. I still think about the musical levels from time to time.
- Comment on Day 200 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
Alongside Cyberpunk, AW2 is probably the best showcase for ray tracing I think. Truly a gorgeous game.
Excited to hear what you think about the DLCs! I also have been avoiding spoilers and putting them off, and I’ve built up towards doing a full playthrough plus the DLCs sometime soon myself. Really looking forward to it.
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 1 month ago:
How powerful is the PC? Is the question more about games optimised for mouse+keyboard, or is it about demanding recent games that allows his new machine to flex its muscles?
Since you say he likes Souls-likes Black Myth Wukong probably checks both boxes - I never ended up playing it (my backlog is too long) but it looked great with stunning visuals and I heard good things about the gameplay.
Cyberpunk with full path tracing is still one of the prettiest games out there and a pretty damn good game too after the patches and expansions.
Finally, something like Fallout: London could be an interesting suggestion as mods of that nature are out of reach of the console crowd. Could give him a whiff of what he’s been missing out on.
- Comment on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Review Thread 2 months ago:
It breaks my heart to read about all the bugs and performance issues. Not that they were entirely unexpected - especially since it’s a STALKER game - but I was hoping for a miracle. I really, really want this game to succeed and the game itself sounds like they hit it out the park. I just hope launching in this state doesn’t ruin the game’s reputation and sales.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 months ago:
I believe the generally accepted scientific term for the English language is “clusterfuck”.
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 2 months ago:
Could be, could be. I think your suggestion would make for a better game with less conflict between what the main story is saying and what the game is presenting in the open world. Having the story emphasize how fast V is dying, only for the player to then fuck around with car races and random merc contracts and whatnot really doesn’t work all that well as far as immersion goes.
Jackie’s death would have also been much more impactful if we’d have spent all that time with him playing through those six months.
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 2 months ago:
I mean… maybe? Those are nice things of course, but what is the target audience for an app like this anyway? I don’t use TikTok anymore, but if I wanted to start using an alternative to it I would never consider something without an algorithm. The whole point - for me at least - is to waste time eating digital slop served to you by an algorithm so that you don’t have to know what you want to watch when you sit down and open it up. If I already knew what I wanted to watch I wouldn’t be on an app like this, I’d be searching up the video or subject on another platform.
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 2 months ago:
I always felt like the game was originally never meant to be an open-world game, it’s as if they were going for a mission-to-mission corridor kind of game and wrapped up a world around it to walk around in at a later phase.
That’s my take on it too. The story they wanted to tell does not mesh well with an open world game, but since the people loudly wanted something like “RDR 2 but Cyberpunk” they felt obliged to attempt to shoehorn it in.
The whole cutscene thing with Jackie after the intro feels like it was supposed to be actual gameplay, but was just cut out and changed to a cutscene to skip time.
Completely agree. I think having you play through that part would have made a huge impact on how you connect with Jackie. Maybe they felt it would have pushed the Keanu introduction too deep into the game?
I’ve been trying to get back in the game a couple of times, but it often just feels so lifeless and lacks any depth.
They’ve added some touches to the open world, but I think it was too fundamentally broken to be easily patched. The new skill tree from 2.0 is actually good though and I think the combat is pretty fun in its current state, even without going to mods.
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 2 months ago:
It’s inspirational what they’ve done. I really hope the launch goes well.
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 2 months ago:
Are you working on the STALKER 2 team?
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 2 months ago:
Already pre-ordered the Ultimate edition. Goes against my usual principles but I don’t care in this instance. I hope the game is a massive, GotY contending success.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 2 months ago:
Unity is flawed, but somewhat of an underrated gem. It’s such a shame that it released in the state it did and got the reception it did because that’s pretty much what caused Ubisoft to pivot into the style of the Origins and onwards style games.
Imagine what could have been if they built on what they had in Unity? The free run up/down system had so much potential and - while janky - the Unity parkour can produce some of the most pleasing, slick and stylish sequences. Just look at the stuff people are pulling off!
Also, revolutionary Paris is the best realised city they’ve ever made for an Assassin’s Creed game.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 2 months ago:
Same. It depends on the game though, obviously. If I’m playing Deadlock or something similar (fast paced and competitive) I’m not going to go for graphics fidelity. But anything single player? 60 FPS is perfectly fine and ray traced lighting can make a huge visual impact - especially on something dark and atmospheric. Both Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk looked great with RT and well worth forgoing 100+ FPS.
- Comment on Day 106 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
It’s become one of my favourite games of all time, I think it’s a masterpiece. I love the Remedy connected universe, and as someone who played and loved Max Payne back in the day I got a huge nostalgia kick from the cameos in AW2. When you first see Casey in the Max Payne 1 outfit I squealed.
I also think Alice’s actress is absolutely killing it and am surprised she didn’t get more recognition.
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - ‘A Betting Man’ Trailer 3 months ago:
That’s only possible if the game is a rough diamond. Rik Schaffer might publish his unused OST for modders to do something with, but I doubt Brian Mitsoda’s script is accessible and looking at the changes here compared to the Hardsuit Labs trailers it doesn’t look like they kept much of it in.
- Comment on From September to October Peertube’s MAU grew exponentially from 21.7k to 33.4k 3 months ago:
The amount of April fucking 1st videos that would now be indistinguishable from normal videos alone makes the idea of upload date removal outright dangerous in my opinion.
- Comment on In the 1988 film Big, the character Susan takes part in child grooming, when she pursues a relationship with Josh. 3 months ago:
What the hell am I watching
- Comment on Day 106 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
I missed that you’ve started on Alan Wake 2 now, but I’m glad you’ve got it running somewhat acceptably! It’s a very demanding game, when I first played it I didn’t have my new PC so I’m intimately familiar with struggling to be able to run it.
I’m glad you spotted the signs, I love the work on all the signs and graffiti in the dark place.
How are you liking the game so far?
- Comment on From September to October Peertube’s MAU grew exponentially from 21.7k to 33.4k 3 months ago:
Wait YouTube is disabling upload date and view counter?
- Comment on Technotopia, a city builder with card selection and roguelite mechanics and a Bioshockesque theme, released on Steam 3 months ago:
Yeah I really like it for the retro-futuristic theme of Bioshock, not sure about it meshing as well with an outright futuristic setting as in this game.
- Comment on Technotopia, a city builder with card selection and roguelite mechanics and a Bioshockesque theme, released on Steam 3 months ago:
That’s a BioShock looking logo and font, for sure. Has anyone played this? Is it any good?