VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 3 days ago:
I would love if Civilization or Crusader Kings implemented this.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 3 days ago:
Final Fantasy 9 had you learn skills from equipment.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 3 days ago:
If you’re only interested in multiplayer then those are solid options. If you like campaign then you should definitely check out 2, ODST, and Reach.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 5 days ago:
And I’m hoping for them to be flatpacks so they still run five years later. I’ve had to resort to running Windows builds via Proton for games that have native Linux builds because they don’t work anymore.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 5 days ago:
And x-axis, just to be thorough. Especially for third person games since they still can’t all agree on what the default should be.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 5 days ago:
Relatedly, I’ve noticed ports of console games, particularly by Japanese devs, and especially Sqeenix, not actually having an option to quit to desktop. Sometimes hitting Esc will pop a plain system theme window with an option to close the program, but I’ve seen ones that didn’t even have that and had to be killed externally. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even exiting DragonQuest 11 is a pain.
- Comment on Seriously, Bert! 1 week ago:
Technically, Thanksgiving actually celebrates the brief period before the genociding began.
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- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 2 weeks ago:
Playing as Emily in 2 is really fun. You have the option to ignore stealth, go all out with your powers, and still not kill anyone.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
PlayStation is probably going to still have exclusives, or at least timed exclusives, driving some sales. But this announcement may be the final nail in Xbox’s coffin.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
I have carpal tunnel syndrome and mouse heavy games hurt, but playing with a controller is great. If this can easily replace a mouse and keyboard setup then I’ll be playing with it a lot, and those track pads are a big reason why.
- Comment on Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice. 3 weeks ago:
Cheap to duplicate is great for them. That means larger profit margins.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 4 weeks ago:
Gameplay-wise, Rogue is even better than Black Flag. Narratively, Rogue is a disaster fueled by Shay being painfully stupid.
- Comment on Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion 4 weeks ago:
Like Bruce in Batman Beyond. Typically he was on comms helping Terry be Batman, but it was always memorable when he went into the field.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 weeks ago:
I once had someone flip me off because I put my turn signal on. We were in the right lane, I was turning right, and the left lane was completely empty.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. The pupils were generally only visible in the pre-rendered videos.
- Comment on Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion 5 weeks ago:
He actually did that. Part of the reason Miles Morales was created is that Peter had started a business and actually started making money, which made him less of an everyman.
- Comment on Smells Great 5 weeks ago:
I hurt my knee; can I remain seated?
- Comment on xkcd #3157: Emperor Palpatine 5 weeks ago:
Who is Angelica?
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
Unless, of course, that onion knight has a lot of experience in other professions, in which case they can easily punch gods to death.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025) 1 month ago:
The first and third for sure, don’t think the second will be a significant factor.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The 360 had far less RAM than the average PC of 2010, and the engine has had a memory leak since Morrowind. I never finished New Vegas due to that, even on PC.
- Comment on At 1% 1 month ago:
The monitor has to send some data to the computer to tell it what screen resolutions it accepts. VGA, HDMI, and DisplayPort will all do that for sure. Less certain about component, composite, and S-Video.
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 1 month ago:
Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.
Freedom Cry, the standalone expansion for Black Flag, was essentially this concept in the Carribean. You play as Adewale, a slave turned pirate turned Assassin, and liberate plantations.
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes 1 month ago:
Cowboy Bebop and the Ghost in the Shell movies are great places to start.
Anyway, it’s not so much a change in what’s being produced as what’s being imported to the US. There was a good mix of shonen and seinen at first, but shonen sells more merch so we get a lot of it now. Just watch stuff tagged as seinen if you want more mature themes or more sex and gore.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 1 month ago:
This has been a problem for far, far, longer than you think. The silver age definitely had it, the golden age probably did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it cropped up in the proto-superhero stories, like Zorro. It’s a consequence of having a long-form story where the narrative’s status quo isn’t allowed to meaningfully change and characters either aren’t allowed to die or aren’t allowed to stay dead. Recurring antagonists also can have much richer characterization and more complex relationships with the protagonists, which makes writing stories about them more appealing the more often they appear.
The usual trajectory for a new superhero or new incarnation of an existing superhero is to start off with street-level problems, then get a nemesis that has strong ties to those street level problems, then have the dynamic between the two grow in prominence to eclipse all other parts of the plot. The Joker, for instance, always starts off as either a mob boss with a gimmick or a serial killer with a gimmick, not far removed from the mundane crime Batman always starts with, but always winds up with a fixation on Batman and spawns stories designed as some commentary on Batman’s no-killing rule. Again and again and again, dozens of times over the decades.
Why? Because the dynamic between the two characters tends to be fascinating and results in audience engagement.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 2 months ago:
At what point does it become a grass roots movement?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing…
More seriously, some people just like older people better. Their interests or personality may make it harder to jibe with people in their own age group, but mesh well with people in another age group. Sometimes they’re ahead of the curve on mental maturity and their peers won’t catch up for a few more years, sometimes they just think they’re more mature than they really are, and sometimes they really would have fit in better if they had been born a couple decades earlier.
Personally, when I was younger, I had a hard time relating to anyone around my age and generally fit in better in conversations with people my parents’ age. As a preteen in the early 2000s, I was reading things like Dune, watching things like Blade Runner, and my music tastes included the Rat Pack. The things the adults talked about were just more my speed. This got to be less and less of a problem as I got older and my current friend group is actually a few years younger than me on average, though I do still have the occasional ‘faux old man’ moments with them.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I love VTMB, but the gameplay was never the highlight, it was always the writing. If the story and characters are well written and it ties into VTMB1 somehow, I’ll consider the title justified. The writing is a pretty high bar, though.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 months ago:
Beginning of internet memes? Maybe. I’d have to look up when that happened. Beginning of memes as a whole? That would be off by several thousand years at a minimum, just going by ones archaeologists have already found.