VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 9 hours ago:
Reminds me of Morrowind’s directions, with the frequent east-west mixups, and sporadic north-south mixups.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s for wheelchairs. If it was, the corner of the table wouldn’t be cut off. I mean, where would that person put their food? I think it’s probably to get more room to maneuver between tables.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, the mouse charger screams marketing or management. Apple’s brand is partially form over function.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
It’s not like they built the car, though.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
The best bit about the mint and chocolate thing is that chocolate is also poison, so we spice up our poison with more poison.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
I’m the opposite. I prefer the fem VA, but I like Panam just a bit more than Judy.
- Comment on Delivery 1 month ago:
Also, depending on your definition of ‘old,’ that laugh track might be a live studio audience rather than canned laughter.
- Comment on The Signal 1 month ago:
Ded-a-chek?
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
If there is a commercial failure of an IP, there is a good chance that its failure will be seen as the IP generally failing or falling out of poluarity instead of the failure to best utilize the IP that likely occurred.
For example, when EA released Tiberian Twilight and it was absolutely awful and didn’t sell, they said that people just didn’t want RTS games anymore and shelved the entire C&C franchise. That was fourteen years ago and we haven’t had a new C&C since then that wasn’t mobile shovelware.
- Comment on Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will 2 months ago:
The fun thing is that half the time Johnny complains, you gain approval with him anyway. He may bitch about you stopping to save random folks and talk about how it won’t actually change anything, but he still approves deep down. He also approves if you call him on his bullshit, which is a nice change from most RPGs requiring you to be absurdly supportive of your party’s awful decisions to top off that approval meter.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
It still bugs me that the old drive connections are called PATA now and not IDE.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Actually introduced in Ripto’s Rage. The Reignited version backported them to the first game, though.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Might just be because I’m just starting out, but Spider-Man’s combat is much more punishing for me. Could just be the higher emphasis on using specific combos on certain enemies, which I have some difficulty keeping straight.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
They also said popularized, though. System Shock never really got beyond cult classic status, so while it invented them, I’d say BioShock popularized them.
- Comment on Should we consider Jesus a zombie? 2 months ago:
He’s clearly a divine soul sorcerer who went to zero HP one session, then remembered he had Unearthly Recovery the next session but had already rolled a new character.
- Comment on What class would each MCU character be in DnD? 2 months ago:
Druid-barb combo? Rage while wildshaped?
- Comment on What class would each MCU character be in DnD? 2 months ago:
The Sorcerer Supreme is, ironically, a wizard.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Do you have tips for someone used to newer Civ games? I know I played Civ2 as a kid, which should be similar, but I only remember back to 3 and only clearly back to 4. I tried AC and had difficulty just figuring out basic controls.
- Comment on Why do I need to update my graphics drivers? 3 months ago:
Other things that have been broken by one update and fixed by new drivers were shadows in Oblivion not rendering and Arkham Asylum crashing at a specific moment if physx was anabled.
- Comment on Was it Good? - Neverwinter Nights 3 months ago:
The base campaign is kind of awful. It really just existed to demonstrate what you could do with the tool set. The expansions, Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark, are much better written with more interesting characters. None of the three campaigns hold up to modern game writing standards and all are pretty heavy on dungeon crawling. The deciding factor is probably going to be how much you like the D&D 3.0 rule set.
Obsidian’s sequel is based on D&D 3.5 and the core campaign has writing roughly on par with the first game’s expansions, with the quirk that it’s Obsidian doing high fantasy straight rather than their usual deconstructions. NWN2’s Mask of the Betrayer expansion is easily the best written thing out of either NWN game and is genuinely pretty great. NWN2 has some pretty terrible optimization, though, and runs rough on even high end modern systems.
- Comment on Looks like Subnautica devs have been sneakily posting Subnautica 2 screenshots in the original game 3 months ago:
I’m betting on parfait.
- Comment on Reject reality 4 months ago:
I heard it as ‘aisle locations’ which seemed to kinda fit the corporate success stuff.
- Comment on If Batman were real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters. 4 months ago:
Penguin is a mobster first and wealthy second, as a result of being a successful mobster.
- Comment on Steam announces game recording beta. 4 months ago:
I want them to launch a Deck v2, Controller v2, and a new take on the Steam Machine simultaneously with a goal of knocking Xbox out of the market and replacing them as the third console. A new Steam Machine right now would play all of Xbox’s exclusives on day one and some of Sony’s.
- Comment on This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel 4 months ago:
So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.
- Comment on Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games. 4 months ago:
Speaking of chess, you might be able to argue that some old RTS games are puzzle games when playing campaign, such as the first Command & Conquer. You often have very limited resources, the AI will do specific things at specific times or with specific triggers, and you’re often given specific constraints, like a time limit or keeping a specific thing alive. In this case, though, it’s mostly because the AI is so primitive that almost every action is scripted in advance for that specific map.
- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 5 months ago:
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
They had better call it Team Fortress 2 Episode 1.
- Comment on ‘Quantum internet’ demonstration in cities is most advanced yet 5 months ago:
No problem. I was pretty disappointed when I learned all the sci-fi writers were getting it wrong. Though, to be fair, it really should be called something else.