RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hey PC game developers, please follow Stellar Blade as an example for PC optimization in the future, because it absolutely rocks 18 hours ago:
Stellar Blade performs well despite using Denuvo. Imagine how much better it will run when Denuvo is removed.
- Comment on Day 340 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 18 hours ago:
Are they planning on adding network support for multiplayer? Or is it already a feature?
- Comment on Badluck 22 hours ago:
Yeah, this would be a massive W for me. Not having to play child support or raise a kid is a way better pick. Some people might want children, and that’s perfectly okay, but I don’t.
- Comment on YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC 1 day ago:
You should put in the title that this is only for Linux.
- Comment on Birthday Gift for Grandma 1 day ago:
Gotta get grandma on that Metroid II grind too, King.
- Comment on Why Marijuana Prevention Matters—Especially for Teens and Young Adults 1 day ago:
“We all did it and we are fine!”
Its not about addiction. Its about people that are affected by something not knowing or intentionally ignoring that they are. Is it possible that they have no effects? Sure, but the liklihood is very incredibly tiny.
I just used Gambling Addiction as an example because I thought it would be obvious and not to over people’s heads. I guess either I expected too much or my point is proven, or both.
- Comment on Why Marijuana Prevention Matters—Especially for Teens and Young Adults 1 day ago:
I’ll be real, this has the same energy as:
“Gambling Addiction? I’ve been gambling for 20 years and I’m still not addicted.”
And while yes, a person could theoretically be a gambler for 20 years and not be addicted, the likelihood of that happening is very incredibly tiny.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 1 day ago:
It more or less did on the Series X. A lot of the clips people posted showing the really bad performance and bugs were from the original 2014 Xbox One or the Series S. On the Series X, it performed very well and I think I had it crash only twice in a 70 hour playthrough, in my own experience playing 2077 on my own Series X.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 2 days ago:
Even if that us legal (it isn’t)
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Are you a lawyer?
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I am not a lawyer, but I have talked to lawyers about this before and their answer was basically:
The owner of a copy of a game or other computer software may “make or authorize the making of another copy.” Legally speaking, the law does not require the person who owns the copy to personally make the backup copy, nor does it specify that the backup copy be made only from the copy owned.
This is important because on Nintendo’s own website they state the following:
Therefore, whether you have an authentic game or not […] it is illegal to download […] a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.
What Nintendo is saying here is outright wrong. A person who only has only temporary possession of a game (such as rental or borrowing) gains no rights under 17 USC 117, and may not download a copy without separate permission, which obviously Nintendo would never geant. However, A person with permanent possession of a game (such as a legally purchased game either from retail or used) DOES gain those rights to an archival copy. These rights supercede any restriction on those rights Nintendo would presume to apply. Nintendo presumes to add extra conditions and terms that do not actually exist in the law.
The purpose of the archival copy provision is to protect legal owner’s access to the computer software in case of damage. If your copy of a game breaks, such as a broken CD, you have the legal right, as owner of that CD, to continue to use the computer software on that CD no matter its physical condition. An archival copy could then be used to create a working version of that CD so that you, the legal owner of that copy, may continue to access that computer software. This is also the case when access to that software becomes difficult or impossible, such as a game or other computer software that is stored on archaic storage media such as a floppy disk or paper tape.
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- Comment on Name an older anime you'd love to see make a full comeback? 2 days ago:
Well, assuming that a modern remake or continuation can manage to recapture the magic of the original and retain its style:
Bubblegum Crisis (NOT Tokyo 2040)
- Comment on The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 4 New Key Visual 3 days ago:
The Turtle Arc really hurt this one. Glad its past that, I look forward to seeing what happens.
- Comment on Shinsei Galverse - Key Visual - OVA Releasing June 25 3 days ago:
Love the visual style of this one.
- Comment on Netflix to Stream 2nd Mononoke Film on August 14 3 days ago:
For the interested:
Not THAT Mononoke. The newer one.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
TLOU2 controversy wasn’t because the unlikable character was a woman, it was because the writing was garbage. If the unlikable character was a man the reception would have been exactly the same.
- Comment on Did nightreign flop? 4 days ago:
No?
80-60k players is still incredibly successful. I don’t think Nightreign was ever expected to see those kinds of numbers given the nature of the game.
- Comment on Did nightreign flop? 4 days ago:
What does Square have to do with a Bandai Banco published game developed by FromSoftware?
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 5 days ago:
Tuned Heart - PC-9801
Koudelka - PS1
Jean D’Arc - PSP
XCOM 2 - Steam
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 6 days ago:
I mean, realistically its still Nintendo so I still won’t buy it. I disagree with their business practices ever since Iwata died. Nintendo has gone way downhill, and I don’t want to give them any of my money anymore. It sucks since I really like the old Zelda and Metroid games, but theyre only games. Its not the end of the world. Plus, emulation fixes Nintendos problems anyway.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 6 days ago:
Honestly, I won’t mind if Nintendo didn’t innovate. I have just wanted a “normal” console from them in a while like a return to their SNES/N64/GameCube days. When they still actually tried to remain competitive, and in the case of the SNES and N64, were technologically ahead of the competition. Sure there were some innovations, but in comparison to the Wii, Wii U, and Switch, their older consoles were more “normal” for their time.
Nowadays they just make underpowered hardware that only truly sells because its usually the cheapest console available and has the Nintendo logo on it. Except Switch 2, which started charging cutting edge tech prices for tech that was cutting edge like 10 years ago. All of the pricing of a better Switch without any of the real improvements except a newer processing unit and slightly bigger screen.
Give me a Switch without a screen. No battery. No detachable controllers. Just a brick that plugs into the wall and the TV, compatible with a Pro controller. Probably could even sell that at a reduced price too. Maybe even overclock it and give it a bigger cooling solution to get better performance. Maybe Nintendo’s newer games can actually run at a stable 60 fps on their own hardware finally.
- Comment on Dispatch offers something new for superhero video games — engaging deskwork 1 week ago:
Who wants to play a video game just to do work? That’s stupid.
Boots up Farming Simulator
- Comment on Day 332 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
I actually feel the opposite.
As an Elite DangerousEnjoyer, I appreciate the more or less “grounded in reality” setting that Bethesda created with Starfield. Most planets are giant, empty, desolate rocks or iceballs, which is exactly what one would expect from real life planets. And I suppose this may be a big reason why many people were disappointed. It seems that many expected the game to be “Star Wars Skyrim,” but Star Wars is very unrealistic with regards its planetary depcitions. Planets are varied and generally not shown to be mostly empty, desolate space rocks. Full world cities, jungles, magma, gas storms, etc. Likewise I more or less find the gameplay enjoyable, even with its annoyances (most of which are fixable with mods that are available right now).
However, I actually found myself very disappointed with the visual aesthetics of the game. When Bethesda marketed the game, they described it as “NASA-Punk.” But I suppose my disappointment comes from them failing to communicate what that meant to them, since it obviously meant something different to me.
When I first heard the term “NASA-Punk,” I became excited to see an abundant use of white and black, with copius amounts of shiny gold foil. I expected to see exposed mechanics and rocket piping. Basically, a mood board of NASA created technology from the beginning of NASA up until now. Ships inspired by the Lunar Landers, Lunar Rovers, etc. Bethesda on the other hand, seems to have created an aesthetic of “what would NASA look like 1000 years from now?” Since the two are so drastically different, you likely can imagine my disappointment at what I see as a weird, ugly aesthetic for many of the ship designer parts and space suits.
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 1 week ago:
Xbox already supports mods. They have had mods support since like, 2015.
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 1 week ago:
If I don’t want to play the tutorial and I get absolutely blasted, then I gotta walk my sorry self back to the tutorial like the idiot I chose to be. I like to press all the buttons and figure stuff out on my own, its part of the exploration process.
I don’t hate when certain gameplay elements are forced, but when I am given that impression I expect the whole game to be like that. The tutorial in Dark Souls promised me the game wasn’t going to hold my hand the whole time by letting me completely skip the tutorial, and then it kept that promise. It didn’t hold my hand. And I think that was great. Meanwhile Call of Duty tutorials hold your hand the whole time, and then your hand keeps getting held for the whole game. Also good.
The tutorials I think are bad are ones that fail to properly communicate important features of the game. If I choose to skip that part it is no fault of the game.
For example, Helldivers 2, which I enjoy greatly, has a tutorial that fails to teach the player what the Galactic War means, anything about the various mission types, or especially how to deal with supply lines and reinforcement routes. What happens in the players spend a lot of time and effort doing the wrong thing expecting the right result, a result they can never achieve because the game never actually told them how to do it. There isn’t a bestiary where players can read about various enemies and their weak spots, you just have to trial and error figure it out, or have someone else that did that already tell you.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 1 week ago:
You cannot take a full unmodified Windows program and directly run it on the Xbox, even in Developer Mode. You have to make changes to the software for the Xbox to run it. Xbox runs a modified version of Windows, but it cannot run software built for the full unmodified version of Windows. I have no experience with developing for PlayStation, but I imagine it is the same, it probably does not run unmodified BSD software. Likewise, Nintendo software needs to be modified in order to run on Nintendo console operating systems. The Switch cannot run unmodified Android software, unless you hack it to install unmodified Android onto the console.
But you CAN take a full unmodified Linux program and directly run it on the Steam Deck, without needing to modify the software at all. Same with the Atari VCS.
Goalposts were not moved. The Steam Deck is a Linux laptop with a controller attached to it, its not a game console.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 1 week ago:
But the Steam Deck isn’t a console? And a game running through a compatibility layer isn’t a port.
A Linux laptop with a controller instead of a keyboard isn’t a console. Thats similar to the Atari VCS, which isnt a console either, just a Linux PC that comes with controllers. Both can run unmodified or barely modified Linux software, which a game console would requires ports of.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In 1999, the SEGA Dreamcast was the fastest selling video game console when it launched. In 24 hours, it sold a little over 225k units. This earned it the Guinness World Record for Most Revenue Generated in the Entertainment Industry in 24 Hours.
Console sales at launch literally don’t matter.
Also, I wonder how many of those were sold to scalpers that plan on returning them if they cannot sell them?
- Comment on YSK: Bluetooth Controller Lag in Retroarch Can Be Fixed With Game Mode on TV and a Few Settings in Retroarch 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say fixed, because nothing can be done about lag from a wireless device. But it definitely can be lowered.
- Comment on Being Kyle Katarn - Interview with Jason Court 1 week ago:
And then realized they actually did need all that stuff and have been bringing it back with extra steps, and worse lol.
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege X: Launch Trailer 1 week ago:
The last time I played R6 Siege was when it still had a singleplayer component, literally it just came out. IQ was my main.
I have absolutely zero desire to play it again.
- Comment on Being Kyle Katarn - Interview with Jason Court 1 week ago:
They werent even trying to hide it either.
Jyn Erso? Seriously? Just keep her real name, Jan Ors. Thats the most “at home” character naming laziness I think I have ever seen.
Thats like calling Kylor Ren “Darth Shmader” lol.