RightHandOfIkaros

@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats an insult to Bionicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the GamerCard preps to ship, a slew of Shorts are now available showcasing how the handheld plays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be more concerned with difficulty of keeping them clean and how long it takes before they melt into goo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime studio bankruptcies and closures continue to rise for third consecutive year in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This does tend to happen with changing markets. As a market rapidly expands, studios crumble away and new ones swoop in to replace them.

  Anime boomed in the 90s, and then it lulled for a while. When the Covid-19 Pandemic shut down the world, anime interest spiked, but due to literal health reasons studios had to delay or cancel content. This has negative effects for years later, with some studios never being able to recover. Some lost very important people, and that can lower the quality of the studio’s works, which can lead to complaints, less viewership, lower employee morale, and ultimately studio closure.

  As an interesting note: Cost of Living in most of Japan isn’t all that bad, actually. According to (source), the United States is ranked 9 and Japan is 76. The cost of living in Japan is about half the cost of living in the USA, meaning the minimum amount of pay a person should expect to live is less in Japan. Now, this is of course an average. So someplace like Tokyo is going to be more expensive than Fukuoka, just as literally any city in California will be highway robbery compared to any city in a state like Oklahoma. But for the purposes of this conversation, the low pay isn’t really the big problem. Japanese culture makes up the difference for low pay and generally Japanese workers will stay with low paying jobs, as much as I might wish that aspect of their culture was different.

  The biggest problem is the physical health toll due to overly long work hours, leading to sleeping under their desks in their office most days of a month to be considered normal and expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Morrowind was exactly the perfect size for its content.

  I would argue Daggerfalls map is unnecessarily large for the content it offers. At least Morrowinds NPCs have regional variation. In Daggerfall every innkeeper is exactly the same NPC. Its a technical marvel of its time, but by current standards is rather shallow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free content for LoTRO with a coupon for 3rd of November (redeemable in-game with code EXPLOREOURWORLD)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really liked LotR Conquest. Its a shame they never made a new one.

  Also, LotR Vol. 1 on the SNES was GOATED, and it saddens me immensely that Vol. 2 was never ported to the SNES.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest, maybe it would be better if they didn’t have creative control anymore. They haven’t really been all that creative these past years.

• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but Black Flag slapped. Maybe not as an AC game per se, but Black Flag was still a greater game.

• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Least self-aware Ubisoft employee quoted in post title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 473 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In CE Anniversary, they reused a lot of Halo Reach assets and generally dedtroyed the art style of the original game.

  In what they have shown of Campaign Evolved (actually comically stupid name), they have added Sprint (which hilariously their own gameplay showcases that sprint causes the player to miss a music cue that Martin O’Donnell specifically placed), removed Health Packs in favor of recharging health, removed the tree that prevented the Warthog from being used to fight the two hunters completely trivializing the fight, and they reused a lot of assets from Halo Infinite as well, which I really hope are placeholders but I fear they are not.

  From just 13 minutes of gameplay, I already see a lot of problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 473 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  343 hired people that hate Halo when they were developing Halo 4. I believe it was Frank O’Connor that said this himself in a video interview around that time. 343 literally could not wait to make Halo into something it was not. They tried for three games and each failed spectacularly. They failed so badly that their studio reputation had become so bad they needed to rebrand as “Halo Studios” to trick consumers into buying their next game.

  Now that 343 has destroyed Halo’s future, theyre going to destroy its past. As George Orwell said “Who controls the last controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” By remaking Combat Evolved and changing that game, they can distort the playerbase into thinking it was always supposed to be that way.

  In case you couldn’t tell, I have a lot of contempt for 343. They could not have mishandled such a monumental franchise any worse. They ruined one of my favorite franchises, and it was literally so easy for them not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for controller recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I too have been looking for something like this, for quite a while actually, and have been unable to find anything that is suitable. The 8Bitdo Micro looked great except it didn’t have thumbsticks, and anything else was either way too big to be pocketable, or didn’t have the proper amount of controls.

  I shall watch this thread closely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  • Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

  • Goldeneye 007

  • Alien Isolation

  • Star Wars Episode 1 Racer

  • Star Wars Episode 3 Revenge of the With (the game)

  • The Chronices of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

  • Mad Max (2015, the game)

  • Robocop Rogue City

  • SpiderMan 2 (2004, the game)

  • Basically every LEGO game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 470 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Halo 4 and 5 are just more examples in the massive pile of “why appealing to a wider audience is almost universally bad for video games” games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I said basically the same thing and got downvoted for it.

  Hopefully the catch is nothing, but you can never be too sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, Pierre deserved it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But weren’t the layoffs for white collar positions like HR and marketing? Did it hit their game studios as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 468 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone gangsta until Indie Stone releases the update where zeds learn how to climb ropes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Otaku! Help me find a License Plate Number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  I had this one on my rear window for a while, but after a few years the California sun cooked it and it blew away in the wind. I bought it on Etsy, but it is not longer for sale. Maybe something similar for any anime you really like can pop up in your search results soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Otaku! Help me find a License Plate Number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats some really unfortunate heavy restrictions on your number plate. I don’t know how youre going to get anything anime related with only 2 letters and 2 numbers outside of what I mentioned.

  Honestly, it might be better to get whatever they issue you and then just get a window decal for whatever anime you like instead for the rear window.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes people want the same kind of game with a different flavor. Maybe they don’t like the PUBG art style and would rather play Fortnite instead, or perhaps they don’t like Overwatch because of Blizzard and are okay with Marvel Rivals from NetEase instead.

  I don’t believe that games should exist with no real competitors. That’s how you end up with games like Dead by Daylight, where community sentiment plummets but the developers have no real reason to do anything about it because where are the players going to go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Otaku! Help me find a License Plate Number⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like Asuka’s Unit 02, what about EU-02, for Evangelion Unit 02? Or EV-02, since you have an EV?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Otaku! Help me find a License Plate Number⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also the Macross Plus designations YF-19 and VF-11.

  I don’t know if you can use pattern XXX-##, but if you can then that opens up EVA-00, EVA-01, or EVA-02 from Neon Genesis Evangelion. This also opens up ARX-08 as the Arbalest from Full Metal Panic! and ATM-09 from Armored Trooper VOTOMS.

  There is also the MS-12 Mobile Weapon Gigan from Gundam Unicorn. RX-78 is most likely to be taken, nbut you can check it as the eponymous Gundam featured on the cover art of the original Mobile Suit Gundam (well, specifically RX-78-2, but lopping off the 2 isnt a huge issue). Chars Gundam at one point is the RX-93.

  You could get a little cheeky for Re:Zero and go with RE-00.

  AV-98 is the designation of the Ingram mech from Patlabor.

  Outside of mecha designations, its going to be pretty hard to get a reference with such little character and number count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me guess… you watched Angel Beats or Danganronpa and didn’t like it?

  While there is a lot of school themed anime, there are plenty of scifi and fantasy themed anime as well. Options become less limited the farther back in time you go, because the 80s and 90s seem to have more scifi and fantasy than school themes, as they were more popular. Unless you like slice of life, in shich case you have like, three shows tops and they’re all from the last 4 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Evangelion specifically because most of it wasn’t intended to have a meaning. Anno just put it in the show because he thought it looked/sounded cool.

  This is similar to why I like games from Hideo Kojima. Its just filled with stuff he thought is cool. It doesn’t always have to have a meaning or explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me? Frieren.

  I am still gonna try two more episodes, but episode one was boring and underwhelming to me. Not that anime needs to have action, because I also like slow films (one of my favorites being Rear Window), but episode 1 of Frieren did not hold my attention that well.

  At the end I said out loud “this is what everyone is hyping about?”

  Maybe I change my mind by episode 3, but if not I guess I will just have to leave my enjoyment of it to the memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t think you said that, I was mentioning this argument as one I don’t understand because recognizing a trope or predicting a story is an unusual and IMO “invalid” reason to not like something, and your comment seemed similar at first. I hear this a lot from a family member of mine who is anti-anime but also has a severe case of the Sonic the Hedgehog autism.

  He says “once you watch one anime, you’ve seen them all because they all have the same tropes.” Which just doesn’t make sense to me. Just because you read The Hobbit doesn’t mean you don’t have to read Dante’s Inferno or Beowulf anymore. Its like the only thing he watches is the trope rather than the actual story being told, or the world/characters of the story.

  Initially, I chalked it up to probably some “side-effect” (not the exact word I would use but I cannot think of a proper word for it)of autism, but then I walked in on him just casually watching Totally Spies and Naruto. And I asked him why he watches those and not other anime I suggest, and he just said “because these are peak and your recommends are trash.” Like, is Cowboy Bebop or Trigun (the original) trash? Compared to Naruto? Really? And I know he is not the only person that talks like this.

  I wish I could understand, but I probably never will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We screwed up Halo’s future. Not its time.to screw up Halo’s past.

  ~343 Wearing Mustache Glasses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it is still 343. “Halo Studios” has most of the same people working at it as 343. Literally 343 wearing Mustache Glasses.

  They changed their studio name because the 343 reputation was so bad, they needed to try to trick consumers into thinking the next Halo game wasnt made by them to get any sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I dont like much shonen either, but I don’t understand this argument of tropes=bad.

  Just because something has a lot of tropes doesn’t mean it is bad. Tropes are tropes for a reason: it clearly means these are popular or highly liked/relatable vessels for storytelling. Not every story needs to be novel and invent new storytelling methods to be a good story. Sometimes, people just want more of the same.

  The Hero’s Journey is a perfect example. Many, many stories follow this trope. And among those, some of the best stories of all time, including The Hobbit, The Odyssey, Dante’s Inferno, Beowulf, Treasure Island, etc. Literal masterpieces, peak storytelling. Just because there are other stories, or even a lot of stories, that follow the Hero’s Journey trope doesn’t make the ones I listed bad, nor does it automatically make every story that follows the trope bad either.