RightHandOfIkaros

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evangelion Announces New Short Anime By Hideaki Anno For 30th Anniversary Festival⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  -48 Hours was meant to tell a little about the events after Rebuild 3.0 and Rebuild 3.0 + 1.0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course there are always exceptions, but I don’t count on news like this to mean that this project will be the exception.

  Metroid Prime and Halo 2 both had excessive crunch and both turned out great, obviously. In Metroid Prime’s case, a management change seemed to fix it in the long term. In Halo’s case, Bungie just embraced the suck I guess, since they wtill wanted to make Halo 3.

  Regardless, these were exceptions to the rule, and I would never expect a project to be an exception, personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, any time a game repeatedly fails to meet deadlines, especially so early on in its development, that usually indicates the game isn’t likely to launch in a healthy state. Either the scope is way too big, or the narrative is receiving major changes and reworks, or the people working on the game just wish they weren’t working on that project and taking longer as a result. This kind of situation is rarely good, and even more rarely ends up with a good launched product.

  Cyberpunk 2077, Anthem, Mass Effect Andromeda, Halo Infinite, Duke Nukem Forever, John Romero’s Daikatana (although I personally am a bit charmed by this one despite it being undoubtedly bad), and other games are examples of this. Repeated failure to meet production deadlines, lots of crunch forced on the developers, and all for what? The launch product for all of these games was horrendously bad. Some for technical reasons, some for narrative reasons, and some for both.

  When I first saw the trailer for Intergalactic, I had mixed feelings. I liked the intended graphics/art style and retro styled tech, the Porsche was a little weird product placement but fine I guess, but the characters and dialogue I personally found both unappealing. The obvious Snake Plissken rip-off woman the main character talked to (blonde with an eyepatch, I can only assume she is some sort of merc job handler) seemed maybe interesting but then she spoke and the writing lost my interest. Upon learning the game is likely to follow some sort of religious theming, I lost all interest in the game. Its not what I want from a video game. So this was pretty disappointing to learn. But now seeing the game is in such a state doesn’t give me great confidence that the final product will be even decent when it launches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the matter? I thought they were super confident this was going to do really well. Are they getting cold feet and deciding to make changes for fear of bad reception when they don’t quite have enough time, leading to forced overtime?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resident Evil Requiem - 3rd Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re really gonna use Leon instead of giving Barry another chance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t MegaMan Legends, and therefore I do not care. Capcom can stay losing with my wallet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly, lol. He was disappointed because he thought the MegaMan reveal was talking about Gordon Freeman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopium administered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell Let Loose: Vietnam - Official Gameplay Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I also choose this guy’s Betsy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The disappointment in my brother’s eyes when Half Life 3 isn’t announced…

  … and mine too :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen up to 80% file size reduction in some cases compressing to CHD format with chdman. Most of the time its about a 50% reduction, in some cases a little less like Metal Gear Solid 3. Is there a better format?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your username were a Scrabble word with no bonuses, what would it score?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More than 15 characters, so…

  1+1+2+4+1+4+1+1+2+1+4+1+5+1+1+1+1 = 32

  What a disappointing amount of 1s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do find it perplexing that other companies can also release a game like this, fix it, and then everyone basically forgets and treats the developers like buddies again (like CDPR did with Witcher and Cyberpunk, or Obsidian with KotOR2, or Hello Games with No Man’s Sky).

  Bethesdas original release of Skyrim was exactly the same, and then they fixed it. Same.with Fallout 76, Elder Scrolls Online, etc. The difference is that it just seems like people really love to hate on Bethesda more than other studios when they don’t really do anything that different.

  I mean, The Witcher 3 on Switch had a lot of bugs that “shouldn’t have been there” because the game was already in a good state on other platforms. But that isn’t how game development works because porting to a different console isn’t as simple as clicking one button, especially not for something like the Witcher that runs in a proprietary game engine. Shipping with bugs is bad, but Bethesda isn’t any better or worse than other beloved studios. They do seem to be publicly hated more than other studios, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure they are still going tonkeep skipping MegaMan Legends. Stay losing, Capcom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRIGUN STARGAZE sets official January premiere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They deleted her. Poof. Gone. I mean, they said her name like, once. But she might as well have been completely deleted considering she mever actually apeared in all of Trigun Stampede.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TRIGUN STARGAZE sets official January premiere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unforgivable what they did to Millie Thompson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any other anime with beautiful depictions of light and color like in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, your English is good, I can understand. Hm, in that case it seems you want somethign with a lot of detail and color.

  Have you seen Violet Evergarden? I haven’t watched it but I have heard it might be what you are looking for. Its a newer show, came out in the least 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you played inside video games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like really rudimentary Dead by Daylight lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any other anime with beautiful depictions of light and color like in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, “good lighting” and “good cool palette” are pretty subjective (as is many things related to art).

  To me, Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon is a masterpiece work and has both a color palette and lighting perfectly fitting the theme and mood of the film. But I will guess that this type of film is not exactly what you mean.

  I bias towards older anime around the OVA boom, because I personally prefer the older art style over much of the newer anime. Especially for cyberpunk or medieval-fantasy style anime. So for me, I think of anime like:

  • Princess Mononoke (Mononoke Hime) and from Studio Ghibli
  • Record of Lodoss War (Lodoss tou Senki), the original 1991 OVA, the 90s TV serial was decent too
  • Berserk (Kenpuu Dinky Berserk), the 1997 series
  • El-Hazard (Shinpi no Sekai El-Hazard), the 1995 OVA
  • Slayers (Slayers), the 1995 TV series
  • Bastard!! (Bastard!! Ankoku no Hakaishin), the 1992 OVA
  • Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no Tamago), the 1985 OVA (only one episode)

  Obviously, these all have varying levels of quality due to various factors, usually directly related to Japan’s bubble economy and subsequent market crash in 1992. However, these are I think among the best and make a good use of color and lighting in all of them to create an enjoyable experience.

  If you habe more details on what specifically you are looking for, I might know of somethines else maybe you haven’t considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because its easy… and it does a lot of damage…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon Art Controversy Resolved As Artist Reaches Agreement With Bungie And Sony⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You hope it flops because of a few assets stolen from an artist.

  I hope it fails for parading around the dead corpse of the Marathon IP with really bad makeup and the limbs sewn on in the wrong places.

  We are not the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a Nintendo game. Of course some people are going to call it a 10/10 game of the year.

  People said that about Zelda BotW, and then Tears came out and made all of those people look like idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently watched Last Samurai Standing from Netflix I think, which I actually thought was pretty good, but I noticed the English dub seemed to use some kind of AI to make the character mouth movements match the English dub words.

  At first it wasnt too noticeable, and I thought they had maybe filmed in English. But there was a lot of things that seemed like maybe they had some native Japanese people on the team because English speakers would have either not known about it or would feel culturally compelled to change it. Then at some point I noticed it, the mouths moving unnaturally. I think it was a close up of someone talking, but once I noticed it, it was pretty distracting.

  I honestly like the idea though. It might actually be a legitimate use case for “AI,” as some people are distracted when character mouth movements don’t match the words they say, but in this case I think it is still too early for deployment. It was done well enough to pass on people that can’t see very well, but it was pretty distracting for me once I noticed it. It would be too much work to try and film all the actors saying languages they likely don’t understand to try and composite. Is it mandatory? No, but it would be nice for people that get distracted by mismatched audio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best vertical games on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Official English Webpage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best vertical games on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddess of Victory NIKKE fits what you are asking.

  It is a high quality Free-to-Play mobile game played in portrait mode and completely playable with one hand (depending on how wide your device is). As long as your don’t care about leaderboards, it also isn’t Pay-to-Win. It is playable on PC as well, which is how I play these days. As a Day 1 Player, you don’t need to spend any money to play, enjoy, or progress in the game.

  In terms of negatives:

  • Some people may not like the anime art style (game is playable in various language dubs, including Korean, Japanese, English, and depending on region, Chinese, which are optional downloads to reduce filesize) or the character designs, which have huge… personalities

  • If you don’t care about time limited events or being at the top of leaderboards, its not hostile to your playtime and mental health. Go at your own pace.

  • It is a gacha game for characters and skins, but the game gives players a lot of options, so unless you’re trying to be #1 on the leaderboards in your server, having every character max level isn’t that important.

  They recently added a “Story Mode” for the campaign, which significantly reduces the difficulty of all the missions in the 40+ campaign chapters so that players can enjoy the story without needing to have as powerful characters. I think you get reduced rewards as well, but its a nice addition. You can also get photo film rolls to unlock past time limited events (not licensed or collab ones though) so you can enjoy the stories of those as well. You don’t get the rewards for them as they were running, but still can experience the stories and minigames. You get plenty of free currency for free character rolls, no money is needed. Unless you really want a skin or really like a licensed collab and want to buy an IP specific bundle or something.

  Basically, for a free player, there is A LOT of story content available to keep your busy for a while. Play at your own pace, and don’t worry about leaderboards and you’ll be mostly fine. The biggest advice is to try to get 5 characters 4 times each. If you are playing the regular difficulty story, there is a point where it is required to progress, and is often referred to as the only “wall of progression” in the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Xenia does pretty well these days and keeps getting better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Best I can do is Mario loudly saying “Good Bye!” when you close your Nintendo DS to hide under your pillow.”

  ~ Nintendo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully you never accidentally click the Quit button when you didnt mean to, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lets talk about QTEs as an example. Because for QTEs, a developer can easily add an option to entirely circumvent them, with just a single boolean and a single line of code in the QTE input method.

  I think that, for accessibility reasons, it is perfectly reasonable to ask for an option to switch between tapping a button and holding a button to complete a QTE. I think it is unreasonable to ask developers for an option to completely remove QTEs from their game (such as auto-succeed/auto-complete). For many games, this would turn an interactive part of the game which is normally followed by an uninteractive cutscene into an uninteractive cutscene immediately followed by another uninteractive cutscene. Players that disable QTEs could easily be sitting through very long stretches of uninteractive parts of the game instead of interacting with the game, leading to those players complaining about long cutscenes since they usually completely forget they disabled QTEs.

  Shenmue has Quick Time Events. A lot of them. If someone hates QTEs, it would be better for them not to play the game at all than to play without them. It is a core part of the intended experience that enhances the player’s time with the game. You get to interact with the cutscene instead of dropping the controller and turning off your brain. As a player, you pay more attention and keep your controller ready because at any moment you could be hit with a QTE and you want to be ready for that. You as a player have anticipation, excitement, nervousness, fear, etc that the developer makes you feel using mechanics like QTEs. You are more engaged with the game than someone that wants those deleted from the game, and in the end that means you will get more enjoyment out of the game. Someone that wants that turned off wants to play a different game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t give a fuck if some pretentious asses “artistic vision” requires the player to backtrack half way across a level on every death or thinks a shitty minigame should be played no less than 153 times every play through.

  Then just don’t play that game or use cheats (if its a singleplayer game)?

  I don’t see why a game developer needs to intentionally provide an option to remove mechanics they designed a game around just to please someone that doesn’t want to play the game as they designed it.