absquatulate
@absquatulate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 2 weeks ago:
In increasing order of casualness I recommend: Elite Dangerous->X3/X4->Everspace/Everspace 2-> No Man’s Sky.
Everspace 2 is a spiritual successor to Freelancer, so probably your best bet ( Everspace 1 is more roguelike, but holds up nicely ). Speaking of Freelancer, I hear the game is still alive and has a vibrant community around it.
If you ever want to revisit Elite shoot me a message, I may help you with starting up. They say Elite doesn’t have a learning curve but a cliff, so help is usually needed. Luckily the game has the most welcoming and helpful community I’ve seen in/around a video game.
Other than these, there’s Chorus, but I haven’t played that one and it seems more story driven than open-ended.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 2 weeks ago:
For those unaware, there is also Heroes of Science and Fiction, which is essentially homm 3 with a fresh scifi coat of paint and lots of qol stuff. It’s in early access but man it catches the vibe so well.
- Comment on Home secretary calls Gaza protests in wake of Manchester attack ‘un-British’ 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the british approach: “We understand that people dying is horrific and painful but there’s no need to make such a fuss about it”
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version 4 weeks ago:
Imagine paying to have your data harvested by a social network full of bots
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed 5 weeks ago:
Seeing the series’ progression so far, I just know microsoft will stuff it full of FOMO crap and monetization, as well as a lot of AI generated stuff ( which, admittedly, may not be all bad ). But still, I’m fairly excited for it.
- Comment on Helium-3 mining on Moon: A new frontier for science and geopolitics 5 weeks ago:
Time to play Anno 2205
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I loved him in mafia, he had such a recognizable voice. Almost bought Mindseye because of him lol.
But seriously, I wish him luck and hope he doesn’t give up on games.
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 1 month ago:
What he means is that while his memes are in general universally applicable, this one is a US-thing.
- Comment on I've been on GOG for more than a decade and HoMM 3 is always on bestsellers 1 month ago:
Incidentally, if anyone is looking for similar gameplay, there’s a small project on steam, called Heroes of Science & Fiction. It’s essentially HOMM3 with a scifi coat of paint and it’s very enjoyable. Hoping it comes to gog too someday.
- Comment on Starmer: Leaving ECHR puts UK ‘on par with Russia and Belarus’ 2 months ago:
You are running a police state that monitors its citizens and arrests protesters. So yes, from a human rights perspective, dropping the ECHR is probably the last step required to become just like the ruskis.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 months ago:
Does abybody have the original study? I tried to find it but the link is dead ( looks like NANDA pulled it )
- Comment on Road Kings - Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Finally, some competition for scs. From the trailer it doesn’t look like it will be a sim tho. Maybe a story driven teucking game?
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition is out now 2 months ago:
Damn. The original was (to me) the highlight of many, many lan-parties.
- Comment on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy 2 months ago:
I see it didn’t take long for polygon to turn into a clickbait factory.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 2 months ago:
For children’s safety, right?
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 2 months ago:
Thanks. Yeah, I did try it. Must’ve replayed it a few dozen times since it released. Another masterpiece, that one. Might give it another run after 2.4 is out, lol.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 2 months ago:
I just sort of ignored it initially thinking it will definitely flop after seeing a trailer or two. But I played it recently after a legendary edition replay and it’s an ok game. The story and charaters are pretty uninspired, there’s no escaping that, but the gameplay, the combat, the exploration vibe are all great. It also looks great. And the new mako is brilliant.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 2 months ago:
Do it. All mass effects are great. Even Andromeda ( despite the lackluster story )
I’ve been itching for a similar game these past few weeks and I swear there is nothing contemporary that is quite like Mass Effect. KOTOR is close, but is has aged like milk ( graphically ). Maybe the deus exes? I am still open to suggestions.
Also you’ll want to play the legendary edition, I think they fixed some of the less pleasant gameplay quirks ME1 used to have.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 2 months ago:
Had to be Bioware. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 months ago:
Even if they wanted to bank on the adblocker thing I imagine they can’t because they have to stay in Google’s good graces. Like 90% of their revenue was google money, and has been for years now.
At this point I’d honestly even pay for a privacy focused mozilla browser that is clean of all this crap, just to keep them afloat, but fat chance of that happening.
- Comment on 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' 2 months ago:
Third separate article about this game in a week? I see we’re in the hyping up phase.
- Comment on I want to go back 2 months ago:
Goddamn! This game was peak NFS. I keep replaying it every few years, and the handling model still holds up.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing. 2 months ago:
It’s so damn good. I must’ve replayed it like six times since it came to pc. The story, the voice acting, characters, graphics, everything is absolutely top notch. Except for the goddamn controls (and the menus). I’m not sure if it’s due to it being a console-first game or just a rockstar thing as rdr1’s were also crap, but holy shit they’re infuriating. The amount of times I shot people by mistake, lost missions because of a wrong key, or just plain ended up with an unpayable bounty is too damn high.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 2 months ago:
It’s TakeTwo - you know they did. Bioshock was a complete arc and died with Irrational. Whatever this zombie project is, I expect it won’t live up to the name, but they’ll slap it on anyway because goshdarnit executives just can’t help milking a franchise dry instead of innovating.
- Comment on Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer 2 months ago:
Indeed
- Comment on Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer 2 months ago:
I still keep a copy of a pre-EA version on my pc, as that was the cleanest one. I played pvz2 for a bit and don’t remember it being complete shite, but it was absolutely riddled with mtx. As far as the other pvz games, holy hell what a shitshow.
- Comment on EA CEO Says No $80 Games for Now: 'We're Not Looking to Make Any Changes at This Stage' 2 months ago:
Love how fast they all dial back after seeing the reaction on nintendo’s 80$ approach. But seriously EA I don’t care for those extra 10 bucks upfronf if your games are still the mtx and gambling infested shit they currently are.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 2 months ago:
I wonder what it was that made Pornhub cooperate this time around. Iirc in texas and france they just “left” instead of implementing the age verification.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 2 months ago:
As a PC player I wholeheartedly welcome the demise of exclusives, but are the strategies toward them really changing? Near as I can tell it’s only microsoft that’s pivoting, and that’s probably because they have to. Sony is sticking to their strategy of the past few years of delayed PC releases, and nintendo does what nintendo does - keep everything in-house and sue everyone.
- Comment on UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house 2 months ago:
If you’re arresting 80 year olds in their home for protesting you are NOT the good guys.