De_Narm

@De_Narm@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are modern Final Fantasy games bad?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I don’t think so. They are just different and people don’t like change. For context, I’m a massive JRPG fan and I’ve played: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 15. And of course tons of spin-offs. Planning on playing 7, 8 and 13 - don’t care for MMOs and 16.

  Out of these, I love of course the obvious early ones: 4 and 6.

  However, 10 is my favorite overall. It has the most solid gameplay (fuck ATB tbh) and a great story, even though we sideline Sin way too much for Seymore who I don’t care for. It’s biggest problem are the minigames though, I hate Blitzball and especially the Cloister of Trials.

  9 could be better, but the steam version crashes so much I didn’t get to finish it.

  Now, after 10 we got a lot more experimental:

  12 was fun but had massive problems. It’s biggest was the autobattle mechanic alongside the speed up in modern releases. You basically don’t play the game and you don’t even strategize. It’s always faster to sprint a few minutes around the map and get back with more levels which ultimately killed any interest I had in the battle system. But I dislike programmable party members in every game, so your milage may vary. The worldbuilding on the other was awesome.

  15 was a great game. I think it’s reception isn’t wrong necessarily because of how much it differs from trailers and such. However, I played it years after release and without having seen a single trailer. I had a blast throughout. The writting is among FF’s best, not because it’s such a great story, but because the relationships between the main party are so strong. I even liked the battle system - it’s different and has a lot of potential I think. It’s biggest failure is that you need to watch a series, a movie and read lots of other material to grasp the story - a lot of it isn’t in the game.

  16, I can’t say much about. I’m honestly not very interested in basic medieval fantasy settings, they’ve stripped out the RPGs mechanics and quite frankly I just don’t own a system I could play it on. Maybe I’d like it after all, I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Extended Look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the mainline games will change anytime soon, just like they didn’t adopt the battle styles of the last Legends game.

  Like, don’t get me wrong, I think the idea they are going for is good. But I also think it does look really clunky and would kill the PvP scene.

  Personally, I’d go for a turn based and position based approach like Like a Dragon or Dragon Quest are experimenting with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"MIRU: Paths To My Future" Original Anime New Key Visual, PV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow there is no pair of two characters with the same artstyle on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨successful swap⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring all the other choices, why is his right arm green?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements may yet fall, as Capcom aim to improve performance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still hoping for Switch 2 version. Rumor has it the S2 will be roughly equal to a steam deck and the game ran on there - albeit only with about 20 fps. Hopeful they get their stuff sorted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Treat taking a dump like a sport⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess you haven’t had bad hemorrhoids yet, lucky you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same game and roughly same amount of time. Just started the main quest in Novigrad.

  Got both DLCs for like 3 bucks, which was nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything from 3 times a day to once every 3 days is normal. It depends on how much you eat, how much of it your body can absorb, your fiber intake and some genetic variance too.

  Your intestines aren’t a conveyor belt, things don’t constantly move. There are multiple muscles acting as a valve between different sections. Based on the factors above your body decides when to push stuff to the next section up until the exit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do actually agree that Nutri-Score could incentivize companies to add better ingredient to their food. However, the high tolerance for sugar is a clear-cut sign for lobbying influencing the calculation, I’d presume. And of course, until you have to feature a Nutri-Score on your products, you could simply not include it instead of improving your products - which leads back to the original article.

  But that aside, my main critique is that a score like this should be usable to compare different products. While an informed customer certainly does benefit from distinguishing an “A” from a “D” frozen pizza at first glance, just as many people may eat more frozen pizzas as a result of rating it “A” instead of going for inherently healthier choices simply due to their lower rating. After all, many people still think juice is inherently healthy despite it being the poster child for hidden sugar bombs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Done! Apparently I’ve fallen for a common misconception. My point however still stands, the score is mostly useless, just my reasoning got changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  European consumer rights group Foodwatch is pushing for Nutri-Score, currently used in France, Germany and a handful other countries, to be adopted across the bloc.

  Nutri-Score is kinda useless. The score isn’t based on overall healthiness, it’s based on how healthy something is within its group. The group isn’t listed anywhere and its unclear what’s in there. You could find a frozen pizza with a higher rating than hummus or soft drinks being rated the same as bottled water. I don’t even notice the score anymore, I go straight to the ingredients and nutrition table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea exam sees record number of re-takes after medical reforms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed as much, but had hoped for a less disgusting reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea exam sees record number of re-takes after medical reforms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you protest this change? 0.015% is still insane and it takes nothing from the ones away who already made it.

  I’m really glad I wasn’t born into one of the hypercompetitive asian education systems, but on the other hand, I’m not sure the degrading western education systems I was born in are better. A happy middle ground would be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who am I?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I couldn’t name a single street in the city I’ve been born in except the ones I lived in. I’ve learned to navigate the city before I could read and never bothered to read street names thereafter.

  The same goes for every other city, my mental map of cities includes almost no street names. Maybe that’s because I don’t use cars at all, after all I could name bus stations and such (some of which are named after streets, I guess, but I’ve still got no idea about how they connect or even which street of an intersection actually has the name).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch. It.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the anime isn’t even good. Like, I’m still reading the manga, but I had to stop watching the anime something like 10 years ago.

  I’ve heard it has gotten better since then, but watching the whole thing still includes years worth of episodes so thinly streched you could probably watch every third one without missing anything. And that’s on top of arcs so long, they are even a slog to read through (Dressrosa and Wano).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lore Of Disturbing Human-Pokémon Relationships & Hybrid Offspring Come To Light In Recent Game Freak Leaks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing the hackers are releasing both actual and fake leaks, just to get attention. Do some damage until GF gives in to his demands, wich I presume they made.

  Just don’t believe anything that could easily be made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First, it’s NEVER right for a person or group of people, regardless of position or occupation, to wish for a company’s death.

  I disagree on a fundamental level. I stopped reading shortly after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamer philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s quite easy, actually. I usually play everything years after release, however, if I’m really into a certain series, I’ll buy it right away. If I don’t care for the wait, I probably don’t care enough about whether or not a sequel is being made.

  Of course that only works if you don’t get hyped easily. I play a lot of games, but usually only 1-2 per year are released within said year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, there is no instance matching my interests. There are a number of communities across different instances, but it seems like several people tried to make their own, didn’t interact with each other and all of them are long dead.

  Once I find such an instance, I’ll switch over. I’ve been meaning to leave .world anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I do agree with the problems identified, I can’t help but think they also made forums a lot better. Due to the lower discoverability and higher effort to actually join communities felt more personal. You interacted with smaller groups and came to know specific people. I still have friends from back then.

  On larger platforms, I never had that. Even lemmy, which is small in comparison has enough people that I barely even think about specific users. Let alone speak with them on a personal level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 9 Remake May Not Happen as a Single Title⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because people liked the idea so much with FF7? /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the sake of adding something new, X is pareto optimal in terms of having both the best and the fewest games.

  • Xenogears
  • Xenosaga (maybe, haven’t played it yet)
  • Xenoblade anything
  • X-COM anything

  I’d probably be content with only playing games from the Xeno- meta-series alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything Dragon Quest needs to be on the list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day -6 of posting a screenshot from a game I've been playing until I also forget to post screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite loving the genre overall, I bounced off KoA multiple times. Maybe it’s time to give it yet another go. I just wasn’t in the mood for MMORPGS - which the IP should have become iirc -, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about random encounters?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come around to really liking them. In short, they vastly improve dungeons in my opinion.

  Most RPGs don’t manage to create interesting battles outside of boss fights. Heck, an increasing amount of RPGs fails to create any kind of challange. However, random encounter can add another layer to dungeons: resource management. You have to plan out how to tackle fights in order to get through the dungeons with your limited items/MP - do you sacrifice more HP or do you go for your strongest attacks? How much exploration can you get in? Do you need to be extra careful and plan for stronger rare encounters? Maybe even plan around lvl up healing.

  Sadly, this layer is easily removed. Overworld encounter? Just dodge everything. Adjustable encounter? Grind just enough, go heal and disable encounter. Non-challanging fight? Just use basic attacks. Healing stations? No need to plan anymore. Ideally, the dungeons provides no healing at all - especially not before encountering the boss.

  If you’re interested in a game with great dungeons, I’d recommend every single Etrian Odyssey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting for a reason to get a PS5 at all, everything I’ve been interested still got released on PS4 too - except for one single game.

  I really don’t care for better specs anymore, I probably couldn’t even tell PS4 and PS5 games apart without a side-by-side comparison. Not to mention, to see a difference at all I’d need a new TV on top of the console. Not gonna happen anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They very much are for a lot of people. Lines goes up, you can give yourself a nice bonus payout and if things come crashing down you leave. With your golden parachute of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, basically yes to every question. Those all amount to waste and that is always a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat less pizza then instead of wasting food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I surrender, this time around I didn’t even know you could shorten William to Bill. Next up someone’s telling me Donald is short for Ottobertifurz - honoring his fake german roots.