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- Comment on Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007 2 days ago:
My Steam recents:
Everything that’s got a finishable campaign here I’ve completed, with the exception of MCC where I only played Halo CE and ODST to completion.
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- Comment on New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In The Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley 1 week ago:
I could have sworn Discovery was connected with Bad Robot, but it looks like I was wrong.
It still has a “JJ Abrams sensibility” - frantic space combat, overly emotional characters, a lot of flashy but meaningless tech (the hologram communicators as an easy example) and visuals (the way the bridge was often shot). It was very much trying to be loud and new, while throwing in a lot of surface level references to try and give it some franchise credibility (this USS Discovery is a rejected Phase 2 concept design).
It all came together in a loud, unlikable soup that felt inauthentic to the franchise. There was some course correction later on, but too little, too late. Strange New Worlds went the right direction, while the Section 31 movie tripled down on all the worst aspects of Discovery.
In any case, I agree - the D&D movie was a lot of fun, and while I wouldn’t want a ST movie to strike that tone, I’m interested to see what they cook up.
I don’t want the Trek movie to have the DND movie tone either, but more like when that movie was made they understood the correct tone to match the franchise. It felt authentic to what DND players experience. If the Trek movie has the same care in figuring out what long time fans want, it will be good.
- Comment on New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In The Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley 1 week ago:
That’s good. The repercussions of that creative direction have really been hitting Trek.
While Discovery wasn’t in the Kelvinverse, the connection to Bad Robot productions probably gave it that similar style. The Section 31 movie wasn’t connected directly to Bad Robot as company, but it did share a writer.
Strange New Worlds has been a huge step in the right direction, though it came directly out of Discovery, making it kind of a prototype for modern live action Trek trying to be “gritty” and classic Trek at the same time. I think it has mostly succeeded, but now that it’s proven there’s an appetite away from Bad Robot era Trek, I hope the new series goes further.
While I hope whatever they make doesn’t share a tone with the new DND movie, I appreciate that the DND movie was obviously well versed in the setting and knew what fans were about. Applying that same mindset to Trek would be great.
- Comment on I finished all (current) main quest content for Death Trash 2 weeks ago:
I often agree with this, though for Death Trash given the slow pace of major updates I figured I’d just jump in. It only took me about 10 hours to beat the main content, and a few more hours poking around to feel finished with the game. This isn’t something like Zomboid with a big sandbox element to sink hours and hours into.
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- Comment on 'Disaster Day of Crisis: A Search and Rescue Game' - Mandaloregaming 3 weeks ago:
I’ll never get past the Dangerous Hunts games since some management somewhere at Cabela’s had to approve a hunting game with deep lore about a literal shapeshifting demon and chimpanzee supersoldiers.
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- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 3 weeks ago:
In Wasteland 2 there is a museum of pre-war artifacts. One item is an undetonated nuclear bomb. If you monkey around with it you can find a big red button. It is obviously a terrible idea to push the button. If you still decide to push it you get a special game over screen.
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- Comment on 'Points, clicks, and misery' - Civvie11 plays I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream 4 weeks ago:
And then it goes into a sewer.
- Comment on 'Mask of the Betrayer: the last of the boomer cRPG classics' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
I blame the Tylenol.
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- Comment on Velma can't math. 4 weeks ago:
You’re not getting your deposit back if those creative juices soak in.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 4 weeks ago:
Foundation was so strange because it felt like the writers split into two isolated groups.
The team that was trying and failing to “reimagine” the original story, and the team the totally abandoned the original story and was doing their own thing with the clone emperors story.
Unlike other examples where the show felt like an existing story twisted into the framework of an unrelated franchise, Foundation felt like the clone emperors story came out of the talented writers getting frustrated by the quality of the adaption.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
I noticed you haven’t mentioned the actual quality of the content. Is it a responsibility to give money to a medium simply because it takes payment instead of using ad revenue?
The competition for what’s in those magazines is with independent online reviewers.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I am now.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
The idea of ranking games on a numerical scale is inherently flawed. I suspect many publications still use it as a way to make nice with game publishers. Text that’s lukewarm can slap a 9/10 score on and a lot of people just jump over the review to the “objective” score.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
I feel it’s important
Genuinely, why?
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
Not all YouTubers are quality. This is obvious. What I am saying is that I’ve found a mere handful who are quality and for my tastes they have replaced the entire legacy professional gaming journalistic media. Other people I’m sure can find similar YouTubers who cater to their tastes and opinions.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
That might be exactly part of why gaming journalism is irrelevant.
If the “news” is just repeating developer hype, then it’s just useless noise. At that point the only thing that matters are reviews, and independent YouTubers are beating the professionals in quality and trustworthiness.
So what’s left? Actual dry industry news? I suppose some small amount of people care, but not enough to support the amount of gaming journalists out there.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
click- and rage-bait headlines on Facebook over quality journalism
Gaming journalism has been overrun with that.
What I, and I think many people, want are trustworthy, knowledgable reviews.
I can’t trust any of the major publications. I trust a small handful of YouTubers who are giving me more of what o want than the entire professional industry.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
Back in the late 90s-early 2000s the PCGamer magazine was actually worthwhile. It had reviewers who specialized in different genres and if read enough you could get a feel for their writing style and critical voice. The fact it was a monthly publication meant they weren’t racing to get a review out in the first 24 hours.
Nowadays it all seems like publications race to put reviews out online for relevance, and the reviewers often seem to have a disdain for video games and even if they don’t they aren’t genre experts.
I don’t like fighting games. My review of a fighting game would be trash. Yet major publications just pump out reviews by whoever.
Individual youtubers at least can develop a recognizable critical voice and stick more to genres they know and enjoy.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 weeks ago:
The entire industry was flooded with mouthpieces for developer statements and opinion piece hottakes. How many of those people does an industry really need?
As for reviews, they are for the most part similarly worthless and hard to trust. There’s about five YouTubers who I actually trust the opinions of, and I haven’t felt left out at all with that as the extent of my gaming journalism intake.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s from here:
- Comment on Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Yes it is. Drog’s patch is the universally recommended patch that fixes bugs and has a lot of optional changes like adding new playable races, removing annoying sound effects, and more evenly distributing party experience instead of a per-hit system.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
If you’ve played Halo CE, playing the Ruby Rebalance is still worth it. You’ll probably appreciate it more with the vanilla experience fresh in mind.
The Halo: CE mod is very tastefully done and improves the game. There are a lot of invisible tweaks like making the assault rifle more accurate in short bursts and tweaking spawns (the Library level is much better) as well as visible changes like adding ODSTs where it makes sense, adding new enemy types, and a few new to CE campaign weapons like a usable energy sword.
The new enemy types include a lot of new flood forms which makes them less of a slog to play against. There’s elite zealot flood still carrying energy swords, which are terrifying.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I’m waiting for Ruby’s Reblanced Halo 2. Based on the quality of the Halo: CE rebalance it will probably fix many of those issues. I hope, but maybe shouldn’t expect, that mod includes the proper shading. Part of the reason Halo 2 looks so strange is it was designed for a full dynamic shading system which was pulled late in development for XBox performance reasons. What’s left is baked shading and very limited and scaled back dynamic shading, but in a world and art style that was designed with full dynamic in mind.
I recently played though Halo 2 partially with another restored content/rebalance mod and it was alright, though it didn’t have the skill of the Ruby Rebalance in making new/restored content feel organic to the game.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Arcanum.
Somehow I’ve never played it. As a 90s cRPG veteran it is interesting to go fresh into a cRPG and be smacked with a lot of confusion about mechanics and stats that I don’t have from games I’m used to playing.
As seems to be a trend with Tim Cain games, the combat isn’t very good but the game is carried by the social detail, world, and variety in how to approach quests.
