Carighan
@Carighan@lemmy.world
The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
- Comment on Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary 3 days ago:
All four remaining players are very happy!
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah definitely. The expansion was such a cool thing, and the limited scope really helps it rather than hurting it.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 1 week ago:
one of the greatest stories in this medium
I mean admittedly I don’t read cyberpunk as a genre, but as an avid reader I find that hard to believe. My two standout sub-stories are the intro heist and the expansion’s main story, and while those are awesome, they’re not exactly literary masterpieces. The rest of the game’s story is… amateurish? But not in a bad way? Like, it’s servicable as the thin motivational veneer you expect from an open world game, and doesn’t stand out either way, which is more or less what you want from your open world story: To not get in the way. The last few parts are quite bad though and show how much the story must have been cut apart and pieced together to fit a release date.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 1 week ago:
Difficult.
I gave up on it initially, annoyed by it’s deluge of bugs coupled with the overall tepid and empty-feeling design.
I gave it a serious go a year ago after also getting the expansion. I wanted to not use any mods but ended up having to use one anyways, as CDPR still couldn’t be arsed to fix some keys being hardcoded so changing your keyboard layout is annoying as stuff gets in the way. Luckily, fans fixed that issue and made all keys rebindable. <3
I will say… I enjoyed it. It’s nothing superb to me, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable romp. It’s big upside were the visual design, in particular during the expansion and its high points like the top floor of the tower or the sequence at the space port, the great voicework and Songbird in particular and when you meet her. I also liked the expansion and the tutorial stories a lot.
It’s weak points to me were the open world itself which feels pointless and a thin, lifeless, facade plus the main story itself. Character progression was also super broken back in the days but by the time I played felt a lot better, so I’m not really holding it against the game. That being said, there were still quite a lot of bugs and glitches. Nothing major a reload here or there could not fix, but still considering how long the game has been out.So yeah, solid 7/10 for me. The expansion is fantastic, wish the whole game were like that!
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 1 week ago:
To me the big drop in noticable internal politics happened somewhere shortly before or around the Overwatch release.
The original design of that game as-released showed a lot of the old design paradigms of Blizzard. But then all post-release direction was the “new” Blizzard, focus on e-sports, numerical balance over gameplay feel, competition over social engagement. The game is an interesting showcase for the fall of Blizzard as a whole in a lot of ways.
- Comment on Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it? 1 week ago:
IMO the best indie game currently on the market overall, and definitely the by-far leading in puzzle/logic games.
Such an amazing experience. The underlying pacing is so genius, where the game snowballs. Slowly at first, then faster and faster and faster as you finish.
Also, that scene with that music is just amazing when it kicks in, and really threw me for a loop when it happened. “The fuck?!”
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 2 weeks ago:
I mean it makes sense to target these people. If you’re stupid enough to believe the shit Musk or Trump spout, you’re also stupid enough to not see these very obvious scams.
- Comment on OrcaSlicer V2.2.0 Official Release 2 weeks ago:
I love it, but I’ll be honest I still use Cura for 99% of my slicing. Just too used to it, and since my printer isn’t controlled from the PC and I copy the gcode onto an SD card, it makes little difference to me except that Cura feels more organized in its UI.
- Comment on "You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence." 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but like, if you’re feeling depressed, have you tried feeling happy instead? Durr! /s
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
I mean there’s probably a lot who don’t, but they’re busy firing missiles at civilians in Ukraine to get around their 15y work camp sentence.
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
I was able to do it myself! the cost of running a Lemmy and Mastodon instance for myself is so cheap… I’m actually shocked more people aren’t doing it!
I mean what for? It costs even less to use an existing Lemmy or Mastodon server given the minimal load you add.
- Comment on Professor Layton Games, what's your experience? 3 weeks ago:
For me I like them, I just wish:
- The puzzles were tougher.
- The story wasn’t as thin and spread out. It’s fine, but just not a lot of story for the amount of time it has to last.
I will say that as a result, my by-far favorite entry in the series is Layton vs Ace Attorney since it uses the combination of both “gameplay types” to cram more story “meat” into the same length of adventure. It’s also a wee bit darker, which actually helps it a lot IMO.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
can’t wear headphones
Wow, imagine coding without podcasts or music…
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
Hrm, I’ll be honest then, you’re the very very first time I hear someone wanting to consume game reviews meta aggregation in a chronological way (instead of by-game). Not once seen this sentiment before.
I dunno, it’s just not how people use these pages I would assume. You create search shortcuts for them, not RSS feeds. You want to look up what various reviewers at large say about a specific game, more so because this changes over time (so would a feed udoate each time the score changes? Only once on the very first review? Only once it stops updating for X time? What if that takes months?). It’s the polar opposite of once you have 2-3 reviewers who mirror your personal take well where you might want to know each time these people post a new review.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 weeks ago:
Uh, yes of course? The customers for a console and a handheld PC aren’t the same so naturally the former wants a game posted to the console?
🤷♀️
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, sorry, you’re not going to try have a neutral perspective about this, are you?
But humor me, why are so many Switch still being sold if other stuff is so superior? After all, like you said, they’re quite comparable and hey, Deck seems strictly superior. Right?
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
No I did not, you seemingly want a by-release-date system for the site, which feels quite a bit weird considering how people usually use review sites. Hence the prod at your comment.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 weeks ago:
Not remotely comparable, but sure, if you are like many here already a hobbyist PC gamer, you probably rather want a Steam Deck.
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
Yeah me neither. I really did not need user screaming to muddle the clarity of my review aggregator.
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
Ah yeah I forgot how everyone consumes their game ratings by release date, not by game. My bad.
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- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 3 weeks ago:
I don’t get it.
How is that a problem to people wanting to work on or work with Bitwarden? Or am I misunderstanding the wording on it?
It just seems to say that you cannot rip this SDK out to use it on something else. Which makes sense as far as an internal library goes, at least on the surface?
- Comment on Designed this coaster, because I wanted something tidy looking and dual color, without filament changes 4 weeks ago:
That’s a neat idea! TY!
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
… And still could bit fix that some keys are hardcoded. But I agree, with expansion the game was quite enjoyable.
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 1 month ago:
I would have said I can’t be any more disappointed with this company, wow.
- Comment on Multiplayer shooters should get "pure" healers that can't shoot 1 month ago:
Hasn’t Overwatch if anything shown that focusing on the small highest end crowd doesn’t actually work in the context of heterogeneous classes to play? Unlike MOBAs, so I can totally see why a dev would assume it to be the correct choice.
- Comment on Multiplayer shooters should get "pure" healers that can't shoot 1 month ago:
The whole idea of different kits in a shooter already precludes balance though. That’s an accepted loss for more enjoyable gameplay.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
Ah yes, I hate being butchered that way, too. It sucks hard to be paid to leave before you get paid extra to start your next job elsewhere.
And don’t get me wrong, if the C-suites actually ever had to take actual responsibility for their fuck-ups, I’d be all for those board investigations. But they don’t. They get paid enough to not care about interims between jobs - just look at the CEO who said people can just spend a year on the beach or so if they’ve been laid off - plus they get paid extra both on the leaving and on the re-hiring.
If they had to pay all non-salary money back on fucking up, even retroactively, no matter how many Porsches they’d have to liquidate to get the money from X years of fucking up the company back, sure. Do it. But that’s just sadly not the case. For a C-suite, this just means changing what name is written under your name, and moving on to the next place you can grift.
- Comment on The humble Anet A8 isn't actually that bad if you just take some insipiration from the Ship of Theseus 1 month ago:
Now what happens if someone takes all the parts you replaced, and uses them to construct a 3D printer?
Do they own the A8? Or do you?
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments