EvilBit
@EvilBit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 3 days ago:
Thanks! There was a lot of wacky fun in the PlayStation generation.
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 4 days ago:
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - because it’s literally one of the best games ever made. So good that when it borrowed the Metroid formula pretty much wholesale, they renamed the formula Metroidvania.
- Metal Gear Solid - because it sits in the Goldilocks zone of Kojima-ness. Nutty but not impenetrable.
- Silent Hill - because everyone should know what it’s like for seventeen pixels to make them shit themselves in fear.
- Metal of Honor - because Call of Duty used to be the whippersnapper upstart. Know your roots, son.
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 - because there were THPS games with more, but there were never THPS games that were definitively better.
- Resident Evil 2 - because hitting your stride while defining a genre is a beautiful thing.
- Valkyrie Profile - because the world is ending but I really want this mermaid to be happy…
- Fear Effect - because it’s a seven hour game across four CDs but my best friend and I couldn’t put it down until we finished it on day one.
- Vigilante 8 - because they out-Twisted-Metaled Twisted Metal.
- G-Darius - because sometimes you just gotta blast a giant robot fish in the face with a screen-filling laser beam.
- Incredible Crisis - because we all have bad days.
- Tenchu - because Solid Snake shouldn’t be the only one who gets to have fun sneaking around and killing people.
- Rakugaki Showtime - because before there was Smash Bros, there was bashing the Smiley Ball for super moves and launching ICBMs against your foes.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 1 week ago:
Lots of great ones mentioned here and while I don’t know if it’s my favorite, I have a deep soft spot for Super Off-Road. It has an incredible spatial sense and fluidity for its time and still holds up at any barcade.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 week ago:
FYI, Onyx egregiously violates GPL and basically gives the finger to anyone who complains. Not that anyone is necessarily clean as a whistle and even so they’re miles better than Jeff “I dressed like a fascist before it was cool” Bezos.
I’m a big fan of Kobo, but they also used to have a connection with Walmart.
- Comment on what if another country staged a coup in the US and deposed trump? 3 weeks ago:
They already staged a coup to install him.
- Comment on ModRetro Chromatic: Building the Ultimate Game Boy 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely. The Analogue Pocket is dreamy and extremely capable. This is a nostalgia circle jerk from a dude who swore up and down he’d never sell out then sold out instantaneously once a sociopathic billionaire dangled some money in front of his face.
- Comment on ModRetro Chromatic: Building the Ultimate Game Boy 3 weeks ago:
Palmer Luckey sucks. Don’t buy this.
- Comment on Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode 3 weeks ago:
“And if you turn it sideways it works like a mouse”
“Okay”
Why are we talking about this more than that?
- Comment on My current handheld lineup 3 weeks ago:
A coat pocket can handle all kinds of things. The Retroid Pocket 5 is very popular, has a lot of power to emulate up to Dreamcast and even PS2 generation consoles, and runs Android so it’s incredibly flexible. It’s very Vita-like in form factor and will probably be a solid Anything Device. It’s pricey, but it’s a real One and Done machine.
Myself though, I’m partial to the TrimUI Model S (also rebranded as the Powkiddy A66) and the TrimUI Smart. They are older, far less powerful, and lack L2/R2 buttons and analog sticks so you’ll mostly want to stick to pre-PlayStation for the most part, but they’re insanely pocketable. Plus they can be had rather cheaply, so they’re a pretty easy impulse treat.
- Comment on My current handheld lineup 3 weeks ago:
Important questions: What do you want to play? Do you prefer vertical (GB), flip (GBA SP), or horizontal (GBA) form factor? How do you want to carry? Is there a handheld you have particular fondness for?
Depending on what you say, there are systems of all these form factors, some pocketable, some not, and varying in power from “anything up to certain Dreamcast games) down to “stick to 16-bit generation or lower”. Some recent efforts have admirably mimicked the designs of the original GBA and GBA SP, while many have a pretty generic but effective form factor.
- Comment on Thanks Duo, I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about a coquettish green owl-unicorn 3 weeks ago:
OH SHIT that’s why it was so unsettling! Blast from the past!
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job 3 weeks ago:
Valve did the same thing for the Index VR kit. They create these little brief but fully produced games to demonstrate the functionality when they release new hardware, and they’re delightful.
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 3 weeks ago:
I like you, hermano/a. Please forgive our stupid fucking country for our stupid fucking voters.
🇺🇸 🙏 🇲🇽
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumored To Launch In 2026 With New Call Of Duty 1 month ago:
I would like to see them go back to just plain old numbering and call this one the Xbox 363.
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 1 month ago:
Or I guess a Humble Bundle subscription.
- Comment on We all need Seaman back in our lives! 1 month ago:
To this day, if I turn to my best friend and say “sup”, his response will either be “Oh, not much, just… keeping it real.” or just “Word.” Vice versa as well.
These are the exact responses Seaman gives, which we deliver with proper intonation and all.
- Comment on Any recommendations for a low-cost, low-hassle printer? 3 months ago:
With current sales, the AnkerMake line is quite inexpensive and my experience with the M5 has been incredible. No 3D printer is truly no-hassle, but I think this is as close as it comes. Tons of QoL features like auto bed leveling, magnetic PEI plate, streaming video, and so on. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen to plug in and go as far as 3D printers go (some very easy assembly required though).
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 3 months ago:
Technically it would be suck-sectional.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 3 months ago:
I agree that there’s a ton of good stuff coming from the indie scene and also some amazing modding of existing games out there (check the Flat2VR discord - they just modded full VR support with motion controls into Silent Hill 2 Remake), but despite all the complaints about the PSVR2 library, there is more than enough gold in there to keep a lot of people entertained for a very long time, and some of it is truly AAA stuff. The headset itself is extremely well designed and easy to pick up and play, and the amount of tech you get is pretty nuts.
I’ve heard it’s pretty minimally supported on the PC because they’re kind of trying to get away with building half of a bridge (spoiler: it won’t work) but even without features like haptics and eye tracking, it’s a reasonable baseline headset. There may be some Bluetooth inconsistencies for some though, if I remember correctly.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 3 months ago:
I will echo some of the other sentiments.
Meta sells a lot of their tech at a loss. You are not buying a VR headset with just your dollars. You are taking a huge kit of cameras and sensors hooked up to the world’s most advanced internet-connected telemetry and strapping it to your face. The data it gleans is how you’re covering a large portion, if not the majority, of the cost.
In my opinion, a PS5 and PSVR2 is the best way into VR for most people right now. I have that and a Valve Index and while the Index is awesome, it’s pretty dated and fiddly and while my computer runs it pretty well, catching up to more modern tech will cost me $2000 in upgrades and the fuss associated with building/upgrading/buying/migrating a PC.
I’m hoping Valve releases their rumored standalone headset sometime before the end of the world.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 months ago:
Same thing happens with social security numbers!
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- Comment on ‘Oregon Trail’ Action-Comedy Movie In Development at Apple (Exclusive) 3 months ago:
Instead of watching whatever the hell this ends up being, just read this ancient and hilarious screenshot Let’s Play. I guarantee it’s more entertaining, especially if you remember early 2000’s internet, before it turned into <gestures at everything>.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 3 months ago:
Check it out, it just shows up as asterisks when I type it.
- Comment on Day 103 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
It’s like Max Payne 1, only better in every conceivable way. It’s the perfect sequel.
- Comment on Day 103 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
Max Payne 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. It’s the only game I ever finished, then beat 2-3 more times in succession on increasing difficulties just to get a different ending.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 4 months ago:
Absolutely. It definitely takes some delightful liberties with WHY Blackbeard takes a liking to Stede and why Stede leaves his family in the first place, but the overall arc is based on a true story.
- Comment on Are there any historical or modern day true stories (like the story of The Buddha) of someone born rich and privileged who just walked away from their family and turned down money and an inheritance? 4 months ago:
Stede Bonnet was a wealthy landowner who walked away from his family to buy a boat and become a really bad Pirate of the Caribbean. Blackbeard took his ship, decided for some reason he kinda liked the guy, taught him a few things about piratin’, then went his own way. Bonnet did better after that, but he was eventually captured and hanged.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stede_Bonnet
Were you looking for a story of inspiration and success instead of history’s worst midlife crisis? If so, oops.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 4 months ago:
Yes. The writing is on the wall, I think. Between Valve and Microsoft, I think the line between console and PC is about to blur, hard.
Valve starts selling a new generation of Steam Machines, Microsoft develops a handheld and pivots the Xbox brand to be a PC gaming label standardized to a handheld and set-top form factor, and suddenly Sony and Nintendo are swimming in a much smaller ocean. The PlayStation 6 not being PC-compatible suddenly makes it “a weird non-PC” instead of a category leader, and the Switch 2 by all accounts just becomes an echo of the previous generation, treading water on Nintendo franchises.
- Comment on Consume 4 months ago:
Sorry for sucking!
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 4 months ago:
they are turned on
Ooh, violate my privacy, daddy.