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- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 5 days ago:
Opinions will differ, but generally people really like the first and/or third. The second was rushed, and it shows, mostly by a ton of reused assets and locations.
The first is more loved by hardcore or oldschool RPG fans. The third is more action oriented, generally a lot more colourful, and very much larger. Its combat is generally liked more than the first (except, again, by CRPG fans).
All three have memorable characters.
- Comment on The entire Dragon Age series is only $10 on steam until June 27th. 5 days ago:
You can save whenever.
The world is dark - especially in the first game. There is slavery, racism, demons, and a few even darker topics. There are optional sex scenes, but they’re rather clean. One of the demon models is rather skimpy. But in the third game you can pick your time in the game while kids are watching to be mostly fun with bright colours and some fantasy fighting. That might be harder in the first.
There are similarities with Mass Effect, but they do play very differently. The dialog system is very similar in 2 and 3, as are the companion interactions in all three.
- Comment on [Meta] Did we drop the "what are you playing" monthly thread? Also, mods haven't been active for a while, should someone take over? 1 week ago:
I recently finished Mass Effect Legendary, a very nice experience. I’m now starting Andromeda and so far I’m enjoying it a lot. The game is gorgeous! Its flaws may start showing later, but for now it’s great - and it’s not like the other ME games don’t have flaws.
- Comment on Stay on the designated path 1 month ago:
Am I the only one who’s more bothered by “wyd” missing a second w than by the picture?
- Comment on What's your favourite era for video games? 1 month ago:
Gothic 1 is my all time favourite RPG. 2 is everything a sequel “should” be: bigger, some mechanics improvements without losing the core, and (with the expansion) callbacks to 1 and familiar characters. And yet it also lost some of the atmosphere. This is why 1 will always be my favourite.
Despite that, it’s still a great game, and many people’s favourite. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
You should really ask the same question - or its inverse - in a conservative forum. If you only ask it here, you’ll get a very skewed answer.
And to be honest, the question itself and the wording shows your bias as well. Whenever something about US politics is posted on Lemmy, there are always comments about how “they” are hate-filled people, how “they” are projecting, how “they” want to rape children. It’s a different expression of that hatred, but it is the same hatred.
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 1 month ago:
What happened to Lord Buckethead?
- Comment on How does Assassin's Creed 2 hold today? 2 months ago:
I started playing through the series a few years ago, having never played them before (I finished Origins a while ago and am now on a break).
AC2 is quite playable still - in fact all of them are. But there are some things that I would’ve liked to know beforehand.
The keyboard and mouse controls are bad. Unity is the worst here: I’d try to run from an enemy and suddenly the character would decide to jump onto a fountain and run around on top of it. AC2 has less of this, but the parkour can feel clunky.
There are too many collectibles, and they all get icons on the map. It’s hard to ignore these, but in trying to collect everything I started to resent the games. To a lesser extent, the same is true for trying to get perfect scores on missions, or doing all side content. The problem is that some of the side content is actually good, but some is just filler and you can’t really know in advance.
Something that bothered me a lot: often you’d get a new mechanic thrown at you looong before the main story introduced that mechanic.
Overall my advice is to play the game - and others in the series - by picking and choosing what you want to do, not by trying to do or see everything.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
I’m going through Mass Effect 3 now. When I started the series I thought it seemed good, but I didn’t really understand why it was so very popular. And then the story picked up, and I understood.
Then the opening scene of 2 came, and that was amazing. What a way to start a sequel.
Now in 3 I feel like they nailed the atmosphere. I can’t wait to see where the story goes.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
+1 for The Talos Principle, it’s a very good game - but be warned it is less accessible than Portal. Where Portal gives visual clues to solutions, The Talos Principle actively hides them. Especially the bonus stars can get very hard.
- Comment on utterly bamboozled 2 months ago:
He was using a decimal comma. The counter offer was 1000 times more than he wanted to pay.
- Comment on Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies 3 months ago:
I didn’t count them, but wired itself has a very impressive list of “partners” in their cookie disclaimer too.
- Comment on Lemmy helping Lemmy World - Youtube without Ads 3 months ago:
Vivaldi with built-in ad block. Every once in a while YouTube changes something and ads get through for a couple of days. Then a Vivaldi update fixes it again quickly. I assume Vivaldi is too small a target for YouTube to care more.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
You’re looking at this the wrong way. Why would you want a KVM? What you want is a genuine Apple ™ Mighty ™ Magic ™ Mouse ™ with a single button.
- Comment on What is on your to-play list for 2024? 4 months ago:
I’m finally getting around to Mass Effect. So far I’m really enjoying it. The first time you get to explore what I assume is the main hub, it’s pretty cool.
I also enjoyed The Witcher 1 a few years ago, but was thoroughly disappointed with 2.
Last year I played Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 and enjoyed both, though I prefer 1.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’ll join the others in saying it’s definitely worth a try. The main character’s actress does a phenomenal job.
As for the hardware, I think it will do fine, but be sure to try it within 2 weeks of purchase (and not play more than two hours) so the Steam refund policy can protect you if needed.
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 6 months ago:
Good rice, well prepared, needs no sauce. Ketchup wouldn’t even enter my mind.
- Comment on Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules 6 months ago:
CFO and executive veep Dan Durn
What, “vice president” is too long, but VP too short?
- Comment on Can't remember the last time I wasn't tired 6 months ago:
Of course there’s also that other solution. You know, the one the rest of the world uses.
- Comment on Waveterm 6 months ago:
I … Wha…. WHY??
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 6 months ago:
Thank you. I was thoroughly confused by this title and the article’s use of “grandfathered”.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 6 months ago:
I work on software which is pirated. It is even sold by crackers, who make money off my work. This does not make me proud.
What does make me proud is when a paying customer says they love a specific feature, or that our software saves them a lot of manual work.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 6 months ago:
I did, once. It didn’t work.
- Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated 7 months ago:
People trust a squid predicting football matches.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 7 months ago:
That’s his point: YouTube might not be replaced, but that doesn’t mean it cannot disappear.
- Comment on And thats a fact 7 months ago:
Are we sure that either of these exist? Maybe sharks and camels are just AI generated.
- Comment on Marriage squabbles 7 months ago:
It’s also ‘its’.
- Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. 7 months ago:
I never see Vivaldi mentioned in these. Yes, it’s chromium based, but I have not seen a single YouTube ad since they implemented built-in ad block many years ago. Without the need for extensions, plug-ins, or user managed block lists.
- Comment on Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye 7 months ago:
In theory, yes. However last time I tried Assassin’s Creed 1 (I think about 3 years ago now), it crashed at startup trying to reach a service that no longer existed. I had to disconnect the network, start the game, then reconnect. After this it worked fine.
- Comment on Euro data watchdog bans Meta's use of personal data for ads 7 months ago:
The article is quite hard to read. I think it comes down to this: Meta has been arguing that its Terms of Service are enough consent for data collection. European courts disagree: consent has to be explicitly given. Meta has been ignoring this ruling for 5 years now, without much consequence. Now, the EU is starting to clamp down harder - coincidentally just a few weeks before Meta will introduce a new system. In this new system users will get a choice to either consent (explicitly), or pay to use the service without data collection consent. Data privacy advocates believe this would still be illegal. However - personal opinion, not mentioned in the article - this will likely take many more years before it goes to court, let alone before it is enforced. In other words: they keep getting away with it.