graymess

@graymess@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this was my favorite game!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know anything about this game/series, but that looks like such a cool bundle. If I found that as a kid, I would be hyped as hell to play it. Can just imagine unfolding that packaging with all the discs would feel like opening a treasure chest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 cartridge format leaked via patent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of thing didn’t used to bother me at all before it very much bothered me and now I’m somewhere in the middle. I think cartridges/discs for consoles should not require an Internet connection to play them. That said, this isn’t the PS2 era anymore. Many games release with patches day 1 and most will have at least some updates post launch. A lot of games kept offline end up missing out on a ton. Keeping a physical copy of a game is only preserving a portion of the game for a future without the servers to supply the final version, which is my main concern when it comes to physical vs digital media. We still have to rely on hacked consoles running custom firmware or emulation to properly preserve games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only ever played OOoT, MM, and WW. Just ordered an Analogue Pocket. Suggest an order.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Oracle games had GBA releases? Wow, that’s news to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Chibi-Robo! Developers Revealed koROBO, a Robot Action Adventure Game | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s just an announce video to raise money, but those animations are rough. Yes, gameplay should come first, but if they’re looking to attract a modern audience they really need to make their visuals a priority early on, especially when one of the biggest selling points of Chibi-Robo was the charm of the friendly little robot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black and White 2: The Good, The Bad, and The Divine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot the holy battle pass for exclusive creature skins. That’s too pessimistic. Maybe it’s been a while since I played them, but I think Black & White 1 + 2 had the scope of what an ambitious indie game is capable of today. Or a (these days) rare “AA” budget game. A modern B&W could be similarly scaled to the originals, but expanding on them creatively. Though of course the IP would never be granted to indie devs if anyone still holds the rights of Lionhead Studios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black and White 2: The Good, The Bad, and The Divine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Black & White 3 should open on these guys finally reaching new land where the next god begins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miyoo Mini+⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely waiting for the Miyoo A30 to get Onion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, I forgot about Artifact lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is unreal. I’m looking forward to a new wave of modern ports for N64 games I missed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite era for video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I realize I’m biased having experienced this era at my most influential (as another user easily defined it as ages 12 - 22), but this was definitely it for me. I only had a Gameboy before I finally had a PS2. The big mascot character games of this console were formative for me. Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper. Kingdom Hearts and Shadow of the Colossus were everything to me. Tons of other huge titles made this generation.

  But it’s the weird little games that I think about fondly. Katamari became a franchise, but it was just a funny novel idea when it dropped on the PS2. Kya: Dark Lineage, an adventure/fighting game absolutely packed with fun ideas from a studio that just made racing games prior. Magic Pengel - basically DIY Pokemon - was pretty much everything I wanted in a game. Even Eye Toy, which completely sucked and barely worked, offered a new way to play games.

  Things were just different then. I think it was maybe the last time we thought of games by their budgets. Most titles were what we would maybe call AA these days, something that almost doesn’t exist anymore. Where indie games didn’t exist yet, but small studios were prolific. For me, any game that let you run around as a fairly detailed 3D character in a cool setting was magic to me in a way the flat, pixelated worlds on my GBC never were. The worlds in my PS2 were believable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨May 13, 1985⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t need qualified immunity if there are no cops left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best deal you ever got?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, Valve stealth indoctrinated console gamers to Steam with the Orange Box lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Returned to my beloved 3DS to play a fan translation of the Japan-only Rocket Slime 3. The translation itself is solid, though there are a bunch of text rendering issues. Nothing that ruins the experience. I loved the previous game and this one is a very similar experience, but I think I preferred the mecha fights of 2 over the pirate ship battles of 3. The gameplay balance is all over the place, unfortunately. Regular adventuring off-ship is dead easy and a little dull. The boss fights in particular are incredibly uninspired. But the ship battles wildly fluctuate in difficulty. Some I manage to Perfect without much challenge, others have me hanging on by a thread and landing me on the Game Over screen more than once. I’m on the last chapter of the main quest and will probably give up soon on trying to complete everything as I’ve read the final post-game gauntlet is absolute hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but I recently beat P5R years after P5 vanilla. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it myself, but will try to elaborate a little without spoilers.

  I found myself mostly disagreeing with the Phantom Thieves in the new chapter and electively went through the “bad” ending first. I do like the story that was explored, however, and I think it was genuinely fascinating to see how the team approached their most complex dilemma yet. Ultimately, I appreciated what they were trying to do even if it felt a little trope-y at times. That said, the ending cutscene is leagues worse than vanilla’s and even kind of walks back some of what made the new story great.

  I’m currently playing Strikers and I’m unfortunately getting kind of bored with it after the second area. I was very impressed by how many of Persona 5’s systems translated to an action game so well, but now I’m feeling like I’ve already seen the extent of the gameplay and all that’s left is to repeat again and again and again until it’s over. The story is vaguely fun and the road trip framing is a wonderful follow up to P5’s ending. The writing is fine and the characters haven’t become flanderized quite yet despite being at about that point in the Persona spinoff cycle. But I kind of don’t care what the cast has to say about everything. Maybe that’s the problem of starting a big adventure with a full party. At every cutscene, there are at least 8 characters there to react to what’s happening, which holds up for about as long as one would expect. Considering skipping out on the rest and moving on to Tactica, since that’s way more my style of gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that still need more patience: what games released a year ago (or older) are you waiting for a sale on? Or that need another patch?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely waiting for Persona 3 Reload to both come down in price significantly and get the mostly confirmed epilogue content. But I’ll be very patient with this one. P5 Royal took me years to finish and I’ve already played through the original P3 back in the day. No rush at all from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best deal you ever got?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it the buyer giving it up to anyone who wanted it or were they under the impression G2A customer support would be refunding it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best deal you ever got?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of weird to admit to stealing someone’s purchase. Dick move, really, regardless of how dumb that was of the buyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best deal you ever got?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really worthy of Patient Gamers because I bought it shortly after launch (in an actual box at Best Buy), but the Orange Box was one of the most absurdly good deals I’ve ever seen. I can’t even calculate how many hours I’ve gotten out of it because it ended up on an old Steam account, but TF2 alone is easily my most played game ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Album of animated fighting game backgrounds⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This rules. Thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, that’s nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did I somehow miss it or does the article not even mention what the mod is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deaf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Schools don’t use these balls anymore?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only played the beta a couple months ago and I found it unbelievably boring and uninspired. I’ve never been so uninvested in a game’s world and this is a motherfucking pirate game. How is it this dull?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It worked for Netflix. It’s easy to scoff at the clearly customer-antagonistic policies these services are turning towards, inevitably accompanied by the “well, they lost me as a subscriber” flood of comments. But the unfortunate truth is the vast majority of people just shut up and pay, resulting in big net income for the corporations that enact these policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux users are what everyone says vegans are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile I’m thinking “ey, sounds like they’re getting enough money, now maybe they can leave me the fuck alone.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sly Cooper - What Happened to This Iconic Platformer?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I replayed the first one on OpenGOAL last year and it’s amazing how good it still looks at higher resolutions. Jak II is fully playable now and I’m planning to start that as soon as someone releases an HD texture pack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Plans To Release Xbox First Party Games “Across All Platforms”, Including PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No fucking chance Sony’s going to let a rival set up shop on their own consoles. Not even a possibility. Look at how much Apple and Google fought with Epic over keeping them off their phones. And that’s just over a secondary app store on a device that can do a million different things that the parent companies can still find ways to monetize. You’re talking about a competitor selling a subscription to bypass PlayStation’s only source of sales. Sony will fight that with everything they’ve got and no cut of the subscription fees will ever be enough to change their minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda hard to just trust those sites not to hide malicious shit in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks accused of rigging payments in app for nearly $900 million gain over 5 years by consumer watchdog group⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I had the energy to be this petty over $1.60.