BurntWits
@BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
Good to know, thanks!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
I haven’t even heard the Castle Crashers name in YEARS. I completely forgot it even existed. I used to play it a fair bit with friends back in the day. That makes me feel old now.
That’s crazy that it got a new update. I’ll have to check it out for sure. I owned it on the 360 way back, I’ll have to buy it again on steam. $17 though seems like a lot for a 17 year old game. I’ll have to get it on sale.
- Submitted 5 days ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 39 comments
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 6 days ago:
Everyone I’ve read that’s used Fedora has liked it. I’d consider it on a secondary machine or something maybe.
Cachy has been awesome, I’d recommend it if you decide to change distros in the future. I’m enjoying Arch as a base more than Ubuntu for sure. I haven’t tried anything based on Fedora though other than Bazzite which is immutable, so I’m not sure if that really counts.
Nix seems cool but its big selling point that I’ve read is easy reproduction which I don’t think I’d utilize much. I might be missing something, but Arch seems more for me personally.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 6 days ago:
I distro hopped a bit but landed on CachyOS, which is arch-based (btw) but a lot more straightforward to install and has a faster kernel supposedly. It’s been fantastic, I much prefer it to windows. Still getting used to the occasional hiccup but it’s worth it. I was never too attached to windows anyway. I’m currently running KDE Plasma but I want to try out Hyprland or something similar. It seems really cool. I have to look into how to download it though.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 6 days ago:
I’d love to build my own pc, maybe in a few years. I’m currently using a gaming laptop which is good enough for most games, but when I feel the need to upgrade I’m gonna build.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 6 days ago:
I’m so glad I switched to Linux when I did (a couple months ago). I was dual booting for a bit but two weeks ago I removed my windows partition. Feels good to be free.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
I just threw it together for a joke, I could try to make a high res one after work tonight if I rememeber
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 week ago:
Tildearth desktop wallpaper
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
I wasn’t allowed to play violent video games as a kid, but the other kids on my street were, so when it was too miserable outside for playing road hockey or shooting each other with toy guns or whatever, we’d play whatever games they had (a lot of Halo especially). Halo CE was my first ever video game, and it never scarred me or anything, and I turned out fine. Obviously everyone’s different and YMMV.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Elden Ring isn’t overly gore-y or anything (though some cutscenes could be considered a bit much for children), but I have a feeling most children trying to play it would find it way too frustrating and difficult and put it down. I’m of the opinion that Elden Ring is only as hard as you make it, but that’s assuming you’re somewhat decent or comfortable playing video games. I could give my wife the most over powered character possible but she wouldn’t be able to beat Margit (first real boss of the game for most people) because she would struggle to even control the character properly. If you’re giving the game to a kid under 10, they probably only have a few years of gaming knowledge and likely won’t be proficient enough in general gaming knowledge to git gud. That’s just my opinion though, I may be way off.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Good to know, thanks for your input!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Love that game. Can’t wait for the sequel, whenever it actually comes out.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
That’s fair, it is very highly praised. I definitely recommend playing them in order as choices you make in each game affect the future titles too. ME2 is the most popular, I personally like the first one the best but I get that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, at least compared to its sequel, but if you’re playing through the first one and find it a bit lacking or a touch boring I’d recommend pushing through anyway because CD 2 and 3 will probably be more enjoyable for you, and you really do need to play them in order imo. Otherwise it’s kind of like watching Empire Strikes Back without first watching A New Hope.
As for remastered vs original, I actually haven’t played the remastered before, only the originals (which I’ve played many times), but I’ve read it’s a good remaster so it’s probably safe to go with it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I really need to play that game. I love Souls games and have heard nothing but good things about it. It looks awesome. Maybe this is my sign to finally check it out.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Enjoy Mass Effect! That trilogy is one of the best sci-fi series ever imo.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Oh man, that’s rough. Having to re-fight a boss you already beat would suck. Thankfully Dark Souls never had that.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I loved Stray. I played it before I got cats, and now I want to replay it. I feel like I’d be able to relate to it a bit more now.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Your first paragraph is how I feel about the SoulsBorne games. Elden Ring introducing the Stakes of Marika was an excellent decision. Boss run-backs can be brutal in Dark Souls sometimes, and it doesn’t really make it harder, just more tedious. Most games would do well to have a checkpoint just before a big boss for that reason.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
You’ll have to update us next post or the one after with how you’re liking it. I loved FC3 but it’s the only one I played. I’d like to know if FC2 is a good predecessor.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I played it again maybe two months back and can attest to that. It’s a truly timeless game.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 1 week ago:
No I did everything in USD. It was a few years back so things might’ve changed but while I was still on Reddit I discussed it with some others and at least based on what they were saying, Canadian internet and phone prices were considerably higher than American. It doesn’t help that there’s a duopoly here.
- Submitted 1 week ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 71 comments
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 2 weeks ago:
Don’t visit Canada then. American prices look dirt cheap compared to what we have here.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah you’re right, just looked it up. I guess it was called the poor man’s Skyrim then. Funny how memory works (or doesn’t sometimes).
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t that one come out at the same time as Oblivion? I could be misremembering but I feel like KoA was nicknamed “the poor person’s oblivion” or something like that.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
Really hard to narrow it down, but I think this would be it:
- Elden Ring. Before the DLC this would’ve been a toss up for where on the list to put it, but SotE made me confidently place it as my favourite game of all time. I’ll avoid any other Souls games in this list for the sake of diversity but Dark Souls 1 & 3 and Sekiro were all in contention for first place before the DLC. They’d make up spots 2-4 on my list, but I’ll omit them for this one. Elden Ring renewed my love of video games, at a time where I was getting a bit burnt out from playing them. When the DLC came out I played it day one, which I never do for anything, and it completely blew me away, even more so than the base game. The world design of SotE is incredible, the views are breathtaking, and the bosses are the best in the whole series. I cannot fully express just how much I love this game when you take into account the DLC. I’m not sure anything will ever take its place on the throne, but then again I would’ve said the same of Skyrim before I played any Souls games, so only time will tell.
- Skyrim. Probably a boring or predictable choice, but with over 5k hours it’s kinda hard to not include it. I’d probably add Oblivion immediately after this one, but again, I want to make the list interesting so I’ll avoid it here. Skyrim also helped me through the darkest point in my life, so I’ll always hold the game close to my heart, even if new games come along to displace it on my list. I’ve spent so much time modding this game, and it’s one of the things that first brought me and my wife together when we started dating. It might not be my top spot anymore, but it definitely had the biggest impact on my life.
- Hitman: World of Assassination. This spot was hard to fill honestly. When I think of my favourite games, I usually just think of the Souls series and Skyrim/Oblivion. There’s lots more games I love, but the top spots are all well above the rest. It’s kind of like movies. I have four movies I absolutely adore, and they’re on the highest pedestal. There’s lots more movies I love too, but they don’t compare. Ask me for my top four, that’s an easy answer. Top five? Near impossible. Same deal here, so I just went with playtime and Hitman is my highest remaining game at around 1500 ish hours. It feels weird to call it my third favourite game ever (or I guess seventh because of the other games I’m omitting from this list but you get the point), but so does any other game I considered for here, so I’ll include some honourable mentions below. But back to this game, I feel Hitman is the perfect game for what it is. It can be serious for sure, you’re a hitman taking on contracts, but it can also be completely ridiculous too. One minute you’re tinkering with a race car to make it violently explode on the track to kill your target without anyone suspecting foul play, the next minute you’re dressed as a flamingo exiting the mission by literally flapping your wings and flying from a helipad. 47’s permanent seriousness in the most ludicrous scenarios is peak comedy honestly. Going to a high society Parisian fashion show dressed as a children’s clown and punching out the CEO is a totally normal thing you can do in this game, it’s amazing. And if you don’t like that vibe, you can be a total badass and do a full blown shootout, or a stealthy assassin and eliminate your targets from the shadows with none the wiser. It’s the ultimate hitman/assassin sandbox game.
Honourable mentions: Portal 1 & 2, Pokémon SoulSilver, Hollow Knight, Dishonored, Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Inside, Gunpoint, any Forza game before the most recent one (haven’t played it), all the Bungie Halo games, and many more. I just love video games I think.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly why I love !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works. It pays to be patient.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 2 weeks ago:
Canadian here, you summed it up perfectly. Everyone I know would agree with your points exactly. It’s a bit of a shit deal living here sometimes, but it’s infinitely better than being an American. Just look at the amount of disgust a Canadian tourist has when asked if they’re American when visiting overseas.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
It’s great. You should try to figure it out yourself if you can, but if you get stuck, here’s a few hints:
Hint #1
It takes place on the dance floor
Hint #2
Your target is on the catwalk
Hint #3
You first have to mess with the electricity near the catwalk
Hint #4
After messing with the electricity, you have to become the DJ
You should be able to figure it out from there.
