ThunderWhiskers
@ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - ‘A Betting Man’ Trailer 2 weeks ago:
A betting man would play this one slow. I am definitely part of the crowd that wants this to do well but I am not counting on it.
- Comment on This technology will change video games forever... 3 weeks ago:
Also: Batman
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
No they aren’t. Deer are often struck mid-bound which will absolutely send them flying into your windshield. Also, depending on what part of the world you are in, deer can get pretty huge.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
The qunari design is the weirdest thing to me. They Bioware spent so much effort solidifying who the Qunari are in 2 and had a great design to reflect that. Then in 3 I feel like they maintained and perhaps even improved the design, but kinda watered down the characterization of the culture. Perhaps I’m misremembering and the group of Qunari present in 2 are a more extreme sect than they are representative of the people as a whole. Now in 3 they seem to have really softened everything about the race. I’m just confused about the design direction which is disappointing because I really enjoy the qunari of DA2.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
DA2 has several bad qualities. I personally would not generalize it as a bad game. I am willing to concede that this is an unpopular opinion, however.
- Comment on Steam now explicitly states you're not buying the game, just a license 5 weeks ago:
This has always been the case and isn’t news. They’re just putting it right in front of you before you hit the buy button.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #13 - Friday the 13th: The Game 1 month ago:
This game was actually pretty fun if you could find a lobby but it was buggy as hell and could become lopsided pretty quickly.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
I dunno man I spent a weird amount of time rolling that idea around in my head before even getting to the pedants comment.
- Comment on After over 1 year I solo developed a horror game where you play as a Baby on a Tricycle which you can customize, paint, change diapers, draw on walls and have to escape monsters! It's coming out on 16 2 months ago:
I know nothing about game development, so feel free to reference back to that. If the player is controlling an actual toddler in this game, rather than a 2ft tall Ethan Winters, have you considered trying to alter the camera and movement controls so they are more wobbly/unsteady? The most jarring observation I had from the trailer was "No toddler on the planet moves that purposefully.
Otherwise I think you have a fantastic spooky atmosphere and I think the idea of playing a helpless child really lends itself to the horror genre in a powerful way.
Do you think you could expand on what the gameplay is actually like?
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
I honestly don’t know. It just seems like a tiny bit of cooperation could vastly reduce the costs of game development for all studios involved.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
He is baffled by the focus of assets. Thousands of people from across the world came together to create these beautifully meticulous visual details, yet nobody bothered to make sure the game is actually fun to play.
Also, I know I’m going to be gunned down on this hill but BOTW is boring. I have tried again and again to get through that game and can’t push myself beyond 10-15ish hours. It’s like everyone that is raving about it has never played a basic open world game before. It has a cool physics system but that can’t properly up the fact that the huge open world is just EMPTY and when you do finally find something to interact with it’s either 1)One of 4 enemy types that you can either use the physics engine to cheese or just whack at using the most basic combat system imaginable (and you’ll be punished for using with a broken weapon), or 2) an incredibly basic “dungeon” that involves 1-3 simple puzzles and maybe another boring fight.
To top it off the writing is absolutely atrocious, so you can’t even rely on that to drive you through the mediocre gameplay. I just don’t get it.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
This is the thought that really stuck with me from the article. Even if it were through some kind of marketplace, couldn’t developers share assets for reuse across different games? You can’t tell me that an asset can’t be retextured or an animation tweaked to apply somewhere new and be virtually indistinguishable for a fraction of the cost of creating it from scratch.
- Comment on Dolphins is whales. 2 months ago:
Bet you could cut down a pretty tall tree with that bad boy.
- Comment on inZOI - Exclusive Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
Don’t get me wrong I adore BG3 and it is absolutely stunning, but I don’t know if we can compare a heavily curated experience like that to something like this which allows for such a high degree of customization and player created content. It will be interesting to see if the final product actually looks like this. You can damn well guarantee all of those customization options will be locked behind micro transactions though.
- Comment on inZOI - Exclusive Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
I have zero interest in playing this but it’s visually stunning. I can’t think of another game with this combination of graphic fidelity and smooth complex animation.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
I have considered it a few times and I even have Helldivers installed still, buuuut I’m balls deep in my first run of Elden Ring right now and I haven’t even hit the DLC yet, so 🤷♂️.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
It’s a very different experience, but have you considered Baldur’s Gate 2?
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
How is the Helldivers community these days? I had so much fun with that one before the whole PSN debacle. It kinda killed the vibe for me at the time and I have since moved on to other things, but I was so surprised how much a third-person online shooter sucked me in at this point in my life.
- Comment on More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade 2 months ago:
Are you drawing a conclusion from this?
- Comment on Economists pan Harris-nomics 2 months ago:
In my experience most economists support “conservative” financial policies, because less expenditure=good, despite the fact that historically the deficit increases under Republican led administrations.
- Comment on Economists pan Harris-nomics 2 months ago:
Economists are generally pretty bad at two things:1) Predicting economic futures and 2) agreeing with other economists.
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 2 months ago:
My biggest fear about a Google breakup would be what that does to the mobile market, specifically in the US, given the iPhone’s popularity here.
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon add your Android phone to File Explorer 3 months ago:
This seems like a great QOL improvement. Cue someone smarter than me to drop in and explain why it’s not and also is a security compromise.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future 3 months ago:
Lmao I’m leaving it.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future 3 months ago:
Non-essential and predatory are not mutually exclusive, especially given Blizzard’s history of player manipulation. They have perfected the science of making you want someone that you don’t need.
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
This is patently untrue. I want Lemmy to be successful as much as any other user on here but reddit had 150-200 million MAU in 2016. Lemmy is being recorded as a generous 2 million.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
Oh, weird. They don’t require prints for a DL in TX, but we’re already closing in on an authoritarian state anyways. I didn’t know this was a thing.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
That’s the fun part about the war for privacy. We have already lost and if you make a big deal about it they’re just going to make your life hell!
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 6 months ago:
Haha ok so you’re just one of those people whose understanding of the universe isn’t capable of expanding beyond “this good, that bad”.
I haven’t defended anyone and never intended to. I’m just saying get your comparisons straight. “Hey this game has a bunch of annoying bugs” =/= “Yo this shit is effectively non-functional and empty”.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 6 months ago:
I’m not downplaying anything, but comparing a dumpster to a dumpster fire and saying they are the same thing is, at best, a little misleading.
The release of Witcher 3 was bad, but it was industry standard bad. Cyberpunk shipped straight up broken and incomplete. It has been fundamentally reworked at least twice since launch.
I don’t think anyone is apologizing for The Witcher 3 at launch, but let’s not pretend they are the same thing. There are more shades than black and white.