A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
This is why we don’t need vaccines.
We just need gradual exposure to a lesser form of bullshit, so we can develop immunity to the greater whole of bullshit!
/s
- Comment on Tango Gameworks is back with a new look... and a new website! 2 days ago:
I can 100% see where you are coming from, and understand your position on it.
but I, personally, liked all the extra stuff to do, cause it let me take breaks from the story lines and fuck around whenever I wanted. Not saying you are wrong, or that I am right… Just a different preference. We can be, and both are, right for our perspectives of the game and how we wanted to play it.
- Comment on Tango Gameworks is back with a new look... and a new website! 2 days ago:
More Ghostwire games when? :D
- Comment on Avocado 3 days ago:
not as chewy, either.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 days ago:
the british have to be the most over sensitive people on the planet, for some of the shit I’ve seen them complain about that made the news cycle.
- Comment on Console war, console war never changes 3 days ago:
I feel so old that genesis isnt on that list.
- Comment on Console war, console war never changes 3 days ago:
Its expensive, and over priced, and you don’t own it despite buying it.
- Comment on Console war, console war never changes 3 days ago:
He still wont be buying games. He’ll buying a cart with a key that will allow him to access leased games, for so long as nintendo decides to run the service.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 5 days ago:
Congratulations.
Your ribbon is in the mail.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 6 days ago:
Phillips is identified, in muricuh, by just the cross pattern hole.
JIS is a cross patterned hole, with a separate round indentation in one of the cross corners.
They are very close to each other, but not exact, and can round eachother out.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 6 days ago:
Right now is where it should have been on release.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 6 days ago:
CP2077 was not finished when it came out at the end of 2020.
This revisionist history of it being complete on release will get no traction here.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 6 days ago:
I don’t care.
Shut up about the game.
Don’t fucking say a thing about it until its like 6 months from launch.
Did they learn nothing from last time?!
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 1 week ago:
I want to know how Half Life ends. I couldnt give a shit about fan shit. Some of its good and engaging, not putting it down, but its not relative to the current issue… I want the conclusion to the fucking story I paid for and got massively invested in, in 2004. That I bought the next chapters of in 2006 and 2007.
Two things piss me off like nothing else when it comes to media.
Stories that start, leave you on a cliffhanger and never finish.
and Stories that are amazing all the way up until the end, when someone just decides to squeeze a big fat wet turd out and said good enough (Fucking mass effect…)
I’d rather spend 18 years being blueballed and cockteased by Bea Arthur.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 week ago:
don’t put it past nvidia.
they gotta fulfill those unrealized promises about native 4k gaming somehow.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 week ago:
Thats just social media.
Which is why social media shouldnt exist. cause its not good for anyones health.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 week ago:
30 years old next year 😭
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 1 week ago:
Valve has said on at least a couple occasions they don’t really have interest in making games anymore, unless there is some new technology they get interested in that they can make a game around.
The HL2 episodes were basically tests for different source engine technologies.
Alyx was basically then playing around with VR.
So yeah, I can totally see some weird fucked up thing like a brainchip being what HL3 is built around, if HL3 ever stops being anything more than a syphilitic hallucination of a desperate mind.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed 1 week ago:
kinda brave of you to believe in valve even if they produced a trailer.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 week ago:
“this time of year” is 100% christmas.
from people putting up lights, probably trying to run remote power to a box with an extension cord, or because they installed half their lights backward and need this to bridge between the two sets because they rather embrace the danger than redo all the work.
- Comment on Beat down with the sickness 1 week ago:
I don’t care about regular everyday insanity.
as long as hes not, like, running a weird cannibal sex cult like jared leto or supporting conservatism/hatred/etc, I can at least listen to the old albums without feeling guilty.
- Comment on Beat down with the sickness 1 week ago:
Oh good. Its just about Corgan being a fucking loony toon weirdo.
I thought it was going to be something proper horrific like child sex trafficking, cannibalism, or republicanism.
- Comment on Beat down with the sickness 1 week ago:
I’m surprised you could type out the name without vomiting uncontrollably.
- Comment on Beat down with the sickness 1 week ago:
Oh dear god… I am terrified to ask this…but what happened with Smashing Pumpkins?
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 week ago:
Respectfully, I have to disagree with some of what you said… I don’t mind end game being a challenge, or even difficult.
Because the end game has always been in instances and raids. I don’t mind raids being challenging. I dont mind 3/6mans being challenging. Cause they are content you can typically choose to do or not, you need a group to do them, and they have the tier system that lets you select how difficult you actually want it.
Thats a good, healthy system to introducing challenge to the system.
And that meshed very well with the otherwise relaxed/chill nature of lotro. Because before mordor, Turbine/SSG/Whatever they are now, did a fairly admirable job at balancing and spacing out the challenging aspects amongst the fun and relaxing stuff to keep playability and fun high, while keeping a sense of satisfaction by overcoming the challenging bits.
Landscape wasnt a cake walk, unless you were ridiculously overeveled, but it wasn’t a torture session either. Any class could get through their landscape quests with an acceptable amount of challenge.
But then Mordor came in, and you couldn’t solo landscape unless you were one of the chosen classes, with Hunter being the king of them, because their DPS was insane, and they were range, so they could power down anything without taking damage. A poorly equipped hunter was solo survivable, when a very well equipped not-hunter could barely survive, if survive at all.
Mordor landscape wasn’t fun, it wasn’t a challenge. it was just naked brutality for brutality sake. They listened to a vocal minority that hadn’t played the game for long, comparatively, and wanted to turn lotro into a souls-like difficulty game, at the expense of all the people who had made lotro their evening stable for a decade+. and they lost players because of it. It really changed lotro from a fun way to spend an evening, to a way to ruin your evening because you just want to do these handful of landscape quests without having to deal with generic orc 37 that’s as strong as a 3/6 man miniboss (slight hyperbole).
I dont know if they’ve re-balanced the areas since then, or introduced mechanics to take the edge off, or what. I hope they did. I hope they’ve brought the fun and play-ability back so new players don’t hit the same wall that destroyed a generation of players, but no matter what changes they may or may not have made… ultimately, I just cant see myself ever mustering desire to play lotro again… and that saddens me as much as the state of the game that made me quit to begin with.
I don’t want to even think of how many thousands of hours i poured into lotro over a decade of almost nightly play.
- Comment on Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address 1 week ago:
“I’m very anti-cop, as long as people don’t do anything to defend themselves against irrational abuses of cops”
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 1 week ago:
Can he no longer enjoy life cause he logged into chaturbate.
Or did he never enjoy life, because his moms a miserable kind of cunt that announces to the world her sweet baby boy looked at THE PORNOGRAPHY and is stirring up a massive, baseless lawsuit over it, thus traumatizing the fuck out of him… which I imagine isnt the first time shes done so.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 week ago:
I love lotro. I played it for 10 years. From release, until mordor.
I was madly inlove with lotro. It was a beautiful game. the only MMO where you actually read lore and quest text and anything else, because of how immersive it was all… and the game was perfect (before mordor). Casual, relaxing, but challenging in all the right places.
and the community was just absolutely amazing. Kind, considerate, helpful, generous. Like you said, i think the average age of lotro players was over 40… Until there was there was some issue with WoW that caused a lot of WoW players to immigrate to lotro… Then chat got less friendly, and more obnoxious, and the community got less kind, and less helpful… cause all the kind helpful people got burned by the jackholes being jackholes… Still a pleasant community, but no where near what it was before that WoWpocalypse.
My love and faith in the game changed with Mordor, though… Mordor broke me, It was just so pointlessly difficulty spiked on even the landscape mobs were slaughtering raid-ready players, that most of my kin, myself included, ended up just quitting the game. A few people eventually got the gang back together again for southern mirkwood, but that mordor level of difficulty was still there. No one in the kin, except for the hunters and the champions, seemed able to even 1v1 the landscape mobs. that also reflected group content… no one wanted anything but healers and hunters. was the same with mordor, but even worse with southern mirkwood. Mobs were so dumbly overpowered that only the lotro character equivalent of tactical nukes were wanted in groups… I, sadly, was not a tactical nuke class.
It really breaks my heart. I loved that game. I made great real life friends in that game… I met my Ex in that game (though in retrospect that probably shouldnt be viewed as part of the happy memories lol), Spent so many evenings bullshitting in voice chat while we did instances and group content, or just ground out old content for deeds. Was such a magical fucking experience, that I’ll probably never experience again for the rest of my life. The pre-mordor game was absolute perfection. Especially with the revamps to some less ideal/polished game areas like Moria.
And killed, to me, because devs listened to a vocal minority that wanted moar harderer.
I’m sad now.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
horse armor that didnt even add armor to horses.
It just, iirc, 3x’d the horses base health.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
To be fair, the Prime Ministers should really be focused on more important things than a game companies software development.