A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 12 hours ago:
1 is just a multilevel death match.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 12 hours ago:
IF it comes out, its been years, already, and Konami isnt exactly the best company. I still hold true to the belief they only announced it to take thunder away from that game the suikoden creators made, never expecting the massive immediate interest which made them do a definitive “oh shit”, which probably accounts for the delays, since it probably didnt get started until they realized they put themselves in a corner, lol.
I dont blame you for not finishing 3, Imho 3 is the weakest of the suikoden games, the way the main story is divided between 3 prospectives that you keep bouncing between really hinders getting into it, at least in my opinion. by the time they all converge together at the end, it feels like you’ve only just started getting into the game and now its over.
4 had a good story, but I feel like they cranked the encounter rate up when they realized it didnt have enough game to last 40+ hours otherwise, because holy shit you cant seem to move more than 2 steps without a random battle.
5 is, I think, the distillation of everything good about Suikoden into 1 game. It shed all the bad mechanics, enhanced all the good mechanics, had a brilliant story, characters you fall in love with, and more. I would LOVE to see 5 come to PC. I dont even need a remaster, just a straight port.
And thats saying a lot because Suikoden 1 and 2 were goddamn brilliant, exceptional masterpieces in their own right.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 18 hours ago:
yep. Good games are timeless.
Its why you can still go back and play great old games like Suikoden, or Final Fantasy, or Street Fighter, or whatever, without issue. cause they are timeless.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 21 hours ago:
is real good. and stands up too. still as good today as it was 20 years ago.
except the bridge level.
Fuck the bridge level.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 2 weeks ago:
Minecraft runs great, I dont know about factorio.
but I know some native versions suck absolute ass and force you to use the windows version via proton regardless. ETS/ATS and Cities Skylines 1 being my immediate personal examples.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 2 weeks ago:
Just in time for 32gb to become the necessary standard, so they can still sell you egregiously overpriced ram upgrades.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
but not on her, just in the game you convinced her to play with you.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 weeks ago:
I wager your dad has a subscription or something he doesnt want to admit.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 weeks ago:
I’m not too familiar with chrome books, i know some of them are insanely locked down to prevent this… but see if theres a linux distro compatible with your chromebook, and if its possible to slap a linux install on it.
save you having to buy a new machine, possibly.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
AI is nothing more than a way for big businesses to automate more work and fire more people.
and do that at the expense of 30+ years of power reduction and efficiency gains, to the point that private companies are literally buying/building/restarting old power plants just to cover the insane power demand, because literally operating a power plant is cheaper than paying the energy costs.
- Comment on Mha heart 2 weeks ago:
Like Vedal could last 30 seconds.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
I got the game for free with a video card, and it being bundled played no part in the decision making process to get the card.
So that gave me some leeway to play it and laugh at the absolute dogpile of it without being burdened with the crushing reality of having paid $60+ dollars for it.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
It does have an annoying and terrible cutscene though.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
I agree that it had potential.
but I doubt bethesda, with another year… with another 5 years, could have made anything better than what they have now. So I dont think that potential will ever be realized.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 5 weeks ago:
Honestly the game falls apart at the end of the tutorial with how hamfisted and forced the “but thou must!” was to get you on the ship regardless of your opinion.
also I just started playing it again, first time since launch, just to see how Shattered Space was…and what the fuck have they done with the game? It runs worse now than it did at launch! on the same hardware!
at launch i was able to play on a mix of medium with some select highs and have a stable, playable frame rate.
Now I have to play on mostly low with some medium to get the same rough FPS.
and literally nothing else can happen on my PC while playing.
I so much as get a discord audio que for a message and the game immediately loses 30fps.
God forbid I have a video open on my second monitor. Which I was able to do at launch, but now? Tanks my frame rate into the single digits from 120 (to be fair, its a very unstable 120, and again, due to being mostly low/some medium settings).
Fallout 4 doesnt hit my system this hard on ultra settings with graphic enhancing mods. I get better performance in games with raytracing enabled than I do with starfield. and Dynamic resolution/scaling doesnt help. just makes the screen blurry.
and they have the audacity to defend this as their best game ever?
ugh.
… sorry, went on a bit of a rant.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
There were plenty of free forum hosts back in the day.
But then social media came out, and everyone got addicted to the gamified dopamine mechanics like upvotes and shit. So now everything has to have upvotes, or likes, or whatever other stupid bullshit shit that has absolutely ruined human interaction and discourse and is single handedly to blame for the extremity in modern discourse, because the need to drive clicks and upvotes leads to extreme polarization where no common sense, honest discussion can be held.
because you either 100% agree with me (upvote) or you are a baby killing bastard who disagrees with me (downvote), and there can be no middle ground! /s
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Most people are stupid, myopic imbeciles that arent bothered by anything until it personally affects them.
Then they’ll howl like wolves at the moon about the great injustice of it all, and how could anyone allow this to happen.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Dude. Seriously. Genuinely.
Are you on drugs?
Or are you the victim of a mental derangement?
Because we need an explanation for this complete divorce from reality you seem to be suffering from.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
ah yes, the google white knights.
because thats what a billion dollar company that threatens to seize control of the internet needs.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Yes, and its a nasty story thats all unofficial cause no one is gonna go on the record.
but the short of it is, Edge had its own browser engine, but google kept making changes to youtube and other sides that broke its performance and made it run like dogshit, while leaving chromium based browsers alone.
after many instances of sabotage > microsoft workaround > google sabotage> microsoft workaround. Microsoft finally gave up and remade Edge as a chromium based browser.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
why go after microsoft.
Go after fucking google.
Chromium is the plague, not Edge.
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’ve spent so much time smashing my head against the wall trying to resolve issues that would be very simple to solve on windows, largely cause windows is the native platform for a lot of this shit so its just inherently easier there.
The best example of that was setting up Stalker Anomaly. Good god was that a fucking nightmare. Cyberpunks not to fun either trying to get the mods set up.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Someone should analyze the app and see what permissions it needs, cause it could be a much bigger sticking point than anyone realizes if its spying on your phone activities.
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 1 month ago:
They only had 4 on r2modman.com
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 1 month ago:
r2modman supports 4 games, 3 of which are relatively obscure.
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 1 month ago:
It only supports Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk at the moment iirc.
Cyberpunk is a good one though, cause it requires running external .exe files for some of the mods to install/run. Which I hope they get working, cause thats also kind of a problem games Skyrim/Fallout/Starfield have, in that the most essential mod is Script Extender, and trying to find a way to launch it on linux that will launch the game.
- Comment on ps2 graphics 1 month ago:
I am not gifted enough to be on a donkeys level.
Maybe, maybe Tardigrad with an OD of little blue pills.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
I’m surprised you guys havent started the push of “If you are going to force us to have this app for essential day to day work, then you need to provide us with phones to put it on, because we can not be expected to devalue our personal devices with excess work related use”
- Comment on ps2 graphics 1 month ago:
Sun is almost directly over head, Intellectually, I know that.
But still, seeing these pictures hurts my brain down on the primal monkey/lizard level.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
People who are proud of getting a good deal via an app break my heart. Most folks I know like that are not strapped for cash. They just like the feeling of getting a bargain. They don’t consider that the prices are artificially inflated.
Thats why Prime Day is such a big deal.
People think they are getting awesome deals cause its 50% off, are not going and checking price trackers to see the item had a HUGE price spike a week before Prime Day.
But they think they got 50% off and that gives them that massive dopamine rush, and that encourages more spending.