MeekerThanBeaker
@MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 22 hours ago:
I’ve played pretty much all but the most recent. They have their ups and downs. The first was almost like a proof of concept. Kinda boring, but the story sets up the sequels. There was a good overall story arc in the Desmond/Ezio trilogy (Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations) that hasn’t been duplicated since.
AC3 was a bit of a breath of fresh air, being part of the American revolution, but it wasn’t for everyone. The story was being deviated from earlier games too much. AC4 is, for me, still the best single-player pirate game out there. It continues with Rogue. Both of those games I highly enjoyed.
Unity (Paris during French Revolution) and Syndicate (Victorian London) both have fantastic maps and character design, but gameplay and story just wasn’t as interesting to me. The series was feeling stale.
To Ubisoft’s credit, they knew that too and entirely revamped the gameplay and menu system starting with Origins (Ancient Egypt), then Odyssey (Ancient Greece), and Valhalla (Vikings during 9th Century). Valhalla was really fun. I love how they change certain villages up throughout the year… adding festivals/challenges depending on when you play. The maps were just getting too huge and overwhelming at this point.
I play the games now mainly for exploration. Gameplay and story are secondary as they aren’t as interesting anymore. They really put a lot of detail into their surroundings and do their research on history, whether real or fantastical. It’s escapism to another land in another time.
Ubisoft is not Rockstar. The story is no longer the reason to play these games. They are forgettable. The Desmond/Ezio storyline of the earlier games are no more. However, we don’t have to wait several years to play a sequel.
Valhalla was the only one that I paid full price for since it was 2020 and we were still basically trapped in our homes, but definitely got my money’s worth. They seemed to take more time making Mirage so I’ll check that out eventually. They are remastering some of their old games so I’d play those over the dated originals.
The Far Cry series has a similar feeling for me, but with a first person perspective. New lands to explore, new stories and characters, but some are better than others.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
No… it was tRump.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
“Our new Mac Mini is so powerful, so extraordinary, you’ll never want to turn it off.” – Tim Apple, probably.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
No, no… you misunderstood. We’re just taking a trip to the brain farm up north. You’ll be able to think with the other brains up there. It’ll be fun.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 1 month ago:
I think the only way we know it is us for sure is if we are conscious in both the original and clone at the same time. Like… okay… I know this is me in the new brain, I’ll shut down the other one.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
MouseJiggle.exe
- Comment on Kaspersky removes itself and installs UltraAV without permission 1 month ago:
There are businesses that use it. I work at a small company, under 100 people and we used to use it for about six years… then we switched to Crowdstrike a few years back. And look how that ended up.
- Comment on Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action 2 months ago:
Studio heads with no film background make decisions based on spreadsheets. Those people shouldn’t be in the industry… yet they remain.
- Comment on Hollywood and Netflix Report Piracy Threats to the EU, Call for 'Intermediary' Action 2 months ago:
One or the other. Quality tends to cost more money. Fast food is cheaper than fine dining, but you can tell the difference in quality.
Problem is the Studios charge a lot for crap.
- Comment on I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED" 2 months ago:
They made an animated web series that follows Kenway:
m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/…/list?title_no=5273
They made a similar style game with Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and with different characters. I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the original.
www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/…/rogue-remastered
And IV will likely get a remake:
- Comment on How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction? 2 months ago:
I stopped watching during the 7th season. Maybe I’ll go back to finish it up, but it just felt stale even though they tried to mix things up a bit at the start.
- Comment on How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction? 2 months ago:
Teeth (whole jaw) and arms. Michonne did this to travel around as their smell would cover hers so other walkers couldn’t detect her.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
Yes… because there will be users who will always refuse to fix their own computer issues. Even if there’s an easy solution at their fingertips. Many don’t even try to reboot. They just tell IT to fix it… then go get coffee for a half hour.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
You do realize there are thousands of people who try to earn a living making the content people consume. The majority are not billionaires, they are not millionaires. Many are trying to get by… the “common folk” you speak of.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
99% of people who pirate don’t want to pay for their entertainment. They’ll come up with any excuse as to why they think it’s justified to make them feel better. “F corporations and their drm, this will teach them.”
The other 1% is for when it’s not available by legitimate means or if by chance something they did pay for and was then taken away or something wasn’t working through legitimate ways, then I get it… but again, that’s for 1%.
Another option is to not download at all.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
Why pirate games at all? I never understood that.
If games (or movies) are too expensive or not good enough to buy, why download them at all?
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
I mean… self driving cars probably will. Just not as soon as they think. My guess, at least another decade.
- Comment on REANIMAL | Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Awesome. Love the Little Nightmares series. This looks on par with those. Can’t wait.
- Comment on Goat Simulator Remastered - Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
They do have some great marketing.
- Comment on Mouse: P.I. For Hire Official Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
No.
- Comment on Mouse: P.I. For Hire Official Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
No. I am not.
- Comment on Mouse: P.I. For Hire Official Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
This is why we need copyright expirations. Disney would most likely have sued with a cease and desist to remove it.
Does it use the likeness of old Disney properties? Yes… but it doesn’t hurt their image. Doesn’t take any profit away from them.
It’s also not a cash grab like those crappy Winnie the Pooh slasher movies. This pays homage to the art style of the time.
The only thing they could have done differently was use something different than a mouse… like what Cuphead did. Studio MDHR came up with unique characters and it paid off for them by getting their own animated series and merchandising. I don’t think Mouse P.I. for Hire will get the same type of deals, but time will tell.
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 2 months ago:
I have well over 300 games on Epic Games Store. I have played zero. I don’t know why I keep getting the free games every week, but Steam is where I keep buying. Eventually, I’ll play something on there.
- Comment on Is mafia 3 really that bad? 2 months ago:
It’s disappointing, but not a bad game.
- Comment on Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's 3 months ago:
I bought an Intel last time because I got AMD the time before that and they had issues that I can’t recall right now. Security or they had to slow it down?
Luckily, I’m still on a 11th Gen. I guess I’m going back to AMD when I decide to upgrade again.
- Comment on NASA's Curiosity Rover Uncovers Trove of Yellow Crystals on Mars 3 months ago:
Fixed. I knew that, just didn’t type it correctly. Guess I was more concerned about getting the three Ys in Kashyyyk right.
- Comment on So is the global IT crash fixed yet? 3 months ago:
It’s funny. I didn’t have a lot of issues with our company. Three machines, one server. I deleted the bad update on three. When I got to the fourth, it was already fixed because the user just restarted his machine many times.
- Comment on Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines 3 months ago:
Probably includes a bunch of virtual machines.
- Comment on NASA's Curiosity Rover Uncovers Trove of Yellow Crystals on Mars 3 months ago:
Fun Fact: Yellow kyber crystals got their unique color from the hardening of Wookie urine from the mountains of Kashyyyk. It can also be used for Porg banquets due to its salty taste and rough texture.
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- Comment on Are there foods that dogs can safely eat but humans can't? 4 months ago:
The Beholder: “Ahh! Get it out! Get it out! I got Truth stuck in my eye again! It hurts! The Truth hurts!!”