Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Games with friends 8 hours ago:
Peak would be perfect for OP’s group. Having players of wildly different skill levels just means the better players can support the newer ones.
Abiotic Factor is an excellent game, but unfortunately it’d fail both of OP’s player requirements (too complex, and easily spoiled/speedrun by someone looking things up ahead of time).
- Comment on Games with friends 8 hours ago:
It’s a shame they pulled the demo.
- Comment on "What's 100% of zero? Like, who gives a shit?" New Blood boss unimpressed by Epic sharing more revenue with devs than Steam 1 day ago:
It’s the RPS curse. It was started back when games journalism was dominated by insipid corporate writeups and its humor was an effective contrast.
The sterile, personality-less writing the RPS founders fought against is mostly dead now and the original RPS staff have long since left, but their successors still try to ape their writing style with a fraction of the wit and talent.
- Comment on The longer I'm alive, the more I feel that people make things complicated to feel important. 2 days ago:
Reply that they should invest in a retro encabulator if they want to stay relevant.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 2 days ago:
How could a prequel even work? The first Saints Row was gritty street-level crime and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness in later entries after the Boss took over in 2. The original leader of the Saints, Julius, even has your character assassinated at the end of the first game (you get better) because he didn’t like how violent the gang was getting.
A game set before the Boss arrived and Julius was still calling the shots sounds boring.
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 3 days ago:
That moment and what happened after defeating the Elite Four in Pokémon Gold both blew my mind as a child.
- Comment on Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games 3 days ago:
GTAV has made over ten billion dollars. They would have earned more than doubled its entire lifetime development costs if they’d charged a twentieth of what they did.
- Comment on Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games 3 days ago:
They’ve monetized GTAV so thoroughly via Online that in the past they’ve given the game (including single player) for free because they still made a profit off of it.
Charging $100 for a sequel they’ll definitely monetize even worse is the epitome of greed.
- Comment on I can't say I enjoy this 19th century turd-collecting game but it did make me laugh when I patted my horse to death 4 days ago:
A game about classical poo, huh? I hope there’s a demo - you know, a copro-light.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 4 days ago:
“The internet would be a series of tubes if we rolled out fiber, but as the literal chairman of the Senate committee regulating the internet I’m somehow against that.”
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 6 runs on a new version of the Creation Engine, his Howardliness confirms 4 days ago:
The most worrying part is he didn’t include Fallout 4 (which took the simplification of RPG systems to dizzying new heights) in the list of games that felt like a departure from their style, but instead called it one of their classics.
- Comment on How kind! 5 days ago:
Scotch Bonnet sure sounds like a novelty strawberry cultivar with a whimsical name.
- Comment on Unity CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence" 6 days ago:
Or “I asked the AI to change a feature and it deleted everything instead, how do I fix this?”.
I doubt users asking AI to do everything for them will know about git and proper backup habits.
- Comment on Say no to BAYES 6 days ago:
Is the other 50% smugness and delusions of grandeur?
- Comment on smoooooth 6 days ago:
Scientists be like “ow, how?!”
- Comment on Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended 1 week ago:
The “support” was clearly a hallucinating AI agent, and Ubisoft has already clarified that the game is still supported and should get a patch in the future.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 week ago:
It’s hard to go back to Avorion after they ruined subordinate auto-trading. You used to be able to tell your traders to make money and they’d figure out trade routes and grant you a decent passive income. Now they can only trade within a few sectors (prices vary in a gradient spanning the entire galactic map, so trading with a neighboring sector is barely worth it due to prices being nearly identical), and you need to invest heavily in both the captain and trading hardware upgrades for their ship to make it even remotely usable.
I know I shouldn’t expect an X4 level economic simulation, but they straight up ripped out an already working system and the replacement is barely functional. At least someone wrote a mod allowing you to set up manual trade routes.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 week ago:
Bethesda has a tendency to take features from popular mods for their previous games to improve future titles. Skyrim’s combat, for example, is heavily inspired by the Deadly Reflex mod for Oblivion. I wouldn’t be surprised if TES 6 cribs the Souls-like combat formula due to those mods’ popularity.
- Comment on I've played Chaser (2003) and let me tell you... 1 week ago:
Chaser is a 2003 FPS from Cauldron, who would go on to create all time classics like Secret Service (2008) and Cabella’s Dangerous Hunts 2011.
As an aside, anyone who hasn’t seen the madness that is Cabella’s Dangerous Hunts 2011 and its sequel, 2013, please watch the linked videos (especially the second). Those games are insane in a way it’s hard to put into words.
- Comment on a very tasty snack 1 week ago:
Sadly the nearest L&L location looks to be multiple states away. I’d love a quality Hawaiian place. The place I was talking about is alright, but their entrées aren’t anywhere near as good as their sides.
- Comment on "It's going to be a very long goodbye" - Peter Molyneux's last game will be Masters of Albion, but that's not necessarily as simple as it sounds 1 week ago:
So it’s actually part one of a trilogy and there’s no publisher in place for the sequels? It’s like Molyneux gets off on disappointing players.
- Comment on a very tasty snack 1 week ago:
A Hawaiian fast food place opened near me last year, and teriyaki spam musubi is one of the most addicting things I’ve ever tried. I’d eat there all the time if they didn’t charge nearly four bucks per tiny sushi roll.
- Comment on SBA#26 1 week ago:
[“This is my whole thing!”
“Sorry boss, but I thought maybe your ‘thing’ could be getting away with it this time.”](youtu.be/lTauwPVETKs)
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 2 weeks ago:
The options are ‘yes’ and ‘double yes’.
- Comment on halal paintball 2 weeks ago:
Painball.
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 2 weeks ago:
Did the Pi Pico ever make any headway in the microcontroller space? It looked interesting when it was first announced but I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere since.
- Comment on "Luke, I am your *second* father" 2 weeks ago:
He knew his father was Anakin Skywalker. He didn’t know that Anakin was a Jedi until Obi Wan told him in A New Hope (his uncle lied and said he was a freighter pilot or something), and didn’t know Anakin and Darth Vader were the same person until the end of The Empire Strikes Back (because they weren’t the same person until the writers decided on that twist while making that movie).
Leia being his sister was a similar twist pulled out of their asses while writing the third movie, in the hopes of recreating the “I am your father” hype.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 2 weeks ago:
Just launch Walter Dornez at them. At some point it becomes basically the same thing.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 2 weeks ago:
I could never get the timing down on the dueling minigame. Chain shot is risk-free (and cost-free since dueling risks your crew), plus the dueling minigame gets harder as your character gets older but your sailing muscle memory is always reliable.
- Comment on Surprise, Poker Night at the Inventory is returning to Steam next month in remastered form 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing we won’t see a remastered Poker Night at the Inventory 2 due to the licenses for the featured characters being way harder to negotiate.