Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 1 day ago:
Super Mario World uses a sprite slot system where a limited amount of memory is set aside and reused for on-screen objects. Normally stuff simply won’t spawn if you’re over the object limit, but using glitches to go over this limit leads to all sorts of weird stuff, like being able to spawn a glitched item that ends the level immediately.
Super Mario 64 has a similar object limit with equally broken results when you manage to bypass it.
- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 1 day ago:
You can go through walls in World, too! I remember doing it in one of the early cave levels after reading about it online, though aside from some messed up physics it didn’t lead to anything interesting.
- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 1 day ago:
If you want to know more about why this is possible in excruciating technical detail, check out the channel Retro Game Mechanics Explained.
I think this particular bug is covered in this video about level end glitches.
- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 1 day ago:
This and many other stupidly precise tricks, like pixel-perfect jumps against the sides of walls or a plethora of bugs involving Yoshi and his tongue.
The most common use of this particular bug is what’s shown in the image, carrying a shell and a key at the same time. You need to throw the shell against a wall while falling and land on it to extend your jump past what’s normally possible, while also carrying the key across the gap. It’s everywhere in Kaizo runs.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 days ago:
NASA are so dumb for sending their satellites all the way into space. Why don’t they simply float them above the trees as the majestic owl teaches us?
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 days ago:
*Metal Gear Solid 5 flashbacks*
- Comment on Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit 4 days ago:
This feels unnecessary. From what I’ve heard, the exploit in question requires a local file and only operates at the privilege level of the game itself, so you’re unlikely to encounter it unless you’re adding files to your game install.
So you’re vulnerable if you install malicious mods, in other words. Which, consisting Unity mods are done via DLL injection, is already the case even without this exploit.
- Comment on I just finished the Casemate mod for HALO: CE 4 days ago:
How hard was it to maintain your sanity while working on this? Whenever InfernoPlus goes into detail on working with Halo’s content creation tools, it sounds like the most painful jury-rigged mess imaginable.
- Comment on Snake Pass, unique and charming platformer 5 days ago:
if you know similar unique concepts, I would love to learn about them!
There’s an entire subgenre of indie games based around controlling weird things like this. Sadly most of them aren’t very fun (it turns out inventing entirely new control schemes is hard, who would have guessed?), but there have been a few I’ve enjoyed.
The most famous of the past few years is Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, where you play a man in a pot trying to climb a mountain. Its whole schtick is being as frustrating and unfair as possible, so it’s definitely not for everyone.
My personal favorite would be Yoku’s Island Express, which is a cute Metroidvania-lite using pinball of all things. It’s way better than it sounds, though it’s kind of easy if you have any prior experience with pinball games.
There’s also I Am Bread, which is more typical of these types of games in that it’s just being weird for the sake of being weird. In it you’re a sentient piece of bread who has to flop around a messy house, trying to complete the steps to turn yourself into delicious toast without getting inedibly dirty in the process.
And of course the granddaddy of them all, the Katamari Damacy series. I haven’t played any since the original on consoles so can’t speak as to whether the modern ones are any good.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 6 days ago:
For a prime example of this, look no further than EA’s former CEO John Riccitiello, who keeps getting executive positions despite being objectively bad at his job.
He was hired as EA’s COO (and later CEO) despite having zero experience in the video game industry (his prior work was at places like Pepsi and Clorox). EA under Riccitiello tried to squeeze every cent possible out of customers through aggressive microtransactions, pushed to make every game always-online to prevent piracy (a decision that lead to the disastrous SimCity reboot, and the Sims 4 only escaped the same fate due to SimCity’s dire reception [though it’s theorized its vastly simplified gameplay compared to earlier Sims titles is a remnant of this time]), was a major proponent of the worst sorts of anti-consumer DRM such as SecuROM, and treated employees like trash leading to an exodus of talent. EA was voted the worst company in America twice during his tenure, and people online celebrated when the stock price plummeted and he was finally pushed out.
His post-EA career was also a disaster. After leaving EA (with a golden parachute, naturally), he was hired as the CEO of Unity Technologies - the company behind the Unity game engine - due to his “industry expertise”. Over the next few years he ran the company into the ground with awful monetization strategies (he’s the one behind the “runtime fee” fiasco, where Unity wanted to charge game developers by how many times their games were installed), wasted billions of dollars acquiring middleware vendors (mainly ad and analytics companies), and set engine development priorities that chased mobile game fads over what the actual users of their product wanted. He “resigned” when the stock price dropped by over 60% in a year due to his mistakes, and the engine’s reputation hasn’t come close to recovering from the damage his leadership caused.
I can’t wait to see what company he ruins next.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 6 days ago:
Keepass2Android shows a pop-up each October asking for donations. Perfectly fine, but the dismiss button is labeled “I don’t like the app that much”. Even free software isn’t spared that sort of thing.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 6 days ago:
Especially since they started with drones unlocked!
- Comment on Life imitates art 6 days ago:
fictional Templar-run evil Assassin’s Creed gaming company Abstergo Entertainment
Did trying to parse this give anyone else a headache?
- Comment on Do you recognize this guy playing video games? 1 week ago:
Which one? Both.
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 1 week ago:
As an aside, if you want to try a fun heist game without needing to worry about letting down any teammates, I highly recommend checking out Heat Signature.
It’s single-player and is a 2D, top-down heist game where you sneak aboard space ships to complete objectives like assassinating a crew member, stealing something valuable, hijacking the entire ship, etc.
It looks simple, but things get crazy fast. One minute you’re sneaking behind guards and knocking them out with a wrench, the next you’re teleporting into a locked cabin, shooting out the glass so the explosive decompression blows you and your target into space, then teleporting back to your original location (because you used a recall teleporter that does so automatically after a few seconds) while they slowly asphyxiate, before hacking the nearby turrets to shoot down any investigating guards while you sprint back to your shuttle and escape.
- Comment on Jimmy Kimmel is The Most Boring, Cringe and Unfunny Comedian Ever; People Should Boycott Disney for Getting His Show Back. 1 week ago:
It might fit into shitposts, but the response each post gets shows the community isn’t a huge fan of these. The other places you post them suggest that you’re actually just crossposting to communities that allow anything to be posted.
But again, crossposts aren’t marked in every client (and some don’t even show the crosspost text, just the title!), so a lot of readers won’t know not to take these posts seriously and fights will break out in the comments. Though judging by the comments on the original posts, people can’t detect bait even when the community is literally named ragebait.
(Also, do the random emphasized letters mean anything? I’m too lazy to do the work of checking for hidden messages myself.)
- Comment on Jimmy Kimmel is The Most Boring, Cringe and Unfunny Comedian Ever; People Should Boycott Disney for Getting His Show Back. 1 week ago:
There has to be a better way of promoting your ragebait community than crossposting to an unrelated one. Some clients don’t even show that a post is a crosspost.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Just wait until you can only stream books, not download them, with random words replaced with synonyms using an algorithm that lets them track down who the originator of any scanned copies is.
That might sound ridiculous, but streaming-only to prevent perfect copies and hiding purchaser identifiers in the data are both DRM techniques that have been explored in other media already. There’s no limit to how anti-consumer publishers can get when they think there’s slightly more money to be had.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Palfarm Trailer - Palworld Spin-Off Game 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo to the Patent Office: “We invented farming games with the introduction of berries in Pokémon. Please ignore all other prior art that wasn’t ours.”
- Comment on smol 2 weeks ago:
Or maybe the large ones are so angry because of the countless tiny ones you unknowingly splattered against your hull?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Look upon my woods, ye mighty, and despair!
- Comment on dog days of summer 2 weeks ago:
The Gods Must Be Crazy?
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 3 weeks ago:
The real lifesaver would be deniable encryption. The kind where the encrypted content is indistinguishable from free space, and you have multiple passwords that decrypt different parts of the filesystem. That way you can be interrogated and/or beaten, “give up” and unlock your computer (using the decoy password), and still hide any incriminating evidence since those files remain hidden with no way for them to even detect that they exist.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 3 weeks ago:
But also shows were made for syndication, so most didn’t have overarching plotlines and it didn’t matter what order you watched them in. There might be one (heavily advertised) event a season that actually affected anything, and it’d be something like two characters getting married rather than something that shook up the concept.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 weeks ago:
Unreal is the king of bloat. Rather than “general purpose” they strove for “all purpose” - Unreal Engine tries to do literally everything out of the box with as many bells and whistles attached as possible. The result is that Unreal Engine games require tons of optimization to run well, and even the editor itself consumes tens of gigabytes and runs like crap.
Unity is simply a mess of poor decisions and technical debt. Their devs seem to reinvent a crucial development pipeline every few years, give up halfway, then leave both options exposed and expect developers to just automatically know the pitfalls of each. Combined with horrific mismanagement and hostile revenue-seeking, Unity has lost a ton of goodwill over the past few years. It’s a major fall from grace for what was once the undisputed king of Indie dev engines.
Godot is tiny, decently performant, and great for simple games, but it’s very bare-bones and expects developers to implement their own systems for anything beyond basic rendering, physics, and netcode. Additionally, the core developers have a reputation for being incredibly resistant to making major changes even when a battle-tested pull request for a frequently requested feature is available. Still my personal pick though.
- Comment on In Neurocracy, it's up to you to solve a murder mystery through the internet's greatest resource, Wikipedia 3 weeks ago:
And if multiplayer doesn’t bother you, the MMO The Secret World was one of the few other video games that expected players to do outside research to solve quests. That or already have a degree in history, art, and the occult.
It was relaunched as a F2P game several years ago. I don’t know if they kept the obscurity aspect or toned it down to be more friendly to casual players.
- Comment on Favorite Modded Console? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll always have a soft spot for the original Xbox due to XBMC, the homebrewed Xbox Media Center.
Though most would probably know it better by its current name, Kodi.
- Comment on Favorite Modded Console? 3 weeks ago:
The DS with a flashcart was nearly perfect. It was incredibly portable due to the rectangular shape, the screen was protected from scratches while folded so you didn’t need a case, and it could emulate every console up to the N64 as well as every Nintendo handheld (obviously). I was upset when my cart finally died - no other handheld emulator I’ve found is as convenient.
- Comment on invertebrate 5 weeks ago:
The nobility of the sea. True blue bloods, if you will.
