Quetzalcutlass

@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Nintendo:

  • Megaman X. I was never a fan of classic Megaman, but the faster, more action-oriented sequel/spinoff X series rates amongst my favorites. It has tight controls, good music, varied stages, and memorable bosses and combat encounters. I must have beaten the first game dozens of times over the years.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It and Link’s Awakening on the Game Boy were so close to perfect that decades later they’re still the basis of comparison for any new 2D Zelda-like.

  PC:

  • Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn. it was the game that introduced Bioware’s trademark party banter and focus on interesting and likeable characters. The systems are a little rough but it still mostly holds up. Though it’s been a while since my last playthrough, and I usually stop once I hit the Underdark and the open world structure constricts for a few hours.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to hold the PS button and select (I’ll never stop calling it that) until the LED starts flashing, then it’ll be in pairing mode.

  You can buy phone mounts for PlayStation controllers. It’d definitely be cheaper than a whole new controller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like the game that changed its dailies was Star Rail, not Genshin Impact. Which makes sense: I remember seeing the change in-game but I haven’t played Genshin since around the event in Enk… whatever the underground area is called.

  I’m trying to find good articles about it but internet search is abysmal these days, especially for news outside the anglosphere. I did find [a forum thread about the Star Rail change](gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/…/80655669l as well as a Reddit comment translating and explaining the proposed law though.

  The TL;DR of it all seems to be that some time around December 2023, new restrictions were proposed affecting gacha games to curb addicting behavior. The news caused stock prices for affected Chinese companies to plummet, and the person who proposed the law was quickly removed from his position and the proposal dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Hat in Time gets a surprise update with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good to know, thanks! It still ran fine with mods before, it was just the initial load to the main menu that was affected. If you didn’t experience anything then hopefully it was fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE BIBLE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the ones who can’t develop a guilt complex end up becoming leaders. I said don’t worry, stop worrying!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Hat in Time gets a surprise update with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How’s the game with mods these days? The last time I tried them was when support was fairly new, and adding even a few mods would bloat the game’s launch time to unbearable levels (several minutes on an SSD).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the detailed write-up! I’ll have to pick it up at some point; even if it doesn’t hit the same highs as JA2, there hasn’t really been much else that comes close and a more modern coat of polish would be welcome.

  What did you think of the new aiming system? I’ve heard mixed things, but it sounded good to me (or at least way better than a flat percentage).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ReVanced (a patched version of the official app) is straight up better than Premium because it can get rid of all the crap corporate insists on shoving into customers’ faces. My YouTube app has a subscriptions tab (that only shows videos, not shorts or random “informative” carousels) and my profile tab with all my playlists.

  It’s glorious in its simplicity. Why would I ever pay Google for a worse product?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard good things about 3, but haven’t bought it myself. I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts if you ever get back into it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There was also COVID screwing up sales projections for the last few years. People were stuck at home for months and ended up buying a ton of digital media such as games to stay sane. Executives are stupid and were somehow shocked when numbers dropped after quarantine ended and people went back to their regular lives. Since then, a bunch of projects or even entire studios have been axed due to “underperforming” because they couldn’t compete sales-wise with a period where the entire world was a captive audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover a materials maze that prevents bacterial infections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay then, the labyrinthine structure spontaneously generates tiny minotaurs, which then consume the disease-causing miasma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite Tactical RPGs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jagged Alliance 2 (especially with the 1.13 mod) is the most ludicrously detailed tactical RPG you’ll ever find. It can be a nightmare to actually play until you spend many, many hours learning all its systems, but nothing else comes close immersion-wise. You can customize every mercenary’s loadout down to individual weapon attachments, capturing different parts of the map gives bonuses that actually make sense (like being able to ship in weapons once you’ve taken the airport), you can train militias to hold onto captured sectors for you, and you can even use the in-game internet to send flowers to the main villain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony PlayStation finally gets rid of PC game region locks after an entire year — but some still remain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is banned in Vietnam because it couldn’t/wouldn’t comply with their restrictive content laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The battle pass removed its daily check-in IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China started drafting legislation cracking down on engagement bait daily tasks a few years ago and some games (like Genshin and other Hoyoverse titles) dropped daily check-in bonuses as a result and made more things reset weekly. I think China later backtracked (IIRC the politician pushing the laws fell out of favor?), but not being forced to log in every day made those games so much less stressful.

  I haven’t played those games in years, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that crap crept back in again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devil May Cry isn't that great of a series⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What other game lets you fight a demonic Bill O’Reilly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot of people hyped up Outer Worlds as a spiritual successor to New Vegas and were disappointed when it didn’t reach the same height of writing. Obsidian not being given any time to make New Vegas and then missing their contracted bonus payout by a single Metacritic point was brought up a lot before release, and gamers trumpeted this new game as what Obsidian could have made without Bethesda mismanagement. Then it came out and had the temerity to be average.

  It wasn’t Obsidian’s or the game’s fault that people decided it had to be a 10/10 masterpiece, it just got caught up in a stupid fanbase war against Bethesda and its reputation suffered as a result when it couldn’t meet people’s sky-high expectations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Portal 2 has the best introduction to jumping controls of any tutorial in existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a shot of vitamin M and keep fighting, Soldier!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal Gear Solid had a weird halfway version of this: you would automatically eat a ration and heal when taking a fatal hit, but only if it was equipped in the active item slot. It was always fun to get an unexpected game over because you forgot to swap items back before a boss battle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeper - Official Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. Though considering how the last attempt at a Dungeon Keeper revival turned out, it might be a good thing it’s not…

  At least we have War For The Overworld.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 323 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could never get into Stellaris, or most other Paradox games for that matter. I have a thing where I want the complete experience on my first playthrough, and Paradox’s DLC practices are like anti-catnip for me. I can’t enjoy the base game because I keep thinking of what all I’m missing out on, but the game with all DLCs is overwhelming for a newbie.

  Side note, I got excited seeing this post’s thumbnail because I thought you were playing Starsector. Great game if you haven’t picked it up yet, one of those indie games that does a half-dozen genres and does them well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True story⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bric indeed hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you remind me what features people were upset about? I stayed away from most of the drama since CDPR has a long history of releasing a free major upgrade a year or two after release that fixes everything people complained about.

  I remember the dev diaries being pretty open about dropping features during development, like the RC drone turning from a staple of your kit into something shown off once in a mission and immediately forgotten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Games - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d really rather gamers focused their energy into showing support for the developer groups making cool projects, than specifically deriding any works made under publishers they dislike.

  The thing about EA is they have a long history of acquiring the developer groups you’re talking about, then mismanaging them into the ground before dissolving them entirely. I know just as many if not more only exist because of EA and their funding, but it’s hard not to feel bitter when many of my favorite studios no longer exist due to their incompetence and greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every major Unreal Engine upgrade sucks for the first few years. Eventually it’ll get optimized (the source is available and studios regularly contribute to it) or the documentation will start pointing out pitfalls and ways to increase performance. We’ll just have to suffer through a deluge of chip-melting games until then.

  I wish there was more competition in the high-end game engine scene. Unreal tries to do all of the things all of the time and suffers for it, Unity requires tuning to look good and its management keeps shooting itself in the foot, Godot isn’t nearly there yet and has a bare-bones approach that requires devs to implement nearly everything from scratch, and the dozens of in-house engines that have been open-sourced lack the community or documentation quality to foster significant uptake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Saints Row devs are cackling right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If CDPR hadn’t forced the team to crunch to get the game running at all on PlayStation, it probably would have been much more polished on release. A lot of the bugs you see in YouTube glitch compilations were due to this over-optimization (like NPCs vanishing or changing models when you looked away for a second).

  I wonder how much better the game and its reception would have been if they’d dropped the last-gen console support during development. Those were the truly awful versions; the PC version was about even with Bethesda’s launch day jank.

  I also wish they’d properly managed expectations. The PC release was buggy and missing promised features, yes, but a lot of the hate came from it being a game with an open-world city with guns and driving but not mimicking GTA’s systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t not read AV as ΔV. Damn you, KSP!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Produced by Niantic-ed Off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a weird level of hatred for the HD pack. Almost every video I’ve seen on the expansions shits on it and tells you to disable it.