Quetzalcutlass

@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sleipnir, is that you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad! Every time I think about replaying Dark Forces I remember the sewer level with the dianogas and change my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Blackjack and hookers is more Obsidian’s thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Gloomwood is great. It feels a lot like classic Thief in the best of ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Only seventy pounds of cheese to go! That last fight was rough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that every single edition changed the cheat codes. Titanium Edition was my favorite as a kid for making them all short and easy to remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I would, but someone stole my sweetroll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII and IX are now available on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say it’s hard to go back to games with random encounters after the genre moved away from the system, but their rereleases usually let you disable them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Still? I haven’t played OpenRA in several years and assumed they would have fixed it by now.

  Then again Red Alert 2 is even less supported than it was the last time I checked, so I’m guessing their focus is mostly on the multiplayer side of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a host of open source remakes of old game engines that fix bugs and update them for modern systems, resolutions, and aspect ratios. Here’s a few off the top of my head:

  • OpenMW for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (probably the most famous one)
  • Daggerfall Unity for The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
  • OpenRA for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Dune 2000, and (in pre-alpha form) Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 (the latter requiring extra fiddling with Github repositories)
  • KeeperFX for Dungeon Keeper
  • OpenRCT2 for Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
  • OpenTTD for Transport Tycoon Deluxe
  • OpenJKDF2 for Dark Forces 2 and its standalone Mysteries of the Sith expansion
  • TRX for Tomb Raider I and II

  These are just the ones I know of. There are probably loads more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has there ever been an celeb, athlete or "wrestler" who got his or her commupance out in society?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if he qualifies as a celebrity, but Andy Dick has - deservedly - had the crap beaten out of him several times, been arrested, and (after way too many incidents to count) was finally registered as a sex offender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The original FINAL FANTASY VII is getting a new refreshed edition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The update breaks save compatibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a really cool clock⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a mix of white and black beads. You just don’t see any black ones drop in the video because the last (first) line is all white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In its original Japan, Dry Bones is known as Karon, a reference to the sound of bones clattering.

  Well there you go. They won’t rest until they speak to your manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Psychedelic Exoskeletons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He misheard and thought he was hunting Quayle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would you survive with no DNA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick death is preferable. Just ask Hisashi Ouchi, a victim of severe irradiation who was kept alive in agonizing pain for nearly three months as his body decayed around him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think this belongs here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Semtex, as per the meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable - Gameplay Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the Fable games were easy. The first one had a shield spell early in the magic tree that made hits drain mana instead of health, mana potions were cheaper than health potions, you could carry a ton of them, and using them was instantaneous even in battle. It was straight-up impossible to die unless you did so deliberately.

  The shield spell also made it so getting hit didn’t reset your combo (which acted as an experience multiplier), so you could grind against infinitely respawning enemies like town guards or undead in the graveyard for a while until your combo was in the hundreds, then chug a few experience potions and max out all of your stats instantly.

  The only downside was that the spell made an annoying loud humming noise the entire time it was active.

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  I can’t remember ever having trouble in the second, but I don’t remember it being so broken either. It was just tuned a little too low since they wanted casual players to be able to enjoy it. The games could really have used difficulty options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable - Gameplay Teaser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To get the good ending you need to become a landlord. Plot twist: this is actually the evil ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Io in True Color⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That petri dish is going to need a thorough cleaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or many of the Soulsborne games.

  Tap for spoiler

  Replacing Gehrman in one of the Bloodborne endings being the most direct example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll no longer earn Steam points from community awards, as Valve try to kill off clownface-farming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably too late and part of the culture now. Things like this have to be slapped down immediately before they take root.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend some games for PCem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have excellent taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend some games for PCem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adagio of Strings intensifies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After someone on Lemmy recommended Dwarf Eats Mountain (it’s okay), I checked out the idle game genre for the first time.

  On one extreme, Magic Archery was completed in under an hour and all seven achievements were earned during normal gameplay.

  But most other idle games, oh boy. They tend to have several hundred achievements, many of which would take literal weeks if not months to achieve, and often require resetting the game back to the start dozens of times due to prestige mechanics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You killed the ultimate boss; now with their drop you are the setting’s ultimate boss. You just need to wait for another plucky young upstart to rise and take you down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some herbivores might have survived as domesticated livestock.

  Though if they tasted like chicken, all bets are off. We’d probably do to the poor bastards what we did to silphium.

  It’d be worth it for the giant drumsticks right out of Flintstones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nasty thing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, not again!

  But seriously, was there a Parasite Eve reboot I missed or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though there’s a bit of a delay counting to and back from 21.