djidane535

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. I always play to old and new games in parallel. But I have to admit that I tend to play old games more often now then in the past (50/50 now vs 20/80 in the past 15 years ago).

  At some point, I realized I will never have enough time to play all the games I want. I would not even be able to play once again through all the games I played in the past even if I gave up new releases until my death.

  I do not focus on a specific generation nor machine, I jump between them back and forth depending on my mood. Sometimes I play a few games from the same machine in a row, but it’s not a rule.

  I think we have to accept this « frustration ». It’s not even limited to video games. You can’t experience everything, learn everything, go everywhere, in a single lifetime. Life is not a todo list after all.

  In a sense, you can even see it as a « bless »: you will never run out of games to play in your life, even if you only enjoy a few types of games.

  My only « rule » is to complete every game I start. I think it’s a waste of my time / money otherwise. As a consequence, it forces me to select my games wisely. I won’t start a game before I am sure I will find it interesting enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's a hot take about Sekiro⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Dark Souls, but Sekiro was very frustrating.

  The main issues I have with it is that (I) you have one playstyle (vs. the dozens weapons in Dark Souls), meaning that if you don’t like it, you are stuck, and (II) after a while, you only fight bosses (finding your way to reach a boss was part of the fun in Dark Souls, and this has been dropped after the first half of the game I would say).

  The game is also much more difficult, because the parrying system allows your enemies to heal after a while. You have to be very aggressive and master all the patterns, otherwise they heal.

  It took me around 50 hours to complete, among which I was stuck 15-20 hours on the final boss. It’s not a bad game, but if the gameplay does not match with your playstyle, it can almost be impossible to complete.

  What’s a bit disturbing, is that I loved Sekiro at first. It was very fun for the first 10 hours I would say. I could totally imagine people love Sekiro for those first hours, and gave up before it becomes « annoying » (since we know most people do not complete their games).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s much more difficult to find people to follow. I personally struggle a lot, and will likely either gave up the micro-blogging system or try another platform. It was great on Twitter before Musk bought it, but since I left, I have yet to find an alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind Releases December 10 | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am very excited. I am reading the comics at the moment, it’s a real pleasure to discover a new aspect of the licence I loved during my childhood. If they can keep up with what’s shown in the trailer, the game will be pretty fun :).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just finished Doki Doki Literature Club, what a fucking rollercoaster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still remember the first time I played it. I was still living with my parents, and they left for a few days. I started the game in the evening, and couldn’t stop until I reach the end of it … in the morning. It’s very uncommon for me to do so (even at the time), but it was so … captivating. I could not stop and go to sleep 😅.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamer philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to say that the question might not only concern niche games. Any game that you do not buy shortly after its release might have a negative impact on the franchise (because most sales happen in a few weeks, with rare exceptions of course).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called « Run ahead » in Retroarch: docs.libretro.com/guides/runahead/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem, I found it in my history :) game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/…/1626343.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Crisis Is Returning With A New AI Powered Gun That Works On Modern TVs | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to add some information, what’s innovative here is that they are likely using a traditional machine learning model (eg: neural networks) to identify the corners of the screen and infer the position the gun is aiming at from this.

  Sinden is aiming to do the same thing, but using older techniques known as compute vision. It adds a white border around the screen and uses those CV algorithms to find this rectangle. It is not AI at all.

  The reason Sinden is doing this is because it is much more easier this way (and so it is fast to compute, and very accurate).

  Whatever AI they use, it will likely be either less accurate and/or be very slow (imagine situations with low ambient light and the screen turning black). I have seen a review in japanese from journalists who tried it, and the response time was not great (and the team wants to divide it by 2 before release, which will still be worse than Sinden).

  Another possibility could be there is no AI at all, and they exploit specificities of Time Crisis. When you shoot, the screen goes white for 1 or 2 frames. You don’t need AI to spot this frame and do something very similar to Sinden without using any border.

  At this point, it might be too late to move the « cursor » to the right location, but emulators nowadays are able to apply inputs in the past, and « replay » internally the last frames in the background so that you cancel the native input lag of some games (which can make them more responsive than games running on real hardware). They could use this option and it’s done. You have a system only working on games like Time Crisis with white frames while shooting, with no white borders nor machine learning model.

  TLDR; if they use AI (=machine learning) as they claim, there will be no constraint like existing alternatives (sensors / white borders), but it will likely be less accurate / responsive. For Time Crisis specifically, it’s possible to come up with a solution without those constraints nowadays, so it’s possible they have no AI at all and use the term for marketing purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 25th Anniversary, Sega Dreamcast!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An amazing controller. I had not the chance to play it at the time, but the first impressions of the controller 10 years ago was incredible. I bought a Dreamcast shortly after :). I just ordered a GDEmu yesterday, can’t wait to get it :D.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started a long journey for discovering Dragon Quest (only played to 9 and completed 11). I already finished DQ1 (very nice, simple but interesting nevertheless), and I am now playing DQ2 (and I love it :D).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just finished playing through Crash 2 for the first time!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those remakes were really awesome, but I was a bit disappointed by Crash 3. It is one that I played a lot back in the days, and Jetski levels and rumble were very different from the original. For example, the first boss Tiger caused rumble at every jump, but we get nothing in the remake. The physics of jetski levels is very different, it constrasts a lot with the accuracy when reproducing the same base gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Ambitious Manga Fighting Game - Jump Ultimate Stars⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all characters are playable characters.

  This game has been released on the Nintendo DS. The idea is to compose your own manga page on the bottom screen with well-known cells from multiple manga. Some cells represent playable characters, some are support characters (doing move as an assist) and others have just passive abilities.

  The cells also reinforce each other if they are touching and have « something » in common (eg: from the same manga, or both are the main protagonist of their manga, …).

  During the battle, you tap the cells on the touch screen to switch character or call support characters. That’s how they could integrate many characters, even if they do not fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lost Odyssey - When the Well of Great Writing Runs Dry⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved Lost Odyssey at the time but, at the same time, it’s probably one of worst JRPG I have ever played when you only consider the beginning. The game is so slow to start, and sometimes a bit too difficult (especially because it does not let you grind, which is very annoying at the beginning because you have not many options).

  Besides that, It has a lot to share, with a touching story, very interesting reflections about immortality and harsh/intense moments. The gameplay is good as well, proposing its own mechanics and bosses that forces you to use them.

  It’s not easy to recommend because it’s one of those games where you have to play many hours to get in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banjo-Kazooie Patient Review: A classic in 2023?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the chance to play it at the time, and since I hadn’t played SM64 yet, this game was even more impressive to me :). I wouldn’t change anything to it, mixing up 3D platformer with mini-games and a moveset that evolved through out the game, combined with an amazing OST and funny dialogs … it was perfect <3.