moakley
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- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
But one of the things Russian troll farms are paid to do is spread general anti-American sentiment. I’m not trying to explain away the comments; I’m describing a real thing that happens.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
I appreciate your perspective.
I’ll do you one better and say that a lot of times it comes from chronically online Americans who got their opinion from said Europeans. And at least some of the time it’s from third world bots whose marching orders are to spread any and every kind of anti-American sentiment.
Lately I just prefer to put the opposing idea out into the aether rather than try to dig into a whole online argument… thing.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
There are large sections of the US that don’t have consistent access to great food, so crappy fast food is what they get.
Then there are other parts of the US where the fast food is amazing. Also the other food.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 week ago:
It’s ok to just not be that into gaming anymore. But if you are looking for a game to get into, they’re out there.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 week ago:
Pretty positive you’re just not seeing it, because 2025 has been awesome.
Hades 2. Silksong. Split Fiction.
If a Donkey Kong or a Mario Kart had come out in 1998, it’d be in this picture.
And then I didn’t play Death Stranding 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, or Blue Prince, but the word of mouth is excellent.
Also Outer Worlds 2.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 week ago:
Fair enough. Still not exactly a masterpiece.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 week ago:
My favorite part about 2007 for video games was how close it was to 2008, the actual best year in gaming.
That’s when indie games started getting a foothold on consoles, including Braid and Castle Crashers. Plus Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and the Wii hitting its stride with Wii Fit, Mario Kart, and a Smash Bros. Not to mention mainstream fare like CoD: World at War, MGS 4, and GTA 4.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 week ago:
Depends what you mean by “greatest”. Most revolutionary? Biggest leaps forward? Possibly.
But most of those games don’t hold up today.
We’re also getting a strong cheerleader effect on this picture. Mario Party 3? Turok?
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 1 week ago:
I fully understand what you mean. I got turned on to UFO 50 the exact same way, from a stranger’s recommendation online. They referred to it as “a master class in game design”, and I was like, that’s exactly what I was just saying about Split Fiction!
I think how we say things is important to how we connect.
Anyway, Split Fiction requires two players. The whole game is in split screen, even if you play online. But you only need one copy of the game to play online - I think your partner can just download a special version of the game for free. But if you have someone to play with in the same room, I recommend that.
A bit more about UFO 50 if you haven’t already looked it up: it’s a faux-retro game collection from a fictional, defunct 80s game developer called UFOSoft.
Fifty is an insane number of games, and it’s got so much damn content. There are space shooters, side scrollers, a wild west Final-Fantasy-style RPG, a roguelike, a soccer game inspired by Bubble Bobble, at least three golf games, and then whatever the hell Mooncat is. There’s also a dark meta-narrative hidden between the games that describes why the company went under.
So UFO 50 is a deep dive. You may want to start there first, because it’s something you’ll likely bounce off of and come back to. Luckily you have literally 50 games to switch between if you get frustrated.
When it does get frustrating, it’s so rewarding if you power through it. Several of the games are in the style of those ridiculously punishing 80’s arcade games, except it mostly is just a style. If you keep an open mind and look for what the game is trying to show you, you start to see that there are modern design conventions underpinning everything that make the games more fair than they appear. (Except Caramel Caramel. That game is bullshit.)
That’s part of what I meant when I said it changed how I approach games. I realized I can spend so much time on my own expectations that I don’t see what’s in front of me. Learning to approach these games with an open mind has been a defining moment for me.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 1 week ago:
2025 was such a good year for gaming.
Games worth mentioning for me personally:
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Ravenswatch came out at the end of last year, but it’s an incredibly satisfying multiplayer roguelike. Really scratches that asymmetrical gameplay itch.
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Split Fiction is a master class in game design. It creates these awesome storytelling moments that could only be created in this exact way.
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UFO 50: holy shit this one came out of nowhere for me. It’s like digging through a retro collection for diamonds in the rough, but there’s more diamond than rough. It has honestly changed the way I approach video games and gaming in general. Also, Party House is so good.
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Hades 2 is pretty much exactly what I was hoping it would be. No notes.
I also played Clair Obscur, DK Bananza, Mario Kart World, and Silksong. Those are all good games, but none of them hooked me.
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- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
I’ve played Magic against him a couple times. Great dude.
- Comment on Day 1 of posting real shitposts, till people and the mods understand the purpose of the community 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: when birds have sex it’s called a cloacal kiss.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Something like ten years ago I got into a console vs PC argument on reddit, and everyone unanimously told me that starting up a PC with a controller was such an easy feature to add that it wasn’t even a consideration. I stuck with consoles.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 weeks ago:
I get that, but it seems disproportionate. I mean we’re still talking about it seven years later.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I never really understood the backlash on that one. I actually would love to play Diablo on my phone. But like a good Diablo.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 5 weeks ago:
I like Bananza more than BotW, but I didn’t think BotW was that good. I didn’t play TotK for that same reason.
I don’t think Bananza’s length is a mark against it. It has more than 18 hours of content, so the time to beat it is irrelevant. Cost is also irrelevant to the quality of the game.
Look at it this way: remember when large portions of the internet community were all up in arms about the cost of games and predicted that the Switch 2 was definitely going to fail?
If your perspective on games this year aligns with those communities, then you only need to look at the runaway success of the Switch 2 for proof that you’re missing a big part of the picture.
It’s a good game. People like it. I don’t even like it that much, but I can still see why it’s a successful and popular game.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 5 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why you’re mentioning Zelda? There was one Zelda game this year, released a couple weeks ago, but it’s actually a Warriors game.
I’m sure Bananza is getting a boost from the Switch 2 hype, just like E33 is getting a boost because of its indie roots. None of this happens in a vacuum. But the hype wouldn’t do anything if either of these were bad games.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 5 weeks ago:
I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
It’s one of the best reviewed games this year, it’s in a classic but underrepresented genre, and it’s the flagship title of the fastest selling console of all time. Maybe you’re just a little disconnected on this one?
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 5 weeks ago:
“another installment of Donkey Kong”, as though we’re flooded with them?
This is the first DK game in 11 years, and the first 3D DK game in 25 years.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 5 weeks ago:
I had a similar experience. I’d honestly prefer boring turn based combat to the ridiculous QTEs in the game.
The story was extremely well-told. Great voice acting and production value. But the actual plot didn’t hook me. It just seemed so arbitrary. I don’t know if there’s some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.
I only played it on Game Pass, so luckily I’m not out any money. I would have given it another chance eventually, but the Game Pass price hike made me cancel.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 5 weeks ago:
It’s just nice to have another reason to talk about video games. All contexts in which we talk about video games have inherent biases.
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 1 month ago:
I heard the opposite, that separating them ripens them quicker. In my experience this appears to be true.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It wasn’t kidney failure. That’s where he hid the gold!!
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
Two things can be true.
- Comment on All grown up now 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure that Morgan Freeman picture is AI.
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 1 month ago:
They’ve been saying it on the national news for 40+ years as though it’s true, but yeah one of the hundred and fifteen people who read this on Lemmy are definitely going to be the first ones to actually do it.
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- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
Braid
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
I couldn’t go back to BotW after Elden Ring.
In both games you have a vast world to explore. You see something in the distance, and it turns out it’s actually a place you can go to, which is such a cool feeling. You’re rewarded for every path you go down.
In Elden Ring you’re rewarded with some weird new scroll or a weapon that even if you won’t use it, you can totally see why it’s unique and cool in its own way.
But in Breath of the Wild you’re rewarded with a shrine that gives you nothing or another fucking Korok seed. And also while you were exploring your weapon broke.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
A masterpiece. The entire game you have the sands and can rewind all of your missteps, only to lead up to one final, ridiculous platforming challenge where they take the sands away. Like the whole game was training you for that moment. Such a unique experience.
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
So half waffle, half pancake?
I bet I could make that.