AlexanderTheDead
@AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
They just released a large content update lmao. 10 years after the initial release.
Make sure you know what you’re signing up for, tho. It’s very much a minecraft-style game. There is some story, and it isn’t bad, but it definitely isn’t the focus. It is a fun mystery to kinda discover tho. The game has a lot of mystery/exploration aspects.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
I took a look! Hell yeah, I will get on it… as soon as I put down No Man’s Sky, which I picked up recently.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
I have! Another interest of mine is TTRPG, specifically I am a frequent DM. I love designing custom encounters with unique mechanics to engage my players.
I have also dabbled in coding. I started with HTML and BYOND (I never made anything beyond a 2d tile map of grass, an icon to move around on it, and a “hello world” message).
When I was a teenager, I tried to get into modding New Vegas via the GECK, but it was complicated and tedious looking. I wonder if I could go back now, as an adult, and make something I’m really proud of.
More recently, I got into making a mod for Stardew Valley. Idk what the code language would be called, but it’s an extremely simple text-based system. I was making a mod to add a pop media character to the game because my close friend really likes him. It was going pretty well and honestly the scope creep got big, I was really fleshing the character’s custom story out. Until I realized I had missed something in my testing, and noticed that certain triggers weren’t working, and realized there were character limits for triggers. Which meant that I couldn’t set up events with complex enough decisions to meet the goal I wanted to reach.
So I’ve taken a step back from that for awhile.
I did want to design video games as a kid, but it seemed like such a lofty goal that I never even tried pursuing it.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah man, I know I need to give cyberpunk a try sometime, but there is truly such a back log! On your recc, I’ll definitely move it up in priority tho.
TTW has been so good because Fallout 3 was my first Fallout game and New Vegas is my favorite.
It’s awesome. But yeah, the installation I think is more complex when you have it like that.
Something I noticed after replaying Fallout 3 for the first time in like 10 years, also, was how bad the voice direction in the game was. Like it isn’t always bad but it is obvious that the voice actors weren’t given much to work with at all.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
Can I get uh… chimken numget?
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
I can only info dump when I’m prompted to start talking about something now. I have special interests, but I have no interest in talking about them with people that I can feel aren’t really engaged. And the only people who ever engage eventually do get worn down after a while, or they’re more knowledgeable than me about something and that makes me fall in infatuation with them.
So if anyone wants to talk about modding video games and get married, hmu. Modding specifically is my special interest, and the games I mod include:
Elder Scrolls series (primarily Oblivion/ Skyrim but I have played some modded morrowind within the last 5 years)
Fallout series (all of them! Ok, I haven’t played 2 or the offshoots, but… shut up. New Vegas is my favorite :3)
Stardew Valley (I have 2700 hours in stardew :3 burnt out rn tho lowkey)
Dark Souls 1/3, Elden Ring
Baldurs Gate 3
Dragon Age (mostly origins, it continuously went downhill from there for me. I have done a couple modded replays of inquistion tho)
Minecraft
If you were to ask me what I could go on for the longest about? Probably New Vegas? Especially since I recently put in a fresh 200 hours. I finally got into TTW (a mod for new vegas that utilizes your copy of Fallout 3 goty to combine both games into a single experience) and installed it alongside some modernization modlists and HOLY SHIT.
I hadn’t played since 2021, an era that seemed like New Vegas was dying. People had long moved onto Fallout 4, quest mods weren’t coming out at the same frequency, etc
There was a total renaissance right after I left. If you haven’t played new vegas in a while: consider coming back and finding a guide or using a program like wabbajack to mod your game.
I personally followed the Viva New Vegas guide, then after deciding to jump into TTW, I found that the VNV people have a guide for a TTW list called TBoT (The Best of Times). Both of these lists are,'in my experience, more stable than the base game. A lot of important performance and configuration mods came out.
Then, there’s another list called WSG that I followed (wasteland survival guide), which added new content to the game and made it more hardcore.
If you made it this far and you really want to hear more, ask me a question. :3
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
“hanging out with your friends”
That is not semi-parasocial, it is full parasocial, and you should do your best to discourage that kind of sentiment if ever conveyed genuinely.
I know it’s a tough subject. Pretty much everyone is semi-parasocial. But describing someone you literally don’t know and just watch content from is parasocial and an incredibly delusional and dangerous mindset.
- Comment on People always want their ideal conversation to sound like movie characters, but in reality most people talk as if they're in an interrogation room or how people sound like on police bodycam footage. 4 weeks ago:
/smugbrag
When I was younger, my roommate’s crush described being part of our conversations as “like watching a TV show”. How much of that was us being cool and unique versus how much was us autistically mirroring characters from pop media? Don’t care, great compliment.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Idk it’s not the combat, I just didn’t find myself able to engage in the world? Maybe if I played pillars?
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I get you. I haven’t played OW2 but Avowed is so… not fun, for me. I’ll give it another shot someday.
OW1 tho was okay I thought. Not good enough to motivate me to play the DLCs I had already paid for, lol.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure which of you is right, but another comment below said JSawyer is still at Obsidian. That’s the name for me, and probably for a lot of people.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
Free healthcare is bad because of taxes.
Idk why Americans are culturally allergic to paying taxes.
I can only assume it stems from the revolutionary motto of “No taxation without representation”, which permanently affixed the idea in everyone’s head that taxes were inherently bad.
And nobody within a 30 mile radius of me understands how a fucking tax bracket works. /Hyperbole
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
Incredibly absurd perspective. It’s like a US southerner saying “There were no upsides to the civil war”, and then someone points at the federal abolishment of slavery, and you respond “oh yeah well the question now is did the civil war prevent the south from releasing their slaves from captivity?”
Like, I’m trying to use less hateful language, but I really don’t know what the fuck else to say to you other than point out the fact that you… well, like, some people just need someone to grab their heads and shake them really hard for a while. That’s you.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 1 month ago:
what would you even do in online bully? Roleplay as pretentious teenagers? Sounds even more cringe than GTA and Red Dead RP, which is difficult to accomplish.
And to clarify, I’ve spent most of my life RPing so the call came from inside the house.
- Comment on GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality" 1 month ago:
Don’t those games largely get removed from the platform?
- Comment on GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality" 1 month ago:
Who the fuck cares?
- Comment on It depends... 1 month ago:
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 months ago:
Might be relevant in a world where it wasn’t the first comment I made and where we aren’t literally talking about a fascist dictatorship actively committing genocide.
You’re too stupid to participate in conversation, you can leave now.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 months ago:
We are also critical of the US for these things, though, so it’s crazy to act as if we aren’t consistent.
“Whatabout-” yes they are bad too, now stop pretending that you aren’t defending a genocidal state and intentionally conflating criticism of the state with criticisms of all Jews. (Not saying you, but the other guy)
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 months ago:
Ah yes, it’s anti-semitic to criticise modern Hitler’s use of nukes to bully other nations into staying out of international human rights violations.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 2 months ago:
If Hitler had nukes we would have been upset to learn about that.
Sorry, you are too stupid to participate in conversation. You may leave now.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 months ago:
You must not know a lot of kids or have a lot of world experience. Onion is a top picky eater food. Why do parents force kids to eat them? Perception of table etiquette.
Pretty easy thing to explain, if you are over the age of 15.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Okay.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
The parry button is a core concept of the game that you are interacting with multiple times in a round of combat.
To say the late game is “parry or die” is analagous to saying the late game is “attack or die”, “level up or die”, “use potions or die”, “learn builds or die”, etc
Yeah. You have to interact with the core mechanic.
No, it does not convey your actual opinion at all, in fact.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
“Parry or die” came from you verbatim, actually.
Which is not your criticism.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Okay. I disagree with your criticism.
Now let’s go back to the beginning. Wow, looks like… that’s not what you said in the beginning.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Your problem boils down to:
“I was forced to use the parry button to progress in the game.”
If this became an issue for you, then you probably should have changed the difficulty to be lower.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
…no, that is quite literally not a valid example of criticism. Sorry.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
…dawg, I think you’re just dogshit at the game. are these issues you had on the lowest difficulty? Because if so, then no, at no point did you ever “get good”, I promise.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
They’re just incredibly bad criticisms tbh. The first one is only subjectively a “criticism” in the first place, and the other is- at best- a poorly made observation.
So yes, let me double down. If whenever a game says “this is how you play the game” and your response to that is “it shouldn’t be”, maybe gaming isn’t for you.