atomicpoet
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- Comment on Ninja Gaiden for DOS: rated M for "mistake" 5 hours ago:
That happened to me more than once—though not with this game.
- Submitted 6 hours ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 8 comments
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- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 day ago:
Really want to find GBA Tribal Edition in the wild—if it actually exists.
- Submitted 3 days ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 3 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 5 days ago:
Actually, those rear buttons are unique. They are not the same triggers and buttons. They are highly useful in FPS games for functions like crouch.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
The em dash? I always use it—love it—you’ll have to take it from cold, dead hands.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
Yep, the key is to use mouse instead of joystick-mouse.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
I admire the cut of your jib.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
You’re not wrong that the market has changed.
I often tell people that the biggest innovations in PC gaming are not graphics but form factors and inputs.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
That’s more of a killer feature for Linux in general.
And I can’t undersell how big of a deal that is. When Windows 10 dies, I’m switching my desktop to Linux simply because Proton makes me want to use Linux.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
And yet, when I look at my library, only half of new games released within the past five years support X-input. They are still exclusively keyboard-and-mouse.
Granted, that’s way more than what was available 10 years ago, but it’s still a problem.
Or it would be if the Steam Deck didn’t make it trivially easy to adapt keyboard-and-mouse controls to a controller. Which happened because of the innovation first introduced with the Steam Controller.
It’s now at the point where keyboard-and-mouse is optional—just a preference if you want to use it.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
Okay, but I didn’t want to buy a new console. Instead, I wanted to use my PC as a console replacement.
But also, there’s a surprising amount of games that never got a console release. For example, Blood and Septerra Core—never arrived on any console. I own those games, and the Steam controller let me play them on my TV very easily.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
I feel a right stick is more useful for games deliberately designed as twin stick shooters. Geometry Wars is a good example of this. Using a trackpad for aiming is fine, but that doesn’t really feel like an arcade experience.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 6 days ago:
Yes, that’s the other thing: the trackpad D-pad is not as good as a button D-pad.
- Submitted 6 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 229 comments
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Actually, my kids needs are substantially different from others.
My daughter is autistic. She has trouble communicating verbally. But on Roblox, she finds it much easier to socialize.
She has never spent a cent on microtransactions but gets the opportunity to talk to other kids without being bullied.
I’m not taking that away from her just because strangers on the Internet can’t fathom different kids have different needs.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
I’m hearing you loud and clear.
Provide research with accompanying links or GTFO.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Dismissing? No.
Recognizing groupthink with the same tired talking points – with zero research or citations to back it up? Yeah, I call it out when I see it.
The funny thing is I’ve never defended “corporate garbage”. I’ve said there’s hundreds of thousands of games on mobile, many which you can buy outright – no microtransactions. There’s more premium, fully paid mobile titles than on NES, SNES, N64, and GC combined.
I repeat, you don’t have to play a gacha game. You can enjoy the many premium titles on iOS and Android if you so like.
But everyone here ignores that very real fact in favour of jumping on the groupthink bandwagon.
And yes, I know I’m convincing few people here because they’re all too busy socially signalling they are in the Lemmy in-group to actually consider anything diverging. Which is fine. I’m saying it out loud anyway to disrupt the echo chamber.
Well, there are literally people here who insist all mobile games are gacha. When I provide statistics that show otherwise, rather than changing your views, the reactions here are that I’m a secret shill peddling for a statistics company.
That’s the calibre of conversation I’m dealing with in this thread. And you’re no different.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
I think I know my kid better than you, a random Internet stranger who’s never met her before in her life. And consequently, has no understanding of what her actual needs are.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Ha! A “few” interactions…
- Comment on Silverfall is low-poly and low mercy 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s the one.
- Comment on Silverfall is low-poly and low mercy 1 week ago:
I’m playing the PC version. Haven’t tried on Steam Deck yet but this is mostly mouse-driven.
- Comment on I'm impressed by Rambo III for DOS 1 week ago:
It’s all right, but have you played Goonies for the MSX? It’s quite different from the NES version.
- Comment on Silverfall is low-poly and low mercy 1 week ago:
This isn’t a PS2 game, it was a Win XP game – hence why this specific screenshot was taken in 1200p. There is, though, a separate version available for PSP that looks like this, and that’s way more low-poly.
That said, yeah. There’s a huge noticeable difference between today’s high res, high refresh rate graphics and the PS2.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
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- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
It’s entirely your prerogative to spend time and money on whatever you think will be likely worthwhile to you.
But without actually playing a game, it’s strict guesswork on whether a game is quality or not.
Seriously, there’s no harm in saying, “I don’t know whether this game is good – I haven’t tried it.”
- Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing. 1 week ago:
That Robocop game has an 87% positive rating, but I got it for 93.35% – for a total of C$4.63.
As for Nickelodeon Kart Racer 3, I have the previous two games and really liked them. It’s a great couch co-op game with my kid. So I got the third one for 92.4% off the original price – for a total of C$4.32.
All in all, I did pretty well for myself.
