MrFinnbean

@MrFinnbean@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh. Mutation card system? Crafting system while not unique but extracting legendary mods is differend to many games where you just farm drops untill you get the perfect roll. Power armor is also something i havent really seen done that well outside of bethesda. Also they enviromental story telling in map big as FO76 is top notch. I understand if you have trendy hate for Bethesda. I dont especially like they releasing skyrim every few years or how they made the planets in Starfield, but i get the feeling you are not sharing your own opinions. Just yelling stuff you have hears in the internet.

  About portal. Valve saw an idea, bought it out and gave it a new shine. They did a good job recocnizing talent but it was as much innovation from Valve as Adobe shows when they buy new shiny software.

  I had fun with back 4 blood. It was shame they stopped the support for the game so early. Also most people i see bitching about it played it at the release time when it was very unbalanced or tried to jump on the higher dificulties too early without ever learning how to really play the game.

  Also about the map mutations in general. Its not a problem to be solved. Reason why some maps are so popular for example in CS or CoD is because people have learned the maps and enjoy playing the game in a way where they can antipiciate the opponents movements and know how to play the game on “high level”. Some people enjoy more random maps more for the opposite reason. Its not a problem, its a preference. You are right that it makes it harder for the noobs to jump in to the games, but that is something many companies are trying to fix with match making.

  I used alien as a example because it has similiar director behind the scenes as left for dead has. You know. The another big reason why the levels feel fresh. Id argue even that the director does more for the game feeling different than the small mutations in the level layout.

  About valve vr… you were talking about innovation. They did not create the vr. They arguable made a great game and pushed it to the limit what can be done right now, but in its self there is nothing inherently innovative in the mechanics, except they are very well executed.

  I found it pretty obnoxius that you raise yourself above the “normies”. Especialy when im feeling like most of your opinions come from other people and from gaming echochambers instead of you thinking things yourself. Personaly i have started gaming before windows was a thing and it has been one thing i can always get passionate about.

  Another thing i find obnoxius is how people always think “big game companies bosses are incompetent” i bet most of the people in those position know much more about the markets than you and i. Their sole job is to try and generate money. Maybe its easier to think they are some cartoon level evil morons, but they are hitting their marks more times than not and we really only hear about the royal fuck ups.

  And your quip about the star field. Bought it pretty late after the release on pc and on purpose tried to avoid any reviews before i finished the game. And im glad i didint. The game was not awsome, but it was not as bad as internets opinion was. Reading review can screw your perspective and make you focus on the minor inconviniences that you would ignore or not think about if somebody would not have brought those on the top if your mind.

  Try sometime to test completely unknown game to you from either a demo or use the steam return policy and after you have your own opinion see if you agree with the reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry. I forgot the /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I was with you until your last sentence.

  Fallout 76 is better now. The monetizing is little ew, but there are lots of content and they fixed a lot of the big caveats i had with the game.

  Id put that game just under a Noman sky and Cyperpunk 2077 as a game that turned around.

  Also valve did not origaninally make portal. Its roots came from Kim Swifts senior project. Valve gave resurces to add the shine, but the concept did not originate from Valves offices.

  They did not invent vr stuff either. First vr stuff crude as it was comes allthe way from the 60’s in the 90’s Sega had their Sega vr in some arcade racings games and oculus rift from Carmack + team was first modern style vr set on the markets.

  Lots of games use similar mechanics than left for dead to make the maps and spawns feel different.

  Here few from the top of my head: Vermintide 2 (maybe 1, havent played that) Pay day 2 Back 4 blood Ane could argue Alien isolation is similar because it has same kind of game director controlling the game. Remnant 1 & 2 Gunfire reborn.

  • games like Helldives 1 & 2 and deep rock galactica where the whole map is generated.

  One could argue even most extraction shootters do that because the exctraction zones change place.

  Yeah all wants just catcha games. Thats why games like Clair Obscur, Death Stranding and now Dispatch have done so poorly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Goverment is in fact widening the safe zones around many of the lines, but its expensive and slow as many of them go trough privately owned forests so there needs to be some recompence for the lost wood value. Many of the maintanence roads are also done for light vehicles or have been overgrown so heavymachinery has bad time getting where they need to go. As a one point i have heard, but i dont know if its true goverment may want to keep those lines somewhat overgrown to make it harder to destroy in case of war.

  New lines are mostly made underground, but its expencive and just insulating the line does not matter if the ground around it moves yearly.

  But generaly the infrastructure is getting better all the time. When i was young it was not uncommon to loose power many times a year and some time for long times. Now its not happening even every year and generally the down time is measured in hours or tens of minutes, not in days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I live near artic circle and snow is really a problem im rural areas. If the roads have not been cleared its very straining to cycle. Wet snow is even worse and in late autum and late spring there can be ice hidden under the snow and even spicked tires wont help with that. Ebikes help with that, but most ebikes arent designed to subzero temperatures and low to middle price bikes emty the batteries much faster. Especially if the battery is fixed to the frame and you need to leave it outside during work or when going to shop.

  On the other hand i lived in “winter cycling capital” of the world and you cant compare the well maintenanced bike lanes to rural roads.

  (Also i laugh at the notion that Denmark knows anything about winter)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are about 14 500 km of powerlines in my country and many of those go trough long unhabitabed stretches. Another thing is that where i live ground freezes and that makes the ground shift, sometimes enough to ruin foundations of buildings so there are some real problems to make long underground lines.

  But yes. It would be nice if underground lines were easy to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked in to those, but for those to be effective you need to keep them always charged. Also cheaper ones need air conditioned space and more expencive ones were, well expensive.

  I also need three-phase power for some tools away from the home and the convertor for the batteries seemed really expensive and not easy to use on the fly.

  And biggest thing is that if something reallu bad happens i can easily get more gas, but recharging batteries would mean i need to go somewhere to charge them.

  Another thing that somebody is going to say soon are solarpanels, but i live near arctic circle and during winter the operating time for them is so short i would need to make way too big solar farm for them to be usefull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because i cant bike holding fence posts and tools. Nearest shop is 15km one way trip and nearest bus stop 500m away. Long enough so i dont want to carry my groseries by hand.

  As for biking i do a lot of recreational bike trips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have basic public transit, and id say long distance transport is excelent, but it does not serve me at all when i need to drive because of my work from farm to farm, or i want to pick mushrooms or berries from random forest plots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last winter snow pressed trees against the power line and it rook 36 hours for electric company get it fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arguing for the car as a good method of transportation is like arguing that having personal diesel generator to power you home is a good idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in rural place and both aggregate and car is pretty necessary things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Elden Ring.

  The open world just did not do it to me. I enjoy much more tighter game world like in the previous souls games.

  Most of the side bosses were unintresting and if you found them too late you were completely overpowered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally loved it the part where i was weak. Its lore accurate and it was like travelling back in time to the olden days.

  It was great nostalgia rush to play a game where you could really die and it was not unusual to need and try same fight multiple times.

  Now days i feel like most games are allmost impossible to loose. I dont want it from all the games, but its nice to have games like that available.

  Helldivers 2 is hard game, but dying a lot is something the game mechanics are build around and you dont loose instantly and when you loose you just fire up a new game, it does not give me the same 2000’s vibe i got from the space marine 2.

  Also the reaction times are not that tight. Even my dad reflexes can manage those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a idiotic take.

  Firstly its not like this is only petition people can sign.

  Secondly this mighy very well be first petition for many young people. Its good stepping stone for them to get knowledge how these work and sign other things in the future. Also this is something imoortant for young people and its important they can get their voice out there.

  Thirdly. Even if gaming might not be the most importand thing in the world, this is good thing to sign to fight for consumers. Companies have allready much power over what we consume and what services we use and this is step on the right way.

  Fourthly. Many other problems have already large goodwill organisations working on them, like red cross, doctors without borders, oxfam etc etc. These organisations already lobby for new laws and are active politicaly. Consunerr rights are also important for everyone who consume and this is goes under that umbrella.

  Fiftly. Its not about hating AAA game studios. Its pretty big thing regarding ever growing digital products and what consumer buys when they buy thise digital products.

  If you cant think things further than just “teenages signing nonsense” i find it little annoying that you have the same voting power than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CTR has so much higher skill ceiling it changes the game completely when comparing to other kart games.

  In Mario Kart difference between good player and great player is pretty minor and they can both enjoy playing against eachother.

  In CTR good player can think they are playing perfectly, but still they are going to get lapped by great players.

  I personaly loved CTR, but playing with friends that havent played it meant nobody is going to have goodtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that i cant find anywhere studies that takes the manure used as a fertilizer account in their calculations. Atleast where i live 100% of the manure from the animals is used as a fertilizer on farms and store bought fertilizers are just supplement. Most countries cant produce fertilizer enough for their agricultural need and need to buy it from outside.

  I would love some real research wich would be better for the enivorent. Stop meat produsing completelly or scale it down so farms get still some benefits like fertilizer and biogas for the vehicles, but people would not eat food on every meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not geneticist, but i grew up on a farm. I always grind my teeth when people talk about miragle plants with high yields.

  The plants need to get their energy and nutritions from somewhere. If you just create gmo plant that can absorb nutrition better from soil it also means you need to fertilize that soil that much more and make the crop rotation that much faster, or risk making the fields arid.

  But plants that survive larger temperature shifts, more extreme weathers and pest might be necessary for us in the not so far future. Lets just hope in the future those are used for humanitys betterment and not making rich richer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there probably are lots of reasons why we farm only certain plants.

  For example dewberries have short harvest window and as far as i know they need to be hand picked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The same math is there too. They can afford to loose one third of new subscribers to get the same amount of money.

  But their new customer acquisition cost wont get higher at the same pace and they get more valuable customers whose payback period will be shorter.

  Also i dont think its relevant here, but less customers means less operating costs, so they will most likelly save some money on customer service and behind the scenes things like server upkeeps etc., but i dont think these make real difference here.

  Also if for some reason things start to go bad they still have option to create “a budget version” for the people who see the normal subscrition as too expencive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck? Lol. They are not cartoony villains preying for the old and weak.

  Somebody has made a calculation, that shows that they will make more money from people who takes the deal than they are going to loose money from people who get mad and leave their enviroment.

  In the future they will do test how far they can go using a/b test and/or testing different markets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand your worries. I was was also concerned about the openworld first, but so far they have nailed the open world part pretty well. Travelling has been fun. There has been always fast travel near when i have wanted to use it. There is enough hidden jokes and easter eggs that i feel rewarded to look around.

  I dont really understand your point. Devs still curate where you meet the enemies. Its not like its procedurally generated map where everything is random.

  I cant remember single time in my 20 hours of gameplay where i have tought that i hate fighting here, or that these enemies dont fit here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why everything should be for everybody? And why artists should care about your opikion when they are creating what they want to create.

  Cup head is great example. Everything in the game is meticiusly hand crafted. The big part why its so popular is the difficulty that forces you to focus on the aninations and sprites. The difficulty also is economical in game as labor intensive as cup head. Because every sprite was hand drawn devs could not just churn unlimited levels and the games lenght came from the difficulty. Making the game easy would ruin the pacing of the game.

  Games are art form like any other. There are mainstream movies, plays, songs, paintings and games etc etc etc. that try to reach as large audience as they can. But there is also obscure art pieces that only small group of people can enjoy. And both ways are fine

  I find it obnoxious when people bitch about desing choices that devs have consciously made. Its not like they have any obligations to make a game in one way or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game screams passion and devs spend seven years making it the way they like it. It is also a dirt cheap.

  Critisism is fair and everybody has right for opininion. My opinion is that people who are bitching about the boss runs can shove it up to theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Free gravel! Fuck yeah!

  Living in the rural area and having pretty long private road i would be really happy for free gravel.

  Bonus points if i can desite how coarce it is. During winter the yard gets really icy and small gravel would make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to write the same, but im glad you beat me to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teddybears - Punkrocker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally i like stories where he strugless more with how yo use his powers without becoming a despot.

  Its so intresting tought experiment how much some one who is basically a god should intervine before it is too much.

  At what point enforcing law becomes tyranny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Clair Obscur, but i hate it when people call it RPG. You know…ROLE PLAYING GAME!

  There is like two or three meaningfull opportunities to role play and one of them is binary choice in the end of the game.

  And you had so many other games you could have said. Like Baldursgate or Cyperpunk where you actually can roleplay.

  Claire Obscur has rpg elements, like level ups, skills and equipment. It also has very jrpg like fighting system, but there is not enough roleplay to call it rpg.

  You are experiencing the story, not shaping the story.

  (As a games i love both)

  Ps. Im really intrested what your definition of rpg is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While i agree the notion its not that black and white.

  Payment processors are companies. Where you would draw the line when company can and cant decite how they want to manage their product? In the end its their decition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bah. I dont care about lead, microplastics or even covid.

  Chernobyl and mad cow-disease are my jam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is intresting to see if we go that way, or if our future will be more Orwellian in its nature. Might go ine way or another.