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- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 1 hour ago:
Tbh the marketing and price tag are what killed it. The game itself was actually pretty fun, played a lot like Destiny 1 pvp and really didn’t feel like a hero shooter at all (which is a good thing). The abilities complemented the gunplay, not the other way around, and movement was crisp.
Firewalk had a great core, but Sony fucked it up.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 hours ago:
A bit of a tangent, but tbh I feel like Half-Life Alyx was a perfect example of where they can take the franchise, but being a PC VR title (and one that really leans heavily into the tech and loses a ton if played with non-VR mods), it didn’t have nearly the same impact as the rest of the franchise. It was definitely innovative but not in a way to appeal to the mass market.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 3 hours ago:
I’ve started playing it and it hooked me for a bit but once it really opens up I’ve been struggling to stick with it. Very interesting premise and characters so far though, I have no idea who can actually be trusted and that feels intentional.
- Comment on Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005 1 day ago:
I remember getting in so many stupid internet arguments over this shit as a kid because I couldn’t keep up with it LMAO but looking back it added a skill ceiling to this game that I can’t say for sure if any future game in the series really matched.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company” 2 days ago:
God I forgot about that one too. I feel so bad for that team, they put out a banger out of nowhere and keep getting thrown to the wolves.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company” 2 days ago:
Huge shame to see Last Epoch get bought out by these assholes just before all this too
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 days ago:
It’s a huge part of why I quit Destiny 2 entirely. A game that doesn’t respect the player’s time and pads it with RNG on top of RNG to extend playtime feels awful.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 days ago:
If it were more linear akin to their older games and dramatically reduced the visual clutter of most bosses, it would’ve been perfect, but those two things brought it way down imo. These sorts of games excel in smaller, more linear but interconnected environments.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 days ago:
Nine Sols. Played it right after finishing Silksong to keep the metroidvania kick going.
The parrying was some of the worst feeling parrying I’ve ever felt in any game, the world felt tiny and extremely linear, the narrative was predictable and felt extremely flat, and the final boss is the only time I’ve ever switched to a story mode difficulty in any game just to get it over with, I love difficult games but that difficulty spike is absurd and the game never remotely prepares you for that.
They advertise this game as a Sekiro-like metroidvania, while it feels like they completely miss what made Sekiro work or what a metroidvania is.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 days ago:
This is something that gets completely lost in the translation to an open world game. The DS trilogy, Bloodborne, and even the original Demon’s Souls feel hand-crafted and carefully structured without being completely linear. ER loses a lot by leaving that formula behind.
On top of that, the boss/enemy design is imo some of the worst they’ve ever done. The past games (with DS2 being the one with the most exceptions) typically give you very fair but challenging fights. Telegraphs are clear without being slow and obvious. Particle effects and such are generally kept to a minimum to prevent visual clutter from taking over the screen. Bosses hit hard, but very few hits or combos, if any, would one-shot most builds outside of challenge runs. ER throws all of that out the window - bosses tend to hit like trucks, are visual clusterfucks (either enormous models with a terrible camera, tons of particle effects blasting out the ass, or both). I feel like the final boss of the DLC as an example is the most egregious example of this sort of design philosophy. Hell, Nightreign works so much better with the exact same designs because it’s such a faster-paced game where getting knocked down once or twice isn’t usually the end of a run.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 6 days ago:
I echoed this in another thread. I honestly feel like ER is the weakest “Soulsborne” game they’ve put out. It feels like a lot of conflicting design philosophies at once.
The lore and worldbuilding are phenomenal but gameplay-wise it falls short of what made their past games shine.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 6 days ago:
I bought it ages ago but finally decided go give it a go. From the first day I could tell it wasn’t gonna be a game for me. Note-taking is basically mandatory, and it seems so easy just to get fucked out of a run by RNG.
Narrative seemed interesting but I feel like the whole “ability to decide what room you’re going into” thing should be weaved into the story off the bat.
- Comment on Welcome To Armored Core - A Chronological Breakdown Of FromSoftware's Legendary Mecha Series 1 week ago:
I’m in the camp of Soulsborne vets whose first AC game was AC6. Took me like 3 tries for it to click but it finally did, then I binged the hell out of it and platinumed it in a week. Phenomenal game and really got me interested in picking up the rest.
- Comment on Made an alternative to Tailscale + Gluetun 1 week ago:
Oh this looks promising. TS + Gluetun does tend to be super slow, so routing just the outbound traffic through the chained VPN is excellent. I’ll give this a try this weekend.
- Comment on moving from nextcloud to opencloud 1 week ago:
I’ve just accepted it for now while I pray they work on updating it to officially support anything that’s not keycloak lmao
- Comment on moving from nextcloud to opencloud 1 week ago:
I made the switch a few months back. Manually migrated my files over using the desktop apps for both, but it was maybe 200GB of junk so it didn’t take long.
OpenCloud is great. Much faster, much simpler, does what it needs to do. That being said, it is very new so documentation is lacking, and the desktop and mobile app are VERY basic (the mobile app doesn’t have a dark theme and only offers a limited photo sync right now, for example, instead of setting various one or two-way synced folders).
It’s also worth nothing that their compose file and OIDC support are both a mess. The compose file is easy enough to work around, plenty of folks have put together cleaner, minimal single file setups. For OIDC, I did get it working with Authentik but it loves to constantly log me out mid-session in Librewolf all the time. For some reason they use a hard-coded clientID for OIDC, and even worse the ID is different for web, desktop, and mobile. Very bizarre.
So it’s far from flawless, but it’s early in development and overall it’s still a better fit for me than Nextcloud.
- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 1 week ago:
I haven’t used Mumble since like 2010, looks like it’s still the exact same tool as it ever was, and that’s honestly all it really needs to be. Love to see it
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 week ago:
I mostly set it up for a few major albums like my wedding album. Other than that it’s like 90% dog pictures lmao
- Comment on What's gluetun? 2 weeks ago:
Hell, I route a TS exit node through gluetun so I can access my LAN while also covering my outbound traffic.
- Comment on Tempus v4.0.7 android subsonic client release 2 weeks ago:
Same here. Symfonium is fantastic but not being FOSS is a big downer. This is looking like it just might replace it for me.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 weeks ago:
Equally disgusting tbh. Boycott for life for sure.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft declining to comment may as well be a confession that they gave this shit the go-ahead
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 3 weeks ago:
Yep they changed this somewhat recently I believe? Like a year or two back, not sure - before my time.
Last I checked I think it’s now like $50 or $60 for the first year, and renewals are half that, so definitely not terrible.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 3 weeks ago:
At this point my whole setup is mostly in maintenance mode - I’ve got everything I need up and running, making some minor changes here and there (like swapping out StirlingPDF for Bento), and keeping things up to date. I only started this hobby about 6 months ago or so, and I’m really satisfied with where things are at. We’ll see when the next Big New Thing arrives.
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 3 weeks ago:
Mixing disks is the #1 reason I went with unraid over any other option.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been running this setup for a few months now and haven’t looked back. Works super well, and essentially acts as an approval process for letting a container update or not.
The author also recently added a followup article to this one for using Forgejo instead, made migrating the setup super easy.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 3 weeks ago:
Nothing fancy. I use Backrest for all my backups, and a few of my plans just include the Immich directory. My NAS is an entirely separate machine so my local backups go there, while everything is simultaneously pushed to a backblaze bucket
- Comment on Has InZoi been better than the Sims in your opinion? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah the entire game is basically AI slop. Hard pass.
- Comment on Linkwarden downloaded the whole flipping Internet ... 4 weeks ago:
I stopped using it because it was constantly eating up nearly a gig of RAM at all times just by existing. The dev’s AI generated avatar is a big turn-off too.
I went back to Readeck and it works much better for me without hogging system resources.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 5 weeks ago:
The original Yakuza 1 and 2, though I’d recommend the Restored mods for each because the localizations (especially Y1’s dub) were notoriously awful. Hilarious at first, but that wears off fast.
When I first played the series I played the remakes first, and after going back and playing the originals I understood why so many series vets weren’t happy with the remakes. Y2 especially has some of the best feeling combat in the franchise.