Lojcs
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- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 day ago:
I think it’d be better to have assist modes than difficulty options. As difficulty is traditionally associated with changing things like health and damage (or worse, opaquely disabling mechanics) that are fundamental to game balance I think it is too easy to be abused as a cop out from having to balance the game.
Things like slowing the pace of the game, adding aim assist, visual indicators for audio cues, more lenient hit boxes, more frequent saves would be way more useful imo. Optional mechanics or modifiers can exist, but they shouldn’t be bundled with other random stuff.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 days ago:
- Description of the effects and hardware demands of graphics options.
- An actual benchmark for ’optimized settings’ (even if it’s just crunching numbers) instead of hardcoded GPU names.
- Clear indication of which difficulty the game was balanced for.
- Msaa. Hate running old games at 200 fps with jagged edges and blur thanks to fxaa.
- Instant controls switching between controller and keyboard. Tired of games that pick input type at startup, pick input glyphs at startup, ignore first button press from a different input before switching, disable controller if keyboard input is detected etc etc.
- Not games but steam: just let me force steam input on all games like Proton.
Also how ‘full potato’ do you want it to be? I assume the settings don’t scale below low, so it’d be just turning off shadows, reflections etc. Would even the lowest resolution textures fit in the vram of an older card? And besides, the engine is probably designed for modern multi core cpus so even if the graphics could be scaled down it might not run well
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 days ago:
Conversely I can’t remember a game in recent memory that didn’t let me pause in cutscenes.
Just off of my head: Ubisoft games, Control, Shadow of Mordor, Crysis, Witchers, Borderlands 2, Devil May Cry, Celeste support it.
- Submitted 3 days ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
While I do change them if I feel things are seriously off, I don’t think changing the settings mid-playthrough is the solution. It is normal for the same game to have different difficulties at different times so if you’re adjusting difficulty mid fly on a first playthrough you probably won’t get the same highs and lows as intended. It is impossible to know from the first stages how the difficulty ramps up, sometimes they are easier, sometimes they are just mechanically simpler and sometimes they are purposefully difficult so you have to learn key mechanics.
Difficulty options are like consumable potions to me if that makes sense
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
How am I supposed to know which one that is
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
Especially when this happens in small indie games.
You were the chosen one Anakin!
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
Cries in shadow warrior
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
I’m souring on difficulty options lately. How am I supposed to know the ideal difficulty of a game without having played it before? You’re the developer, you designed it and if you’re confident in your game balance you should pick the default difficulty. Better yet, get rid of discrete difficulties and add customizable assist mode instead.
- Comment on Android QuickShare is now compatible with AirDrop 1 week ago:
Never thought this day would come…
- Comment on The FF family could be Fantastic Four or Fast and Furious 1 week ago:
Assetto corsa
- Comment on The FF family could be Fantastic Four or Fast and Furious 1 week ago:
As I explained to the other person, I meant in the context of family specifically. Of course there are many things FF could mean
- Comment on The FF family could be Fantastic Four or Fast and Furious 1 week ago:
It was that both of these franchises have an emphasis on family
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Another chance for JPEG XL? PDF will support format as 'preferred solution' 2 weeks ago:
Thank you cto of pdf
- Comment on Over 1 million years of children’s lives lost in Gaza during genocide, study finds 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird and confusing to count lives by years. Does a 10 yr old child’s life contain 8 child years and 56 adult years or 64 child years? And how much statistical sense does it make to take past life expectancy measures to account when so many people died before their time? Is the life expectancy of a Gazan still the same as one in 2022?
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was about the minerals in alkaline water, not the ph itself?
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 4 weeks ago:
Are they friends? If they are friends sure, they’re evil. Although if that were the case I think the person calling them evil (and the linked blog) would have included that front and center rather than the definition of open source stuff.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 4 weeks ago:
I’ve clicked through the links and the most ‘evil’ thing they did seems to be using a non-mainstream open source licence? Evil is getting contracted by Israel. Prohibiting other companies from profiting off your work isn’t evil.
- Comment on Apparently the Liberux nexx crowdfunding campaign has closed 1 month ago:
Them who? What happened?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Marvel’s Wolverine - Gameplay Trailer | PS5 Games 1 month ago:
Hurr durr mainstream popular ip videogame bad
- Comment on Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey 2 months ago:
:(. Depressing
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 months ago:
I liked their guides
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 2 months ago:
Input latency includes the time it takes to render the frame. CRTs have a small latency advantage compared to modern LCDs but they're not instant and that advantage is miniscule compared to the disadvantage of the lower framerate. A game running at 30 fps on a gaming LCD will have lower input lag than a game running at 20 fps on a CRT. I'm sure there are outliers that poll inputs in a silly way that increases input lag, but for most games the render time will be the greatest factor. Performance modes usually simply reduce the render time (even if the framerate is unchanged).
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 3 months ago:
Is there a cure?
- Comment on Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data 4 months ago:
The malware, which must be planted on an unlocked device
So it's a backup tool
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 4 months ago:
Wow I had no idea it could be done that way. Just tried doing it and the image is way blurrier when 'inverted'. I am near sighted. Does this mean it applies to illusions too?
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 4 months ago:
It is a good one. Although my eyes kept trying to focus on the keyboad and failing
- Comment on Steam Introduces In-Game Performance Monitor 4 months ago:
Im not sure I like the cpu utilization being based on the base clock. A percentage that can go arbitrarily above 100 doesn't sound useful for determining bottlenecks. It must be difficult to accurately determine given all the dynamic boost stuff but since all other such utilities figured it out surely they can too. Hope they don't just leave this is as good enough.