zod000
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- Comment on Serious Sam 2 was just updated after 20 years in celebration of its anniversary 1 day ago:
Agreed, though it is still fun, it just isn’t as good as the first two.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 days ago:
What? No, that was surely only a few years ago :)
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 days ago:
My mistake then, I could have sworn that 2nd edition came out in 87. The rules in that series stayed consistent as far as I can tell (I replayed them many many times and tinkered with the engine), so they must have just stuck with OG AD&D rules.
- Comment on Using dark mode might be more energy-intensive if the screen is an LCD. 2 days ago:
It almost certainly is slightly more energy intensive, that’s just how LCDs work. I wasn’t under the impression that was why many people prefer dark mode.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 days ago:
I would love a remade Covert Action as well, I do own it on steam along with other games whose interface didn’t age well (Darklands immediately comes to mind). I haven’t heard of Floor 13, but I’ll check it out. Thanks!
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 2 days ago:
You’re welcome, thanks for letting me vent! The 3DS repeated the sins of the DS and added their whole new gimmick. And yet again, it trapped an EXCELLENT Zelda game (Link Between Worlds) on the system as well as the 3D Mario Land (I don’t recall the exact title). I had decided not to bother buying one even though the Zelda game is the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time, but my friend gave me his when he got one of those larger XL models so I picked up the aforementioned Zelda and Mario. I quickly saw why he got the larger model, my hands cramped using those teeny tiny controls. It now belongs to my daughter, so it worked out, but it’s funny, I still have a working OG Gameboy and GBA SP and those feel fine to use. Nintendo just lost me with their controllers. Even now, I only play the Switch using a Sony DS controller using the 8Bitdo adapter. Their first party controllers are nigh unusable to me.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 days ago:
Curse of Azure Bonds was probably the hardest of the series from my memory. I know some of the situations/battles could be avoided, but there was one that sticks in my memory of a large battle between two big forces that included beholders and I got rocked over and over until i finally beat it. Excellent game.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 3 days ago:
I am pretty sure they were actually second edition rules which came out a year or so before the game.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 3 days ago:
The 2600 port was definitely mediocre, even at the time.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 3 days ago:
Pools of Radiance was the first game of the series too. If you ever decide to play again, get them all.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 3 days ago:
The original Sim City is totally still worth playing. I think it relative simplicity compared to the later games is part of its charm (much like Civ 1).
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 3 days ago:
Covert Action was a masterpiece and super fun, I had no idea that Sid Meier hated it.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 3 days ago:
My favorite BBS door games were Trade Wars and Usurper. I played way too much of them and they were part of what drove me to host my own BBS.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 3 days ago:
The game is great up until that bullshit last level. That clocktower level was brutal and then you have to fight two overtuned bosses in a row.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 3 days ago:
There are certainly games on the DS that don’t have the stylus gimmicks, but here are the biggest/most dissapointing ones that come to mind:
- all the DS Zelda games (it ruined them IMO)
- Metroid prime: hunters (unplayable to me)
- Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (I am still pissed how the tacked on stylus gimmick was required to defeat bosses)
The thing is, it isn’t just the games that use the stylus that are the gimmick. The entire second screen IS a gimmick. Instead of a single better/bigger screen, you get two lower res medicore screens. You now have to look at two screens, you now have a heavier handheld that feel awkward (to me) to hold in the correct position, especially if you end up needing the stylus. The fact that the PSP came out in the same month as the DS and was better in many ways did the DS no favors.
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow ended up causing me severe wrist pain and I had to stop using the console entirely and sold it. The fact that there ARE good games on the system is actually more annoying. Because of weirdness of the DS, all the games were difficult, if not impossible, to port to other systems. Much like the Wii, it essentially orphaned a whole generation of games from future ports without a ton of work to change how the game works.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 3 days ago:
Sorry, I wasn’t meaning to laugh at you as a person, more that I literally wrote games for it and played many, many DS games and thus showing me games would definitely not change my mind on the system. I am more than a little salty about the DS and it’s evil gimmicks. It is one of the only systems that I ended up selling (the Wii is also in this short list).
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 3 days ago:
Both are good examples, but the one that probably bothered me the most was Dawn of Sorrow. The castlevania game that would force crappy stylus patterns to finish off a boss, but otherwise had no touch usage. I swear I had to kill some of the later bosses 4-5 times because of the touch not working right.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 5 days ago:
I am EXTREMELY familiar with the DS, you cannot “bring me close to the DS games” lmao. If anything, I am pissed that so many excellent games are trapped on it and will never get ported.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 5 days ago:
I personally liked the GBA SP better than any other handheld and I was not a fan of the DS at all. The only positive of the DS for me was that it was relatively easy to write homebrew games for (though not as easy as the GBA).
- Comment on My fat ass got excited 1 week ago:
Hah, I believe that is the scene where he says he loves “soul food”. Excellent.
- Comment on My fat ass got excited 1 week ago:
I looks like the strange middle ground between pizza and Freddy Krueger. Oh well, man’s got to eat, sorry Freddy.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 1 week ago:
Yes, it is, I was just making a bad joke. I am actually surprised that didn’t mention that the decrease in some air pollution was also a factor. See: science.org/…/clearer-skies-may-be-accelerating-g…
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 1 week ago:
They actually did a lot of mess with Pro as well. There has been a “watering down” of Pro since Windows 10 to make sure that they can still do their anticonsumer crap to users. I imagine they also are trying to push businesses to get Enterprise instead of picking up relatively easy/inexpensive Pro licenses.
- Comment on The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals 1 week ago:
This must be what people have meant when they say we’re headed for the Dark Ages.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
Saying “old enough to remember buying physical media” makes me feel like one of the ancients.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t stream my music, and only did for a little bit when it was newer and fairly novel. I strongly agree with you, most people don’t listen to diverse enough music that streaming makes sense other than pure convenience. That convenience is clearly all it takes for the majority of people.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
Hey, maybe you’re more common than either of us suspected. I do all of my steam usage on my desktop with a large monitor. Their UI is trash for it IMO.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
That could very well be the case. We don’t have their stats, so maybe they do get a lot of store users on their phone where people make purchases and then later play on their PCs… but I am pressing F to doubt here.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
This is my first time actually looking at the new Steam store UI and I have to say that I don’t like it. They seem determined to fit less and less information on the screen and make it harder to find content. I didn’t like their previous UI revamp either for the same reason, but this one is worse. That’s fine Valve, my backlog is eternal, I won’t buy more games if you make it hard.
- Comment on Ultima: Serpent Isle Retrospective | End of the Good Old Days 2 weeks ago:
Serpent Isle was an excellent game and probably the last Ultima game I enjoyed (if you don’t count UO).