PonyOfWar
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- Comment on Pokémon Winds and Waves announced, releasing 2027 6 hours ago:
Finally, hardware is powerful enough that even Gamefreak can make a decent looking 3d game!
In all seriousness though, it looks pretty nice. Looking forward to the return of diving. South-east Asia is an interesting setting for a new region. I have a feeling IGN isn’t going to like it though…
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 9 hours ago:
The most trustworthy reviews are always those where the reviewers just bought the products. Even when it’s not as blatant as it is here, there’s always a motivation to not anger the company too much when you get their products early and for free.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yeah, so what’s your point? The meme is talking about the “most successful of last 25 years”, so a 22 year old game fits perfectly within that.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Pretty sure WoW and Overwatch were way bigger commercial successes.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 1 week ago:
I’ve only played the first remake so far, but I do prefer the original game. The remake is gorgeous and definitely not bad by any means, but it adds so much unnecessary padding to what was originally a perfectly well-paced game. And the story beats they added mostly don’t improve on the writing of the original. Feels almost mean to say it, but it reminds me a bit of the Hobbit movie trilogy in that regard.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Ashes of the Rug-Pull it looks like. Released on Steam less than 2 months ago. Looks like they just waited long enough so nobody who bought in can refund it.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 5 weeks ago:
“A Hat in Time” is an excellent 3d-platformer with local co-op.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 1 month ago:
My heart stopped at reading “GoG is getting acquired”, but that doesn’t sound so bad.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 1 month ago:
In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.
Nah, that’s just not the case for Pokemon. In the Japanese version he says 「たんパンうごきやすくっていいぜ」or “It’s nice that shorts are easy to move in”. Same meaning basically, dude just likes shorts in any version.
- Comment on Dying Light 1 month ago:
When Steam had its outage recently, I decided to go through my GOG library instead to find something to play. Noticed I had the Thief Trilogy, which I had never played, so I gave the first game a try. I wouldn’t have thought that a 3d-game from 1998 would hold up so well! It pretty much does stealth as good or even better than modern games. Sound design is brilliant as well. I’m 10 hours in and quite hooked on it right now.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 1 month ago:
So what conclusion do you draw from this? If humans can’t be trusted to make any judgement, literally anything should be considered to be capable of suffering, including pebbles, rainbows and paper bags? Seems like an impractical way of living.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 2 months ago:
Where do we draw the line though? Humans assign emotions to all kinds of inanimate things: plush animals, the sky, dead people, fictional characters etc. We can’t give all of those the rights of a conscious being, so we need to have some kind of objective way to look at it.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 2 months ago:
Fundamentally impossible to know. I’m not sure how you’d even find a definition for “suffering” that would apply to non-living entities. I don’t think the comparison to animals really holds up though. Humans are animals and can feel pain, so of course the base assumption for other animals should be that they do as well. To claim otherwise, the burden should be to prove that they don’t. Meanwhile, Humans are fundamentally nothing like an LLM, a program running on silicon predicting text responses based on a massive dataset.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Not quite. Larian also wants to use it for concept art, which is not the same thing as placeholder assets. To give you a bit of context, the standard for placeholder textures at the software development companies I worked so far has mostly been “vaguely fitting images you found on Google”.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 2 months ago:
Welcome back! BTW, there was some user wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: pawb.social/post/33129287
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 months ago:
I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.
In case you didn’t know, Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have a very similar fire spread system.
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 2 months ago:
I think the author might be interpreting a bit too much into Sean’s words here. “In the background” could just mean out of the eye of the public and he said it’s another tiny team, not necessarily smaller than the NMS one which he also calls tiny in the same post. Hello games is a pretty small studio. LNF could easily still be years away, but I don’t think Sean’s comment here tells us anything either way.
- Comment on Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy 2 months ago:
Now that’s a game I haven’t thought about in a while. I backed the game in 2013 and played it for 100+ hours in beta, but dropped it shortly after 1.0 because I didn’t like many of the fundamental changes they introduced. How is the game these days? Maybe I’ll join and give it another try.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
I’ve played Ultros recently and thought it was really cool and unique.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Huh, didn’t expect that to ever be a thing. I never played the original GW campaign, only Factions and Nightfall, so I guess this will be a good opportunity for me to finally play it.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 3 months ago:
It’s too big when the developers are unable to fill it with enough interesting things to do and discover to keep my attention. But there’s no absolute size I’d automatically consider too big, as it also depends on things like traversal. If you ride through the map on a mech going 400km/h, it can be much larger and more spread out than if I have to traverse the entire map on foot.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 3 months ago:
I’ve only gotten like 1.5 hours in so I can’t really say yet, but so far it feels similar to the first one with some improvements to stuff like gunplay.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 3 months ago:
It’s the main menu. Pretty fun idea, but from what I’ve played of the actual game so far, it isn’t nearly as creative or meta unfortunately.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 3 months ago:
It’s The Outer Worlds 2.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
It plays games.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
This is a massive free content update for a 5 year old game and a $5 update for Switch 2 owners who want higher resolutions and more online features. No reason to desperately try and find something to complain about just because it’s Nintendo.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your most 'comfy' anime? 3 months ago:
Non Non Biyori for me
- Comment on Relatable. 3 months ago:
City: The Animation for me. Desperately want to like it and the animation style is great, but I just didn’t find it very funny.
- Comment on My AYN Thor 4 months ago:
Yeah. I mean Crysis had been out for 3 years already. N64 graphics seemed ancient at that point.