PonyOfWar
@PonyOfWar@pawb.social
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 9 hours 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 1 day 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 days 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? 1 week ago:
I’ve played Ultros recently and thought it was really cool and unique.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
It’s The Outer Worlds 2.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 4 weeks ago:
It plays games.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Non Non Biyori for me
- Comment on Relatable. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. I mean Crysis had been out for 3 years already. N64 graphics seemed ancient at that point.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 month ago:
Haven’t really noticed any change personally. What game was it btw? Having a positive experience with a game that is being negatively reviewed doesn’t necessarily mean it was review bombed. Especially when it comes to bugs and technical issues, which often won’t affect every single player.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 1 month ago:
As with almost all subscription services, the enshittification was inevitable.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
This doesn’t have the head tracking capabilities of the VR kit, as you only insert the Switch which doesn’t have a gyro without the joycons.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
…in the US. 22 games world-wide. They’ve already released a few originally Japan-only titles on the other Switch Online apps.
- Comment on Yoshi and the Mysterious Book - Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Not sure I care about the game itself, but the art style is beautiful!
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
I think it’s a fun novelty, but locking the actual software behind the Online+ Expansion pack instead of including it with the (no doubt expensive) accessory is a bit crap.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 months ago:
That’s fair, but I also don’t see a problem in voicing criticism about aspects of the game I don’t like. Especially if I do like the game as a whole. People should not see that as an attack on their personal enjoyment of the game.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 months ago:
I like the game, but I definitely think it deserves some criticism. I really don’t get the thinking behind not placing a bench directly in front of every boss arena. The run-backs don’t make the game harder, just more frustrating. It’s also something I disliked in older Souls games, but thankfully they realized the problem and fixed it in Elden Ring. And some mechanics are just baffling, like benches that are locked behind a paywall, which you have to pay every time you want to access the bench. Why on earth would they do this, with currency already being as sparse as it is?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 3 months ago:
It was free on EGS back in 2021. Has been sitting in my backlog since then.
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 3 months ago:
Are there any people who even liked shenmue 3?
I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve noticed way more positive opinions online about the game the further we got from its release date. It’s currently 75% positive on Steam and even 92% from recent reviews.
I think the game was way overhyped, but now that people don’t expect it to be some monumental achievement, some actually do like it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Go hiking! It’s many Germans’ favorite pastime and we have well-signposted hiking trails everywhere. In Grünwald you’re quite close to the Bavarian alps and lakes, really beautiful areas.
Germans have quite a different way of communicating compared to Americans. Small talk with strangers is not as common. Don’t take it as rudeness if the supermarket cashier doesn’t really smile or ask about your day. People are quite direct. If you ask someone how they are, be prepared for an honest reply.
Public transport is good, but not Japan- or Switzerland-good. When going on a trip, take possible delays into account. Don’t rely on a 5 minute connection in Mannheim HBf.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 3 months ago:
Plenty of stuff like this or this or this
Again, those are all pushes for legislation. None of which are implemented at this point. The EU is, for better and for worse, a bureaucratic monster. Anything it does has to go through a long process involving multiple oversight comittees, the commission, the parliament etc. It really doesn’t have the option for much secrecy. National governments are quite a different story.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 3 months ago:
But those are all publicly available pieces of legislation. It’s quite a leap to go from that to just assuming they’ll secretly and illegally spy on you through public wifi networks, without any law allowing them to do so. Besides, if they have no problem doing that, why would internet through your European ISP be any safer?
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 3 months ago:
They’ve also sold less than half the number of XBox One units compared to PS4, and like a third compared to the Switch, so they’ve been lagging behind for a while.
- Comment on Humble Choice this month contains Persona 5 Royal, My Time at Sandrock, Lil Gator Game, more 3 months ago:
As someone who really likes the game: No, it probably isn’t for you. The story is very much edgy youth fiction and much of the game is reading through the story. The gameplay is good, but not so good as to carry the game if you dislike the story and aesthetics.