wombatula

@wombatula@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game did you last finish? What did you think of it?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally played Mass Effect 3, I’d played 1 and 2 but after all the stink about 3 and it being on Origin / EA Play for years I never bothered until a recent $1 sale on a month of that EA subscription, which has ME3 on it.

  I spent 90%+ of the game going “Wow this isn’t bad at all, I am really impressed! This really is a good game!”

  …until I got to the ending sequence, when it felt like the game had taken crazy pills all of a sudden. I understood why everyone was mad about it, and totally agree that it ruined the game. It wasn’t that Shepherd died, it wasn’t the Red/Blue(/Green) choice they gave you, it was a combination of 3 factors though:

  1. Crippling your character and making you limp along, unable to use any of your powers, forced to slog through a bunch of token combat, and all your cosmetic choices were erased as you drag around at half speed through corridors just to get further in the chain of conversations.

  2. Except for the pass/fail check on the conversation with the Illusive Man (which is very easy to miss the requirements for without expecting it), none of what you did before entering that final sequence matters, it really was just press a button to receive ending. On that same note, you can have all 3 endings regardless of what you did, spent the entire trilogy making nothing but Renegade choices? Don’t worry you can still press the Blue button! Hail Mary deathbed confession!

  3. I found the child avatar kind of out of place and a bit weird, yes I know it was a reference to the kid that died, but it was not really immersive and it made this gigantic long conversation that makes up “the last boss” really awkward, especially since half the conversation is just explaining the story for people that weren’t paying attention or missed all the side quests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of great single playthrough MMORPG, but very few have a steady enough update cycle to keep a proper endgame. If you want to just play through a story and putter around, SWTOR, GW2, FF14, and others are a lot of fun for at least a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly every MMO should be on here, it’s basically a dead genre but zombified 20+ year old MMO still keep going. Ultima Online got an update last month, WoW keeps pushing xpacs on the regular, even ones that do get killed 50/50 get brought back as private servers like SWG, CoH, and many more.

  If an MMO hasn’t already been closed, chances are it will still be here in another 5 or even 10 years, because there is a diehard MMO fanbase out there that regularly or even exclusively plays MMO (and often the same MMO they’ve been playing all these years). Surprisingly there are tons of new players showing up, as children and younger relatives of existing players or just curious people that heard the legends of some weird niche game come to check it out, so although the player base is declining as they age out (or die, come on gamers we’re getting old) it will still be there for a long time.

  Mark my words, the first truly decent MMO to come out in the next decade is gonna hit it off big, we’ve had lots of disappointments in the genre in the last decade, and niche or region specific games that didn’t really hit it off, but if we got a well made MMO especially one connected to a big IP (no, Dune is probably not it, sorry guys I wish it was) it would knock it right out of the park.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best MMOs in 2023 - PCGamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GaaS took all the profitable pieces of the MMO model, and left the entire genre a desiccated husk populated with zombie games that refuse to die from the 90s, 00s, and 10s. Other than a couple Asian market games (because that market is a lot more accepting of extreme monetization in MMO) and New World, I literally cannot think of a single MMO released in the 2020s that wasn’t just a kickstarter scam, and even those are less common now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Invincible is now available on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf is “atompunk” and why does every single sci fi genre have to be called somethingpunk now? Cyberpunk had a reason to be called that, I really don’t see the reasoning behind every other somethingpunk moniker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaffer_tape

  No, it’s duct tape. If you bought gaffer tape that looks like the tape in the image, it was mislabeled or misadvertised, gaffer tape is made of different material and is not usually shiny, because light reflection would not be a good thing for what it is used for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tired of everything being about america⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.worldamerica

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le origin story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I legit wonder if this person even saw Digital Circus, I think this is a reference to some other show or manga or something where a character kind of looks like her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you call 9 people hanging out with 1 Nazi?

  spoiler

  10 Nazis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like he fought Zuckerberg, and how he followed through on the Twitter purchase without having to be forced!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t understand what words mean, do you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Go look at their reply then tell me that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  good-looking men as well

  What’s the opposite of good-looking? I swear context is impossible for most people on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So anyone not on instagram is an ugly man or a lesbian…

  …man the hot takes just keep coming don’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You really are confused, I never asked for a list, and didn’t take this personally in any way.

  I just think you have some weird misogynistic views of what a woman is, and what their interests are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh cool she definitely represents the entire female population of the world. Maybe you should go try and meet a second or even third woman (not including your mother), it might give you a broader perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty weird joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every woman I know is making scrapbooks, knitting her own hats and some more for others, taking care of some kids

  Wow… there’s a lot to unpack here… have you ever met a woman before?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes the best way to get someone to chill out, keep bothering them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re literally relishing in the idea of causing someone emotional or mental distress?

  Maybe I am a clown, but you are a god damn sociopath if this is what you enjoy, take a step back and read what you just wrote, you ENJOY causing PAIN to others. You’re a sadist and the only thoughts I am carrying on this thread are “wow that guy is disturbing, his life must be terrible if he actually enjoys this”.

  I hope you get the help and happiness that you most clearly need, because this sort of behaviour is troubling and points to some very significant problems on your end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are a toxic hateful douche who enjoys mocking and tormenting people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are toxic and pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow you have a sad life if you care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they do a great job at getting that message across by… throwing paint on things and annoying people?

  But by all means, make personal attacks against me, because as we are saying to you pissing people off and alienating them is great for the cause, great work!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Stop Oil protestors interrupt UK’s biggest games event EGX⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re taking the worst examples of a massive industry and misrepresenting them and demonizing them to make your point. You are deliberately misrepresenting one of the largest media industries (if not the largest) to strengthen your argument.

  Hardware has become cheaper, games on average have become cheaper, games are not “ever more buggy” that’s a symptom of AAA games being made by giant corporations, no idea wtf you are even bringing up “the uncanny valley” for that has no bearing on the conversation in any way, mobile gaming is very much its own thing and nearly every person I know that calls themselves a “gamer” has nothing to do with the type of game you are describing, and micro transactions are easily avoided if you don’t play shitty corporate games.

  Almost every single complaint you made is exclusive to AAA games made by greedy corporations. Meanwhile myself and most “gamers” I know largely play independent games with no microtransactions, no massive system requirements, and do so on older systems.

  The only stupid thing to me right now is the post I am replying to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game did you find in a bargain bin that turned out to be awesome? For me it was Z by Bitmap Brothers which I got at Zellers for $0.47⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Discounting Steam because otherwise I’d be here typing for an hour listing all the cheap games I enjoyed from there.

  Lufia 2 for the SNES, which was great because it was a prequel to Lufia 1, though it took me a couple years to finally track down a copy in the pre-internet days. I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was a prequel, and there are actually massive spoilers for the 2nd game in the intro for the 1st one, so I unintentionally played them in the right order!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fuck get a better hobby than harassing random people on the internet. How about I block you instead, for being toxic and joining in on the dogpile?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a fucking life you degenerate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YOU ARE STILL SPAMMING ME FFS

  I am not “still talking about it” I am getting fucking mobbed for 9 hours straight by people screaming at me about it!

  Are you this fucking dense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 feet apart = Not gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit stop, this is fucking insane how angry and pushy you gang of idiots are.

  Find a better hobby than harassing randoms for not knowing what some homophobic reference from a dead website is.