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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am against all game design patents in general. You shouldn’t be able to file a patent on game mechanics, like no movie director could have filed a patent on, say, the sequence shot.

  Game content (art, characters, etc) is already protected by copyright. Patents have absolutely no business in this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be lacking shortcuts obviously, and very rarely (mostly when you ask for it) you might be prompted to input a name for something, but almost everything else has mouse controls.

  Now that I think about it, there are two keys that might be a bit inconvenient not to have, space-bar for emergency pauses (there’s a screen button but it’s harder to hit in a bind) and shift that let you queue an order instead of replacing the current one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions for mouse only games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:

  • Rimworld. Almost any top-down PC management or (not too fast paced) strategy game should work, but, I really like the crazy random shit that happens to the characters you’re slowly getting to know in Rimworld.

  • Almost any of the Zachtronics games, if you like to torture your brain. Open-ended sort-of-engineering puzzles.The bigs ones like Spacechem, Opus Magnum and Shenzhen IO in particular, last call BBS for a bit more variety inside one game. Not Infinifactory, since while it doesn’t have any kind of fast paced action it still requires navigating in 3D so mouse only wouldn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who call the PS1 'PSX' make me want to kill kittens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d heard the reason for the Xbox One was that some marketing genius noticed people were calling Xbox 360 “the 360”, and thought they would call that one… well, the One.

  And then everyone laughed and went ex-bone instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It felt so weird going into the anime completely blind.

  Okay, he’s German. Uh, and he’s in the army. And it’s WW2.

  …Are we going to address the elephant in the room?

  Nope, he’s just the new bro, here we’re all bound by the power of muscles and cool poses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft is Developing a Turn-Based Tactics Game Set in The Rainbow 6 Universe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BG3? Not sure I am seeing the influence here.

  If anything Firaxis’s take on XCOM has made turn based tactics somewhat mainstream again, and Ubisoft has already tried to surf in this trend once with Mario+Rabbids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinking about those I’ve played, I don’t think remakes have ever detracted from the original to me.

  The first time I finally completed Metroid 1 was shortly after Zero Mission (which had the cool effect that the locations of some power ups was still fresh in my mind).

  I also enjoyed Samus Returns despite it missing the point of Metroid 2, and that didn’t make Metroid 2 worse in retrospect.

  Kind of similar with Majora’s Mask 3D, Mario 64 DS…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never hold up a first play because of a potential remaster, especially not if it was not announced.

  I have hold up a few replays when rumours of a remake are floating around though (like I did with Skyward Sword). I stopped a halfway through replay of Xenoblade Chronicles when they announced Definitive Edition. With how long XC games get if you try to do everything… Yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how it thinks it is likely from a videogame, but somehow, it’s absolutely certain it has the character’s name.

  And then a bunch of facts about famous videogame character Lemmy Kilmister.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That paper lantern monster design feels familiar. I’m wondering if I’ve seen that asset somewhere else…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favourite Mario Kart game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  8 (DX but really my favorite parts of it were already on Wii U). 8’s tracks are incredible (not the booster packs one, those are a mixed bag and none really reach base game/Wii U dlc level).

  Wii comes very close though. It’s the first to have good item balance IMO, it gets rid of the left-right bullshit to drift, and circuits are quite fun too. And some bikes are a blast, though to the point of being overpowered.

  I just think of 8 as “we took everything good in Wii and made it a bit better”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They present Muse as a “generative AI model of a videogame” that you’d train to “learn about older games”. Which seems a very bold claim to begin with.

  If this is anything like that, this is not a way to preserve the original game, it’s an attempt at reproducing (parts of?) it. And since generative AI is involved, there is no reason to believe it will be a faithful recreation.

  Of course this could all be marketing bullshit, and for all we know their AI is just another coding assistant AI that they might use to create remakes. And then they’ll only be as faithful as the team making it can or will do it, as has always been the case with remakes.

  Anyway, remaking is not preserving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve convinced me brother. Buying 3 Lady Macbeth NFTs for my metaverse Web 3.0 gatcha play-to-earn game right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guys, it’s okay. Sure, it sounds bad that we somehow let the complete works of William Shakespeare disappear from the planet. But we have a new data center with a billion monkeys on typewriters. Give them some time, and they’re bound to stumble on that old stuff eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turok - Next-Gen Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Saw my switch version update out of nowhere yesterday, and I was wondering what it was about.

  A bunch of cool QoL and visual stuff. Doesn’t look like there’s anything revolutionary in there, but it’s great they pushed those improvements on all versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There will always be people like you’: Tekken boss blasts ‘disrespectful’ fan for criticising character’s new look⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All that for a new haircut? Doesn’t even look like that out of place of a style change to me.

  I mean, look at what Castlevania Judgment did to its characters back then if you want terrible redesign. Most of them were unrecognizable. Simon, Maria and Death became Death Note cosplayers, others like Grant and Carmilla went full SoulCalibur knock-off.

  Along with bad anime trope personality graft for half of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, big wrestler tiger not to your liking apparently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, randomly happens in the festival plaza after the main plot. Honestly not that interesting despite the premise, there’s barely any plot to be found, just the most basic excuse to have you fight a couple battles with past villains and it’s over very quickly. They’d advertised so much around Rainbow Rocket that I was a bit disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree on the story point.

  Worst part IMO is that original SuMo had the most interesting antagonist the series ever had, and Ultra decided fuck that, let’s rewrite that character in the most boring way possible and drop a random threat out of nowhere instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roll7’s OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome delisted, remaining titles now at risk along with the future of ‘Kerbal 2’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, at that point? I don’t care about getting them legally. And I am certainly not throwing money to the grey market either.

  I am all for supporting people for their work, but since Take Two fired the studio last year, I can be sure my money will never impact anybody who actually worked on these games. Worse, it might be slightly beneficial to those who let them go.

  I know most of the time when someone looks for a reason to pirate it sounds like an excuse, but really, in a case like that I’d give zero fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roll7’s OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome delisted, remaining titles now at risk along with the future of ‘Kerbal 2’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, I missed that. I like the original Olliolli, world was in the back of my mind as “might get that one day” (too many freaking games).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls creator Ted Peterson is “glad that people are wanting to break away from” watered-down RPGs as he works on an epic Daggerfall successor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s honestly what I am worrying it would be, and what I meant by a huge part of the game being “impersonal”.

  Daggerfall has parts that are fascinating, even long after its time.

  Its custom class creator is rather fun. Its magic effect system too… despite some of the most intriguing effects not even working at all. Seriously. You can craft those spells, they just don’t do anything.

  Its dungeons are intimidating in scale, and the 3D automap is both a feat and almost no help at all.

  There are freaking linguistic skills. They are mostly useless, because they just add a slight chance a monster won’t attack you, but since you don’t know when it works you’ll murder them anyway.

  And then there’s the undistinguishable random quests and the grind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sims & The Sims 2 Legacy Collections - Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still have the Sims 2 Ultimate Collection from the time they ended up giving it to everyone who’d claim it for a few days.

  They haven’t removed it from the app… yet. Not taking any chances, I’m re-downloading it on my current PC right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls creator Ted Peterson is “glad that people are wanting to break away from” watered-down RPGs as he works on an epic Daggerfall successor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since most of Elder Scrolls nostalgia today is around Morrowind, it’s always interesting (and a bit funny) to find people (involved or not) who think the series started to derail with Morrowind.

  I get it, Daggerfall and Morrowind are very different games with a different scale and focus. Daggerfall is also… quite overwhelming, and rather impersonal for 99% of its gameplay. I really don’t know what a “modern” Daggerfall would look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Auto Sort Is Broken, a game where you play an RPG store owner that organizes NPC players' inventories while listening to their adventure stories, released on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point every time I did a new run of Backpack hero I could find some new absurdly broken item combo. It’s fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 182 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario Kart Wii is very cool, it has some of the best tracks and very fun physics. And I know it’s been a bit of joke online, but the wheel style motion controls were actually fine too.

  Though I understand why they toned down the tricks and nerfed bikes in 7 and 8. They were fun, but a bit much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Asking the real questions here

  Bowtie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played several Shiren games (1 on DS, 3 on Wii, 5 and 6 on Switch) and I recommend Shiren 6 (Mystery Dungeons of Serpentcoil Island).

  5 kinda went too far from its roguelike roots and feels too grindy, with too many ways to escape safely, especially easy ways to undo your death indefinitely.

  6 is a lot more fun to me and makes good runs and crazy builds more special again.

  For a very good introduction to the series, if you can play it, the port of Shiren 1 on DS is very good and already has a lot of what makes those games great. There is also a rom hack translation for the original on Super Famicom (that one only existed in Japanese), but I’ve not played that one much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure which game you’re thinking about, there are lots of shitty Christian shovelware from that era, but Konami’s Noah’s Ark has nothing to do with it. And very few to do with the biblical story really.

  I had that game on the NES (and I’m not in a Christian or religious family at all).

  It’s a real game, the arcade-y kind that tries to kill you all the time. It’s quite hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Lost Art of Fancy PC Game Installers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t watch now so not sure what’s in the video, but Lands of Lore 2 was quite fancy.

  Had a parchment scroll-like UI with animated burning transitions, did creepy chants at you to test stereo sound.

  Funny thing, it tested your CD-ROM drive speed too (it used to matter). Of course on a modern PC, you’d have the whole game on your (much faster) hard drive and simulate an optical drive with DOSBox or something. The installer runs its test and literally says : “Wow, your drive is fast!”