MeekerThanBeaker
@MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 1 week ago:
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 1 week ago:
Well, with the system bundle it was only going to be $50 more. No way I was gonna pay $80 for it. With the stupid tariffs, who knows what’s gonna happen?
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 1 week ago:
I’m so glad that the prices were revealed right before the tariff announcement.
So now… they either stick to that and suck it up or they will increase them and show more people what these tariffs are doing.
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 weeks ago:
Trump was so proud of himself for using the word “reciprocal.” He likely didn’t know what it meant earlier this week.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
Back right?
I see two in the back left and two more in the back middle without balloons. The two in the back right are the carriage passengers.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 2 weeks ago:
They very well could be implementing that stuff into the sequel.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 5 weeks ago:
The way I see it… whenever I do buy from Amazon, I say to myself that my money is going to the workers/drivers… and whenever the Magas pay for stuff, that goes straight to Bezos.
It’s not as good as buying from somewhere else, but it helps.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. I know what you mean. We still have fun playing it and just take it as it is.
Anyone can answer the questions at the main menu so maybe it’ll get better over time.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 5 weeks ago:
They also released The Jackbox Survey Scramble last year which was surprisingly fun.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 1 month ago:
Just like Sandra Bullock and Cillian Murphy.
- Comment on [TerakJK] Avowed vs The Outer Worlds - Obsidian's previous game - Attention to detail. 1 month ago:
You can technically play Avowed in third person view, but I understand your point.
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 1 month ago:
I was so looking forward to that game. Once I found out it was basically just a multiplayer experience, my interest dropped. Still haven’t played it.
The problem with many games and movies nowadays is that the gatekeepers are people who don’t really have creative/artistic background. They are business people who make decisions on whatever they think makes the company the most money.
A.I. has its issues and controversy, but I feel like creative people who can’t get through the blocked doors of these business types will go on their own and create wonderful things with the technology. I guess time will tell.
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 1 month ago:
I think if you watch WolfCop… you might get your answer if it follows the same rules as Teen Wolf.
- Comment on Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems 2 months ago:
You must be pleasant to be around.
- Comment on Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems 2 months ago:
Legend of Zelda and other big name NES titles were $60 USD back in the mid to late 80s. That’s over $170 today. Average NES games were $40 back then, which is still around $115 today. Discounted $20-$25 games are closer to today’s $60-$70 standard edition titles.
Yes, they were cartridges with chips back then, but prices are a lot better now for a game. Today’s $100+ games are for the ultra/deluxe editions.
That said, I usually don’t buy games at launch unless it’s something from like Rockstar.
- Comment on Warner Bros. President stepping down following poor financial results 2 months ago:
*President of its gaming division, David Haddad, not David Zaslav… which I wish would happen.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 months ago:
You’d need all new accessories anyway with a complete redesign.
I’ve bought every Nintendo console up until the Wii U. Since they abandoned that early, I decided to skip the Switch. I’ll likely pick this up. If this doesn’t do well and gets abandoned early again, I’ll at least get to play all the games I’ve missed over the years due to backwards compatibility.
- Comment on Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 3 months ago:
I dunno. I did play a VR version with that character and it was very creative and fun.
- Comment on It Takes Two developer's next project name and release date leaks 4 months ago:
My wife doesn’t really play many videogames, but we both enjoyed “It Takes Two.” Pixar-level storytelling.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Launch Trailer 4 months ago:
It was rated PG… since PG-13 wasn’t created yet. Kids watched it in theaters back in 1981. So some are in their late 40s now.
- Comment on My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive? 4 months ago:
In my experience, also IT, I’ve had issues with Dell laptops much more than HP. Though HP printers suck.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 4 months ago:
Damn you, Sid Meier!!!
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 4 months ago:
I’ve played pretty much all but the most recent. They have their ups and downs. The first was almost like a proof of concept. Kinda boring, but the story sets up the sequels. There was a good overall story arc in the Desmond/Ezio trilogy (Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations) that hasn’t been duplicated since.
AC3 was a bit of a breath of fresh air, being part of the American revolution, but it wasn’t for everyone. The story was being deviated from earlier games too much. AC4 is, for me, still the best single-player pirate game out there. It continues with Rogue. Both of those games I highly enjoyed.
Unity (Paris during French Revolution) and Syndicate (Victorian London) both have fantastic maps and character design, but gameplay and story just wasn’t as interesting to me. The series was feeling stale.
To Ubisoft’s credit, they knew that too and entirely revamped the gameplay and menu system starting with Origins (Ancient Egypt), then Odyssey (Ancient Greece), and Valhalla (Vikings during 9th Century). Valhalla was really fun. I love how they change certain villages up throughout the year… adding festivals/challenges depending on when you play. The maps were just getting too huge and overwhelming at this point.
I play the games now mainly for exploration. Gameplay and story are secondary as they aren’t as interesting anymore. They really put a lot of detail into their surroundings and do their research on history, whether real or fantastical. It’s escapism to another land in another time.
Ubisoft is not Rockstar. The story is no longer the reason to play these games. They are forgettable. The Desmond/Ezio storyline of the earlier games are no more. However, we don’t have to wait several years to play a sequel.
Valhalla was the only one that I paid full price for since it was 2020 and we were still basically trapped in our homes, but definitely got my money’s worth. They seemed to take more time making Mirage so I’ll check that out eventually. They are remastering some of their old games so I’d play those over the dated originals.
The Far Cry series has a similar feeling for me, but with a first person perspective. New lands to explore, new stories and characters, but some are better than others.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #25 - Vampire Survivors 5 months ago:
I liked the part when I was playing very far into the game and I basically had so many enemies and explosions on screen I couldn’t even see my character anymore… and then my wife came into the room, saw the chaos and didn’t understand how I could still play or how it was even fun.
Good times.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 7 months ago:
- Comment on Introducing Steam Families 7 months ago:
Region meaning country/continent? One of them lives across the country.
- Comment on Introducing Steam Families 7 months ago:
Same household only? Why can’t they just allow a certain number of people in your “family” use it? I have no kids, but I’d like to allow my siblings or in-laws use my games. They live in different cities.
- Comment on I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED" 7 months ago:
They made an animated web series that follows Kenway:
m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/…/list?title_no=5273
They made a similar style game with Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and with different characters. I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as the original.
www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/…/rogue-remastered
And IV will likely get a remake:
- Comment on How come zombies seem to have sharp teeth while the rest of their body is rotting away? Or is just fiction? 7 months ago:
I stopped watching during the 7th season. Maybe I’ll go back to finish it up, but it just felt stale even though they tried to mix things up a bit at the start.
