Cocodapuf
@Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 16 hours ago:
That said, metacritic and Opencritic Gave Mina the same score. So… Regardless of where you look, the outcome is essentially the same.
- Comment on Mastermind without the fiddly pegs? 2 days ago:
Maybe if instead of pegs they used little wheels you could turn revealing 1 color at a time. Everything built in, no parts to lose.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Well I hear those complaints, I feel like I used to be a gamer, and now that I have a family and a whole bunch of responsibilities, these days I’m more of a guy with a fancy PC.
I read some other posts in this thread saying it was too easy, and I guess I can understand that. There weren’t a lot of places that had me stumped for long.
I think they do need to consider adding in some new mechanics to the puzzles, I think they lean heavily on the light beams and I’d love to see some weirder stuff. For instance, the way that portal 2 added liquids, and the liquids had cool interactions with the existing mechanics. Cubes could bounce or slide on them. The streams of liquids could flow through portals, etc. In Talos, they add new mechanics from time to time, but they don’t always interact with each other in interesting ways. I know that’s difficult to do, but that might be the key to a good puzzle game sequel.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed the second one as well. Out of curiosity, what didn’t work for you?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release 2 weeks ago:
This is more of a leak like… They forgot to seal the bottom of the boat, now they “have a leak”.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
I wish I could upvote this harder.
Your hitting on one of the biggest ongoing issues that Lemmy faces. I’m really not sure how best to combat the echo chamber though. I mean I see the problem clearly, but I don’t actually know of a solution.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 months ago:
What if I like my insulated echo chamber?
Well if that were the case, then you would suck.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 2 months ago:
That’s how Handsome Jack runs a company!
“I’m… not… choking you! This… is called… strangulation.”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You know what, I remain not at all sold on Firewatch, or Edith Finch. I get that it’s a new genre, but they just didn’t do anything for me. Weirdly, Come Home did work for me a bit more, despite not being all that different.
Oxenfree on the other hand, I thought that game was really brilliant. It really evoked that feeling of being 16, hanging out with friends trying to be cool, sussing out who likes who. There’s a sense of adventure and terror in being that age, and with the addition of just a little bit of creepy mystery, you’ve got a real great recipe for a unique experience.
I also really liked their system for interrupting characters’ monologues and being able to get back to them later with a quick “oh, what was I saying?”, it’s essentially like being able to pause a cutscene, actually play the game for a bit, then return to it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I couldn’t finish it.
This is certainly on me, but I just couldn’t handle the story. Without too many spoilers, the game’s story includes a tragic death, and when I played the game I was actively dealing with a recent death in the family and when I got to that part of the story… I just couldn’t go any further.
And while this is a special case, it’s also typical for how I play games, I play to escape the emotional social dilemmas of my life. Give me a strategy game, a puzzle game, a factory game. Give me some abstract puzzle to solve, a system to optimize, an army to outmaneuver; the last thing I want is a deep story with complex characters. Emotions just add weight to the experience, and my whole objective is to try to shrug off some of that weight for a while.
- Comment on Security engineer ports Linux to PS5, runs GTA V 2 months ago:
Should someone tell him you can already play gta V on the PS5?
Now if he used it to play Baulder’s Gate 2 or Ski Free, that would be new.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 months ago:
And that’s all totally true. Though there is a way around that trap… Don’t buy the dlc!
That’s my secret, I treat the base price as the only price, and if the game doesn’t stand on its own without dlc, it’s a bad game. And I will 100% say that out loud, I’ll give it a bad review, I’ll avoid buying it in the first place. If a game needs pricey dlc to be worth playing, it isn’t worth playing at all.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 months ago:
This may sound crazy, but hear me out… $70 might just be relatively cheap right now, when considering historic prices and inflation.
So about 20 years ago, I used to work at a game shop and at that time all new AAA console games were all $50 and I believe the switch to $60 happened just shortly after I left.
That said, a quick web search says that there’s been 65% inflation since 2005. $50 x 1.65 = $99
So at least when compared to other products, $50 to $70 is not a huge price jump.
Now all that said, this does not account for the added cost of micro transactions and paid dlc which didn’t really exist in 2005. So the actual lifetime cost of a top pricing tier game may actually be higher than $70. Honestly, I have more of a problem with that than with the higher base cost, hidden costs are deceptive.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 3 months ago:
Guybrush has it right.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 months ago:
That’s a very good analogy. Yeah, this is stupid. What’s even dumber than the concept itself, is freaking out over it and selling stocks. This technology should not intimidate anyone, it’s impressive by some metrics, but it’s not in any way effective at creating a video game.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 4 months ago:
And it won’t work nearly as well as most people would think.
Well that’s wrong, because I would think this wouldn’t work at all.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 months ago:
You know, I recall playing this at a friend’s house decades ago and being totally, utterly, stuck on the first level for like… many hours.
So yeah, you may be right about that.
Was there like, a maze in that level? I think I remember a maze that ultimately led to a smaller area of open water, where you were just like “well fuckin’ now what?”
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 months ago:
I’m gonna have my kid add No AI used" to his lemonade stand sign. He’ll probably double his profits.
(so probably like $4).
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 4 months ago:
Reality TV. Reality TV never changes…
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 4 months ago:
Yeah… this seems pretty on brand really.
Actually, out arms really well themed, a needed up reality show is exactly the kind of thing you might find in a vault. The thing to remember though, is that Vault-Tec is supposed to be satirical… Bethesda should not become Vault-Tec because that would be unethical… Right Bethesda… Right?
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 months ago:
Ok sure, but how much of the game will actually be generated by dolphins?
This will probably be just another example of HUMAN appropriation when plenty of dolphin developers are struggling to even find work in this industry. Maybe when dolphins are literally the subject matter of the game we could consider inclusivity in its development?
#dolphin_life #PhinsInGaming #NotMyEcco
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 4 months ago:
When you’re watching a dramatic cutscene, but then someone needs your attention, so you hit esc… which skips the cutscenes instead of pausing?! What the actual fuck? The button that pauses the game in every other context now (surprise!) skips the cutscene? Why would you do that?!
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 5 months ago:
If you like his taste you should totally listen to his podcast, triple click.
It’s basically the only way I find out about new games. And it’s honestly super insightful.
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 5 months ago:
You had multiple AI subscriptions…
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 5 months ago:
Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact could be written more simply as Hunter^2 : Nen x Impact
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 5 months ago:
We should boycott them
How? They aren’t selling to us anymore, remember. They’re ramping down their consumer products because the AI specific products are more lucrative. Hell, not buying their consumer products just proves that point. We’re behind fucked at this point.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 5 months ago:
If you like building things, I’ve been playing the hell out of “Mars First Logistics”.
Basically, you build custom mars rovers to move increasingly ridiculous shipments across the red planet. And the whole game has the visual style of a ImageLego instruction manual.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 5 months ago:
If you’re not talking about the headline, what “situation” are you talking about?
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 5 months ago:
Dice - mirrors edge, battlefield
Popcap - tons of mobile games
Respawn - Alex legends, Titanfall (ex call of duty developers)
Codemasters - lots of racing games
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 5 months ago:
93 was my jam.
But yeah, I’d play that.
