SteposVenzny

@SteposVenzny@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cobra Kai

  Every successive season forgets harder and harder that grown men having karate feuds is embarrassingly juvenile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This but unironically. I hated that movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite now lets you chat with Darth Vader using generative AI speech [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a video of someone demoing a Skyrim AI mod and it sent him on a quest that didn’t exist because it just made shit up when he asked, despite the AI being fed all the true information about the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 11th⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m deep into Blur Prince right now. Not loving all the randomness for this kind of puzzle game but the puzzles and lore are good enough to keep me going. Always a weird feeling to think “I love this, I just wish its core premise wasn’t part of it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best gaming moments of the last decade?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Final Fantasy VII Remake, when the proper Jenova theme kicked in. Props to the hours of auditory misdirect leading up to it.

  “We wouldn’t just play it, of course. That song is too silly for a dramatic scene. But here is a subdued motif to remind you of it.”

  “Well we have to play it now because there’s a new Jenova fight but you’re getting the respectable cinematic version.”

  “Now the fight’s really getting going, you’re getting the upper hand so time to boost the epicness and heroicness during the climax. Isn’t this song so cool now that we fixed it?”

  Then the synthesizer finally kicks in and it’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I simply cannot bring myself to care that giant corporations won’t make as much money as they used to by doing a thing I already don’t really like. If this is what the industry’s death entails, why should anyone grieve?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open World Games: yay or nay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like open world games when the time I spend simply being in them without any explicit objective is enjoyable. If I’m thinking “I’m bored, where’s the next task?” then there’s a problem. If I’m thinking “I wonder if I can make a boat that operates by paddling instead of using a fan…” then we’re good.

  (Tears of the Kingdom’s physics don’t work that way, I’m sorry to report. Thing flailed around like it was drowning.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cults have intentions to exploit and manipulate. LLMs don’t.

  You could argue negligence here but not malice. It’s more in line with people falling into wells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion still fun for a first-time player in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you limit yourself to only going into dungeons that quests send you to, you’ll have a better time. Legend tells it all the dungeons in this whole game were made by one person, so blundering into random dungeons tends to be really underwhelming compared to Skyrim. While that is charming for me in its own right to wander into a random dungeon and not know whether there will be anything interesting about it at all, all my best memories of this game are of the quests and the dialogue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 27th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t put Oblivion down but I keep scrapping my character. Started as a stealth build but stealth isn’t as fun as combat. Made an unarmed fighter and was very impressed with how deadly I was but ultimately decided new weapons and spells are a fun treat that I wouldn’t get to have and I regretted how wacky I made his face.

  Presently I’m doing a melee/magic type and I accidentally made him look uncannily like Wynn Duffy from Justified. He’s less capable than previous builds but kind of sucking at what he does just feels right with that face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 20th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I immediately bought the Oblivion remaster because I guess I’m that basic. They have done away with my beloved IV LIVI BLIVIO title screen and replaced it with some Doom art, and when exiting the sewer at the beginning I immediately see an Oblivion gate across the river before the point in the story you’re supposed to find them (apparently the new progression lock is that they’re present but non-interactive before then). It seems like it was made with fear that new players would react poorly to the sort of cutesy fantasy that comprises the majority of the game and it needs them to see hellfire quickly so they know it’s “actually” a cool game for cool guys. All the stranger then that they’ve added these bouncy new dialogue animations that would feel at home in The Sims.

  But for all my nitpicking, it is still the Oblivion I love and the new visuals are a treat. I really didn’t expect such bold artistic swings as these wacky new heads on the Argonians and goblins or my character’s acrobatic knife moves.

  I’m a Khajiit Bard named Stabby Cat who accidentally procured an armored horse because I never bought that DLC before and did not know the consequences of talking to that random Orc. I’ve leveled up twice just from sweet talking shopkeepers to get better prices from them. I crossed paths with a pair of NPCs who immediately complained to each other that they had nothing to talk about, then one thought of a topic but got shut down hard by the other’s direct refusal to participate.

  Feels good to be back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t count Jr because he has a Jr in his name. The other two are just Donkey Kong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Donkey Kong Country’s Donkey Kong wasn’t actually the Donkey Kong from Donkey Kong. I kinda hope this redesign is gonna be justified by saying he’s a third one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m looking forward to rewatching these Duskbloods and Bananza trailers with audio sync later today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On Wii U, upgraded Virtual Console games were like a buck or two if I’m remembering right. Probably in the five to ten range for full-price games if history’s anything to go on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to pay for Welcome Tour?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This GameShare thing ruled on DS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a Masterpiece, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an Indulgence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because those hundreds of hours are spent enjoying yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jupiter Ascending happens, which leads to humanity being introduced to galactic civilization. The resulting technological boom leads to the world of Speed Racer but then later it leads to the creation of the AI that build the Matrix. Each of Cloud Atlas’s eras is the same handful of test subjects being plugged into prototype versions of the Matrix. The events of the movie Bound are what the machines identified as the pinnacle of human civilization, which is why the version of the Matrix resembles the late 1990s. Sense8 takes place within the Matrix, which is the mechanism by which these human minds connect to each other (and it’s more specifically the version that NPH ran because it no longer resembles the late 1990s).

  The AniMatrix is not part of the canon because they didn’t direct it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at your Subscribed page and don’t see any updates, there’s a good chance you’ll leave YouTube without watching anything.

  The Home page has a higher likelihood of tempting you to watch something you hadn’t planned on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suikoden US vs JPN Box Art⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember this circle art being inside the American manual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suikoden US vs JPN Box Art⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve unlocked a childhood memory. I was like twelve browsing used video games, guy at the store asked me what I liked and I said RPGs. He handed me a copy of Suikoden and said “I know it looks like absolute garbage but I promise it’s actually really good.”

  At the time, my taste hadn’t developed enough to understand what was wrong with the American box art but I didn’t say anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin' • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of this “pin” before and am fascinated by it. It does what smartphones already do but less conveniently? How did someone even pitch that in the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  30 is acceptable for most games but stuff where the gameplay is mainly the movement itself (platformer, racing, first person shooter) needs to hit 60. I could go lower than 30 for the visuals on a lot of games but that’s the threshold where the interface starts feeling unresponsive and that really gets to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flick targeting ruled, people just didn’t give it a chance because it was unfamiliar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming on controller & "typos"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend not to play extremely similar games back to back so my head’s usually not in the wrong place. Maybe try a palette cleanser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom is experimenting with generative AI to help generate the “hundreds of thousands of ideas needed for game development"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got an idea for a fictional TV. It’s a black rectangle with a moving picture in the middle. There’s a logo on it that almost says the name of a real TV brand but in a slightly different typeface than they use and one or two of the letters is changed.

  This is a revolutionary idea that nobody has ever had before, which if implemented will actually negate the need to use AI to create fictional TVs for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: UFO 50⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortol stole my puzzle platformer idea and did a better job than I ever would have done with it. I am livid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: UFO 50⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This post was finally the push that made me buy it, having been interested since I first heard about it. Only checked out Barbuta and Bug Hunt so far.

  I’m loving Barbuta. It’s scratching that itch that only Tomb Raider 1 and Dark Souls 1 have scratched before. There’s something so weirdly cozy about this air of open hostility where the individual challenges aren’t actually hard to execute. I haven’t made it very far in yet, only found/bought three items, but I’m already in the headspace where I wanna push myself to keep replaying it until I can beat it without using any eggs and I’m not one to normally care about that sort of thing.

  Bug Hunt is okay but, in terms of the framing device that this is a compilation of old games, I’m not buying it. Its mechanics and writing and tutorial pop-up windows feel distinctly like a modern indie game. Barbuta only slipped once that I’ve seen so far, with that I Wanna Be the Guy trap on the first screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Final Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “If weak to fire then cast Fira”. You don’t even need to have your characters learn the weakness first by scanning them, they just intuit every weakness.