Faydaikin
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org
- Comment on New gel breaks down alcohol in the body 3 days ago:
Nah, I like alcohol. And I have little reason to make a night out even more expensive.
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 1 week ago:
From what I just skimmed on Twitter, it sounds like the Tango Team is already working on making a new studio.
So they had a bit of a heads-up at least, it would seem.
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 1 week ago:
Agreed. It’s sadly often the demands of the higher-ups reflects poorly on the guys who has to implement it.
I don’t know any of the Creative Directors on Redfall (or who else might have poked their head in with bright ideas).
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 1 week ago:
Overall, a cruel and short-sighted move from Microsoft
That depends on who and how many they decide to merge into other developer teams and who is let go.
I mean, I doubt most MS higher-ups would know talent if you threw it at them. But whenever there’s big acquisitions, there’s gonna be some house cleaning. So who gets to stay (if they want to) is likely down to last things they have produced.
Redfalls team is done for sure. But Tango Works I don’t know… I can imagine overseas based companies are a more tricky beast to handle. So that’s probably down to some cost/benefit analysis if they go or stay.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 5th 1 week ago:
Booted up old Killing Floor again during the whole Helldivers debacle.
Smaller in scale but similar in concept.
- Comment on What is your favourite game console? 2 weeks ago:
I gotta go with the NES. It’s the only console I ever owned, so…
When they released the mini-nes I snagged that little fucker up so fast.
- Comment on [OC] I (For real) remastered all of Starcraft's Terran themes. What game music should I remaster next? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds awesome.
If you’re interested in suggestions, I’d love to hear a remastered version of Dungeon Keepers Track 5.
I think it’s called “The Dungeon Keeper” or “It’s Construction Time” (dependent on game version).
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 3 weeks ago:
There is an expiration date for IP. But I have little idea what type it goes under.
I just assume the reason old, barely functional games get the odd update every once in a blue moon is to “refresh” that expiration date.
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 3 weeks ago:
Diplomacy is usually the way to go. I realize that is a foreign concept for Americans, but yes. The stopping of trade or even the threat of such, is a powerful tool indeed. And there is so many options within that concept that doesn’t involve arming every man, woman and child to the teeth and just letting them go at each other until something is resolved. Because looking at the countries that encourage such, we see that things just tend to get even more complicated. More complicated and more violent.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 3 weeks ago:
In that case, why bother to label them at all?
Let every purchase be a gamble.
I’m just saying thank the gods for Screenshots, ‘Let’s Players’. because labeling everything as just “RPG” is the same as just labeling every type of meat as just “Meat” and graphics cards as just “Graphics Card” in closed packaging with only the companies names to differentiate.
I like specifications on the products I might be buying.
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 3 weeks ago:
If history has taught us anything, it’s that just giving guns to people is a terrible idea.
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 3 weeks ago:
From the few snippets I’ve seen, they have downright been killing aid workers. It’s so fucked.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 3 weeks ago:
I too would like more on-point classifications.
Like, we got 3 big classifications ARPG, CRPG and JRPG. And I guess that’s nice. But a bit of subclassification would go a long way, imo.
Now if only publishers would use these labels. But to them everything is just an RPG, because that’s an umbella everything fits under.
- Comment on Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months 4 weeks ago:
Are you Todd Howard?
- Comment on Game designer created a Playdate game to pop the question to the love of his life 4 weeks ago:
Not the most flattering examples they pulled up of games he’s worked on.
One was a failed overhaul and the other got criticized for not having anything to do when it came out.
- Comment on Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months 4 weeks ago:
not so bad that Fallout fans won’t stick with it for butchering the IP.
Todd already beat them to the punch on that account.
The only way to go is up
- Comment on Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months 4 weeks ago:
Without having seen the series I’m guessing yours is probably the most accurate descriptor I’ve seen so far.
Whenever it comes to fandoms like this, the camps are always so divided in extremes. And neither camp is usually correct.
I mean, I saw Twisted Metal season 1 and it was not good by means an “actual reviewer” would stand by. But was it enjoyable? Sure. (Probably more so if I was high while watching it.) Will it be remembered? Not by a long shot.
The Fallout TV Show is likely better than TM, but I doubt it will remembered alongside Breaking Bad, The Sopranos or even Futurama for that matter.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 14th 4 weeks ago:
Oxygen Not Included. I really like this game eventhough I’ll probably never beat it.
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 4 weeks ago:
Sone taste great on pizza, gets you high and then kills you as a bonus.
- Comment on The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise 4 weeks ago:
Todd isn’t busy fixing anything. Let’s be honest.
There’s enough diehard Bethesda fans that will buy anything he shits out. Even F76 has a playerbase now.
- Comment on The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise 4 weeks ago:
The ending if the TM season 1 was literally the annoncement of the tournament. XD
- Comment on The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise 4 weeks ago:
Disregarding established lore is a Bethesda specialty. Shouldn’t come as a surprise if the show does it as well.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
Probably because Valve doesn’t make games anymore. Not on any serious level anyway.
Most of their games are old as hell, and most of them where in the “proof of concept” relm. They only really made games to push the technology they were working with.
It’d be a poor argument to bring up their old catalog of games from 20 years ago as something that made them a worse company today.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It has a Skull called Murrey?! Sign me up! 😃
- Comment on The Lawnmower Man Collection Blu-ray (June 10th) 1 month ago:
There is, and it did.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
I think that, regardless of brand, most users just want the most basic (almost black slate) OS that can run the programs they choose to install. And it’s close to (if not completely) impossible to get if you don’t have a mind for Linux.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Titles will do that. Even the self imposed, like ‘musician’. The music scene is filled to the brim with undeserved self importance.
It makes sense that the science community is the same way.
- Comment on ‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? 2 months ago:
I, for one, welcome Japanese George Washington,Indian Hitler and Inuit Ghandi to our historical database.
- Comment on What is the cruelest "twist the knife" move or statement by a villain in a film for you? 2 months ago:
I do believe Thanos was being honest when he said that. It’s Past-Thanos that says that line, right? And I don’t even think Infinity War-Thanos had the slightest idea of who she was, as he likely didn’t care.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 10th 2 months ago:
Doing my part in Helldivers at the moment.
That game gets my brain firing on all cylinders and although it has It’s frustrating moments, I’d say that overall I think it’s great. It’s one of the few 'Live-Service" games I actually enjoy.