Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do it 4 days ago:
Time In A Bottle.
Oh no…
- Comment on V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month 4 days ago:
Crafting will be a bit easier too now as you can take ingredients from your vault without having to actually go to your vault to get them.
Why is “craft from chests” always only added to survival crafting games ages after launch despite players begging for it from day one? It should be considered a basic QoL feature at this point.
- Comment on V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month 4 days ago:
Does it require a connection for single player? I’ve been playing solo since early Early Access with no problem, but I haven’t tested with my WiFi off.
- Comment on FromSoftware aren't abandoning single player in favour of games like Elden Ring: Nightreign, says Miyazaki 1 week ago:
Rock Paper Shotgun went downhill a long time ago. The original was an opinionated humor column about video games founded by talented writers. It was sarcastic but all on good fun. The owners left more than a decade ago, it was sold to one of the media conglomerates that hoovered up a bunch of other games journalism sites, and RPS even operated without an editorial staff for a while (not sure if that’s still the case as I stopped being an active reader around this time).
The new guys try to ape the sarcasm and style of the old stuff, but it comes across as disinterested at best to downright mean-spirited a lot of the time. The useless clickbait titles don’t help either.
- Comment on Embracer studio Eidos-Montreal has laid off 75 employees 2 weeks ago:
Embracer is also splitting into three separate companies to shed the tainted Embracer name, all still owned and run by Wingefors of course.
Asmodee Group (for board games) and Coffee Stain Publishing (for indie games) are the only two with official names last I heard. The unnamed third is the big one and Embracer’s direct successor, but I guess they’re delaying naming it to minimize bad press associated with the name.
- Comment on Roblox players are going to start getting paid to watch ads 2 weeks ago:
Because so far that type of monetization scheme hasn’t made headway outside of the mobile space. This is yet another frog-boiling moment where they gradually push what they can get away with.
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 weeks ago:
Or just excitement at getting “exclusive” early access as a small streamer. If you don’t know there are thousands of others, it’d feel like an opportunity to make it big.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets a smaller download on Steam Deck 1 month ago:
There’s an old internet law about computer programs endlessly expanding to gobble up every resource as computers improve. Nowhere is it more obvious than in gaming. Textures you’ll never use, translations included in the default download for no good reason, the same files duplicated many times over because it gives a slight improvement to load times on consoles, delta patches using up an entire CPU core and taking longer than simply redownloading the whole game, ten minutes spent compiling thousands of bespoke shaders on startup…
Ugh, shader compilation is the worst since it can ruin an entire planned gaming session. As annoying and performance-crippling as it is in its early stages, I can’t wait for ray tracing to become the default. Modern computer graphics are built on hacks upon hacks upon hacks. Ray tracing, by virtue of acting how light actually acts, cuts the Gordian Knot and vastly simplifies things. Hopefully it’ll help do away with the multitude of shaders used to imitate perfect lighting through imperfect means and we can just simply run our games again.
- Comment on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra's release may fall in Christmas 2025, according to the Black Panther 1 month ago:
I was ambivalent until the article mentioned Amy Hennig. There’s a chance this might actually be good!
I’m still salty about that canceled Star Wars heist game she worked on.
- Comment on Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver 1 month ago:
Someone should do a roundup of what all the old Bullfrog/Lionhead devs are up to these days.
I know a bunch of them teamed up to make Kynseed, an okay attempt to make a game that delivered on Fable’s promise of the world growing up/around your character, and which had the misfortune to compete against the sudden resurgence of life/farming sims due to Stardew Valley’s then-recent success.
And Peter Molyneux is… around, doing Peter Molyneux things (as he is wont to do).
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets a smaller download on Steam Deck 1 month ago:
I hope the Steam Deck-specific content depot gets used more often.
I also wonder if the Steam CLI can download from it on other platforms. I’m running a 4060, so being able to trim out all the texture boat I can’t even run would be a godsend.
- Comment on The Sims 4's Businesses & Hobbies expansion pack will let open your own business and tattoo your Sims 1 month ago:
Too little, too…
and it lets Sims open their own tattoo parlour, pottery studio or - if you have the right complementary expansion - a cat café.
Fuck.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress has some exciting plans for the future 2 months ago:
Are certain features still introduced when you hit population milestones? I haven’t played since 40d, which was… a while ago, but I liked playing without worrying about nobles or the greater economy or any of the other features that complicated the game even more. Just a small band of dwarves living their
brief, hellishdwarfy lives. - Comment on Day 204 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
Heroic is the fun kind of hard. Legendary in Halo 2 is just brutally unfair, and even if you play perfectly it’s completely down to random chance whether you’ll succeed. As in you’re literally at the mercy of RNG in the enemy AI deciding whether you’ll be instakilled with no possible defense. Those fucking Jackal snipers…
And it’s even worse in co-op because you need to restart from the last checkpoint if either player dies, whereas on other difficulties (or Legendary in the other games) the other player can continue playing and you’ll respawn if they make it to a safe area. That one change makes co-op controller-snappingly frustrating.
Beating it in multiplayer is a legit praiseworthy achievement. Either that or a sign of deep masochism.
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 2 months ago:
Company of Heroes gets my vote. I love having a sniper take out a machine gun nest, then my riflemen flip the gun 180° and mow down wave after wave of Nazi reinforcements.
- Comment on Religion 2 months ago:
My point was that what constitutes a god differs between religions, and the Christian claim of monotheism uses a very narrow definition of god that excludes the many supernatural beings described in their religious texts.
By the standards of other religions one could easily argue it’s a polytheistic religion - the Trinity, or one divinity appearing in multiple forms, is similar to other religions considered polytheistic.
It’s an endless debate because both sides talk past each other due to disagreeing on the basic definition of the term.
I do not know much about mormons, aren’t they christians? I thought they were.
That’s a matter of debate I’m not at all qualified to get into. They have some very [out there](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaltation_(Mormonism\)) beliefs that they understandably don’t advertise to outsiders, and that only became common knowledge with the advent of the internet.
- Comment on Religion 2 months ago:
he is a very minor character in christianity
In the text, definitely. In the practiced religion (especially in America), not so much. And even in the text he has a much larger role than in its predecessor Judaism.
I think the pop culture versions of religions have become so deeply ingrained that they became a part of many adherent’s actual beliefs. For example, ask the average Catholic to describe hell and see how long it takes for something from Paradise Lost to pop up.
even in the popular depiction he is not nearly on the same level, as he was created by God, is not omnipotent, omniscient, unlike God, etc.
Why would that disqualify him as god-like? Polytheistic religions had gods of varying strengths, many created by other gods - the Greek pantheon is a tangle of lesser gods created by greater ones, and even Zeus came from Chronos, a Titan (which is somehow different from a god).
The whole assigning of godhood seems completely arbitrary to me. Archangels are more powerful than many full-on gods from other mythologies yet somehow don’t count, whereas even humans could have been (or will become) gods in other lives in religions such as Jainism or Mormonism.
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 3 months ago:
It’s in a weird halfway position, though it’s less cRPG and more action RPG with each iteration. The character creation in Daggerfall wouldn’t be out of place in a tabletop game.
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 3 months ago:
The Elder Scrolls, infamously. Since they are open-world games, they used heavy scaling to let you explore wherever you want in the overworld from the very beginning.
It was alright in Morrowind. There, your level just controlled which enemies appeared (so you wouldn’t see high-level daedra until your level was in the teens).
Oblivion utterly fucked it up by having everything scale to your level, so you could revisit the starting area and a normal bandit would be wearing a full set of magical heavy plate worth tens of thousands of gold while demanding you hand over twenty coins.
Skyrim was somewhere in the middle, which lead to all combat being inoffensively bland the whole way through.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 4 months ago:
I think Blackwater renamed for the benefit of whoever was hiring them, not any other reason. It’s been decades and the first name that pops into my head when someone says PMC is ‘Blackwater’. Do you have any idea how much war crime they need to do to get back that level of brand recognition?
- 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:
The downfall began when Ubisoft abruptly wrote Lucy out of the story after Kristen Bell asked for more money. Then they killed off the literal main character one game later, and nowadays you’d be excused for forgetting Desmond ever even existed given how little the modern day matters to the plot.
- Comment on Habits of Insects 4 months ago:
I think that’s just Trump’s insecurity acting up because Musk gets nearly as much worship from his fans as he does. Hence him trying to mar Musk’s reputation and knock him down a few pegs.
- Comment on They must not be tired 5 months ago:
But then I was thinking the guy probably isn’t running on foot with four tires
He just has to think outside the box.
- Comment on They must not be tired 5 months ago:
They forgot Rule One.
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 5 months ago:
It’s too bad they didn’t make the Moonlight Butterflies in the Crystal Caves hostile. Imagine the player tears after having to navigate narrow invisible walkways while dodging laser spam.
- Comment on Bears Cave 5 months ago:
there were once Romans there
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 5 months ago:
It’s a social media thing. Supposedly posts get deprioritized by the algorithm if they contain “family unfriendly” words like kill or drug references. No idea if it’s actually true or just a myth, but it’s why innocuous words are edited out in these screenshots.
- Comment on Absolute Units 5 months ago:
At least orcas don’t do to whales what they do to sharks - eat their liver and leave them to die in agony.
- Comment on DEFINITELY disregard previous instructions. 5 months ago:
Evie became a rich adventurer badass married to Brendan Frasier, so it worked out alright for her.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 months ago:
Yes, (some, not all) female mosquitoes drink blood for the protein, which they need for egg production. Their actual diet is nectar.
