Quetzalcutlass
@Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 4 days 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? 4 days 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 1 week 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' 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
They forgot Rule One.
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
Evie became a rich adventurer badass married to Brendan Frasier, so it worked out alright for her.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 2 months ago:
Yes, (some, not all) female mosquitoes drink blood for the protein, which they need for egg production. Their actual diet is nectar.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 2 months ago:
Now I kind of want a Flintstones RPG.
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 2 months ago:
I’ve never asked, but I believe medical issues cropped up and their reduced retirement funds wouldn’t have been enough, forcing them to keep working, and the situation spiraled from there.
- Comment on Why would someone desite a pension instead of a 401k? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I remember my parents talking about how badly they were hit in the late 00s. They were considering retirement just as the recession struck, and they lost a huge chunk of what they’d hoped to retire on.
They still haven’t retired fifteen years later despite declining health.
- Comment on Suddenly it all makes sense. 3 months ago:
Is that why the feet are cropped out too?
- Comment on Camera reels 4 months ago:
I will never not laugh at this. Every moment is so perfectly timed.
- Comment on Why do I need to update my graphics drivers? 4 months ago:
On Windows you can use NVCleanstall, which will notify you when there’s a driver update, download the installer for you, and even strip out Nvidia’s telemetry and bloatware from the installer before running it.
The bloatware and telemetry removal is the best part. There’s like twenty components in a default Nvidia driver installation and you only really need maybe three to run games.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 4 months ago:
Also she’s swimming with real bodies because it was cheaper.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 4 months ago:
Jealousy is just envious because it didn’t make it onto the Seven Deadly Sins.
- Comment on Mystery Men was the flop superhero comedy that deserved better 4 months ago:
“Fell down an elevator shaft and landed on some bullets” has lived in my head rent-free since I saw this movie 25 years ago. I don’t know why - it’s not particularly funny or clever, but the stuck with me.
- Comment on Stretching 4 months ago:
- Comment on Shouldn't name the cables after him if they're not for him. 4 months ago:
Catpuchin.
- Comment on Reject reality 5 months ago:
How old do you think Dunmer are before they get the face wrinkles? Do you think they hide their infants because they all look like charcoal raisins?
- Comment on Civilization's been nice, but I think it's high time we admit we're long past its peak. 5 months ago:
By the same creator, “this ham gum is mostly bones!”
- Comment on Reject reality 5 months ago:
Basically the original Cave Story fan translation versus the official one done for Cave Story+.
- Comment on No matter what I do before I die, I will not have a gravestone this cool. 5 months ago:
In a similar vein:
“A silvery thing in another cabinet, like a three-pointed star inside a circle, was made of no substance she knew; it was softer than metal, scratched and gouged, yet even older than any of the ancient bones. From ten paces she could sense pride and vanity.”
From the Wheel of Time.
- Comment on Funny bad games reviews 5 months ago:
He’s excellent, but I’ll stress the “not a review” part. He’s hilarious but you won’t get a good look at the games from watching his videos. He’ll often take a single mechanic and spend the entire video breaking the game in half using it, which means he won’t show 90% of the game’s content or how it normally plays.
- Comment on I'm bringing chili 5 months ago:
If they refuse to believe it’s a wrong number there would be a tiny voice in the back of my head telling me to make life as surreal as possible for the person they think I am. Make false but harmless promises, spread absurd rumors, that sort of thing.
