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- Comment on Project Zomboid - Build 42 Unstable Released 5 days ago:
Hell yeah, time to get gored by a dear or something
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 week ago:
New factorio dlc felt comically long, and yet I’m having to force myself not to make a new save.
- Comment on The Last of Us Part II Remastered PC Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
All good mate, I like being able to go through this stuff from time to time because it helps me refine my own thoughts about stuff.
I definitely feel the same way about Abby, though I think it does get off to a rocky start by kind of cliffhangering the end of Ellie’s story. Still it did totally work in the long run.
I did have empathy for Ellie going into the game definitely. I think the game using that as a starting point and was incrementally raising her actions so the audience would naturally come to the conclusions she does at the end of the game regarding violence and vengeance. How effective this is might be dependant on the point the audience comes to these conclusions. I think it might just be the exposure to these kinds of stories I’ve seen, but I kind of got what the game was going for pretty early, and it felt like it just kept kind of bludgeoning me with the moral the longer it went on, like it wanted to bathe in the horrible mess Ellie was making. That was partially why I was hoping for it to be a subversion at the end I think? Kind of have it be a tragedy of character, kill Abby, and the forgiveness that she couldn’t give to another also means she deserves no forgiveness herself. As it stands it’s kind of there, but feels like it stumbles at the end, at least for how it hit for me.
I don’t think the narrative made too many mistakes honestly. The world building in general is great, the characters are believable, maybe just didn’t resonate with me personally.
I might actually replay it at some point to see how I digest it. I feel like I might be sort of out of step with this series anyway, I know people love the first game but I can’t get over the idea that the fireflies were just going to crack open Ellie immediately, like characters we know besides, that seems like an extremely bad idea to jump immediately to that conclusion. That’s something crazy mad scientists do, not actual medical experts or researchers. I try to just assume that it’s logical somehow in the logic of the world, I think the rest of that game is actually great, but that one thing keeps nagging at my brain. Anyway, tangent over. Hope you have a good day as well!
- Comment on The Last of Us Part II Remastered PC Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Yes, but as a theme goes it’s like putting too much salt in some food, at least for my taste. Don’t get me wrong, I do like a good flawed cast of characters, the theme in general is good, but the execution just didn’t land for me.
I think if I could empathize with the characters a bit better it might have landed a bit better? As an interactive medium I think the character you control and yourself needs to have some level of shared goals, or at least the ability to understand their actions. I didn’t feel that for 90% of the game, it was like watching a soap opera where the characters don’t act like people. I can forgive that of the main two in concept, who are powered by bloodlust, but frankly they don’t act enough like maladjusted revenge golems to make it believable to me that they’d continuously make these terrible decisions.
Something else was that the theme got a bit muddled towards the end in terms of revenge. The theme is that revenge bad, violence begets violence, violence corrupts you etc, but after Abby does her thing she gets such a glow up over the course of her campaign, both as a character and in her situation, that the theme feels mixed. Hell, for most of the time you could kind of forget that it’s Ellie doing all of this because there’s the internal politics and fighting completely unrelated to what’s going on. Very little of Abby’s issues actually revolve around the revenge issue. Without the theme being clear on this stuff it becomes muddy exactly what the point is, and it feels like violence for violence sake. Like someone was out to prove that humanity is garbage, instead of being a warning against doing garbage things.
It’s something I’m still kind of thinking over to this day because it’s such a unique problem to encounter. Again, I do want to like the game, and it does a lot right and it’s good, but yeah, bit of a yuck thinking about it.
- Comment on The Last of Us Part II Remastered PC Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
The entire game is largely about deeply flawed people continuously making incredibly bad decisions that are violently consequential. It’s not necessarily bad writing, and I completely get the theme that’s trying to be gone for here, but by god it’s a frustrating mess of a situation that only gets worse. I want to like the game a lot more than I do, because technically and gameplay wise it’s incredible, but I don’t know if I ever want to go through that storyline ever again. It fills me with a deep uneasiness just thinking about it.
- Comment on The Last of Us Part II Remastered PC Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Ah good, a whole new group of people get to experience this good but also wildly uncomfortable game.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 week ago:
Well it kind of was what I was getting at in a way, though distribution of fault is pretty debatable. I think the majority of fault lies with the company putting a failable automated system into production for something this, but I can’t help but wonder if there is potential for abuse if this is all it takes for the registrar to delist a legitimate business.
Penalities would be a good start I think, like you mentioned. Business sometimes can only understand the language of money after all. It’s possible this is the exception to a system that functions quite well behind the scenes also.
I also appreciate the benefit of the doubt on this, it’s refreshing compared to the usual internet instant rage.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 week ago:
It’s mainly a failure on the part of the register, if it’s automatically banning websites based on number of reports there’s a strong possibility this is going to keep happening, potentially for nefarious reasons.
This actually does happen a bit from time to time, it’s a bit of a weak point in the internet infrastructure.
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 3 weeks ago:
I beat the factorio DLC, right now that’s all I got and I’m clinging to that bad boy
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 5 weeks ago:
The full list is on steam, the main thing is it’s bundled all hl2 games in one package, integrated workshop for mod installation, and added new developer commentary for hl2. Also a bunch of misc fixes etc.
- Comment on Hades II - Seize Victory in The Olympic Update 2 months ago:
I can feel that, some games can really abuse the system. It can be beneficial when we’re talking about large feature sets being released, both for developers as well as people keeping track of what’s currently in the game.
Hades 2 I would argue makes sense as they just added what’s essentially another chapter of the story. Its initial release was also in a really decent state which helps a lot.
- Comment on Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage" 4 months ago:
Fantastic, I’m sure it was a hell of a slog for them. I’m really looking forward to their next games, their one offs like Bloodborne and Sekiro are my favourites.
- Comment on The Terminator returns to theaters with 4K transfer...Will AI ruin another James Cameron film? 5 months ago:
Nerrel did a great video, explains the difference between good remaster techniques and just pointing AI at it as well
- Comment on Archaeology Problems 5 months ago:
You are correct about the race bias, and it’s to a much lesser extent, but people do also say Stonehenge was built by aliens. As early as 1968 apparently.
- Comment on Parakeets 5 months ago:
Hell yeah, I get swarms of king parrots turn up and they’re majestic.
- Comment on Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster - Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
The original is on steam now if you didn’t already know. I still love the original, I feel like the sequels kind of lost something and I’m a bit afraid this remake might have the same problem. It’s fine either way, the original will always be there, but I would have loved something more in line with the original.
- Comment on Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster - Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
Looks like it’ll be very similar, the voice actor change for Frank and the character models really throw me off though.
- Comment on Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage" 5 months ago:
Thank fuck. I like Elden Ring but it took 100 hours start to finish with DLC included. Give me more Sekiro and bloodborne please, stuff on that scale seems to be the best environment for from.
- Comment on Anon has a typical everyday average British morning 5 months ago:
Well how else are they going to justify strip searching minors?
- Comment on Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare 6 months ago:
Wow crazy how could we have predicted this
- Comment on Ubisoft Excited To Let You Know Prince Of Persia Remake Is Still Years Away 6 months ago:
Honestly to God, while I get wanting to play an updated version of games you love, I played through the original trilogy off of gog a few months ago, and they have stood up remarkably well. I can’t help but see all of this as a bit silly.
- Comment on Hades 2 will likely be in early access until 2025, with first big update to add new enemies, maps and features 6 months ago:
Frankly given what they’ve promised and what’s already in there it could easily go to 3x. It’s fucking bananas. I was 30 runs in, and still finding new NPCs and events.
- Comment on UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government 7 months ago:
There might still be something you can do, go to www.stopkillinggames.com and you can see what you can do based on your country.
- Comment on Anon discovers a diet trick 7 months ago:
It’s stupid but sometimes to fight the unhealthy parts of your brain you have to resort to less than optimal strategies. If it works, even just as a stopgap, it’s a win.
- Comment on Anon catches his wife 7 months ago:
It’s never bothered me as a concept either, though I’ve never had it tested. I figure it’s just a inbuilt bias or underlying thought pattern that has been built in from an early age. Not the best honestly, but not really a battle worth prioritising either.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
Eh, I see plenty of shit around the world that makes me happy I’m here. It’s fucking wild to think that after your cats have found yet another majestic galloping hand sized spider that you have to save from them.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
Haha no not quite that paranoid. Nah it’s mostly a rule for like moving stuff around in the garden and if you’re in the bush or whatever. Like the shit you have to worry about will either let you know, or set up a home far away from you. Generally. So it’s kind of another way of saying don’t put you hand into a redback nest.
Though saying that most people have had harrowing huntsman spider encounters, often in bed. They’re the most common surprise as they actively move around to hunt prey, instead of building webs. They can’t really hurt humans, aside from hiding behind your sun visor in the car and scaring you half to death, like my girlfriend had last year. They are a non zero statistic in cause of car accidents unfortunately.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
ISPs can monitor and such, I’ve not gone into the intricacies of the laws myself. One can get around it all pretty easily.
Tbh game prices are actually not too bad here. I don’t pirate games, steam etc are just too reasonable, and I don’t buy them that often.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
Wait do you guys not? Next you’ll tell me you don’t eat your national animal
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
Look you’re right and the housing market is a catastrophe also