ThunderComplex
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- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 6 days ago:
I get what you’re trying to say but I’ve definitely experienced performance problems even on lowest settings.
The issue isn’t that everyone tries to run the game maxed out. The issue is that fundamental problems are often left in the games that you can’t just fix by lowering quality settings. - Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 6 days ago:
No. The thing is AAA games are now being released in an unoptimized state way too often. Even if you still get good FPS microstuttering and short lag spikes still occur frequently.
Of course this can make you wonder if this is a you problem and you just got too sensitive.
Nope, this is an industry problem. Why would you optimize a game? No, legitimately asking. It doesn’t affect sales numbers, it often doesn’t significantly tank your steam review score (that most publishers don’t care about), there are practically no downsides to not optimize your game.
But if you do value optimization, it lowers dev velocity, requires more training/awareness for devs and artists, and you won’t be able to ship as fast anymore. And on top of that you get… nothing. A few more sales maybe? - Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 6 days ago:
I had a super underpowered PC I grew up with and it influenced my imagination. For a long time stuff I’d imagine also ran at like 15-20FPS. Really weird effect.
- Comment on FTC warns tech giants not to bow to foreign pressure on encryption 1 week ago:
That’s cool. Gotta have that security
- Comment on Black Ops 7 release date spotted in the wilds ahead of Call of Duty's latest Gamescom blowout 2 weeks ago:
Finally. CoD releases are so sporadic and unpredictable, I can never plan ahead for a new release
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 2 weeks ago:
“No” -John PlayStation
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 3 weeks ago:
If you think $32k is so much to spend on MTX to call him John Microtransaction I’m sorry to say that he’s probably still just a medium sized fish.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 3 weeks ago:
Aliens
- Comment on May as well ride the sewer-slide now SMH my head 3 weeks ago:
Knife launcher (now available in full auto)
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
Go to the bathrooooooommm!!!
Not yet! - Comment on The stand makes the difference 4 weeks ago:
Work for it? Sorry but that sounds like work, and I only do things I’m instantly good at or I don’t do them at all.
- Comment on The stand makes the difference 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s exactly it. If I squat such that my feet are flat then my center of gravity is waaay behind me. Luckily this has never impacted me in my day to day life.
- Comment on The stand makes the difference 4 weeks ago:
I never understood how heels on ground squatting is possible I always just fall over trying.
- Comment on Piss Post 4 weeks ago:
No, add these as new dimensions and make it a matrix so we can have pissing while shitting while cumming while dying
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 5 weeks ago:
Eh I don’t need much just gimme next week’s lottery numbers thx
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 3 months ago:
This implies the PS5 pro is the PS4 pro pro pro
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 3 months ago:
I’ve only bought one $80 game thus far (And that was during a 30% steam sale so only $55) and from my years of experience of buying games, I can confidently say that my enjoyment in games goes down as price goes up.
Although weirdly all of the $80 games that released so far have been pretty bad so that’s strange.
- Comment on Tina Fey Embraced “the Sandler Model” for New Show ‘The Four Seasons’: “Actors in Nice Locations, Wearing Flat Shoes” 3 months ago:
Just finished watching it. Immediately gave it a shot because of Tina Fey’s involvement but there are a few other actors that I also love so it should have had a lot going for it (from my perspective).
But wow, I did not like it. There were a few moments where I laughed out loud in the first episode but I didn’t laugh for the remaining 7 episodes.
The story was also really meh. For me it was just watching a friend group doing things with little to no connective tissue. Which… yeah, I get that it’s two episodes per season which is the whole gimmick of the show. But I couldn’t get invested in any of the characters or their lives because all the important stuff happens in the months that are off-screen.
Unsolicited mini-review over hehe
- Comment on What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man? 4 months ago:
Riders Republic is so much fun. It has a relatively low skill floor but also a really high skill ceiling. Go watch some stunt clips to see just what you can pull off.
The different sports are a lot of fun and honestly what other game lets you transition from Skateboard to BMX to Jetpack in a span of a few seconds.
Only downside is that the more fun sports are locked behind a DLC purchase but it goes on sale quite frequently.
- Comment on Schedule I, a first person drug empire management game, released in early access on Steam (demo available) 5 months ago:
I liked the next fest demo and I’m glad the game seems to be doing well for the devs.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 6 months ago:
This is the core issue of console gaming tho. You can’t actually upgrade. You just straight up buy a new console. This wasn’t that big of a deal during the PS4 gen because the PS4 pro wasn’t that expensive. But at the current price points a different strategy is needed.
Honestly I think if Sony made a program like “mail us your old PS5 and like $200 to get a PS5 Pro” the console would’ve done better. It wouldn’t address the “why do we need this?” part (especially considering we’re hearing reports of GTA6 running at 30 FPS on the Pro) but it would’ve done some good for customer goodwill.
- Comment on The Programming Games Humble Bundle is another sweet deal worth grabbing 7 months ago:
I own all of these games already so I can tell you this is a good bundle. Any single one of these games is worth the full price of the bundle alone.
The 3 Zachtronics games included are a great sampler of of the studio and I like that this isn’t just a “All Zachtronics games bundle”.
There are better programming games out there but I think this bundle strikes a good balance between fun games that require light programming knowledge and wow this is just programming lightly disguised as a game.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 9 months ago:
Ok says here MTG 28.5% but what about YuGiOh?
- Comment on Hades II - Seize Victory in The Olympic Update 10 months ago:
I have noticed this trend as well, but I think it’s actually pretty good. Your package bunch of features you have been working on under a common theme and that builds some excitement.
Consider the alternative: “Get ready for build v1053” or “Prepare yourselves for update 1.2.24” that just doesn’t sound exciting and it’s probably not gonna draw in players who haven’t played the game in a while.
And also keep the psychology in mind a little bit, It seems less impressive to release seven small updates where each update only adds one relatively minor feature rather than one big update with seven new, but still relatively minor features
- Comment on Please stop making Alien movies 1 year ago:
Kinda surprised the author could tell the difference between Alien, Predator, and Aliens v Predator at this point.
