Malix
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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 4 days ago:
Chants of Sennaar
samesies. Finished it yesterday, absolute banger of a game. The different word order/sentence structures between the languages did my head in a bit, and the last few glyphs I had somehow entirely missed on earlier areas, and when I did finally find them - the backtracking to solve the remaining translations was a bit of back and forth. But man, what a vibe that game was.
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 1 week ago:
I only longingly looked at the screenshots of Sam&Max in some gaming magazine at the time, managed to get the game waaayyy later. But man was it worth the wait :)
You’re welcome! Also, there are still some more-or-less indie devs who keep the point&click adventures alive, afaik most, if not all from Wadjet Eye’s catalog are great, eg: The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, Strangeland, Primordia… worth checking out!
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 1 week ago:
point & click adventure games? Some older ones can be aquired for cheap, or even free as some of them have been released as freeware.
some suggestions in no particular order the genre, some are older (like, DOS old, but still good today, imo), some are 2010’s or so:
- TellTale Sam & Max -episodic games (3d, cartoony, comedy)
- Monkey Island -series, parts 1-3. (2d, cartoony, comedy, pirates, yarharhar) (Later games in the series are pretty finicky to get running/stay running.)
- Sam & Max: Hit the road (2d, cartoony, comedy)
- The Dig (2d, scifi)
- Full Throttle (has a modernized remaster) (2d, “scifi”, biker-theme)
- Flight of the Amazon Queen (freeware) (2d, ~40’s vibe, “retro-scifi”)
- Beneath the steel sky (freeware) (2d, scifi, comedy, some gore)
Ones that have some keyboard usage, but are mainly mouse driven (or can be mouse driven)
- Grim Fandango (modernised remaster, original doesn’t do mouse) (3d, latin-american land of the dead, comedy)
- Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis (some occasional fights where keyboard would be preferred, most of these can be circumvented though) (2d, some comedy, ww2, I mean, it’s indiana jones)
The older ones can be played via Scummvm (scummvm.org) - it’s basically a simplified launcher/runner just for adventure games.
- Comment on Day 267 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
I’m a bit two minds about Content Warning - on one hand, it’s simple to pick up and it’s definitely goofy and, fun? But lack of meaningful permanent progress kinda brings it down for me.
Essentially, you can do “fine” with the basic gear (camera, flashlights), but you get more views (ie. money) with better gear - assuming you actually can capture some footage the game-logic deems worthy. Lost items can occasionally be found in the spoopy-place later on, but not guaranteed. Also replacing/buying new gear is kinda expensive, and dead teammates cost money to bring back (but you can’t go to debt because of it, iirc, so that’s nice).
The runs, at least for us, are usually VERY short, like few minutes in and out. Your runs are limited by oxygen, health and amount of footage you can record - which is 30s. so make it count. So basically how the runs go:
- find the first monster
- goof with it and try not to die
- okay steve died while goofing with the monster, but I got it on film!
- RUN AWAAAY with camera set in selfie-mode and try not to die
Usually monsters can be found very quickly, sometimes it takes a while. But usually run is over in few minutes, the prepwork before taking a dive tends to take longer :D
AFAIK There are some “hidden puzzles”, like combine some bones or whatever to summon a spoopy secret monster or such, but I haven’t seen them myself, just seen some mentions about them occasionally.
Also, It has mod support too. We tried a few:
- longer/infinite film - initially we thought this would be great, but that just defeated the whole point, recorded footage started to drag on and on and on… Short film forces you to really asses the situation and only record peak footage, instead of meandering nonsense.
- More/infinite money - While it was dope to finally test the equipment we were usually too
stupiddrunkbad to be able to afford them, the items range from useless single use toy to needlessly expensive for what they are. - More days - same, kinda defeats the point.
Maybe a bit more durable dudes or longer/infinite oxygen tanks would do, dunno.
Doesn’t sound like a glowing recommendation, but in general I’ve never had bad time in the game. The runs are just over bit too quickly, but then again starting a new doesn’t take long either. It’s decent at minimum.
- Comment on Day 266 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
are you using some app to use fsr in older games, or is that just baked into the amd drivers/software now?
- Comment on Day 267 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
Our group got Lethal Company - and promptly refunded, none of us really felt it. Later “Content Warning” was given free, which we got and still occasionally play, it’s okay - if a bit jank. We’ve been discussing about this one, but it just screams streamer/youtuber-bait to me, and while it is exceptionally fun to watch good streamers having a banter and laughs. I dunno if it holds as well for us, it kinda feels like we’d play it once or twice and then drop it entirely.
Visually the game is on point, though. The southpark-esque “canadian” way the robot-characters talk is hilarious, and the slight eye movements really sell it.
- Comment on Day 266 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
oh I wasn’t going to go on a rampage about fake pixels or anything, honest question about performance. Kinda wild it tanks that hard beyond 1440p. There’s few games where I run DLSS even if performance-wise it isn’t neede - just because it does better job with antialiasing than whatever TXAA/TAA/FXAA/whatever postprocess AA there usually is. A lot less crawling pixel edges in fine details etc.
Also, just heads up if you ever intend to go for Arkham Knight - IIRC the good ending requires finishing all joker stuff (incl. the collectible trophies). I got no time for that nonsense so just watched the ending on youtube after getting bad ending. :D
- Comment on Day 266 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
Arkham City is great! Plays well, sounds dope, looks still pretty darn good. The artstyle is still a nice balance between realistic and stylistic, which doesn’t age as hard as realistic, imo.
Got to ask, FSR really needed? Shouldn’t this run at 4k even at fairly modest/toaster-ish pc now? Or does FSR provide better antialiasing results than whatever the game does without it?
100% arkham asylum, but bailed out of that plan on city - the amount of collectibles, challenges and secrets was just too much. (And then Arkham Knight came along and turned it way past 11, didn’t bother to finish the game because screw those Joker races.)
- Comment on 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm 3 weeks ago:
oh DERP, how did I even forget that one.
- Comment on 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm 3 weeks ago:
and the hand kinda is reminiscent of the sausagedog from it too, different devs though.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 4 weeks ago:
same deal, favorites change according to mood, but there are overall few mainstays:
Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis.
It’s a childhood favorite I return to every now and then. It’s a point&click adventure, and to me it’s essentially the 4th (and last) Indiana Jones movie. :D
Apart from one or two bad bits the game pulls, it’s otherwise pretty logical from start to finish. 3 different paths from mid to late game, and mostly good voice acting (for the time). I know the game by heart at this point, but still it feels fun to play, every time. Nostalgia-goggles probably play a big part.
:::spoiler kinda spoilery descriptions of said bad bits
- there are few item puzzles where you need to go back and forth trading items between 2 characters, until eventually some hint from the recipient drops. Not hard, just… tedious.
- the hot air balloon controls are bad. Not impossible to use, but just imprecise for no real gameplay reason.
- if you didn’t LOOK at one specific Atlantean cupboard’s door, you have no clue how to solve a later puzzle. Though, you can return to the cupboard, but nothing hints there being instructions for the later puzzle on it. :::
Cyberpunk 2077
I know it’s a divisive game, don’t care, works for me. The bleak vibes of the game just speak to me. Have played it through several times since launch, occasionally still find new things here and there. Not the deepest rpg around, but a good action-rpg with neonlights.
Unnamed Space Idle
I’ve been on this idle/timewaster for way over a year, slow progress raising the numbers all the time. Sure it’s a bit low on gameplay, but absolutely neat little game to occasionally click few times when watching some longform content or so.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 5 weeks ago:
fextralife
Sometimes it feels like fextralife is filled only with stub articles.
me: “Hmm, I wonder about [a thing] in [a game]”
fextralife’s entire article: “[A thing] is a thing in [a game]”
brilliant, thank you.
- Comment on Styx: Blades of Greed | Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
if you enjoy stealth games, sure!
The main idea is that Styx is smaller than humans, so direct combat is never an option. Stealth takedowns, traps and such are the tools here. The enemies are delightfully stupid: sure, once you’ve been spotted they give you a chase and smack you about, but they also go back to their patrols if you manage to escape and hide for a bit. The usual “huh, must have been the wind” thing.
Gameplay can be a bit quicksave/quickload if that’s how you want to play it. Levels are generally huge, but end up somewhat being obstacle courses with few routes which zigzag around the direct path through them.
The games are a bit “eurojank”, sure, but imo, very enjoyable. But I am the kind of gamer who takes hours per level just so they can knock out EVERYBODY in the level, without raising alarms, just because that’s fun to me, so I might be a bit biased. :P
All in all, since you already got them, give them a whirl? The first levels tell you pretty fast if you like the gameplay or not.
- Comment on Styx: Blades of Greed | Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
I JUST started replaying Styx -games, can’t wait for this one!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #3 1 month ago:
high-fps abuse looks GREAT! I honestly thought the SDL sourceport (?) that’s existed for years already had that, but apparently not.
Might have to revisit the game at some point
- Comment on Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far? 1 month ago:
Well, it’s a gametype/genre I tend to enjoy greatly. First round was the “blind go”, second round I wanted to see what can be done differently and what kinds of different outcomes there are. IIRC not much changes when doing stuff differently. Admittedly the second round around was bit of a slog - I think I played it through, but not 100% of it.
To me the “okay” means more of a “more fun than not”. The game isn’t great by any means, but it’s not also off-putting to play, but I don’t feel like I need to re-install the game ever again. Also, the game isn’t terribly long either.
But, opinions, everybody has them. :)
- Comment on Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far? 1 month ago:
I thought it was okay, though not without it’s issues. The itemization (everything being “standard -> better -> betterer -> best”) and the size of the playable areas were kinda weak.
IIRC Finished the main game twice, couldn’t be arsed with the dlc though.
- Comment on Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far? 1 month ago:
kinda sounds like The Outer Worlds, in a way. Which is kinda the feel I got from some youtube videos I watched about the game. Got to wonder how on earth the current 70€ pricetag is in any way justified.
Oh well, wishlistforgotten, maybe some sale notification at some point comes a long
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
I’m not trying to bust your chops or anything.
didn’t take it as such, no worries. We cool? :)
And I bet the whole “'murica” stuff is quiiite a bit more prevalent.
Aaaaanyhoo, feels like these kinda drunklol games are pretty much just youtuber/streamer-bait for cheap giggles - and I do watch quite a bit of gaming content so these things are kinda inescapable. Oh well. Old man yells at cloud. :P
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Just because “when finland -> lol alcoholism”, I get that it’s a self-deprecating joke and all that, but… we could have other jokes too, maybe? :P
I don’t mind the games, let peeps have their fun.
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
well, ofc I can only speak on my own point of view, as a finn, the fairly prominent “lol drunk” -memery in games feels a bit weird. If that was what you were asking.
- Comment on Drunkard Simulator – Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
So many “drinking-games”: Obenseuer, Finnish Cottage simulator, My Summer Car, Finnish Cabin Mayhem/Mökkimähinä… probably forgetting a few… and now Drunkard Simulator and Last Drop?
Self-deprecating humor and all that, but… this starts to feel a bit weird :|
- Comment on What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics? 2 months ago:
most people and/or critics hate witcher 3? o_O
- Comment on What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics? 2 months ago:
np, it happens. :)
- Comment on What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics? 2 months ago:
Elex
I truly need to give this game another go, can’t really say why I stopped playing it. But it is EuroJank all the way.
Funny tho, I noticed most of the character animations I saw in Elex are straight up the exact same they were in Gothic 3, possibly from even earlier games’ of theirs. Nothing wrong with reusing assets, but damn they’ve gotten some mileage out of them :D
- Comment on What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics? 2 months ago:
I did state that I can’t remember - entirely possible we did, but it has been quite a while since we played it.
- Comment on What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics? 2 months ago:
Aliens: Colonial Marines
IMO, the game is better than it’s reputation - at least in it’s current state. After the .ini tweak to fix the alien ai-typo makes it a bit better - afaik, I can’t remember if my group played it with the fix or not, we’ve played the campaign at least 3 times now.
The game’s not a masterpiece by any means, though. It is pretty enjoyable action game in COOP and fairly high difficulty. Sure, arguments could be made that any game is, but game still more fun than not. Now, would I play the game on my own, as single player? Eeeeeeeh, dunno… But if my gaming group asks to play some ACM, I’m down.
Some random points about the game summarized:
- Pulserifle goes BRRT, alien goes splat.
- Could do with less of the human/android enemies though, or at least the parts with androids felt like they dragged on for considerable time.
- Quite a bit of collectible guns, they’re mostly sidegrades but they are different enough, imo.
- runs on a toaster
- goes for pennies on Steam sales, so gaming group funny hours per unit of currency -ratio is pretty good, imo.
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 2 months ago:
Oh, but you might finally play some of those untouched games in your library, so there’s that.
(X) to doubt.
- Comment on Nice PDF, But Can It Run DOOM? Yup! 2 months ago:
As cool as this is, to me this just screams security issues. If scripting in PDF can run doom, it can be (and is) used for nefarious purposes. Wasn’t eg. LTT’s channel compromized because of a PDF with some nasty stuff in it?
- Comment on After almost a decade, cult classic car building sim hits 1.0, and it's soaring on Steam 3 months ago:
same, same. Had some cheap laughs with it around the time of release - got horribly drunk, peed out of the van’s window - at obscene speeds on dirt road, died several times… good times.
But actually building the car? Yea nah, that’s some arcane arts to me, don’t know much about cars beyond the surface level.