Malix
@Malix@sopuli.xyz
Internet-urpo pahimmasta päästä.
- 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 1 day 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 1 day 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! 1 week 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" 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I JUST started replaying Styx -games, can’t wait for this one!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #3 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
np, it happens. :)
- Comment on What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 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.
- Comment on Fallout London is a better game than Fallout 4 4 months ago:
Awesome! If it helped, great!
- Comment on Fallout London is a better game than Fallout 4 4 months ago:
not 100% sure if the weapon debris is nvidia only issue, but I’ve only seen the crashlog sniffing bot mentioning it when people have had nvidia cards.
- Comment on Fallout London is a better game than Fallout 4 4 months ago:
the discord for the mod is really helpful, and has a pretty smart bot to decipher crashlogs. Definitely solved some issues I had. Recommended, unless discord is a nono, which is fair.
I do some “community service” over there and help out others where I can. And seems like most crashes are either some lingering mods from old-fallout4 install, creation club mods (any cc*.* files in fallout/data -dir, or old config files in mydocs/mygames/fallout4) or “bug fix mods” intended for 1.00/1.01 folon versions, and lastly: weapon debris -option enabled - that causes crashes outright with nvidia cards.
- Comment on Besiege - Major Level Editor and Quality of Life Update (V1.60-22044) - Steam News (October 19, 2024) 4 months ago:
oh cool, bought the game aaaages ago, seems it has received a lot of content. Probably need to check back into it :o
- Comment on 'None of this makes any sense': Amazon's latest MMO import is a localization disaster 5 months ago:
Part of me wants to experience the shitshow first hand, seems like an absolute riot. Realistically tho, never happening, I’ll probably look up some gameplay video at some point.
- Comment on Steam Families is here - Steam News 6 months ago:
Both seem reasonable. The banning is (AFAIK) mostly to prevent cheaters from making made-up familymember steam -accounts, and cheating in games as them. Once one made-up family member is banned, make another.
- Comment on Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game? 6 months ago:
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles … but with the caveats that a) it’s only PARTLY like stardew/portia/harvestmoon and b) For the life of me I can’t remember if the game had money or not.
The game is partly farm-life-sim, but the other part is “zelda-like” adventuring and getting rid of “dark smoke thing” that does bad things to the world.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 devs considered a first-person dialogue camera, weren't sure it would have cinematics: 'the next thing we know they're zooming in on a goblin toe' 6 months ago:
Okay, sure, when given the fos camera, closest things to the camera are getting noticed. Duh?
But all things considered, who cares about a single goblin toe? Im much more scarred about the thongs happening in nearby shed. Bleach please.
But at that scale there’s always gonna be compromises. Duh. Does somebody actually expect full fidelity between 3rd person and closeups all the time? Might be showing my age but I sure don’t. What kind of madnes is that?
Games don’t need the show everything, leave a bit to imagination. Sure visuals ate cool, but don’t let that be all there is to it.