Malix
@Malix@sopuli.xyz
Internet-urpo pahimmasta päästä.
- Comment on Day 820 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
it’s included in Sonic Origins, store.steampowered.com/app/…/Sonic_Origins/
- Comment on NBA 2K25 is being delisted later this month, servers (including single-player story mode) shut down at the end of the year 1 week ago:
PGA Tour 2k[somethingoranother] got the same treatment, afaik. Once the servers went down the “campaign” AFAIK became unavailable. I believe some quickplay with stock characters is still available but even in that case the game would be a shell of it’s former self.
Shame really, me and my buddy liked the private versus matches occasionally. Won’t be buying a single 2k game - not that I have been purchasing any of them intentionally, gotten all of them as part of various humblebundle’s.
- Comment on Day 796 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
basically all the peeks to the “backside” (ratman’s dens?) from the test-chambers are pretty different, but they were fairly cosmetic anyway.
after the last chamber & the fire/furnace, it’s like entirely different game. Different puzzles, different … everything. Some ideas of original games’ rooms there are similar (like the giant room with many turrents), but execution is VERY different. Which, incidentally, is the place where I left off as the darn turrents killed me repeatedly. x)
And tbh, it’s been few years since I last played portal (any of them). I think I’ve played through portal 1 probably 4-5 times? So I’m not THAT much “in the know” with all the rooms/tidbits.
- Comment on Day 796 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
now that I have played this (haven’t finished it yet, though), only the beginning of the mod was what I’d call as identical to original - apart from the graphics.
The later parts in the “back areas” are wildly different from original. I dunno if the change or design is really good or bad, but at least I’m not just mechanically doing puzzles I already knew by heart and I’m having fun.
- Comment on Chronicon - A super fun indie diablo-like just received a new DLC 2 weeks ago:
yea, I’m aware. It’s actually fairly baffling how stable windows’ APIs are, generally like 20 year old windows game/application works fine on wine/proton. few years old linux game from steam? not so much. I have had this happen on few games now: Euro Truck Sim 2, Trine, probably some others but these came to mind.
Chronicon’s linux version worked, no complaints there, but it just didn’t detect the dlc in any way. And tbh I didn’t even know there was a linux version until I started wondering why my dlc wasn’t working :D
Anyway, game works & all is fine :)
- Comment on Chronicon - A super fun indie diablo-like just received a new DLC 2 weeks ago:
Chronicon is one of those games that defaults to WASD (iirc) on mouse&keyboard. So, yes!
- Comment on Chronicon - A super fun indie diablo-like just received a new DLC 2 weeks ago:
… oh my.
Yea this is going to my shopping cart. Gotta dig my automated turret character out for action again
- Comment on Day 796 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
oh dang, I forgot everything about this. If it is near 1:1 of the original… what’s the point? I’ll probably try it out tonight as well, it’s been a while since I was thinking with portals.
Anyway, thanks for the reminder!
- Comment on Guess The Game (#013) 2 months ago:
Somewhat FractOsc vibe, but I don’t recall a gun
- Comment on 2 months ago:
ye. you need malmouth and forgotten gods
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 4 months ago:
Does it have to be sword&sorcery? Cyberpunk 2077 tickles the same things for me. It’s not necessarily as big or open, but theres still plenty to do, see and quest.
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 4 months ago:
Yea! They are pretty great, haven’t played many of them yet, but working on it!
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 4 months ago:
Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, and Sam & Max: Hit The Road. I have probably played through both uncountable times, love 'em. I do like most Lucas ones, few Sierra ones.
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 4 months ago:
Yep, same. I still regularly come back to my point & click adventure games from the 90’s. Such comfort.
- Comment on "Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers 4 months ago:
gaming industry is researching new ways to disable old games so aging gamers would buy new games
- Comment on Ultimate Chicken Horse - 10th Annifursary Update (and sale) 4 months ago:
huh. the 2nd game looks like a game mode for the chikkyhorse but just… for some reason separated as a standalone game.
- Comment on Old Nokia, lost mobile games 4 months ago:
push to public git repo or archive.org, if you have the rights to the games/assets/etc.
Even if the games are ages old mobile nonsense, they’re always someone’s nostalgia bombs
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 5 months ago:
I dunno, 80’s glamrock church could be dope, but it wouldn’t be dark souls anymore
- Comment on Day 621 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 6 months ago:
SDV felt quite hectic when I tried to do everything the game told me about, but once I let go and didn’t worry about the upcoming evaluation, everything became nicer.
But if you can’t shake the need to do everything ASAP, can’t help you there. But the game has very few (if any?) missable things, no need to do everything NOW NOW NOW, there’s always next year.
Though, yea, there’s quite a bit of work to do for eg. 100% community center or both dungeons. I suppose there’s mods to alleviate the “grind/difficulty”, but haven’t checked.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 6 months ago:
Probably the LJN’s entire NES-catalogue? IIRC they were pretty much all some media-property-license-schlock.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 6 months ago:
I’ve played very few movie-to-game adaptations, but one that I did play was Total Recall for NES. It’s fairly ass, imo.
The game does follow the movie fairly well, although I can’t say I recall Arnie pummeling dozens of hobos in a cement factory in the movie x)
The controls were fairly stiff and difficulty quite high up there, it was on NES after all.
- Comment on Console Commands and Mods Shouldn’t Disable Achievements — Consoles Are Holding Players Back for No Good Reason 6 months ago:
I think that one option might be to have two lists of achievements.
And then we’d just replace one problem with another, some people care way too much about achievements and they’d be working even more to get ALL of them / both sets.
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 6 months ago:
Friend of mine recommended it to me, and it was already on my radar as it did look very interesting. Bought it, played about an hour and proceeded to ask for a refund. It didn’t do it for me at all.
The funny thing is that on paper it should have been a slam dunk for me, but literally nothing in-game felt like I liked doing it. Weird.
Welp, not every game is for me, and in this case I know I’m a rare outlier. :P
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 6 months ago:
Entirely up to the game & how interesting the post-game stuff is.
I have 100%'s eg. Batman: Arkham Asylum (on normal, not gonna try-hard it). The amount of collectibles was within the toleranse and it was fairly fun to hunt the items with the hints provided.
Now, few years forward with Arkham City and Arkham Knight? Hard nope. Too many collectibles/activities/timewasters, stupendously huge areas, too obscure hints, nah, nopety-nope-nope. And the good ending in AK was tied to finishing “optional activities” which I just could not be bothered with, watched the ending on youtube and uninstalled.
Diablo-likes I can grind for hundreds, if not thousands of hours, as the “click go brrrr, get item of +1 betterness” after campaign is fun for surprisingly long periods for me. But at the moment I have the problem that I have pretty much played all of the available ones.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 6 months ago:
Bricky is entertaining and laces the lore with memes. Easy entry to the lore, if a bit wrong at times - or so I’ve been told. “Close enough”, imo.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 months ago:
It the map has locations named and there’s a compass, I’ll manage. The quest pointer in later bethesda games is “a bit” too much handholding, imo. But that said I’ve seen some mw memes about some cube and how hard it is to find… No idea what that’s about but probably going to find out :P
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 months ago:
so, I take there’s no in-game map then? oof, but I can deal with map on second monitor.
attacks not connecting might bug me a bit, but I suspect there’s some mod for that if it ends up breaking my brain.
Thanks, these were good to know stuff!
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 months ago:
ah, in that case I’m gonna venture forth without it. Expansions are cool, but I kinda want to get my feet wet with the base game first. QoL mods which make the experience have “less friction” I’m entirely fine with
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 months ago:
oh for sure (near vanilla) experience for first time. Gameplay changing mods etc are for playthroughs after the first one.
I take the Tamrield Rebuilt mods are mostly quality-of-life -stuff?
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 months ago:
I’ve been meaning to check out Morrowind, most people have been frothing about it since forever and… tbh, only Elder Scrolls game I have really played has been Skyrim, only dabbled with Oblivion and Morrowind.
And… oh, OpenMW is in my linux distro’s repository too, that’s one barrier removed already! I take MW is quite a bit more approachable than Daggerfall, but probably quite a bit less than eg. Skyrim?
