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- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
I totally agree with you
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
That looks awesome. Glad to see it’s on GoG
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 1st 1 month ago:
Pokémon Crystal (Polished Crystal ROM hack). It’s amazing. It’s a Vanilla+ experience of Crystal. The most notable thing to me is It’s now 60fps. Then all the QoL improvements but all the changes are within Pokémon lore. It feels like a GBA game now and takes my top spot as favorite Pokémon game
- Comment on Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders In The US Amidst New Trump Tariffs 3 months ago:
My brother-in-law got a Switch for his kid. They tried to play the “free” classic emulated games but then it stopped him and said he had to create some online account which costs money. That’s some scummy tactics to get you to pay a subscription for a “free” game
- Comment on Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders In The US Amidst New Trump Tariffs 3 months ago:
We’ll have to see if the general consumer is willing to pay full price. It seems likely as people generally just go along with things. If so then Nintendo will definitely keep prices high
- Comment on Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders In The US Amidst New Trump Tariffs 3 months ago:
If the price never drops and a “must have exclusive” arrives you would purchase one? Why would you let that change your principle on the matter? It’s just a game, probably overly priced too. Vote with your money. Let Nintendo know that it is too expensive for the average family.
- Comment on need retro game recommendations 4 months ago:
I tried it and it’s awesome. I like it better than Liquid Crystal. It feels way more retro but also modernized at the same time. The 60fps world is a huge improvement
- Comment on need retro game recommendations 4 months ago:
That looks awesome. I might switch over to that version, or at least give it a try
- Comment on need retro game recommendations 4 months ago:
The Pokémon Liquid Crystal ROM hack, a gen 2 remake for GBA
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 5 months ago:
That’s unfortunate to hear. I doubt anything will compete with Steam with all the things you want. People need to choose to put value where it really matters and have some inconveniences. Pirating certainly won’t get you what you want. Supporting DRM free services (and the games devs) will do more good. You could download your GoG games through the Heroic launcher and it’ll use wine proton (or whatever it’s called). Also Nexus mods has a new mod manager that’ll work on Linux but it’s only in alpha stage currently.
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 5 months ago:
Then let’s support the good companies to make it the rule and not exception. The market won’t change until the consumer tells them what’s important
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 5 months ago:
GOG has no DRM. Once purchased you can download the files and own it. You could even write your games to CDs if you wanted and play like the old days.
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 5 months ago:
So are most services and then at some point do some type of rug pull with BS EULA changes, etc. that change the functionality of what you’re using. This is prevailant in everything now a days. I’d say with Steam the writing is on the walls. They have so much power in the PC gaming market (like with the examples you gave) it’s only a matter of time.
I do see how useful and user friendly those services you mentioned are
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 5 months ago:
Read their EULA, you license your “purchase”. You don’t own your games. Steam also injects their own DRM onto the vast majority of games.
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 5 months ago:
I was thinking Steam but Epic, EA, Ubisoft; they’re all riddled with crap
- Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement 5 months ago:
Now let’s go one step further and quit purchasing games with DRM from a particularly large PC gaming service
- Comment on Let's discuss: Like a Dragon / Yakuza 5 months ago:
I started playing it for the first time last year and didn’t know really anything about it. I immediately noticed that how people talked didn’t seem respectful and it all seemed over the top comical. I learned that it was an English localization issue. I found the mod Yakuza Restored which makes it in Japanese but fixes the English subtitles to be accurate and the game was very enjoyable to play from that point on. I haven’t beaten it yet but I like how the main character is principle driven, it makes the story quite enjoyable.
- Comment on You’ve probably played 2005’s most experimental horror game: Designed as pranks, early internet "screamers" were pioneers 6 months ago:
2005… Jeez
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th 6 months ago:
I just use Djipi’s 3DS Experience + Skilar’s Art Plus Link. V4 just came out and it covers seemingly everything. It also seems more authentic and fun to make a proper desktop icon to launch the game if you haven’t tried that.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th 6 months ago:
Ocarina of Time (Ship of Harkinian). It’s amazing to play at 60fps, texture packs, ans using a thumb stick for free cam
- Comment on What are your favorite ROM hacks? 7 months ago:
The colorization hack looks really fun to try, thank you.
I enjoy Smash Remix for the N64 Super Smash Bros. It’s a vanilla+ experience
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
It’s hype for marketing. Our society is based on consumption and over spending. The GPU and CPU manufactures want us to keep spending money to have the latest and greatest.
- Comment on Side-view game recs? 7 months ago:
Absolutely fantastic game
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 17th 8 months ago:
Just finished Battlefront 2 and am now playing the original Yakuza (Restored patch) for PS2 for the first time.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update 8 months ago:
Well not forever since Steam has DRM. Buy from GoG and download the game DRM free to actually keep it forever. Of course HL2 won’t be there
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 27th 8 months ago:
I’ve been playing retro games recently. Metal Slug X, Hydro Thunder, and trying to get into MGS1. Playing on either PSX or Dreamcast
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Have you put it on GoG? I will never loan another game from Steam
- Comment on Recommend me your favorite linear games! 9 months ago:
A Plague Tale is a great one
- Comment on GBA suggestiongs? 10 months ago:
I know of Gradius Galaxies and Iridian II
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 15th 10 months ago:
Been playing Shadow of Mordor again to tie in with Celebrimbor from Rings of Power. However, I found that RoP is terrible but the game is still great.