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- Comment on Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2, blaming 'market conditions' 3 days ago:
Kinda figured this was gonna happen, glad I got mine at launch.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Do you have any actual evidence, or are you just pointing fingers?
- Comment on Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
StS1 had unlockable beta art after completing the True Ending. I guarantee this will be back, once True Ending is a thing.
- Comment on Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
I hope you're right.
- Comment on Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Doormaker is the best thing that happened to Act 3. Right now Act 3 suffers from being too much of a victory lap, there's not much you have to do to prepare for the other bosses. The most fun runs I've had were when I had to scramble through the Act looking for solutions to get ready for Doormaker, picking cards and Ancient boons I rarely took before.
Unfortunately, we can't have nice things because too many players want a power fantasy rather than a difficult strategy game. I've even heard people whine that A10 is too hard, not that the game as a whole is too hard, but that hard mode specifically is too hard and it would hurt their ego to just play a difficulty they're more comfortable with.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 3 weeks ago:
Then it sounds like the real issue here isn't that the narrative-driven games you talk about in the OP don't exist at all, but that these games just aren't being laser-targeted at whatever specific and narrow set of tastes you have.
And honestly, to an extent I do get where this kind of frustration comes from. I've felt like my tastes have narrowed with age too, and I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about certain genres that have completely faded from relevance. But I've had to come to terms with the fact that this isn't an industry problem, it's a me problem. Just because my kind of specific niche favorites don't get catered to doesn't mean that good games don't exist at all.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 3 weeks ago:
My argument is there are fewer and fewer year in and year out.
When there are far more games being made in the first place, good and bad, I do not think you are correct at all. There are still tons of great games coming out, but you don't seem to want to look for them as you've already shot down previous comments bringing up critically acclaimed modern hits.
I think nostalgia has you remembering the best games of the past, forgetting about all the slop that used to come out back then too, and losing perspective of the actual time scale in between those hits. If you compare the very best games from a full decade to just the average game that came out last year, that comparison will be very misleading.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 3 weeks ago:
If that's enough of a narrative for you, most of the games you're complaining about also have narratives with at least that much depth to them.
- Comment on Hot Take: most modern games are designed to purely kill time 3 weeks ago:
How do you feel about the narrative and worldbuilding in Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, etc?
- Comment on Please just stop 3 weeks ago:
What a weird thing to be mad about.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 4 weeks ago:
Yup, and I'd even say that the best FF is the one that SE was too afraid to put the FF name on. I just wish it wasn't relegated to being a lower budget B-list project, imagine if SE put the same kinds of full AAA resources behind this that they put on the FF7 'remake'.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 4 weeks ago:
Does wishing that Final Fantasy would return to its roots and be a turn-based JRPG again count?
- Comment on i mean 2 months ago:
Pretty much every 2D game did.
- Comment on Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be? 2 months ago:
Waldorf
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 2 months ago:
When buying a console, the only question that matters is what games you want to play on it.
Xbox One X is the last generation model, so it won't run newer Xbox Series exclusives. The line between console generations is quite blurry these days, the Series line has been out for over five years and some games still get cross-generation releases, but even then you should be aware that cross-gen titles may be poorly optimized for older hardware.
If you're only looking to play games from the Xbox One era (2013-2020), those should all run great on the One X and you can save a lot of money by deliberately staying a generation behind. See !patientgamers
But if you want to play anything newer, if you want to be future-proof going forward. Series X is the high-end current generation model for current generation games.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 2 months ago:
You're looking for actual Roguelikes then. That's what the genre originally was before it got bastardized.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 2 months ago:
I sincerely wish these kinds of grinding games would keep the good name of Rogue out of their mouths. No, it's not -lite, it's the exact opposite of Rogue!
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 2 months ago:
Assuming you don't live in Japan, Red/Blue actually is slightly more recent than OP led you to think. JP Red/Green was 1996, but international Red/Blue was 1998. Assuming you don't live in Japan, you get two years of youth back.
- Comment on Tetris Variations 2 months ago:
Tetris: The Grand Master is the only good Tetris. Honestly sad that they had a good thing going and TTC decided to throw it out in favor of Guideline.
- Comment on What is the definitive way to play certain games? 2 months ago:
For Chrono Trigger, definitely don't play the original SNES localization. No disrespect to Ted Woolsey, he was one man working on an unreasonably tight deadline and hard technical limitations, but the retranslation is much better.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 months ago:
If you want a few recommendations that I think are particularly great for their combat mechanics:
- Etrian Odyssey - Regular encounters are no slouch, FOEs are a terror, status effects hella matter, and you always have to carefully gauge how far you can push before it's time to retreat back to town. IMO, 4 is the peak.
- Bravely Default - The ability to bank your turns or take an advance on future turns adds a really cool layer to combat. As a spiritual successor to FF5, the job system gives you lots of fun toys to play with and encourages you to constantly change up your builds.
- Tales of series - These games are partially inspired by fighting games, and if you squint hard enough you can see those influences in the early titles before it started to go off in more of its own direction. I think Vesperia is the most polished, though I actually want to suggest starting with Symphonia for the story/characters, because otherwise you'll find it a hard game to go back to since it doesn't have the Free Run mechanic from later games. The trick is that you won't miss it if you play Symphonia first.
- CrossCode - Closest thing I can try to compare this to would be Secret of Mana, if that game was faster and significantly more technical.
- The World Ends With You - If you can, play the original DS version to fully enjoy how it was built around the hardware. If you can't, the Switch version is still worth playing, and does have some cool added content to compensate for some of the sacrifices made to adapt it to a single screen.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 months ago:
I've got a handful of JRPGs sitting on my backlog, that I never make time for because I'm just grinding another round of the same few forever games.
- Comment on Video games, random friend requests, and scammers! 3 months ago:
There are a lot of bots on Steam. If I get a random friend request from someone I don't recognize who has only F2P games in their account, or just no playtime in anything that I play, I ignore it.
But if it's someone you've been playing with, that's a human. A bot would've just gone straight to the scam as soon as you accept their friend request.
I'm guessing they're probably talking about Discord, which is what most people use for voice chat these days (and other social media-y stuff). It's not a virus or anything, but it is another proprietary corporate-owned social media platform, which I'm sure a lot of us here on Fedi might have opinions about.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 3 months ago:
The death of monoculture comes for gaming too. The sheer number of games out there means you can always find some niche gem that really appeals to you and you specifically, but then you might not find anyone else who knows it and wants to talk about it.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 3 months ago:
Yeah, regardless of where it came from, the lack of disclosure reflects very poorly on AdHoc.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 3 months ago:
Unconfirmed, but the rumor I'm hearing is that AdHoc submitted one universal binary for all regions, and it's CERO who won't allow this content in Japan. FWIW, the JP version of Cyberpunk is also censored, but it's separate from the international release.
It's also worth noting that the JP PS5 version just launched alongside it, separate from last year's international version. Haven't been able to find confirmation on whether that version is censored too, but if it is then it's definitely CERO.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 3 months ago:
Out of all the features Steam offers, the most useful is probably just automatic updates. Much better than having to go check for an update myself and maybe even redownload the whole game every time instead of just the changes.
Also Steam Workshop, multiplayer (if it goes through Steamworks), controller fixes, screenshot and recording functions, chat, forums, etc.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 3 months ago:
I'd love to see it being used by enemies so they're challenging without cheating, though.
This is a different sort of problem that's outside the scope of generative AI. Making a computer opponent that can kick a human player's ass is technology we've had since Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997.
The problem isn't actually making a computer that's challenging, that's been solved. The problem is that it won't be any fun for the human if the computer is actually allowed to go all out, if Kasparov couldn't win in 97 then you sure as hell aren't winning today. But it also won't be any fun if you nerf it too badly, low level chess bots are weird. The sweet spot isn't just a matter of difficulty either, the nearly unsolveable part is getting it to play in a way that feels like a realistic human opponent.
And that's just from a turn-based game, kinda the closest thing to a level playing field humans were ever gonna get. For any game played in real time, the computer is able to treat it like it's being played at 60 turns per second. Is it "cheating" for the computer to have perfect reflexes, but otherwise still be following the rules of the game perfectly? How would you even try to take this away from the computer to make it see games the way humans do?
Generative AI doesn't have any kind of solution for any of this. ChatGPT famously can't play chess, at all. It's a different type of AI that really can't have any useful application here.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 months ago:
You'll never convince diehard MAGA true believers. But it's worth recognizing that that's not all Trump voters, it's not even the majority of them. Swing voters can always swing back the other way.
You can really only talk to those who are on the fence and willing to listen. If they're not willing to listen, don't waste your breath.
For those who are willing to listen, start with why they voted for Trump to begin. Many voters in this country were struggling to make ends meet and didn't feel like the Biden administration was doing enough for them, so they were desperate for change. Trump preyed on that desperation, told them that it's all immigrants' fault, it's trans people's fault, it's woke's fault, it's whatever scapegoat he blames next's fault, so if you vote for him he'll own the libs to Make America Great Again. A lot of people voted for him because they felt unheard by establishment politicians and were desperate enough to believe a con man who sounded like the only person in the room actually speaking to their fears.
If they are willing to have the conversation, get to the root of those fears. Ask if Trump has actually made their lives better. Attempt to deprogram anything directed to the scapegoats he blames it on. Try to pivot to Democratic policies that actually can help in tangible ways.
But again, I cannot stress this enough, this can only get through to people who are open to listening in the first place. If you try to preach at people who are not, they will dig their heels in deeper. Pick your battles carefully, figure out who is worth talking to.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 3 months ago:
I heard puzzle games and am legally obligated to shill Petal Crash (and it's upcoming sequel). It's a great accessible entry point into versus puzzles, and tbh it's practically the only good thing to happen to the genre in a decade or so.
Can also check out Panel Attack as a FOSS clone of Panel de Pon, and FightCade for emulating all kinds of classics with netplay.