Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 4 days ago:
I've spent much of my adult life with nothing positive to say about our governments. I'm not really emotionally prepared for being pleased about something a UK government is doing!
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
I absolutely loved the modern day story. I was so very invested and it still smarts a bit that they lost interest in doing it justice.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 days ago:
Manchester United: 3
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 6 days ago:
Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You'd hope that they'd just automatically stop asking if I'm old enough to view store pages, right?
- Comment on BASIC Computer Games 1 week ago:
I'm tickled that the code hasn't been digitised and the scans are only just barely high enough resolution to make out the text.
- Comment on Day 121 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
I remember it dawning on me and making me grin. "Is that, oh it so is!"
- Comment on Day 121 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 week ago:
I played through 1 - 4 and honestly, I think 4 was the only one that was actively good. The others might once have been fun, but they didn't really hold up. However I had a great time with 4. I particularly liked the epilogue.
- Comment on Clippy's coming for you 1 week ago:
I'm often not waiting for ideal conditions, just less bad conditions. This evening I made some progress on something I've not been working on because I've just been too exhausted, mentally and physically. Conditions don't have to be ideal, but they're often more than sub-optimal.
- Comment on GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition Gets Surprise Update on Console and PC, Adds Visual Features That Were Exclusive to Mobile Versions 1 week ago:
That's a lot more like it! Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition Gets Surprise Update on Console and PC, Adds Visual Features That Were Exclusive to Mobile Versions 1 week ago:
Indeed, I read the article. That's literally what I was moaning about!
I was expecting a bit more. Some before and after screenshots, for example, some specifics about what these "several issues" that were fixed were would be nice too.
- Comment on GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition Gets Surprise Update on Console and PC, Adds Visual Features That Were Exclusive to Mobile Versions 1 week ago:
The article is pretty bloody vague...
- Comment on Last-minute PS5 Pro leaks indicate system will pack 16.7 TFLOPS GPU with 16GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM — plus 2GB DDR5 system RAM 2 weeks ago:
Unless they're suddenly shoving a UHD drive in there, I'm not interested.
It seems a weird oversight - gamers that care about 4K surely also care about films in 4K? The notion of it being an external add-on is laughable.
Then again, this whole thing is a solution looking for a problem.
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 3 weeks ago:
You're posting in Lemmy Shitpost. You're allowed to say "shit".
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 4 weeks ago:
But can they affect me?
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #30 - Sir, You Are Being Hunted 4 weeks ago:
The scarecrow is awful. In a good way.
- Comment on Day 95 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 weeks ago:
Alan Wake
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I only played through the second one but the thing that got me was just how ambitious it was. It ruined many other games for me as I was left thinking "Where's the rest of the game?".
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The opening act of Little Big Adventure 2 gets my vote.
- Comment on 700 Ubisoft staff in France hold strikes in response to worldwide return to office mandate from Assassin’s Creed publisher 5 weeks ago:
The French do not fuck around when it comes to strike action. Hang those execs out to dry.
- Comment on Why do Orks from Warhammer 40K have nipples? 5 weeks ago:
The spore lore was only implemented in 1997. Before that their reproduction worked differently.
- Comment on Why do Orks from Warhammer 40K have nipples? 5 weeks ago:
Is there a single canonical citation for this? It feels like a meme.
- Comment on Why do Orks from Warhammer 40K have nipples? 5 weeks ago:
Which Ork models have nipples?
I can't say my knowledge of the current range is exhaustive, but I can't think of a single model that has one from the 1998 - 2016 era. There's a runtherd with a piercing where a nipple would be, but no nipple.
- Comment on Well, Where Are The Games? [Comedy song response to PS5 Pro] 1 month ago:
This takes me back to How to Kill a Brand in the PS3 era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfmBzllkbUM
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare Coming to PC October 29 - Rockstar Games 1 month ago:
I played through it on my Xbox One X some years ago and had fun with it. It didn't run at 60 fps, but 2160p30 was a very cinematic experience regardless.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their Projects 1 month ago:
To quote Bernard Black: "Well expect away!"
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 1 month ago:
The Temple of Trials is intended to be a tutorial - something the executives insisted they include. The first game's tutorial is in the manual.
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 1 month ago:
The maze puzzle with the electrified floor is some absolute bullshit. I wonder if there's a mod to remove that nonsense?
As for the beginning, I used a mod to skip the Temple of Trials because you're absolutely right, it's such a tedious slog. Yay, executive meddling!
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 1 month ago:
I really enjoyed playing through Fallout 2 on my deck.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
Or *two* Steam Decks!
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
I'm sure that'll help PS5 Pro sales.