Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 week ago:
Windows 2000 Pro?
- Comment on The lost days 1 week ago:
Something about Agatha Christie.
- Comment on What procedures do you take to save and archive your games? 2 weeks ago:
I don't, because if that happens either others will have done a more thorough job (because it's something they care about - I have my own obsessive areas that I'm the one doing that stuff for), or if they haven't then I have much bigger problems to deal with (e.g. war in Europe).
- Comment on Do this in remembrance of me 4 weeks ago:
British children have notes.
- Comment on Rumors Of End to Xbox-Only Exclusives Swirl As More Game Studios Embrace Simultaneous Launch Strategy 5 weeks ago:
I am thoroughly confused by both your replies now. I haven't got a platform they sell games for, AFAIK, but I had one. This generation they've failed to provide enough to get me to buy anything from them.
- Comment on Rumors Of End to Xbox-Only Exclusives Swirl As More Game Studios Embrace Simultaneous Launch Strategy 5 weeks ago:
I had Xbox game pass for a while (I converted XBL time for a token amount) but once it ended last year I couldn't see any reason to pay the asking price. I've been waiting on this generation but it looks like it's not going anywhere interesting.
- Comment on Rumors Of End to Xbox-Only Exclusives Swirl As More Game Studios Embrace Simultaneous Launch Strategy 5 weeks ago:
I don't have a Windows PC though?
- Comment on Rumors Of End to Xbox-Only Exclusives Swirl As More Game Studios Embrace Simultaneous Launch Strategy 5 weeks ago:
I've got an Xbox One X, and have had since 2018. I'm still waiting on a reason to care about the current generation of consoles.
- Comment on It do be like that 5 weeks ago:
"has ran"
*shudder*
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 1 month ago:
Oh joy. What an important cultural contribution that will be.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Launch Trailer 1 month ago:
How have we still not mastered animating arms?
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 1 month ago:
Something bubbles up from a few decades back:
"I mean, it's a fact, sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit."
- Comment on Sony reportedly prepping PlayStation 5 portable, plans to battle Nintendo's handheld dominance 1 month ago:
Third time's the charm, eh?
- Comment on Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones 1 month ago:
I'm somewhat tickled by the snippets of adverts I've seen for both Samsung and Apple's new phones that mention "AI". None of what I've seen has actually explained why it's a selling point. Classic cart before the horse stuff.
Ultimately I'm not the target market for flagship phones as the price has spiraled out of control to the point where I cannot fathom how it can be justified for such a mundane device.
- Comment on The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem? 1 month ago:
I tend to think of "the world is ending" as being terrible writing from the outset. If you're starting from that, you've only yourself to blame.
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 1 month ago:
The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.
A "pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre" category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 1 month ago:
No love for Washing Machine Emulator?
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 2 months 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' 2 months 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' 2 months ago:
Manchester United: 3
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 2 months ago:
You're posting in Lemmy Shitpost. You're allowed to say "shit".