Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline 6 days ago:
I'm still waiting for enough titles to come out on either platform to make the jump from my Xbox One X.
- Comment on someone tell Luigi about this 2 weeks ago:
Got the attachment for shooting down police helicopters?
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator 2 weeks ago:
There are many things I'd spend more on, but gaming is something that I can spend a lot of hours on without necessarily enjoying. As in, the experiences are often weirdly compulsive and before I know it I've tanked eighty hours without really enjoying it all that much.
I collected all the submarine collectibles in GTA V - do I think that was more fun than a party with friends? Absolutely not. Did it take more time? Most definitely.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI and Grand Theft Auto Online Could Be Sold Separately; Rockstar Is Targeting Solid 30 FPS on Consoles, According to Former Animator 2 weeks ago:
The only full price game I recall ever buying was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (back when £35 was the standard "full price" price point). Now that one was worth it, but no other AAA game that I can think of has justified the cost to me. Once we're talking about that amount of money there's a lot of other things I would get more enjoyment from.
I think I paid about £10 for GTA V. I'd maybe go to £15 or £20 these days, but beyond that I simply have other things I could play.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 3 weeks ago:
I'm pushing 40 and I don't remember when I last bought anything from WH Smiths. I used to go in all the time as a teenager but these days they seem to not have a niche. They're a zombie chain.
I don't know what I'd want them to do, but they should have done it fifteen years ago.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 month ago:
Windows 2000 Pro?
- Comment on The lost days 1 month ago:
Something about Agatha Christie.
- Comment on What procedures do you take to save and archive your games? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
British children have notes.
- Comment on Rumors Of End to Xbox-Only Exclusives Swirl As More Game Studios Embrace Simultaneous Launch Strategy 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
"has ran"
*shudder*
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 2 months ago:
Oh joy. What an important cultural contribution that will be.
- Comment on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Launch Trailer 2 months ago:
How have we still not mastered animating arms?
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Third time's the charm, eh?
- Comment on Apple Intelligence is for the Stupid Ones 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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.