Varyag
@Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Certified foxgirl enjoyer. Weeb, but hasn’t properly watched anime in ages. Gamer of incresingly niche subgenres. Aficionado of racecars, mechas, fighter jets, and any other vehicles you can think of. Lives in the wrong side of the planet compared to all my friends. Made way too many Fedi accounts
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 days ago:
Monster Hunter. The first one I played, MH4U back in the 3DS days, I put 1,000 hours into. That was nearly 10 years ago, and I’m still playing the franchise to this day. Currently finally going through the Sunbreak expansion of Monster Hunter Rise on the PC, and noticing a marked improvement in my mental health over playing other games.
- Comment on Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard some queer friends talking about this game and I had no idea what it was. Now I know, and not only is this hilarious now I want to give it a try. It looks pretty cute.
- Comment on Straftat recreates the experience of joining a random Half-Life or Quake deathmatch server in the year 2000 3 weeks ago:
Splendid, that description seems like fun. I’ll try it out.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 4 weeks ago:
It’s the bit about RIPPING AND TEARING them to bits and rebuilding the Earth at the end.
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 4 weeks ago:
Fuck off, Denuvo.
Yes, the Steam forums are awful, but still. Fuck off. Nobody wants you here.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Came here to mention just that. Base Stalker has some nice storms, but the mods built into Gamma make those absolutely terrifying. I think I genuinely fear the weather more than any mutated monster in the Zone.
- Comment on [TheGamingBritShow] Remakes are Cringe and There's Nothing We Can Do 5 weeks ago:
As long as the .modern AAA game development scene is still incapable of making GOOD new games that at least match their old beloved titles, I’ll take the remakes of the old games instead.
- Comment on "Doom 64: Unseen Evil" recreates the entirety of Doom & Doom II in Doom 64's atmosphere 5 weeks ago:
This mod is awesome. It can convert any fully vanilla assets map pack into Doom 64 too. And there is a project that recreated Doom 64 maps in Doom 2 format. Yes you can stack them!
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 1 month ago:
It doesn’t help when your scummy studio is infamous for it’s egregious DLC practices, nickel and diming basic game mechanics into a million separate packs. And then you have the gall to release a game as broken as that, after having the excellent prequel as comparison? And it’s still broken, a year after the initial release.
Yeah you bet your ass that customers won’t be accepting of that.
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 1 month ago:
also, just noticed your username. Cool Eragon reference, took me a second to remember that it meant “dragon” in the elven language.
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 1 month ago:
I mean, I played several other horde shooters. Firing continually while backpedaling is the most vintage of infantry tactics, after all. I get that these games are old and simpler, but their base gameplay must still be fun if they were so popular back in the day. I’ll at least give it a shot, since I already have them anyway…
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 1 month ago:
There’s way too much stuff in there, but as of right now I think it’s Mechanicus, and the Serious Sam HD remasters, thanks to a recommendation in another thread just now. I also have a couple interesting demos I downloaded. The problem is, I haven’t played anything from my Steam at all in the past month or so. Everything I’ve been gaming has been outside of it.
Also hilariously, these Serious Sam games were the literal first games I bought when I created my Steam account and I never played through them. They were an impulse buy from a friend’s recommendation back in the day but I wasn’t as into boomer shooters as I am now.
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 1 month ago:
You’ve convinced me to finally play Serious Sam. I’ve had it on Steam for years.
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 1 month ago:
Depends on what you consider “cozy”. OP listed Medal of Honor and CoD, I think Doom is super cozy. If shooting Nazis or demons is our comfort activity, anything can be cozy. I still desperately need to play Boltgun, too.
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 1 month ago:
sigh. Not everything must be GZDoom and Brutal Doom. The new port is perfectly fine if they’re going to play mostly vanilla. There’s no need to be this angry at everything you don’t understand in the internet.
- Comment on Are there Cozy shooter games? 1 month ago:
Absolutely second the recommendations of Doom and Quake here in the thread. Boomer shooters in general. Even if the movement can be really fast, playing them on your own can be extremely cozy. Just get into the rhythm of circle strafing, shooting and weaving in and out of cover and you’ll be in the zone very quickly. Bonus point, that both Doom and Quake have 30 years of EXCELLENT quality player created content that can keep you playing fresh new levels for as long as you want to. You could play them for the rest of your life, at your own pace and preferred difficulty.
The new rereleases of both games even bundle a mod browser that you can access with zero knowledge of modding, just hop on.
- Comment on ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton 1 month ago:
Oh wait, this isn’t the same Zoom of the video chats from the pandemic? I had no idea this store even existed. It having Linux support is a big plus now.
- 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:
Companies want all games to be multiplayer with online live ops and events and a steady flow of microtransactions money.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 29th 1 month ago:
There’s even launchers that do the work of the batch files for you! I like using Doom Explorer or Doom Runner for that. You set it up with your ports, point it at your wads folder and then you can save preset combinations of mods, it’s so practical.
- Comment on Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune 1 month ago:
I immediately sought out working backups of both Yuzu and Ryujinx. The “bright side” of this situation is that it pissed me off enough to go acquire both the new Zelda game that potentially caused this whole situation by being leaked early, and the game that was at the absolute top of my to-play list: Unicorn Overlord. So far it is looking like a fantastic game.
- Comment on Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down 1 month ago:
Fuck Nintendo. The emulators are still out there, easily accessible alongside the leaked Nintendo games they wanted people not to pirate. I know I will be doing that even harder now, lol.
- Comment on Ryujinx emulator GitHub repository currently down 1 month ago:
yeah I had the same thing when I thought I archived the installer for Citra and yuzu. guess we have to go find pre-compiled setups now.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 1 month ago:
Ah yes it’s always a bug after massive community backlash. If there wasn’t much, it’d have been a test, and if there wasn’t any, it was always intended.
- Comment on This arcade space combat game is inspired by the golden age of "prestige anime" 1 month ago:
Cool game, terrible article. The writer spends 60% of it just complaining about the voicecast and anime in general while saying he still watches anime in a second screen. Says he doesn’t care about the JP voice cast because he watches dubs, then immediately mentions that he doesn’t care about the English dubs voice actors either. Which is it, then? Why should anyone give a shit what he thinks after that? Smh, I’ll at least check the game out, I miss Star Fox.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 29th 1 month ago:
The new Kex port is great for it’s accessibility for new players not used to the Doom sourceports scene, but I guess there’s still a few kinks to solve. I still end up preferring to play on my other sourceports (Woof! Is my favorite) but I gotta get back to it to actually finish Legacy of Rust later. At least this new port is MUCH better on the console versions now, if only the Switch version had proper access to the player uploaded addons…
In the meantime Ive been going through Freedoom 2, and I hear people are adapting the assets of the new mapping format into an open sourced version. Looking forward to that.
- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 1 month ago:
The age old conundrum of the unit that may or may not be strong in real combat situations, but becomes absolutely gamebreakingly busted when added to videogames, because it’s strenghts translate into overwhelming advantages with none of the real life drawbacks it had to endure, usually via game design, bad balancing or games putting said units in unrealistic situations.
Take for example anti-aircraft guns since WW2. Other than the obvious real example of the FlaK88 being turned into an AT gun by the Germans, several others of these become anti-infantry or even anti-armor rapid firing nightmares in war games, because they’re put well inside their optimal range and within threatening range of infantry and tanks. Which would usually destroy them from afar. The OTO Melara gun is a good modern example. Italian radar guided 110mm naval gun, was never mounted onto a proper line vehicle that was adopted by any country. But the prototypes, like the OTOMatic, absolutely terrorize every game where they appear, as a hyper accurate, rapid firing, high damage anti-everything gun.
Horse archers are just the ancient ages example of that.
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
Ahhh, true freedom!
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 22nd 1 month ago:
Well, over the past week I finished my second full Hard run of EDF6 with a modded class, and I updated several mods on other games. Got the updated Shutoko Revival Project on Assetto Corsa, the new Gran Turismo 4 Spec II, which I’m enjoying a lot, feels like a new game. And the Dawn of War Unification team pushed out a minor patch for the 20th anniversary of the series. I am also considering upgrading my old build of STALKER Gamma from late last year to the current one. My setup is working but they added a lot of new things since then that I want to check out, like new early game guns.
- Comment on Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair 2 months ago:
Yeah except Palworld has joined Sony for their multimedia franchise, so potentially they can get a lot of monetary and legal support from that. Nintendo took way too long to actually do this frivolous lawsuit.
Let them fight.
- Comment on Diablo IV surpasses $1B in revenue, with $150M coming in from microtransactions 2 months ago:
What about Grim Dawn?