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 Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share. 23 hours ago:
I don’t remember that Oni game by Bungie. That cover art looks nice.
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 1 day ago:
Real. Ever since I spent some time setting up good CRT shaders, playing retro games feels a lot cooler. They just give the best feeling and look pretty nice with them on. Sometimes for fun, I leave the shader on for regular Windows usage.
- Comment on Rumor: PlatinumGames Has Quietly Undergone Talent Drain, CEO Inaba Is To Blame 6 days ago:
After the disaster that was Babylon’s Fall, yeah I can see it. Stupid ass CEO wanting to push live services and NFT games, ran out all the talent from the studio.
- Comment on Ubisoft shut down multiplayer shooter XDefiant and lay off hundreds who worked on it 2 weeks ago:
Wait, wasn’t this one actually kinda decent at being a CoD clone? Lmao. Ubisoft can’t get anything done right.
- Comment on Anon is an engineer 2 weeks ago:
I finished university at the end of 2019. My graduation ceremony was supposed to have happened in 2020 but uh, other things happened. It took me until the latter half of 2022 to even get my hands on my diploma.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
My favorite, most played game AND intro to the series was MH 4 Ultimate on the 3DS. I had a total of 1,000 hours just on that game, across two saves (the first one went to 850 hours) and later I moved on to Gen and GenU on the Switch several years later when I found out I could carry over my save file. GenU is literally a game with infinite content and I don’t think I’ll ever fully finish it, but I’ll keep coming back to it every now and then. I only wish they hadn’t crippled the moveset of my favorite weapon, the Charge Blade.
I played World and Iceborne, but only for 200 hours, didn’t enjoy it much. I liked base Rise on the Switch a lot, and I’m finally playing Sunbreak now on the PC, and it’s instantly become my favorite modern monster hunter game.
I also plan on eventually playing Portable3rd and Freedom Unite on emulators.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
As much as Monster Hunter is my favorite series of all time, and I have about 1600 hours combined total over several games, it’s still not caught up to my total of over 2000 hours in Warframe. Love that game to bits but yeah I think I played it enough.
Most other games I play, that I played a lot, hover between 100 and 300 hours each.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Update Kills Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Other Ubisoft Games 3 weeks ago:
You can’t make this shit up, it’s so hilarious.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Splendid, that description seems like fun. I’ll try it out.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 1 month 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' 1 month ago:
Fuck off, Denuvo.
Yes, the Steam forums are awful, but still. Fuck off. Nobody wants you here.
- Comment on 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.