moakley
@moakley@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Something like ten years ago I got into a console vs PC argument on reddit, and everyone unanimously told me that starting up a PC with a controller was such an easy feature to add that it wasn’t even a consideration. I stuck with consoles.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I like Bananza more than BotW, but I didn’t think BotW was that good. I didn’t play TotK for that same reason.
I don’t think Bananza’s length is a mark against it. It has more than 18 hours of content, so the time to beat it is irrelevant. Cost is also irrelevant to the quality of the game.
Look at it this way: remember when large portions of the internet community were all up in arms about the cost of games and predicted that the Switch 2 was definitely going to fail?
If your perspective on games this year aligns with those communities, then you only need to look at the runaway success of the Switch 2 for proof that you’re missing a big part of the picture.
It’s a good game. People like it. I don’t even like it that much, but I can still see why it’s a successful and popular game.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I don’t understand why you’re mentioning Zelda? There was one Zelda game this year, released a couple weeks ago, but it’s actually a Warriors game.
I’m sure Bananza is getting a boost from the Switch 2 hype, just like E33 is getting a boost because of its indie roots. None of this happens in a vacuum. But the hype wouldn’t do anything if either of these were bad games.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
It’s one of the best reviewed games this year, it’s in a classic but underrepresented genre, and it’s the flagship title of the fastest selling console of all time. Maybe you’re just a little disconnected on this one?
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
“another installment of Donkey Kong”, as though we’re flooded with them?
This is the first DK game in 11 years, and the first 3D DK game in 25 years.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
I had a similar experience. I’d honestly prefer boring turn based combat to the ridiculous QTEs in the game.
The story was extremely well-told. Great voice acting and production value. But the actual plot didn’t hook me. It just seemed so arbitrary. I don’t know if there’s some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.
I only played it on Game Pass, so luckily I’m not out any money. I would have given it another chance eventually, but the Game Pass price hike made me cancel.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
It’s just nice to have another reason to talk about video games. All contexts in which we talk about video games have inherent biases.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It wasn’t kidney failure. That’s where he hid the gold!!
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Two things can be true.
- Comment on All grown up now 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that Morgan Freeman picture is AI.
- Comment on X-Files '90s promo shoot 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: I figured out how to do it eventually.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 2 weeks ago:
moldly infuriating
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 3 weeks ago:
They’ve been saying it on the national news for 40+ years as though it’s true, but yeah one of the hundred and fifteen people who read this on Lemmy are definitely going to be the first ones to actually do it.
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- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
So half waffle, half pancake?
I bet I could make that.
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
Respect, but the real deal is the only syrup in my house.
My six-year-old daughter tried pancakes at a restaurant the other day where they only had Smucker’s corn syrup, and she hated it. She knows the taste of real maple. I couldn’t be prouder.
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
I figured it out because I fucking love maple syrup.
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t work. I need butter, so unless I’m dipping in syrup and liquid butter…
Never mind, that would totally work.
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
Pancakes. Waffles just don’t achieve the same thing. Crispiness is great, but they don’t absorb the butter as well.
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
It lets the syrup soak into the middle.
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
The waffle doesn’t have enough syrup.
The pancakes have almost enough, maybe, depending on if there’s any in the middle of the stack.
Real maple syrup is a reason to get up in the morning.
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
Whoever downvoted you must not have ever had real maple syrup.
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 1 month ago:
I find it deeply offensive that an app could suggest I may not know the word “cornucopia.” I wouldn’t give a shit if it was the only app I could use to pay my bills; if it at any point suggested that I didn’t know a word as common as “cornucopia,” I would delete it immediately, leave a 0 star review, and post the offense to a community like this.
And just to be clear, the bar for how uncommon a word would have to be in order for it not be offensive is way higher than cornu-fucking-copia.
“Terpsichorean.” That’s a word I wouldn’t be offended if they thought I didn’t know it. Or maybe “legerdemain.” I know both of those words, but I wouldn’t be offended if an app assumed I didn’t.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 month ago:
I’m usually fine with paying more for things I enjoy that are worth it. Like $70 games are just not a big deal to me.
I’m also too lazy to cancel most things. I’ve ignored Game Pass price hikes before and justified them by thinking of all the games I played without buying.
But this one is just ridiculous. There’s no value here, no way for me to justify it. I was enjoying Silksong on Xbox because I didn’t have to buy it, but now that I do have to buy it I guess I’ll do that on my Switch instead. Replaying it is going to be rough, especially without my Elite controller.
I hope Microsoft gets their shit together, because Xbox has been my favorite game platform for years.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 2 months ago:
Yes, words matter.
But the ends don’t justify the means. Morality isn’t outcome-oriented. It’s wrong to kill someone just for their words and ideas.
If the assassin had targeted the people enacting those ideas, that might be different. But assassinations tend to be a net negative. I can’t think of an exception.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 2 months ago:
There’s a long list of people taking our liberties away, and the guy who says stupid shit is pretty far down on that list. Words matter, but they’re not violence.
- Comment on You might need this. 2 months ago:
*you’re
- Comment on gaming 2 months ago:
Oh man. I remember the very small Castle Crashers vs. competitive scene on Xbox in 2008. I was 15th ranked in the world, and probably higher than that in actual skill.
I met a couple of really cool people on there. Most of us were about evenly matched, and a game could go either way.
But the number one player was this shit-talking child with a voice that could shatter glass. Normally I love shit-talkers in competitive scenes. I don’t tilt easy, so I feel like I get an edge on them.
But not this banshee. I don’t know if I ever even got a hit on him. I saw it as a challenge to overcome, but he just fucking wrecked me every time I saw him.
The gameplay in vs. was so crazy. Castle Crashers seems like a simple game, but with the right combos you could get airborne and never touch the ground. So most of the game was trying to get under your opponent so you could juggle them endlessly, back and forth across the screen. But you had to execute. It was tough to keep the combo going for long enough to beat someone in one go, and once you slipped up, they could do the same to you.
So my memory from that time was this shrill little fucker, gleefully shrieking about my mother while his brightly colored knight juggled mine back and forth across the top of the screen. Honestly kind of fitting for that game.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
It’s so obviously this or the gravel.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
It just felt hard to relate to. The core premise is intriguing like I want to see where it goes, but it’s not intriguing like I feel personally invested in it.
Baldur’s Gate just had this perfect buildup, where you’re trying to solve a personal problem, and then it just keeps growing until you’re killing gods.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
I’m not usually a fan of turn based games.
Baldur’s Gate 3 hooked me. It was one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. I played through it two and a half times, consecutively.
I couldn’t get through Expedition 33. It’s very well done, but the story itself never hooked me. It just felt too abstract, like it never got me emotionally invested.
And the gameplay was too narrow. I’m sure it opened up after a while, but it would still be the same kind of turn based combat the whole time.