mohab
@mohab@piefed.social
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 20 hours ago:
Crimzon Clover: World EXplosion. Top 3 shmups of all-time and best shmup on Steam, IMO.
- Comment on Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design? 2 weeks ago:
I agree. Like, you know what's gonna happen if I'm close to the 2-hour limit and haven't decided yet? I'm gonna refund and move on.
- Comment on Rematch - Official Release Date Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I played the open beta. It arrogantly reintroduces gameplay problems PES and FIFA resolved long ago:
- Directional inputs are relative to your constantly moving camera, not your player.
- Camera locks onto the player, not the ball.
- The off-camera ball tracker completely falls apart in scrambles/when the ball is close since you have to stop and play camera operator to know what the hell is happening before deciding what to do.
- Completely ignores motion inputs in favor of situational inputs when performing skills, which severely limits the number of skills you can do. You can essentially do cooler shit in PES2017, never mind any FIFA Street.
- No off-camera teammates tracker.
- No indication which team is in possession off camera.
- No power gauge for passes/shots.
And it does not add anything new in terms of gameplay other than removing fouls, offsides, and throw-ins/corners/goalkicks, which literally was a mode in FIFA98.
Rocket League can get away with some of that because you essentially play with s balloon, not a football; whereas Rematch feels like an awkward version of the 3rd-person camera in PES.
- Comment on Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound – The First Preview 3 weeks ago:
Happy to see a combo counter. I may be interested if it's an action platformer, not a roguelike or a metroidvania.
- Comment on Rematch - Official Release Date Trailer 3 weeks ago:
In RL there is an indicator on where the ball is and the ball cam works really well.
And the ball is bigger and slower/more floaty than an actual football—it's neither in this game.
I think the 3rd person perspective and RL-looking field make you think it's RL with people, but it's just PES with the camera set to 3rd person.
FIFA is arcad-y as shit, this is why PES fans hate it. It still looked like shit.
Like, I obviously haven't played the game, so IDK for sure if it's fun or not. You're doing the correct thing saving your judment. All I'm saying is it hasn't shown anything new/revolutionary, and that rubs me off the wrong way.
- Comment on Rematch - Official Release Date Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Take it from someone who grew up almost exclusively playing PES and FIFA: this looks ass.
Also, PES always had this camera angle? It's fucking horrible. If you control the entire team, you absolutely want the sideline view, not that wonky 3rd person one.
Even if you control one player, it's just much easier to keep up with the constantly moving ball with a much wider angle. You don't want the ball coming from off screen like they show in the clip when the player scores a header—higher likelihood you're gonna fumble the timing, and if you move the camera to track the ball, you may miss the keeper coming out/a defender coming at you.
And what's up with those rules? 😂 They're comically generic.
Unless this game has a ton of cool ideas hiding up its sleeve and not showing it in the trailers for some odd reason, this looks so obnoxiously arrogant and I have no idea what the selling point is, if any.
And let me add: I stopped playing FIFA and PES because they both suck, so I'm literally the target market. But this doesn't remotely look promising. Like, they didn't even solve the animation issuss… players look so stiff and seeing how they receive the ball is jarring.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 4 weeks ago:
How do you feel about Gigabash?
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 4 weeks ago:
I was cursed with an extremely narrow taste in video games so there isn't a lot for me out there in general.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 4 weeks ago:
"Fighting in favor of PC gaming monopoly"
Jesus Christ, the drama. If anything, I'm fighting for Debbie Downers like you to let me enjoy my favorite shit in peace.
I promise you when Capcom publishes Viewtiful Joe on Itch.io, I'll buy it there. Now please take your bullshit elsewhere.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 4 weeks ago:
Nah, best they can do is Concord.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 4 weeks ago:
Just convenience, really.
You could just let me be and reply with your "I need these games ported to PC" list if you have one. No reason to turn everything into an argument.
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- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Bro, I thought people will finally shut up about this goddamn game ☹️ I just need the Silksong bitching to stop…
- Comment on H&M to use digital clones of models in ads and social media 1 month ago:
Their catalog has consistently been shit for a long time anyway. Fuck H&M.
- Comment on South of Midnight Gameplay Overview 1 month ago:
Another game where combat looks to be so much of an afterthought they didn't even bother going over it in a "Gameplay Overview"
It's also ironic it says gameplay overview, and they spent more than half the video talking about story, voice acting, and music.
- Comment on p4re. jp was registered a few hours ago. 2 years ago, p3re. jp was registered. 3 months later Persona 3 Reload was revealed 1 month ago:
p5au.jp when?
- Comment on Japan's prime minister is mad about Assassin's Creed Shadows where players can destroy the contents of religious sites 1 month ago:
OMG, yes! Every time I wanna visit my favorite historical site, I launch Assassin's Creed and play the same 3 missions over and over again! Bless! 💚
🎵 Assassin's Creed is a good franchise 🎵
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 month ago:
Amen. I also have a ton of issues with contemporary game design—padding playtime with procedural generation, prioritizing graphics, world size, or narrative over gameplay… etc.
Nowadays, I feel as if every game tries to compete for "most game" while lacking cohesion and polished ideas.
And to top it off: non-optimized game size. I'm sorry—I don't care if your game is $2.99, I'm not downloading 80GBs just to try a game I may refund an hour later.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 1 month ago:
True in my case. All of my favorites either were released before 2020 or originally released before 2020 and I'm playing the re-release.
Only new IP I got excited about after 2020 was Project G.G. and I strongly doubt it'll ever see the light at this point.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 2 months ago:
FR. I hate this app so much, and how necessary it has become for multiplayer gaming. I'm glad it'll get worse and hopefully give people a strong reason to move.
- Comment on 11 Best Indie Games of All Time 2 months ago:
Why title it "of All Time" though 😅 Helps with engagement, I suppose.
Also, fuck Japan, I guess, haha.
- Comment on God of War trilogy remaster announcement set for March 2025 2 months ago:
Odd take in this context. The last game in this trilogy was released almost 20 years ago—if they're not gonna remaster this, what are remasters for exactly?
- Comment on Avowed | Review Thread 2 months ago:
Hmm… sure, but I feel like "reviews are subjective" gets used as an excuse to give low-effort reviews a pass too often.
Like, I understand if a Steam reviewer writes whatever because they're just a user, but I cannot justify using the same scale to judge a professional reviewer.
I understand a game may not be a reviewer's cup of tea, but if this stops them from engaging with the game's systems and attempting to provide insight through their review then I think it's fair to judge they haven't done their job well.
Like, if someone hires me to do a job, and I accept, I cannot go "Oh, I'm gonna do half of it because the rest isn't my cup of tea. Sorry." No, I'll do the job and maybe complain about it afterwards, which IMO, is exactly what reviewers should do—example: "I beat the boss, but the fight sucked because X, Y, and Z."
I think there should be standards, otherwise you get reviewers unfairly judging games they barely played like in the infamous God Hand review.
- Comment on Multiversus ends updates, will close servers on May 30 (but will remain playable in Singleplayer) 2 months ago:
In case anyone forgot: this game was nominated for Best Fighting Game twice at the TGAs and still failed 😂 Both times ahead of far more deserving candidates—further evidence a good chunk of these awards is promotional crap.
- Comment on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer 4 months ago:
You may wanna re-read my comment—I did not bring up cut scenes, or claim Naughty Dog games don't have enough gameplay sections.
My point was Naughty Dog's gameplay sections are uninspired, non innovative, and passable at best because they're more interested in telling a story than innovative gameplay.
Whether I like narrative-driven games or not is of no relevance.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 4 months ago:
Maybe not the length of the main campaign, but good luck 100%ing Cartherine, holy shit. Nevermind Full Body. There's like 8 endings combined + insane challenges and 64-stage game within the game. +100 hours easy, if not more.
- Comment on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer 4 months ago:
It's all relative. Mediocre is still better than garbage, but not necessarily interesting or innovative. It's just "fine" because the whole point of the gameplay in these games is to progress the narrative forward. Mastery is rarely, if ever, required and gameplay depth is of no interest.
You ignore all of that and start comparing their catalog to Ubisoft pumping out generic trash for years (NGL that Prince of Persia game is sick though) and you get a much brighter picture that doesn't necessarily take all important factors into account.
Personally, I play games for the hyper engagement they offer, which I expect from hobbies and cannot get from film or literature. Stories, on the other hand, I can find elsewhere, so I don't necessarily care for them that much in games.
Again, it's all relative.
- Comment on Okami sequel - Project Teaser Trailer 4 months ago:
I'm more excited about Kamiya's comeback and the Clovers drop. Noway Capcom let him do that without plans to revive Viewtiful Joe and God Hand.
In other words, Mikami comeback when.
- Comment on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer 4 months ago:
I was I gonna say "Yeah, they have a good track recors making playable movies." But that's not fair to Jak and Crash.
Still, they haven't made anything with interesting gameplay since like 2004.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 5 months ago:
Hmm… I think it's definitely a spectrum. Even arcade games have stories. It's not what drives them, but they still do.
When you start considering something like Bandersnatch, the spectrum gets even wider.