Doc_Crankenstein
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- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 1 week ago:
It’s honestly pathetic how hard you’re arguing to justify this bullshit.
Let it go and stop being a Sony’s cuck. Nothing you say will justify DRM.
Is it a measure that is done in the consumer’s interests? Hell no. Does this negatively affect consumers? Yes. IDC how small a percentage it affects. I care that it affects fellow consumers and their ability to use a product they paid for.
That’s all there is to it. Any excuse from the company to justify it gets them a big fat finger from me. The company’s interests are not my interests and they, in fact, go directly against my interests. So fuck em.
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 1 week ago:
Just so you know, I absolutely give zero shits about their reasons for doing it.
Ruining the experience for everyone else because of a negligible minority of people found a clever way to cheat the system (good for them). Sony can get fucked.
- Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies 2 weeks ago:
Geez after the debacle with their new DRM shit for digital purchases and rolling back their pledge to release to PC, I wonder fucking why people aren’t climbing over themselves to throw money at 'em.
Not to mention general economics issues plaguing the world right now. Can’t imagine many people have the disposable income to throw at video games to begin with.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I believe co-op is a guaranteed thing, as they show it off in the trailer towards the end with the duo hanging off the sub and exploring together.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Snowfox and spy pengling were in Below Zero and worked because there were ice shelves that acted as landmasses in that title. Doubt they will make a reappearance in this one. Especially the spy pengling, it felt very gimmicky.
Though, the trailer did look like it teased new traversal tools and personal subs.
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 2 weeks ago:
I still remember driving home with my damn PS4 to play the new God of War like it was yesterday. This time business needs to slow tf down.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 5 weeks ago:
Because they aren’t a true monopoly. They are only a functional monopoly because their competitors refuse to be competitive. Nothing except corporate greed is preventing other storefronts like Epic from being utterly ass.
- Comment on Post title lol 5 weeks ago:
Imagine not understanding why being an obnoxious, pedantic twit who mocks others for inconsequential things would annoy people, lol.
Easiest block ever.
Lol.
- Comment on Metro 2039 - Official Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Exodus isn’t a bad game. It’s just a bad “Metro” game. I couldn’t finish it because it just felt too disconnected and empty compared to the dense, intricate, and immersive world of the first two games. Made it maybe halfway through the 2nd map before I realized I was just bored checking off the map and I didn’t care what happened to the people in this desert because I was just going to leave on the train anyway. Then I realized that the previous map was also just a throw away story that didn’t matter. They were just arbitrary obstacles to getting the train moving.
Hell, one of the key gameplay mechanics of the Metro series which ties into the lore is that bullets are currency, so each shot counts. In Exodus, they absolutely abandoned that system for a crafting one where bullets are damn near infinite. It ruins the immersion.
I play the Metro games for their specific atmosphere and immersive storytelling that is intertwined with the gameplay mechanics. Exodus took all of that away for a generic, open world experience with disconnected story beats in an attempt to capitalize on the open world craze. It backfired in my opinion and I hope they return to what made the series great.
- Comment on Metro 2039 - Official Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Good. Exodus is the black sheep of the series. I hope they distance themselves from everything that game did and go back to basics with the Metro series. It’s supposed to be dark and bleak.
- Comment on Krafton still supporting Subnautica 2 launch despite Steam page change 5 weeks ago:
I have been a fan of Subnautica since before items had textures and they were still playing with terrain manipulation.
I absolutely refuse to buy Subnautica 2. I will be pirating it.
- Comment on Anon is embarrassed at school 5 weeks ago:
Lighten up, Mr.Hardass. it’s called a joke. Not a dick, don’t take it so hard.
- Comment on Anon is embarrassed at school 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon runs into his boss 1 month ago:
You absolutely can. You can get a DWI while just sitting in your vehicle in a parking lot with the engine off.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 1 month ago:
It isn’t really that difficult. I have a cheap, newish Motorola phone (3 years old) and all I have to do is make sure when plugging into the PC I switch the USB mode when it pops up.
Then it’s literally no different from using the normal file browser. Get you a good media app and find the file storage path. (Hell, Musicolet, a fantastic, free, offline music manager, literally makes you create/select the file path yourself on first launch) then just drag and drop into it like any other folder.
Or get a program like MusicBee and just have it set to sync that directory.
- Comment on METRO 2039 - Announcement April 16 1 month ago:
Yea that’s just down to personal tastes. Exodus wasn’t necessarily a bad game. It just didn’t feel like a Metro game.
The first two games in the Metro series exemplified a rich, linear story experience with intricate and interwoven characters, condensed level design, and strict resource management. They had a very specific and distinct atmosphere and experience. There was very little extra fluff outside of hidden secrets and logs. Everything was centered around telling the story it wanted to tell.
Exodus broke away from a lot of it to have a more open experience which unfortunately required a lot of fluff to fill the empty space of an open world design. The events in each region didn’t really have anything to make me care about it. Even if it does provide a much larger view of how society outside of the Metro had adapted, a lot of the content just didn’t feel any connection to Artyom and crew like it was in the older games.
The open world aspect also completely invalidated the resource management aspect of the Metro games. They were not able to pull it off in the way that Stalker’s very intricate economy systems do for making an open world with the feeling of limited resources. It was way too easy to farm stuff. I never worried about bullets after the first hours. Yet that is a key feeling in Metro games and their lore, as bullets are so valuable and scare now they are used as currency.As a long time fan of Metro, Exodus kinda felt like something “other” wearing the skin of the series rather than an actual Metro game. I feel they wanted to have a good, traditional Metro experience but it is everything else that feels added on to try and bring in a wider audience that resulted in a lot of older Metro fans, like me, feeling like the game was half-baked.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 1 month ago:
Yup. And sometime last year they made getting a cracked version of Spotify an incredible pain in the ass and the guy updating the crack stopped supporting it and instead is choosing to focus on YouTube ReVanced.
My library on Spotify is over 6k songs. Been trying to slowly get them downloaded onto my phone.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Really enjoyed the demo. Would love to play it on release but am a broke bitch so will probably be a few months until I can get it on a sale or something.
- Comment on METRO 2039 - Announcement April 16 1 month ago:
Lol I have restarted Exodus 4 times and never made it past the desert map.
- Comment on METRO 2039 - Announcement April 16 1 month ago:
I thought it was half baked. Had a lot of good ideas but the overall execution felt rushed and slapped together.
- Comment on METRO 2039 - Announcement April 16 1 month ago:
After Exodus, I really don’t know how I feel about another Metro. Kinda feels like dragging out a dead horse to beat it with jumper cables.
That said, I loved 2033 and Last Light. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hope they somehow go back to basics so we can have another immersive linear story with great characters and atmosphere.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
Trust, I am well aware. Part of a conservation degree is economics, because conservation directly has to argue in economic terms in order to persuade governments and stakeholders for support of passing legislation.
Unfortunately, the powers that be seem to have stopped caring entirely, even if only performatively. They want it all and they don’t wish to negotiate anymore.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
As someone who has a degree in wildlife conservation and has always been my dream to work for the Forest Services and have a career protecting what is left of this nation’s natural wonder.
And they are doing this explicitly for the purposes of letting the logging and oil industry rape these natural wonders for fucking profit. For fake, imaginary fucking social value of which they already possess an obscene amount.
I cannot describe my anger and loathing.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
No, don’t think they dropped anything. They speak facts.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 month ago:
What is happening with this administration is exposing the great flaw of electoralism that anarchists and leftists have been warning about for nearly a century.
That if we do not restructure our society, our politics and our culture leave us manipulatable to where these corrupt individuals could systematically consolidate power and out themselves or their allies into positions of power.
This is the result of not a decade but over a century of political and systemic manipulation by the owning-class.
Living in the US during this time has radicalized me so much against the system.
- Comment on Graveyard Keeper is available for free on Steam right now 1 month ago:
NGL, I thought this was just a steam link and did not see there was also an article in the post.
- Comment on Graveyard Keeper is available for free on Steam right now 1 month ago:
It can be grindy but it isn’t that bad when you know where to get things. I think what handicaps this game though from a wider audience is that this game really does not hold your hand for crafting things and in-game systems. It really wants you to experiment yourself and figure out what is most efficient.
The quest system as well has very little direction at what to do sometimes and it being heavily interconnected makes encountering a random roadblock very frequent, which many people probably get frustrated at when they are used to modern games and quest structures.
- Comment on Graveyard Keeper is available for free on Steam right now 1 month ago:
Wait a minute? What?
