atomicpoet
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- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 4 weeks ago:
ARPG + MORPG hybrid with looter shooter characteristics.
It doesn’t really fit anywhere cleanly, though.
- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 4 weeks ago:
Terms can definitely be confusing. Diablo is definitely a hack-n’-slash, but it’s very different from the likes of Golden Axe and God of War.
- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 4 weeks ago:
The ARPGs you’re probably referring to, I call them Diablo-likes to distinguish them from all the other action RPGs.
- Comment on Every RPG subgenre acronym, decoded 4 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of subgenres I wanted to include, but I felt this document was already too long. Here’s more of them:
- DBRPG = Deck-building RPG
- SurRPG = Survival RPG
- RLRPG = Rogue-like RPG
- SoRPG = Souls-like RPG
I don’t know why I overlooked GRPGs since Germany has some pretty important ones. You mentioned Gothic, but there’s also the Sacred series and ELEX series.
I’d say that while both GRPGs and PRPGs are releated to each other, there’s some big differences that go beyond nationality. I’d say GRPGs are more like a muddy Renaissance faire going on while PRPGs have more of a storybook style.
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- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 4 weeks ago:
Tetris Plus is quite neat because, not only is there PlayStation and arcade versions, it was released for Game Boy too.
I regularly play it on my cabinet—it’s got a great PvP mode.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 4 weeks ago:
They’re gone. No mascots. No background worlds. Just the “elemental” machine skins.
Tetris Worlds had eye monsters because THQ wanted a console-friendly mascot game.
Tetris Elements has industrial pipes because ValuSoft (THQ’s budget imprint) wanted a cheap, self-contained PC release that didn’t require any cross-project asset wrangling.
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- Comment on Renovation was right—and we're ahead of schedule 5 weeks ago:
Use vJoy + Universal Control Remapper (UCR), or reWASD, to mirror the controller input to all emulator instances.
This means pressing A once sends “A” to all 8 games.
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- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 month ago:
Really want to find GBA Tribal Edition in the wild—if it actually exists.
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- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Actually, those rear buttons are unique. They are not the same triggers and buttons. They are highly useful in FPS games for functions like crouch.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
The em dash? I always use it—love it—you’ll have to take it from cold, dead hands.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Yep, the key is to use mouse instead of joystick-mouse.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I admire the cut of your jib.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong that the market has changed.
I often tell people that the biggest innovations in PC gaming are not graphics but form factors and inputs.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
That’s more of a killer feature for Linux in general.
And I can’t undersell how big of a deal that is. When Windows 10 dies, I’m switching my desktop to Linux simply because Proton makes me want to use Linux.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
And yet, when I look at my library, only half of new games released within the past five years support X-input. They are still exclusively keyboard-and-mouse.
Granted, that’s way more than what was available 10 years ago, but it’s still a problem.
Or it would be if the Steam Deck didn’t make it trivially easy to adapt keyboard-and-mouse controls to a controller. Which happened because of the innovation first introduced with the Steam Controller.
It’s now at the point where keyboard-and-mouse is optional—just a preference if you want to use it.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Okay, but I didn’t want to buy a new console. Instead, I wanted to use my PC as a console replacement.
But also, there’s a surprising amount of games that never got a console release. For example, Blood and Septerra Core—never arrived on any console. I own those games, and the Steam controller let me play them on my TV very easily.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I feel a right stick is more useful for games deliberately designed as twin stick shooters. Geometry Wars is a good example of this. Using a trackpad for aiming is fine, but that doesn’t really feel like an arcade experience.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s the other thing: the trackpad D-pad is not as good as a button D-pad.
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- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 month ago:
Actually, my kids needs are substantially different from others.
My daughter is autistic. She has trouble communicating verbally. But on Roblox, she finds it much easier to socialize.
She has never spent a cent on microtransactions but gets the opportunity to talk to other kids without being bullied.
I’m not taking that away from her just because strangers on the Internet can’t fathom different kids have different needs.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 month ago:
I’m hearing you loud and clear.
Provide research with accompanying links or GTFO.
