Carighan
@Carighan@piefed.world
The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Before the Storm is also from Deck Nine not Don’t Nod, and I think you can still notice they didn’t truly know how to handle the franchise at that point. It’s a cool DLC though, really enjoyed it, I just don’t think Chloe’s “special mechanic” works well in contrast to Max’s (a problem Reunion shares but since the rewind is essentially on-rails there it’s far less a noteworthy).
About Bloom&Rage, hrm… tricky to say. I think what made it come together for me - because I agree the characters are overwritten extremely, and I gotta assume that’s intentional with the degree to which they are - is the atmosphere of the childhood sequences, in particular the inherently-creepy elements when you’re taping stuff going wonky contrasted with the extremely somber and wistful tone of the adults talking. The children being so overdone I almost see like Varric’s description of the DA2 PC at the start where you’re overly muscular or have a huge rack, because he’s embellishing. They’re remembering, but they’re only remembering some aspects and overfocusing on them.
I’m in just the right age bracket to feel with the women sitting there reminiscing about their youths though. So that worked really well for me. And I loved how I didn’t know how I looked as an adult, that was a cool payoff at the end. - Comment on 3 days ago:
Notably this is not the developer who has done Life is Strange True Colours, Double Exposure or Reunion.
This is the ones that did the amazing first one, the meh second one, and then a bunch of non-LiS games that IMO were of varying and unstable quality. Although I’ll have to make an exception for Bloom&Rage, because that one was absolutely fantastic, for all its flaws.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says "YouTube monetizes Xbox better than we do", ahead of expected layoffs | Satya Nadella bemoans performance of Xbox 3 days ago:
Yeah and whos fault except yours is that, Satan Nutella? Huh? Who could have possibly changed things to have this be any different? Who is responsible for what the company as a whole does?!
- Comment on What is on your next-to-buy list? 2 months ago:
There was Dispatch and 1000xResist on there but I now bought both of those.
I guess once I had time to play them, the new LiS? But right now, kinda nothing. 😅
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 months ago:
Sure, but it’s also far from the only time that guy has been making shit up, and that’s independent of the part where the Switch 2 is still the fastest-selling console ever (at least when it was last-posted after 7 months on the market it was), so it’s a bit of a weird point to make about “flagging demand” unless that’s an extremely recent thing.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 months ago:
Careful with these re-citations. The original Bloomberg article is ny Mochizuki, someone who has consistently pulled things out of his arse for years now.
Unless you’re currently playing on your Switch 1 4k Pro model that arrived ~2 years ago, I would not give much weight to this.
(and even if, the cited 4 mil sales is an insanely high number, even the Switch 1 only once managed an actual 6 mil quarter average for 24 mil in a year - but like I said, it’s very likely made up entirely, given the author)
- Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Review - Frustration Behind The Camera - Game Informergameinformer.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGNwww.ign.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 98 comments
- Comment on Former Diablo devs release demo for their Diablo 2-style action-RPG Darkhaven, but warn of "rough edges" 3 months ago:
We already had Diablo 2. So there’s no reason to keep going then, right?
- Comment on Former Diablo devs release demo for their Diablo 2-style action-RPG Darkhaven, but warn of "rough edges" 3 months ago:
“Yes”
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 3 months ago:
I mean clearly you go to hell.
Which we did. And won that one, too!
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 3 months ago:
It stayed that for me albeit Majora’s Mask came very close to dethroning it. Then came A Link Between Worlds, and that was even better. So yeah nowadays I very slightly prefer that.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 3 months ago:
Yeah the escalation of 3->4->GOOH was already crazy over the top and overdid it, but hey, that was actually kinda fitting for Saints Row. Fine.
But I wasn’t unhappy at all that it ended there. It was a fine franchise, it’s alright.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Rock and stone, everyone! ⛏️
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- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 6 months ago:
There is also the old german documentary.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 months ago:
I wish they'd replace Tim Sweeney with AI. Would genuinely have better takes on most topics, too. Sigh.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 6 months ago:
Yeah that shit is like selling heroine specifically to vulnerable people in depressing phases of their life. But wth gambling ads and dark patterns in video games we somehow accept it. 😕
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 months ago:
Especially if you watch people game there's 0 chance you missed the big ones this year looking at the awards, those being CO:E33, Hades 2, Silksong, DS2, Split Fiction and MKW. They were all streamers and youtubers were doing (and kinda still are with Silksong) for months.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 months ago:
Assuming you play on PC I'd near-universally recommend it. This is because if the dodging/parrying mechanics do annoy you, your only option is to change to Easy, which also reduces enemy damage by a ton and makes the game boringly simply. Mods allow you to have the slightly more lenient timings of Easy but the HP/damage numbers of Normal, which for me personally was a nice combination as I got frustrated parrying the later bosses.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 months ago:
Where were you looking then?
Not at any of the 159 positive reviews opencritic has aggregated? Not at any of the >5000 positive Steam user reviews just in the first week, either? Neither any of the ~60 positive reviews on GOG, either?
Where exactly did you look?
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 months ago:
I'd say it's a "good weird-game" instead of a "good, weird, game". Which granted it shares with the first game.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 months ago:
Oh wow, you entirely missed Death Stranding 2, Hades 2, Hollow Knight Silksong and Clair Obscur? The latter basically took over the entirety of all gaming discussion and news for ~2 months.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 months ago:
I dunno. It's a very well-made game, but also kinda... understandable not on the same level as Hades 2, Silksong of Clair Obscur.
Plus it got a GOTY nomination or two, I bet. Which just doesn't put it high enough though.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 7 months ago:
I wish we had a pricing-point for the VR headset. I'm still considering getting a Quest III and break it open a bit, since the hardware is so damn good. This seems marginally under it (monochrome instead of full-color etc) but running SteamOS instead of Android sounds amazing.
But I'd need more information on it first - and granted, knowing if ever it releases over here. 😅
I'll definitely get the new controller if possible though. Still rocking my original, and it's still the best way to play mouse-centric games on the couch, I prefer it over a lapboard with an actual mouse.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Bejeweled 7 months ago:
Anyone got a favorite "more involved" version of this?
Or more specifically, how is the new Puzzle Quest, if you've tried it? Is it good, unlike all the mobile-centric later PQ games that came out over the years? Because until now HuniePop/HuniePop2 were still the best Bejeweled variant, IMO, but I've not tried PQ yet.
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- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 7 months ago:
Ah I failed to find that. Thanks, that worked! ✨
- Comment on Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall 7 months ago:
For the Kindle versions (yeah I still got one, I know, but not tossing a functional device!) that's the
.mobiI presume? And how do I install that as a proper new dictionary? Does it auto-recognize that if I just copy it in the main folder?