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- Comment on Deadhaus Sonata Q&A: Denis Dyack on Tarot Cards, Loot Based on Quantum Physics, and Building a Spiritual Successor to Legacy of Kain 4 days ago:
The third Soul Reaver was it.
The recent remaster is good but a new modern version would be most welcome. A sequel? Homer noises.
- Comment on Deadhaus Sonata Q&A: Denis Dyack on Tarot Cards, Loot Based on Quantum Physics, and Building a Spiritual Successor to Legacy of Kain 4 days ago:
How about an actual successor to Legacy of Kain?
- Comment on worst day ever 4 days ago:
Your superpower is math. Your weakness is that it only applies to orgies.
- Comment on worst day ever 4 days ago:
The Federation shall hear of this.
- Comment on worst day ever 4 days ago:
What’s a group orgy?
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 6 days ago:
Hope you enjoy it.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
It is a great Souls game. The end.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
Well, thanks for telling us. Perhaps seek treatment?
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
I vehemently disagree. I slogged my way through that game so I could speak with experience on the subject. That game only feels fair to Souls players because it tried to be less annoying than the games that preceded it.
It’s unfair, the bosses are too large for the screen and your character wins by luck and repetition. No skill required (because it’s luck when you beat a boss).
I cannot stress enough how much disdain I have for “Souls-like” as a category. Developers should note: Putting that descriptor in your game is shutting out a vast majority of the gaming community. The fans are a niche; a sliver of the gaming community.
I have no problem with people liking the genre but the genre is not mainstream for a reason. We can have challenge in a game without it being frustrating.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
You’ve identified one part of the issue and it’s a valid one.
Aside from aging, games have also evolved into lazy design. What used to be difficulty was really innovation a decade+ ago. Take a game like the original Soul Reaver. The bosses required specific skills and strategies you had to figure out in order to win. If you didn’t figure it out they would laugh and mock you for failing. It was genius and you felt accomplished when you figured it out.
Contrast that to Elden Ring. The moveset isn’t intuitive and your character moves like it’s not attached to the world.
The bosses are just extremely higher health bars and your health bar is on the opposite end of theirs. That’s it. That’s the game difficulty.
So “strategy” just means dodging until you can get a hit on the overly large boss and repeat for long periods until someone dies. I find it lazy and uninspiring.
So yeah, you’re not crazy.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
Jesus Christ, you people are insufferable.
Go away.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
Ok. Enjoy the frustration, I guess.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
As I said in my original comment, the lesson was to move on and come back when you were ready, whatever form that took.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
That boss required timing, skill and pattern recognition later in the game. With multiple skills unlocked it’s fine.
It’s a hard fight but not unfair.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
This was an issue with two things: People are too used to the timing in Souls games and hate change.
The second and most probable reason was the fact that the game had some bad input delay at certain resolutions. It can be rectified by changing your graphics settings in-game. This was my particular issue and I fixed it using a YouTube video. I’ll try to find it and link it back here in an edit.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 1 week ago:
Yes, and I think so for unpopular reasons.
I’m the rare person that finds anything “Souls-like” insufferable and annoying. I avoid those games because they’re built on frustration and anger-inducing difficulty spikes. This game is not those things but the internet not stop saying it’s a Souls-like. That’s because Souls fans thinks Souls games are a positive comparison when it simply turns off most gamers outside that fandom.
The Souls comparison was the reason I almost never touched Black Myth.
Then I tried it on a friend’s console and my mind changed.
Black Myth has a story. Not something you have to create in your head (cough, Elden Ring) based on environmental clues but an actual story based on Chinese myths and folk tales.
It drives you. It motivates you. You want to keep playing to see the next thing. The environment and the enemies and the fighting styles and the character you play drip atmosphere and mystery and substance and style.
The place where this game shines is where most games in a similar genre falter. It keeps the power fantasy intact.
There is difficulty to be had but not once was it unfair or anger-inducing. A boss defeating you is a lesson to move on and come back. The movements aren’t you just rolling around and hoping you don’t get hit like another annoying series I won’t mention again.
In this game you are the threat. You are the one with the power. If you can’t beat someone come back because not too further up you’ll discover the power or skill to come back and destroy that enemy.
Fun. This game is fun. Gamers like fun, yes?
- Comment on Pretty sure this is one of the harbingers of the apocalypse... 1 week ago:
Imagine if Chuck goes before his god, Dotard.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I find it funny that I was downvoted. Hopefully it wasn’t by Jackie himself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is that Jackie Chan?
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
You ain’t wrong.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
I could counter that it’s all taxpayer founded and I’d be right to some extent.
- Comment on Crimson Desert | Review Thread 1 week ago:
I worried so much that this was getting overhyped.
I worried that it looked like a well-designed checklist generator.
I worried that it had great gameplay mechanics and no soul.
Was I wrong?
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
I’m looking forward to 2026 statistics after the removal of USAID.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
This sentiment gives me the most hope. I’ve long held the sentiment that a great prolonged pain is what we all needed to break the cycle.
I don’t want it to end so soon or we’ll fall yet again into old habits. Then we would’ve learnt nothing.
Let the modern PedoNazis keep pushing the knife so the right people feel the pain and finally also understand the consequences of stupidity in voting. The conservative voter is incapable of empathy and understands nothing else but personal suffering.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
This scene could be the opening paragraphs for a new Stephen King novel.
- Comment on A Fallout 4 QA tester nuked the RPG so hard that Zenimax executives got emails about it: "I was running around super-nuking the entire wasteland and found 4 crashes in a single morning" 1 week ago:
If you can code a wrench . . .
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It runs extremely well on the Playstation 5 Pro, according to Digital Foundry.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 weeks ago:
That explains why we’re up to about 14 multiplayer game modes at the main menu?
I’ll repeat: 14 goddamned multiplayer options. That’s gonna populate all the servers, right?
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 3 weeks ago:
Well, enjoy the stupid information you’ll encounter from the “do your own research” crowd. Makes for a fun time.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 3 weeks ago:
Stupid conspiracy theory about 9/11 being an inside job. It’s listed on the meme above.