calliope
@calliope@retrolemmy.com
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 2 days ago:
To me, Rockstar Games are cool as world simulators and storytelling engines. My issue is that they plop lazily-designed gameplay on top.
No one ever talks about the core gameplay loops of these games, the thing that makes you progress through the storyline.
They talk about the storyline, but they don’t talk about the mediocre gunfights you have to wade through to watch a cutscene or hear dialogue. Wave after wave of anonymous enemies, like videogames haven’t changed since shooting galleries.
They have to introduce essentially unexplained superpowers (slowing down time) to make it remotely interesting. And even then, I would argue most people are just trying to get through every single mission.
Or the terrible movement/driving/riding physics. I didn’t finish GTA4 (also a “10/10 game”) because some of the missions relied on the abysmal movement.
It’s like… a Rockstar game is like going to IKEA. You’re going to be led through a lot of stupid crap, just because they want to keep you there longer.
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 6 days ago:
This was passed during the previous administration, so of course they’re trying to get rid of it.
“It’s not good for consumers it’s bad for business!”
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 6 days ago:
Ah, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
Huh! Apparently the main places you can taste castoreum nowadays (should you want to) are niche foods like Swedish liqueur. Otherwise it’s (understandably) quite expensive.
I was curious and found this article amusing as well:
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
That natural flavor? Vanilla.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 1 week ago:
The 2022 World Cup was literally built by slaves. It has a way of keeping prices down.
- Comment on this level is amazing 2 weeks ago:
It’s one of my favorite sequences from any game!
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 weeks ago:
I really appreciate this, you just saved me at least $20.
Microsoft’s user experience is awful at every step in a browser. I wanted to like XBox but it’s clear why they’re losing.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 28th 2 weeks ago:
I played some Crusader Kings III.
I haven’t played much (under 10 hours) but I started one of the “easy” starts and it isn’t going poorly. I always hit the point in complex games where I’m not exactly sure what to do.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Correct, in the book they have multiple groups of soldiers that run ahead of there is a vanguard.
I’m reading it too because I read it over a decade ago and making it into a movie seemed stupid to me. So I wanted to know how stupid.
- Comment on New "symbolic image compressor" posted in r/computerscience turns out to be AI hallucinated nonsense 2 weeks ago:
Oh! That’s way worse.
Hopefully he’s in high school or something and it’s an immaturity thing.
Otherwise, no doubt all of the skilled people on his team want him gone.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 2 weeks ago:
Which city builder? I think I have 300 hours in Cities Skylines by now
- Comment on FearNoPeer (FNP) is open for application signups for its 2nd birthday! Everyone is welcome to apply! 2 weeks ago:
If you’re new, you might only have one tracker
Ah, I see we have different ideas of the definition of “new”
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Japan setting confirmed 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just you! Forza Horizon has been the main series of video game I looked forward to. I loved 3 and 4.
It didn’t take long for 5 to concentrate fully on the weekly bullshit and making the game more about puzzles than driving.
This is the first Horizon game in over a decade that I couldn’t care less about. It just feels like a sad shell of the previous games.
- Comment on The Independent tries to hijack their reader's swipe meant to leave the site to send them further into it instead 3 weeks ago:
No, it doesn’t work that way on iOS at all. Swipe from the side of the screen is application-specific.
Swipe from left is always “go back to where you were previously” or “go back to the main menu of this application.” Swipe from right does nothing unless the application defines it.
The Independent’s feature might override an iOS browser’s “Forward” feature, if you already used the “Back” feature.
- Comment on [Eurogamer] Nothing Headphone (1) review: Unlike anything else I've ever seen 3 weeks ago:
I enjoy reading reviews where the person is trying to write that there’s nothing special about a product, and at the current price point you should get something else… without writing that.
For that price, I might have expected slightly better noise cancelling and a potentially more well-rounded sound…
I know I’ve definitely enjoyed using them for the last few weeks, and if you can still pick them up at the discounted rate I spotted them at recently, then they’re well worth a go.
Let me paraphrase. Are you a “pick me?” These unique fashion-first headphones are for you.
Are you someone who just wants decent headphones? Buy something else unless you can get them on discount.
- Comment on You Turn! - an app that gives you a co-op experience with a friend while emulating (my article) 3 weeks ago:
What a cool idea!
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 4 weeks ago:
All I hear is “China is heating up the ocean too”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Same!
The phrase “seven monkeys with switchblades playing piano” does not have a single, established meaning. It is likely a surreal, intentionally nonsensical image, and its interpretation would depend entirely on the context in which it was used.