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- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 day ago:
Shallow and rushed, since it has to develop in a few dozen hours of gameplay with a limited number of NPCs!
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 day ago:
BG3 romances seem shallow and kind of transactional because it is a mix of characters who don’t know each other having a whirlwind romance in a relatively short period of time. They are easily comparable to the majority of romances in movies and books with similar circumstances.
The other thing that is always going to make romances in games difficult to do in more detail is a lack of real world senses that play a huge part in attraction. Smells, tone of voice, flirting based on what is cutrently happening are either impossible or extremely time consuming to implement in a computer game. Like you could luck into picking the right cologne for a character or something, but that is along the same lines as picking the right voice lines.
Not saying it is literally impossible to do, but it really is a monumental task to implement relationships that don’t seem forced or obviously mechanical in a video game. If they did implement one perfectly, the randomness of real life would make it nearly impossible to have a romance as there are so many things that can easily derail a relationship forming including just not being in the mood to reciprocate affection because of some completely unrelated event!
- Comment on what a coincidence 1 day ago:
Maybe contracts?
- Comment on Weight 2 days ago:
Relatable.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 3 days ago:
Generally just online games where the changes are enough that they don’t play the same way that I enjoyed them. Counterstrike, WoW, Overwatch, and others all did reworks that ruined the gameplay I enjoyed.
Older single player games aren’t as fun because they are clunky compared to newer games, like Neverwinter Nights compared to Baldur’s Gate 3. But I didn’t fall out of love, just don’t enjoy interacting with their controls.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 6 days ago:
The original discord design for sharing text and voice and video between gamers in a reasonably sized group were great!
Trying to scale that up and adding monetization features are what is running it into the ground.
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
Reply explaining why their view is terrible so that then they can complain that they are getting dogpiled for having a opinion and not everyone needs to reply.
- Comment on BASED? 1 week ago:
Men go camping to get away from people.
Women go camping to meet bears.
- Comment on If donald j trump was replaced with a body double some time in the last 15 years, would you even care? 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t matter since the body double is doing the same terrible shit for the same reasons as Trump was prior to 15 years ago.
- Comment on Unexpected dedication (and yes, it is filled with boobs) 1 week ago:
It’s on the internet archive!
https://archive.org/details/californiasnudeb0000dave/mode/1up
- Comment on I'm a delight 1 week ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 1 week ago:
Reviews that explain the positives and negatives are extremely useful.
I rarely see demos for games anymore.
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 1 week ago:
A lot of good older games had gameplay explained through play, but it wasn’t as common as it is now for the reasons you stated. Other people had to catch on and then learn how to implement the better design.
And there are still plenty of games that do a terrible job of explaining how they work or have complex mechanics with no apparent way of conveying it to players.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 1 week ago:
I don’t, because being polite while driving is being unpredictable and that makes things more dangerous.
Instead I do what I want others to do which is just do a better job of paying attention and driving consistently. Making mistakes happen, just refocus and avoid making more.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 1 week ago:
Many people who get angry at strangers easily see someone apologizing as legitimatizing their anger, and people not apologizing as not understanding they are wrong. I don’t think there is a good solution if people can’t just accept that other people make mistakes and move on without any needed follow up.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Being a rehash/continuation of the same game was the case since Overwatch 2 came out as they dropped the PvE plans, so it wouldn’t be news.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That is how I read it, what else could it mean?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I laughed out loud at Overwatch x Hello Kitty and Friends.
- Comment on Too far, man 1 week ago:
Batt Mann is on the case!
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 2 weeks ago:
Robocop has entered the chat
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 2 weeks ago:
Guess they love cold bread!
- Comment on Anon looks back 2 weeks ago:
I thought the point is that anon realized they were the one who was turning opportunities down, and accepting an opportunity where success seemed to be likely would have been the turning point.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Someone providing you information showing your assumptions were incorrect in a straightforward and neutral manner is not dunking on you.
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 2 weeks ago:
Wicking sportswear will reduce sweat compared to cotton shorts significantly, although itbis an improvement and not a perfect solution. Sometimes better than going shirtless because it wicks and evaporates, so you end up with a sweaty shirt but not big dripping puddles.
A warning is that those shirts can get pretty funky if you don’t properly clean them soon after use and in most cases fabric softener clogs the wicking property. Follow the cleaning directions and they are fantastic!
- Comment on Sexting 2 weeks ago:
Calm down, Satan.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 2 weeks ago:
It is entirely subjective of course.
When I can be entirely focused on a game and interacting with the game or things that happen don’t break that focus. Sometimes this can mean confortable controls, worlds that have natural barriers, and options to interact that cover what I am trying to do.
Limitations on interactions, characters being inconsistent, and finding it hard to do the things that I feel should be possible in the game are immersion breaking or may even keep me from being immersed. Introductions that are obviously telling you how the game works are not immersive, but if they feel like part of the game they can be immersive.
Helldivers 2’s boot camp is immersive because it feels like things you do in boot camp with a healing dose of in world propaganda. Expedition 33’s into was immersive because it was doing in workd things and barriers didn’t stand out even if the pathing was obviously restricted for game reasons because things were happening! Both games continue to be immersive, but they are also examples of games that are immersive from the first moment the game starts and they keep it up from then on.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 2 weeks ago:
Nolan is wrong. His best movies, which are his earliest movies, have great stories and music and effects and are worth multiple watches.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 2 weeks ago:
Lobster used to be boiled to the point of being hard and rubbery before being served as poor food. Cooking it to the right texture and serving with butter and other things that make it delicious was a later development.
Same with the less popular tough meat cuts, where specific preparation is needed for it to be delicious BBQ.
It isn’t scarcity or marketing as much as it is specific preparation being necessary before it becomes enjoyable to eat.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 2 weeks ago:
What?
- Comment on Schlip schlop 3 weeks ago:
Tenet didn’t make any sense on paper. It made less sense on screen.