Hond
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- Comment on No Man's Sky for new slow player 1 week ago:
NMS is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle. IMHO(!) The procedural generation of all the worlds/planets doesnt provide interesting places to discover. Everthing gets really samey really fast just with a bit of different paint so to speak. I also wouldnt say its a thinking mans game. Its mostly a lot of brain dead tedium with tons of ressource gathering. The main goal is to get to the center of the galaxy. Everything a long the way is the fun you find for yourself. There is some sort “story” in place. But compared to the other games you mentioned in your post i also could easily argue NMS doesnt have a story.
Personally i still use my first savefile since 2016 when i look into the game for a few minutes/hours after several big updates because i find the start to be really slow and boring before you can enter and fly your ship for the first time.
tbf, NMS never managed to really pull me in. Consider my post the pessimistic outlook. Maybe someone else can provide a more positive spin on the game.
- Comment on Why is the Wii U considered a flop? 2 weeks ago:
IMHO it wasnt the name. The Wii was succesful because of the motion controls. Gaming was seen as a thing for kids, ugly nerds and couch potatoes. Probably still is to a certain degree but 20 years ago gaming acceptance was in whole different spot in the normie mindset compared to today. Nintendo was able to capture the non-gaming audience because they made gaming look active. Be it physically with the Wiis motion controls or these “mind jogging” games or whatever the fuck they were called on the DS. My mother bought a Wii back then… for herself. Wii Sports and that balance board thingy was her jam. She used that thing for a decade to stay fit. The mother of a friend had a DS which was used exclusivly by her for those puzzle/math games. Normies had Wii parties where they played Wii Sport together and bragged about the sore muscles they got the next day at work.
Yeah, well and then came a new box with a shitty Ipad as the main gimmick? While the normies started to play on their phone/tablet or just did something entirely different like idk joining a book club or nordic walking. Because the Wii was never about the games for them. At the same time they couldnt catch the core gamers attention because the Wii U could barely surpass the performance of the previous gen while the Xbox One and PS4 were on the horizon.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The VR modding scene is crazy right now. A new flat to VR mod drops every other day now which was more like a monthly occurence at best. A lot of them are vibecoded messes but the amount of worthwhile ports is more than one would think. I still hate AI. Just because it now kinda works for specific tasks doesnt do away all the other negative aspects. But i take some new vidya in an otherwise dead market segment while everything burns to the ground.
- Comment on The newest Star Wars game, Galactic Racer, is published by a small, lesser-known indie company 4 weeks ago:
Its on my wishlist.
Sadly it has Denuvo.
But its a pretty interesting mash up of genres. Anti-grav burnout roguelight. But i’m not too sure if its going to be the kind of roguelike where i enjoy putting in tens of hours for the sake of some arbitary challenge runs or see the story credits after 10-12 hours and be done with it forever. Probably going to wait for a sale and if they drop Denuvo in a year or so.
- Comment on Not How It's Supposed To Be 5 weeks ago:
You failed the task succesfully. This works perfectly.
- Comment on Not How It's Supposed To Be 5 weeks ago:
Who finds a even worse template?
- Comment on Not How It's Supposed To Be 5 weeks ago:
Somebody heard a funny joke and wanted to turn it into a meme. Browsed through the template catalogue of the meme generator and found the angry guy with the orange hair. Close enough. Done
- Comment on "Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs 1 month ago:
Is this some kind of sick revenge plot? Because COD somehow got even shittier under the MS umbrella?
Now the makers of COD are going to make Halo even shittier?
Is this a perpetual motion powered by enshittication?
- Comment on Apple's rumored gaming controller for iPhone could feature Beats branding 1 month ago:
Fair enough.
I was probably just a bit too irritated by the “anymore” part of your post.
- Comment on Apple's rumored gaming controller for iPhone could feature Beats branding 1 month ago:
Uh, when was ever something fancy about Beats? V-Shape tuning with tons of bass and just some random chunks of metal to make it more weighty and with that pReMiUm feeling for ridiculous prices. That was my perception of the brand since its inception long before Apple aquired it. Since then i probably take it more seriously? Not enough to ever buy anything from them. But still.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 1 month ago:
I would be fine with that. But i couldnt recreate the approximation of the 2014 trailer in 10 years. I never had the pleasure to see a single cool planet of which i could hop off and do some mediocre space battle. Its just such a frustrating game and i really liked the original artstyle.
Anyway, i should really put NMS in my filterlist because it gets me angry and worked up every single time. Ugh. Stupid.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 1 month ago:
Yeah, thats a bit revisionist? I will always be mad what a fucking liar Sean Murray was pre-release. There is just no dancing around that fact. He also wasnt some suit from the publisher. He is just creditet as programmer on the game on wikipedia(you know boots on the ground good guy). Almost every promise he uttered was broken. He was on the fucking Conan late night show and educated us on how hard they had it(and on top lied about every single feature the game would have).
And yeah, they redeemed themselves. But i have to say that 10 years later i still regret my purchase. I revisited the game every other year or so after several bombastic update trailers. I’m still not impressed or even entertained. Also they got rid of the only thing i ever really liked at release: the artstyle. Which makes me even more angry. Fuck this game. I should get a hold on myself. I should let it go after 10 years of free update. But seriosly fuck this game and fuck Sean Murray.
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 2 months ago:
PSA: you really shouldnt eat uncooked beans and other legumes btw. They are toxic.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 2 months ago:
Yeah, okay that sucks. But makes comparisons easier i guess? Nvidia wins at default unless you want good open source Linux drivers. Which arent a lot of people to be fair.
I really hope Intel will still release consumer GPUs in the future. The B580 was a pretty nice GPU at MSRP. But i couldnt even recommend it to anyone because it almost always was 30% above MSRP where i live. With that price you could have gotten just a better card in every metric.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 2 months ago:
Yeah, sorry. I meant Hairworks.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 2 months ago:
I’m not in the US and AMD has always been cheaper for me. Hardware Unboxed made a few videos about pricing in recent years and in the regions they covered AMD was also always cheaper than Nvidia. Aside from a few outliers.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 2 months ago:
I agree. Especially the marketing department hyping up their upcoming products to an unhealthy degree really hurt their reputation. Because those promises always failed to deliver in the last >decade.
But personally i’m now 12(?) years only on AMD cards and i was never plagued by all the famous downsides AMD GPUs supposedly and actually have. Which doesnt mean there are tons of valid criticism to made against them.
I get why Nvidia was and is the market leader. They offered the most feature complete and fastest products most of the time. Always with a bit of proprietary fuckery involved which personally always turned me off. There are a lot of valid reasons why somebody would prefer a Nvidia card right now or in the past.
My point was that i dont get why they are so disproportionally more popular. If you wanted the fastest halo product… sure there wasnt a contest since the 290X(which still is debatable). But AMD had almost always pretty great midrange offerings which most consumer buy anyway. Especially in the last three generation they had their shit together and were IMHO pretty competitive in every price bracket besides the very high end. Still, they lost even more market share.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 2 months ago:
PhysX, G-Sync, HairFX, etc.
The writing was on the wall for a long time already.
I will never get how Nvidia got THAT popular amongst gamers. Like sure, Nvidia always had some benefits in certain usecases. But how many people were actually capturing game footage as a job and needed the best hw encoders? How many gamers also used their gaming rig also as a workstation for things where CUDA is essential? A lot! For sure. But not >90% market share a lot.
- Comment on Despite Steam's concerning domination over the market, one of the things that I love about it is... 2 months ago:
I agree. The last time i looked at the Steam forums it was pretty bad. Comically stupid posts which i only know as over the top satire from other places.
But tbh they always sucked. Sure, there werent constant “this game is woke because it contains women/poc” posts >10 years ago. But otherwise it was always a cesspit for really stupid and awful people. Maybe its really worse than before but the bar was already so fucking low.
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 2 months ago:
I understand the concept of taste and having not the same as i do. I understand that kids, young, dumb, horrible[…] people exist. I understand that not anybody is a terminally online old fuck who remembers the good old pre web 2.0 days and is hypercritical of most modern online content. Then there is that orange fuck…
Still i also just dont get it. Its just garbage made by garbage people acting like garbage. Its so bad. Its so obvious. Why all these fucks still have careers just doesnt make any sense to me.
I think this is a rare case where i’m not out of touch and its the children who actually are wrong.
- Comment on Sometimes you just have to know 2 months ago:
i would get the fuck out too if somebody started to rip apart my ceiling before he catches me
- Comment on Steam Frame Updates 2 months ago:
Head strap, controller straps and a silicone nose light blocker beeing a separate purchase is fucking laughable. Especially that lightblocker not beeing included with every headset is just weird. What does that piece of shit silicone cost in production? 10 cents?
Man, i still want a standalone headset with a linux based OS and newer SOC than Q3 soooo bad. But i wouldnt have bought it for 800-1000$ and even less for what ever the fuck it will cost under _ current market conditions_.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah, the emojis alone sadly(i fucking hate them) arent a red flag by themselves anymore. But fucking up the formating in your promotional post with no attempt to fix it after an hour? Suuuuure. Even if it isnt the result of some agentic work flow(which it is)it would show a lack of care that doesnt signal any reason why i should care about your project?
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 4 months ago:
As it is the tradition in the sector, I hope the industry will listen to player communities and agree on better sunsetting standards so communities can continue to meet and play together.
lol. lmao even.
- Comment on Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind 4 months ago:
Sure, just close up any studio that actually was able to release worthwhile games under the MS umbrella in the last few years. That will help the Xbox brand. lmao.
As much as i hate MS they still had some brownie points left in my book because they financed Psychonauts 2, that Lighthouse game, the two Sensuas, etc. But without that what can they even deliver? Yet another shitty Halo which cant improve on anything compared to 15 year old prior titles? Forza Sloprizen? Bethesda remastering/remaking/re-releasing a past TES game? The most mediocre output obsidian ever had over a long stretch of time? Activisions COD mines? yaaaaawn
- Comment on Ashes 2063 - An extremely polished post apocalyptic Doom conversion complete with drivable motorcycle, trading towns, a John Carpenter-esque soundtrack, and it's free! 4 months ago:
Played a few levels in VR via the Team Beef Doom thingy on a standalone headset. It was pretty damm cool.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 4 months ago:
tbf, i was able to pay with my normal bank account on steam in the past. so its not as bad for me. but i dont trust my bank either tbh.
- Comment on Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers 4 months ago:
oh, ffs. well, piracy it is then.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 5 months ago:
Yes.
A… friend played online before release on linux with a PS5 controller. It felt sick, he said.
- Comment on systemd 5 months ago:
Yeah, but how do you feel about this sentence an old colleague used to say: “I like Ubuntu. Its a really good program!”
