termaxima
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- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 1 week ago:
Concord 2 : Electric Boogaloo
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
That seems very subjective. Personally I always round prices correctly (yes I’m pedantic), and every 2.5€ block counts. So 7.99 ≈ 7.50 to me.
- Comment on "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success 1 week ago:
Sorry but this sounds kinda condescending to me. I know you’re trying to make a point about expectations affecting people’s judgement (which is obviously correct) but it really comes off as pretentious instead ; I hope this is not on purpose.
It feels like you’re saying “I thought about the game and asked questions while everyone was just dismissive and didn’t think, so it’s their fault for not enjoying it” (I know this is not what you said, I’m exaggerating so you can maybe see how you come off)
Ironically, by saying people shouldn’t be so dismissive, you are being quite dismissive of them. I think there are better ways to phrase what I believe to be your main argument (expectations affect experience), although I won’t pretend I’m great at those things (I probably sound quite condescending here ; I promise I’m actually trying to help)
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 1 week ago:
It is !? I have just checked and it is ! Wtf ? I used to always be able to tell how well a console was selling by just checking my friend circles (even then Nintendo was over-represented) so I am VERY confused that the console is selling well while I simultaneously don’t know anyone who owns it 🤷🏻♀️
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 week ago:
Yeah sorry, very easy to confuse ! Outer Wilds is one of the defining masterpieces of gaming, Outer Worlds is just alright.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 week ago:
I mean, there’s no great secret, right ? The Outer Wilds is just an alright-ish franchise. Bethesda without the incompetence, but also without the hype.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 1 week ago:
It makes some sense, because basically no one has a Switch 2 anyway 🤷🏻♀️
- Comment on Deadlock Major Update — Old Gods, New Blood 3 weeks ago:
How can the game get updates when it’s not even released yet ???
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 3 weeks ago:
Wish we didn’t keep doing the “reuse the original title” thing. Entries should be numbered, or at least subtitled…
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 3 weeks ago:
I do challenges for the fun of doing them, not for the reward.
Dark Souls at level 1 is absolutely worth doing if you’re replaying the game. It’s a lot of fun, and much easier than you’d think during your first time playthrough.
Surprisingly enough, playing Getting Over It 50 times over for the achievement is one of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had. The skill curve is just awesome to experience, my time dropped from 18h all the way down to 10 minutes.
Challenge not worth doing : all achievements on Rayman Legends. The game itself is amazing, but to get the last achievement you need to play daily procedural levels for MONTHS unless you’re a god at the game (and I’m pretty sure the top times are always cheated anyway, so you’re never getting the highest point reward anytime ever)
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Incredible. Clearly they have learnt something from OSRS being more popular than the main game, I hope they stick the landing.
Having no nostalgia for either, I must say both games are amazing (after hundreds of hours as an adult in both). RS3 has some amazing quests, overall I’d say better than OSRS.
But RS3’s game loop was just kinda bad. So while I prefer its quests, I don’t really enjoy the moments to moment gameplay ; which means in the end OSRS is way more fun, because its quests are only a little bit worse, and its gameplay is light years ahead (specifically because it is literally years behind 🥲 and therefore has none of the “modern” nonsense)
I’m VERY glad for the cosmetics toggle. I’m also glad TH is gone ; it made it so anything besides Ironman wasn’t worth playing (but I don’t really care for non-ironman gameplay so take it with a grain of salt)
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been looking at it from afar and it’s nice to see some people trying to innovate upon the Minecraft formula ; though in this case I think the Hypixel people and I enjoy different things about Minecraft.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 5 weeks ago:
Just make mirror repos.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 5 weeks ago:
As I always comment on this type of post : Go go gadget-o Codeberg !
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 5 weeks ago:
RetroAchievements does call theirs Cheevos in many places, even some folder names, ans possibly in the code too.
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 5 weeks ago:
Exactly what I was thinking.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, I game on a 2011 TV with 25ms latency. The rest of my hardware is really good and fast, but the screen probably hurts my performance a bit ; I’m looking into a replacement.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 1 month ago:
My main issue these days is :
- I am so far below the average level in FPS games that despite SBMM, I am systematically the worst or second worst player in the match, so I get relentlessly stomped on with no chance to improve.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale 1 month ago:
Oh okay, that’s extremely confusing x)
- Comment on Boxing day nightmare 1 month ago:
And the worst part is she probably didn’t get to keep them !
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 month ago:
But do coat hangers hold up to repeated use ?
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
I preorder Indie games, because even if they turn out to be crap I want them to make another one and get better at it !
I relentlessly fuck over AAA publishers by buying keys on resellers, and I have no remorse about it.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale 1 month ago:
And of course the cover picture is two random other actors…
- Comment on Sad, melancholic even. 2 months ago:
There’s a difference between citron and lemon ? As a french speaker this is very confusing, I thought “citron” was just our word for “lemon”
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 months ago:
It’s never going to happen anyway so it doesn’t matter x)
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 months ago:
Oh great, so now even IF the Sims 5 comes out, I have a moral obligation not to buy it…
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 months ago:
If that actually happens and the label becomes redundant, then we can talk about removing it.
Or better, inverting it to a “No AI” label for the people like me who will still care.
Tech bros always act like this : they don’t want to actually win by making a good solution. Instead they try to make you feel like their solution is inevitable and they have already won…
For a group of people who claim to be all about meritocracy and the “marketplace of ideas”, they sure like to short circuit those whenever possible…
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
Ray Tracing is still not good enough and needs “de-noising” which basically just blurs the image.
DLSS is also absolutely horrible for blur. I would rather have a clear pixelated image than an upscaled mess. (And AMD superFX is barely any better)
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
A combined off switch for TAA, Ray Tracing, DLSS, frame generation, and all of that nonsense.
I hate that games now turn to soup when in motion, even with motion blur off.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
If only