grinning_serpent
@grinning_serpent@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rahasya is now available on Steam, A psychological horror game inspired by 1992 India 1 day ago:
Give it credit for trying to expand the Amnesia format. Hopefully the reactive monster is a bit more developed than in Alien Isolation, where the xenomorph largely just started camping when it knew the player was nearby.
Fail states for these kinds of games are really tricky to get right. The game quickly becomes frustrating instead of frightening if the monster is too difficult to avoid or evade, but a monster that’s just glorified set dressing also ain’t very scary.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Seems like there’s no horror block this year, which is pretty disappointing. Horror games appear to be spread out throughout the event rather than concentrated in a single block. Maybe there weren’t enough runners that could attend?
- Comment on [OC] Anon is a femcel 1 week ago:
What’s that got to do with the price of tea in China? Stop posting made-up nonsense.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 1 week ago:
This is also 3+ years old. 2023 isn’t 2026.
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 1 week ago:
Is it possible to use VPNs to fool it? I feel like someone has probably solved this issue.
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 1 week ago:
Steam Deck is a terrible deal at its current price. Several hundred dollars for a zen2 system? Are you insane?
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 1 week ago:
Is the Switch 2 unable to use standard microSD cards? They make you buy some proprietary card?
- Comment on Is the Switch 2 a waste of money? 1 week ago:
Switch 2 is great if you already have a lot of Nintendo games.
It, like all consoles, is terrible if you don’t. It’s probably the best option for handheld gaming if an Android-based device isn’t sufficient, however.
It’ll also depend on how much you care about their exclusives. If you just gotta have Zelda, you don’t have a choice. I don’t care about Zelda, though, so I haven’t owned anything from Nintendo since the GameCube.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
No one actually wants physical media other than collectors and preservationists, and the latter can just write digitally obtained files to storage after the fact.
Modern games are very bloated, and even optimized 4K textures still take up a lot of space. We’re past the point where discs are remotely feasible as a way of efficiently storing games.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Just in time for the Code Veronica remake. Maybe it’ll be a launch title.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Not really end of an era, you’re just witnessing a monopoly forming since Xbox is pretty much dead in the water. I guess it’s technically a duopoly since Nintendo is fine, but Nintendo kinda does its own thing without regard to what others do. Basically, with Xbox out of the picture, Sony is free to do whatever it wants.
- Comment on I'm loving zelda-like souls-likes right now 1 week ago:
I really like the burrow move. Dodge rolls tend to be extremely OP in anything souls inspired. Players don’t really need to properly understand the enemies because they get a pretty healthy amount of iframes with minimal startup and sometimes even no cost at all. It’s definitely something that needs adjusting to and you’ll get your shit slapped a lot if you’re used to souls style dodging. There are trinkets that make your mercy invincibility and stuff better but I’m honestly not a huge fan of how they do trinkets. Too many of them have a “why isn’t this just default?” feel to em.
- Comment on I'm loving zelda-like souls-likes right now 1 week ago:
Living in a van down by the river, obviously!
- Comment on I'm loving zelda-like souls-likes right now 1 week ago:
Just be more cautious about how you word things in the future.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
At the S tier level it’s both strategy and speed. Lower than that, as in like over 99% of players, strategy is more important than anything else.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
If you think Nestle is just shitty chocolate, that’d explain a few things here.
- Comment on I'm loving zelda-like souls-likes right now 1 week ago:
You literally called the game unfair and then suggested that your difficulties weren’t your fault. That’s not an opinion, that’s blaming the developer. Maybe you were just stating your opinion, but the wording isn’t you expressing a simple opinion, it’s making a statement.
- Comment on I'm loving zelda-like souls-likes right now 1 week ago:
What are you on about?
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
I’m talking about how surprisingly complex it is to avoid a diversified corporation, using Nestle as an example. Is this really that hard to follow?
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
Might give CULTIC a try, then. It’s essentially a Build engine game along the lines of Blood with large maps that typically allow for some degree of nonlinearity and exploration. You end up with quiet periods of sneaking around and exploring to break up the combat segments.
Otherwise I’d say you can’t hardly beat the new Wolfenstein games. Varied gameplay, an actually decent plot, and when has shooting Nazis not been as American as apple pie? The first one hasn’t aged as well as the second on PC though. I get occasional frame drops and other oddities, but I suppose that could be an Intel drivers thing. Those idTech engines haven’t aged super great.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
Yeah. Gabe Newell wasn’t wrong when he said he believed piracy was a service problem. Hell, I’d be giving Nintendo regular income if I could buy official ROMs for games I had legal copies of as a kid at a reasonable price and without needing to buy into the Switch ecosystem. I don’t know how you convince executives that they should change their tune, though.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
Yeah, I get that. I’m on the opposite end where I want to be challenged and enjoy the feeling of beating a tough room or encounter. Sadly not all games are balanced well and increasing difficulty might not actually make much difference, in which case you might as well just play on easy.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
We’re talking about food, not games.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
How do you like boomer shooters?
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
Yeah, SC2 and RTS in general is - surprise surprise - about strategy way more than mechanical speed. You’ll see that with people taking a nostalgia trip in AOE2, too. You will eventually reach a point where lack of mechanical speed will hold you back in SC2 but that’s quite literally like the C and B tier professional bracket - you would already be at the point of being able to win a free dinner here and there in tournaments.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
No real difference. Kind of a shit patch overall but I respect the effort. If they actually cared about the game’a economics they could have just re-read the essay written about it over at TL during the LotV beta. But Blizzard almost never admits fault, unfortunately.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
The odd ways players come up with to communicate without text is definitely an endearing part of the design!
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
I mean, generally in those games you’ll pick up exactly where you stopped. You just have to take the extra step of quitting to the menu.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
Difficulty doesn’t really have anything to do with story. Playing games on easy can even rob you of the enjoyment of the full gameplay mechanics. Noah Caldwell-Gervais’ recent video covering RE4R and RE9 is a good example, where some of their conclusions regarding gameplay design were only because they typically play on easier settings. Some of the things in question make more sense or have stronger legs when the game’s played on a reasonably challenging setting.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
Tribes Ascend had at least two periods where it was good bordering on great and Hi-Rez fucked it up both times.
That company’s sheer incompetence is noteworthy. Global Agenda had serious first-mover potential and they bungled that too.