Katana314
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- Comment on Marvel Snap Team Seeks New Publisher to Avoid Future U.S. Bans 5 hours ago:
Strange that they suffered a review bomb. As routine, gamers don’t really follow the actual cause of events/actors that get in the way of their games.
I want to hope this leads to some shift where fewer games are run by Chinese publishers, but in current momentum I doubt that will happen.
- Comment on Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled 12 hours ago:
I vaguely remember The Matrix had an MMO that apparently evolved the lore in some crazy ways. And I’m going to guess they abandoned that for the new one.
- Comment on They just don't understand 3 days ago:
I wish there was a way to test this without spending 50 bucks. My results have simply been that the resulting signal is just as unreliable as WiFi.
- Comment on They just don't understand 3 days ago:
I have a bunch of useless phone jacks in several rooms of my house, and I’m wondering how much this would cost me. I took a look at the housing behind them and it doesn’t seem like anything I could convert myself, so it seems like a qualified electrician job…
- Comment on All the Games Reportedly Set for Release on Nintendo Switch 2 - IGN 6 days ago:
I could in some ways understand their pursuit of emulators when they’re monetizing those same games currently (even if I disagree with their pricing structure on them). What really got my goat was when they went after Garry’s Mod animations, a medium that has promoted their visibility and never conflicted with their software sales in the slightest.
- Comment on Do you wish that you could recycle games? 1 week ago:
This is exactly my worry.
Suppose that on some level, this was possible. You wouldn’t see nice, cozy instances of people who’ve finished their old collection selling them to low-income folks that just got their first Steam Deck. You’d put some games on sale for $10, and an automated Python script would automatically buy them and put them back up for sale for $49.98, one cent less than the new copies being sold.
When literally every single digital copy of a game is “equivalent”, the used games market just doesn’t make sense - although there’s a hundred third-party sites that would like it to work that way so they can take their un-earned cut.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 1 week ago:
One retro game that I think hasn’t really been well-imitated since is called The Last Express. You’re on the last major express train through Europe before World War I.
What sets it apart is both a very vivid art style using rotoscoping of live actors, as well as a real-time gameplay system wherein the NPCs of the train can constantly move around, scoot past you in the car hallways, or even seek you out during certain key events.
- Comment on Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions? 1 week ago:
I have generally found roguelikes to be too difficult, so if you want a turn-taking, strategic one that leans into the easier side while letting you set up many ridiculous combinations, I enjoy “Backpack Hero”. You get a Resident Evil 4 styled inventory screen, and must arrange/place items for an optimal build. You generally get rewarded for stacking similar items.
- Comment on Nintendo will reportedly reveal Switch 2 this week | VGC 1 week ago:
Flagging videogamedunkey to add this prediction to his next planned 2028 video about “the upcoming Switch 2”
- Comment on Daily inspo 😘 1 week ago:
Off-humor, if anyone wants another “inspiring female character” that doesn’t achieve it with a mix of sexy/masculine-badass, watch Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Nausicaa is charming, thoughtful, kind to everyone, as well as her adventurous and brave personality being the only hope of stopping a pointless and deadly war.
- Comment on Negotiations over AI are still holding up video game development - Mass Effect's Jennifer Hale explains why 1 week ago:
That’s my thinking. I can imagine a live service game needing about 10 new lines from a character every few months, and depending on the hassle of recording studios, AI could be great for that - IF it can be set up in such a way that its use is only applied with permission of the actor who created the voice. They’d also have the right to refuse AI voicing for that session, provided they give a reasonable plan for in-person recording.
- Comment on Geforce Now brings AAA gaming to Meta Quest 3 1 week ago:
Even if I enjoyed a lot of that game, I feel sad that it often felt small-scope; tight hallways, no “canal/highway” type sequences, and only three guns. You don’t even use the gravity gloves in the innovative ways you use the gravity gun.
- Comment on Geforce Now brings AAA gaming to Meta Quest 3 1 week ago:
- Comment on *cough cough* GOLLUM *cough cough* 1 week ago:
I mean, let’s try it based on the gut check, based on a fictional billionaire.
“That bastard passed a bill that lets him appropriate community funds to repair his six - SIX mansions while the community suffers. And you know what’s almost as bad? He’s BLACK.”
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 1 week ago:
Anecdote alert: I mean, I went to Mint thinking this to be true. The first release I tried didn’t even support my (years old) WiFi drivers, and then the second couldn’t run levels in Hitman. (Bazzite did, however, so distro apparently matters)
- Comment on The Death of Gaming YouTube: How Money Killed Authenticity 1 week ago:
I used to enjoy Gmod/SFM animations, but that content naturally takes months of work for people to put out. That was okay because there were dozens of amateurs always releasing their own things; but now, the trend is for weekly or even more frequent videos, which means animators need to rush to put out trendy 8 second shorts, switch to low-effort mediums like Let’s Plays, or just stop getting visitors entirely.
Every so often, I find a great animator that’s sitting in the last category getting their detailed animations quashed, and I get to see the 3 videos they’ve put out in the last 5 months; still wish YouTube could put them in my recommendations.
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumored To Launch In 2026 With New Call Of Duty 2 weeks ago:
At this point what would make the most sense is an “Xbox Series Z” for people that want higher-performing games. I just don’t see thousands of people buying another $600 console for like 5 games, when most will continue to support the Xbox One. (Yes, Xbox One - most games on the front page of their store still support their old console)
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 weeks ago:
Hard to say what’s the absolute best one, but some highlights:
Finale of Ace Attorney Justice for All; when you finally have the change in circumstances needed to pin the real killer and send them into a genuine panic.
Pizza Tower, final boss third phase: When Peppino sees that Pizza Face is sending him a Boss Rush, and flips his shit, annihilating each boss at lightning speed.
Ghost Trick, Phantom Detective: The final “4 minutes before death”, and multiple last revelations
Most of these are memories of story-driven moments nailed in by very solid soundtracks, which has very much convinced me how important music is to these games.
- Comment on Playing Tunic first time 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember there being any textual dialog in the game except for a few portions of the manual, so I’m not sure what you mean with the central temple. Its main activation comes from both towers, and as someone said, the first simply requires a short trip through a forest and beating a large guard; but the second requires a VERY long path.
West Tower
(Assuming north is up/left and south is down/right) You’ll be slowly working your way south down the hill of the main region (not on the first stairs you came up) to unlock more of it and find your shield. But, the path to the west tower requires you to actually travel west past the edge of the first map, out into a wetland area with thin walkways. There’s another boss before you can reach the tower itself.
- Comment on The voice actor of the GMan just posted this promising cryptic HL3 rumor 2 weeks ago:
Valve used to do ARGs for some of their major releases. It’ll be kinda sad if there’s just not enough energy around for people to figure out their puzzle pieces here.
- Comment on Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description? 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure even if the Steam store doesn’t do it, there are tools to search Steam that can exclude tags, right?
- Comment on IGN Brazil Interview: 'Final Fantasy VII Rebirth' sales don't disappoint but they can't be exclusive to a single console anymore 3 weeks ago:
Seems like for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle it will be under half a year.
- Comment on IGN Brazil Interview: 'Final Fantasy VII Rebirth' sales don't disappoint but they can't be exclusive to a single console anymore 3 weeks ago:
ah yes, port the billion dollar decades old high-fidelity engine that carefully manages memory to java, a language minecraft struggled to break free from to achieve any meaningful performance or mobile porting options. thank you, no one thought of that before.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima regarding OD and Physint: In the second half of the year, scanning and filming were suspended due to the SAG strike. 3 weeks ago:
Glad to see that strikes are having an effect.
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 3 weeks ago:
Game bundles like from Fanatical are a good start. You can’t return them if you have issues, but they’re great if you haven’t played any of the offerings given.
A similar thing would be Xbox Game Pass, but that very much locks you into their ecosystem, and they’re clearly done investing into worthwhile games.
- Comment on Video game journalist Jason Schreier's top 10 games of 2024 list 3 weeks ago:
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth looks really good. I can’t wait until it’s done so I can play it.
- Comment on Caught in 4K 3 weeks ago:
It annoys me that gamers always ask for something new, and then only get excited during Game Awards/E3 when they think a trailer is for some kind of sequel.
“Oh. Prince of the Urban Night? A creative new world inspired by yada-yada…darn. I thought it’d be Half Life 3.”
- Comment on Pictured: 95% of gameplay in Payday 2's Death Sentence difficulty [Day 29] 3 weeks ago:
It’s weird and unrealistic to fight armies, but I like when a game gives you more enemies, or more aggressive enemies, rather than bullet sponges. One hit kills are just so satisfying. Hitting an enemy perfectly in the head with a sniper rifle and getting nothing, then needing to rechamber, makes you wonder why you get up in the morning.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
Previously, I had mused over vague ideas about whether blockchain technologies could go into a “proof of real person” system, by one-way-hashing information used to verify only basic details about a person. Eg: They exist, are a unique person, and are over a certain age. Ideally, it could be set up in a way that cannot easily correlate them between company databases.
That said, no real need to poke holes in the idea, because…that was the easy part, and it will probably never happen (or be far more draconian than I describe)
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 3 weeks ago:
In most contexts, you’d just say…”people”.
Or, if you’re actually trying to make a demographic-wide statement, like how women aren’t good at video games, you’d just say:
“IGNORE ME, I AN A SEXIST MORON.”
Basically, the meme isn’t much meant for the word choice, it’s how often incels have statements to make on half the population.