PonyOfWar
@PonyOfWar@pawb.social
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 14 hours ago:
It’s too big when the developers are unable to fill it with enough interesting things to do and discover to keep my attention. But there’s no absolute size I’d automatically consider too big, as it also depends on things like traversal. If you ride through the map on a mech going 400km/h, it can be much larger and more spread out than if I have to traverse the entire map on foot.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 day ago:
I’ve only gotten like 1.5 hours in so I can’t really say yet, but so far it feels similar to the first one with some improvements to stuff like gunplay.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 day ago:
It’s the main menu. Pretty fun idea, but from what I’ve played of the actual game so far, it isn’t nearly as creative or meta unfortunately.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 day ago:
It’s The Outer Worlds 2.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
It plays games.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
This is a massive free content update for a 5 year old game and a $5 update for Switch 2 owners who want higher resolutions and more online features. No reason to desperately try and find something to complain about just because it’s Nintendo.
- Comment on My AYN Thor 1 week ago:
Yeah. I mean Crysis had been out for 3 years already. N64 graphics seemed ancient at that point.
- Comment on Anyone else disappointed by Steam's current Next Fest? 2 weeks ago:
Yes! It’s the Demon Turf devs, so it’s in competent hands. The demo is quite fun. Also filled with self-aware references to Bubsy’s… colorful past.
- Comment on Anyone else disappointed by Steam's current Next Fest? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve found some good stuff (Bus Bound, Bubsy 4D), but none of it through the actual Steam Next Fest store page. That indeed seems to be overloaded with low-effort crap.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t really noticed any change personally. What game was it btw? Having a positive experience with a game that is being negatively reviewed doesn’t necessarily mean it was review bombed. Especially when it comes to bugs and technical issues, which often won’t affect every single player.
- Comment on 📚 Ruminating on eReaders: Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage 4 weeks ago:
For me, trying to read a book on any display that isn’t e-ink is a horrible experience that hurts my eyes pretty quickly. Even more so on a tiny phone screen.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 4 weeks ago:
As with almost all subscription services, the enshittification was inevitable.
- Comment on Is it true Star Citizen players are "melting down" because of the No Man's Sky update or is that just clickbait? 1 month ago:
I haven’t seen any meltdowns, no. Beyond being “Space Games”, they are very different games anyway. Yes, No Man’s Sky has had a very impressive development at an impressive speed, while Star Citizen… hasn’t, but Star Citizen is aiming for a completely different scale of simulation and detail.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
This doesn’t have the head tracking capabilities of the VR kit, as you only insert the Switch which doesn’t have a gyro without the joycons.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
…in the US. 22 games world-wide. They’ve already released a few originally Japan-only titles on the other Switch Online apps.
- Comment on Yoshi and the Mysterious Book - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Not sure I care about the game itself, but the art style is beautiful!
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
I think it’s a fun novelty, but locking the actual software behind the Online+ Expansion pack instead of including it with the (no doubt expensive) accessory is a bit crap.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
That’s fair, but I also don’t see a problem in voicing criticism about aspects of the game I don’t like. Especially if I do like the game as a whole. People should not see that as an attack on their personal enjoyment of the game.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
I like the game, but I definitely think it deserves some criticism. I really don’t get the thinking behind not placing a bench directly in front of every boss arena. The run-backs don’t make the game harder, just more frustrating. It’s also something I disliked in older Souls games, but thankfully they realized the problem and fixed it in Elden Ring. And some mechanics are just baffling, like benches that are locked behind a paywall, which you have to pay every time you want to access the bench. Why on earth would they do this, with currency already being as sparse as it is?
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 1 month ago:
Did you try spelling it with phonetics?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store 1 month ago:
Not quite the same, you can only restore those with your Steam Account. For GOG it’s just an installer for the game, which you can run and install anywhere as many times as you want, without needing any access to your account.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store 1 month ago:
Also on GOG. DRM-free and presumably without the server issues.
- Comment on Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD 2 months ago:
Yes, I played it for 12 hours and quite liked it, but eventually got stuck at some bossfight and moved on to other games.
- Comment on Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD 2 months ago:
That’s a great price. I’m not even on the Silksong hypetrain and fully intended to wait for a discount a few years down the line, but I might just get it for that a few days after release if the reviews are good.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 25th 2 months ago:
I started and finished Herdling all in one go. Nice, relaxed game with a beautiful atmosphere. The mechanics are relatively simple but with the game being so short, they don’t overstay their welcome. There was also a link at the end of the credits sequence which lead to a promotion where you can send the developers a self-addressed envelope and they send you… something back. I did that, so I’m curious what it will be. Expecting stickers though.
I’ve also been playing some Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader. 24 hours in and only scratching the surface, so classic CRPG I guess. The game strikes quite a good balance between story/reading, combat and space exploration.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
- Comment on What game(s) could you not get into but with a handheld device you started to like the game(s) 2 months ago:
Slay the Spire. Never really got into it until I installed it on my Steam Deck.
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 2 months ago:
It was free on EGS back in 2021. Has been sitting in my backlog since then.
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 2 months ago:
Are there any people who even liked shenmue 3?
I haven’t played it yet, but I’ve noticed way more positive opinions online about the game the further we got from its release date. It’s currently 75% positive on Steam and even 92% from recent reviews.
I think the game was way overhyped, but now that people don’t expect it to be some monumental achievement, some actually do like it.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 2 months ago:
I guess we’ll see how that goes, but with similar age verification laws currently being introduced across the US, it seems like it soon won’t make much of a difference.