PonyOfWar
@PonyOfWar@pawb.social
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 2 days ago:
Welcome back! BTW, there was some user wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: pawb.social/post/33129287
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 1 week ago:
That does sound like an interesting scenario. I guess the big challenge here will be getting the actual self driving implemented and approved across manufacturers. Also, if we had that, couldn’t the car just as easily connect to a physical docking port of some sort? But I guess a wireless charging pad would be more friendly to various car shapes.
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 1 week ago:
Good point. Personally, I haven’t actually encountered a charger that was vandalized to a point where it didn’t work though. And I’m not sure whether these are more or less prone to have technical issues compared to regular cable chargers.
- Comment on Wireless EV charging hits 90% efficiency in Swiss real-world trials 1 week ago:
Cool, but 10% still seems like a lot for the small convenience of not having to spend 10-20s connecting a cable. Doesn’t seem worth it to me.
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Review Thread 1 week ago:
I’m 2 hours in and I’m really enjoying it. Visuals and soundtrack are fantastic. Gameplay is mostly classic Metroid Prime so far. Story seems a bit formulaic (Collect X of object Y to escape the planet). Despite what some people have said I don’t find it overly handhold-y, especially for a Nintendo game. The first major NPC you meet, Myles, is a tad annoying but not as bad as some of the previews made it seem.
- Comment on Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method' 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s pretty cool. The game does have a lot of pre-written dialogue as well, so it’s just an additional interaction you can have with NPCs. It also does require a detailed backstory, motivations, personality etc to be written for each NPC you can chat with, so I wouldn’t exactly call it lazy.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 weeks ago:
I was recently discussing Farcry 2 with some friends and how cool the fire spread system was - And how it essentially was never used again after that title.
In case you didn’t know, Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have a very similar fire spread system.
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 2 weeks ago:
I think the author might be interpreting a bit too much into Sean’s words here. “In the background” could just mean out of the eye of the public and he said it’s another tiny team, not necessarily smaller than the NMS one which he also calls tiny in the same post. Hello games is a pretty small studio. LNF could easily still be years away, but I don’t think Sean’s comment here tells us anything either way.
- Comment on Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Now that’s a game I haven’t thought about in a while. I backed the game in 2013 and played it for 100+ hours in beta, but dropped it shortly after 1.0 because I didn’t like many of the fundamental changes they introduced. How is the game these days? Maybe I’ll join and give it another try.
- Comment on How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club? 2 weeks ago:
Why do you want to get into a horror game in the first place, if you don’t handle horror games well? I don’t see how that could work, as shocking and horrifying the player is kind of the whole shtick of the game.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 2 weeks ago:
At this point my phone from 2022 is way overpowered for every use case I have for it. So why upgrade? It was a bit different years ago, when new phones actually did exciting new things older phones couldn’t do. But now the technology has pretty much matured, and upgrades are incremental at best.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve played Ultros recently and thought it was really cool and unique.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Huh, didn’t expect that to ever be a thing. I never played the original GW campaign, only Factions and Nightfall, so I guess this will be a good opportunity for me to finally play it.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 4 weeks ago:
Potentially it could also be something behind the screen. That could even explain the spot moving if there’s some sort of loose component inside the TV that has moved around over time. Pure speculation though.
- Comment on TV has a burn-in image that has moved over time 4 weeks ago:
They could be pressure marks. Maybe you or someone else bumped the TV screen with some object?
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 month 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 month ago:
It’s The Outer Worlds 2.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
It plays games.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition & Free Update – Announcement Trailer 1 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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] 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
…in the US. 22 games world-wide. They’ve already released a few originally Japan-only titles on the other Switch Online apps.