garretble
@garretble@lemmy.world
- Comment on Official Launch Trailer | Crimson Desert 2 days ago:
Children yearn for the
minesSuperman 64. - Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 4 days ago:
Tell me more about this…puff puff
- Comment on NBA Weekly Game Thread: Mar 09 - Mar 15 5 days ago:
The last few minutes were nuts.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection | Review Thread 5 days ago:
You’re welcome.
And I agree: demos are so few and far between it’s hard to even think about them.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection | Review Thread 5 days ago:
I’m actually curious if any of the reviews talked about the kind of atrocious pop-in this game has - at least in the main castle town you start out in in the demo.
I’m not a “graphics above everything” kinda guy, but when walking through that town you see all kinds of characters pop in at such a short distance it’s jarring - as if it was a 3D Pokemon game (not you, Pokopia, you are perfect).
I tried the demo first on my Switch 2 and saw this behavior. I assumed maybe they had to scale the game back some for the console. But then tried it on PS5 and it was the same.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection | Review Thread 5 days ago:
There is a demo if you are unaware to get a feel for how it plays.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
I feel like Geoff really did a disservice to this game. It might actually could have ramped up some dedicated players and it built out its vision. But Geoff swooping in and saying it’ll be the next, greatest game did it zero favors.
- Comment on It's literally science 2 weeks ago:
I have a Lily58 that I love. I put mine together myself so it’s a big different looking than this one, but it’s the same layout.
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 2 weeks ago:
[x] Doubt
- Comment on Project Windless - Reveal Trailer | PS5 Games 4 weeks ago:
Chicken Little grew up.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19) 4 weeks ago:
I’m not the OP here, but while the DS games are not everyone’s cup of tea, which is fine, I think DS2 is an SS tier game and was my favorite of 2025. This game had me feeling all kinds of big emotions. It’s great. And the gameplay is very tight.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 5 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: Someone can play up through Stormblood without having to buy anything.
But, yeah, I agree. I don’t really want to think about how much I’ve spent on this one game over the last 12 years. But roughly spitballing:
- ARR, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail…I’ll say that’s 6 x $40 (not accurate since I bought special editions for some and moved from PS3 to Pc so that’s an extra cost there, too): $240
- $13/m for 11 years (I’ve played ARR since launch but there have been some times where I turned off my sub for a little bit so I’ll just knock off 12 months): 13 x 12 x 11 = $1,716
- Various Mogstation purchases, roughly $40?
- Total for me with this napkin math: $1,996
Woof. But, I do love the game and spent all weekend playing it just now. So there’s worse things to spend money on.
- Comment on NBA Weekly Game Thread: Jan 26 - Feb 01 5 weeks ago:
Cason Wallace going off. Shai going crazy. Great game.
- Comment on Luka Doncic Is The Worst Defender In NBA History 1 month ago:
I did not!
I actually don’t dislike Luka. He’s obviously a very good player. But I do dislike his little, whiny face he exhibits all the time.
- Comment on Luka Doncic Is The Worst Defender In NBA History 1 month ago:
You’re telling me whining to a ref after every play for a few seconds_ doesn’t_ get stops?
- Comment on Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade 1 month ago:
Man, that’d be sweet.
- Comment on Anthony Davis has sustained ligament damage in his left hand 2 months ago:
This guy.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I have learned this over the last week. I got it on sale just after Christmas and basically spent the whole week playing it.
I think I’ve done like 1 of the main quests and have just been fucking around with side quests. But it’s been so fun.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Too late, I’m fully stuck in on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and I do not have room for anything else in the “big, open world RPG with swords and armor and shit” genre.
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 2 months ago:
I literally finished E33 a couple of hours ago, and while I do think it’s a quality game, I just couldn’t really connect with it on any emotional level. I do like the combat system. It’s fun. But the story just didn’t really grab me. I have friends saying they cried at certain scenes, and I’m just like, “Really?”
Meanwhile I got some fat tears flowing during Death Stranding 2. But everyone is different.
Plus, while E33 has really good art direction, on the PS5 every environment seemed to have this haze going on. And there were lots of weird graphical flashes of artifacts or lighting. The game looks good and also doesn’t in a way. It’s hard to describe.
- Comment on Spurs Defeat Thunder 3rd Time in 2 Weeks 2 months ago:
Thunder are my team, but man they are having a rough go of it.
Good job Spurs. Three good games from them. Really feels like a big leap from them this year.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 2 months ago:
Sad my GOTY Death Stranding 2 didn’t win anything. But oh well. I hadn’t played Clair yet so I stayed it today. It’s good so far. Don’t know if it’ll top my Norman Reedus with a Fetus* yet though.
I actually think it’s time to retire flute guy. I think flute guy has jumped the shark, bringing in pvc pipe whatever instruments that you can’t even hear. You had your time in the sun flute guy.
Overall, I thought the show was OK. They need better pacing on when they are actually giving out awards. It seemed like there was a stretch of an hour where no awards were announced.
And I agree with the whole of the internet that the last trailer was a fat lot of nothing. Sorry to that team for working on a “dead” genre for years. I only say “dead” because by this point everyone has picked their game they like in that genre, and trying to add a new one right now is a terrible idea.
*toddler
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 2 months ago:
Give me some WOODKID performing songs from Death Stranding 2.
I need a good cry.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Honestly, if I was really into AC still I’d be ok paying for the work of some devs of a five year old game if it made some good quality of life upgrades.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 3 months ago:
JJ Abrams?
The Star Wars JJ Abrams?
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 3 months ago:
It’s an older game, but Downwell is fun. Just a little action/arcade game where you fall down a well and try to get combos by not touching the ground by bouncing off of enemies.
- Comment on Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games" 3 months ago:
I feel like this is pretty reductive, really, to blanket all AAA games as one thing that are all bad. Just like all indie games aren’t great. In fact, the vast majority are kinda trash, really.
For every Call of Duty, you can find amazing games like Death Stranding 2 that have insane budgets but swing for the fences (and succeed in my opinion). And on the flip side for every Silksong you have three million, anime-girl-on-the-cover trash indie game.
There’s no “one is better than the other” when comparing the totality of AAA vs indie.
- Comment on [Post Game Megathread] Nov 23-29 3 months ago:
The Thunder really hated they dropped a game to these guys.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 months ago:
I mean, I just need that photo of him in that hat.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 3 months ago:
I see they went with “white Jesus” instead of what he actually looked like.