the16bitgamer
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- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 3 months ago:
Orchestral my pick is Journey, with Uncharted as a close second
Actiony my pick is Scott Pilgrim vs The World The Game. Love the band.
Retro - Chrono Trigger/Spyro 1-3/Pokemon Ruby Sapphire Emerald.
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 4 months ago:
The
FunkoPop StoreEB Games here in Canada were re-labeled to GameStop recently. They’re still in every Mall in the land from what I’ve seen. Though they are doing better. Game selection isn’t what it use to be, but the variety is growing now. I was surprised when I found Manga in our local GameStop.Not exactly my cup of tea, but catering to “Nerd” culture, and going beyond “Merch” is something I can get behind, since it’s rare to see another store not selling the same old drivel as everyone else.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset 5 months ago:
$500 for a Krabby Patty?
With cheese Mr. Squidward, with cheese.
- Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? 5 months ago:
Atari era/Pre-Windows PC era.
The Atari era is mostly because the games are short and have very little replay value. It’s a fun novelty especially when you see an angry nerd swearing at them on YouTube. But you’d get the gyst of the game after 30 seconds. Or are so confused that you don’t know what to do without the manual… even then it’s not that helpful.
Now for the Pre-Windows PC era, mostly DOS and Commodore. It’s mostly because I don’t have the right mindset to play them, and forcing myself to just makes me not want to hate them. Outside of Police Quest, Wolfenstein 3D, and F29 Retaliator (<- I can’t believe this is on Steam) which I like because they are nostalgic to me, I wasn’t able to get into Civiliation 1, Ultima, SimCity or other giants from the time.
- Comment on Dead Games News: Response from UK Government 6 months ago:
fixed
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- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 6 months ago:
O7
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" UK Petition is Live 7 months ago:
Saw this elsewhere, happy to see it’s already posted. Good luck UK, 6,257 and rising!
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 7 months ago:
Game Boy Zelda is best Zelda.
I love Links Awakening due to nostalgia, but Oracle of Ages is still the longest game I’ve played (since I’ve yet to beat it). Seasons is fine but not my cup of tea, and minish cap is a bit too shaort
- Comment on The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing 8 months ago:
If you’re still considering it, you can get it for like $10-$15 on GOG. Same price of steam but DRM Free, and it’s almost always onsale.
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN 8 months ago:
The controls are “fine” for the most part. If you were on an Xbox controller it would work. Space Battles in Battlefront II are an improvement, but the same treatment was never made to Battlefront 1. If I had to complain about anything, it’s that the auto aim needs to be more sensitive and when you blast an enemy it auto locks on them like the console games. Mouse and keyboard this would be annoying but on controller it’s necessary.
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN 8 months ago:
My guess 4K textures or the 720p switch 🤣
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN 8 months ago:
Ditto, I sadly didn’t go online so no comment there. Well I mean I tried once and I couldn’t connect so I just jumped into instant action. But yeah the storage requirements are a bit unrealistic on Switch. I don’t think you can even play it on OG switch without a Micro SD Card.
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN 8 months ago:
This is a frame, it cleans up in the next. However it is sooooo distracting.
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN 8 months ago:
For those wondering if this is under exaggerated, it’s not. Now my experience is on the Switch.
This issues I saw in my time before I got refunded was as follow. Texture Flickering and Shadow Flickering (hard to see as a screen shot so this is the worse I saw)
Textures that are still in 4:3 and not 16:9
Random Texture floating when they shouldn’t be
The lighting failing on the Bridges on the Naboo Map
And the FMV’s being so compressed you can see the compression artifacting (and this is a game that ~34GB)
- Comment on Physical or Digital? 8 months ago:
I tried to buy physical PC games as recently as 2014, and what i got was a steam code and and 8 DVD’s, and the game still needed a patch to work. So Physical on PC games to me is DRM free. I can put it on my own thumbdrive/USB to make it physical if I wanted it to be.
As for my preference. It depends on the game and deal. If I know I want the game, and I’ll buy it no matter what, then I’ll aim for the DRM Free copy.
Otherwise it depends on the sale. I mean for $3 I don’t mind loosing access to SimCity 3000, $3 is a good price even for limited access. Let alone free.
What I refuse to buy is a offline game like GTA 5 that requires a proprietary launcher and account to even play. Here I will just abandon PC gaming entirely and go to consoles. Rock Star, Ubisoft, EA games in particular I primarily buy on consoles.
- Comment on What games do you recommend to play with a girlfriend 8 months ago:
Hummm easy games. I think it depends of their tastes and what they like to do.
I can think of a few games which might be fun, but perhaps she should watch some lets plays to see if it peaks her interest.
Lil Guardsman is a fun game my SO showed me recently.
Stardew Vally
Potion/crafting games are something else, Potionomics might be fun.
Oh point and clicks might be fun too, but I can think of anything outside of Grim Fandango or Monkey Island
Animal Crossing is always relaxing
My SO and I played Persona 5 together too, I played the game while she was my navigatior who made conversation choices.
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection - Announce Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games 8 months ago:
I wonder what the PC version will be like?
If it’s not the existing 2 PC games which have already been updated to remove GameSpy and add in modern online servers, then cool. If not I hope they make Battlefront 2’s menus controller friendly.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 10 months ago:
Most kindles and kobos with color temp front lights are your best friend.
Kobo Clara 2e or the Kindle 11th Gen should work.
- Comment on I got to play Terra Nil, and here is my two cents on it 10 months ago:
I’m getting back into written reviews. Been doing videos for a while now, but I am backing off due to lack of views/interest. Still wanna get my opinions out.
- Comment on I got to play Terra Nil, and here is my two cents on it 10 months ago:
This. I didn’t even know there was an Android port
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- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
Better question, what was I playing? Since I completed Metroid Fusion in exactly 2 hours according to the in game timer. And since I set up a DS emulator on my Laptop I’ve been playing New Super Mario Bros for the first time in years, as well as replaying Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I don’t see an issue with what the dev did here. It’s not easy to make a unique IP, and making a HD port like this is fine. You just need to be smart about it, like the various reverse engineering projects around.
So long as you aren’t distributing someone else’s copy protected assets, music, art, logos, you are fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Sadly the game being de-listed was inevitable. The same goes with this eventually.
The proper way of doing this would’ve been to have the code for the game, but use the ROM to get you the art assets. I am certain there are tools available to do this either before the game runs, i.e. have the user extract the data. Or have it at run time, like loading the ROM in an emulator.
It wouldn’t have been easy to do, but it would prevent Nintendo from going after them, since they are not using Nintendo’s assets.
- Comment on Recommend a game for me to play with my partner 11 months ago:
A weird one if your SO is a fan of anime. Persona 5.
My SO loved playing with me since they had all the guides and stuff ready to min max the game while I did the heavy lifting. It’s a different type of 2 player game, like a Driver and Navigator while driving.
- Comment on [Discussion] Ubisoft Connect on the Deck 11 months ago:
Lutris has many functions, but what I use it for is a non-steam game Wine/Proton manager.
Basic principle of how Steam runs Windows games on Linux. Steam uses a modified version of Wine, called Proton to convert the native windows code to something Linux understands and can run. And has a pre-made Wine environment with all the appropriate files and directories so that when the game installs, it thinks it’s in Windows.
Now Lutris does pretty much the same thing, just without Steam. It too has pre-made Wine environments ready to install games, then with what ever version of Wine or Proton you have installed, you can install the game. For Ubisoft Connect, you aren’t just installing a game to a Wine Environment, you are installing a software manager to a Wine Environment, which can install other games, require software to your Environment, like on Windows.
Another benefit of Lutris is that if a game requires a specific dependency or needs to run with specific files and stuff, there are pre-made installers that will prepare the environment for you. For example here is the Ubisoft Connect install script: lutris.net/games/ubisoft-connect/
Plus since each game is installed to its own environment (except Game Launchers for DRM reasons), it means you can remove a bad environment without deleting all your games. This is a real boon if you buy your games from GOG.
However for the process it’s rather straight forward.
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Find the game you want to install on lutris.net, if it’s not there just download the installer and try to run it.
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Let Lutris install the program
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Try to run the game in Lutris
3a) If it works, right click the game in Lutris and “Add to Steam”
TL:DR Lutris installs Windows games like Steam, and runs them like steam. But it doesn’t limit you to Steam games. Ubisoft Connect, EA App, GOG all work on Lutris to varying degrees of success.
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- Comment on [Discussion] Ubisoft Connect on the Deck 11 months ago:
Couldn’t you just install ubisoft connect and their subsequent with Lutris? And add them to steam via Lutris.
That’s what I’m doing on my Arch install.
- Comment on PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter 1 year ago:
It’s the “share button”. Apparently somewhere in there lets you post to a linked twitter account.
- Comment on PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter 1 year ago:
Not the person you asked, but honestly it’s the most useless button on the controller. I hit it by accident, and want the menu to go away quicker than it took to load in.
