BreadstickNinja
@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 May Be Getting Banned in Saudi Arabia 1 day ago:
Can you use a VPN to spoof a different location, or would your payment details prevent that from working?
The high seas are always a last resort if you have no other options.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev Larian Says Its 'Full Attention' Is on Its Next Game, 'Media Blackout' for the Foreseeable 6 days ago:
Going quiet, heads down, focusing on the product instead of the hype. Larian doing it right.
- Comment on Builders of Egypt, a 3D city-builder set in ancient Egypt with beautiful graphics, released on Steam (demo available) 1 week ago:
We city builder fans have been spoiled recently! This looks cool.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 5 weeks ago:
Still has 96% recent and 96% overall positive reviews and an “overwhelmingly positive” overall rating.
I don’t think they’re making much of a dent. The article is pretty unclear though on why Chinese gamers are mad, other than that there was a possible “dodgy translation.”
- Comment on The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024 5 weeks ago:
I booted it up recently, and it holds up really well. It hits a perfect balance of narrative and action while largely avoiding repetitive fetch quests and the like. And both of the DLC are excellent - Hearts of Stone has the best plot line in the game while Blood and Wine has the most beautiful locations.
- Comment on The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024 5 weeks ago:
I sure hope CDPR is up to the task. Witcher 3 is one of the greatest games ever made, but I’ve been burned by Blizzard into knowing that a great trailer doesn’t portend a great game.
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 1 month ago:
You wanted to go down; I wanted to go up. I was so annoyed when I finally realized there’s no way up to those amazing skyscraper walkways in the downtown. Those buildings are just blocks with no entrance.
I figured that as you moved up in the world eventually that whole area would become accessible, but it’s just decoration.
I didn’t hate it. Maybe a 6.5/10 game with some cool moments. But it felt like the corners they cut would have been the coolest parts of the game.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah, super shocked he took a break from saying dumb regressive shit about gaming to say dumb regressive shit about Palestine.
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 3 months ago:
It’s considered doom metal or stoner metal. Metal has a huge number of related subgenres. Sludge metal has more screaming. Stoner metal has more guitar riffs. Doom metal is like stoner metal, but heavier and with lyrics about Dungeons and Dragons.
- Comment on Timberborn Update 6 - Wonders of Water is live! 3 months ago:
Time to lose another hundred hours!
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 3 months ago:
Dopethrone by Electric Wizard
- Comment on Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting a AAA RPG With Saber Interactive and Paramount Game Studios - EXCLUSIVE 3 months ago:
And so the cycle of hype and disappointment begins anew. The unending samsara of the Avatar fandom.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 3 months ago:
I bet at first it seems like multiple consultancies, but the more they investigate, the more they realize it’s just minor variations on one consultancy copy-pasted around the map, and at a certain point, investigating each one just feels same-y and boring.
- Comment on Sea of Stars – Throes of the Watchmaker DLC – Indie World Showcase 8.27.2024 4 months ago:
In my opinion, the game runs out of steam about halfway through, so the issue may not be on your end.
It started really strong but it felt like a lot of the initial promise didn’t pay off.
Still a decent game, maybe a 7/10. Just not as great as I hoped it would be after the first couple of hours.
- Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online 4 months ago:
I’ve always said, if you’re going to stare at someone’s ass for the next 200 hours…
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong launches to almost 1.5 million concurrent players 4 months ago:
So if I posted a review saying that Black Myth: Wukong is as badass as when Rosie the Riveter invented COVID in a Chinese lab, would they be upset?
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 4 months ago:
Alien Resurrection on PSX was the first game to use the dual-stick control scheme. Halo came out more than a year later.
Funnily, it was reviewed poorly at the time: Image
- Comment on Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware 5 months ago:
Blizzard swore off local multiplayer after what happened with StarCraft esports. The Korean leagues ran huge tournaments and made a ton of money off Blizzard’s IP and essentially told them to pound sand. Now everything has to go through their servers so they control the ecosystem.
Same with how Blizzard now owns every custom game you make. They learned their lesson with DOTA/LOL and feel like all that money should be theirs.
All of which seems to indicate that this is a real problem. People can play Brood War forever, but what happens when the SC2 servers go down?
- Comment on Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.13 5 months ago:
A bunch of the ones I was missing were pot carriers near the starting area, haha. I got all the hard ones and missed the gimmes.
A couple of the last ones would be extremely challenging to find without a guide, though not impossible.
- Comment on Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.13 5 months ago:
I did the same, had +20 blessing but otherwise no summons or ashes. Still took four hours of grinding before I got the run. I did use a black steel shield +4 which negates holy damage, though you can still run out of stamina. Tough fight.
- Comment on Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.13 5 months ago:
This patch probably makes that fight slightly easier since some of the changes are buffs to that fight’s summons as well as standard ashes and revered ash bonuses.
If you are 1v1ing him then you may not get any relief, haha.
- Comment on ‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive 6 months ago:
Damn I hate having options
- Comment on ‘Death Occurs in the Dark’: Indie Video Game Devs Are Struggling to Survive 6 months ago:
As I get older I find I just don’t even have the time for AAA games. Other than Elden Ring, I haven’t played a AAA game in goodness knows how long. 80-100 hours of playtime is basically a year-long commitment.
I love that there are so many indie games that offer a more compact experience and seem easier to put down and pick back up. Much more my speed these days.
I agree though that we’re at a point of oversaturation. Steam is full of shovelware and barely discernable clones of crafting-survival games. But I hope the studios doing interesting work are able to survive this period so we can continue to benefit from their creativity.
- Comment on Stay Mad 6 months ago:
My trans friends are what keeps me committed to voting Biden no matter how disappointed I am in him. Things are already really scary for them right now and I can’t be complicit in making them worse, even through inaction.
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 6 months ago:
My S10e is cracked but only all over the backplate. Which is also no longer really attached to the phone. I’m driving this thing into the ground.
- Comment on Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots? 7 months ago:
Agreed, the drops under the tongue are a lot easier to do at home than the needles. Though I’m not sure about delivery - for whatever reason my allergist always required me to pick them up in person from his office. Not sure if that’s regulation or just a quirk of that one practice.
- Comment on What would happen to your body if you only ate 750g of 2% cottage cheese every day for a month? 7 months ago:
You are not permitted hot coffee, warm milk, or a yogurt drink. You are permitted 750g of cottage cheese, each day, for a month.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 7 months ago:
The humor reminds me of early reddit. Very needy. Lots of Star Trek, Stargate and Linux. Of course there are a lot of differences too, but it does feel a little closer to the original techie reddit base.
- Comment on Is the 'rise of retail theft' problem in America overblown? 1 year ago:
Thanks to both of you. Damn.
Workers in the US have an estimated $50bn-plus stolen from them every year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, surpassing all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined. The majority of these stolen wages are never recovered by workers.
Not surprised, honestly, but I’d never heard that comparison before.
- Comment on Is the 'rise of retail theft' problem in America overblown? 1 year ago:
What’s the source on this? Want to explore it and share with a couple people.
