BreadstickNinja
@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
Maybe Jim was just in a really good mood after all his hair spontaneously grew back. /s
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 week ago:
Completely agree. The whole tone and setting changed. SC:BW went for gritty realism. Obviously, there’s a suspension of disbelief when you’ve got psionic aliens, but it felt like three scrappy factions barely surviving in the endless dark of space.
SC2 went full Warcraft. Ancient gods, portals to other worlds, all the same kitschy fantasy elements that are fine in the campy context of WC but really clashed with the established character of the SC universe. I get that they wanted to raise the stakes in the sequel, but I really disagreed with how they went about it.
And Kerrigan should have stayed evil. That’s my “Han shot first” of the franchise.
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends. 2 months ago:
Bastion is a 6/10 beat-em-up with 10/10 art, music, and voice acting. I enjoyed that game a lot (and still listen to the soundtrack on road trips), but boy does the atmosphere carry the weight of an otherwise average game.
Pretty forgivable since it was their first effort. Hades feels nice and crisp while keeping all the other points strong, too.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 2 months ago:
If I were a betting man, I’d wager this woman spends a lot of time scrolling through right-wing posts on Facebook about the “invasion” of Britain. A Brexit type, if you will.
That’s just speculation in this specific case, but the amount of fear-mongering right-wing content on social media is absolutely a contributor to this kind of worldview more broadly.
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 2 months ago:
The reaction to Clair Obscur has been wild. I had a friend I haven’t talked to since high school - when we were both big Final Fantasy fans - reach out to ask if I’d played it. A bunch of guys at work are talking about it who I didn’t even know were gamers. I hope we see a lot more of these passionate, creative projects and the infrastructure to support them.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 2 months ago:
Yeah, 100%. “Review bombing” suggests that people are leaving disingenuous bad reviews due to some personal or political axe to grind with the developer. This just looks like a game that got a lukewarm reception, but at least the information in the article doesn’t suggest that any review bombing is occurring.
I’m a big Ori fan, and I wish Moon Studios the best. But the games market is oversaturated right now, and it’s a tough time for all indie devs. It doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is out to get them if their game isn’t an overnight success.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
And game companies and media outfits advertise the shit out of them because they drive console sales.
I much prefer to be on Steam, think, “Oh, that looks cool,” then forget about it on my wishlist for two years until it pops up at 80% off.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 3 months ago:
$11,000 over twenty years. Jesus.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 months ago:
Can I ask what distro you’re running? Some of the gaming-focused ones like Bazzite still seem to gather some comments about working better with AMD, though it seems like there are some workarounds. I am resolved to leave Microsoft behind completely at the W11 switch so I’m trying to get my bearings!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 months ago:
Can you elaborate on the incompatibility of the newest GPUs? It looks like Nvidia publishes a Linux driver for the Blackwell series and there are a number of AI applications (like supporting Triton and pysam-based methods) which seem harder to get working on Windows than on Linux.
I’m considering switching over but I hear mixed things about Nvidia support. Some people seem to say it’s a pain to get the drivers working and others seem to think that’s an issue that’s been resolved. Not sure what to think in terms of how difficult the switch would be.
- Comment on Dan Erickson, creator of ‘Severance’: ‘I thought Apple would discourage us from critiquing the capitalist structure, but that never happened’ 4 months ago:
“Your critique of capitalism is selling a lot of subscriptions for us.”
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months 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 months 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) 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 8 months 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. 8 months 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] 9 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 9 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! 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 11 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 11 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 11 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? 11 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.
