De_Narm

@De_Narm@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not you when you're dooming.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because when you’re down in life, nothing quite helps like getting fat, fiabetes and cavities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Continuity. Nothing ever matters with comics. Superman was a communist, a nazi, a zombie, a literal god and everything inbetween. But most commonly, he is about the same he was 50 years ago. Meanwhile I’ve been growing up alongside famous manga characters. I could be following Naruto to this day and he’d be roughly my age at most points.

  Variety. I’m not into comics, I admit, but almost every popular comic I’ve seen is about some kind of superhero. Manga on the other hand have a wide range of topics and target audiences.

  Accessibility. I can read a lot of manga right now. Offical, free and online (at least the most recent chapters). There’s no such thing for comics. And while we’re at it: Manga release at smaller chunks in shorter time intervals, which keeps more attention. Being black and white does help, I’d assume.

  Anime. They are mass produced and serve to promote manga. There is no equivalent with comics and extended media like cartoons or movies and such often follow their own storyline. Assuming I’d be into the MCU, there is no single comic I could read to see exactly what’s next. If I watch a season of Jujutsu Kaisen, I can look up the correct chapter and continue the story seamlessly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there Cozy shooter games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play actual shooter myself, however, both Pokemon Snap games fit your description - might be worth a shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any game with a forced stealth section needs to have it as a warning so you know not to buy crap.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pet peeve of mine, I hate stealth sections. Waiting around just isn’t fun and most stealth sections are just that.

  However, that was years ago. I haven’t encountered one in a long time since I mostly stopped playing AAA games - by now these games are an amalgamation of so many worse design decisions, I almost miss the time stealth sections were my biggest issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First, it’s NEVER right for a person or group of people, regardless of position or occupation, to wish for a company’s death.

  I disagree on a fundamental level. I stopped reading shortly after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamer philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s quite easy, actually. I usually play everything years after release, however, if I’m really into a certain series, I’ll buy it right away. If I don’t care for the wait, I probably don’t care enough about whether or not a sequel is being made.

  Of course that only works if you don’t get hyped easily. I play a lot of games, but usually only 1-2 per year are released within said year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For the sake of adding something new, X is pareto optimal in terms of having both the best and the fewest games.

  • Xenogears
  • Xenosaga (maybe, haven’t played it yet)
  • Xenoblade anything
  • X-COM anything

  I’d probably be content with only playing games from the Xeno- meta-series alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything Dragon Quest needs to be on the list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day -6 of posting a screenshot from a game I've been playing until I also forget to post screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite loving the genre overall, I bounced off KoA multiple times. Maybe it’s time to give it yet another go. I just wasn’t in the mood for MMORPGS - which the IP should have become iirc -, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about random encounters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come around to really liking them. In short, they vastly improve dungeons in my opinion.

  Most RPGs don’t manage to create interesting battles outside of boss fights. Heck, an increasing amount of RPGs fails to create any kind of challange. However, random encounter can add another layer to dungeons: resource management. You have to plan out how to tackle fights in order to get through the dungeons with your limited items/MP - do you sacrifice more HP or do you go for your strongest attacks? How much exploration can you get in? Do you need to be extra careful and plan for stronger rare encounters? Maybe even plan around lvl up healing.

  Sadly, this layer is easily removed. Overworld encounter? Just dodge everything. Adjustable encounter? Grind just enough, go heal and disable encounter. Non-challanging fight? Just use basic attacks. Healing stations? No need to plan anymore. Ideally, the dungeons provides no healing at all - especially not before encountering the boss.

  If you’re interested in a game with great dungeons, I’d recommend every single Etrian Odyssey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I on the right Wikipedia...?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly enough, I’ve only looked for a few seconds and already found a similar edit to this exact page. At the very least you’ve got some good patriotic brainwashing going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting for a reason to get a PS5 at all, everything I’ve been interested still got released on PS4 too - except for one single game.

  I really don’t care for better specs anymore, I probably couldn’t even tell PS4 and PS5 games apart without a side-by-side comparison. Not to mention, to see a difference at all I’d need a new TV on top of the console. Not gonna happen anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While they most certainly suck, so do most other people. As long as there will be a secondary market online someone will scalp tickets. Whether that’s some random asshole or these organized assholes hardly matters in most cases.

  Of course with random assholes doing the scalping there is still a chance to get a cheap one by being faster, albeit a very slim one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, basically yes to every question. Those all amount to waste and that is always a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨. . .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat less pizza then instead of wasting food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar 3 is officially titled "Avatar: Fire and Ash"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’ve already seen the movie just by reading the title, at least if the plot is as simple as the first one. Never saw rhe second one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer RPGs or FPS games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RPGs, specifically turn-based or strategy ones. Action is sometimes fine too. I like stuff with complex battle mechanics and tons of customisation/planning - anything that gets the brain working is fun, really.

  I don’t like FPS in general. I’ve only completed Borderlands 2 an Fallout: New Vegas. I don’t like the perspective and the gameplay often feels dull to me. I don’t feel stimulated by them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I surrender, this time around I didn’t even know you could shorten William to Bill. Next up someone’s telling me Donald is short for Ottobertifurz - honoring his fake german roots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew that Joe could be short for Joseph, it just never occured to me you guys would address the president of all people with a short form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking News!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the post I found out he’s not literally named ‘Joe’. Would be even more embarassing if I was american, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming back to a western open world game H:FW after Elden Ring is a massive whiplash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a similar experience of first finishing the DLC and then going into God of War (2018). While not open world, it’s the same type of AAA soup you get from most big studios. There are so many baffling design decisions, I cannot fathom why people love the game so much - the constant barrage of stories and small talk is the most engaging thing in there.

  The combat is utterly boring. Increasing the difficulty only results in spongy enemies. Their move sets are boring at best and annoying at worst. They are all but helpless if you just keep them at a distance and throw your axe.

  Upgrades are meaningless. Early on, you unlock a smith. I got my axe from 5 to 40 damage. Guess what? The very next enemy took the same amount of hits as the same type of enemy did before.

  Traversing is mechanically boring. Climbing just means you gotta follow the yellow markings - press in the right direction or do the indicated button press. You literally cannot fall. Everything else is just walking from combat area to combat area.

  The game throws an endless barrage of puzzles at you, none of which are engaging. They are so watered down, there’s barely much more thinking involved than in climbing.

  Even worse, major upgrades are placed in “puzzle” chests. The puzzle? Well, just walk around and rotate your camera for several minutes until you’ve found all three runes.

  The game basically just feels like a very long cutscene with a lot of padding so you can press some buttons. You can play it just fine, but they removed everything that could make any one system interesting in favor of having nothing in there a player could be stuck at. I like the characters, but I’m better served just watching a cutscene compilation for the second one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yesterday in Kroger (a supermarket for you non-Americans) I saw a bunch of cans of potato salad. Why would someone buy canned potato salad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived in both regions and both versions are strictly inferior to a potatoe salad based on mustard (+ oil and broth). The vinegar version uses a bit of mustard, but I’m speaking of mustard being the main ingredient. Naturally, I’m hated by both sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given this data, I think I can reasonably predict that lyrics of pop songs in about 20 or 30 years will mostly consist of cursing. Maybe even sooner given my personal impression of pop songs repeating their lines more often each decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis breaks 25% of the law.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His pockets are only in two states each. He may be in physical possession of illegal drugs for that one state, but the drugs themselves may not be there. How would that be ruled?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just always assumed the song was about Woodstock, simply because it was during the summer of '69. You made me look it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for checking! I’ll keep an eye on it and may give it a try with the option enabled. I honestly never even checked whether or not Hades I has something like this, maybe I should do that do - I’m still a bit bothered I had to stop after only 4 successful runs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II is now available in Steam Early Access!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to play it, but the first one caused a major tendonitis flare up - I shouldn’t risk it. The Poseidon dash boon was just too good, but that always meant a full 30 minute run of just hammering one button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your move, China.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of people still use the other confederate flag, so I guess this one kinda counts too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did your taste in movies change over time? How did it evolve from your 20s, to your 30, 40's and beyond?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it did change but I’m only around 30. I’ve always liked movies that make you think somewhat, have some major twist or are just plain funny.

  Think stuff like The Prestige, Moon, Ex Machina, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Knives Out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💤💤⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old enough to remember this comic, back when it had text in the 4th panel explaining the joke. Then people collectively decided it’s better without that.