De_Narm
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- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
I’m fuzzy on the details, but it went something like this:
- I set up long resource lines of coal, copper and iron.
- I needed a thing#1 and built a neat little package to build it, exactly to order and on minimal space.
- I copy pasted that design 10 times left to right along my resource belt line.
- Then thing#2 came along. Needed the same stuff and combined with thing#1 into thing#3. So I wrapped my resource belts, designed a second package on minimal space and also copy pasted it 10 times. So I had pairs of thing#1 and thing#2 with a line in the middle to combine them and a belt to collect them. Worked nicely.
Then:
- Coal was replaced by electricity. I had no space for powerlines.
- I got other types of the grab thingies, potentially simplifying my setup.
- Suddenly I got sorting, making my belt setup a waste of space (I had one line per thing/resource).
- All belts needed to be replaced by better belts.
Oh and:
- Thing#4 came along, needing 2 of thing#1 and one thing#2 with some additional resources. Since I built to order, I basically had to start from scratch or severly hamper the production of thing#3. Also, my packages didn’t work anymore without wasting space and/or entirely fucking up resource belt management.
Therefore, I designed stuff from scratch to fit the new requirements.
That’s from the very beginning, but after repeating this pattern a few times, I gave up. Building it non-optimized felt even worse.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
Being on the patient side of things, two games I’ve played in recent years and didn’t enjoy were:
God of War (2018) - it just felt like AAA slop to me. Meaningles upgrades, tons of obvious puzzles at any corner - never throwing in even a single brain teaser, boring combat - the best option was almost always to throw the axe, that thing were you start walking at a snails pace to mask loading and/or play a cutscene and on top of that and of course your god powers being mostly cutscene exclusive. Just your bog standard AAA game with no ‘friction’ - boring.
Factorio - it just feels like work to me. On top of that, going in blind, I just didn’t enjoy building something up just to tear it down again because I’ve unlocked something new changing the requirements. Once again, feels like a job in IT. On top of that, resource patches being limited just gave me the weirdest kind of anxiety despite never actually seeing one run out.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 month ago:
That’s a problem across the board. Assuming AI does establish itself, all it’s training data dries up and we basically stagnate.
Also, in this weird inbetween phase until it is actually good, we’ve already generated so much bullshit that AI trains on the hallucinations of other AIs.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 months ago:
Not at all. It’s perfectly straight and looks healthy, no matter what I do - as long as I wash it every other day.
I only use one of those all in one shampoos and a blow dryer. I don’t even use a comb or brush. Yet, I got quite a few comments about having especially healthy looking hair from woman.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 months ago:
Twice a year. I always go for a short cut and then grow it out until it annoys me.
I never cared about having a consistent look.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 months ago:
Honestly, it would be weird for any industry to start caring about ethics after all this time.
Not an endorsement of AI but a criticism of capitalism.
- Comment on Day 394 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Personally, I don’t care about TLOU, but I don’t think you should be leading with a massive spoiler as the thumbnail. Others might give you a lot of shit for that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That’s just having a friend and is perfectly normal. Your ex has no say in that matter.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 3 months ago:
Take my opinion with a grain of salt, for the most part, I’ve mostly enjoyed games released in the third generation and didn’t touch anything past the seventh. The increasing amount of handholding turned me off and degrading mega evolutions from the once advertised evolution of the gameplay formular to a mere gimmick broke the last straw.
That being said: The Gamecube games hands down. The intro cutscene to Colosseum has more story than some generations did in their entirety and instead of you just stumbling into the plot you are actually an integral part of it. As an added bonus, both games feature final bosses that actually fight back. I think Colosseum is the only Pokemon game I ever struggled in.
Of course, taking everything Pokemon into account, Mystery Dungeon is the only true answer, but I wanted to got with an traditional RPG first.
If you insist on mainline games, you’re probably right about the fifth generation. These games have everything you would need, but the execution itself is fumbled - and it has to be, since they questioned their own franchise at its core. Logically speaking, N is right and everyone else is wrong.
There are some interesting things in other generations, but it usually feels tacked on and isn’t actually relevant for 95% of the game. Like, the sixth generation had some nice ideas - but they are mostly implied or retold, without you having any urgency in the matter. Once again why I chose the GC games, two of the few games with you being part of the plot. In the early mainline games, you mostly happen to be there when story happens, in the later games, you sometimes only get told that story happens somewhere.
- Comment on Current fit in the Witcher 3, anything I should be on the lookout for? 4 months ago:
Yes, there’s a main story event in the DLC with the single best piece of equipment - the Professor’s spectacles. Buy them, it’s your only chance!
- Comment on I require nothing more 4 months ago:
Ain’t no home with enough open space for all kinds of push ups! If you’re daring, you could even do other exercises too!
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 5 months ago:
I don’t think they truly understand their audience. Everything before the end game is just a tutorial in MH. Yet, they usually ship the end game with the DLC .
Then again, it sells anyways.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t have expected anything else. The two types of people I’ve mostly seen buying the Switch 2 are those who are really into Mario Kart and those who are into Pokemon, for the extra frame rate.
Neither of these groups is known for buying 3rd party games - at least not the ones I know.
- Comment on Did nightreign flop? 5 months ago:
You see, that’s your problem. Companies don’t make games for any other reason than money. Since there are no microtransactions or subscriptions available, they quite frankly don’t care if you ever play the game after you’ve purchased it.
They moved a lot of units already and considering it’s only a side game with reused assets, they made a profit. Therefore, the game by all means is a success for them, even if nobody would play anymore.
Concurrent players also shouldn’t influcene future sales by much, since you only need 3 people at a time
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 5 months ago:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, above all else.
That being said, Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 1 and 2 are awesome. They combine SRPGs with the usual SMT combat - I don’t think I’ve found something similar yet.
You move around like you would in any other SRPG, then you can attack enemies in range to enter normal turn based combat - however, at most, you can only play out 2 full turns before combat ends. Afterwards the next unit moves. Each unit represents a squad of up to three characters you will be batteling with, usually a human and two demons. Depending on your squad, you may have different movement, range and abilities.
- Comment on Capcom spent 2 years trying to get permission to use Toshiro Mifune's likeness in Onimusha: Way of the Sword 5 months ago:
You do not need them, yes, but I think it’s always fun to recognize people in games like Like a Dragon.
That aside, it’s always been a thing in Onimusha. It wouldn’t be a proper revival of the IP without one of their biggest USP back then.
- Comment on The Puzzle Pizzazz Humble Bundle has some 8 quality games for cheaps 5 months ago:
It seems to be heavily inspired by Portal, so that’s par for the course. Portal was more about the writing - does the game deliver on that?
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 5 months ago:
I’ve played them all! Although, I haven’t finished all of them. I’m planning on fixing that with the FFT remaster, however, I had to drop the original release.
Personally, it goes FFTA > FFTA2 > FFT. I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who likes FFTA2 the most.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 5 months ago:
Funnily enough, I really didn’t like FFT. The only thing I could get behind was the story. However, I’m planning on giving the remaster another shot.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 5 months ago:
Usually, whenever people talk about A, you get a few of the following arguments:
- The story is bad/too childish
- Laws/Judges are overall a terrible mechanic
- Learning skills from equipment is bad
- SRPGs need permadeath
- Send missions are bad and just there to promote the game with having 300 missions
Of course, I disagree with all of these. Actually, these are some of my favorite things about this game.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 5 months ago:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
People only ever talk about Final Fantasy Tactics and dismiss any of the other games. However, going by the original release, Tactics Advance is by far my favorite. It’s my favorit GBA game and at least in my Top 25 JRPGs, despite having played almost nothing else for the past 20 years. I like many of the things the game gets critiziced for.
- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 5 months ago:
You’re missing many of the most iconic games on PC, namely stuff like League of Legends, DOTA, WoW, Overwatch, Runescape… Kerrigan is the only one you’ve included.
Now, to be honest, I haven’t touched most of these games myself, so I can’t tell you their mascots. But at least the MOBAs are bound to have one.
- Comment on Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions? 6 months ago:
These games are meant to be played in 1st person and 3rd person is just an after thought. In this case, yes, that’s maybe just laziness or more likely they didn’t have time for low priority stuff.
- Comment on Why don't Oblivion and Morrowind turn the character model when you run in different directions? 6 months ago:
There is nothing hard about 3D rotation, at least not for people successfully building a 3D open world game of that scope. Their characters can turn and you have a direction, there is no difference to walking in that sense.
If anything, they didn’t want to create animations for that and just turning them mid animation looked stupid.
- Comment on Does Bravely Default 2 Suck? 6 months ago:
For the most part, the story is nothing to write home about and it’s not exactly the most beautiful game out there. However, I think the mechanics are great - I did enjoy my time with BD2 a lot and would recommend it.
That being said, if you don’t enjoy the gameplay, it won’t change that much. You just get more classes.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread) 7 months ago:
I’ve not yet touched it. But since you mentioned it: How does leveling now work? And more importantly, how does enemy scaling work?
If I remember correctly, in the original, I felt strongest when I got Umbra at Lv 1 and just never levelled up.
Furthermore, how are the character animations? I saw the Emperor in the Remake and while the model was quite nice, in combination with his facial animations, I actually preferred the original. What I assume to be the original animations paird with updated models seemed too uncanny. However, that problem could be specific to him.
- Comment on FuRyu announces school life RPG VARLET for PS5, Switch, and PC 7 months ago:
I never came around to Monark. Was it any good? I can’t quite remember what detered me back then. This does seem like it’s build on it.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 7 months ago:
Those are some impressive scores, sucks that I don’t own anything I could play it on. Hopefully there’s a Switch 2 port in the future, since I’ll likely get one once a new Xenoblade game is on the horizon.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!) 7 months ago:
Did they change anything meaningful, like removing that aweful level scaling?
- Comment on Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance 7 months ago:
Earlier this year, I was in a similar predicament. I actually told Triss that I loved here. However, that only works if you take advantage of her while she’s drunk at the party. (She falls down while drunk and after you catch her, you can randomly kiss her.) I didn’t and locked myself out of romancing her early.
I would have lost many hours of progress by going back and frankly, I didn’t want to go for that choice. I cut my losses and went with Yen. Since then, I finished the whole game, DLCs included, and I don’t regret my choice. She gets a lot better later on and I came to appreciate her. Her quests are good. I just think the game does a poor job introducing her. I don’t care for either the books nor the show and I only played Witcher 2 once on release. With my first playthrough of Witcher 3 starting last year, I knew literally nothing going in. Up until I could romance Triss, Yen was annoying and arrogant.