RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking... 3 days ago:
These are the players that get angry when people say they don’t want to play the game. And then act clueless when the game is dead due to low player counts. The people that also don’t want to play in lobbies with other high level players and only want to Noob Stomp.
Its why I call this genre of game “Scum Sponge.” Because it attracts all of the worst people on the planet due to the game design rewarding that kind of player behavior. I am thankful for it, because it means other games have less of them.
- Comment on ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking... 3 days ago:
I certainly hope blocking people in the game does not stop your from matching into their lobbies and only prevents voice/chat.
Xbox tried that way in the early days of the Xbox 360. Know what the end result was? All the best players and pro players at games were waiting in 10+ hour queues to find a match. Because people were blocking everyone that beat them.
Blocking should absolutely never prevent matchmaking from doing its job and getting everyone into games. And listen, I hate Extraction Shooters. I played the Arc Raiders beta, and lament that another fun PvE Coop Shooter was stolen from everyone to be added to the Scum Sponge genre. But I still think the game’s matchmaking should function correctly.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 3 days ago:
New Vegas wasn’t a Bethesda game, it was developed by Obsidian and only published by Bethesda. Sure, it runs on Fallout 3s game engine, but Fallout 3 is more stable on PS3 than New Vegas.
I hate Sony, but New Vegas getting cherry picked here for instability is laughable when New Vegas is widely known as perhaps the least stable game published by Bethesda.
Compared to New Vegas, Starfield is a vastly better and more stable game on a technical level. Sure the writing isnt better, but the mechanical parts of the game are.
- Comment on Starfield has sold 140K copies on PS5 4 days ago:
Not really when you consider the game is 3 years old, already released to most of its main playerbase on PC and Xbox, and got a lot of negative press early in its life.
Considering the circumstances, 140k is honestly pretty good.
- Comment on Pickmon to Pickmos 5 days ago:
I don’t play them but I am always happy when something happens and it pisses off Nintendo and Nintendo Fanboys/Fangirls.
I used to love Nintendo, but this isnt Iwata’s Nintendo anymore. Now they only care about money, which isnt a shock considering the CEO has a history in financial, but its still disappointing nonetheless.
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 5 days ago:
The Forza franchise is split into too distinct subgenres.
Forza Motorsport is the realistic simulator. Tire temperatures affecting grip levels of simulation.
Forza Horizon is the arcade racer. It uses Motorsport as a basis for its basic driving physics, but values are tuned or ignored to maximize the arcade factor of driving.
Horizons driving model kinda feels like Need for Speed, games by Criterion, but less mobile oriented. Its also a little similar to Test Drive Unlimited 2, but the grip is a little lowered to make drifting easier in Forza Horizon.
Its not like Mario Kart, Blur, Split Second, or Asphault. You could maybe try a demo to see if you like it, but you will probably have fun with it.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 6 days ago:
I feel exactly the opposite.
There are plenty of turn-based RPGs and JRPGs that I fell asleep playing that I probably wouldn’t have if I didnt have to mostly stare at a static screen and menus most of the game.
Turn-based RPGs have repetitive combat loops. Same intro, same enemy lineup, same strategy, same music, same victory jingle. Over and over and over. It least in an action oriented game, I can choose where my character is, how I engage with combat, what terrain features I use, etc.
This is why I like Strategic Turn Based games like Fire Emblem and XCOM way more than standard turn based games.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 6 days ago:
Elden Ring was more RPG-like by avoiding respawning enemies? What RPG are you talking about? Most RPGs respawn enemies right in front of your face, while you are still in their spawn area.
- Comment on Google removed Doki-Doki Literature Club from the Play Store for depicting sensitive themes that violate their terms of service. 1 week ago:
It starts with the gooner games, then always moves to other non-gooner games. History repeats itself.
- Comment on "You Were Supposed to Feel Lost": Metal Gear Solid 2 and the Shock of Playing as Raiden 1 week ago:
But you still play as Snake. Sure, Venom Snake, not Solid Snake. But Raiden isnt Snake, hes just Raiden.
Perhaps Raiden is the reason that the MGSV protagonist is called Venom Snake and mot something else.
There were a few MGS games that released between MGS2 and MGSV, and hall of them IIRC had Snake as the protagonist.
- Comment on "You Were Supposed to Feel Lost": Metal Gear Solid 2 and the Shock of Playing as Raiden 1 week ago:
Just to add some context here:
This rug pull was practically universally disliked by almost everyone that played MGS2 when it released. People that played MGS2 and liked that this happened are likely, a super turbo minority of the people that played the game at the time. Only in recent years have people said they liked it.
The negative reception was so strong that Hideo Kojima himself in interviews would go on to say that the rug pull of Raiden was his biggest mistake with MGS2, and that he would never do something like that again.
- Comment on What to Play (and Watch) While Waiting for Forza Horizon 6 (my article!) 1 week ago:
Recommending NFSU2 is a recipe for disaster. You are starting at peak, its always going to be downhill from there.
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
Nintendo fans are smooth-brained thesedays though. I dont think its console specific, its Nintendo specific.
- Former Nintendo Game Enjoyer
- Comment on Why is gaming becoming so expensive? The answer is found in AI 1 week ago:
Businesses started acting like every product ever is a luxury product and people keep paying the higher prices.
The only way to get prices back down as to not buy them.and hope the little businesses survive long enough.
- Comment on LightSpeed Studios Q&A: “Designing for 100 Million People Pleases No One” 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t because the game ends up selling poorly almost always.
The shareholders THINK it pleases them.in the short term, but they almost always end up displeased.
- Comment on Anyone else looking forward to the new Starfield dlc and update? 2 weeks ago:
People here really love pouring cold water on this, don’t they?
Starfield wasn’t my favorite, and I was disappointed with quite a few things about the game, but I still enjoy it. At least it isnt permanently tethered to a server that Bethesda can shut off at any moment. Its good to see them.not completely giving up on Starfield, but I do wish they had listened more to feedback and given the game a true 2.0 update that improves it more.
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 2 weeks ago:
Not exactly the words I would have chosen to say that, but I understand the sentiment.
- Comment on Developers who crowdfunded $340k game budget are seeking legal action after platform fails to pay out over half the amount raised - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
The only reason I might be okay with this is if this was a way for the platform to try and guarantee that the game actually releases and isn’t just vaporware. I doubt this is the actual reason for it, but that’s the only understandable reason, IMO.
- Comment on USPTO has rejected Nintendo’s summon character and let it fight Pokemon patent 2 weeks ago:
Good. Hope all of Nintendo’s software patents get rejected. Gameplay elements have been ruled to be not protectable. Only things like trade-dressing.
- Comment on We show you how NVIDIA RTX Remix can upgrade your classic games with Quake III - PAX East 2026 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon dips 2 weeks ago:
Nah thats called living life normally. Anon’s got the Fast Trak Frequent Flier Plan.
- Comment on Anon dips 2 weeks ago:
I know this is gonna sound weird but big trust me on this one chief:
Cream Cheese and A1 steak sauce. Use in a ratio of like 2 or 3 to 1 part A1. Works best on toasted bread or crackers.
- Comment on Hands-On with the Anbernic RG Vita Pro; A Unique Dual-Boot Handheld Finding Its Place (my review!) 2 weeks ago:
It is amazing to me that these prices keep going up and the companies making them are not going out of business. You and I both know that not enough people are buying these for them to survive if they aren’t at profit margins over 100%.
Being unable to emulate PS2/GameCube/Switch in this day and age at $150 USD is a deal breaker. I understand not doing Original Xbox, but the other three are very well developed on Android and Linux. There isn’t a reason that shouldn’t be possible other than “profit margins are too small if we make that possible at $150 USD.”
I mean, the little R36S can run up to N64/PS1/Dreamcast for $30 USD. The next generation up does not warrant a $120 USD price increase.
- Comment on Anon dips 2 weeks ago:
Do we need to link you a suicide prevention hotline?
With eating habits like Anon, you’re just asking for heart failure.
- Comment on Anon dips 2 weeks ago:
Its almost the same as the fascination the Japanese have with mayonnaise, honestly.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but they actually provided a real service in exchange for that subscription.
Meanwhile Sony pays studios to NOT develop games for other platforms, which is HORRENDOUSLY anti-consumer, and Nintendo I dont even have to talk about.
Microsoft isnt the consumers best friend, but out of the big three they are the least bad.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t it found out that this isn’t actually true? Correcting the typo doesn’t result in the AI actually functioning any better, IIRC.
- Comment on Switch 2 demand appears to be flagging as Nintendo reportedly lowers production 2 weeks ago:
Which is why I maintain my order of least to most consumer friendly gaming big three is:
Nintendo < Sony < Microsoft
For all its flaws, Microsoft is the leash anti-consumer, because they don’t have exclusives anymore.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 3 weeks ago:
Hoping DDR3 prices go up so I can finally sell the 128 GB of RAM I have been saving “just in case” lol
- Comment on Anon contemplates AI 3 weeks ago:
False. Anon’s name is green.