RightHandOfIkaros
@RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 2 days ago:
Which is exactly why the US senator that said this is a left-wing Democrat, right?
Politics is so tiresome.
- Comment on BlackMythWukong has received 4 nomintations from TGA!! 2 days ago:
Absolutely no chance it wins any of them though.
Not because it doesn’t deserve to win at least one, it definitely does, but because the people who count for 90% of the vote were literally writing misinformation riddled hit pieces and for some reason think that Chinese gamers are only 3/5ths of a gamer or something.
- Comment on It's insidious 3 days ago:
Turns out I have been hallucinating when Nog is listening to Vince Fontaine and sharing a room with Jake.
This whole time I remembered that as a Wesley episode.
- Comment on It's insidious 3 days ago:
At least I only have to worry about seeing Wesley for only one episode.
- Comment on Day 124 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 days ago:
Nah, they were new bugs, not ones present in the original game. Bugs in the original graphics mode that made some parts too dark and others too bright, for example. Or the wrong texture being used on the wrong surface. That kind of thing.
I don’t mind if bugs from the original release are left in there. IMO, if it was part of the experience back when the game was new and was never fixed, then unless its some egregious error that could brick your console or PC, I think it should be left in exactly as it was. But new bugs that were only present in the Anniversary and later MCC releases, that’s just embarrassing for 343/Halo Studios.
- Comment on Day 124 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 days ago:
Bugs, for one. So many, many bugs. Bugs that remained unfixed for years.
Also, graphics. I don’t mean fidelity, because fidelitywise they were pretty good for the time. I mean the complete change in art style. Anything forerunner became riddled with lines that made the designs overly busy. The reuse of Reach assets instead of actually remaking the assets to match the original game. Its like at that point, are they even remastering the game? Not to mention how many changes to the environment models were inaccurate enough to cause players to try to shoot through or walk through invisible collision geometry of the original game.
- Comment on Day 124 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 days ago:
Its so unfortunate that 343 messed up CE Anniversary so badly. But at least they did a lot better with Halo 2 Anniversary (though that is also not without its issues).
Now with a rebrand to Halo Studios, which was 100% caused by their poor stewardship of the series and the ruining of their own reputation beyond redemption, 343 will have to super-over-deliver with whatever they come out with next.
And I pray it is not a CE Remake. They messed it up already once before, just leave it alone and do something different with Halo. Make ODST 2 or some new story about a new Spartan entirely, I am tired of my favorite characters and stories being butchered these days.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 5 days ago:
Is it stealing though? Theft, as it is legally defined, requires depriving the original owner of the thing you are stealing. Stealing a car for example, means the owner cannot drive the car since you have it.
If you could take someone else’s car, but they still have access to their car as if it was never taken, is that really stealing?
- Comment on Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away 1 week ago:
I have used it. Played Metroid Prime 3, which is probably the best implementation of motion controls by far in any game.
I still would prefer using a normal controller with no motion controls. I would really prefer a trackball on a controller, but that likely won’t happen.
- Comment on Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away 1 week ago:
I would prefer if gyros and accelerometers die off in controllers for gaming. Tilting and shaking the controller is not something I have ever enjoyed, except when the controller is a light gun for a game like Time Crisis or Silent Hill The Arcade.
- Comment on Stellar Blade coming to PC in 2025 1 week ago:
I will try it as long as it doesn’t require a PSN account. I enjoy Shift Up’s other game, arcade shooter Goddess of Victory NIKKE, so I am curious to see their other forrays into gaming.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 1 week ago:
He got upset at the Yuzu developers for dropping support for Windows 7, and after throwing a tantrum in a GitHub Issue report, he directly emailed Nintendo and their legal team with a massive word salad directly linking to Yuzu. Multiple times. Then within around a month or two Nintendo initiated a lawsuit.
- Comment on Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return 1 week ago:
This article was written by Luke Plunkett, who used to work at Kotaku. Some of his past articles include real whiz-bangers like: “Oh No, There Are Women In Battlefield”, and “There Is No Saving Cyberpunk 2077.” That pretty much tells you everything you need to know.
Sensationalist e-begging for clicks with ragebait articles. Nothing new from a former Kotaku employee.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 1 week ago:
We lost Yuzu because of a Windows 7 user. Whoever that guy was, he deserved this.
- Comment on The price of the PS5 Pro “has not had a negative impact” on console sales, says Sony president - GAMESCENSOR 1 week ago:
So they only expected to sell 100?
- Comment on Surprise! Death Stranding is available on Xbox now – WGB 1 week ago:
The fact that this game is $20 is kinda criminal. It is a really good game.
- Comment on PlayStation Uses Safety Concerns To Defend Steam PSN Account Requirements 1 week ago:
No online interaction is going to be as harmful as a product exploding and taking out your eye. Except in the case of children and pedos, perhaps. But in that case, most responsibility (all, in my opinion) is on the parents to monitor their child’s online gaming. Additionally, a system that doesnt require PSN accounts that monitors in game chat for words and phrases that flags for human interception could easily be implemented. Something like that could be caught quickly and dealt with easily before actual damage occurs.
- Comment on Life Is Strange: Double Exposure's Cat DLC Is, In Fact, The Worst 1 week ago:
You mean Maple Story?
Horse Armor was not the cause of what we have today, even if it was pretty ridiculous.
- Comment on PlayStation Uses Safety Concerns To Defend Steam PSN Account Requirements 1 week ago:
To be fair, Totoki has a bit of a point when it comes to safety concerns, as PlayStation will be required to oversee interactions between players in its multiplayer games, but that doesn’t really explain why single-player games force players to create PSN accounts.
What ever happened to “Online interactions are not rated by the ESRB” and “Online interactions may lead to a different or unintended experience” and other such concepts?
- Comment on Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over 1 week ago:
Yes, if you ignore the fact that Nintendo has very deep pockets and Japanese courts are very bribable.
- Comment on Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over 1 week ago:
The most disgusting part of this is that all of these patents were filed this year, meaning their only purpose is for giving Nintendo an avenue to sue Pocket Pair.
- Comment on Steam Game Recording is now out of beta 2 weeks ago:
Ive been using this in beta, and it has been phenomenal. Absolutely love this feature.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC 2 weeks ago:
Okay, maybe I will be buying the game afterall. As long as “No Denuvo” doesn’t mean “no denuvo, but we added a different DRM instead.” Except Steam’s built in DRM, I guess. It doesn’t seem to negatively effect the performance in my Steam games.
- Comment on A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed 2 weeks ago:
As a fan of the books, the movie was pretty bad. The only good parts I can recall were the CG, and the actors who played Tars Tarkus and Kantos Kan. Everyone else in the film was mid to bad.
- Comment on A Video Game Flopped Harder Than Anything At The Box Office This Year, And The Mainstream Press Barely Noticed 2 weeks ago:
No no, mainstream gaming media definitely knew about it. But they were too busy shilling the game and trying to “own the chuds” or whatever it was they were doing with some of those articles to bother with actually reporting on what was happening with the game.
Plus the American mainstream news media has been obsessed with pushing/covering politics for the last 6 or 7 months, and both political parties are giving the media massive stockpiles of ammo for ragebait-fuelled ad revenue. Why would they ever cover video games, something mainstream media outlets have historically blamed some of the worst tradgedies in American history on, when it will neither give them free ad revenue, nor continue to villanize video games?
- Comment on Morrigan isn't just my favourite Dragon Age character, she's the greatest fantasy RPG companion of all time 2 weeks ago:
Aerith from Final Fantasy VII?
For all the crap the game gets, Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk was actually an incredibly written companion character. Plus bonus points because of Keanu Reeves.
Kainé from NieR Gestalt/Replicant?
KOSMOS from XenoSaga?
Geno from Super Mario RPG?
Karlach from BG3?
Many characters I would consider at the very least to be contenders for top spot, if not outright surpassing Morrigan.
- Comment on Konami reports record high half-year profits thanks to strong performance of video game sector 3 weeks ago:
Turns out when you actually make video games and sell them, you can record higher profits than years you didn’t do that.
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 3 weeks ago:
Nah, Lemmy users are just mean, worse than Redditors. Add in internet anonymity and you get users that just dont care about other people, even going out of their way to harass or try to fight by writing comments like they’re trying to catch someone in a trap they think is clever.
Thankfully I can block entire instances so I dont have to deal with most of them. Its just a shame, because Lemmy was supposed to be better than Reddit, but I am seeing more that its almost worse. The only reason I even still use Lemmy is because I don’t like the Reddit mobile app. That’s literally it.
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 3 weeks ago:
Not everyone I meet treats me the way people on Lemmy treat me. I am a kind person and most people, while apathetic, are not so rude as Lemmy users. It’s a great quote, but ultimately not applicable to this particular situation. Have a good day, or not, make of it however you will.
- Comment on Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix and Black Ops 6 nuketown this weekend, which will you be playing? 3 weeks ago:
I will be playing Stellaris intead, lol. Not a fan of Fortnite and never got into CoD after Workd at War came out. Felt like they were less and less about the soldiers that gave their lives protecting their country, and more about being some romanticized war hero shooter. War is bad but I don’t think that soldiers who fought in them should be disrespected. I just feel like the new CoD games glorify war and violence more than the older games did, and I am not about that.