Sludgehammer
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 19 hours ago:
Eh, it’s the circle of
lifegame development.Small studio makes great games, gets bought by big studio, big studio’s management flood small studio’s staff, the games developed suffer, big studio makes cuts firing almost everyone who was worth a damn, small studio shambles on in name only for a while longer before being mercifully put down. Meanwhile some of the fired devs band together creating a new small studio which makes great games, attracting the attention of a big studio…
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Eh, I guess I toss out one of my favorite DS games as a break from my previous Steam recommendations, so Retro Game Challenge 2, the fan translation of GameCenter CX: Arino no Chōsenjō 2. This actually may get downvoted a fair bit, because the Game Center CX show that inspired the game has a dedicated cult following in the United States and Retro Game Challenge 2 has been played by some fairly big streamers.
Anyway on to the game itself. Retro Game Challenge 2 is a collection of NES and SNES styled mini games loosely bound together by a fairly non-nonsensical meta plot and a ton of nostalgia. You’re assigned “challenges” for the various games that you have to beat, think NES Remix if you’ve played that, it’s actually from the same developer. But not only that there’s a ton of nostalgic little touches, all the mini-games have in game “manuals” to read, there are also in game “gaming magazines” that offer tips and tricks for the games you play, as well as hinting about “up-coming” games. There’s also a “daily challenge” which is a… well challenge that is issued daily, with difficulty that ramps up as you beat them.
The best part of the whole game/micro games is that you can freely play them after they’ve been unlocked. None of the NES Remix’s “We’ve got the whole game here, but you can’t do anything but the challenges” bullshit. You want to play though the entirety of the ten-ish hour NES styled JRPG? Go for it. Indieszero also included some “challenge mode” versions of games from the first Retro Game Challenge game.
Anyway, as the wall of text may have clued you in, I really like this game.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
I actually don’t think this one is quite as obscure as you think, since it was given away on Epic a few years ago.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Caves of quid
You mean Caves of Qud, right? 'Cause if that’s not a typo it’s so obscure that even search engines don’t know about it :)
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Oh, thought of another one to list here: Micro Mages. It’s not just NES styled game, but an actual NES game with a emulation wrapper around it for Steam. You actually get a NES ROM when you buy the game that’s playable in all the emulators I’ve thrown it into. I’ve actually got a copy of the rom on my 3DS.
The real interesting thing that the devs put out a video about the challenges of fitting their game onto a NES cart (which is actually how I found out about the game). While the game is kinda small, (I think… I haven’t actually beaten it) it’s well worth the current sale price 99 cents.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 week ago:
Eh, I don’t know how well the game is known, but I’ll throw A Robot Named Fight, since looking at Metacritic it seems like it never got much mainstream attention.
Anyway, the game is a metroidvainia roguelite mashup. The gameplay is more the Metroid side of “metroidvania” being very obviously inspired by Super Metroid. You traverse a randomly generated map, getting unlocks for future runs by accomplishing various things though out that run, think Binding of Issac’s item progression.
- Comment on Trailer love, trailer life 1 week ago:
Honestly, that’s a pretty nice single wide.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale is here! 3 weeks ago:
Podunk area of Northern California actually.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale is here! 3 weeks ago:
It varies, but it’s something like $7.50 to $8.
Really? Wow, in my area it’s like $12.
- Comment on Forget draftkings, bitcoin, or polymarket. Those are for spudless smooth-brains 1 month ago:
Better then Latveria. In Latveria there is no potato, only DOOM!
- Comment on Poor ninjas 2 months ago:
- Comment on A handy reference guide for you 2 months ago:
Honey Bee
is the bee that needs help the most
I’d argue the opposite. There are thousands species of solitary native bees in small niches that need help way more. By contrast honey bees are either livestock or feral livestock that competing with the native bees.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 2 months ago:
TIL that I’ve been using “star crossed lovers” wrong my entire life.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 2 months ago:
It’s not so much “Yucking someones yum” so much as “I think such a large age gap is going to be a big strain on this relationship. But if you wanna… fine.” Like, one of these people was born around when 9-11 occurred and the other was born around the time when Pac-Man was the new hot game in arcades and these “CD” things were starting to catch on for music storage. That’s quite a generational gap.
However, they’re both old enough to both know the what they’re doing… and maybe it will all work out. Thus my “They’re both old enough to know better” comment. Maybe they’re star crossed lovers and it will all work out… but in the end, it’s a case of “Not my circus, not my monkeys”.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 2 months ago:
Whatever. They’re both old enough to know better.
- Comment on Mission to the Cloud Server 2 months ago:
There’s something to be said for a computer that’s as dumb as a calculator.
- Comment on Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits 4 months ago:
Why does everyone think that OJ Simpson killed his wife after he was acquitted by a jury? Just because you can convince 12 schlubs of something doesn’t make something true or untrue.
- Comment on Trump Order Aims to Boost Weedkiller Targeted in Health Lawsuits 4 months ago:
IMO, the panic about glyphosate’s health impacts is just based on empty hype, most risk assessments I’ve seen show it to be one of the safer herbicides out there.
- Comment on GEORGE GAME! 4 months ago:
Eh, better then what I’ve gotten from most games I’ve participated in.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 5 months ago:
Well… while the price of the Switch 2 certainly causes sticker shock, when you adjust for inflation it’s only about as expensive as the SNES was at launch and is in fact cheaper then the NES was at launch. However, in the PS3’s case when adjusted for inflation it was about 1.5 times as expensive as the SNES at launch (for the 20 gb version, the 60 gb was double).
- Comment on When you get carried away with the corn 6 months ago:
Reeeally hope those were dentures… otherwise, ow.
- Comment on Hytale announces a return 7 months ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 7 months ago:
Wow, I assumed it’d picked up by this point but according to Wikipedia the PS5 only has 18 exclusive games.
- Comment on French fries with free lead poisoning 8 months ago:
You know… it looks like there’s part of “Dashwoods” up near the tear, which is something that I’ve seen this random text generator spit out multiple times before.
- Comment on You gotta rizz 'em 9 months ago:
I gotta respect how quickly they produced that hat.
- Comment on It's not that complicated, guys. 9 months ago:
Actually if you really gave birds Coco Puffs they’d probably just die, chocolate is toxic to birds.
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 10 months ago:
Grok will claim anything that its training data suggests is statistically related to the question. It has no knowledge of what happening in the world or why (or if) it has been censored, because it does not know literally anything. If the data it scraped from the web suggested that it was censored for revealing that Mars was a giant cookie, it would confidently state that as a answer.
- Comment on One Angry Man 11 months ago:
Star war: Attack of a clone.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 11 months ago:
Eh, ICE is in the proto Schutzstaffel phase. For now they only abuse and kidnap people who fit the ever expanding category of “foreigners”, but we’re only one dementia decision away from Trump deciding that it’s only his most dedicated bootlickers can be trusted.
