Coelacanth
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- Comment on Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character? 2 days ago:
This is the way to go for sure. Actually sounds like a really interesting setup for a game.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 3 days ago:
I’m not even a huge platformer guy, but Rayman Legends is absolute peak and a fantastic, chill co-op game. The music levels in particular - where the already great soundtrack is synced in time to your jumps and hits - are incredibly satisfying and so well made.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t suggest Blue Prince. It’s not co-op per se as it’d only be one person at a time “driving”, but the game is about puzzle solving so who holds the controller doesn’t really matter. It’s a fantastic game if you enjoy puzzles and escape rooms. My sister isn’t even a gamer at all but I recommended it to her fiancé and they’ve been playing together and even she’s been enjoying it a lot. From my own experience playing it on my own I also think it would be much more fun if playing alongside someone else. I’ve often missed having someone to bounce ideas off when stuck.
- Comment on Recommendations for "girly" games? 3 days ago:
I feel like Lost Records: Bloom & Rage that came out recently might be a candidate? I haven’t played it myself because I don’t think I’m the target audience but it seems like sort of what you’re looking for?
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 5 days ago:
FF7 was the slam dunk choice because it is not only so iconic, but as the first 3D entry the original is also absolutely god-fucking butt ugly. I can see why FF8 would be logical in a sense, but I’m not sure it has the popularity to capitalise on. It has its charm but it’s hardly most people’s favourite Final Fantasy. It would be a cool choice though.
I don’t necessarily think any of the other entries need remakes as badly. I think FF6 is absolute peak as it is but it would probably be most likely in my opinion. It is also vastly popular and iconic so there is a lot of money to be made there. And I can’t deny that even I would be curious to see what it would be like if given the full remake treatment.
- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 6 days ago:
I mean I am all for criticising creatively bankrupt mush like Ubisoft et al pushes out and Call of Duty 420: Black Ops 69 or FIFA or whatever but we can’t pretend there are literally no good games being released nowadays either. Just now we had a month with both Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 being released within weeks of each other. BG3 and Alan Wake 2 releasing in the same year was just two years ago.
There are plenty of not just good but great recent games.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #12 1 week ago:
I just spot interesting projects and creations others create and then just write my own thoughts on them
Soo… journalism?
In any case, do whatever makes you happy, whether remaining solely on here or creating your own thing from this like a website or blog. Your content is among the best on the platform and I hope you know how much we all appreciate you.
- Comment on Day 283 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
Story wise though, i’m a bit mixed on. I’m really liking the story, just not as a Max Payne story. The Brazil setting isn’t really doing it for me and it feels a bit more GTA Coded than Noir, at least until i detach it from the first two games.
This is pretty much the general consensus of the game overall I think. Good game, just not a good Max Payne game.
- Comment on I’m in dire need of a new monitor but, it seems, it is harder to find a good one than I thought. 1 week ago:
There are some high performance VA panels that are good for gaming. Samsung Odyssey Neo G7/G8 for example.
Are there really no mini-LED monitors in your country? I’m a really big advocate of them. As close to OLED HDR performance as you can get without burn-in and with better peak brightness. I’m currently using a Cooler Master GP27Q that I got for cheap as an opened box, which has been a really solid monitor for the cheap cheap price I got it for (couple hundred euros).
I think a 27 inch 1440p monitor with 2000+ dimming zones will be the sweet spot between performance and affordability, though none like that are on the market yet.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits 500k sales in one day 1 week ago:
Look Ubisoft: this is what your devs could be making if you’d let them make what they want to be making. Instead of churning out another cookie cutter “Ubisoft game”.
- Comment on Day 281 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
Yeah GoT quickly turned from a fun game I enjoyed to a game I almost loathed and resented as I had to force myself to finish it.
It really doesn’t have enough variety to support being that long, in my opinion. The mission design is way too bland and samey and the tone of the writing just starts wearing you down. Literally everything is the same serious tone delivered in a dour monotone. A handful of moments with Kenji is not enough to break the tedium. It would be fine if the game was 20 hours long, not 60.
I still think it’s a fine sort of 7.5-8/10 at the end of the day but I consider it one of the most overrated games of all time. It’s just a polished Ubisoft collect-a-thon open world with solid combat at the end of the day. It’s not game of the decade or whatever.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Launch Trailer 1 week ago:
I suppose I will use the same “supporting indie devs is a good deed” justification as when I purchased Blue Prince on launch day for this game.
La Belle Epoque inspired game that is reviewing at 92/100 on OpenCritic with several mentions of it being a GOTY contender? And the themes are about wrestling with hope and optimism in the face of nihilism and hopelessness? (Disco Elysium my beloved)
I never stood a chance.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Thursday 24th April 2025 1 week ago:
Active User Growth
!linguistics@mander.xyz, Linguistics, 10 => 319, 93 posts (3 this week)
Holy growth Batman! Great to see for one of the best communities on the platform.
- Comment on Day 281 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
Ubisoft made a fun game, but it’s way to big for it’s own good.
Well, everyone expected this game to copy Ghost of Tsushima, so maybe it’s not surprising that it ends up copying its biggest flaw as well.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Andy Serkis says the film industry "could not exist" without games 1 week ago:
I think even in back 2012 an argument could be made quite easily, but it’s a shame Roger Ebert didn’t live long enough to see some of the games released over the past decade that quite convincingly demonstrate how video games can indeed be art.
I agreed with him very often but that was one instance of him having an inexplicably bad take.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 1 week ago:
I’m a slut for La Belle Epoque so even though I’m not necessarily in the market for a JRPG at the moment I might just cave anyway with scores like this.
I’m almost done with Blue Prince too, so it’s fortuitous timing.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 20th 1 week ago:
It is the best written video game ever and it’s not particularly close either. It’s one of the best written pieces of media I’ve ever had the pleasure of consuming.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 20th 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t had time to play as much the past couple of days, but when I do I am similarly entralled by Blue Prince. It’s going to be very hard for another game to pip it for game of the year for me I think.
It’s so full of mysteries, so full of intricacies, so full of interactions and puzzles within puzzles. The narrative and lore is great too. I really do love every single element of it. Even the basic gameplay of the roguelite portion is so well done that you are always just fiending for one more run, the dopamine rewards of drafting a satisfying house really just tickles your brain just right.
Seriously, if you haven’t already then go play it.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 20th April 2025 2 weeks ago:
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Activity in random small niche subs? It’s tiny, but a great sign nonetheless.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 19th April 2025 2 weeks ago:
I really should participate more in that community. It’s just a little tough that some of my favourite poetry isn’t in English and finding good translations is hard-to-impossible. As the often paraphrased quote by Robert Frost says, poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 19th April 2025 2 weeks ago:
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Love it! Props to @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world for laying the groundwork for so long.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 weeks ago:
God damn it my backlog is already long enough why’d they have to go ahead and do this.
Sigh
Now where’s my credit card?
- Comment on Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance 2 weeks ago:
I think this criticism is fair to be honest and is one of the things that’s sort of swept under the rug a bit in discourse about Witcher 3. I definitely think the pacing is off just as you mentioned. I’ve heard other people regret their choice of Triss because they had basically locked in her romance already by the time you start doing stuff in Skellige with Yen and start seeing what she’s like.
Personally I think the Yen/Geralt dynamic is a lot better than with Triss, although it’s got its own troubles (nobody is perfect). I like the banter between them and they feel more like a proper couple.
The game as a whole also flows better with Yen as your romance choice in my opinion and to me it feels more like the Triss romance is an afterthought yes. A bone thrown at those who desperately can’t stand Yen.
Geralt (in the books) is deeply in love with Yen and is also bound to her by literal Djinn magic, so it makes sense that he’s always hot for her in the game and I think the attention paid to the Yen side of things is a desire by CDPR to anchor their game in the preexisting lore.
If you’re not dead set on Triss or wildly opposed to Yen I’d say go with it and do the Yen romance. It’s very suitable for a first time playthrough imo.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 2 weeks ago:
It was even 2 RNG heavy ones but I was forced to take Weight Room twice (thanks Hall of Mirrors!) so I couldn’t make it downstairs. Worst feeling I’ve had in a game in a long time actually. I honestly think sanctum keys could be permanent without the game being too easy.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only gotten 3 classrooms I think, taking notes on the subjects though! I also think the first classroom helps with the sigil puzzle. Have you lit all the braziers?
Btw I just had to call it a day with 2 sanctum keys in my inventory. Had to take Weight Room twice.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 2 weeks ago:
One of the safe solutions really pissed me off. Which ones do you have? I have six, no clue where the last one is supposed to be.
Are you looking to fully drain the reservoir? That’s the only thing you need boiler power connected for I think, provided you have the Tomb open.
The sanctum thing is so frustrating too, still haven’t solved my first sigil though I know what to look for now I guess. Still haven’t made it back to room 46 a second time either, RNG has been hitting badly. Maybe that will help.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 2 weeks ago:
Good lord there is so much still to do haha! Every time I think I’ve seen most of the puzzles a new secret bottom opens up to an entirely new layer. I’m loving putting together the narrative but my god some of the puzzles didn’t work for me (I had to look up a couple of hints - would *never have organically gotten them). How have you been progressing with the safes?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 2 weeks ago:
Just rolled credits. Really strange actually haha. There are so many unsolved mysteries! I feel like I’m close to piecing together the narrative but I’m still missing crucial pieces.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure the remake will release with the same level of QA and polish that the original Oblivion shipped with. That renowned Bethesda standard of quality.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 2 weeks ago:
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Wait didn’t you roll credits? That’s very interesting that you did that without opening any safe…
Anyway thank you so much for your responses, they’ve been perfect hints without being too spoily, which is a hard thing to pull off! I might bug you again at some point, we’ll see what I accomplish today.
Actually, maybe we need a Blue Prince community…
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th 2 weeks ago:
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Drained the fountain, now I need the basement key again. Still don’t know how to get the chests at the bottom of the reservoir as I don’t know how to drain the final bit. Maybe pump room needs to be next to boiler room to get the last tank in play? I’m starting to see I’m going to need to get through insane amounts of RNG to finish. I already basically concluded I probably need the boiler room adjacent to the lab to get the lever machine working.
I also am tearing my hair out about the
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drawing room safe code. The other safes had the clue in the same room but for the life of me I can’t figure out the paintings with the steps.