Coelacanth
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- Comment on Trump Dons ‘2028’ Hat, Teases Run for Unprecedented 4th Term as President | APT 2 hours ago:
I doubt there is enough revolutionary fervor in the US for a civil war.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
This was already posted 9h ago. Great video, though.
- Comment on Weiners 2 days ago:
Maybe there is still some good on the internet, you know. This was an unexpectedly great video.
“Haha dick joke” truly is the one thing that could unify all mankind across all ages and civilisations.
- Comment on Day 735 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
Hum, not sure that rings a bell. It’s possible I played it before the DLCs were out, then. Sounds like maybe that was for the best!
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 2 days ago:
If it works the same way as Backwards Compatibility on the Xbox consoles it will also often have support for higher resolutions, higher frame rates and HDR. And I’m hoping the official support from Microsoft will mean better performance and fewer bugs.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 2 days ago:
This is absolutely huge. Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 are finally released from the Xbox prison? It’s enough to make a grown man weep. I know emulation exists but it has been very spotty for Xbox titles and marred with bugs and performance issues.
- Comment on Day 735 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
Will be interesting to hear about the DLCs, I actually can’t remember playing them. I wonder if a long-repressed memory will emerge or I actually never ended up playing them back in the day.
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 2 days ago:
It was mentioned elsewhere but the S.T.A.L.KE.R. original trilogy and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly has pretty good AI. I guess Clear Sky has a little too much grenade spam but Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat both have good AI, though I haven’t sat down and made exact A-B testing with F.E.A.R… Anomaly has a bunch of mods too that make the AI even better.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You should spoiler tag that for H&S.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I would argue the other way around. Blood and Wine is fun and nice as a capstone to Geralt and has a lot of content if you just want to ride around and play Gwent and do the Wine Wars and play house with your vineyard or whatever. It’s a fun expansion with a lot of value for your money if that’s what you’re after.
Hearts of Stone though is the most focused, well written, cinematic and concise story and content they ever made for Witcher. Has great characters, mystery, tension, levels, cutscenes, atmosphere… For me it was by far the more impactful of the two DLCs. If anything B&W is too long, I was already burned out by the end of it.
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 3 days ago:
Yes of course, I’m not suggesting any video game has any sentient actual intelligence. I’m just using the old terminology where “AI” means “whatever controls enemy and NPC behaviour in the game”.
My point is that even F.E.A.R.'s “Goal Oriented Action Planning” is much less sophisticated and complex than it first appears, thanks to excellent design and clever illusions.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Hearts of Stone is the best Witcher content they ever produced in my opinion. Highly recommend checking it out.
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 3 days ago:
F.E.A.R. enemies are very good for their time period, but there’s also quite a lot of smoke and mirrors involved that make them appear much smarter than they actually are. The voice lines are a great example, making you think they’re actually much more coordinated and intelligent than they are. The combat arenas are also very deliberately designed in tandem with the AI, both to maximise the efficiency of the AI that exists, but also to give them a bunch of opportunities to do manoeuvres that were unusual for the time - again to further the illusion. Good examples are ledges they can jump over and windows they can smash. It’s a much less smart and dynamic AI than it appears, but these small interactions give the impression of a highly intelligent enemy that interacts with the environment a lot.
They still do do some cool things sometimes though, like retreat and close the door behind them and wait in ambush.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Weird nonsense and shoulder belts? I can smell Nomura in the kitchen on this one grinning over the cauldron, I’m inclined to believe it’s real based off that alone.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 1 week ago:
It’s a shame to me because it divides the modding scene, and plenty old but stable mods will never be updated to work with the remaster. But it is what it is. I guess it will be nice for console players as F:NV is practically unplayably broken without mods.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 1 week ago:
Just don’t break mods, please.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I will echo the other comment: this is actually a great video that’s kind of ruined by the clickbait title. This is, more than anything, a video about the value of space in football.
Production and editing is fantastic, narration is good and it has lots of and varied clips. On top of that it actually goes through a lot of actual good analysis and uses player tracking and a surprising amount of appropriate metrics like pitch control and Expected Threat.
- Comment on Day 728 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
That sounds lovely! If I ever get a partner (and they’re a non-gamer that is open to getting into gaming) then that sounds like a delightful thing to do together.
- Comment on Day 728 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Hm, I have no ideas about mods for 2, unfortunately. I only played it once, and that was back in the day. I remember absolutely loving it, and I’ve been hesitant to go back because I don’t want to sully my memory of it.
And my backlog is too long to be replaying games, anyway.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 1 week ago:
I played it like a year after launch on PS4 and didn’t have any issues. On PC there is also ACUfixes that further fixes and improves things. Honestly Unity was such an ambitious game and both the city of Paris and the crowd system in it is still unsurpassed by later titles. I remember when Mirage came out comparison videos started going viral questioning which game came out 9 years after which. The fluid and varied animations in Unity is still absolute peak, look at how satisfying high level gameplay is.
- Comment on Hands-On With the TRIMUI Brick Pro: A Better Handheld, but Not a Faster One 1 week ago:
Original Xbox games are a mixed bag though, emulation development for that platform is very far behind PS2 or GCN. Sadly :(
X360 too, although bizarrely I think Xemu is sometimes worse performing than Xenia? Is it just that there aren’t enough enticing exclusives that lead to these emulators being behind? I’m not really tapped into the scene.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 1 week ago:
Unity is still underrated largely due to its reputation formed during launch with all the bugs. But I think there was also a case around then of “Assassin’s Creed fatigue”, which only amplified the negative reception. It’s actually a very interesting what if scenario, what would have happened if Unity wasn’t broken on release and was successful? It’s well documented that its failure led to the entire rejigging of the franchise into open world RPGs in Origins and beyond.
- Comment on Hands-On With the TRIMUI Brick Pro: A Better Handheld, but Not a Faster One 1 week ago:
As always I love reading your reviews and articles and just writing in general. Loved the clip of the trigger clacks, they may perhaps be too loud for stealth and convenience but they have a very pleasing sound. But then I love clicky mechanical keyboards.
Unfortunately I feel like I give the same comment every time (well, every time I remember to actually comment): “this device is so cool and I want it because it looks like such a desirable and pleasing object, but I can’t possibly justify buying it when I barely play any retro games of the era this runs well”.
Maybe I’m still waiting for the moment when (if?) portable retro handhelds like this get just a few steps further more powerful. Well actually, I guess that’s just the Steam Deck, eh? Though even that is probably not quite powerful enough. I’d love the PS2/Original Xbox (even X360) era games on my lap…
- Comment on Day 724 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
It’s absolutely all over that time period. I was firing up Lost Odyssey (2008) on an emulator recently and it’s there too. It’s also part of the reason Dragon Age: Origins looks so ugly. I could probably go on listing examples. I have no idea how or why Real Is Brown got so popular, but I’m glad we’re over it now.
- Comment on Day 724 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
2007 is smack dab in the middle of that mid 00s grey-brown color palette design disaster era. Every game from then looks way worse than they should because of it.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 2 weeks ago:
That is an incredible trajectory for a game, what the actual fuck?
- Comment on Day 722 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
To me it always felt like AC2 is the true start of the franchise. The first game was cool in many ways, but overall felt almost more like a tech demo or proof-of-concept. I like the more serious vibe of it, but it gets very repetitive.
- Comment on Emergency with Tim Heidecker - ALEX JONES POPPED LIKE A BALLOON 2 weeks ago:
Not sure I’ll watch the whole episode but holy hell, that is one of the most impressive and consistent impressions I’ve ever seen and heard.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, interestingly enough we are so reliant on cheap entertainment for presumably mental health reasons that we tend to make other cuts instead. That’s why for example the Men’s Underwear Index is actually a pretty good indicator of recession.
- Comment on Look back at America’s 1976 Bicentennial 2 weeks ago:
Me a moment ago:
Bicentennial in 76!? But isn’t this year the 250th? That doesn’t make sense, 1976 was only-
…shit it was 50 years ago!?