Coelacanth

@Coelacanth@feddit.nu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I presumed as much based on clues and indicators I’ve been finding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I could probably have made the antechamber last night if I had picked up a pair of dice I missed and found on the way back. But I’m kind of glad I didn’t as there is so much unexplored and unexplained still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m loving it, but definitely also constantly second guessing whether I’m smart enough for this game haha. Especially when you come across a problem and can’t work out whether you’re supposed to wait for the clue/solution to turn up later or whether it’s something you’re supposed to be able to solve but are being too stupid to notice/connect.

  How far in are you in terms of Days/time played. I’m at about 12 hours and 12 days played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Spongy isn’t related to hitboxes, just means taking many bullets to kill. I think there are only two in 2033

  spoilers

  Demons and Librarians

  and they are meant to be avoided anyway I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I played 2033 and Last Light on Ranger Hardcore and didn’t really feel the bullet sponge issue, at least in 2033 (haven’t played Exodus yet). There are some tanky enemies but I think they’re mostly meant to be avoided rather than fought.

  Also I’m pretty sure on higher difficulties both you and the enemies deal more damage so while you die easier there are also fewer bullet sponges. If anything I think the bullet sponge phenomenon occurs on Easy, bizarrely enough. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Great game. Basically a linear, cinematic corridor shooter with some cool lore and some great levels. The library level was an absolute highlight.

  Definitely recommend it, especially as a free game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Blue Prince is monopolising a majority of my mental bandwidth currently as I’m growing increasingly obsessed with it. I’ve spent about 11 hours on it so far and have taken probably a dozen pages of notes in my little notebook next the to the PC.

  I think this game could go down as a modern classic, and if it sticks the landing it will likely be my GOTY. It’s cheap too, and even 10% right now as a release week sale.

  I can’t really say anything more because, much like Outer Wilds, the less you know about it going in the better. If you even remotely enjoy mysteries and puzzles do yourself a favour and go play it like… right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You should still play Blue Prince. I sincerely doubt you can be spoiled enough by the demo to not make the game worthwhile. There is so much in this game to find and figure out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trending Communities for Saturday 12th April 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s back! Great to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an avid fan of BG2 this does tickle my fancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Won't Include the DLC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Average Nintendo moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tip of My Joystick: a new Lemmy community for finding a game whose name you can't remember⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was all derived from the original r/TipOfMyTongue wasn’t it? There are a bunch of Tipofmy-somethings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Prince | Release Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  God damn it I caved. This looks too interesting and is getting too good reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movie reviews that had me laughing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. He was one of the good ones. All these years later and I still haven’t found a proper substitute movie reviewer who is both funny and “gets it”. You could always trust his judgement. His review of Shoot 'Em Up (when so many other critics panned it) was always a perfect example to me of how he never succumbed to snobbery despite maintaining an excellent eye.

  It’s a shame we’ll never hear him savagely eviscerate the currently creatively bankrupt Hollywood with their endless sequels and remakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2: 11 Minutes of Exclusive Gameplay – IGN First⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss E3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are just a font of information, thank you so much! I’m starting to feel like I have a handle on the landscape. NixOS sounds like a cool idea, though I am not a programmer so maybe it’s not for me at this current time.

  I probably know what to start looking at now when the time comes to make the change, this has been a great help. Pipewire sounds great and I’ll definitely look into that, I do remember tearing my hair a bit occasionally dealing with PulseAudio back in the day 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to play Cyberpunk (either the game or the TTRPG) or Shadowrun with real cyberpunk music, this is your playlist.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe what you’re looking for, my friend, is something called jazzcore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks again for the rundown! Snapshotting like that is definitely cool, I can see why you enjoy it. I’m no stranger to having to nuke the system partition and reinstalling because I broke something so snapshots definitely sound like a convenient tool. Though I might be older and lazier now and less prone to do a bunch of weird things.

  I know the memes of “Arch, btw” and have always been scared of it tbh. Maybe it isn’t so bad though? I’ve also heard people praise Bazzite, but I might lot end up doing much gaming on my laptop as I said.

  Is the whole thing about real-time or low-latency kernel still a thing, or is that old news? Just in case I wanted to play around with JACK again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Prince | Review Thread (91/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I suddenly get an urge to drop what I’m currently playing and jump into this? Is it actually this good? Holy hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quite a Ride: Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pacific Ride

  My first thought as well. Going through the video I was constantly like “okay, this is the same developer right surely”… but apparently not.

  Still looks pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did used to use xfce back in the day, yes. Never had a problem with it, but those were maybe simpler times. Might look into KDE this time, why not.

  I was really thinking less of the DE and more along the lines of if you had any recommendations that weren’t Ubuntu- or Debian-based, as that’s pretty much all I’ve used I think. But maybe that’s too much experimenting…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 6th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t played much but it’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided still. Only at the beginning so far, doing side quests and exploring Prague. Really enjoying what I’m seeing so far and already am feeling bad for how the series got cut off and cancelled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m probably not going to be doing much gaming on my laptop, if any. I could be persuaded to experiment if you have any other suggestions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to use UbuntuStudio back when I was playing around with music recording and production ages ago because it ran the real-time kernel which was important for JACK I think. Last time though was just Mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My gaming PC is on Win 11 because it’s recent and I’m lazy and it’s convenient. My laptop runs Win 10 so it’ll be Linux I guess. Not really looking forward to finding a distro and reinstalling and whatnot but what can you do. It’s been a good few years since I last had a Linux box so I’m pretty rusty and not up to date on the recent best distros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #9⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll like it I think, I played it earlier this year and absolutely loved it. Great vibe, good story, beautiful pixel art and a great retro feel without the clunk of actual retro games 😄 Cool world building too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we certain Witcher is the larger game in which Gwent resides and not the other way around?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #9⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Latching on to your Lovecraftian recommendations I’d like to put forth Skald: Against the Black Priory, which should presumably also run excellently on the Steam Deck. Keep an eye out for it during the sale, it’s a great tribute to retro CRPGs and has a wonderfully gloomy lovecraftian vibe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay this is a little off script since it’s not an open world game, but if you’re only looking for satisfying movement you should take a look at Neon White. Just be warned that the writing is… on the cringier side. But that doesn’t really matter in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most influential video game of all time - Bafta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not like that at all though? Even setting aside the popularisation of the free-to-play model and its monetisation - which has defined mobile games (an industry dwarfing all other types of games in revenue by the way), FarmVille was the first innovator in terms of really invasive big data analysis of customer behaviour to maximise profit and retention. The way Zynga did player data analysis (back in 2009 I might add) literally set the tone for all modern internet. There are plenty of articles about the influence of FarmVille, here’s one.. There is another one here.