Coelacanth
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu
- Comment on Anti-choice activist Seth Gruber calls for women who get abortions to face the death penalty 11 hours ago:
Is he on coke or is he just a psychopath. Or both? He’s fucking unnerving as hell to watch and listen to.
- Comment on [Meta] What happened to the weekly "What are you playing?" posts? 4 days ago:
Looks like @chloyster@beehaw.org sadly isn’t active anymore, and they were the ones usually posting them. I’ve seen one or two be posted since may, but they haven’t been pinned so they don’t get as much traction. Maybe it would be a good thing to contact the remaining active mods about.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean, I tried to watch some of L.A. By Night and didn’t really love her there, to be honest. Didn’t make me dislike her as a person or anything though, or as a voice actor. I think she’s talented. Just made me stop watching the show.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 1 week ago:
Indie games are booming lately, if you think you’re witnessing the fall of gaming you’re simply looking in the wrong place.
- Comment on The Anbernic RG DS Plus Is The Best DS Handheld Yet 2 weeks ago:
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is incredible too.
- Comment on Temp Check on Blood of the Dawnwalker? 3 weeks ago:
This one isn’t necessarily unexpected though - it was made by a bunch of ex-CDPR people. From the clips I’ve seen, it’s pretty much The Witcher 3: 2. Seeing as that game is many people’s all time favourite, the success of Dawnwalker doesn’t surprise me at all.
- Comment on Steam API leaks Achievements, Spoilers for Persona 6, Kingdom Hearts 4, Fable 4, and other games 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, they just need another 3-4 spinoffs and tie-in mobile games and the story will make perfect sense!
- Comment on Stealth Games Are Flawed (And Hard To Fix) 4 weeks ago:
He touches briefly in the video on the fact that horror games do get around some of the challenges of stealth games, seeing as there is still tension in hiding from a monster.
But honestly, it’s all just a question of immersion, even that. Horror games get much less scary without stakes, and few games implement them well. That’s another good subject for a video essay. The alien in Alien: Isolation becomes much less scary once you realise it’s just a walking reload button. So what if it catches you? You can just try again. Same issue as with most stealth games, only with an added jump scare.
That’s why I think games like Until Dawn have solved the issue of horror game stakes the best. In a regular horror game, the main character can never die before the game is over. That means failure just leads to reloading. In an ensemble game, your poor performance can get people killed and bad things happen, but the story trudges on. That keeps the tension high.
Another way is with some sort of permadeath. Darkwood on hard mode with limited lives is fucking scary. Some sort of stakes is needed for the fear to set in, unless your game produces horror from a different angle (existential, cosmic, psychological, visual body horror etc).
Anyway, I guess I got a bit sidetracked here 😅 I do agree that as far as AI behaviour goes, the alien in Alien: Isolation is an excellent guard!
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on "Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible doll 4 weeks ago:
They are one of the inspirations for this game. And probably singled out for the title along with Bloodborne to drive clicks. But disregard the clickbait - Withering Rooms was spectacular and from what I’ve heard from beta testers so is this sequel.
- Comment on "Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible doll 4 weeks ago:
Withering Rooms is one of the best games I’ve played this year. Can’t recommend it enough. Really impressive effort for a solo dev.
- "Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible dollwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Day 779 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
MiniLED works, too, at least with enough dimming zones.
- Comment on Day 779 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think an SDR monitor is going to give you the same true blacks as an HDR monitor will. But even despite that most games - even today’s HDR-supporting titles - suck at producing good blacks. I quite often find myself installing some HDR fix shaders via ReShade simply to fix the black floor.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s bizarre too because every other voice was excellent, as is the usual case for R*.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I actually agree with you. I was browsing the comments and during the first few minutes I was thinking “ah, they’re exaggerating”, but it really did get worse and worse. Really puts me off as well.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered Announced, Songs of the Past Gets First Look 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, and also about the DLC rankings. Blood and Wine is alright but it’s wildly overrated. It’s a nice post-game vacation and it has some fun stuff in it, but it’s ideal to play like a year after finishing base game + HoS, in my opinion.
Hearts of Stone is the best Witcher content CDPR has produced yet.
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 1 month ago:
I didn’t say it made sense.
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 1 month ago:
I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.
Just Christian moral panic and puritanism, which has fucked us up mentally and psychologically for centuries now.
- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Alan Wake 2 is a masterpiece. I’m glad you’re finally getting to it!
- Comment on New Age Cartel (NAC) | Modern Browser Mafia PBBG — Dev Showcase & Playtest 1 month ago:
The post does definitely sound and smell very AI-ey.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Absolutely this. I wish I could say I thought higher of Bethesda than employing copyright trolls, but unfortunately I guess I’m not surprised.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 1 month ago:
I could literally not live without them anymore. It’s great even for browsing/desktop use with some extra common actions, and pretty much every single game plays smoother with a few thumb-bound hotkeys.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Not just Day 1 patches but continued post-launch support too. And DLCs. Back in the times before the internet a game would release and that was it. The disc was the whole game and all it would ever be. We’re not there anymore.
Also, discs degrade really fast anyway, it’s not an amazing long term storage medium. I’d rather the GOG model of offline DRM free installers you can store on your own, in terms of game preservation, than forcing production of discs.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 1 month ago:
No, not in a long time. I just find it’s very nice to have, you can do actions without lifting your fingers off WASD. Or use the PC one handed in some cases and have a coffee.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 1 month ago:
I also switched to Logitech, to a G604 though. Six thumb buttons is perfect for me.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 1 month ago:
Same, although more than just the scroll wheel broke. And I think I was on three in a row breaking within a year before I gave up. It’s a shame because feature-wise I like some of their stuff, but it’s just impossible to buy products with this level of QC.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sid Meier’s Pirates! was remade twice - once in '93 and once in '04. Probably the first title that springs to mind for me. I have unfortunately only played the 2004 version, although I know the older ones are considered all time classics. Maybe one day.
- Comment on Rate My New Gaming Chair 1 month ago:
Beautiful.