MrScottyTay
@MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
An almost 30 Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 week ago:
Think you’ve hit it on the nail on the head. It feels less like a chore because of the way they all connect with one another.
Although even before fast travel I still did a lot of manual travelling to get everything done. At least until I realised that fast travel was very likely to get better later in the game, which it of course did.
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 week ago:
I’ve enjoyed all of the movies in the moment (except ant man 3) but a few I’ve liked less the more i think back on them.
Spidey 3, deadpool 3, falcon (mostly), Loki and wandavision were great at release and still are to me (i guess the jury is still out on deadpool with it being so new)
- Comment on Are people around you still excited about MCU movies? 1 week ago:
It looking like winter soldier is why I’ve been excited. I’ve also always liked falcon as cap so seeing more of that is always good to me.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 week ago:
It’s a massive improvement too. The changes they made to materia make it more fun too.
- Comment on Thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Remake 1 week ago:
I loved the combat system, so I enjoyed every fight in game (except flying monsters in the first game if you didn’t have barret around). I think it’s my favourite hybrid combat system that allows both tactical and reactionary attacks and shines the mist when you’re juggling between characters to get the ATB gauges up on everyone as quickly as possible so you have more toys to play with constantly.
The Yuffie DLC (Intermission) then expands upon the traversal mechanics and team based combat mechanics which were a whole lot of fun. A lot of this carried over to Rebirth as well but expanded up again. Still ended up with Yuffie being one of the most fun to play though because she was originally designed to play mostly solo from her DLC, but having a character that is more fun to play isn’t a bad thing obviously.
Story wise, without spoiling too much, I love how, much like a lot of the mechanics, tries to expand upon old elements rather than outright replace them. And the story being some kind of pseudo-sequel where meta-textuality enhances the experience it ensures that these games are not replacements of the original. Which makes me laud it up in the highest regards. If they had just tried to replicate everything I think it would’ve felt even weirder it trying to be a wholesale replacement of the original like a lot of standard remakes try to be (think resi and silent hill). I don’t know how others can replicate what square is doing though since a lot of it is rooted in it’s story and doesn’t deviate far from the elements introduced in the original and the compilation games. Resi could not have replicated this intertextuality between versions of the game. You could argue silent hill could due to its story elements but they just focused on making it an enhanced version of the original.
I think I’m staying to ramble too much now so I’ll end it. I think the fact I can ramble about these games and gush about them so much does how much I love them. Other than astro bot rebirth was one of the most refreshing breaths in gaming for me, despite me more often than not despising both large open worlds and ubi style towers. Yet I felt compelled to almost 100% the game just due to the amount of fun I was having that I could not get anywhere else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Think you either have a strange definition of mild or a strange interpretation of adultery
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 2 weeks ago:
This is why i never use the default folders, I will always make my own elsewhere.
- Comment on historical inaccuracies 2 weeks ago:
24 if you first do it with the knuckle I’d your thumb and switch to the tip after you’ve done every finger bone
- Comment on cool yourself off 2 weeks ago:
Spray it on your chocolate starfish
- Comment on What emotion is this? 2 weeks ago:
Was one of the first faves i got for the ps1 and I still play it almost every year. Fantastic game with a great soundtrack
- Comment on What emotion is this? 2 weeks ago:
First level Andy’s house, second is the neighborhood
- Comment on What emotion is this? 2 weeks ago:
I come in peace
- Comment on 200 UK Companies Permanently Move To 4-Day Work Week Without Loss Of Pay 3 weeks ago:
Not usually. I once worked standard hours across 4 days. And even though it’s the same amount and the standard work day is longer. Gaining a full day to do whatever is so much better. The work day is usually only increased by 1-2 hours with one of them days being slightly shorter than the others too. Less time commuting (if you’re in office) is a benefit too. I wish my current company could go 4 days, but it’s unlikely to happen due to our clients.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 3 weeks ago:
I know why it happened, my comment wasn’t written to be serious, sorry for the confusion
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 3 weeks ago:
They’ve politicised age! What’s next!?🕴️
- Comment on Which movies are much darker when you rewatch them as an adult? 3 weeks ago:
The Wind in the Willows (the live action pseudo monty python version)
- Comment on Marvel Rivals data miners now think the ‘fake’ heroes might be real 3 weeks ago:
Paste-pot Pete! Let’s go!!!
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 5 weeks ago:
It has awful maintainability if you have to create a new component every time you want a new button, instead of reutilising old code in a way that changing the way one of them works should change all of them. It would also make the devs able to work faster and get to just focus on the main stuff they are working on.
Steam seems to have a lot of different Devs attempting to do their own thing from scratch again and again. And that’s bad. I imagine their codebase is an absolute nightmare.
- Comment on Full immersive experience 5 weeks ago:
Labo compatible
- Comment on UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study 5 weeks ago:
Oh so it’s a group of countries
- Comment on What year is it 5 weeks ago:
That’s cool, thanks for informing me
- Comment on UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study 5 weeks ago:
What does OECD stand for?
- Comment on Star Wars: Outlaws Reportedly Sold Less in 2024 than Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Did – WGB 5 weeks ago:
I just don’t want a massive open world game all of the time. It’s already played ffvii rebirth and put 90 hours into it. After that I want something different for the rest of the year. No matter how much I enjoy star wars
- Comment on What year is it 5 weeks ago:
We can’t know for certain the rules we now attribute to this game are what were originally played though. The rules were essentially made up in a way that made sense to what the board looks like and what was found with it. There is no documentation on this found anywhere in history.
- Comment on For a group that considers .world to be Reddit 2.0 and a "CIA propaganda front" they seem to get awfully mad whenever it comes up 1 month ago:
I think alien.top is a proxy for refit so those users are likely bot users that go in place of Reddit users
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 month ago:
I’m pretty certain it’s latter of my comment. Don’t know what FUD means though
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 month ago:
Yeah i assumed this might’ve been the case, hence the last sentence in my comment
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 month ago:
I’m sure on the game specs on the store it says steam will no longer support win 10 in jan 2025. Unless i misread and it’s it’ll only support win 10 and above.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 month ago:
I’m going to imagine Xbox would love to. But Microsoft is stopping them. They’d stop android and ios too if they still had windows phone.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 month ago:
Just chiming in to confirm you’re correct. I use big picture mode on windows and I’ve got to keep an air mouse with me for moments like that.