IronKrill
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 day ago:
And also, for some of us:
- Boycott due to Mick Gordon’s treatment.
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 5 days ago:
It’s been on steep discount often, as recently as May 1st. Just gotta wait for the sale, it’ll go on again. isthereanydeal.com/game/…/history/
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 6 days ago:
Having seen the tonal shift in the gameplay preview I’d actually expect better writing, or at least more bearable writing. Gameplay looked more fine tuned but mostly the same as 3.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 3 weeks ago:
y’all keep saying this but playing 1 round of Valorant will make you realise pretty quick how easily people drop $80+ on a game.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
I think 2 can also be used as an argument for why they should switch it up. After all, we switch playable characters each game to keep things fresh, so why not do the same with guns? A new planet should bring some new gun modifiers, and they could still bring back some of the old manufacturers as rare loot or legendaries to get even more variety. After 13 years and 4 entries, I’m just a little tired of reloading Tediore’s and throwing away all Hyperion and Torgue guns I pick up (exaggerating!).
I somewhat agree with you on movement: it doesn’t have to be for combat or necessary. But you have to adjust the enemies to account for the extra player tools lest you make melee or slow projectiles trivial. That and I believe that the best games implement features to solve a problem. Take Doom Eternal for example: I wouldn’t have used half the tools in that game if they hadn’t provided challenges that were best overcome by using them. On medium-high difficulties you end up using everything at hand to get through the levels because otherwise you die, and that’s fulfilling! If I had the same tools at hand but the enemies were all .5x speed then it wouldn’t be very engaging.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
Censor Torgue? In what way do you mean, because he’s been bleeped out since his introduction in Borderlands 2.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 - State of Play Deep Dive | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
I’m happy to see that it looks good! The return to a more serious style is welcome after 3 games of perhaps taking it too far.
First impression is it seems a lot more Destiny-like: personal vehicles, quests you can pick up anywhere, dynamic events. I’m not complaining necessarily, but looks like they took some notes.
The movement options seem nice but not sure they add that much really. If they don’t solve a challenge that the enemies provide then it’s kinda pointless. I almost never used slide or ground pound in combat in previous games because I was better off just shooting the enemies.
And as much as I love my Jakobs weapons, I was hoping to see a manufacturer revamp. They even used the same companies in Tiny Tina’s with only minor tweaks. The heavy weapons sharing a slot with grenades looks to be a fantastic change though, very welcome.
Also, no lip-sync on NPCs? Looks weird having Amara speaking but her character do nothing.
Overall though looks like a solid but not ground-breaking entry. The guns look just as fun as before and the art design is a step up (those bosses!) from before which I love to see.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 4 weeks ago:
No, they have “lore”: a bunch of 2 minute animations, vague plot points, and character bios that give just enough of a reason for their seasonal events to occur and for fans to drool over. Just like every other live service.
- Comment on Wario64: Borderlands 4 is moving its release date up to September 12th 4 weeks ago:
I always found the respec fee so low as to be essentially free. The bigger barrier was remembering what skills I had specced into lol
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 4 weeks ago:
Best response here, as this actually paints a picture of what people are doing all day and why they may be doing it.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 4 weeks ago:
What field?? Like what are you supposed to be doing instead of watching videos for 7 hours. It’s crazy to me that so much time can be wasted without a manager realising or caring…
- Comment on is this something only introverts struggle with? 5 weeks ago:
This isn’t an extrovert behaviour, it’s a rude behaviour. They aren’t linked.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 5 weeks ago:
Aren’t there similar websites like 8chan that serve the same purpose? I may be out of the loop but won’t they migrate there?
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t played Genshin in a couple of years but it’s definitely one of the better ones from what I’ve seen. I played through f2p until I had a sense of the game and was confident in the content and monetization model. After that I did spend whatever it was, five bucks(?), for the “battle pass” but honestly as long as you have the time to grind then Genshin is fairly non-invasive. That grind is why I quit though, the end game was a slog.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 1 month ago:
Everything is an SUV now… :(
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 2 months ago:
I just wish there wasn’t so much guesstimating required. I stopped growing a while back and yet I’ve fit an 11, 11.5, and 11W, depending on the shoe. I wish it was a bit more standardised based on length and width. I’ve nwver shopped online for shoes because I know they probably won’t fit right!
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 2 months ago:
This really depends on the clothes. Shoes should absolutely have a single sizing system and I would love for all pants to use waist/leg measurements like jeans do. But many other garments are completely reasonable to separate based on gender (or sex, rather), primarily tops due to the fact of boobs existing and even pants like I mentioned are able to have tighter crotches on a women’s size.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 months ago:
I have a large backlog of five(?)+ plus year old games that are really good and I have yet to play. I’d much rather burn through those enjoying them on high settings instead of playing current games on low settings while trying to dodge crap monetization.
- Comment on How do we know this is actually Earth, and not just some torture chamber in Hell and we are just being punished? 2 months ago:
How do we know anything? Because we can prove it. We can confirm it through repeatable tests or there is insurmountable evidence for it to be true. I don’t see how there’s any proof of us being in a simulation, thus I live my life as if we aren’t. Although I could just be an NPC trying to convince you otherwise…
- Comment on Trump and Musk aren’t the first to make deep cuts. Clinton-era Reinventing Government saved billions 2 months ago:
Where in the rules does it say you have to be American?
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 3 months ago:
That makes sense, it’s probably the same people writing both messages.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 3 months ago:
Check r/conservative and you get a fair idea.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 3 months ago:
To expand on what Grappling said, I’ll give you an example. A few years ago the city repaved a decrepit section of road into a smooth and wide open road that is wide enough for 4 lanes but made into 2 wide ones with massive shoulders. There are no pedestrians on this road and you can comfortably go 80-100km/h. The speed limit they set? 50. While it’s not every road, it is definitely a lot of roads that get treated like this. It results in getting very comfortable with breaking the speed limits because the speed limits and road designs are made with two different goals.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 months ago:
… oh. It begins then. Thank you for the multiple links!
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 months ago:
Uh, I missed this one. Someone got the backstory?
- Comment on How are you actually doing today? 3 months ago:
Been sleeping the majority of the last 36 hours in between emptying my stomach, so not too hot. I really should not go into work today but I probably will anyway.
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 3 months ago:
Removing news from your regular feeds or taking a break from them for a week is chill, everyone should do that here and there. But don’t bury your head in the sand, you should keep an eye on it even if that is only browsing a dedicated news feed every week or two. Ignorance and complacency is how we got Trump 2024 with people actively voting againt themselves.
- Comment on Do you ever simply not understand a piece of text no matter how many times you read it despite the fact that you understand the language and individual words? 4 months ago:
I understood the reference post as I’m far too deep into degenerate internet culture, but I have definitely experienced what you say. I think sometimes people write in a way that simply doesn’t welcome people not on their wavelength.
- Comment on 'Why don't we call it Mexican America?': Claudia Sheinbaum hits back at Trump 4 months ago:
Climate change is rather important too but I wouldn’t bring it up when asked about my opinion on ice cream.
- Comment on 'Why don't we call it Mexican America?': Claudia Sheinbaum hits back at Trump 4 months ago:
Relevance?