MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 1 week ago:
It’s pretty funny how much the tone shifts if you play with the co-op mode they added in a later patch. I’m guessing that’s one feature they won’t include in the remaster, haha
- Comment on Ubisoft warn staff not to celebrate Assassin's Creed Shadows launch as part of “anti-harassment plan” 1 week ago:
This sucks.
Regardless of your thoughts about the game, Ubisoft, or AAA gaming in general, it’s incredibly sad that developers - real working people - feel they can’t celebrate their work on their personal accounts without opening themselves up to attack or harassment from these unhinged trolls.
- Comment on Favourite Mario Kart game? 2 weeks ago:
I grew up on Double Dash, but MK8D offers so much choice and variety that nothing else comes close - at least for pick-up-and-play casual games.
- Comment on Please tell me I'm not going nuts 2 weeks ago:
‘Ah-ha! You’ve stepped right into my trap!’ they cried, as the dagger pierced their heart.
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 3 weeks ago:
I think the Atari XEGS probably wins the battle for ‘ugliest grey box’
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 3 weeks ago:
Similar to how the NES was made to look like a VCR, the PlayStation was made to look right at home as part of a fancy 90s home hi-fi setup. Functional/industrial grey was the aesthetic du jour, and gave it a look that said this isn’t just a toy; it’s the future of home entertainment.
- Comment on Itch.io California Fire Relief Bundle - 422 items (187 games) for $10 3 weeks ago:
Besides Tunic, there are still several good to great games in the first dozen (and no doubt a bunch more if you’re willing to dig into the smaller indies):
- Cook, Serve, Delicious - Overwhelmingly Positive (95% of 3,631) all time
- Hoa - Very Positive (89% of 2,098) all time
- Tangle Tower - Overwhelmingly Positive (95% of 4,760) all time
- Octodad: Dadliest Catch - Very Positive (93% of 8,480) all time
- Whispering Willows - Very Positive (81% of 1,166) all time
- Hidden Folks - Overwhelmingly Positive (97% of 7,333) all time
- Eldritch - Very Positive (88% of 1,673) all time
- They Bleed Pixels - Very Positive (84% of 2,014) all time
- Comment on What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked? 3 weeks ago:
a vital defense against having your phone stolen is having an Android phone to begin with
Sorry, but this is just a laughable claim to make. Phone thieves aren’t going to hold back and try to figure out if the small slab in your hand is an iPhone 14 or a Pixel 9, they’re just going to take it and figure out what they’ve taken after the fact.
If anything, if they were paying attention to what targets were carrying, they’d be more likely to go for Android because they can still strip them for parts.
- Comment on Is there a way to watch DS9 whole skipping the prophet & pah wraith plotline 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s integral to the show and most of the characters and only becomes more important as the show goes on.
I’m sure someone could assemble a list of episodes where the prophets/pah wraiths aren’t important, but it would just be a list of random filler episodes devoid of context.
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 4 weeks ago:
The sea will throw it back
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately even then the M.O. is to flatten half the country, dismantle any existing government, then half-heartedly declare victory before leaving any survivors to clean up the mess.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 weeks ago:
Also a lifelong Windows user, but have to use a Mac for work as of last year. I was expecting it to be a nightmare, but honestly 99% of the day to day stuff is either identical or similar enough that you can figure it out in a minute or two at most.
Things get a bit trickier if you’re trying to do more complex power user type stuff, since there are different paradigms at play, but even then a quick search will easily point you in the right direction.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 weeks ago:
I’d consider myself an average ublock user on desktop, and as a point of comparison I’ve yet to run into anything on iOS that wasn’t blocked just as well by AdGuard for Safari, plus the distraction control feature for hiding one-off annoyances.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 weeks ago:
All good points, but the restrictions on alternative app stores and browser engines are no longer true (although the latter only in the EU for now)
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 4 weeks ago:
Knowing Shatner’s ego, this project will never see the light of day unless it’s a vanity project.
- Comment on Anon worries about Kojima 4 weeks ago:
He has a massive following for a reason, but nothing he’s done has ever truly appealed to me, personally.
Spicy opinions incoming:
- His dialogue is absolutely atrocious; I’m not convinced he’s ever spoken with a real human.
- His plotting is cliche and convoluted, and there is literally no excuse for a 70+ minute cutscene in any game. I get the sense he’d much rather be making movies but found success in games so keeps making them instead.
- The only Kojima game I’ve genuinely enjoyed was the original MGS; a preference which made way more sense when I learned that it’s also the only game in the series where he didn’t have full control over the localisation and a third party took care to try and make Kojima’s nonsense actually intelligible.
- Comment on Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty" 5 weeks ago:
Congrats on missing the entire point of what the guy is saying.
The people losing their jobs are not the ones making the decisions that created a (subjectively) bad product.
- Comment on Day 204 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Recently did a solo playthrough of Halo 2 on heroic and it was a slog. Can’t even imagine trying to do it on legendary.
I knew going in that it has a reputation as the hardest game in the series, but it’s wild just how disproportionately unfair it feels at times.
- Comment on 1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support 1 month ago:
Genuinely never heard of this one before. Anyone played it?
- Comment on It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users 1 month ago:
I’m honestly surprised that Slack doesn’t have some kind of steganographic watermarking so that leaked screenshots can be traced back to the original user, given how many big companies use it for all their internal comms.
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 1 month ago:
We do that too.
Not sure about countries in the EU, but in the UK your income is taxed at different rates depending on how much you earn in a year.
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 1 month ago:
Stocks and property are taxed, just not with VAT: we have capital gains tax, dividend tax, and stamp duty.
- Comment on Website like brandcolors.net but for video game UIs? 2 months ago:
Is Game UI Database what you’re looking for?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 months ago:
If that’s the case you wouldn’t be able to charge them, though? I don’t think you can charge them without connecting to a console (or a third party charging dock I guess)
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 months ago:
People said similar things about the all-white Wii after the GameCube
- Comment on Chants of Sennaar, a puzzle game where you decipher an alien language (Demo available) 2 months ago:
If anything I’d say Heaven’s Vault is the better of the two!
Sure, it’s way less polished and can be janky, but the language and the translation mechanics are so much deeper and more well-developed than anything in Chants of Sennaar.
The languages in Chants are tightly defined and very specific to what the game needed, so they’re not really usable outside of that context. But the language in HV is rich and complex, and you can actually learn to write new things in it.
- Comment on Valve saw a record-breaking 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024 2 months ago:
Getting harder and harder for new games - even good ones - to find an audience.
I don’t think an abundance of releases is necessarily a bad thing, because more art is more art, but I also don’t know what a solution might look like to help prevent otherwise great games from vanishing into the masses immediately on release.
- Comment on Ex-Starfield dev dubs RPG’s design the “antithesis” of Fallout 4, admitting getting “lost” within the huge sci-fi game 2 months ago:
Bad/misleading title. The article (actually just a regurgitation of a podcast interview) is actually about the design & layout differences between two cities: New Atlantis in Starfield and Diamond City in Fallout 4.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 3 months ago:
Nah, that’s a Tesco uniform so probably UK. It’ll be a Chicago Town mini pizza.
