Phelpssan
@Phelpssan@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 2 weeks ago:
The secondary weapons are mostly useless and as the video said, you need to farm resources to be able to use them.
I’d argue these are some of the few “useful” upgrades since some of these tools are really strong. But I agree they made them quite annoying to use due to the need to manage/farm resources.
- Comment on The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini 2 weeks ago:
Fair. Act 1 is fairly tough but one can still go through the mist to skip last judge at least which is where most struggle.
Though that’s quite well hidden and very few people will find that without some Google help. I’d also argue that it’s probably harder to go through Sinner’s Road and Mist than fighting Last Judge, though YMMV.
It goes from 5 dmg --> 9 dmg --> 13 dmg.
That didn’t match my experience, I did a lot of tests after getting the first upgrade and it definitely didn’t cut down the hits by that much.
So I was looking into that and according to tests made by a redditor there’s some kind of “damage reduction” stat in place that negates some of that buff. Their page is a work-in-progress but they’re documenting the exact damage and # of hits to kill each enemy with each upgrade.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The Switch 2 launch felt oddly rushed.
Lack of details, initial backward compatibility list having only ~20% of games with basic testing finished, the need for SD Express cards that are hard to find. Even the GCK situation is probably due to cost/availability issues that will improve over time.
This DevKit situation looks like another example of this.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Finished three games:
- ATRI: My Dear Moments
- We Love Katamari Reroll+Royal Reverie
- Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Will be posting more details on !nintendo@lemmy.world’s “What are you playing this weekend?” thread tomorrow, but I enjoyed all three games and can recommend them to others.
Started playing two more today:
First impressions are good but it’s too early to recommend either of these.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Like others said, it’s not just Gen-Z.
Funny enough, the main reason I’m spending far less is the gaming industry’s push to kill physical copies.
I used to buy a lot of physical games at full price because they would be much harder to find later on, but since I’ve been forced to go towards digital games this is no longer an issue, so I just let them sit on my wishlist until I they’re massively discounted.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 month ago:
- Persona 4
- Ar Tonelico 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Honerable mention to Warcraft 3 TFT.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 3 months ago:
Are they? If you didn’t buy the game with the intent of lending/reselling later I feel they’re even worse than code-in-a-box.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 3 months ago:
Not surprising considering that most 3rd party games are:
- Ports of old games so anyone who has a PS5/Xbox/PC can get them for cheaper.
- Overpriced ports as well, and in a system that is already rather expensive.
- Game Key Cards which won’t appeal to collectors who could still buy them despite #1 and #2.
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 3 months ago:
There’s a lot of videos and articles like this one discussing how Stage 1-1 of Super Mario Bros for the NES is a cleverly designed tutorial for the core game mechanics.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 3 months ago:
I’ve been using backloggery.com for more than 15 years.
It’s a simple, manual site, but I think that’s also its main strenght - I’ve had too many issues with other sites where I wanted to add a niche game I played but it was not in their databases, inconsistent naming between games in the same series, no ability to add duplicates when I occasionally double-diped on a game and so on.
It has all features I need - you can add reviews, notes, track priorities, wishlist, borrowed games, make custom lists, get stats… it’s also community supported with no ads.
The site was a bit stale without development for a while, but Drumble (the owner) finished a major rewrite last year and started developing new features again. You can check his profile here for an example.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 year ago:
There’s also the problem that they’re clearly rushing this without much thought, they don’t even have an answer to the obvious question of “what happens to people in regions not supported by PSN”.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 year ago:
I’m not in the UK but I’ve seen several sources confirming that.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 year ago:
The developer is involved. Though it’s pretty obvious that the push for this is from Sony, they are the publisher for the game.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 year ago:
So if it were clearly written on the Steam page, I don’t really get the complains.
It was optional for several months and the info on the PSN page contradicted that, so there was a lot of room for confusion.
Not surprisingly that PSN page was edited earlier today, but there’s a million screenshots floating around already, plus you can check the previous version in the Wayback Machine.
And even if it was clearly written on all places, it’s still a “too bad you didn’t read the fine print, now you’re past the limit time for a refund, so either let Sony track you or lose access to the game” situation which is very shitty. There also the fact that they sold the game to people in countries where is PSN is not available, which should not have happened if that requirement was going to be enforced in the future.
Not hard to see why people would get pissed and lose trust in the developer. I also think that players have been annoyed for a while with this type of requirement (not specifically in this game), and they are now getting a good outlet with a lot of publicity around to vent about this.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 year ago:
