VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo stock falls after mixed reaction from Switch 2 announcement 1 day ago:
There was that time Sega suddenly dropped the Saturn into the US market months ahead of schedule. Shot themselves in the foot doing it, too.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 days ago:
A mouse mode could be extremely useful for things like Civilization or Fire Emblem. Of course, the touch screen is also great for that and Three Houses and Triangle Strategy didn’t support it.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 days ago:
Would the NFC system in the stick interfere with hall effect sensors?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 days ago:
I’m guessing the all grey model probably sold better than the one with colorful joycons so they lead with that this time.
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 6 days ago:
Maybe in three or four years when the mid-gen refresh comes out.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 1 week ago:
The only two things the South got right were “y’all” and biscuits and gravy.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
If you’re not happy with your side, you also get one last chance to switch when you are tasked with acquiring the Jagged Crown. If you’ve decided you don’t like your guy, you can bring it to the other guy.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
KotOR’s control scheme is definitely weird. It’s a turn based game but the turns are obfuscated to appear like real time. On top of that, it’s in an engine intended for top-down isometric mouse-driven gameplay but it’s been kludged into an over-the-shoulder console game, then that control scheme was kludged back to mouse-driven for the PC port. It felt real good on the original Xbox way back in 2003, but if I hadn’t played it back then I would probably have some difficulty with it now.
The writing is shockingly good, though, especially for 2003. It was the best thing in the expanded universe for a good while.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
Not choosing is what the Thalmor want. Reading the notes in their embassy makes it clear that they want the war to drag on as long as possible since it weakens both the Empire and Skyrim, improving the Dominion’s odds of victory in the next war. Any resolution to the civil war is less bad than allowing it to continue. There is no good option, just ones you can live with and ones you can’t.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
Yeah, the Empire really only enforces the ban while the Thalmor are looking. Elisif is another Talos worshiper and she’s their choice for ruler of the province.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 week ago:
RROD was actually 3/4ths of a circle. A full red circle was a different and less troubling error.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, that’s the anti-scalper countermeasure. Crippling their crypto mining potential didn’t impact scalping very much, so they increased the price with the RTX 40 series. The RTX 40s were much easier to find than the RTX 30s were, so here we are for the RTX 50s. They’re already on the edge of what people will pay, so they’re less attractive to scalpers. We’ll probably see an initial wave of scalped 3090s for $3500-$4000, then it will drop off after a few months and the market will mostly have un-scalped ones with fancy coolers for $2200-$2500 from Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 2 weeks ago:
Careful, that word’s really offensive in most parts of the galaxy.
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 2 weeks ago:
Like a wombat?
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Shatner is also pretty clearly using stage acting techniques instead of screen acting techniques in much of the show, screen acting as a distinct skill still being rather new at the time. You can also see Nimoy using much more modern feeling acting and Kelley using something in between.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 2 weeks ago:
Micro is actually tactics since it’s on the level of a single engagement. Strategy is more about the game as a whole, like scouting and map control.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 2 weeks ago:
I just want an RTS I can actually play with my wrist in its current condition. I can do the earliest C&C campaigns, but that’s partially because the AI isn’t good enough to require fast and precise mouse movements. I just physically can’t do micro anymore and attempting it hurts, but most RTS games are designed in such a way that micro is required.
- Comment on We need to go back! Back to the terminal! 2 weeks ago:
You actually do frequently post in the third person. For a recent example, you said
Drag thinks drag gets it, thanks!
That is structured as a third person sentence. A first person version would be, “Drag think drag get it, thanks!” Basically, you don’t always conjugate for first person. Since your name/nickname and pronoun only differ by capitalization, though, neither form quite looks right in English.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is it bad that I think I recognized which thing you were talking about?
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
That’s just an Elder Scrolls game, and I love it, for some reason.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 3 weeks ago:
There are also four normal endings and a true ending. You can only see the true ending after getting all four normal endings. There are multiple branch points in the story leading to the different endings so you have to start almost from the beginning to find a new one. The true ending is on a wholly separate route that is 99% identical to the one leading to Ending A. There is no new game plus, so you have to start from scratch each time. The true ending boss, unlike the other ending bosses, is absurdly over tuned and the only enemy in the game that requires you use or even know about several obscure mechanics, and even then requires you to have all upgrades maxed out and be near the level cap to even stand a chance.
- Comment on Video game journalist Jason Schreier's top 10 games of 2024 list 3 weeks ago:
Personally, I started on the first part of the remake trilogy, then stopped when I realized how annoyed I would be about waiting for the sequels. So now I’m waiting for all of it to be out on Steam before I start again.
- Comment on I walked all over the damn store looking for butter 4 weeks ago:
I used to live a couple blocks from a Safeway that decided to put the canned beans and canned chili in the wine aisle, with no sign to direct you there. Is throwing random shit in the wine aisle just a Safeway tradition?
- Comment on Destiny 2 Players Struggle To Find Fireteams As Population Drops To All-Time Low 4 weeks ago:
I completely stopped playing when they sunsetted the equipment that made my somewhat unusual warlock build work.
- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 4 weeks ago:
Bitrate wouldn’t change, but it would reduce latency by a tiny amount.
- Comment on What do You think about level scaling in cRPGs? 4 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk 2077 used the static levels on launch, but changed to almost everything leveling with you in 2.0. I think the change actually worked better for the game, but it’s also done differently than every other game I’ve seen use that approach. Enemies gain stats much slower than V does, so a level 20 V still feels much more powerful than a level 1 V, but you also have the freedom to explore rather than having arbitrary beef gates making it nigh impossible to go to certain parts of the city before you’re supposed to.
On the other hand, I also love Morrowind’s painstakingly hand-crafted world with static enemies and hand-placed loot. In most games done that way, however, returning to lower level areas is typically a complete waste of time.
Ultimately, I think both systems can work if they’re done well, but everything leveling up is almost always done poorly, or at least worse than the average game with static levels.
A system I have thought of before is a hybrid where enemies have a target level and then their actual level is the average of your level and the target level. For instance, if an enemy’s target level is 20 and you’re level 1, they’ll be level 10. You probably won’t be able to do much to them. But when you get to level 10, they’ll be level 15, which you might be able to deal with if you’re good. You’ll eventually out-level them, but they’ll still be interesting to fight because when you’re at level 40 they’ll be at level 30. I only make the occasional mod, though, so I’ve never gotten to test if this actually is fun.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 5 weeks ago:
Even if you notice that your brush techniques an inventory screens don’t look complete, it really does feel like the end. Then when they do look complete and you’re sure you’ve finally finished it, there’s one more region and some upgrades.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 5 weeks ago:
And from 1 to 2, which was desperately needed.
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 5 weeks ago:
It is, in fact, legal more places than not. Cousin marriage was extremely common for thousands of years. It only really started to drop off when people started owning cars and could meet people from further away. Most places still haven’t changed their laws, and it’s low risk enough that it’s not a serious concern if it’s just once in a while rather than, say, medieval European royalty shenanigans.
- Comment on Carcinisation? 1 month ago:
How do you prevent people from squeezing into your buffer?