VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on ESL homework 1 day ago:
Connery’s character is Lithuanian.
- Comment on ESL homework 1 day ago:
Oh, I know how that one happened. A rooster is also called a cock, though we don’t much use that word anymore, for obvious reasons. Probably didn’t know the word and checked Google Translate or something similar.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 4 days ago:
I remembering having a crush on Hermione. Emma Watson was also older than me, though, and I remember thinking that adults perving on her was gross.
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 1 week ago:
My personal example is identical twins. If they’ve had the same experiences, then knowing what one looks like tells you what the other looks like, but ripping the arm off of one doesn’t magically rip the arm off the other.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 week ago:
Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 2 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk also has a censorship setting in all versions.
- Comment on Human 3 weeks ago:
Either that, or he’s AFK, and will come back to see how we’ve developed over the past 2000 years.
Fun fact: that’s pretty much exactly what the bible says is happening.
- Comment on Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth? 3 weeks ago:
It varies a lot from woman to woman and from one pregnancy to another. Anywhere from, “That’s it? That wasn’t so bad,” to, “Oh, god! Kill me to make the pain stop!”
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 3 weeks ago:
You can also get really good at Lute Hero, but it takes longer.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 3 weeks ago:
The money grind in 3 is easy, too. You just need to buy a house, rent it out, use that to buy another house, etc.
- Comment on Alleged Fable concept art seems to point towards a return to Fable 2's rogueish hive of scum and pub islands 3 weeks ago:
And changing yourself. Frequent magic users would get old and spindly, I believe occasionally glowing. Axe swingers would get ripped. Your character would be a literal representation of your playstyle and that was cool as hell.
It was both more and less involved than that. Putting XP into the Strength stats made your character buff, Skill stats made them tall, and Will stats gave you glowing patterns on your body, except in 3 where they made your tattoos glow instead. What you actually did was irrelevant, just how you spent your XP. In Fable 1, buying levels also made your character older, but age became connected to plot in 2 and was dropped as a morph in 3. Moral alignment in all three and ethical alignment in 2 and 3 also affected character appearance, but the specifics varied a lot between games.
- Comment on Day 548 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
My problem with the Forerunner stuff in Halo 4 is the same problem I have with all the aesthetic changes in 4 and 5 - it’s extremely busy. 1, 2, and 3 have a sleek and simple design language that makes it very easy to tell what’s happening in chaotic combat. The vibrant colors and shiny materials even give Halo 3 an almost heroic fantasy vibe. They deliberately went the other direction with Reach to enhance the grim tone of the game, but environments are still relatively simple so that enemies stand out. 4 and 5 put excessive lines and greeblies on absolutely everything. It’s all so packed with details that you sometimes lose enemies in the background and it can be difficult to tell what you’re looking at.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 4 weeks ago:
Nintendo is consistently terrible about not having solid launch titles.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve also seen volume settings not kick in until you loaded a save file. Also, PS1 era Final Fantasy games that don’t acknowledge your button mappings until the save has been loaded, so that B is select and A is cancel on the main menu, but the other way in-game.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 5 weeks ago:
RPGs are absolutely terrible about giving you the ability to inflict status effects on enemies, but not giving random encounter enemies enough HP to justify inflicting statuses, and then also making the bosses immune to them.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 5 weeks ago:
And the point I’m making is that only a handful of games are keys; the vast majority are still on the cart, same as the last system.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 5 weeks ago:
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Generally agree with your post, but a large majority of games really are games. If they’re a download key, it’s very clearly labelled on the box.
- Comment on genius 5 weeks ago:
And so do the people inside the big helicopter!
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 month ago:
I’ll give one. Despite Sheridan and Delenn giving that speech about rejecting the Shadows and Vorlons and making their own way, the Vorlons won. The Army of Light, the Rangers, and the Interstellar Alliance are all in line with Vorlon philosophy, they run on Vorlon tech, most members were Vorlon allies, and they still oppose former Shadow allies and destroy Shadow tech when they find it.
Another is that the Shadows should have had their own Kosh, a character who was still comitted to the original goal and hadn’t succumbed to motive decay. Shadows believe in strength through adversity, so one setting up obstacles with the expectation that the cast would overcome them and grow stronger cpuld have been interesting.
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 1 month ago:
Buffy barely slew any vampires after the second or third season.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 month ago:
Or perhaps Homer was colorblind?
- Comment on Facts 1 month ago:
It’s a mix. Most of the dungeons related to quests were made by hand, but every everything else was procedurally generated and touched up by hand later, and some of the minor quest dungeons got the latter treatment.
Almost all of Oblivion’s dungeons were procedurally generated with only a handful made by hand, and only some of the procedural dungeons were touched up at all.
Every single dungeon in Morrowind was made by hand since they didn’t have the proc gen tool for that engine built yet.
Daggerfall generated most of the world via fixed seed procedural generation, which allowed them to make the world massive while fitting within 450MB; the world is generated at runtime, but it’s always the same world. A handful of plot locations were hand-made.
Arena used a method similar to the one used for Daggerfall.
- Comment on Facts 1 month ago:
Oblivion is enough of a disaster implementation-wise that technically having greater mechanical complexity doesn’t concern me in the slightest. And Oblivion’s writing is, to me, a low point in both the series and Bethesda’s body of work as a whole. Skyrim’s writing isn’t amazing, but the moment-to-moment gameplay being less frustrating gives it the win for me, between the two.
Morrowind is great, though. Probably the best world building I’ve seen in a game.
- Comment on I'm not even gay 1 month ago:
always had supervision while playing with girls
That absolutely sounds like she expressed attraction toward another girl when she was little and someone decided they needed to keep an eye on her.
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
I think that might be the default mode for cats.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 2 months ago:
LOST JJ Abrams didn’t do anything other than the pilot and had no solutions to the mysteries said pilot introduced.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 months ago:
I would love if Civilization or Crusader Kings implemented this.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 2 months ago:
Final Fantasy 9 had you learn skills from equipment.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 months ago:
If you’re only interested in multiplayer then those are solid options. If you like campaign then you should definitely check out 2, ODST, and Reach.