VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon compares Harry and Ron 1 day ago:
IIRC, she said it was wish fulfillment on her part, with Hermione standing in for JKR and Ron being like someone JKR liked when she was younger.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 3 days ago:
Which is weird because BOTW’s UI is the worst part of the game. Soooo much scrollingthrough item lists.
- Comment on Day 215 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 3 days ago:
Unity’s gameplay was a glorious return to form. Unity’s writing… not so much.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 4 days ago:
Generals also took the base construction and resource harvesting systems from Blizzard’s games. The entire game feels like it should have been named ModernCraft or something instead of C&C.
Going the other way, Warcraft 1 and 2 used used a left-justified UI that was very similar to the one C&C used, but with elements that would evolve into the StarCraft and Warcraft 3 UI.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 4 days ago:
Guy couldn’t handle the sudden fame, iirc.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 4 days ago:
I still play games with look inversion because controls were so unstandardized in the '90s that what we currently consider inverted was the default on a good number of games and that was what I learned. I didn’t even go to the modern stick layout until Halo 3 was out, and that mostly worked because I thought of it as WASD + mouse mapped to sticks.
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 5 days ago:
I still haven’t played Part 2, but I’m pretty sure the remake trilogy is a stealth sequel.
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 5 days ago:
FF8 didn’t do it for me, mostly because the gameplay was a terribly broken mess. I loved 12, though; the story is like the love child of Final Fantasy, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars, and the gameplay felt like a logical evolution of the ATB system for a fully 3D world.
- Comment on Anon removes a fence 2 weeks ago:
Why would you link that gif and not the Sideshow Bob one?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Out of morbid curiosity, what movie is it?
- Comment on If driving with your head buried in your phone isn't dangerous enough there's also THIS 2 weeks ago:
I love that they somehow couldn’t get a picture of someone holding the food, so they just shopped it three times.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Wait until there’s a steep sale on the Complete Edition later on. I only paid $5 for Civ5 Complete, and I think $15 for Civ6 Complete.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
IIRC from when I first got the game, the tutorial hadn’t been updated to account for changes from patches and expansions. It was probably fine for launch day, but decidedly not for the final game.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Culture victories are never really explained, but that was also a Civ5 issue. I never completely figured out how luxuries/amenities are distributed between your cities, and cities don’t show a breakdown, just how many they have. I do like 6 better than 5 over all, though, but I’m also not OP.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if the era system is partially to mitigate the late-game AI issues.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 2 weeks ago:
Still perplexed Nintendo hasn’t released atomic purple joycons.
- Comment on I liked Star Trek before it got woke. /s 3 weeks ago:
Well, it did take a while for Fashion-Lizard to stop being Fascism-Lizard.
- Comment on Google's AI is using past tense to describe a sporting event that takes place in 3 days. And it knows who won too. 3 weeks ago:
Seriously, it’s just a fancy auto-complete. It knows nothing.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 3 weeks ago:
Delicious Dick
- Comment on Anon experiences German humor 4 weeks ago:
They showed that with their first translation. The second, more literal, translation is to demonstrate the pun.
- Comment on BDSM 4 weeks ago:
Vista with updates was also shockingly stable. 7 on launch was really just Vista with a new taskbar skin.
- Comment on Nintendo stock falls after mixed reaction from Switch 2 announcement 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Would the NFC system in the stick interfere with hall effect sensors?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Maybe in three or four years when the mid-gen refresh comes out.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.