vikingtons
@vikingtons@lemmy.world
grow a plant, hug your dog, lift heavy, eat healthy, be a nerd, play a game and help each other out
- Comment on Guess The Game (#013) 5 days ago:
This is get to the orange door
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
yeah I think monolith were taken off the series even during the like… expansions? I’m not sure what you’d refer to the DLC to fear 1 as?
2 was a serviceable game for sure, it just felt like it was on rails a little bit. I find it hard to articulate exactly why that is from memory but I don’t feel like downloading it again 😅.
3 went completely off the rails, however.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I quite enjoyed quake 2 but I agree that the thematic shift was super jarring. There’s a community mod that helps bridge the themes of 1 and 2 very well named Call of the Void, which may make it more palatable in some way?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
fear 2 and 3 could never really live up to the original. 2 sort of watered things down, 3 was kind of bizarre plot wise.
I almost feel obliged to bring up halo 4 and the rest of the 343 fever dream of games.
- Comment on Guess the game (#010) 1 week ago:
you mean command and conquer: renegade?
- Comment on Guess the game (#010) 1 week ago:
Is this renegade?!
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 1 month ago:
I guess we’ve eventually come full circle?
- Comment on Bethesda has released a major update for Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on Nintendo Switch 2, significantly improving the overall experience on the console. 4 months ago:
I suppose I might be taking the general consensus for granted here, especially around fallout 4s launch window. I played the hell out of it myself and walked away pretty disappointed.
4 had a much more streamlined approach to ‘3D fallout’ likening it more to an action adventure game rather than RPG. Many of 3 and NVs more RPG styled mechanics were pared back quite a lot.
several examples are limitless skills (not having to define a build), limited dialogue options due to the player character being VA’d, item degradation being removed (I think?), VATS being reworked to fit better with this paradigm shift, andI feel as if I could say with some level of objectivity that endings in 4 pale in comparison to the breath of outcomes you can achieve in NV.
If you like action adventure games in a post apocalyptic setting then 4 is a good time. If you like an RPG in the same setting then 4 is kind to shit?
- Comment on Bethesda has released a major update for Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on Nintendo Switch 2, significantly improving the overall experience on the console. 4 months ago:
…save for being an actual fallout game with an actual story with actual consequences sure.
i won’t dismiss the cruft and bugginess of the older iteration of gamebryo / creation engine but if you care about the original series, nv has much more to offer you. would be cool if nv could be forward ported to, for example, starfields engine, though it’s not like that isn’t without its limitations either.
- Comment on Bethesda has released a major update for Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on Nintendo Switch 2, significantly improving the overall experience on the console. 4 months ago:
the best way to improve fallout 4 is to play new vegas instead
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 4 months ago:
you know what, I totally spaced on that. this is very likely the case for save the world as well, I’m bit aware if anyone who’s played that on Linux.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 4 months ago:
I’m not getting the impression you genuinely want to hop back in, but in case you didn’t know about it, the Heroic games launcher is FOSS, cross platform, and can serve GoG, EGS and Amazon games.
I never use it for EGS because I don’t have an epic account, but it’s been wonderful for my GoG library on Fedora.
- 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.'" 8 months ago:
Can you elaborate on CE SE? Is this different from the 2003 Mac port? As far as I’m aware, the port to Mac had lower resolution textures on top of certain rendering issues, poorer AI behaviour etc.
- Comment on Day 496 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 8 months ago:
wasn’t aware of this. Makes a lot of sense in retrospect.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 9 months ago:
My exact experience with it down to a T. Can definitely appreciate it for the technological marvel it is.
- Comment on I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic. 10 months ago:
Apparently. This is reported to be a pseudo UE5 port (think Oblivion Remastered (💀)) and will be available on PlayStation. The core of the game will apparently be derived from Halo Reach’s iteration of Blam engine. The “technical details” are all just rumours and you’ve every right to disregard, though the entry coming to PS5 is more or less acknowledged.
I don’t believed a multiplayer compoment for this is planned.
- Comment on I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic. 10 months ago:
ruby’s rebalanced is the only way I can play CE today via MCC.
I don’t have high hopes for 343 but I gather their CE remaster may expand upon what was available back in 2001 and reintroduce cut content.
- Comment on Game recommendations 11 months ago:
hey, it works flawlessly out of the box with Steam games on linux and feels really, surprisingly nice. Image
some resources here:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=trLhXZKmjiE
- better coverage on functional testing youtu.be/7Sg8vReD_6o?t=240
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 11 months ago:
ravanced, magisk, newpipe etc
- Comment on Game recommendations 11 months ago:
Overcooked I think tops out at four, both boomerang fu and gang beasts gonup to 8 ime
- Comment on Game recommendations 11 months ago:
I can’t say I’ve ever used a dualshock 2 clone, but I’ve used a sixaxis and ds3? Ergonomically they seem somewhat similar. In terms of quality, I can’t say. The controller I’ve linked is wired only, however. If that’s a dealbreaker, a company called 8bitdo make some fairly affordable wireless gamepads which are all Linux friendly (directly interpreted by steaminput)
- Comment on Game recommendations 11 months ago:
My friends and I can play boomerang fu for hours. there’s a surprising level of depth to this deceptively cute looking game. Can get pretty competitive, but it’s always fun 😊
- Comment on Game recommendations 11 months ago:
I have the controller on order so I’ll let you know.
- Comment on Game recommendations 11 months ago:
boomerang fu and gang beasts are great!
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 11 months ago:
I’ve only recently been made aware of btrfs’ tendency to completely fuck data at failure states.
I’ve been using that filesystem on fedora for maybe two years now without issue, though I suppose I don’t regularly find myself hitting the issues required to cause these problems.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 1 year ago:
watch them not learn a single fuckin thing
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown 1 year ago:
That’s fair enough. I can’t talk; I still play games like pubg and halo infinite (firefight / custom games)
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown 1 year ago:
nah
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 1 year ago:
lol
- Comment on Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone 1 year ago:
but you can’t have a headphone jack because that’d be absurd 🫠
