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- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 5 months ago:
Another Epic con: they bribe devs to not launch their games on Steam and GoG, because their store isn’t good.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss 6 months ago:
Steam has a two hour refund window. Watch a stream and then set a timer and try it out.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Returning To Direct For ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Season 3 7 months ago:
At least he’s not responsible for nemesis
- Comment on The Game Awards announces its 2023 nominees 7 months ago:
Props to Bethesda for releasing an original IP, but unfortunately the game sucked
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon 7 months ago:
If the open world in rebirth is like 15, this game will be trash.
- Comment on Darkest Dungeon II - The Binding Blade DLC Announcement Trailer 7 months ago:
I really liked 1 and 2 both. Dd2 is less punishing in that the worst case scenario is losing a run.
If this is just a class or two, though, I will be passing. The base game was expensive enough, and I think I’ve already seen most of what’s there.
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ - Launch Trailer 8 months ago:
Big oof, that looks terrible
- Comment on I just finished DS9, and I'm sad to know that we'll never get anything like it again 8 months ago:
Go read the books! The show is ultimately unsatisfying as it doesn’t cover the last arc of the story, but the last season was good
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x06 "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" 8 months ago:
I like the idea that we find out mid next season that they’ve been in a committed relationship with each other for like a year but are keeping it on the DL because monogamy is deeply uncool in their generation.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x06 "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" 8 months ago:
It’s been an ongoing Star Trek plot line that ship counselors are friggin useless
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
The best part is how these games all run great in Linux, so Microsoft doesn’t get your money.
- Comment on F-ZERO 99 - Nintendo Switch Online | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 9 months ago:
Tetris and pac man have been fun, but Mario is definitely the best version of this. So fucking dumb that they retired it.
- Comment on F-ZERO 99 - Nintendo Switch Online | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 9 months ago:
Mario 35 was a blast, it would be great if Nintendo implemented some version of it into a full game
- Comment on F-ZERO 99 - Nintendo Switch Online | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023 9 months ago:
We need Doctor Mario 99
- Comment on Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom 9 months ago:
Ok, carry on. My mistake.
- Comment on Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom 9 months ago:
No judgement from me, but I do try to pay folks for their stuff if I can afford it and it’s available in the market
- Comment on Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom 9 months ago:
This is exactly where I’m at. I don’t think my switch has left the dock on purpose since I bought it, what a waste of resources.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 9 months ago:
Upsides:
- side quests other than the radiant ones are mostly cool so far
- stealth archer isn’t so good that you can just play that way straight out, but the tree makes it looks eventually strong
- zero g combat in a derelict space station was cool. I hope there’s more of that
- base building seems fine, I’m not sure what it’s for, but it seems fine
Downsides:
- ship stuff feels bad. I don’t care about fast travel, but it’s just about the weakest ship-to-ship combat that I’ve played. Its early yet, though. Boarding a ship was cool at least.
- combat AI is not good. Enemies never seem to take any initiative, they mostly just crouch behind wherever you found them
- the setting has no… flavor? The factions feel like fallout analogues but without fun or verve. Maybe I just haven’t found the weird shit yet, but I’m not optimistic.
- Comment on Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic) 9 months ago:
Fallout had a lot of clever environmental storytelling, vignettes in random buildings, drama happening via terminal logs throughout abandoned factories, etc.
I hope that Starfield hasn’t gotten rid of that aspect of their world building.
- Comment on How are people not hating (and even liking) Star Trek Enterprise? 9 months ago:
It has its moments. Season 3 and 4 are better than the first two. It takes a while for any show to hit the tonal balance that makes a good trek. One thing that I think the show does well is fill in the gap between “humanity is a bunch of selfish messy bitches who would prefer to annihilate each other rather than get it together,” and the humanity we see in future series. You’re watching them become less xenophobic, more open minded and inquisitive.
Skip the finale, the episode before is a good finale.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - Community Update #23: Here's To You - Steam News 10 months ago:
I’ve created this innovative new technology: it’s called a survey.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 - Community Update #23: Here's To You - Steam News 10 months ago:
That usage data is neat! Also really fucking creepy. I hate that we’ve normalized just whole-hog spying on people.
- Comment on The Galaxy Class Starship 10 months ago:
Hrrrng admiral, I’m trying to sneak around but I’m dummy thicc and the warp signature from my nacelles keeps alerting the Romulans
- Comment on Divinity Original Sins 2: An unbelievably awesome game 10 months ago:
The problem is that loot is random, and it takes a lot of gear support to get to the point where a character isn’t getting hurt by fire, even with the relevant perk.
Cursed surfaces in general were just a massive pain, considering how precious Source was by default. Using a mod to get Source back on rest makes things a lot more reasonable, particularly in the first half of the game.
- Comment on Strange New Worlds 2x08 was one of the best Star Trek episodes ever 11 months ago:
I don’t understand, what’s hard to like about ortegas? She’s exactly what I’d expect a hotshot pilot to be like.