Carighan
@Carighan@lemmy.world
The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
- Comment on Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary 3 days ago:
All four remaining players are very happy!
- Comment on Nintendo sues streamer for playing pre-release, emulated Switch games 5 days ago:
It sounds like they actually control quite a lot.
Turns out, when you do something clearly not okay and then actively go and taunt the people who could sue you for it with it, they might just, you know, do that. Since you actually went and asked them about it.
- Comment on Washer estimated "1 minute left", took 13 minutes to finish 5 days ago:
Usually this indicates that the drainage cycle is repeated again and again as the wash is still “too wet”.
Could have all kinds of reasons, check the drain sieve in particular, mine had this silver “sheen” clogging everything that was packed and hardened bits of plastic and fibre mushed together.
- Comment on World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive 6 days ago:
Yeah it’s the same when people say this about FFXIV, which does have an extensive money-shop for extra mounts/animations/skins/etc.
They’re pricey as hell, but at the same time the only thing you ever might feel pressured into getting are:
- Fantasia (character do-overs) after enough years because you feel like you’ve seen enough of this face and want another one and want to finally become a cat-girl like everybody else is! The game does however give you two for free, and we’re soon getting a third one, at least temporarily.
- Character boosts if your friends are being assholes and berate you for not skipping the story (seen it happen), instead of what 99% of the community does which is the exact opposite. 😅
- Comment on Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over 1 week ago:
Someone owned a patent for minigames on the loading screen which is why we did not get thise after Broken Sword. At least that expired, so now for example we got Mario Party Jamboree doing it again.
- Comment on Is including one of these with every ballot really cheaper than a sticker? 1 week ago:
Probably, yes? Printed paper is quite cheap, compared to sticker material. Negligible as the per-square-meter cost of both is, and how many more stickers you get out of one.
- Comment on Netflix shelving its best interactive titles next month, keeping the boring ones 1 week ago:
Yeah I suspect they own the remaining titles. So there’s no cost to keeping them on there. I was also really surprised they keep swinging at the concept, considering how tepid the reception was beyond the original internet hype for Bandersnatch. Which makes sense, people don’t watch movies to actively be ready to press a button on short notice, you don’t exactly sit down on the sofa to go “Oh I know, how about 1,5h of QTE threat?”.
It’s a very cool concept, but one that targets the wrong audience, basically.
- Comment on Veilguard Isn’t the First Dragon Age Game to Face ‘Woke’ Criticism 1 week ago:
Yeah but have you seen the cutscenes of DA:V?
If that childish word salad sounds “preachy” to you, you need to go to a different preacher! Yours can’t even english.
How can this sound preachy to anybody? Has the fascist right lowered their own standard of education enough to where they think Marvel-style dialogue is normal?!
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than Good 1 week ago:
I mean despite how I feel the linked article’s author uses a type of language that makes me wary of them, I kinda agree. The utterly Marvel way the game talks about things combined with the inane inability to ever have any conflict, negatives or issues combines to essentially make a mockery of very real issues.
And I’m sorry, it’s one thing to want to use art to showcase real issues and poke at them and shine a spotlight onto them. That’s good, personally I want art to do that. But when you essentially use it as a joke piece due to the inherently non-serious nature of all your scenes, it just becomes even worse than not doing it. 😔
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Clumsy, Preachy Political Messaging Does More Harm Than Goodwww.forbes.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
Hrm, I’ll be honest then, you’re the very very first time I hear someone wanting to consume game reviews meta aggregation in a chronological way (instead of by-game). Not once seen this sentiment before.
I dunno, it’s just not how people use these pages I would assume. You create search shortcuts for them, not RSS feeds. You want to look up what various reviewers at large say about a specific game, more so because this changes over time (so would a feed udoate each time the score changes? Only once on the very first review? Only once it stops updating for X time? What if that takes months?). It’s the polar opposite of once you have 2-3 reviewers who mirror your personal take well where you might want to know each time these people post a new review.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 weeks ago:
Uh, yes of course? The customers for a console and a handheld PC aren’t the same so naturally the former wants a game posted to the console?
🤷♀️
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, sorry, you’re not going to try have a neutral perspective about this, are you?
But humor me, why are so many Switch still being sold if other stuff is so superior? After all, like you said, they’re quite comparable and hey, Deck seems strictly superior. Right?
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
No I did not, you seemingly want a by-release-date system for the site, which feels quite a bit weird considering how people usually use review sites. Hence the prod at your comment.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 weeks ago:
Not remotely comparable, but sure, if you are like many here already a hobbyist PC gamer, you probably rather want a Steam Deck.
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
Yeah me neither. I really did not need user screaming to muddle the clarity of my review aggregator.
- Comment on OpenCritic now has user-reviews including pros&cons and shows user score 3 weeks ago:
Ah yeah I forgot how everyone consumes their game ratings by release date, not by game. My bad.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest, Below Zero was… mighty fine?
It was super disappointing in many regards, sure. But only compared to the extremely lofty heights of Subnautica. Years later, Below Zero is still easily the second-most-atmospheric survival game I’ve played. It’s huge problem - that the on-land sections don’t work in how they were shown before release and were clearly intended because access to heat is way too readily available and easy to trivialize - cuts deep into it since it takes a huge chunk of atmosphere out (and the on-land part looks pretty bad, it was clearly relying on the terror of having to warm up again quickly). But, even with that, the water parts close the wound up. Deep Arctic is even worse thalassophobia than the crater edge in the first game!
Sure, it’s disappointing and meh compared to the first game, but that’s just a too high bar to clear. I’d advise to not expect this game to clear it, either. Like you said, Subnautica 1 was kinda lightning-in-a-bottle. Compared to a 100/100, even a 98/100 would feel disappointing. 💡
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I kinda hope they just go for full atmosphere solo, and say “fuck it” if people want to play it MP it’ll ruin the terror anyways.
That is, optimize the mechanics to work both solo and MP, but optimize story and atmosphere solely for solo play.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
This game has 4-player co-op. Hence the second player being shown. They talked about that a long time ago that SN2 will be MP.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
It’s happening!!! 🤩
Trailer looks decent enough. Seems to lean strongly into the horror elements, which might be overdone, but also, it’s kinda what Subnautica 1 made a splash with, how strongly it triggered thalassophobia before munching you as a giant sea snake.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
… And still could bit fix that some keys are hardcoded. But I agree, with expansion the game was quite enjoyable.
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 1 month ago:
I would have said I can’t be any more disappointed with this company, wow.
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
Ah yes, I hate being butchered that way, too. It sucks hard to be paid to leave before you get paid extra to start your next job elsewhere.
And don’t get me wrong, if the C-suites actually ever had to take actual responsibility for their fuck-ups, I’d be all for those board investigations. But they don’t. They get paid enough to not care about interims between jobs - just look at the CEO who said people can just spend a year on the beach or so if they’ve been laid off - plus they get paid extra both on the leaving and on the re-hiring.
If they had to pay all non-salary money back on fucking up, even retroactively, no matter how many Porsches they’d have to liquidate to get the money from X years of fucking up the company back, sure. Do it. But that’s just sadly not the case. For a C-suite, this just means changing what name is written under your name, and moving on to the next place you can grift.
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 1 month ago:
Chariot archers > horse archers
- Comment on Against the Storm - Keepers of the Stone DLC and Fishing Update (1.4) now available! 1 month ago:
So after immediately getting it and going through a few settlements, wow did this patch break my muscle memory hard.
I was panicked-looking for my Geyser Pumps and my Rain Collectors. (they’re under gathering now)
The new stuff seems all awesome. Fishing Huts are an interesting change of pace since you can haul in the nets early but that instantly depletes the node. Frogs are fascinating and a giant headache, being unable to be housed in non-specialized homes. The change on Foxes to no longer be rainwater-specialized makes the races feel more balanced. The new recipe combinations are weird as hell (again, all muscle memory gone) but seem balanced so far.All very nice. Am impressed.
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 1 month ago:
Why not? If it’s normal, any possible identity and any possible element will be front and center every so often, no? That’s what normality means after all?