Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
Agreed, Horizon: Zero Dawn is a genuinely excellent game. It’s saddled with the usual Ubisoft design elements (map full of things to tick off, towers to unlock areas, etc), but none of that gets in the way of how fun the gameplay is and how good the story is.
It’s one of the few video game stories that has really, really stuck with me. Some moments in that game are genuine gut punches that will leave you reeling.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 week ago:
I really enjoyed Sable. It’s not the biggest or most complicated game, but it’s beautiful, thoughtfully written, and really pulls you into its world. I loved just zooming across the wastes on my bike wondering what I would explore next. Incredibly chill.
- Comment on Soulframe: Preludes - Official Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
that i have to quit after spending 100 hours on it unable to finish the main story,
Look, no offense, but I’ve watched a player who plays on controller because her RSI is too bad for mouse and keyboard, who has no idea how to use the modding system and who plays the same frame all the time without even using their powers because she likes the drip complete the main story despite only playing when she’s on stream and only streaming the game for about two hours a week.
I’m not questioning your truthfulness here, everyone is different. But if you genuinely couldn’t complete Warframe’s main story, you are such an extreme example as to almost be unique. I’m sorry to hear that, but I want to stress to anyone else reading this how wildly unusual your experience of the game is.
- Comment on Soulframe: Preludes - Official Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I’d argue that Warframe is “grindy”, but that’s OK because the grind is the game. You’re always grinding for something, always working your way up one of the various progression treadmills, but that works because a) the gameplay itself is fun, so you’re not just clicking buttons to fill bars, and b) there’s such a huge variety of different things to progress and different ways to progress them that you can never get bored or feel like you’re being forced into certain content to move forward. You always have the option to just switch to something else. Warframe is a massive all you can eat buffet of gameplay and you get to decide exactly what you want to take from it.
- Comment on Soulframe: Preludes - Official Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I’ve played a fair bit of the beta, and I do absolutely recommend checking this out. More than anything else the thing that stuck out to me was how absolutely frictionless everything feels. I don’t really know a good way to describe it other than to say that a lot of thought has clearly been put into making every single interaction feel good. Like… There’s a button to summon a little guide, and your character snaps their fingers when they do it. The sound design on the snap is just… Satisfying. It feels good, every time you do it. Every part of the game is like that.
Combat is great. There’s a real feeling of flow, and you get a lot of tools to play with. You can throw your weapon and then summon it back like Mjolnir. You can stagger enemies and then rip mana out of them. You can parry into a finisher in one smooth motion and it feels so good when you pull it off. And all of that is without even using your class abilities.
The setting is weird in a good way. I’m curious to see where they’re going with the story. Like Warframe (and this is really one of the very few ways it is at all like Warframe) you can seamlessly switch classes and weapon loadouts whenever you like, so there’s tonnes of gameplay variety just in trying out different builds.
Most importantly though, the game has a big theme of protecting nature, and the animators more than rose to the challenge. There are a lot of adorable little critters in this game for you to give hugs and scritches to, and the animations are top notch every time. If you want to pet every critter you meet in a game, this game is for you.
- Comment on Soulframe: Preludes - Official Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Calling it soulframe was the worst decision they could have made. I’ve played both and they are very, very different games in almost every respect. I genuinely suggest you actually give it a try before writing it off. Like Warframe it’ll be free to play, so what do you have to lose?
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
Regarding B… Yeah, I’ve tried and tried to find an intuitive explanation for this, and I’ve never yet found one. Basically the answer boils down to “Because the math says so” and every attempt to explain that in practical terms always comes down to drawing a light cone diagram and showing the causality paradox in geometric terms. I find this intensely dissatisfying because it’s really just visualizing the math without actually framing it in any way that’s truly comprehensible beyond “Trust me bro.”
This video, while a little over padded with fluff, does contain the best and most comprehensible version of this explanation that I’ve seen, but I’d love for someone to be able to put it in terms that actually make sense without just drawing lines on a graph and gesturing at them. Maybe that just isn’t possible. Perhaps the whole point is that FTL breaks the laws of the universe and our understanding of reality is necessarily constrained by those same laws.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
So did the dems use presidential decree to get the funding in 2023?
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
Biden was inaugurated in '21. Why did it take multiple years for that funding to be budgeted?
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, floatheadphysics is doing an amazing job of explaining these concepts in a comprehensible way.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
I’m not following how this explanation is supposed to help with their question. Like, what are you trying to get at here?
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
It’s the now classic answer to “Why is this happening now?” Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he’d get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 weeks ago:
Same bud. There’s so, soooooo much great music being made right now. Some of it’s on the radio, some of it is obscure as fuck. Doesn’t matter. You just gotta fucking open your ears and listen.
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
As a fan of both Gurren Lagann and Uzumaki I am deeply torn on this.
- Comment on The overlooked hardcore FPS: Is Insurgency: Sandstorm still worth playing in 2026? (A detailed review) 4 weeks ago:
As someone who still plays it in 2026, yes, absolutely. It’s a really fun game, with some of the best gunplay and movement out there. Of particular note though is the sound design. I honestly think Insurgency might be one of the best games ever made in terms of sound design. The dialogue, especially, is fantastic; your characters don’t sound like cool badass tough guy heroes, they sound like they’re shitting bricks. It’s a really believable take on warfare that genuinely conveys the panic and urgency of a firefight. No one in this game is a badass, even when they’re trying really hard to come off like a badass.
This approach to realism extends to other parts of the game as well. Insurgency is depicting the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and your character options reflect that, with a wealth of middle eastern performances and cosmetic options, as well as the usual American stuff (and a Russian voice option for the insurgent side, because that was a thing that was actually happening). A detail I really appreciate is that you can have a female character, but only on the security side, because the insurgents are meant to be ISIL and their precursors, and the creators didn’t want to whitewash how deeply misogynist those groups are.
Fun fact by the way, the studio was founded by Canadian veterans who actually served in Afghanistan. This is why so much of the game actually feels believable, rather than just wearing the aesthetics of realism.
My one big criticism would be that they’ve made some very dubious choices about cosmetic DLC since the game launched. They’ve pulled back on the more egregious stuff in response to feedback from the community though, so they are listening.
- Comment on The overlooked hardcore FPS: Is Insurgency: Sandstorm still worth playing in 2026? (A detailed review) 4 weeks ago:
Start with the Cooperative mode if you want an easier time getting a handle on the gunplay and movement.
The game is still very active, and continues to get regular updates with maps, weapons and cosmetics.
- Comment on Pixel Airport Tycoon, a top down airport management and construction game, with extensive airport operations gameplay, released on Steam 1 month ago:
Looks very rough around the edges right now. This is a let’s play from only 4 days ago; www.youtube.com/watch?v=puiQqT5AQ8g
Clicking and dragging doesn’t work. Items are labeled confusingly. Some stuff isn’t translated. Graphics are a mixed bag. Oh, and no settings customization, at all.
Nice idea, I hope they can address the issues, but seems underbaked.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 1 month ago:
This is why the cinnamon challenge is so difficult.
- Comment on Driving game poll 1 month ago:
This is the sort of thing that sounds like it wouldn’t work until you realize that it’s literally Microsoft Flight Simulator, but with cars instead of planes.
Here’s a fun fact about Flight Simulator. Years back I used to work in a computer store, and we’d do custom builds. My best sales, by far, were always to the smartly dressed guys in their late forties who came in looking for a “Gaming PC.” You’d ask what kind of games they play, and they’d tell you “Just Flight Simulator.” They really meant it. They were building a gaming rig for one game. And then they would drop the most heinous stack of cash to build a gaming rig that would make the gods weep in envy. Massive towers with double or triple GPU, maxed out RAM, best CPU on the market. Liquid cooled? Sure, fuck it, why not. Their parents built model trains. These guys had Flight Simulator.
As a franchise, that game has 22 million sales. The Forza franchise has 16 million.
All of which is to say that I do think there’s a missed opportunity here. I hate racing games, but I’d play an open world driving game and I know at least one friend who would play it with me. Cruise down a mountainside in Italy, navigating hairpin bends with the hammer down and a beautiful sunset in the distance? Yeah, fuck it, sign me up.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 2 months ago:
Yeah, the moment you start thinking that it’s only acceptable for people to be gay as long as they express themselves in ways you approve of is the moment you start thinking like a fascist.
At that point you’re no different than the racist with the black friend who is “one of the good ones.”
The solution to the problem the previous owner is describing is that we need simply need more representation. There need to be enough queer people in media that no one character or couple has to serve the role of being a proxy for all queer people and relationships. Give me fruity gays and bitchy queens, and give me boring normal gay people who live in their white picket fence houses and drive trucks. Give me Loid from Warframe and give me Bill from The Last of Us. Celebrate the wonderful spectrum of humanity. Let it all exist instead of fighting over which parts are worthy.
- Comment on It’s cause he still doesn’t have what is though he looked for his is but then realized it wasn’t that mans is so he’s looking for where it is 2 months ago:
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
I mean, there’s enough game there that people routinely run “Auto resolve only” multiplayer games, so clearly there’s a decent number of people who think it’s worth doing.
Alternatively, if you want to keep the tactical battle element but find the “real time” aspect hard to manage, I’ll point out that you can give orders while paused. So you can effectively make it into a turn based game. Total War combat is pretty slow already, compared to stuff like StarCraft, and there are plenty of tools for building multistep orders and so on.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
Anyone who knows their way around the tactical battle system can generally outperform the autoresolve, but for their use case (no tactical battles at all) that just sets a new difficulty baseline. If that’s too high, bring the game difficulty down. Problem solved.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
If you like self-directed fun, yeah, you’ll probably jam with it pretty hard. Just be prepared to lose a lot of fights; collecting scar tissue is basically how you level up.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
I actually know basically nothing about SCP, and I think I enjoyed it more because of that. My wife instantly recognised most of the stuff in the game (they added a few of their own apparently) whereas I got the full “What the fuck is that?!!” experience.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
It’s not exactly what you’re asking for but SCP 5K is a hardcore tactical shooter set in a very well realized version of the SCP lore. Genuinely one of the scariest games I’ve ever played. 173 will have you shitting bricks.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
Prepare to either bounce off a game harder than anything before, or lose the next three years of your life. Or, possibly, somehow, both.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
Yeah, there have been a bunch of extraction shooter style games that I would play the shit out of if they just weren’t extraction shooters.
Jesus fucking Christ, why did Marathon have to suffer that fate?
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
For the record you can auto complete the battles and just play them as turned based strategy games with no tactical component. That may or may not be what you’re looking for, but just figured I’d let you know.
- Comment on Please suggest me Comedy Based Games 2 months ago:
And I have no idea which specific joke you’re referring to because so many of them would qualify.