Aielman15
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- Digimon Story: Time Stranger footage – real world, Digital World, battle, and evolutionwww.gematsu.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #17 3 days ago:
What have you been playing
Talos Principle 2. I bought it 5 months ago but only recently I’ve been able to actually play it.
The first game was a near 10/10 experience for me, so I came in with very high expectations, and… At the moment, I’m a bit disappointed.
The main drawback is how pointlessly big everything is. You spend minutes running from puzzle to puzzle, especially if you want to 100% the game, which requires a lot of wandering around to find hidden switches and light rods to solve the Sphynx’s puzzles.
The environment is gorgeous, mind you, but it’s just… too much. Which is funny, because an NPC I talked to yesterday lamented the exact same thing: '“bigger doesn’t equal more beautiful”. I agree, Jeremy.That being said, it’s still a fun game, and the story is interesting (although a lot more heavy-handed than the first game). There are also a lot of cats! And you can pet some of them! I also found a little fox running around. I couldn’t pet it, but it was cute regardless.
But seriously, this game is soothing for the soul. There’s just something in strolling around taking in the view with a beautiful soundtrack in the background that is just soooo relaxing. I use it as a way to cool my head after a day’s work before going to bed.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Half the things those idiots like would be ‘woke’ if they came out today. Any movie/videogame/(I would include books but these chuds don’t read) including a female lead, a non-white person, or a disabled individual is doing virtue signalling and pandering to minorities. But back then, chuds didn’t have the internet to tell them what to hate.
There are tons of things that nobody cared about years ago that wouldn’t fly today. Fairy Oddparents having a male individual become pregnant. LOTR’s Éowyn killing the witch king on her own. Avatar: TLA has a few ‘woke’ episodes as well - for example, one where the male leads learns how to fight from a woman, and another where the female lead needs to convince a male wizard to teach her magic, which was a man-only practice.
If they were released today, you’d find them in thumbnails on YT with “cringe”, “woke” or “DEI” written in CAPS all over the place.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Woke did not exist before 2015, so everything created before that year is, in fact, absolutely based. Including all those apolitical masterpieces I grew up with, such as Metal Gear Solid and Bioshock. I wish they still made fun games instead of insisting on shoving leftist commentary down out throats. I really want to enjoy gaming again but developers are work leftists now :(
Lucky for us, the glorious Nippon country is untouched by woke. No, I don’t know Japan and I’ve visited it, but i play a lot of VNs, which is basically the same thing.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #15 2 weeks ago:
Tank controls truly are divisive. I grew up playing the PS1 RE games and, to me, they are just second nature. I recommended a friend of mine to try them out, and he walked away after a few minutes lol
Have you tried Dino Crisis 2? Of all the tank controls games, it’s the one with the most fluid gameplay. The story is completely bonkers, but the gameplay is so satisfying.
By the way, thank you for recommending Crow Country! I had never heard of it and now I’m very interested.
- Comment on The wonderful Revenge of the Savage Planet has been released! 2 weeks ago:
I really liked the first one. For those who haven’t heard of it, it’s a weird platformer/collect-a-thon where you play as a spaceman (or a spacedog, funnily enough) scouting potentially livable planets for a ruthless company.
The first one was a bit undercooked, but the whole game was better than the sum of its parts. I’m curious to see if the sequel improved on the original.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 3 weeks ago:
I urge anyone who has not played Crosscode to give it a try. I randomly played it during the pandemic, and I’ve since not been able to enjoy gaming the way I did it before. For me, it was very close to being a 10/10.
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 4 weeks ago:
The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant
Isn’t GameRant, like, 90% AI-generated clickbait content nowadays? Can’t talk about what they were about a few years ago, but every time I find a GR article when looking for something, it’s clickbait AI slop. Like “When will the sequel to X release? Everything you need to know” (scroll down to read post) “there’s no confirmation about a sequel”.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 4 weeks ago:
As someone who loves JRPGs as a genre but has generally grown out of their anime phase, Expedition 33 sounds really interesting. I’ve been eyeing it since the announcement trailer and its recent success got me curious. A co-worker told me that it’s just 20-30 hours to beat, which is a huge plus for me (don’t have the patience to clear 100-200 hrs games anymore - looking at you, Persona 5).
I’ll probably get it this summer as soon as I manage to get some free time from work.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread) 4 weeks ago:
Divinity 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Witcher 3, and those are just the most popular/universally acclaimed. I feel all three of them offer the same sense of adventure and exploration in an open world map, with actually interesting side content, engaging combat system, and voice acting that doesn’t scream “we’re being held in the recording room against our will, please save us”. They are also relatively bug-free, or at least not broken the way Bethesda titles are.
Back in the days, I think Gothic had the same clunky combat system but at least offered a much deeper worldbuilding and more interesting choices.
You can also widen the search by changing the parameters. The thing that sets Oblivion apart is that it attempted to do a lot of things, but everything is either shallow, poorly executed, or outright bugged. If you take a look at other titles that did some of the things Oblivion did, there are countless that executed those ideas a lot better. Fable 2, Dragon Age, Avowed for example, and again, I’m only mentioning the most famous ones.
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered Impressions (and Discussion Thread) 4 weeks ago:
I’m honestly surprised that so many people longed to return to Oblivion. The game’s as bad now as it was 20 years ago - janky combat, horrible dialogue, bugs galore. They gave it a nice coat of paint, but the moment you transition from dialogue to gameplay, you go back to the same animations from the original game.
There are so many games nowadays that do what Oblivion attempted to do, so much better.
- Comment on Fishing games? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not my cup of tea, so I can’t speak by experience, but a friend of mine tried WEBFISHING and loved it.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 5 weeks ago:
Cool to see an indie game from a new studio getting so much praise.
- Comment on Stonemaier Games sues the Trump administration over tariffs and their impact on the tabletop gaming industry. 5 weeks ago:
Obligatory “I’m not American”. I’m a bit confused by this. Can anyone sue the president over an official act? Is that a thing? Didn’t the Supreme Court basically say that he could walk outside, shoot a bystander, go back home and face no consequences?
As far as I know, lawsuits that involve rich/powerful individuals and another side with way less cash than them is to just postpone the hearing or drag it on long enough for the poorer side to give up or go bankrupt. Even if it actually succeeded, suing the president is something that could be escalated until it gets picked up by the currently right-leaning supreme court, doesn’t it?
- Comment on STOP destroying videogames 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, under 50% of the required signatures and it’s just a few weeks from expiring, there’s no chance this will succeed unless some big-name influencer gathers support for the petition, which at this point I doubt will happen.
It made some people talk about the problem, though. That’s a step in the right direction.
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 5 weeks ago:
PugJesus and The_Picard_Maneuver are single-handedly keeping half of Lemmy afloat.
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 5 weeks ago:
I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 5 weeks ago:
Oh, that’s sad. No point in staying subscribed, then.
- Comment on Video game genre communities on Lemmy 1 month ago:
sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0
Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven’t seen a post in there in a while.
lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle?dataType=Post&page=…
lemmy.world/c/residentevil?dataType=Post&page=0
Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.
lemm.ee/c/gamemusic?dataType=Post&page=0
Community for sharing game music. Not very active, but I see posts in my feed every now and then.
retrolemmy.com/c/TipOfMyJoystick?dataType=Post&pa…
Fairly new community to help people looking for a specific name they forgot the name of.
Sorry for not sharing the generic link, I’m on mobile and that’s the link my app generates when I click on “share”.
- Comment on The Triple-i Initiative 2025 - Indie games for 2025 1 month ago:
Absolutely, iii was my most anticipated showcase this year and they delivered big time. Katana Zero DLC was the highlight for me, but I got two more wishlists from the rest of the video as well.
Last year’s showcase was good, but this one blew my mind. I’m already counting the days for next year’s.
- Comment on The Triple-i Initiative 2025 - Indie games for 2025 1 month ago:
The showcase itself is 1 hour long, the rest is interviews/devs commentary for some of the games.
- Comment on Katana Zero - Free DLC Trailer 1 month ago:
I’m so happy I could die.
- Comment on What open-world games on Steam have satisfying movement, like Arkham Knight or Spider-Man? 1 month ago:
Dying Light had a mediocre story and repetitive gameplay, but the parkour mechanic was what made it interesting in the long run. Jumping around and climbing stuff was so satisfying.
As for side scrollers, Ori might not be the most difficult platformer I’ve ever played, but it certainly was the most fun, thanks in no short part to the fluid and dynamic movement of the main character. The camera is also very wide, to allow you to see the road ahead clearly, which is not something that all platformers do right, surprisingly enough.
- Comment on The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck. 1 month ago:
I don’t blame them. Nintendo fans buy anything at any price. I don’t see it being different this time.
Mario Kart 8 never goes on sale and sold 70m copies; Pokémon Scarlet/Violet sold 30m despite looking and playing like dogshit; they sold Skyward Sword HD, the remaster of a 10-yo game, at full price and still placed a few millions.
Nintendo is basically like Apple at this point, the brand is enough to convince people to spend more than they would for the competition, regardless of quality. I personally know a lot of people who loudly groaned/complained at the price announcement, but will still buy it day one, just like they always had in all these years.
And people terminally online should stop pretending the Steam Deck is competition to the Switch 2. It couldn’t even compete with the Switch 1, which was a decade older, had worse performance, and had been easily emulated for years at that point.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 1 month ago:
Not much to say but this is the usual comment to thank you for your wonderful posts.
Enjoy Rome!
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 1 month ago:
A subscription seems like the exact opposite of what GoG stands for. I buy a game, I own it forever. How does a subscription improve that?
- Comment on Ubisoft Carves Out Top Games Unit; Tencent to Get 25% Stake 2 months ago:
I’m not well versed in finance. Is this good news for Ubisoft or bad news?
- Comment on Cassette Beasts Showcase 2025 - 1.8 Update Coming Soon! 2 months ago:
Yeah, community-made Pokemon games really hit some heights in recent years. Too bad Nintendo is so opposed to the homebrew scene.
I had lots of fun with Pokémon Odyssey last year, patiently waiting for the final update that should come this year as well. As I said, 2025 is packed!
- Comment on Cassette Beasts Showcase 2025 - 1.8 Update Coming Soon! 2 months ago:
Between this update, the new Digimon Story game and LumenTale, looks like this year will be packed for monster collector enthusiasts.
And Pokémon, I guess, but I lost interest in that franchise years ago.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 2 months ago:
So sad about GoG’s revenue drop. It’s my store of choice and I genuinely find it more intrusive than Steam, but if it keeps going like this, I wonder how long it will exist. Hopefully they manage to turn things around.