Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 2 days ago:
I feel this is true about much of what you see online currently. Videos that could have been an short how-to, articles that contain mostly AI generated filler. Also, if you want support on that you better join our discord.
I have genuine gratitude to people who share their in depth knowledge online using old fashion HTML.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 days ago:
I take that as a hint that I’m not in the site’s target demographic, and simply close the tab.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 4 days ago:
Nah, I have nothing to do with this, only a happy gamer.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 4 days ago:
Just like the good old days when sites would force you to have Internet Explorer and Flash plugin installed to work properly. Amazing.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 6 days ago:
I was lazy and just copy/pasted the Steam page blurb.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 6 days ago:
TIL. Thank you.
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- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 2 weeks ago:
You maybe high, but you are right nonetheless.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
“Oh. It’s you.”
Such a loveable heap of junk.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 4 weeks ago:
I’m still playing Doom, the original!
- Comment on Amnesia creators Frictional are teasing what could be Soma 2 through a sinister luxury hotel website 4 weeks ago:
Gimme!
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
If it is clear that the topic is Impressionist art, I would not go. If I buy the ticket to see Expressionism and get Impressionism instead, I would fell upset.
(Actually, I’d go either way, I love art)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Regarding difficulty: I’ve lived through the 80’s, where difficulty was ramped up to make the game last longer, as you only had precious few kilobytes to fill with content. I’ve grown to hate difficult games.
It is your right as creator to go that way if you wish, but it is my right as player to hate your guts if I buy your game and it kills me over and over again in the first minutes.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 2 months ago:
One factor they don’t seem to consider is that they are competing for a finite resource: consumer attention.
There has never been so much content to consume: not only games, movies, series, music, books, podcasts, and even old games.
New games have to compete with and stand above all that content to justify the price.
As others have said, purchase power is down, people subscribe to more services (net, mobile, streaming music and video), all that bites into the available budget to buy games.
Bottom line: it’s getting hard to justify spending that amount on a game you don’t have time to play.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Only nerds and dweebs and losers play single player games.
Some people actively avoid multiplayer games to avoid obnoxious, entitled kids.
- Comment on Sync-in, a new alternative to Nextcloud 2 months ago:
The logo needs work. I read that as Syncoin and had a repulse reaction.
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 3 months ago:
I was very happy with The Print Shop. You could print huge signs and banners by stitching smaller pages together. Fun times.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 3 months ago:
To me it is the inverse of socializing. It’s an escape to a world where I don’t have to deal with people.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
Faraway 1, 2 and 3.
Really chill first person puzzle game.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 3 months ago:
There was the Homebrew Channel back then, but it seemed to have gone offline. I assumed people just lost interest and moved on.
Based on what you said I did a quick search and found that there’s still an active community around the console, so thank you!
I’m updating my Homebrew Browser to see what’s new.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 3 months ago:
Any platform that restricts how and what I can run in it has inherently less value to me. This is why I mostrly avoided consoles all my life.
The only console I bought was the original Wii. The games were extremely expensive, and they disabled all the services that made the console useful after a few years (weather channel, news channel, store).
Fortunately I added a few SNES, PCEngine, Genesis/Megadrive and Gamecube emulators otherwise I would now have a very pretty white doorstop.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 3 months ago:
That may be the reason. I play the GoG version on Linux and it’s great.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 3 months ago:
I have never encountered the bugs you describe. Maybe you got a bad version?
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 3 months ago:
This is one of the games that I always keep installed. Just chilling, gliding around, trying to climb higher and higher. Love it.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 4 months ago:
The Halo series.
I like shooters, so I got the full bundle and I tried hard to like it.
None of the games gave me a lasting impression. The plot didn’t stick with me, the enemies were weird, the guns felt weak and flimsy, the rooms kept repeating in some sections and it got very boring. There were some fun bits with the vehicles, etc., but overall the experience was… pretty much average.
I was expecting something like the Half-Life series, but this wasn’t it.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 4 months ago:
Well, for starters, games are going to get more expensive.
That is their prerogative. Mine is not buying overpriced games.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 months ago:
Now that you put it like that, I think what puts me off is all the melee and glory kills. Not my cup of tea. I need my social distancing from hellspawn. That, and the puny amounts of ammo. When I play a boomer shooter, I want to shoot. If I wanted melee, I’d play Mortal Kombat or something.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 4 months ago:
Different tastes.
The simplicity, artwork and playability appeals to me.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 months ago:
Finally installed Doom 2016. It’s nice, but the gameplay is not clicking with me.
