Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 5 days 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
I have never encountered the bugs you describe. Maybe you got a bad version?
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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! 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Different tastes.
The simplicity, artwork and playability appeals to me.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
Finally installed Doom 2016. It’s nice, but the gameplay is not clicking with me.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
I’ve sunk nearly 800 hours on it.
Good luck.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
I never uninstall it, in fact I have several copies: Steam, GOG…
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
I guess so.
The first two (mainly the first) had that special something you get in indie games.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
Torchlight and Torchlight 2 are great games and even have mods available.
I hear 3 and Infinite are not, though.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 month ago:
Amen.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 2 months ago:
Here are the ones that don’t get uninstalled from my potato box:
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Sable
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Ion Fury
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Torchlight
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Ziggurat
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Baba Is You
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Edritch
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Fez
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Plunge
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Valley
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Into The Breach
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Journey
(Disclaimer: some are very old, some may not be indie, eh, I did my best.)
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- Comment on Abuse 2025 is a modern port of the original game from 1995/1996, updated to run on modern systems and with new features like high-resolution graphics, controller support, and more. 2 months ago:
I played this two weeks ago and it still rocks.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 2 months ago:
The first and only console I bought was the original Wii. Games were expensive so I did not have many. I managed to install a few emulators and use it for older console emulation.
After some years they started pulling the plug on the online services. That’s when I decided I would never buy another console again. I will not feed any more walled gardens. I have more games than I can play on my PC, a lot of them are DRM free.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #58 - Black Mesa (Half-Life) 3 months ago:
Finally, someone who understands my pain. Thank you for the insights.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #58 - Black Mesa (Half-Life) 3 months ago:
I loved Black Mesa up to this point. They turned Gonarch into a RPG sponge in an arena full of hard to avoid clutter which makes it nearly impossible to dodge the attacks.
- Comment on Upscaling is actually good (as an option) 3 months ago:
I think upscaling is a good idea. Most of the time I’m running around while dodging bullets, arrows or fireballs, so I don’t really have time to examine the details of the foliage around me at the pixel level. I also will not buy an overpowered space heater so that the grass in my hand is more realistic. I don’t want a triple fan monster sounding like a turbojet near me.
- Comment on Six ways Microsoft’s portable Xbox could be a Steam Deck killer 4 months ago:
Good luck guys, do let us know how it turned out.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I’ve been using it exclusively as my desktop for over 20 years. Does it have flaws and shortcomings? Sure. So have Windows and Mac. What system does not have issues?
Does it fit your use case? Who knows? Just try it and be the judge. If it doesn’t work, just keep using whatever you’re using, no harm done.
All you need is a USB stick, some curiosity and some time. It’s not like it’s a lifetime commitment or something. Unless, of course, you enjoy it… then you are doomed.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 5 months ago:
This is the way.
Thank you for the first link, kind stranger.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 5 months ago:
Looks like PatientGamers’ membership numbers will be on the rise soon.
- Comment on Ray Tracing Has a Noise Problem - Hardware Unboxed 6 months ago:
I focus on the playability and addictiveness of the game; you focus on the immersiveness and photo-realism of the experience.
That does not make either of us right or wrong, we’re just weighing different aspects differently.
- Comment on Ray Tracing Has a Noise Problem - Hardware Unboxed 6 months ago:
As someone who grew up when you could physically count the bloody pixels on the screen, this whining about a miserable invisible miniscule artifact makes me palmface very hard.