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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Hollow Knight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding Elden Ring, I would argue it does the sense of exploration better than Hollow Knight, but only by a small degree. For every area, there’s no map at the start, and the entire map’s size is obscured since it only shows what you’ve traveled through. It gets bigger as you go, but it’s still obscured by a fog of war for areas that fit inside the map, but you don’t have a map fragment for. You can see on the map where you can obtain the fragment, but not how to get there. Most times you can just cut a straight line to it, but sometimes it’s a pain.

  All that said, the thing it does better than Hollow Knight for exploration is a limitation of Hollow Knight’s map system. It’s split into different rooms, and each room has finite entrances and exits. Because you fill out the map through exploration, you’re going to know what you have and haven’t found.

  Because Elden Ring gives you the entirety of the map, it’s both helpful and not. You can figure out (mostly) how to get from point A to point B, and you have markers for everywhere you’ve been. There’s two minor issues with that, though. It’s a 2D map for a 3D world, which means you end up with some locations not being properly shown, because they’re underneath cliffs. The second is that the map does almost nothing to show what places of interest there are. You have large buildings shown, but that excludes all the catacombs (dungeon areas) you can visit. There are areas on the map that are right there, but due to the topography you have no idea how to get there. Going by the map alone means you’re going to miss out on a solid amount of the content available.

  It’s because the map is so limiting that it feels so good. You’re able to use it to figure where places are in directional relation, but you still have to look yourself to try and uncover areas. My first run, I prided myself on uncovering everything. I searched high and low, inspected the map to make sure I went to every corner, and really made sure I knew what was out there, and it felt amazing in terms of how much content there was and how much exploration you could do. I started a second run when the DLC came out, and found an area that, somehow, I had entirely missed. It took over a hundred and forty hours of searching, really searching, to get what I thought was complete, and it still wasn’t. It was a fantastic feeling on my second run.

  Hollow Knight’s map is excellent. The gameplay is excellent, the exploration is rewarding and challenging. But the issue it has is that it only has those two dimensions to work with. Elden Ring really works to emphasize that third dimension when scouring for secrets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Your Favorite Blumhouse Movie?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked over their releases, and had no idea they released Whiplash and BlacKkKlansman. They kind of stand out from all the horror movies. I haven’t seen a lot of their work, but I can recommend Hush and Get Out. Halloween is also a solid sequel, if you like the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of wild that I’ve seen trailers and posts for Lollipop Chainsaw’s remaster, but the first time I hear about a Shadows of the Damned remaster is buried in the last paragraph of a dev interview.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Especially after recent developments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not available in Canada, that explains why I couldn’t find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Especially after recent developments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t find a result that’s not Tiktok, Instagram, or Facebook, but Brad Pitt played a depressing weatherman on the Jim Jefferies show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom Cruise Reshaped His Narrative with Edge of Tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, he’s drawing parallels between Newman and Cruise’s careers. The Hustler was the first of several films Newman made in a short period of time that marketed him as a hero. It wasn’t his first Oscar nomination, but it did earn him one.

  The Sting was a huge box-office success Newman was in after a bunch of flops, and helped bring him back into the spotlight.

  The Color of Money finally earned Newman an Oscar, and it was reprising the same character he played in The Hustler after 25 years. You can definitely see parallels there between him and Cruise with Top Gun (36 years between it and the sequel), and weirdly enough Cruise is also in The Color of Money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨particles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of this is just going off checking Wikipedia, so it could be wrong. Gluons are a type of particle that can have nine different “color states” depending on the quarks and anti-quarks that comprise them (despite the name, it has nothing to do with literal color). These states are made up of red, green, and blue for quarks, and anti-red, anti-green, and anti-blue for anti-quarks. Depending on the combinations of quarks and anti-quarks, the color state of gluons listed something like “red-antigreen” as “rg”, with the “g” having a line over it to show it’s anti-green, not green. Since you can have a color matched with the anti-version of its color, like I said earlier, you get 9 potential color states.

  Then, of those 9 color states, you have combinations of two gluons of different types of states that combine. If you have a strong, stable version of this state, it’s called a color state singlet. Particles like protons have this state, and it allows them to interact with other particles that also have color singlets. However, gluons can’t interact at long range, that means they also can’t hold a color singlet.

  So, that leaves 8 potential color state couplets that can be formed. I have no idea why there’s only 8 valid arrangements of those 9 couplets that aren’t a stable singlet, but apparently you can only get 8.

  Also tagging @Owl@mander.xyz because I don’t think they’d get notified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Captain Price seems to die in a cut ending from Modern Warfare 3, uncovered 13 years later⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played these games for the story. The campaigns used to be pretty solid, with good action and a lot of good moments. I’m not saying they’re excellent still, but Modern Warfare had both the nuke and “All Ghillied Up” sequences, Modern Warfare 2 had the up-until-then relatively unexplored front of the United States and the “No Russian” missions, I was genuinely interested in Advanced Warfare’s story, and if you want to go really far back, CoD 2 had some excellent missions that really nailed the scope of battles in WWII. A big part of the reason that Titanfall 2’s campaign was so highly praised was because they had the talent behind Call of Duty’s campaigns working on it. I’m not saying the multiplayer is any small part of the game, but there’s at least some subset of people who played it for the campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Arkham Knight get better?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely enjoyed Arkham Knight, but those mandatory Batmobile sections are easily the most miserable part of the game. If we had those for an entire game, it might not be too bad, but most of the time you just end up using it to get from point A to point B. If you can put up with being stuck for a bit on those sections, you might enjoy it.

  Its big issue is that it has to follow up on Arkham City. It’s not a bad game by any stretch, but it’s following up to one of the best superhero games out there. If you’re not invested in the story, there’s no harm in dropping it. Play something you’ll have fun with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally I’d expect to see this stuff on !curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game didn’t really appeal to me, but I want to say that the trailer music absolutely slaps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ENDLESS™ Dungeon has released on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any idea how this is for single-player?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 09-10-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how far you’ve gotten, but unless you’re reasonably far through the game, you should not go to see those ghosts. Try going back to the start, and then upwards.