CatLikeLemming

@CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is, yes, but it’s pointless. I think some people are missing the point of Alyx being a VR game, the game would suck pretty bad in pancake mode. It’s the intricate interactions with the world you simply can’t get with a mouse and keyboard that make it special compared to other Half Life games. They didn’t just make a regular Half Life game and said “well we’re just gonna force this to be in VR now”, they made a VR game and set it in the Half Life universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Somewhat hot take… I’d argue Boneworks (not Bonelab) was “better”, at least if you’re used to VR and if you judge by freedom and replay value. Don’t get me wrong, playing through Half Life Alyx was fun and engaging, but to me it had little to no replay value, since for all it did great in visuals, audio, accessibility, and especially story, it failed dramatically in physics. Since I played Alyx right after Boneworks, I kept trying to pick stuff up which I ended up not being able to for larger objects, and the first time I tried to knock a Combine over the head with a pipe I was so sorely disappointed. Alyx has absolutely everything Boneworks is missing, yet that physics core is what kept me coming back to the latter. It really clicked for me when I noticed how many things in Boneworks one can solve in alternate ways by “abusing” physics. Climbing is a learned skill and combat can be as much shooting as it can be using knives, fists, shoving someone off a ledge, or grabbing an enemy and throwing it at others. It’s what truly made me realize how much potential VR had, being able to interact with a full physics simulation, where even your own body is a physics object, with your physical hands is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton is a fork of Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there’s a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there’s absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you’ll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have been SWIVELLED!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, there are far worse options than Rin for doing so ;3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes it “Legitimate Interest“?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I’ve found to be useful is just having my browser clear all cookies upon closing. It’s initially annoying while you set up all your exceptions for commonly used sites so you don’t need to log in again there every time, but afterwards you don’t need to worry too much, because once you close your browser, all the useless cookies are gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even that big of a surprise after last year’s “best VR game” was Hitman 3. That game’s VR support is, excuse my language, absolute fucking dogshit.

  Bonelab was a disappointment, absolutely, but at least it was a proper damn VR game and not a mediocre game with VR tacked on for literally no reason but, I assume, some exec’s feature checklist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, you don’t get it. Windows has problems, but switching to Linux would be like leaving your home country because you don’t like its political trends. Where’s your OS patriotism? There’s no need for Linux, because you can just keep using Windows and hope Microsoft ends up doing what’s best for their customers products :)

  I’m paraphrasing here, but that’s an actual thing the CEO and founder of Epic Games posted on Twitter: nitter.net/timsweeneyepic/…/964284402741149698

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoopsie daisy, one should leave it to to the professionals maybe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you can do both, you can bet your ass I will :3