theskyisfalling
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- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
That is how I felt about Dave the Diver, was really enjoying the first part of the game and was excited to keep playing but they kept adding more and more shit on top that seemed unnecessary and it just made me lose interest entirely.
It could have been great but turned out to be a bit Meh for me.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
That is a blast from the past! I absolutely loved ‘Z’ when I was younger but had forgotten about its existence!
Shame Atomfall decided on denuvo otherwise I’d have liked to have played it but I will not support games that include that trash.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 5 weeks ago:
I default to DODI but sadly this game wasn’t available from them. I’m still very new to Linux and this is my first foray into repacks on there so it is just a learning curve :)
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 5 weeks ago:
When did I once “blame the OS”? Just because I am frustrated with not being able to get it running I never once said it was the fault of the OS. In fact the opposite, I care about continuing to use the OS and that is why I spent so long troubleshooting my issue…
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 5 weeks ago:
Lol wut, my wallet is empty hence why I’m using repacks and my initial post was about the frustration of getting them to run on Linux… So what are you on about?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 5 weeks ago:
looks at empty wallet after paying for rent and food for the month :P
Yeh proton is pretty good and I know things are way better than they ever were before but things still aren’t always simple for people with no experience of Linux :)
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 5 weeks ago:
Me spending 4 hours last night trying to get a repack to install in lutris for it to crash every 5 mins xD
- Comment on Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club 5 weeks ago:
I would describe them as not great currently xD
I haven’t played Heat but like you I like the Forza Horizon balance of pretty arcadey feel with some sim elements mixed in without it really going too far to either extreme.
I don’t want to be excessively harsh on a game that is still pretty early in its development so far but also not having played any of the previous entries I dont know exactly what feel they are going for, so maybe this is already pretty close to their goal (which would be a shame I think)
As it is right now though it is very arcade-y feeling and in all honesty the “upgrades” didn’t really make the car feel any different as I spent money on the car, it was consistent throughout. The cars don’t really corner that well, you cant really initiate a drift or have any real control through the corners to that level, you can yank up the handbrake but the car doesnt slide in a nice, predictable manner at all. You can either use it to cut a lot of speed suddenly in a quick jab or hold it and spin out.
So generally you’ll be driving flat out dodging traffic until a corner at which point you’ll slam on the brakes to cut your speed enough to try and get around the corner without riding the walls (the races use a battle system with “health bars” to win or lose and hitting walls depletes your health bar)
As I said in the previous post as well the opponents definitely need balancing as well as you will often need to cheese the harder battles or just hope to god that they crash and you can get far enough ahead to win. A lot of the AI drivers will hook their front onto your rear and plow you into a wall which is extremely frustrating.
The game itself is set in an open world of sorts. So when you leave for the night you choose which highway entrance to enter on and in which direction. You are then free to cruise the highways (you start with a small loop and then a little more opens up as you play, I presume the full game will have a lot more) and challenge any other vehicle you see to battles. You can race all the civilian trucks or cars if you want or you search for other rival gangs. When you beat a certain amount of members from each gang then you unlock the boss of that gang for a boss battle.
Whilst cruising you are stuck going the direction you began with unless you pull into a parking spot. Here you can chat to random people about inane shit or challenge some others that are parked up. Here you can also leave the parking area to go in the opposite direction on the highway. It is realistic but also frustrating sometimes to try and find a parking area if someone you want to battle is on the opposite side, I wanna have some places where I could illegally switch sides really.
If you dont like JDM shit then I would say the appeal would be even narrower for you cause it is focused on those cars. This is what I love so what kept me involved to see it through but the selection of parts and wheels etc is honestly shite (nightrunners blows it out of the water by a long way in this aspect).
TLDR: you probably won’t like it that much based on what you said, even cruising the majority of the available world is really fucking long straights and is pretty boring and you dont even like JDM stuff :)
- Comment on Teardown to Get Multiplayer Later in 2025 5 weeks ago:
I don’t cheat as for me that takes away all the satisfaction I get from seeing a game through from beginning to end however as I have gotten older I no longer try and force myself to continue playing games that I am not enjoying. I have enjoyed gaming on the whole a lot more since I started doing this. Sometimes I’ll go back if it is something I really want to like and sometimes that works but I no longer get hung up on quitting a game if it is doing nothing for me.
- Comment on Teardown to Get Multiplayer Later in 2025 5 weeks ago:
Not just me then, I have considered going back and trying again as I really did enjoy it a lot up until that point but I dont think it is worth my time thinking about what is to come.
Damn shame!
- Comment on Tokyo Xtreme Racer is a novel throwback to classic PS2 racing games like Midnight Club 5 weeks ago:
Having not played any of the previous games I wasn’t sure what to expect going in and I am sort of 50 / 50 on it in general.
It has a good level of polish for something that is at v0.15 or there abouts when I played but there were a lot of negatives for me for example the balancing on the last set of boss “fights” was horrendous but obviously it is early on and hopefully as development moves forward things like that will be addressed.
I hated the upgrade system however which is something I don’t think will change going forward, for example having to “upgrade” your wallet to hold more is stupid. Particularly when you are forced into a couple of boss fights back to back early on. These fights award you with a decent amount of cash upon winning but upon finishing them and returning “home” you are greeted with a screen informing you because those fights went over your wallet capacity that you just lose a couple of mil, which when this happened to me I could have really used for upgrading my car.
Ultimately even though it is less polished I think nightrunners is a far superior game following the same sort of gameplay loop and style of highway racing. It has a more striking aesthetic, the cars look better and have a lot more / better upgrade options, particularly visually. That is made by just one person too, I’m looking forward to its hopeful release later on this year.
Also if you like Japanese cars and modding then check out JDM: Japanese Drift Master due to release at the end of this month, based on the demo version last year this was a lot more fun for me than Tokyo Xtreme.
- Comment on Teardown to Get Multiplayer Later in 2025 5 weeks ago:
Once you are around 10 or 15 missions into the game they introduce a mechanic where the alarms are water sensitive and you have to try and build things around the alarms using planks etc to try and stop them from getting wet. Getting them wet causes the alarm to go off.
Up until that point I was really enjoying figuring out a route, preparing and trying to pull off the goals within the time before the police show up etc. After the first “dont let this thing get wet mission” I stopped playing and never picked it up again as I hated the idea. It was a shame.
- Comment on Teardown to Get Multiplayer Later in 2025 5 weeks ago:
I was really enjoying this game until it introduces the “keep this thing dry” mechanic and then instantly lost interest.
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 1 month ago:
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage or Need For Speed: Underground
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 1 month ago:
Thanks for the additional info. I am generally not super knowledgeable on politics so I will go check out your links :)
- Comment on Centuries-old leasehold system to be abolished in England and Wales 1 month ago:
There was a vote in 2011 to change the voting system that the idiots of the UK voted against changing. I was a kid then and that was the first time I voted but even as someone who has almost zero interest in politics I could see that moving away from fptp was the (what I thought) obvious choice.
Apparently not.
After the absolute farce that was brexit as well I don’t believe the the population of the UK are able to make a good decision that benefits the country and general populace. The majority of the population aren’t able to employ critical thinking and are just easily lead towards shitty decisions.
I don’t believe that even if we did get another vote to change this terrible system that it would actually pass unfortunately. I have no faith in the ability of this population to make good decisions.
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- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Loved Renegade so much. Played the shit out of the MP back in the day.
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 month ago:
In the UK? I doubt it very much. It isn’t beyond possibility but under floor heating really isn’t very prevalent here.
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 month ago:
You are in the UK now so the chance of it being underfloor heating is very slim indeed unless you are in a new build from the last 5 - 10 years or so, even then I would doubt it though.
It is probably a combination of the amount of insulation we put in walls, floors and roof spaces along with the fact you downstairs neighbour or neighbours if there is a basement will be using theirs and obviously heat rises.
I know many people here that live in flats above other people that will never switch their heating on and live comfortably.
It is likely that those radiators are your only heat sources coupled with presumably a gas boiler to serve both the radiators and your hot water taps. There will be some kind of controls for it somewhere though, not all systems with have a thermostat in place. My current house has 3 radiators with no thermostat. It is either on or off or you can set time intervals for it to switch on and off by itself but there is no temperature based control.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Was about to reply to shout out all the workers who do exactly this!
- Comment on Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan 2 months ago:
That isn’t an advert, it is a “promotion”, gotcha!
- Comment on Game Pass sets quarterly revenue record, sees 30% growth in PC subscribers 2 months ago:
Dont forget that it also creates folders that you cannot delete without either booting up a copy of Linux or reformatting your machine.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 26th 2 months ago:
I just picked up Halls of Torment again and ended up some how playing around 10 hours this weekend…it is alright.
- Comment on Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up 2 months ago:
As a long time enjoyer of right arrow use I have never had this happen to me, not even once.
Space bar not pausing / unpausing a video and skipping half way down the comments however!
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 3 months ago:
In no particular order:
Sonic Spinball
Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament
Toejam and Earl
General Chaos
Recently I have had an urge to play Hogs of War on PS1 too.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 3 months ago:
XIII was (and still is) a fucking awesome game. Such a breath of fresh air back then trying something entirely new in terms of art direction on an FPS and nailing it!
- Comment on I Bought a PlayStation Vita in 2025 3 months ago:
I do like it with those controller attachments, it does improve it further still be sacrifices a bit of portability in terms of no longer being pocket friendly.
I do agree it can be uncomfortsble after a time but for me that is more after hours opposed to minutes but everyone’s bodies are different and I can see why is may cramp some peoples hands quicker.
I find with the steam deck it is just a bit too large for me, it makes it feel a bit unwieldy and unstable in my hands for some reason. For me I think the sweet spot in terms of comfort would probably be something in the middle.
It probably has a lot to do with the kinds of games I play on it as well though. On the vita I played a lot of jrpgs, it really was a beast for that genre, and with those games it can be a lot more menus with turn based combat etc. That means I’d often play with it flat on my lap and not gripping it like a controller which is definitely a less cramped position.
- Comment on I Bought a PlayStation Vita in 2025 3 months ago:
Yeh IMO they are too large. I have a steam deck and I barely ever use it outside the house because it just isnt really that portable in terms of being able to fit it in a bag with all the other stuff you may need when going away, it takes up more than half of my bag space.
So I reverted back to my vita and the experience of actually using it as a portable is miles ahead. Like you say I can slip it in my pocket when transferring between trains or the like and it doesn’t fill half my bag when not in use.
I’m a big guy so dont have the smallest hands either but honestly find the steam deck a bit uncomfortable where as the vita just feels good to me.
- Comment on I Bought a PlayStation Vita in 2025 3 months ago:
I love the vita, feels so good in your hands and is a great size for actually being portable.
I dont use mine as much as I used to but for a while when travelling it was my only system and I had a lot of fun with it.
