Jeffool
@Jeffool@lemmy.world
- Comment on Game Informer Is Back and the Entire Team Has Returned 3 days ago:
I understand what you’re saying about Game Informer, but it’s hilarious you name Nintendo Power and PSM as alternatives, considering that.
- Comment on Best game ever? 4 days ago:
Tetris in a walkway. Any format, really. It’s just great.
- Comment on Meta: “We're Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming And Don't Plan To Stop” 5 days ago:
Wild to think they’ve spent $100B on VR and for tons of people it’s probably still a “Beat Saber” machine. I mean, respect to Beat Saber.
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 1 week ago:
Story-wise I’m not sure there’s much more that needs to be said for GlaDOS, but I think tech-wise they could advance it some. Currently players can build testing chambers. It’d be cool if you could build entire complexes consisting of several chambers, with your own (optionally voiced) personality core running the tests. Then the base game could pick up between facilities and whisk you away to new testing places. Basically, make it easier for players to make their own full mods. Especially if you allowed custom hooks for your ins and outs between facilities.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 4 weeks ago:
Which, in the immediate future, makes me wonder less about the things that are going to be done in code, and more about the creation of a new, free, visual and audio resources that make this work. That seems like quite a noble pursuit.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 4 weeks ago:
Scoob! Holiday Haunt, was the third one.
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 1 month ago:
I’m just picturing big chambers like Super Metroid, and the characters moving around testing things to see what happens, then putting it together. (Maybe a zoom out button, or the map screen being relatively detailed.) So it could be very similar to the original, just “more”. You’d just need a few sets of puzzles in every chamber, for when they backtrack and revisit areas. Mind you I’m not saying it’s easy to design good levels and puzzles, especially in such a large scale, just that it’s easy for me to imagine it being fun.
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- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 1 month ago:
A friend linked it in a Discord server recently and I’ve been enamored since. This recent update last week really made it harder. But like Minesweeper, sometimes you just gotta guess. I like to guess a few random spaces for my first energy bar, apart from the initial orb, so I crash out early if I do.
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- DICE Awards 2025 Nominations Revealed With Astro Bot, Helldivers 2, and Indiana Jones in the Lead - IGNwww.ign.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 3 months ago:
I’ll probably always think that Tetris is the greatest video game ever. The inherent dramatic arc that comes with watching the blocks stack up is tension directly within you the player, not you watching tension unfold for characters on the screen. It’s different every time, even if the shape of the arc is similar, because you improve as a player. It’s the kind of emergent involvement the most designers could only aspire to create.
That said of course Shadow of the Colossus is also a favorite. That one probably feels a little more obvious, but I’m okay with that.
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 3 months ago:
Thanks a lot!
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 3 months ago:
“War. War never changes.”
“Remember. No Russian.”
“Itchy. Tasty.”
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 3 months ago:
You know, that feels like a pretty great use case.
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 3 months ago:
Sure, but with that philosophy, why use a microblogging system at all?
- Comment on Valve has created a Steam Bluesky account 4 months ago:
It gives space to do servers based on specific interests if you want. I’m part of a game development server, and my “Local” tab has people on my server often talking about, and showing, things that are related to game development. And I can still follow anyone from any other Mastodon server too.
If you’re into video games, film, maybe a specific genre of music, you can have an instance dedicated to that. (It might already exist.) It’s like a virtual neighborhood, or forum. Remember forums? Those were nice. They cultivated a sense of community which made people a little more responsible in their attitudes, it feels like. Maybe that’s just nostalgia, but I like the server I’m on. It’s got friendly people I can talk to without feeling the need to fill my follows with them.
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- Comment on 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games 4 months ago:
I do wonder if they’d garner enough attention to pay for the licenses to add them to Game Pass. I loved the MUA games.
- 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision gameswww.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 4 months ago:
Even if they do repeat 3 (and I kinda feel they will,) it’ll have a cliffhanger too. And I’m okay with that.
- Comment on Woke up today to find out my demo has 100% Positive rating (from 10/10 reviews) 4 months ago:
Every little bit counts. And finding ten people (especially out of ten) who agree on anything is pretty impressive. Congratulations. I hope this does well for you.
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 4 months ago:
Nah you’re good. I’m absolutely going to suggest we give Warframe a try. And if we get off of Warzone, maybe I’ll end up moving sooner rather than later.
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 4 months ago:
hah, respect, but I play Warzone with some cousins who are on console. (Actually I just searched, and I didn’t realize Warframe had crossplay now! I might have to at least get them to give it a shot, thanks for the mention!)
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 4 months ago:
That WOULD be a fraction of the cost of a new PC. But given my current one is a 2017 build with a 1080 in it, I’m really hoping to make next year the time to free up some money for it regardless. But I do appreciate the thought!
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 4 months ago:
I actually used Mint for about a year a decade ago, and really liked it then. What made me switch back was the gaming. That said, I hear gaming on Linux has just gotten better and better; just like people in this thread are saying. Whenever I get around to putting together a new PC I’ll probably either dump something Linux on this one or dual boot myself. Sadly I don’t expect Activision to really support it. But hey, Lord knows I’ve been wrong before. (And yeah, printers are often kinda universally assholes though; that we all know.)
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 4 months ago:
I’d love to make the move, but there’s a one-two pinch of: I play Warzone with family. I think anti-cheat there is only going to get worse. Second? I already get caught with the fiddly bits of errors on Windows sometimes and spend too long searching for answers. Any time I see that on Linux it looks like I’d need years more of active learning new problem solving to reach my current level of comfort.
I’m at that “is it worth planting the apple tree now that I didn’t plant 20 years ago?” thinking.
- Playdate Season 2 drops in 2025, but firm release details, price, and games all still to be finalisedwww.eurogamer.net ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 6 months ago:
A string is just a collection of characters, in programmer speak. When you use quotation marks in your search to find exactly what you want. If your search was:
dog “fast drive”
Google used to show results that only had both the word “dog” and the joined phrase “fast drive” in the same result.
Now it feels like Google uses that as a suggestion, giving you “dog” and any combination of “fast drive”, “fast driver”, “fast driving”, or whatever else Google thinks you want, instead of what you asked for. Or if they don’t find it, they serve you up whatever they want, with a small message about there being no matching results.