gunpointmadeline-stare i’m waiting

  • Carl [he/him]
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    388 months ago

    ecoterrorism is objectively correct and fully justified in all of his rhetoric and actions, but the lib writers of FF7 nevertheless felt the need to explain his anger as being some kind of personal revenge quest and make his character arc about realizing that doing violence against Shinra was bad.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      78 months ago

      My bigger criticism is that at no point is it ever explained why everyone at Corel blames Barrett for their town getting blown up by Shinra. Every last one of them was in that room pressuring Dyne (the last holdout) to agree to the Mako plant to save their dying coal town. He was nowhere near the plant when some people blew it up. But when you show up everyone just spits on him and he just takes it because…???

      • Carl [he/him]
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        48 months ago

        I always assumed that Barrett convinced everyone else to go for it or lead the charge in some way which was why he caught most of the blame, but yeah I guess they don’t really say that explicitly do they. Also I’m pretty sure the Corel reactor exploding was a random industrial accident that got blamed on the town by Shinra (unless that got retconned at some point).

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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      148 months ago

      Me, chasing “barbarians” (who are more technologically advanced than me) to the ends of the earth for the 100th time: “Wait a minute…this is ideology!”

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      268 months ago

      play vanilla: ooh this is a bit rough around the edges, but i’m getting somewh… aaand it crashed

      mod it: well i did 10 hours of research, downloaded mods overnight and tried to correct my load order… aaand it crashed and corrupted my save files

        • Mindfury [he/him]
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          108 months ago

          i’m pretty sure on one of my attempts to play through (honestly happens every 3 years or so) that I started to play with ENBs along with other well recommended mods and I literally managed to just corrupt the entirety of the game files lmao. pretty sure i was bluescreening too.

          • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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            28 months ago

            Depends on the mods, most mods pre-2015 were horribly made but through a much more active playerbase have enough endorsements from back then to show up as “top mods,” like Project Nevada. ENB is also buggy and pretty broken for New Vegas, it was never finished as well.

      • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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        128 months ago

        Try using Viva New Vegas, it even has a Wabbajack installer if you want an automated process and are willing to toss Nexus a few bucks to not have to keep clicking, or don’t and just follow it like normal.

      • REgon [they/them]
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        48 months ago

        It’s funny I think I’ve been blessed by the mod gods because I just go wild with installing a bunch and it’s never done anything to the performance of the game.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        108 months ago

        Yeah, my most controversial Fallout opinion is that they should try to make the graphics look like those pulp book covers they had for the instruction manual and loading screens for the first two games

        I want Fallout to look weird, but in a Frazetta kind of way

    • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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      98 months ago

      As a certified NV head, there’s a lot Fallout 3 did better, like the economy, repair limitations, atmospheric audio cues Obsidian never really implemented, NPC conversations, and more. New Vegas is much better, but it could have been way better.

  • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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    278 months ago

    The Elytra in Minecraft ruined multiplayer survival servers. It is too easy to just fly around with rockets, so much so that there is no longer any incentive to do the fun thing about survival Minecraft: creating infrastructure! Why build roads, lay minecart tracks, use boats, or tame horses if you can just fly where ever you want with your magical firework rocket fuel source? It’s an end game item sure, but that means jackshit in multiplayer survival where inevitably someone has a gazillion of them to hand out.

    I’d prefer if they just made it glide only. Then it’s something you need to build infrastructure to use: high towers to leap from!

    Also Phantoms fucking suck, they are so dumb. Why does a group of hostile mobs randomly spawn literally on top of me every 3 in game days just to force me to click on a bed? Wtf. Yeah I know you can turn them off, but once again, you can’t do that in multiplayer!

  • KatGirl [kit/kit's, pup/pup's]
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    268 months ago

    Balatro is very fun but the replayablitiy of it hits a limit after 25 hours. The general strategy becomes less interesting once you have a deeper understanding of the game, and it leads into higher stake battles being dependant less on skill and more on just luck of the jokers you get. Winning or getting high scores loses its enjoyment quickly, especially if you try to farm gold stakes

    9/10

    • @ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net
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      118 months ago

      Yeah this is where I’m at too. I’ve had scores go into scientific notation a few times now and now I tend to reset a lot early on if I don’t get anything that’ll help me reach that again. Which isn’t as fun.

    • KatGirl [kit/kit's, pup/pup's]
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      8 months ago

      Think I’ve logged nearly 1000 hours are Terraria between vanilla and modded. While I enjoy the game, grinding for materials is tedious and boring. The fun part of the game is trying new strategies to beat bosses, and its less enjoyable when you have to go mining for a stronger material for the 8th time the game. Most nodded content has these same issues, and falls into being more difficulty focused for experienced and high reaction time players, and less on making an enjoyable experience. The content on nodded seems to be less designed around ensuring you enjoy your time and more on making a boss fight for a yputuber to do hitless 8.5/10

    • REgon [they/them]
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      58 months ago

      Yeah it does get repetitive pretty quick

      25 hours

      side-eye-1 side-eye-2 oh. I’m a video game addict.

    • REgon [they/them]
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      38 months ago

      :yea: people like to point at later things as the death of the RTS, but the move from warcraft to WoW was what did it tbh. Everything after was just heart flutters. It would never again be as big in the general gaming conscience. (Yes I know SC2 was big, but it was different, it was all about eSports and money and streaming.)

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    248 months ago

    KSP has a lot of really bad physics bugs, collectively called the kraken. My most hated one is that surface bases, as they grow or even just continue to exist, will gradually and inevitably floating point error themselves into the ground and then explode.

  • Goblin [any]
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    238 months ago

    Pokemon should of been taken out back old yeller style, revived like that ben garrison marx comic, and then given to somebody crazy like kojima or swery. Pokemon games are fun in theory, they just need somebody who doesn’t know fucking anything about pokemon to make these game

    I want Norman Reedus playing patty cake with a quagsire and pissing on himself when he gets stung by tentacools and getting to battle all of kojimas celebrity friends.

    Y’all got infinite money, do something with it!!!

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]OP
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      8 months ago

      they should have given pokemon to david lynch, including game direction, just to see what he’d do with it. woulda been a good bit, if nothing else

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      118 months ago

      Pokemon is a baby game for babies. It is and always has been designed to be played primarily by small children. I say this not to disparage it but because I so frequently see people wanting it to be designed for adult skill levels and sensibilities. That’s simply not what it’s for.

      • Carl [he/him]
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        98 months ago

        I agree that that’s what the main games are for, but I also think that there’s more than enough room in Pokemon’s franchise for side games that cater to older fans with more complex battle and sim mechanics. Pokemon Colosseum 1 & 2 feel like they could have been the starting point to a whole secondary line of JRPGs in the Pokemon world with unique stories and mechanics, but they never followed up on them and now those games are just a weird outlier in the franchise’s history.

  • Moss [they/them]
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    228 months ago

    Fallout 4 is a terrible disappointment of a game. The writing is downright awful, especially following New Vegas. The factions are nonsensical, most of the companions are not interesting and the world building is so lazy (the institute just so happened to simultaneously invent FEV on the other side of the country from the Master). The combat is clunky at best. The base building is far to limited and inconsequential. Why can’t I stop playing this game.

    • Nacarbac [any]
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      88 months ago

      Been playing a bit of Fallout: London, it’s pretty good. Have run into a few of The Gentry so far - first one immediately asked me to murder a union organiser and then his head mysteriously exploded (but I reloaded to make sure I could betray him to join the union guy, you can).

      • Moss [they/them]
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        38 months ago

        Oh damn that actually sounds good, I’ve heard good things about Fallout London so I’ll have to check it out

    • Beaver [he/him]
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      118 months ago

      I think every other boss in the game has some rings before it? Genuinely puzzling decision to exclude them, especially considering that it would still be quite challenging with rings.

      • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]
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        78 months ago

        I mean, if I was a final boss and I knew my rival was going to enter my lair and kick my ass, I wouldn’t want them to be able to survive any extra hits.

    • Yukiko [she/her]
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      68 months ago

      Absolute bane of my childhood and I will never forgive Sonic Team for that nonsense. Should’ve at least dropped a 3 pack of rings before Metal Sonic.

    • @addie@feddit.uk
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      38 months ago

      Duke’s Archives and Londo Ruins are good, but everything in Izalith or the Giants’ Tomb sucks a lot of ass. So you are correct on average.

      The slug tree gets a lot of hate as a boss, but I think the Centipede Demon gets underrepresented. Killed as soon as you pass through the fog door because you drop to 0.5 frames per second, followed by a long run back again? Ass.

      • I kinda like Tomb of the Giants more than Duke’s Archives. Duke’s Archives feels very repetitive and grind-y. Lost Izalith really sucks ass hard. The fact that the opening to this area is a lazy reskin of the Asylum Demon tells you everything you need to know about the painfully boring lava portion of Dark Souls 1.

        And the whole thing about the kiln of the first flame and Gwyn being massive letdowns leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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    188 months ago

    dwarf fortress is still kinda unplayble at times without dfhack scripts. spend too much time down in the caverns and the nature aggro system kicks in and pretty soon there’s hundreds of invisible enemies dragging down your fps to a painfully slow crawl because the game just has to keep track of their sightlines, a calculation that also inevitably grows more complicated as the map fills up with trees.

    also the farming system is a bit silly, you only need like half a hectare of land to feed a small city.

  • TheFinalCapitalist [he/him]
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    188 months ago

    Cs2 is a game. Idk how to properly critize it though, cause it does exactly what it says on the box. Very competative team objective based shooter. Most of the criticisms I’d have would be around valve and how they created an underage casino but thats not the games fault.

    The community is kinda shit, fps games tend to attract chuds in droves

    • makotech222 [he/him]
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      128 months ago

      They still haven’t re-added everything they took away from CSGO, like team deathmatch for example.

      I also think the death of community servers ruined the magic of this game. i hate playing with randoms every time.

      • TheFinalCapitalist [he/him]
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        88 months ago

        Death of the community servers definitely something to mourn. 13yr old me playin the random zombies or wc3rpg mods are peak childhood memories.

        Is tdm actually gone gone? Just FFA DM now? Kinda wild but ever since they added FFA I never played any DM but FFA