CorrodedCranium

CorrodedCranium, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

The article is leading me to think we’re going to get another The Outer Worlds experience where your actions don’t really have an affect on the world until the very end.

CorrodedCranium, 4 months ago

I don’t know. When I was helping factions it only felt noticeable when they showed up to help at the end.

I haven’t replayed it because it felt like there wouldn’t be a lot of deviation between paths I choose to take.

It’s kind of like Dishonored’s chaos level system that can result in additional enemies and a different ending. It makes it feel like more of an adventure game than an RPG.

This is all obviously subjective but when people were hyping it up to have Fallout New Vegas levels of choice I felt let down.

CorrodedCranium, 4 months ago

Did I have a fever dream or did the Safety Third podcast talk about a shrimp that cooked fried shrimp?

CorrodedCranium, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I think it depends on if there are games exclusive to one versus the other that you’re interested in.

By that logic also if you own a PS4 because some games still crossover

CorrodedCranium, 4 months ago

But why?

CorrodedCranium, 4 months ago

It’s like a movie that’s held up by a decent twist

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

The Wolf Among Us. I had some spare time over the weekend and it apparently has an 8’ish hour completion time so I decided to give it a go on my PS Vita (it is also another game to justify my Vita purchase).

It’s an interesting game. I am normally not into detective style games but it doesn’t feel like I’m looking for a needle in a haystack like other detective games and I don’t feel the constant need to reload my save. The game lags horribly on the Vita though which really throws off the flow during quicktime events.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

I’m surprised they didn’t see this coming. A lot of people had high expectations because of the impact the first game had and if it wasn’t better in every way there was bound to be some negative feedback.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Gamers in general are just very entitled, and very unforgiving

Didn’t the sequel have some pretty large problems on launch?

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Isn’t that just a more extreme version of negative feedback?

The post the article is talking about does mention toxicity in the community and hints at it being directed at the devs but how much of that is people debating and talking about gripes they have with the game versus crude personal attacks?

All I was saying is this game received a lot of attention and hype so I felt like this was kind of an inevitably. They were never going to please everyone.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

I wonder how much of the negative feedback is The Sims style issues where a lot of content is either going to be patched in later or come in as DLC but in the meantime something just feels like it’s missing.

A slightly separate issue than just bugs but then again didn’t some traffic issues in the original game get fixed that way?

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

There’s always going to be a small group of people who take things too far once a game gets popular enough. I don’t think it’s right but I’d say it’s to be expected

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

I get it but I feel like a vast majority of the criticism they are getting doesn’t fall under the extreme category or into bullying.

Some people might be making Gmanlives-style quips in the Steam reviews that might make themselves feel good but I think a majority of it’s just general disappointment and people expressing it.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Yeah I think that goes with people voicing their disappointment. It’s like with Fallout 76 a lot of the community was split on it. Even now defending it can lead to dog piling.

People are debating in the community. It might not make for a super fun place to be that’s kind of just the reality of it for now.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Try to remember there’s a distinction between reasoned debate, like what you and I are doing right now, and trolling. Which I’m sure we could both switch to if we felt like it.

Criticism, for it to be useful, does have certain delivery requirements. The critic, in order to not be shit, has a certain responsibility to their criticism.

I don’t think the bar is that high or that a majority of the negative discussion falls under bullying. It’s a lot of people disappointed in a game and voicing their frustration.

Saying a game sucks and has no redeeming qualities and encouraging them to get a refund when they ask for any kind of tech support for it on Reddit is kind of unoriginal and lazy but I don’t think that classifies as bullying.

For example this is from Reddit about someone liking the game. You get good responses like this

Subjectively or objectively?

Objectively it’s far from what they’ve promised, full of bugs and hardly optimized.

It’s also a promising platform that could evolve into an objectively amazing game somewhere down the road.

If you — subjectively — enjoy it in its current state that’s great!

But you do get some less constructive comments like

I bought CS2 and it’s utter shit.

But now I feel like a sucker to open CS1 again.

End result: I gave up on Cities Skyline completely. May fall out of habit of playing it at all.

CS2 could, but not certainly, be the death of the franchise if more people act like me

And

I could name a hundred things off the top of my head that could be better in this game. I still have a hundred hours though

Even sorting by controversial on Reddit it’s really not that bad. It sounds like there are some posts being removed but a majority of it is people voicing their frustration with modding support taking so long to implement and the game feeling like it’s lacking in some department.

Does it have to go full gamergate for you think its a problematic situation or something?

I feel like were going in circles here. I already acknowledged that there are going to be people that take it to the extreme and that’s wrong but it’s a very percentage of people.

Now, gamers are a tough bunch. If a community is losing community, I think we can make some inferences about whats going on, and it’s probably not a bunch of well-reasoned and nuanced debate.

I disagree. You see communities around games slow down all the time when new games, updates, and DLC steal the spotlight. A lot of the time you just need to wait for things to shift in a different direction. In the meantime people are going to sporadically talk about how they feel about the game and debate updates that come out.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Even then can you think of some examples from their forum? Going to it myself is feeding my error messages likely due to my VPN or browser configuration

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

I wonder what the issue was

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Speaking on the XboxEra podcast, reliable insider Shpeshal_Nick said the game, codenamed Project Tatanka, had seemingly been cancelled.

While officially unannounced by Microsoft itself, Certain Affinity had discussed the project publicly in broad terms several times, and said in late 2022 that it had been in the works for more than two years, with nearly 100 people then working on it.

That mention of the project followed an earlier promise by Certain Affinity that it was “deepening” its relationship with the Halo series’ core developer 343 Industries and that it had been “entrusted with further evolving Halo Infinite in some new and exciting ways”.

The project was later discussed in a Bloomberg report on the future of 343 Industries, which stated that Tatanka had begun as a battle royale but “may evolve in different directions”.

Quoting this all because Eurogamer has a lot of ads and pop ups on mobile.

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I haven’t played Halo Infinite but I’m wondering if they’ll use majority of what was scraped into it.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Yeah. I’ve never really gotten into Fortnite or Halo Infinite but you can feel that sort of thing frequently throughout the industry.

There’s some rockstar success that comes out of nowhere like PUBG and some monetization efforts are copied but they don’t really nail down why it worked for the original.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Its still his goodbye video. Its a bit like the CaptainSparklez video where he “retires”

I feel like more often than not creators just create these videos when they are shifting to something else. They don’t just stop all together

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

This might be obvious but when you connect your phone to your PC have you enabled file transfers? Usually it defaults to charging only. It should show up in your notification bar.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

It really is annoying how many alt right dog whistles there are

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

I kind of hope Gary Bowser is sticking it to Nintendo with this

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

Pretty neat. I hope we see more mid 2000s era games being ported to mobile devices.

I wouldn’t even mind if they required a controller like Nvidia Shield games (ex. Hotline Miami) do when installed on unsupported devices. That would probably lead to a lot of negative reviews on app stores though because too many people can’t read the description or instructions.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

I really don’t care one way or the other. I think AI being used is an inevitability. I think it would only really be relevant if Microsoft had a policy against AI being used in games for things like asset generation for example.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

I’m not defending Microsoft. They’re a soulless corporation releasing an ad around a holiday where a lot of people have time off and recently received gift cards and spending cash. I don’t think them paying for an artist one time when they hope to use AI for a majority of their throwaway adverts really matters.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I plan to watch the video shortly but it’s worth noting the Sims online still does exist in 2023 with FreeSO

Edit: The video does mention FreeSO. Nice!

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I think it depends on your mentality going into it.

If you are hoping for an original Sims experience but with friends controlling other Sims you’ll probably be really disappointed. It’s been a few years but if I recall there’s a decent amount of grinding required before you can even buy a house. Lots you visit that belong to players are frequently decorated erratically so other players have things to do or to show off what they have.

That said there’s enough differences to make it a fun way to kill two hours and the people who play are quite nice. It’s kind of like checking out a beta or cancelled title in a game series you really enjoy if that makes sense. For example playing Van Buren’s tech demo so you can see what Fallout 3 might have been. It’s neat to see what direction they could have gone in.

CorrodedCranium, 5 months ago

The article I linked with the post was about that. I still can’t think of a lot of other examples though

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

Kind of related but it’s playable using ScummVM if you want to play on it on your phone, 3DS, Vita, PSP, and a few other platforms.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

From another community where OP posted this to:

Kind of related but it’s playable using ScummVM if you want to play on it on your phone, 3DS, Vita, PSP, and a few other platforms.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Would highly recommend MyHouse.wad or at least watching a video of someone playing it.

Incredibly minor spoilers but having someone who has played it guide you to neat things is a big help so watching someone play it on Twitch is what I would recommend.

I would recommend Vinesauce’s Vinny’s stream which can be found here. If you don’t want a full stream here are the highlights but I would recommend watching the full stream.

John Romero, one of the creators of Doom, has also played it. That video can be found here but I’d still recommend Vinny’s stream.

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On a sidenote I have been consistently getting one of the songs from MyHouse.wad stuck in my head.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

Argonaut Games’ cult classic survival horror FPS Alien Resurrection has been hiding a secret for 23 years: it contains a cheat code that lets you play backup disks on PS1 without having to mod the hardware at all.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

How long ago was that?

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Not really surprising considering it’s been offered up as free or as part of various subscriptions

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Also worth noting the release of the Wastelanders DLC changed a lot of perceptions (at least on the Fallout subreddit) about Fallout 76.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

Typically Amazon or Ali Express. RetroGamesCorp has created a couple review videos on them.

Even then you could get an old computer (or laptop) and install Lakka on it and just download the ROMs yourself. The whole setup process can be done in a weekend. After that you could just get some cheap knock off Xbox 360 controllers.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

Other policies that were once prohibited and are now allowed with a label include “fictionalized …fully exposed female-presenting breasts and/or genitals or buttocks regardless of gender,” “body writing on female-presenting breasts and/or buttocks regardless of gender,” and “erotic dances that involve disrobing or disrobing gestures, such as strip teases.”

They’re really going all in on this

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

It seems like Family Link on Android might be what you are looking for

techadvisor.com/…/how-to-set-up-android-parental-…

I think devices that use something like Emulation Station can only limit certain games and menu options but that still leave devices like the Retroid Pocket 3+. Anything that runs PC games should have it’s own suite of parental features or work arounds.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

I’d say it depends what you want to play and what you can get. It might not be a bad move considering you could use it with other devices if you want

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

You don’t need to hardmod it to be able to play backups. There’s some softmod methods that work well and removing the clock capacitor that has a habit of leaking and eating through the board is as easy as opening up the console and wiggling it out. You don’t need to replace it on most models.

Whole process can be done in an afternoon. I’d check out MrMario2011’s video to see how challenging it is though to get a feel for it

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

Totally get it. The biggest reason I would encourage someone to hardmod is a failing disc drive can cause the console not to boot. You don’t need a disc drive with a hardmod and buying an additional console is cheaper typically then buying just a replacement disc drive.

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

Oh yeah I used to browse that one a lot because I was curious about the world outside of what we see in-game. At the time there were some errors like a character being said listed as Australian because one other character said they were going to put them “down under” and stuff being miss-cited because of material like Fallout Extreme and the Fallout Bible but it seems like it got a lot better since then

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

Why is that?

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

I’ve been meaning to play it for a while but this major update may finally push me to just like it did with Cyberpunk

CorrodedCranium, 6 months ago

From what I’ve seen it seems a bit more targeted at teens and adults then kids and that’s kind of what I wanted Harvest Moon to be to begin with so I’m pretty excited to play it.

Also generally the added depth and how fleshed out it seems