angstylittlecatboy

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angstylittlecatboy,

“Threaten the rule of law” is what SovCits would like to think their movement is big enough to do.

angstylittlecatboy,

Black voters aren’t thrilled with Biden but dislike Trump more

angstylittlecatboy,

There are security concerns. Cars are the worst product category for privacy. The issue is that goes for all cars, not just cars from opposing superpowers.

angstylittlecatboy,

Are they growing somewhere else?

angstylittlecatboy,

Game Pass is a profoundly stupid decision. It doesn’t make it’s money back and now Xbox users are used to not paying for games. And from a consumer perspective, enshittification always eventually happens with subscriptions.

angstylittlecatboy, (edited )

USA is Easy mode. It’s just that Western Europe, Australia, Japan, and Canada are Very Easy mode.

angstylittlecatboy,

Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Kirby Planet Robobot for the same reason: while not the most innovative games and not necessarily my favorites in their respective franchises, they represent nearly flawless implementations of their respective franchise’s ideas.

Sometimes I feel like Mario and a couple popular indie games are the only platformers that get taken seriously honestly.

angstylittlecatboy,

If the game has a good enough character creator I’ll play a male. But most games and especially most Western games with character creators don’t allow me to make a male character I’d actually want to look like or at.

Players who don't like survival games as a genre: Which survival games are your personal exceptions, which ones have you enjoyed nonetheless and why?

Personally, I really don’t like most of these games due to the tedium and frustration that comes with hunger/thirst mechanics. Most of the exceptions that I do actually like either make up for it through something else that elevates the experience enough - or they either don’t have these mechanics or allow for players to...

angstylittlecatboy,

Terraria.

Because to me Terraria feels more like a freer version of a Metroidvania than a survival game. And while you start weak you get downright overpowered.

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    angstylittlecatboy,

    I’m about as old as OP, but every time I remember that my generation grew up on mostly 360/PS3 it reminds me that I was weird, my dad got an Original Xbox when it came out, which was the year I was born, and even though we had a Wii, I think we actually played games on OG Xbox more (we relied on the Wii to access the internet through neighbors’ unprotected Wi-Fi for a while though.)

    angstylittlecatboy, (edited )

    I could see there being fatigue with particular genres of indie games (Metroidvanias, Rougelites, First-Person Horror without combat, speedrunner-oriented 2D platformers) but not with the very concept.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    They were originally on Gamepedia, which got bought out by Fandom.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    I still think the N64’s overall technical superiority over the PS1 is very visible. Notice how much more closed in most PS1 games’ environments are. Spyro is the main exception, but that needed a lot of special tricks where N64 just does that. I say this as someone who doesn’t really like the N64 library.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    I don’t disagree (or at least there should be a disc drive-included version and the ability to connect any USB Blu-Ray drive,) but obviously GameStop has a motive here.

    And I think disc based games should have a legal requirement to have a playable version of the game on disc.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    Considering piracy equivalent to hardware theft is just intellectually dishonest. In a lot of ways, but relevant to this discussion is that piracy is way less risky, so more people do it. If you try to steal a PS5 from a store I’d go as far to say you’d probably get caught and jailed. With piracy you almost definitely won’t get caught.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    I’m okay with this on the condition that that platform is PC.

    Even that might become an x86-64 vs ARM divide.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    By that logic the remaining one is also PC with a locked down crapware system (Switch is ARM, people have gotten Android running)

    angstylittlecatboy,

    While only the Steam Deck has achieved massive success, it shows there are ways to reduce the prep time for PC gaming, to almost as little as modern consoles (since you do, ultimately, have to install drivers on console.)

    angstylittlecatboy,

    If I was seeing RISC-V get widespread adoption in consumer-grade hardware, I’d be thinking about it (granted, having X86-64 and ARM on the market could make room for a third competitor compared to the 15-year x86 hegemony.) But I don’t see a push for that, and there probably won’t be unless RISC-V delivers better results than ARM. Keep in mind that you and I probably care more about CPU architecture than the average gamer.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    PC is an open platform and not a “specific set” of hardware requirements.

    Do you even know what a personal computer is?

    angstylittlecatboy,

    Street Fighter V.

    That was a mistake.

    The Steam Deck is changing how normies think of gaming PCs.

    Just thought I’d share something I thought was pretty interesting. I have a mother in law who is… well let’s just say she’s a stereotypical older mom who doesn’t own a computer, just an iPad. During the pandemic, she started getting into Nintendo games and bought herself a Switch. Fast forward a few years later and...

    angstylittlecatboy,

    I’d say they are. “Mom groups who want to play Animal Crossing-esque games” certainly aren’t what I’d think of when I’d think “dedicated gaming enthusiasts,” at least not what most people are thinking of.

    Steam Deck lacks publicity relative to Nintendo Switch or even traditional PC gaming, but the product itself is absolutely more accessible than traditional PC gaming, even if not as accessible as consoles.

    Backwards compatibility is the best feature of Xbox, and I don't understand why Sony is so far behind on this

    When I got the XSX recently, it was so I can play Starfield when it comes out. That was basically the only reason. I did not realize the extensive backwards compatibility that this thing has. But since getting it, I’ve been playing FF13 trilogy, Fable games, Dragon Age series, Lost Odyssey, etc. Basically all games of note...

    angstylittlecatboy,

    Basically all games of note going all the way back to the OG Xbox

    Choose Four Consoles to Have the Largest Selection of Games

    So I’m reassessing my entertainment center since seeing the Video Game History Foundation’s report. Since the study it’s got me thinking, if you could pick any 4 consoles to have hooked up to your TV (4 becuase I’ve got 4 inputs to my TV) which would you pick and why? I will accept modded consoles as answers too.

    angstylittlecatboy, (edited )

    I’d think:

    1. Gaming PC (PC games plus emulation of most systems, including Android and arcades)

    2, 3, and 4. Some combination of three systems with large exclusive libraries for which emulation isn’t quite there yet or have unique features that make emulation suboptimal (Sega Saturn, Original Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS3, and PS5 come to mind)

    angstylittlecatboy, (edited )

    Also just due to sheer age, which makes it the platform with the most games period, dating back to 1995 in terms of games you can play on modern hardware without an emulator (I know it’s getting harder to run Windows 95/98 games now but it should still be possible with effort for a lot of games, unless Windows 11 got rid of something)

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    Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23779039/microsoft-activision-blizzard-ftc-trial-win

    From the article, quoting Judge Corley:

    ... the Court finds the FTC has not shown a likelihood it will prevail on its claim this particular vertical merger in this specific industry may substantially lessen competition. To the contrary, the record evidence points to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content. The motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DENIED.

    @gaming

    angstylittlecatboy,

    That is however, with the caveat that all Xbox games have to run on Series S as well.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    No.

    I do think Valve not being publicly traded allows them to be different in some ways such as the flat structure (“enshittification” as defined by Doctrow doesn’t apply to Valve because there are no shareholders to please) but there’s nothing “left” politically about Valve. Some of it I think is just not having to look good to shareholders allowing Valve to make actual good business decisions.

    Valve’s support of free software is because during the Windows 8 era Newell gained the fear that Microsoft would phase out Win32 in favor of UWP, cutting into Steam’s business big-time. Microsoft definitely isn’t going to pull that now that Windows Phone and the Start Screen concept both died and they’ve stated they no longer see UWP alone as the future, but I do think Valve administration still thinks it’s best for their business to not rely on Microsoft’s whims.

    angstylittlecatboy,

    Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 are arena shooters. Unreal (1998) and Quake 1 are not; Unreal and Quake 1 aren’t multiplayer focused.

    One might say “arena shooter” has retroactively become a subgenre of “boomer shooter.”

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