Sabin10

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Sabin10,

Maybe it’s because I grew up with 8 and 16 bit rpgs but I despise level scaling. It really takes the enjoyment out of playing for me so I just don’t play games that have it. Some games have min and max enemy levels based on location but others keep the enemies in lock step to you and it just makes playing the game feel pointless. In either case, every game with level scaling would be better without it.

Sabin10,

Try liking sonic the hedgehog games. The characters are all children but the fandom does not care.

Sabin10,

MS surprise launched hifi rush with zero marketing, put it on gamepass day 1 then complains it didn’t meets ales expectations and shuts down the studio that made it. Now, 48 hours later, they are saying they need more games like that.

It may not be directly referenced in the article but cloud gaming was absolutely a part of what led to the closure of tango gameworks.

Sabin10,

I’d argue that xcloud and gamepass are equally disruptive to the industry. In either case you don’t own the games and they are tied to a subscription. Whether the game is running locally or in remote hardware doesn’t change how it impacts development and sales of games.

Cloud based gaming is not going to replace owning hardware unless they can ensure sub 20ms response time for every and I don’t belive that target is feasible but either case is bad for gaming as a whole. Games with 100 million dollar budgets are never going to see a positive ROI on services like gamepass and are reliant on gamers being willing to pay full price at launch.

My point is that Gamepass and similar services will kill AAA games if they become the primary way people access games and that is something that is best avoided. Games need a 6-12 month buffer to hit sales targets before they are considered for subscription services, otherwise the entire business model will fall flat on its face and take gaming with it.

Sabin10,

At the time people (probably his supporters) would say the stupidity was an act to make him more relatable. I’m not so sure.

Sabin10,

I usually don’t care much for streamers but Wirtual is amazing. He’s a talented player in his own right but also does a great job explaining the nuts and bolts of the game. I’m still a mediocre trackmania player (odd since I am usually very good at racing games) but his videos have taught me a lot.

Sabin10,

You don’t want to know how much that would cost in Ontario

Sabin10,

To be fair, it hurts when they nip you.

Sabin10,

Replayed it last year and it was as good as I remembered. Windwaker is my personal favourite but LTTP is so close it might as well be a tie.

Sabin10,

Hangon, shinobi and rampage were what I played the most.

Major Asset Seizure Likely as Trump Can't Afford Bond for NY Fraud Case (www.commondreams.org)

Less than a month after New York Attorney General Letitia James said she would be willing to seize former Republican President Donald Trump’s assets if he is unable to pay the $464 million required by last month’s judgment in his civil fraud case, Trump’s lawyers disclosed in court filings Monday that he had failed to...

Sabin10,

The point is to make the case difficult and time consuming, hoping to cause a delay. One common method I have seen is to print every email in an email chain. The efficient way would be to print the last email in a 30 reply long chain and have it make up about 5 pages of the filing. Instead of doing that though, you can print every email in the chain and turn it in to 50+ pages pretty easily. Trump does not want this case to be handled efficiently and having a 5000+ lage filing, full of repeated and unnecessary information is one way to make that happen.

Sabin10,

If it’s not haunted then why is it sweating?

Sabin10,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/26943c01-a560-4153-87d6-315b70abd24f.jpeg

Sabin10,

Touche

Sabin10,

Hey, Israel has every right to defend themselves from starving children lined up for food. You must be one of those antisemitic people I’ve been hearing about.

/s

Sabin10,

I thought $40 Canadian for phantom liberty was a lot but, after playing it, it was worth the price. Erdtree could very well give a similar experience but I’m going to wait for some reviews before I consider getting it.

Does hosting the Olympics, the World Cup or other major sports events really pay off? (phys.org)

After a long battle, Paris’s beloved bouquinistes will be staying put this summer. The decision, announced on 13 February by the French government, came after considerable public backlash to the police prefecture’s original plan to move part of the iconic Seine booksellers elsewhere for the inauguration of the Olympics Games...

Sabin10,

The venues built for the 1988 Calgary winter games got turned into the world’s best training centers.

Sabin10,

I work in print. This is a common request.

Sabin10,

If you think it’s from robot chicken, you aren’t old enough

Sabin10,

Still on archive.org so I’m not worried but I still hate to see stuff like this happen because of the precedent that it sets.

Sabin10,

A tool like that would almost definitely require api access to function. If that was still possible, most of us wouldn’t be here having this conversation.

Sabin10,

I had to はし (hashi) over the はし because I forgot my はし at home.

Same word phonetically, three meanings. With Kanji it’s easy.

Sabin10,

The Japanese alphabets are phonetic so all homophones have the same spelling. In your example all the words are spelled differently.

Sabin10,

In many other languages homophones are often spelled differently. Hiragana and katakana phonetic alphabets so homophones all have the same spelling.

Sabin10,

I remeber enjoying the Naruto gekitou ninja taisen games on gamecube. Everything since then has been in the ultimate ninja storm arena fighter format and is garbage.

Sabin10,

The average human takes 20000 breaths per day. For comparison, the average American take 4700 steps a day so steps actually win since the break even point is around 4000 steps.

Sabin10,

Same here. I’ll take steps and in 10 years I’ll be set up to make more than the breathers even if I become a paraplegic.

Sabin10,

OOT is ok but most people that played wind waker or twilight princess first will have a hard time getting into it. Most 5th gen games have aged pretty poorly and need a solid dose of nostalgia to fully enjoy.

Sabin10,

I’m to young for the first one but too old for the second one. I’m also used to society ignoring my generation so that’s fine.

Sabin10,

I would love it if T8 could lock a solid 60fps on the deck. T7 fluctuates between 45 to 60 for me with everything set to low, not ideal for a fighting game.

Sabin10,

If you managed to play through reloaded, revolution will be a wall in the park. I played through it yesterday and it’s great.

Sabin10,

It’s no more difficult that portal 2 was IMO.

Sabin10,

I’m going to go against what others are saying and advise against the raspberry pi. If you are serious about ps2, ps3 and gamecube, the pi will struggle with more games than it runs well. Especially for ps3, you’ll want at least a 4c/8t CPU, preferably no more than 5 years old, anything less will struggle.

Sabin10,

T7 has performance issues on the deck for me, I’m not hopeful for 8.

Sabin10,

Lack of net neutrality is a huge part of it. Korean ISPs bill sites like twitch for the data they use.

Sabin10,

Strictly speaking, I’m not opposed to monetization in f2p games but the pricing is egregious.

When the le seraffim bundle for overwatch 2 dropped they also put their in game currency on sale so you could get enough currency to get the bundle for $50 instead of $70 and people were calling it a great value.

Even at $50, that’s enough for 4 months of humble choice which would net you 32 games and 6-8 of them would be AAA games.

Sabin10,

I’d still take the snes but DC is my second choice since I’m a big fan of fighting games

Sabin10,

The 5th gen consoles are a great time capsule of everything developers didn’t understand about 3d gaming. If you don’t have a strong sense of nostalgia for them, most of the games aren’t worth bothering with and even the ones that still hold up were mostly dead ne better on the 6th gen consoles.

The fact that most of the great 2d games were intentionally withheld from the North American market is a real shame since the ps1 and Saturn were amazing at 2d.

Sabin10,

5h gen consoles are basically the 3d equivalent of the Atari.

Sabin10,

And hopefully higher clocks and/or more cores when docked or on AC. I lov love my steam deck but would love it more if it could manage 1080p when docked without the performance tanking.

Sabin10,

A little, yeah. It’s screen is 800p and the hardware was designed to target that. Older and less demanding games manage ok at 1080p or even 4k but newer AAA games are not going to get there.

Sabin10,

Fortnite killed that and I’m still bitter about it

Sabin10,

Actual 80s kids grinded this level until they could make it through without taking much damage. When you only owned a half dozen games you got pretty good at all of them.

Sabin10,

The timing on those jumps is tight enough that it is substantially harder with the 2-3 frames of input latency that many modern controllers and displays add.

I tried over 20 Steam Next demos so that you don't have to!

And I’ve rated them all below. I’m very glad Steam decided to do a big promotional event around them- it helped point me toward a lot of games I would have never tried/heard of otherwise. Some of the good ones might not be good the entire game, but they were at least good in the demo....

Sabin10,

What controller are you using? The right stick controlled my camera just fine with a dual shock 4 in windows and on my steam deck. Control issues aside, if you aren’t a fan of racing games, this game isn’t going to change that but the demo has me very excited for the full release.

Sabin10,

Probably crushed by falling blocks while genki rockets plays in the background.

Playing TMNT 2 on 3:2 monitor (lemmy.ml)

Discovered this video from RetroGameCorps and decided to try it. The monitor is great, it’s quite nice to play with tiny borders. I more of a NES fan and trying to finish TMNT 2 right now. But it looks even more amazing for GameBoy Advance games, which have exactly 3:2 resolution....

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People are so addicted to the arbitrary “you did it!” mcguffins that they’ve started adding them to games that never had them. Now NES games aren’t done when the credits role because you failed to make it through stage 3 without taking damage or some other bull shit.

Sabin10,

China has spent decades building up their reputation of a place that produces cheap, inferior copies of better products and they aren’t going to shake that overnight or even in a few years.

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