It’s gone from that thebrainbin.org lemmy instance, but lemmy.nz had it cached 😊

You can thank Hideki Hayakawa, who turned thier Digital Entertainment (home videogames) division into more casino type things, completed around when Hideo left:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-BmDNuS7w

And now thier “Digital Entertainment” division is way more profitable: https://www.pcgamer.com/konami-just-had-its-best-ever-year-thanks-to-games-youve-never-heard-of/

There’s been a lot of good games for free on epic, and epic still pays the dev/publisher for it, so it’s worth clicking the button even if you don’t download it and play it from thier client.

AAAA games are the best! I love squeezing through a narrow crevice, it’s such a riveting gameplay mechanic!

Oh true 🤦😅

still quite impressive given all the free games they give away and presumably pay the publishers for…

Oh and another option could be to try to find emulators that run on mac, and maybe play some older games exclusive to a platform you didn’t previously own, or that you missed playing at thier time of release. Or buy an older second hand console that has games you haven’t played before…

Might be possible to run proton in a VM?:

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm

Maybe try find some games that work on the mac?

There’s also this project trying to get linux in a vm to run games on a mac(and also trying to install Linux on a mac, but I assume it might break macOS since bootcamp isn’t a thing anymore, so the vm route is probably the better option):

https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbJMPfXTbbE

(I haven’t tried it since I don’t own a mac, just happened to find it when another friend who does have a mac was asking for similar advice to you previously, but he didn’t end up trying it either)

This is why loading screens don’t have mini games BTW. As if you needed another reason to hate software patents.

Seems like they didn’t spend enough on marketing… As a fan of the Burnout games I never heard of it until now either…

Post Processing - Low usually does the trick 😅

But then it sometimes turns ambient occlusion off too… 😞

people are going through that much effort to build a steam controller? maybe i should auction mine instead of having it gather dust… 😅

on windows its pretty much required by most software every time it does an update…

on linux people login as root all the time because they’re too lazy to sudo… or because they messed up file permissions somewhere once…

it’s called half life alyx…

It was included in both, but it was in 95 first 😅

that pinball game from Windows 7

I think you mean from Windows 95…

to be fair, GTAV has the worst story, the main appeal of the game is not the story at all. I think I skipped most of the cutscenes when I played it.

you seem to spend a long time playing games you don’t like 😅

for an explanation of why people love botw: https://youtu.be/CZzcVs8tNfE

I completely agree about rdr2, but I didn’t play it that long before I just installed mods to let me duck around more and explore the beautiful world.

games i don’t like that everyone seems to love: games that waste my time with levelling systems that draw the game out way longer than it’s fun, which is most modern AAA games. I hate how people say things like “you get your moneys worth playing WoW because you’ll spend hours playing it” and “i liked portal but it was too short”, portal was good partly because it was short…

Probably helps that it’s a mod: so it’s not making them any money anyway 😅

I don’t know what’s so impressive about the water, looks the same as water in every other 3D game from 1998?

I think Wave Race 64 had the best water on N64 iirc.

I also think MGS on PS1 had more impressive water.

Also Redline Racer on PC had quite impressive water for the time, but yeah, was PC, so not really a fair comparison 😅

Same is true of any software these days, not just cracks…

One problem with that idea is Konami stock price is way more than I’d consider paying for the game 😅

If you’re gonna stretch the definition of parry that far you may as well count Pong.

They should release a dedicated server for people to run themselves…

Nah im pretty sure my pc cooling fans are a bit louder than my ps5 ones, and they’re not that high pitched.

I think I probably have a similar average on my 18 yr old account, except the only microtransactions on my account are credits from selling any hats, skins and duplicate weapons I unlocked for free in TF2 and CS 😅

I don’t get why they test it with half life 2. Almost all those examples look better with what they’re demonstrating turned off, and it already had really good lighting for the most part, so the difference that RTX adds is very subtle.

They should focus on building support for more games that had simpler real-time lighting instead of leaving of leaving it to the community. I tried using thier tools with Far Cry 1 and it was far too complicated and janky to get working.

The “huntsman” bow and arrow for the sniper in TF2.

Sorry I accidently insulted your mother or something 😅

Probably just a case of the corporate lawyers haven’t noticed those ones yet.

Also this is just source code, not the assets (at least as far as I understand it).

Could probably just require the official game to be installed too and load the assets from that directory, or might even be able to use the shared folder, but not sure if tf2 uses that, i remember l4d and css and hl2 used to.

I’ve not played harvest moon, but I found stardew valley and animal crossing a bit tedious… I guess people mean games that have a lot of small low stress tasks that don’t require much risk taking?

Loosely: Games that make you feel cozy.

I’ve never noticed a game having that effect personally 😅

I always thought of the word cozy as describing your physical comfort level as opposed to mental 🤔

Can someone explain what is a “cozy” game?

Lack of load times? Were you fooled by the controller flying through a portal animation? I guess it might be slightly shorter than the Mario Odyssey load times? I don’t remember, I haven’t played Odyssey again since it was released.

Depending on the game, not necessarily a good thing… I’d imagine it would be bad in fighting games, although probably better than what some of them currently have, and would probably be good in games where players behave a bit more consistently such as FPS or racing games.

I haven’t seen every studio ghibli movie, but I thought the boy and the heron was pretty good: I liked it a lot more than whisper of the heart for example, but not as much as princess monoko, spirited away, my neighbour totoro, or howls moving castle.

I thought it was about on par with Ponyo.

Are there any you’d recommend that are better apart from those?

That’s what I was implying with the elipses, I just couldn’t be bothered writing all that 😅

They tried to make the handheld experience better in windows 8… 🤣