Sneezycat
Sound technician from Spain. Late millenial. I like videogames. I use arch btw.
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What some devs don’t understand is the “reward” on soulslikes is actually learning the boss itself. Figuring out the parrying patterns in Sekiro feels very good, it’s not about what happens after beating the boss.
What makes it challenging and not punishing is having telegraphed moves, windows to punish the boss, and clear animation that shows you how to dodge/parry, without bullshit hitboxes.
I’m playing on shadps4 0.6.0, with the vertex explosion fix mod, and a couple of the emulator mods (60fps, disabled a couple things but I don’t remember off the top of my head).
I have a pretty old PC, 2060RTX and 6700k CPU, and other than some crashes here and there and some terrible lag/frame pacing sometimes, it works pretty well! Good enough for me at least, been waiting many years to play.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Got it for free on Epic a while ago, tried it, and didn’t finish the first mission (got stuck at the final part).
I picked it up again after upgrading my steam deck’s storage, and this time I did finish the tutorial! It is fun to play so I hope it sticks for a bit :)
It’s about preserving the consumption culture for the mainstream. If playing older games for free was easier and legal, more people that now only play the newest AAA garbage would start doing it, and corpos don’t want to risk that culture change, because if it gets big enough it would definitely impact their sales.
Unfortunately not many people know or care about indie games and free games like Beyond All Reason, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, etc. as is.
There’s also the fact that they’re completely optional and unnecessary. They provide nothing but cosmetics
I hate this argument, because videogames themselves are completely optional and unnecessary. That’s the whole point of them, they’re just for entertainment, to have fun and enjoy playing them. So I don’t see how something being cosmetic makes any difference.
It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?
Well, people waste their money on useless crap all the time, so I guess I’ll just be the cranky old lady and go back to playing my original AoM, where I’m actually playing a game and not an advertisement.
It also popularized the “mechanic” of online matchmaking through steam for pirated and abandoned games. Thank you Spacewar, very cool.
Edit: the Steam one is a test game for their steamworks system with source code from the original game. The more you know.
Nobody was talking about Larian when they released DOS2, and the only big thing BG3 has that DOS2 doesn’t is the animated dialogue (and DnD setting).
To be fair, just that system was a lot of work for the devs and it does wonders for the game; but DOS2 is a freaking amazing game too, it just didn’t have the publicity.
Fair enough, and it is definitely bigger. But in my mind, systems that get no engagement from me are systems that don’t exist, therefore making the game smaller.
What I particularly hate is the catacombs and other recycled open world stuff in Elden Ring. I’d much rather have another Sekiro sized game with a lot of quality than a 100h+ game I’ll only play once, because replaying anything more than the main progression path feels like a chore but it still gives you loot.
Yeah, but much of the cable content is lost to time. That’s why we have stories like that of Marion Stokes, who collected tapes at her home and preserved hundreds of thousands of hours of news footage.
Not a voice mod, but my voice passes as fem now, so I started talking in VC.
Started playing phasmophobia and it’s a lot of fun, but sometimes you get one or two dudes that start making “funny” mysogynistic comments and it’s pretty annoying cause it’s the Same. Thing. Every. Time.
“Oooh it’s in the kitchen, must be a woman ghost!” Looks at me to gauge my reaction.
Joins room I say hi “A FEMALE??? I’m not playing with a female” disconnects
And more. Spawntaneous is a youtuber that has a series of videos about being a “girl gamer” and it’s very eye opening. You don’t get that kind of people every match, but you do get them every couple hours you play, and even if you somehow find it funny the first time, it gets old really quick.
I’m pretty sure someone modded it to run at 60fps on the PS4 pro, but I haven’t heard about it in a while. You can look for more info if you’re interested, there are some reddit threads on the subject.
Still, I’m not buying a console just to play this one game, as good as it is. I can wait for emulation.
I mean, would be weird if they weren’t.
As for what their next projects will be, I hope they’re working on Sekiro 2, because some endings had lots of potential for a sequel (and also, Tomoe DLC pls!!).
Also probably some new IP. They went sci-fi with AC, but for the soulslike games they always go with fantasy. So I’ll throw a wild guess and say it’ll be set in ancient Egypt/Middle East, and the protagonist will have the pharaoh’s curse.
(and no I’m sorry but Bloodborne is never coming to PC and BB2 isn’t happening, Miyazaki told me this in a dream)
The minimum requirements for this game are very high,and that’s for running it at 30fps. Add that AAA always have problems at release + it’s Bethesda… So I bet the game is going to run terribly.
(Also I’d rather have 60fps and last gen graphics than 30fps for a game with shooting and fast-paced action)
Thanks for your diligent work!
I don’t know if you already know this, but your phrasing made me think you don’t:
Supergiant Games are known for Bastion… and more recently, for Hades :P So it makes sense that the style reminds you of that, because Transistor precedes Hades.