Video Games and Gaming Technology (In A Positive Light)
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I am a big fan of Pokémon. On and off I will sometimes boot up one of the oldies. I shiver at the modern Pokemon consumer however. Gen 6 was the last serviceable one, and even then. I was shocked at just how utterly slow and boring gen 7 was. More tutorial and boring kiddy plot than gameplay. Then gen 8 removed the national dex, and it was clear it became a blatant scam over their success for decent games before.
I did not, however, care for Palworld. Miss me with the 20 dollar flavor of the month asset flips lol. I'm conservative with my wallet because of Pokémon, to some extent.
I just wish these flavor of the month games actually had any soul or effort. Copyright World is an asset flip from the company's old game that flopped, and they got very courageous with their copyright lawyers. It worked, but only because "POKEMAN WITH GUNS!!!! BASED CCP!!!!" I didn't see the appeal at all, even for pirating, and it's been bleeding numbers on Steam, after just one peak weekend filled with Twitch streams and shilling. It is quite literally flavor of the month. It is at its heart only popular because of e-celebs, which upsets me a bit. No point in crying over spilled milk, however.
One flavor of the month I liked, to not sound like a jaded adult, was Battlebit. I grew up with both Battlefield (ruined by EA, analogous to Pokémon) and the literal asset flip Minecraft shooter rip-offs. Battlebit had everything going for it, then the devs implemented censorship and gave up on balancing it. It sits now at one of its lowest stats, for something that peaked at almost 100 thousand and was praised for being unique in a saturated market of diaper wearing competitive fags. https://steamdb.info/app/671860/charts/#all
I'd only recommend it if you don't want to have fun, and want to instead sit in silence with Trannywatch-tier censorship, coupled with bad gameplay and it getting worse. It had it all, then it took hormones and bought a rope.
Palworld in itself I didn't care enough to spend the bandwidth and space on pirating. Much less 20 dollars.
I did not, however, care for Palworld. Miss me with the 20 dollar flavor of the month asset flips lol. I'm conservative with my wallet because of Pokémon, to some extent.
I just wish these flavor of the month games actually had any soul or effort. Copyright World is an asset flip from the company's old game that flopped, and they got very courageous with their copyright lawyers. It worked, but only because "POKEMAN WITH GUNS!!!! BASED CCP!!!!" I didn't see the appeal at all, even for pirating, and it's been bleeding numbers on Steam, after just one peak weekend filled with Twitch streams and shilling. It is quite literally flavor of the month. It is at its heart only popular because of e-celebs, which upsets me a bit. No point in crying over spilled milk, however.
One flavor of the month I liked, to not sound like a jaded adult, was Battlebit. I grew up with both Battlefield (ruined by EA, analogous to Pokémon) and the literal asset flip Minecraft shooter rip-offs. Battlebit had everything going for it, then the devs implemented censorship and gave up on balancing it. It sits now at one of its lowest stats, for something that peaked at almost 100 thousand and was praised for being unique in a saturated market of diaper wearing competitive fags. https://steamdb.info/app/671860/charts/#all
I'd only recommend it if you don't want to have fun, and want to instead sit in silence with Trannywatch-tier censorship, coupled with bad gameplay and it getting worse. It had it all, then it took hormones and bought a rope.
Palworld in itself I didn't care enough to spend the bandwidth and space on pirating. Much less 20 dollars.
Everytime I play Driver San Francisco, I feel like the creators of that game were either Catholic or Christian. They use the phrase "Lord knows" and "God" quite a lot in the dialogue, but not in a bad way. I play it on the PS3, it is still one of my favorite titles of all time.
I jumped back into Skyrim earlier this week. I always do one thing first, to set about gaining as many followers as I can. I figured out how to get six peoplle to follow me: a companion plus Serena, Priest Veralus, Mercer, Delphine and Esbern. Plus a dog. I think once I had another creature. Either way, I have a full on squad with me all the time, so I never have to fight lol, my small army destroys every enemy and I can just explore.
All you have to do is initiate a quest where a companion tags along, and just never complete the quest. I tried doing this in games released later, like Fallout 4 and Starfield, but it seems Bethesda has really tightened up on this sort of hack.
Has anyone does this in other games, where you find a way to have more followers than you are supposed to?
All you have to do is initiate a quest where a companion tags along, and just never complete the quest. I tried doing this in games released later, like Fallout 4 and Starfield, but it seems Bethesda has really tightened up on this sort of hack.
Has anyone does this in other games, where you find a way to have more followers than you are supposed to?
I was lurking on Andrew Anglin's forum, and look what I found. Palworld has the Andrew Anglin seal of approval! We are so back, palbros!
Dave the Diver is a really bad game in my opinion, though. I played through its entirety and it never stopped feeling incredibly slow, unpolished and clunky. The story is really basic and thoroughly uninteresting, I'd honestly say it's barely at the level of something like a Backyardigans episode. Not sure how you even pull that off unless you're actively trying to put zero effort into the story. Not that I play games for the story, but at least make it skippable, there's points in the story where you are forced to play through extremely boring janky minigames.
"Woah, this archaeologist guy is fleeing from armed pirates in a yacht, you have to dodge the rocks and bullets in this extremely easy but tedious minigame with terrible unresponsive movement, isn't that a fun change of pace? And how about a stealth minigame where you control Dave and he moves at a snail's pace and you have to hide in fridges and wait for enemies to move out of your way and you lose if they see you?" No, please just let me run the restaurant in peace, okay? That's what I saw in the Steam images, that's what I signed up for, I don't want your story about how this fat diver is sneaking into a secret Greenpeace base where they secretly butcher dolphin meat. How did they make that boring, anyway? I know my summary of that storyline sounds like it should absolutely be at least amusing, but they somehow managed to make it lame and tedious.
The movement is always painfully slow, even if you are permanently holding the sprint button and using the two mobility charms that the game has. It really makes you FEEL like a morbidly obese man. The combat is also just awful, and it's made worse by the fact that it involves the movement I just whined about. Why can't Dave aim his guns directly downwards or upwards? Why are there so many guns and gun upgrades when a single upgrade to the default musket/rifle (the tranquilizer upgrade) carries you effortlessly through the entire game and there is zero need for anything else, unless you're trying to fill your fishdex? And even though there's a lot of variety in melee weapons in the game, melee is so inconsistent and the hitboxes on everything are so janky that melee combat is NEVER, at any point in the entire game, a remotely good idea to use. Now, you would think that in a game about harpoon fishing and running a sushi restaurant, the combat being bad would be something you can just overlook, but actually there's a bunch of mandatory bossfights in the game, and there's also some hostile sharks and whatnot that can sometimes be hard to avoid. Dodging very telegraphed attacks with Dave's extremely slow movement is just not challenging nor fun, and I don't know how anyone thought it was a good idea to make this comBAD (heh) such a big part of the game.
The only parts of the game I enjoyed were running the restaurant and filling up the fishdex, which is a shame because you spend something like 80-90% of the game just diving. Most of the characters had a nice concept and design and I liked them, I found the weeb gunsmith character very funny, and a black sushi samurai is just a pretty cool concept, I have no complaints with the characters, but the gameplay and story, man...
I'd understand all of this if Dave the Diver was actually an indie game, but it's made by a subsidiary of NEXON, which is a massive Korean company that makes millions upon millions of dollars every year because they run a bunch of those really psychologically damaging anime mobile games. I really think NEXON funding should result in a far better game.
I gotta play some Crash games soon. It's been a long time and I always loved those games. Even the shovelware.
RUTABUGA
Also back to playing Hearts of Iron 4. If this game was a woman, I would have had painfully divorced her 7 times by now. I'm currently on a Manchukuo (Manchuria) campaign. Asia is very polished for the standards of the game, and I enjoy the "historical" context of Puyi. Paradox as a whole seems to be cashing in on South Americans, but I'm not even bothering to pirate their new Brazil DLC. It's all overpriced, and almost equally garbage. Very few nations are even fun in that game.
RUTABUGA
Also back to playing Hearts of Iron 4. If this game was a woman, I would have had painfully divorced her 7 times by now. I'm currently on a Manchukuo (Manchuria) campaign. Asia is very polished for the standards of the game, and I enjoy the "historical" context of Puyi. Paradox as a whole seems to be cashing in on South Americans, but I'm not even bothering to pirate their new Brazil DLC. It's all overpriced, and almost equally garbage. Very few nations are even fun in that game.
The whole time I played TLOU, I couldn't help but wish they changed the story so that Ellie were Joel's kid who died at the start, and Sarah/Joel's kid from the opening sequence of TLOU1 was used as Ellie's character. Sarah was only in game for like 30 mins and was more interesting, genuine and likeable than Ellie was for the entirety of both games. Of course, they would have turned Sarah woke as well, but even so I liked her more.
Short as her time was, if I made a list of my favorite female characters in games Sarah would be up there, along with Serana from Skyrim and Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite. Ellie would be on an opposite type list for me.
Yes, at this point the fact that the couple is a man and a woman in a relationship almost seems like a victory. Reminded me that the most taboo relationship in Hollywood films is the married man and woman who actually like each other.
I always prefer playing as a male characters but I also understand that many female gamers have been forced to play as male characters, so it's selfish of me to criticize too much. I will say, now that I'm more aware of my own weakness toward the female form, I do wish they were at least modestly dressed in games. I don't need to be staring at an attractive woman's big butt in tight jeans all game, but at least in GTA 6 I will be able to use 1st person. No such luck in Tomb Raider. All my favorite female characters in games have had a mystery about them, starting with how they are dressed.
GTA 6 will be an amazing game. Whatever concerns I have as far as wokeness or otherwise I'm positive will not be experience ruining. That said, I suspect GTA 5 will remain Rock Star's magnum opus.
After 8 months away from gaming I decided to pick up Halo Infinite. Quite nostalgic so far even though the first boss is kicking my butt.
TF2 seems to be getting raided by discord tranny bots again.
They don't bother with the third world servers so I'm safe for now.
They don't bother with the third world servers so I'm safe for now.
Let me ruin Elizabeth for you, in a good way:
These are amazing and a must watch.
Matchmaking always sends me to US servers even though I am geographically a lot closer to the third world serversTF2 seems to be getting raided by discord tranny bots again.
They don't bother with the third world servers so I'm safe for now.
Check with your ISP and where your ip is at. TF2 also has a ping limit thing under settings, that tells you your ping on what server locations. I wouldn't recommend VPNs because money. At worst case you can just get a friend from Europe or way South of South America.Matchmaking always sends me to US servers even though I am geographically a lot closer to the third world servers
Since I first played it in mid 2020 until now, there is a video game that unexpectedly become one of my favorites, it is The Sims 4.
It does have a lot of cons like overpriced DLCs, woke and LGBT content, watered down gameplay and trying to appeal to mass audiences. But the pros outweigh the cons.
The Sims 4 is one of the only games that allowed me to be as creative as possible due to its sandbox and open ended nature. You can create your world, house, characters, backstory and so on. Even me as person with near-zero creativity gets stimulated by the freedom afforded by TS4.
When starting a new game I always created a single male sim character and made him as attractive as possible, with sharp formal outfits. Then I set him up with one of the premade female characters and started a dynasty from there, with multiple generations and cadet branches.
Another plus is TS4 is a great way to relax. Usually other games need you to be alert and pay attention in order to win. But in TS4 you don't have to do such thing, just play and enjoy the simulation. There are not many relaxing and destressing games like this, except maybe Euro Truck Simulator, American Truck Simulator and Simcity series.
It does have a lot of cons like overpriced DLCs, woke and LGBT content, watered down gameplay and trying to appeal to mass audiences. But the pros outweigh the cons.
The Sims 4 is one of the only games that allowed me to be as creative as possible due to its sandbox and open ended nature. You can create your world, house, characters, backstory and so on. Even me as person with near-zero creativity gets stimulated by the freedom afforded by TS4.
When starting a new game I always created a single male sim character and made him as attractive as possible, with sharp formal outfits. Then I set him up with one of the premade female characters and started a dynasty from there, with multiple generations and cadet branches.
Another plus is TS4 is a great way to relax. Usually other games need you to be alert and pay attention in order to win. But in TS4 you don't have to do such thing, just play and enjoy the simulation. There are not many relaxing and destressing games like this, except maybe Euro Truck Simulator, American Truck Simulator and Simcity series.
Kind of like real life?