#video game ramblings

[zombielesbean]

I tried playing a bit of the first starfy game on Nintendo Switch Online last night and like. I feel like having it untranslated is just about worse than not having it at all tbh like there's so much text I and I have no idea what's going on

I don't really feel like this is quite a game where they can be like, ehh, the text doesn't matter, unlike with Panel de Pon and such having these games on there just makes the service feel even messier than it already did

and like. its not like nintendo can't make the effort either, they developed a whole new bit of emulation technology for super mario 64 in 3D all-stars that injects new text into the game in real time so they could translate it into more languages

nintendo switch online is like. the lowest effort retro content they have ever done and it sucks and I hate it hgfghjk

[soundwavemain]

HADES II?

[linksgayawakening]

I’m playing DA:O after finishing DA:I and my biggest shock is not the graphics, but how f’ing hard this game is.

[haoeu]

Must be lonely to be stuck in a computer in an abandoned theme park

[lazylittledragon]

y'know every time i feel guilty about bothering someone by singing along when i'm listening to music, i just remember that i have to tolerate my dirtbag brother screaming at his ps5 for hours every day so listening to muffled off-key fall out boy is probably preferable

[calmlb]

“Chuuya wasn’t in Dark Era, why is he in this art??”

wdym, he’s right here 🤨

[auranym]

indie games are safe!!

good news! unity has walked back a lot of the runtime fee!

they made a blog post outlining their new terms, the link is here. but if you want a sparknotes version, here's the highlights:

1. the runtime fee is not retroactive. previously released games are safe.

2. the fee only applies to the next major version of unity. developers can choose not to upgrade if they don't want do deal with it.

3. the fee is opt-in and number of installs is self-reported. if they'd prefer, developers can instead pay a 2.5% revenue share. (for reference, unreal is 4%.)

4. interestingly, the splash screen is being completely removed. this is probably a way to improve their reputation.

overall, this is a HUGE improvement! but, if I remember right, there was not any revenue share before, so, we are not at the same point we started. unity will still be taking a larger cut of developers' revenue if they choose to use newer features. but, it is nowhere near as drastic as we thought it would be.

overall, I think we're in a stable spot now, but I also think unity has lost most if not all of the trust it had. especially with indies. there has already been a mass exodus, and I kinda hope that will keep going.

[interstellar-productions]

*takes you by the shoulders and shakes violently* listen to me. You have to listen to me. I don’t have enough time to explain.

Aaron Minyard opened his acceptance letter into med school with every. Single. One. Of the og 9 (10 in our hearts) foxes present. (Plus Wymack and Abby). He was surrounded by his entire family when he opened those results.

When he got in it was the only time any of them had seen Aaron cry. Andrew had such a tight grip on the back of Aaron’s neck during it he almost left bruises. Neil was holding his hand (neither will admit to doing such a thing). Nicky sobbed (Erik was on video call when Aaron opened the results. Erik got noise complaints from how excitedly he was cheering). Kevin finally realized medicine was Aaron’s exy and was happily shaking Aaron’s shoulders.

It goes down in fox history as one of the best moments for all of them. The photos hang on the fox wall in the foxhole court.

Wymack and Abby both keep framed photos of Aaron with his acceptance letters in their offices (right next to the photos they keep of all og 9 foxes getting their offers for pro teams).

Edit:

I FORGOT KATELYN OH FUCK

I’m at work rn but tonight I revise ok ok ok I promise (Katelyn my fellow red head I’m so sorry 😭)

[modeus-the-misanthrope]

Took one glance at the Amazon trailer and got exactly what I was worried about. This ghoul is barely seasoned! Even the fallout 4 ghouls had more visible wear and tear.

These two are from New Vegas and Fallout 3 respectively. And they are a showcase of what ghoulification in the lore is, extreme radiation poisoning. They look diseased and damaged on purpose.

[elfhunk]

hello. everyone was wondering: what is wrong with my gyre build? and what is wrong with me?

i am not entirely sure i know the answer to either question. but i just think this game is the most fun when you use your imagination. this is not a game about minmaxing for stats. this is a game about minmaxing for your own personal enjoyment.

and i enjoy a pretty pretty ballerina princess with a big scythe.

[zombielesbean]

I could not get into project zomboid it has too many controls and mechanics and things to remember and think about and too much stress

I've been realizing lately that I like games best if they have like one or two mechanics and at most two buttons to press at once like I had an awful time with mario and luigi partners in time because you have to keep track of four buttons at once, and I get extremely confused trying to play ddr style rhythm games with four inputs like as soon as it starts giving me patterns with more than two buttons at once I just die hfghjkl

and of course I don't even begin to comprehend fighting games it took people years to get me to grasp the concept of shielding in super smash bros.

[momomallowart]

He misses his dad.. 🥺

[olibavee]

music sounds better when u take it for a walk

[foldingfittedsheets]

My family had an NES and my dad liked it too. We’d go to thrift stores and grab random cartridges. One of the games was called Lolo and it was like 99 floors. As a family we’d been working through the towers and every so often the game would give a code to skip to a certain floor.

I was in trouble and supposed to be staying in my room but my dad was playing Lolo so I snuck out of my room and was watching him play from behind the couch. We’d been stuck on a specific floor and we knew it was the one that would drop a code so we could skip ahead. I was just as happy to watch as to play myself. He was at it for a while.

Then to our mutual surprise he succeeded in clearing the floor. In his euphoria he jumped up and whooped, running to my room, so full of joy he needed to share the moment with me. I froze and watched him run down the hall. He looked into my room then looked around in puzzlement, finally spotting me behind the couch.

We stared at each other. I waited to see if I was in more trouble but instead he exclaimed, “You saw me! I did it!”

I jumped up to celebrate with him and we recommenced playing together, excited to see the new level he’d revealed.

[cartoon-buffoon]

SPOILERS FOR FINDING FRANKIE

Real quick one little thing I love about Finding Frankie that I see people also going fucking crazy over is the OST/Final boss fight and the song playing during it. I've genuinely been listening to it on repeat and I don't really like dubstep but this song scratches apart of my brain that hasn't been scratched since I saw playtime with Percy and it's boss fight. Like seriously listen to → it, it's golden.

But also the "STOP MESSING WITH MY FUCKING GAMESHOW!" before the beat drop is something I find both terrifying and awesome at the same time. Before this we are led to believe monster Frankie is just that, a monster. It appears as nothing more than some beast that real Frankie sicks on us in attempt to end us and only actually stops when he realizes the MC being alive could boost ratings. It is just a monster that listens to the commands of the puppet master to kill and nothing more.

And then this boss fight happens where we get evidence that: NO! ITS SENTIENT AND INTELLIGENT! The Cartoon Frankie that hacks the TVs and cusses us out doesn't appear to be the real Frankie because it makes no sense for him to cuss us out only to then give us a business proposition. After all we are doing what we are SUPPOSED to be doing, we are in the final area providing content and boosting ratings, logically real Frankie would want us to CONTINUE because we are in no way ruining it. That just leaves the only other one who would want us dead— Monster Frankie. After all people are apparently betting who will kill us and with the Xs under Henry Hotline and Deputy Duck it's clear people anticipate us to die to Frankie and it seems like Frankie himself has had enough of our shit. This is HIS gameshow and he's enraged you are still alive.

I also believe this because for some reason real Frankie comes and hushes us as monster Frankie walks above in the sewer area. My theory is that after the vent sequence where real Frankie holds back monster Frankie from killing us, monster Frankie gets fed up with us living thus he's going on a direct path to murder us disobeying orders leaving real Frankie to come and help us get to the finale. It's his show where HE is the star, not us, and in the final conflict he lets out his rage by somehow hacking the TVs and telling us to just fucking die already showing that he's fully in control of all the slaughter he did. This is just a theory after all but it makes the most sense to me and adds a cool bit of detail to monster Frankie's character.