Coelacanth @ Coelacanth @feddit.nu

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Summit.

Since the recent inbox revamp the red notification number icon on the inbox is slow to disappear, sometimes requiring multiple refreshes even after clicking Mark Read or replying to my last unread comment.

I wish the push notifications were faster. I still have Boost and Sync installed on my device and I get push notifications from them much faster than from Summit.

Damn I didn't see this coming, hit unexpectedly hard. I just played through all the Ninja Gaiden games just recently as well as his Samurai Jack game and was so pumped for both his next project as well as NG4. He was a legendary character and whatever you think of him he was a colourful figure on the scene and will be missed for that if nothing else.

First person driving at night in Cyberpunk was one of my absolute favourite things. Especially in the rain! Such a vibe.

I'm finally playing Alan Wake 2 again this week, playing through the Final Draft before doing the DLCs for the first time. Sadly something seems to have gotten borked when I moved PCs and transferred my save manually - only some of the stuff that's supposed to carry over to NG+ actually carried over. Very strange. I had looked forward to having Saga's whole arsenal from the start but oh well.

Game is great. Having waited for so long to return to it has only made the experience better, absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. Having a significantly better PC than last time also only makes the visual splendour more impressive, although I still can't even come close to playing it maxed out. It's a gorgeous game, beautiful HDR implementation and just perfect art direction.

I don't have much to say as I've not only already played it, but also just love it. I guess the collectibles are a little unnecessary, grindy and annoying if you want to 100% it. Also the case board stuff is a little tedious on subsequent playthroughs as a lot of it is unskippable. That's it for notes. Play it if you haven't already, it's wonderful. Try playing some previous Remedy games first if you can, the Remedyverse is cool.

Bloodlines 2 is almost out, I don't think competition is a concern. But they really have no reason to let go of it, they deemed it not good enough and as long as they don't release it nobody can prove otherwise. If they do release it and people like it it would be a PR disaster. Better not take any chances.

I'm really sad we'll never know what his version looked like. I quite like his work. Even though by the sounds of it they scrapped everything he wrote I presume his original script is locked behind NDAs.

At least he's still working in games. Very intriguing to hear he's involved in a AAA title and I can't wait to hear that announced.

I remember Game Makers Toolkit raving about some text-based interactions in the game The Shivah in an old video about detective games.

Hah! I also actually related to him a lot actually. As someone who has struggled with mental health, depression, addiction, failure and clinging to the past I ended up resonating a lot with the protagonist as well, and Disco Elysium overall was a very emotional and impactful experience for me.

But even so, I never really felt like I was playing me like I do in self insert RPGs. But that was fine - the main mystery of the game is discovering your protagonist's backstory and history and everything he is and has been through anyway.

One thing I will say: Disco Elysium is not a self-insert or blank slate RPG. You are playing as a very defined and distinct person, and you discover more and more things about him as you go. You can choose to emphasise certain traits that he already possesses, but you can never completely reshape him. He will always be who he is. A lot of people who want to "pick dialogue options that they would say IRL" end up bouncing off the game. I recommend trying to accept that you're playing as an insane, depressed failure and commit to it.

Ghost of Tsushima is touted by some as a "game of the decade" candidate when in reality it's just a somewhat more polished Ubisoft open world game, that's also highly monotonous and repetitive for its very long playthrough length.

Another somewhat similar story is WolfeyVCG and Perish Song in competitive Pokémon.

It was probably poorly phrased but I feel like I remember there was a group of various instance admins at the time discussing ways to deal with it, so it was more of a reference to maybe they figured something out.

You're right that they used tiny instances with no oversight and open registrations to ban evade for a long time even before this debacle when it was just normal Nicole spam.

A copycat spammer started sending gore pictures to people using the same Nicole copypasta text. A lot of people got upset and there was a flurry of discussion over like a 24h period. Some people seemed to think it was a serial killer and Nicole had been doxxed and killed. In reality if I recall right the picture was from a morgue somewhere in China.

Anyway the whole thing led to a general "okay maybe the joke has run its course and we shouldn't encourage this" type of moment and the sub was shut down. Presumably the spammer stopped spamming once they no longer received attention, but maybe the admins found and IP banned them or something. I have no idea.

Act 1 one is very weak unfortunately, it's a major flaw of the game. After one of the strongest prologues in recent gaming memory they whiplash the narrative into hours and hours of Gestral nonsense and completely ruin the vibe. And none of the main characters react believably to any of the insane bullshit - not to mention react to why they understand Gestral.

I'm glad I pushed through in the end and overall the game managed to stick the landing, but I was very close to abandoning it around the Gestral village.

It's one of my favourite subs!

Feels a bit more like !offbeat@lemmy.ca than good news, but fun nonetheless!

The Witcher 3 is just an RPG minigame you can play between rounds of Gwent.

I think using English language voice acting but with the accent of the local region or setting is an underutilized thing in video games. It always helped my immersion in for example the original STALKER games, and I hated that they went away from it in STALKER 2 and had the protagonist sound like a B-movie American action hero.

But even that aside - at least pick a lane! I'm used to games having British accents as the "default" for some reason, but this game having it side-by-side with fake french accents is really jarring.

Like the other commenter said: intense gunfights versus one up to a handful gunmen at most would have been the perfect match for the storytelling instead of the super wacky over the top arcadey shooting galleries we have instead.

Hard to say, the playtest demo was very short. Some things I'd wish for might be introduced later in the actual game. I would personally have liked to see it leverage the first person perspective more and play more like an actual FPS hybrid. Shooting weak spots is fine and all, but it would be fun if you could actually do a "gun build". From what I've seen that isn't the case and you can spec into magic and/or melee and the gun is more of a tool.