brsrklf

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brsrklf,

You’re talking about the 40 year old arcade game, right ? 🤔

brsrklf,

You know, Baldur’s Gate 1 was on 5 CD-ROM, 6 with the extension.

Of course it was mostly because it was a mess of mostly uncompressed graphics and audio, but still.

If I remember correctly the backgrounds were just fully drawn as huge bitmaps. Several of them for each area too, because they used separate bitmaps to represent collisions too.

brsrklf, (edited )

On PC Lands of Lore 2 was on 4 discs, about at the same time (1997).

It was a big game, but of course lots of video and fully voice acted dialogue mostly explained the need for all those.

Most of the human/human-shaped characters were actors in FMW, often directly green-screened over the 3D environment. It was quite a surprise, I had never seen live action FMV used in a “real” game that’s not some sort of point and click.

brsrklf,

Define “SEGA game”, because on a technicality I’m going to choose the Bayonetta series.

gmr_leon, to games
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Which video games have been trapped on a hardware platform (console/handheld/headset/etc.) that you wish would be ported well?

I was reading about Oculus accounts that haven't been assimilated into Meta accounts being erased, & it got me thinking about games trapped on hardware platforms again. What are some of the games you wish would have good ports across different hardware?

@games

brsrklf,

I’ve never played it, but I am curious about it : I wonder why SEGA never ported Jet Set Radio Future on any other platform. It never left the original xBox.

It’s a bit weird because SEGA is usually not against getting a few quick bucks from the old catalogue. The first Jet Set Radio, along with a couple other Dreamcast games, has a PC version, and it’s at least playable, if not absolutely perfect.

brsrklf,

Especially since DS, 3DS and Wii U gamepad had resistive screens. They could use a thin bit of plastic as a stylus and you could get very precise instantly with it.

Capacitive is nowhere near as convenient for (most) game interfaces. Fingers are inaccurate as fuck and get in the way of the screen, big round styluses are only marginally better, and even those clear-disc capacitive stylus things don’t work as well and are still usually quite a bit thicker than the DS bit of plastic.

With the Switch screen being capacitive too, I’ve tried using a capacitive stylus to design Super Mario Maker courses. It’s just not the same, it was a lot easier on the Wii U screen. On the Switch I have to go back and correct stuff constantly, and pointing in particular doesn’t always register immediately.

brsrklf,

For a couple years now, I’ve only had an old PSVR. It’s obviously limited, has quite low res and is only usable for a few games on my PS4, but hey, it was my entry point to VR anyway, and it’s already pretty fun.

I know at some point I will get a PC VR set, if only to get more out of it. And I already know I am ready to pay significantly more for it not to be meta. I don’t care if they pretend their accounts are separate, I don’t trust them and I want nothing to do with them.

brsrklf,

Not sure how it’s supposed to be used exactly, but it’s being fed into your life support system to boost it. If any body part would be directly impacted by a change in that system, lungs would be an obvious candidate.

Maybe using it changes the composition of whatever the life support system makes you breathe, or yeah, maybe it’s a liquid sent directly into your lungs like that stuff they use in The Abyss.

Of which the rat experiment part was a real thing apparently. They just had to use shots from 5 different fluid-breathing rats because the poor fuckers were so panicked they shat themselves constantly in terror.

brsrklf,

I don’t really use fueled stoves, but in the case of generators they’re supposed to refuel them before they are completely empty.

Refuelling is a “haul” task. Maybe everyone is too busy to refuel the stove in time? Do you have enough pawns hauling?

brsrklf,

No idea who Sweet Baby were, or I thought so.

They worked on the writing of quite a few famous things, and surprisingly, they made one niche full game themselves that I have played, one of the playdate’s initial games.

Yeah, that curator’s crusade against them doesn’t smell too good, very gamergate-y. That said the call to flag the curator en masse could get them in trouble. Probably not the right solution.

brsrklf,

I’ve seen their discussion board. So yeah, intent counts too, and I’d advise anyone who may want to join/use that group to carefully consider why it was made.

My personal opinion : they’re terrible people.

brsrklf,

They’re terrible people because they use transphobic slurs out of nowhere and label anything they don’t like “woke”. Only took reading a dozen messages to get to that point. Also, welcome to the block list.

brsrklf,

That definition is not just loose, it’s missing all of its screws completely at that point. Gambling is also assuming you’re putting something of actual value at stake. Nobody would use gambling for a bit of randomness in a game with no stake.

Are you gambling with yourself in a game of solitaire? Or if you hope the Pac-Man ghost will go left instead of right at the end of the corridor? In isolation, obviously not. I’m assuming you’re playing to have fun, and “losing time” or reaching a game over state earlier will not have a significant impact on anything.

However, if you’d bet $10 with someone that you’d win those games, yeah, it becomes gambling.

Aaaand that’s why microtransactions blur the line so much and gacha/loot boxes should be considered gambling adjacent. Not just any incursion of randomness.

brsrklf,

*her

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

brsrklf,

Ackshually, Atlas is carrying the sky, not the world

… I’m sorry, I was feeling like being an annoying pedant today.

brsrklf,

I had it on Wii U, I was not even aware it was not already on Switch too.

Cool game. A lot better than 3 IMO, which tried way too hard being funny (it’s disgusting, it must be funny right?) and did very little new.

Though having playable cartoon Charles Martinet in 3 was a nice touch.

brsrklf,

So one can apparently get free from the depths of the Call of Duty mines. Good for them.

brsrklf,

I think she already knows she’s not being paid.

brsrklf,

Sure, it probably didn’t help.

Though I kinda think their main problem is that it must be freaking hard for a Sonic fan to sort out whatever new game will be good, mediocre or unplayable shit. That licence has been all over the place for decades. That can’t help sales in the long term.

I don’t think you can go wrong with any mainline Mario. Some are a bit rough over the edges (looking at you Sunshine), but they’re all fun. Sonic though? What should we expect for the next one, Sonic Superstars or freaking Sonic Forces?

brsrklf,

I thought back then the Avatar managed to destroy that logo.

Apparently he could not.

brsrklf,

Given what we learned about the Neuralink monkeys, I think there’s a major difference between Musk and Faro.

Musk’s drones would devour dolphins by design, not because they learned it on their own and became out of control.

brsrklf,

“What are ya buyin’?”

brsrklf,

Your religion seems fishy to me.

But then again, your nobility seems to have a whale of a time.

brsrklf, (edited )

I’ve started reading Ernest Cline’s Armada (he’s the author of Ready Player One) to follow a “book club” podcast kind of things made by RiffTrax people (very late to the bandwagon, those episodes are a few years old). Obviously treated with a very “so bad it’s good” and “how the hell did that book even happen” kind of tone.

One detail that had me smile a bit around the beginning : the (fictional) best videogame ever, a space combat simulation called Armada, is the unholy brainchild of a whole lot of people, including, you guessed it, Chris Roberts.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Bonus : that book is supposed to take place in 2018. They talk about Star Citizen like it’s a thing of the past.

(Oh, about the other names thrown in there : Richard Garriot, Fromsoft’s Miyazaki and… Shigeru Fucking Miyamoto, for a gritty military-style space shooter. Not sure if he was there for his experience directing Star Fox or for his 00’s personal works, like Doshin the Giant, Pikmin or Wii Music. Who knows.)

brsrklf,

And then making it multiplayer.

I am pretty sure whoever came up with that idea has never played the game.

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