Not putting a save point anywhere in the first 50 minute section of Nier: Automata and making you repeat the whole thing if you die vs the boss at the end is certainly an interesting design decision 😡 I nearly put the game down right there
Not sure I've got the motivation to carry on playing a game that disrespectful of the players time
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds@COMPU73E It's cool how the game seamlessly flows between vertical scrolling shmup, top-down shooter and so on.
Not sure if later sections repeat that, from what I've seen it's pretty much 3rd person hack & slash after the opening?
So maybe the devs wanted to make sure many people experience these cool transitions more than once. :P
Hrm.
I've avoided Nier: Automata because of the fanbase/fanart, but I just got curious and actually looked up a short video and... it kind of looks like what I wish Bayonetta 3 had been.
Anyone have any experience with it? How open is this? Hub based? JRPG styled? Level based with larger stages?
@Gwendolyn@NaClKnight 2Bs design is neat, EXCEPT for how the dress invites panty shots all the time. It's irritating.
I don't know what it is about those that annoys me so much. Perhaps because how they're always made to look incidental, but it's so apparent they're very deliberate.
@NaClKnight@Gwendolyn I think Gwendolyn said it very well, the fourth wall break combined with the 😏 face you can see on the devs face.
It would be annoying as hell having to wear something like that and be careful about indecent exposure all the time, so maybe trying to identify with the character, some of that annoyance transfers over. In a way, if 2B only wore underwear it would be less annoying 😂
I was going through some old files the other day and rediscovered a peculiar video that I thought had been lost. Now I can’t for the life of me find it again and starting to seriously believe my mind made something up?!
@jake4480 just some private video.
I combed through the phone it had to be filmed with, but nothing. I seem to recall finding it in a cloud storage when sorting for larger files, but nothing there either. It’s baffling.
People hate advertising so much there's actually faint marks of where someone marked the "mute" button for a lot of these gas pumps. Also, did you know that. Try it. Second button down on the right.
@jake4480@skullvalanche Haahaa, so true. The station where I usually go has this piercing sound that actually hurts my ears. Something about those small, high treble speakers combined with high volume
@rootcompute a while ago a saw a poll asking which people thought was the last good Windows version. Of course a lot of people said 98 or even later.
Idk was 98 perceived as so bad when it came out, or are is the parody just for fun?
The greatest MMORPGs blind you to the fact that they are stealing your time and money via tedious gameplay mechanics by making you feel totally immersed in a world that's better than real life.
@rootcompute@buru5 I don’t necessarily disagree, but at the same time I don’t understand so many people’s obsession with owning things.
We always used to pay for concerts or to see movies at the cinema without owning anything afterwards. What’s so bad about paying to stream some movies or play an online game without gaining ownership over anything?
I'd argue that the 'Verified' system was already a bit of a mess.
It should mean that the game runs, and runs to a pretty solid level on Deck.
It doesn't mean that at all. It's an absolutely horrible way to work out if your #SteamDeck can play a game and at this point I've stopped using it as a guide. ProtomDB or @steamdeckhq for me.
@danielholt@steamdeckhq it often asks me after playing whether I think a game deserves to be verified. I suppose if enough people say no to that a game will lose the verified status. Unlesssss of course so many people click verified despite all the bugs. Might be that they think bugs and crashes are to be expected?
our orthodontist society is out of control. messed up teeth add character. barring health issues: it's societally-imposed vanity. i will still kiss even the most f$&ked up of teeth mouths.
@buru5@Badolwen I’ve never seen teeth like in a toothpaste commercial in real life, do they exist?
Once I met a guy whose teeth looked kind of “shaved off” into a straight line. And also a thin nose that looked a bit fake… but you never know right? 🫢
Incidentally though, he had a greedy “let’s make some businezzzz!” attitude. Like a wannabe Patrick Bateman.
@Badolwen@jake4480@buru5 There are whitening toothpastes, but afaik they work by rubbing down the outer layer of the teeth. It can have detrimental effect on tooth health, and I'm not sure if it'll have a guaranteed effect.
I see nothing wrong with doing something against the yellow color if you don't like it. It's not like you have to go overboard and make it unnaturally white.
@jake4480@Badolwen@buru5 I don't think either of your teeth look yellow. (not from your other photos at least, Jake)
You both are thinking too much about it, it's fine :)