Paradoxvoid

Paradoxvoid , 10 days ago to lemmyshitpost in Protect your PC

You’ve got to give Microsoft credit for their dedication to backwards compatibility.

Paradoxvoid , 18 days ago to steam in Team Fortress 2 is now at a 15% review score due to the #FixTF2 movement

I expect people have moved onto other and better games, and never bothered to update their review from years ago - I definitely fall into that category.

Paradoxvoid , 1 month ago to memes in Microtransactions...

It’s funny how when this was released, people were massively up in arms since it was ‘only cosmetic’ - then we saw what these companies would do with PvP games and P2W microtransactions, so people had to turn around and beg for them to return to being purely cosmetic additions…

Paradoxvoid , 1 month ago to gaming in Fallout 4 Fans Are Begging Bethesda To Stop Updating The Game

Too bad, you get a battlepass instead!

Paradoxvoid , 1 month ago to gaming in Does Arkham Knight get better?

Arkham Knight is decent except for the batmobile sections - as others have already mentioned.

I’d still argue it’s better than Origins though. From memory, memorising all the different toolbelt skills isn’t really necessary - you can definitely get through the game by just abusing jumps, cloak and counters - some special enemies might need a specific ability to make vulnerable, but the game normally warns you the first time you fight them, so I don’t think it ever feels too overwhelming - it just feels like a lot if you run through it very quickly.

Paradoxvoid , 2 months ago to gaming in Let's discuss: Metroid

Have to disagree with you on echoes - I loved the game, but IMO it was much easier than Prime 1 - the most difficult boss was the probably the boost guardian midway through rather than any of the endgame bosses. The ammo system made the standard power beam too centralising which was boring, and the dark world damage just served to slow the player down, since the light fields regenerated your health.

Paradoxvoid , 2 months ago to gaming in Got a Switch today, need some recommendations.

No one’s suggested it yet, so I’ll say Fire Emblem: Three Houses - lots of gameplay hours, especially if you want to go through each of the four storylines, albeit can be a bit repetitive getting to that point.

Paradoxvoid , 2 months ago to memes in Why still using the imperial system?

You do you, but if you’re reverting to binary to explain how simple it is to add values together, I think you’ve made a wrong turn somewhere.

Paradoxvoid , 2 months ago to memes in Why still using the imperial system?

Those are so easily commensurable! It’s 1 and 59/64 obv.

I legit can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

Paradoxvoid , 3 months ago to gaming in After Payday 3 Flops, Starbreeze Removes CEO And Looks For 'Different Leadership'

Here’s another example where trying to chase the live-service money train has just ended up with a subpar product that people abandon or avoid almost instantly.

Unfortunately I suspect the wrong lessons will be taken away from this as well - e.g. the console/PC gaming market is too fickle, etc.

Paradoxvoid , 3 months ago to games in I didn't read the TOS for Baldurs Gate 3 until now

With GOG, you could theoretically download the offline installer, give that to someone else and then ask GOG support to remove BG3 from your account, and be fully abiding with the EULA conditions.

Paradoxvoid , 4 months ago to programmerhumor in This is painfully true

Lazy Web devs who took the ‘mobile first’ mantra to mean ‘mobile only’ 🙄

Paradoxvoid , 4 months ago to games in Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming

Holy shit, it’s actually impressive to tank that hard - not cresting more than 1000 concurrent players in over a month, and hasn’t been able to beat 5000 since November… I know people love throwing the ‘dead game’ meme around prematurely, but if this isn’t dead yet, it’s definitely got one foot in the grave.

Paradoxvoid , 5 months ago to games in Microsoft Confirms Plans To Release Xbox First Party Games “Across All Platforms”, Including PlayStation

But if it gets to the point where Ubisoft goes and every studio starts making their own, I don’t think that will work if they don’t have the game catalogue to support it, that would mean Ubisoft could just start churning out horrible games to build their stupid catalogue.

I feel like we’re starting to see a rerun of the streaming service wars - if this takes off across the industry I can definitely see people going back to piracy. I don’t want game pass, ubisoft+, Blizzard Prime, Nintendo Online Super Premium Expansion Pass or whatever stupid names these companies come up with just to play a few games that I’m interested in, just because they’re spread across different publishers.

Paradoxvoid , 6 months ago to memes in I prefer speeds per Swedes

Americans merely adopted the nonsensical measurements. The Brits were born to them.