alphabethunter

joined 11 months ago
[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I agree with you. The OG souls experience is one where the boss is the culmination of the hard work you have to put into traversing and exploring each area, after which you're rewarded with a sick fight. A lot of souls-like games don't understand this at all.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Also the combat. DA:O was already quite streamlined when compared to other CRPGs of the time, and they only dumbed it down further and further with each new iteration.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I'm not a fan of the transition to a f2p model, the home screen looks like garbage now, and the whole UI is more polluted because they're constantly trying to sell you something now. I have 1000+ hours in Siege, but stopped playing around the time that Sens released. Recently hopped back to check the update with some friends, and it's clear the game has lost scope. Basically all operators released since then are just copies of a previous operator with a very slight twist. Gone were the times when people got excited for a new siege season because we wanted to see what new ops and maps were coming. Speaking about maps, the new maps also look boring and uninspired.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Ashen is quite good.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Noita and Exanima are also two great explanations of when to make your own custom game engine: when nothing else on the market does exactly what you need your engine to do.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't fall for western propaganda. Even if you had a peaceful and democratically elected government, you'd still be a target for the USA. Your government would get couped and then they would install their own pariah government in place, destabilize the country, cause suffering for the populace, and then reap the profits from your natural resources until you'd have nothing. That's their MO.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

At this point, it's clear that NMS is a forever-developed game, and it is clearly also the basis for Light No Fire (as they're literally transferring systems over). It makes me think of Exanima and Zomboid. These devs have a never-ending stream of additions and reworks to develop, and I'm here for it.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd hazard a guess that it's Brazil.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I paid for the computer memory, I'm going to use all the computer memory!

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You do know that above 50 USD taxes are 92% right? Check it out, a product for 1000 reais will have 900 reais in taxes. It's bonkers. But technically, it has always been like this, but it wasn't truly enforced/audited. Now that they are collecting the taxes at the point of sale, you pretty much pay for two products to buy one.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Below 50usd the taxes are considerably lower, and just above 50 usd they get a 20 dollars rebate on taxes, so it's okayish to buy.

I bought a seagate 4tb drive, cheapest 4tb at the time, on Amazon if I'm not mistaken.

Oh, you're lucky then. NET/Claro locks down all their modens for consumers, and I know that most other ISPs around here do the same.

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing of the sort in Brazil. Stuff only gets replaced when broken or completely outdated. And any stuff that might work gets poached by insiders before seeing the light of day. You might get some stuff if you work in IT, out of question for anybody else.

Here people sell 2nd gen I5 + rx 580 pcs as "gamer pc" at 70% the price of a modern system. It's absolutely bonkers.

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