all-knight-party

all-knight-party , 11 hours ago

The grave, I would expect "From the cradle to the grave" to be describing the subject. So if the elf is marrying the old woman, then he's robbing the old woman's grave

all-knight-party , 39 minutes ago

Just beat Slay the Princess twice. Wow, really lived up to the hype for me. Excellent writing and art. Excellent... Format and pacing for a visual novel with a lot of different choices. The themes it explores are incredibly interesting and varied.

I heartily recommend it to anyone who enjoys a VN with a mysteriously intriguing story.

all-knight-party , 2 days ago

Indeed. My current house is great thanks to an inspection. My wiring was incredibly old, and so are my pipes. We had to replace the wiring, legally, as the house couldn't be insured, it was a fire risk, but I'd rather know that than die in a fire.

And if I didn't use a good inspector I would've ended up at a different house that looked amazing, but had incredibly expensive termite damage hidden behind insulation that the owners shoved in the foundation to cover up the damage.

all-knight-party , 3 days ago

I lay out all my problems on the table pretty immediately, so I wouldn't say surprised by, but probably least expected would be that for a guy my sex drive is very low. I've been about half to a quarter as driven as any girl I've been with.

all-knight-party , 3 days ago

My therapist actually said the same thing recently, and it would make sense. I've got an appointment, actually soon to look into it

all-knight-party , 4 days ago

Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization is also mechanically designed as a single player MMO

all-knight-party , 4 days ago

I think each new game in the Sword Art Online franchise is sort of independent of the mechanics of the previous. Hollow Realization had a lot of flaws, but I liked being able to class as whatever you liked, I played healer.

And I liked the mechanic where you could choose behavioral traits for your party members and if they performed abilities and actions that went with those traits you could praise them and they'd mold into the playstyle you wanted

all-knight-party , 4 days ago

As the manager who has to go get more and replace them every time we rapidly run out, no

all-knight-party , 4 days ago

I'm not sure if the reason fits the definition of reactionary, but that is a pretty awful take, which is at the least wildly ignorant, and at worst, trolling.

all-knight-party , 4 days ago

I actually have a playlist called The Bucket List which is only comprised of entire albums where there's not a single filler track in there, in my opinion, of course

all-knight-party , 6 days ago

There was a lot of talk about RDR's code being duct taped together and being really difficult to undo for a port, took them until recently to really start doing so in earnest, so maybe they've wanted to for a while but are just now seeing the fruits of that labor.

all-knight-party , 6 days ago

I think it's clear you guys disagree on a lot of major life philosophies, and that broadly it would've been difficult to get along with his current views. I don't think this is anywhere near "I'm meant to be single" territory.

You just need enough time to meet someone who more aligns with where you're at in life currently, and that just wasn't him.

all-knight-party , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

The first sentence says they're working on an RTS currently. Even if they weren't, the CEO is probably allowed to share his opinion on RTS games even if he hasn't made one, just like all of us can. I think what's missing is the qualifier "will never be mainstream across all major continents again"

all-knight-party , 9 days ago

Wait... Did you really just use the Benjamin Franklin grandma pussy quote for this?

all-knight-party , 9 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing_a_Mistress?wprov=sfla1

Learn and be scarred

all-knight-party , 9 days ago

I'm sure it is, it's just because my first experience with it was through that letter, so now it's ruined for me.

all-knight-party , 8 days ago

That would make sense, cleverly recontextualizing a regular saying. It would fit the tone of the letter to do that humorously

all-knight-party , 9 days ago

It seems a little silly to recommend for someone else not to play it when you yourself don't even know anything specific about it besides that it's an open world action game.

all-knight-party , 9 days ago

It just depends what you go into it looking for. If you want a deep RPG you won't get it, and I found the story enjoyable, but just all right, but not horrible or anything. I do also really enjoy the gameplay.

The shooting won't change the world, but it is enjoyable, and I really like the scavenging and modification of weapons and armor, and as a motivation for exploration it's great.

all-knight-party , 9 days ago

I think that's a lot of what happened back when it released. The most recent Fallout game before then was Fallout New Vegas, and when it comes to a narratively deep RPG that's almost an unfair fight compared to anything Bethesda has put out, so of course Fallout 4 fell very short of that mark.

But it does have successes in other areas. For the first time in, shit, any Bethesda game ever I found the animations and feedback of moment to moment combat actually enjoyable, the junk gathering and upgrading is an extremely addictive loop, and the game does look genuinely pretty and immersive, though the character animations still let it down.

I liked it to the tune of multiple hundreds of hours, myself.

all-knight-party , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

If by modern you mean Fallout 3 and beyond, then absolutely New Vegas and its DLCs. You will not get anything of a deep story from any of the other offerings except maybe Fallout 4's Far Harbor, but that comes too little too late if you might not tolerate Fallout 4's flaws to get there.

New Vegas doesn't play very well in terms of combat, hello Gamebryo engine, but it has a complex story with many possible directions and endings, and many factions that are much more than black and white. Your character's own dialogue is also far better written compared to Bethesda's offerings and has a lot more agency in the world. I think you will find enough to enjoy there as long as you can get past the hump of some middling (even for its time) shooting.

A lot of that can be owed to the staff similarities between the original Fallouts and New Vegas, Obsidian's strong point, particularly Josh Sawyer as director.

all-knight-party , 8 days ago

Funnily enough, the game is basically stuck at 60 FPS for me, even though I have a 144hz monitor. Everything I look up says the game engine wasn't configured to go past that and anything higher requires mods and such for it to be supported. I'm a relatively modest gamer who plays a lot of Switch, so as long as it's consistent I don't mind, I just keep it at 60.

Glad to know Starfield can go higher, but my computer isn't amazing so newer games just don't stay consistent above 60, I just cap Starfield at 60 as well.

all-knight-party , 10 days ago

Do you feel like that's been accomplished here?

all-knight-party , 10 days ago

I accidentally read an extremely dry Wikipedia page about a British politician until I realized that you meant the TempleOS guy. I agree, very interesting guy. Too many Terry Davises!

all-knight-party , 11 days ago

At first I was like "how the fick are you going to write the entire LoTR trilogy in 49 seconds with a keyboard, much less spaghetti-o's?!"

all-knight-party , 11 days ago

Have you tried the Mooncrash? It does have a timer!

all-knight-party , 11 days ago

Usually smoke weed and play a game, or play bass guitar. Weed does well to prevent me from dwelling on things because it shortens my attention span. Games allow me to escape, and not much keeps me in the moment as much as playing music does, to do it right you must live in the moment, so it helps.

That being said, this is all escapism, which makes me feel better, but never solves any of the things I might be anxious about.

all-knight-party , 12 days ago

It makes sense. I respect the hell out of the guy for being honest and true of his morals and standing by his community, but I'm sure he knew what he could get into by doing that, and he took the shot anyway. I hope he's just been shuffled around elsewhere and still has a job.

all-knight-party , 13 days ago

Felt like it was doing just fine to me for how advanced the systems were on a console that was six years old. I do wish you were able to play it, it's an awesome game, it indeed has ambitions that surpass the hardware, but I do think they managed to pull it off, if only by the skin of their teeth.

all-knight-party , 13 days ago

If you begin your comment with "lmao" it's immediately condescending and you're unlikely to convince anyone about what you're saying.

all-knight-party , 12 days ago

I'm not even the same person you were originally responding to. Just saying, if your goal is to get ideas across it's better to be nice. If you just want to dunk on people and sink to their level, then carry on.

all-knight-party , 13 days ago

I would suppose you get rudely resurrected when the 24 hours expires.

all-knight-party , 14 days ago

Depends on taste. I love mechanical depth and systems on systems and depending on how retro you're talking most games older than, say early 2000s ish just don't often have that

all-knight-party , 14 days ago

Wait, what happened to all the delisted countries?

all-knight-party , 14 days ago

I know that, I mean, will they now be relisted for sale there, or remain delisted? The latter would be... Not a good sign for the future.

all-knight-party , 10 days ago

Luckily the community ended up going "hey, wait a minute..." about this, too, and it's gained some attention. I hope Sony commits

all-knight-party , 14 days ago

I mean, this game has a meta war that determines all available planets, mission types and rolls out content based on community involvement. It would be nice to have an offline mode, too, but this game is not completely decoupled from being online, unlike Hitman or something.

all-knight-party , 13 days ago

Did the first one really have offline? I played the shit out of it, but I was always connected. Sure, they should implement something similar here, too, but it is genuine work they need to put in to get it there, I'm sure they had to invest that for the first game especially since it was on the Vita.

It isn't arbitrary, though, go on any of the communities that care about the meta war and you'll see people really do keep up with it and enjoy it, they work with each other to focus on the major orders and do a bit of roleplaying at the same time.

I know that you're very anti always online, and I understand and agree that it should be optional, but to say that nothing comes out of it would also be disingenuous.

all-knight-party , 13 days ago

Me too. I know it's a bit of work to set up an alternate mode and method to get to different planets and missions, and I'm sure teams are run really tightly on what gets worked on or not due to paying for whole teams to work, but I do wish they did what they could to future proof it.

A lot of always online games are awesome, have artistic merit, and can be looked back upon later as gaming history, and if they don't preserve these "art pieces" then a huge chunk of gaming history will likely disappear into the ether in 10 or 20 years. It seems a little silly to me that we can go back and play Mario 64, or even Helldivers 1 and see what that was like, but Helldivers 2 will become an inaccessible splash screen, it's a waste of all of the time and work, and even the money that went into making this happen in the first place.

all-knight-party , 14 days ago

Hazarding a guess with context... Female bodybuilders

all-knight-party , 15 days ago

I usually try to make up for it beforehand by pouring really carefully and trying to get it so none pours down the side of the opening, but if some does I usually just put the lid on and wipe any excess after that. Usually that does decent enough at keeping it clean until it's used up anyway.

all-knight-party , 15 days ago

The balance changes are fine. There's a lot to legitimately criticize here, why bring that up? Playing the game in its own right is amazing fun, in fact, the game being so good is why all of these surrounding problems hurt that much more.

all-knight-party , 15 days ago

I much prefer the extremely deliberate aiming and the heavily physics influenced combat of Helldivers. Just makes it feel a lot deeper than EDF that sort of makes up for that granular detail by instead being extremely arcadey and over the top in its weapons and class abilities.

They play quite differently even though they have some surface similarities, but EDF is indeed also awesome and I wish it was more popular.

all-knight-party , 15 days ago

Definitely roguelike, I mean, how much more alike can you get?!

all-knight-party , 16 days ago

Yeah, I saw a review where the guy was like "what mechanics are there are really polished" and to me that was saying that they can really feel an absence of the "rest of the game", and so its probably not that far along.

all-knight-party , 16 days ago

The recent star ocean remake reminds me of that, I think it's got action combat

all-knight-party , 16 days ago

I've only played Witcher 3 and found a lot of the interesting parts of the world to be the darker parts you don't see in other fantasy games, a lot of the themes of the quests are very heavy, like the bloody Baron's quest as an easy popular mention.

Therefore, the addition of places like whorehouses or other quests related to that deepen the realism of the world in a way that something like Skyrim would absolutely never, and if those bits were ever censored out it would reduce the immersive realism of the world, to me

all-knight-party , 16 days ago

I suppose I'll edit my comment to only mention the third