Apeman42

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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well I'm certainly a halfling, but I must have been raised by elves because those are the video games I want. Let me use the power of friendship to split the hero into superpowered versions of his id, ego, and superego to fight the five-phase final boss representing the stages of grief, while power metal makes sweet love to latin chanting in the background.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can't quite tell from the trailer if it's what they're doing, and unfortunately I can't find the video about this that I watched recently, but I wonder if they're talking about "animating on 2s"? It's a technique where the character's animation only changes every other frame, which gives an effect that's just slightly choppy but pleasing to a lot of people. It's how they animated the Spider-verse movie.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

It does seem he lives at the factory. I think you've got a fair case here.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

God, I hope so. How bleak would it be if this were baseline reality?

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So what was the classified part? That there are not aliens in Area 51?

Pretty sure I can confidently say that Bigfoot isn't imprisoned in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier either. Shit, is that classified?

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

The different renditions tell slightly different stories IMO. There's also a very fine bardcore version by Hildegard von Blingin' that changes it to the story of a regretful immortal by only altering maybe 20% of the lines. I like all three versions for different reasons.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You're right, of course. Indie devs with passion are still putting out some great stuff.

My ire was much more for the AAA studios, which seem to have tossed out all the talent and vision that brought them to the top.

I mean, I was Ride or Die with Square Enix for decades, when they were different companies. After 16, I think I'm just done with new Final Fantasy games altogether. Fuck you guys, imma go play 6, 8, and 9.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 150 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Not playing games, or not playing the current live service shovelware they keep pushing out?

Lots of people are realizing there were more quality games released between 1985 and 2015 than you could ever play in a lifetime. We don't need new shit if it's just gonna suck.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I've been doing both!

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I never tried that one, but I also had a recent late-to-the-party "gaming as exercise" discovery: Beat Saber! I never gelled with rhythm games before I got a VR headset, but I'm really digging it, and it totally gets me sweating after a while.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Owlcat Games - they made two Pathfinder games, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, some of my favorite CRPGs in recent memory. Their latest, Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader, is supposed to be great as well, but I haven't had the time to do more than check out the character creation so far.

 

Nothing with too many hearty belly laughs, it was abdominal surgery.

 

I understand there are novels and comics where they both make appearances after their shows, and maybe I read that Wesley is in Picard?

I'm familiar with none of that material, so I'm just curious, does going Pact of the Traveler or Pact of the Wormhole give better spacelock spells?

 

I think I played whichever one was on my Amiga waaaay back in the day, and whichever one was on PS3 for a bit. I was also a big fan of some of the Might and Magic games, which I feel were something of a bridge between the old dungeon crawlers and something like Morrowind.

Anyway I was thinking of trying one out again. Any recommendations, maybe one with modern QOL features to ease in?

I see there's a remake of Wizardry 1(?) and remasters of the Etrian Odyssey games in the past couple years. I'm also kind of intrigued by Undernauts, which looks like it might throw a little Shin Megami Tensei flavor in?

 

I played 1-4 back in the day, but my memory of the details is pretty fuzzy. Something something Umbrella releases a new virus like iPhones every few years, something something, somehow Wesker returned.

Anyway, I hear 7 is kind of a soft reboot? Is that a good one to get back into the series with, and not have to know 12 games of plot?

And if 7 is good, does 8/Village follow directly from that without needing too much prior game knowledge?

 

Lowest price yet according to gg.deals.

I'd been waiting for this to drop under $30 so I could scratch my Shivering Isles itch without spending 6 hours installing mods first.

 

I saw this pretty late, expires in 3 days 20 hours from time of post.

Seems like a great value though, I used to play the hell out of 1 and 3.

There's also a $10 tier with just 1-3 and DmC.

 

I finished the main Crown of the Magister campaign and wanted to check out some of the custom ones while I ponder whether to create a new party for Palace of Ice or not.

I downloaded the top 20 or so custom campaigns from the workshop, but so far the first hour or so of the few I've tried haven't been super gripping. I know that's not much to judge them off, but it doesn't help me decide if they're worth continuing with.

Which ones get really good, in your opinion? I have the Unfinished Business mod for max level cap and more classes, but I'm not using the 6-man party option, which I know a few campaigns are tuned for.

 
 

I've been replaying a lot of the classics recently, and just like with Combs when I rewatch a Star Trek series, I keep finding myself saying "fuck, that's him too?"

Playing Fallout, there's Jim as the main voice of The Master.

Playing the original Baldur's Gate trilogy, there's Jim as Minsc, Gorion, Mulahey, and a bunch of other people.

Taking a break to test out some character builds in Icewind Dale? Fuck me, there's Jim as Hrothgar.

Like I know he's one of the most prolific voice actors, especially of that era, but I didn't realize how entwined he was with that specific genre.

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