Honestly this is part of the exact reason I’m not buying it.

First of all, I don’t own a Switch2, and I’m not getting one, Nintendo has been on my shit list lately.

But more than that, OoT is a game that’s already had a remake/remaster released once before and was also one of the first games to get a full PC-native decompilation (without use of GenAI, at that). I can play the classic game in 4K/60FPS. I can apply texture filters or graphics overhauls. I can apply randomizers and mods. I can play multi-player. 30 year old game guides and speedrun tech is still valid.

There’s honestly really nothing at all in New-OoT that draws me toward it. I’m completely convinced that the one and only reason this game exists is because Nintendo got big mad about the existence of the decomp project which they can’t legally attack, so they decided to cook up a big old “new and improved” version to try and bait people toward that instead. It’s half nostalgia bait and half trying to bury quality fan works.

I am willing to have my mind changed about this once the game is actually in the hands of the public and we get some more detailed reviews from real gamers, but I really, really don’t expect to.

Honestly I thought it was perfectly mediocre, I put like 25 hours into it and it was… fine?? I didn’t hate my time playing it. It was disappointing to me though, I expected better, that’s all.

Yeah. I’m a guy, I was maybe 15 at the time. I was at the library, and met my buddy’s girlfriend there randomly.

I learned after the fact that she was sleeping around with a bunch of guys to prove some kind of a point, I don’t know what exactly. She was kind of generally awful.

But yeah, we spoke briefly in the library and then I took off home. She followed me home. I didn’t know this until she knocked on my door and let herself inside, and from there I was just so off-balance by the entire thing that I just went along with it. She pinned me on the couch and started kissing on me and things went from there. I put up some kind of token resistance, I think, but I barely knew what was going on, I had never had any kind of sex before, I had barely had a girlfriend before, I was in completely foreign territory and just let myself get led by the nose into something I didn’t want to do.

It caused a big, massive fight between me, her, and the buddy in question (who I was actually really close with and I got really messed up by this whole interaction) but it eventually ended up the best way it could have, where we both cut all contact with her and basically never saw her again.

But to this day I still have consent issues, especially I find it hard to initiate sex even with someone who I absolutely know is into it and wants it. I just can’t. A recent ex and I eventually broke up because I would never initiate so, we just never did it. Just the possibility of putting someone in that kind of situation just puts me completely off the mood, if I’m not the one being advanced upon, it just doesn’t happen.

It’s effectively a very fancy Fallout 4 mod. Same base engine, same crafting and upgrade system, same style of gameplay, same level up system (with very minor changes).

It even has the lack of world content that a mod project would!

I picked up NMS pretty recently after being thoroughly disappointed with Starfield and to be entirely honest it seems to just be the same game but better, in almost all aspects. It hits all the same core notes, did it first, and did it better.

Jeff Bezos is one of their prime investors and is selling you a vehicle that requires you to plug your phone into it directly in order to function.

As cool as the rest of the idea sounds that makes it an instant and permanent non-starter for me.

Lemmy is like a third code slut by volume

I’ll put it this way, the community that plays this game had to bully the developer into releasing a $5 megadungeon DLC just so that they had a way to give him their money. It’s quality.

I’d argue we already have a well done spiritual successor, check out Moonring. It’s free.

Personally, I never played the older Ultima games, I’ve mostly experienced them through YouTube essays. But, a solid 60% of the positive steam reviews for Moonring reference Ultima, as does the game’s own description, so I’d say it probably fits the bill.

Thing is, I really don’t care if it’s just PR, so long as that PR involves taking good actions.

It’s the same way how a fear of eternal damnation and hellfire does not by default make you a good person, but it can cause you to perform the same actions as a genuinely good person would. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you were really feeling it or not, as long as you acted like a good person.

I feel the same way about the rich. I don’t really care if you really want to be a good person or not. If some billionaire’s entire philanthropic history revolves around strictly just not wanting to get eaten by the peasants, that’s fine by me. I don’t really care if you really love trans kids in your heart of hearts, but if you donate some of your money to helping them, it keeps you off my dinner menu for another day.

We can’t expect the rich to be good people at heart, because that doesn’t really ever happen (with some VERY rare and VERY special exceptions), but we can compel “good” behavior out of them if they fear the unwashed masses. For me, that’s good enough for most cases.

Yes, but we all continually bitched about Jackal Alley in 2005 and I will continue to do so now

Walking around a corner and getting instantly domed the nanosecond the enemy has line of sight on you has never been fun. There is room for it to be bearable if the shot doesn’t one-shot you but on the higher difficulties it was some bullshit back then and it remains so now.

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Personally I’m looking forward to the maturation of the OpenXP project. Since the XP source code got leaked a couple years ago, a small community of elder nerds are busy giving it security patches and releasing it back into the wild.

I don’t think it’s quite ready for use at the moment, but I’m sure one day it might be.

It sucks that the server is down, but out of all the reasons why that might happen, “Dutch authorities arrested the owner of the company that I rent VPS space from” is possibly one of the funniest. Here’s hoping it recovers soon.

On the other hand some of the most legendary forum threads I’ve ever read were ones that got necro’d three times over ten years and are still running. SA has a few of those.

So make them fucking stop. “We’ve always done it this way” is the worst possible excuse for maintaining status quo. Just because things have always been shit doesn’t mean they are cursed to always remain shit. They are, but only unless and until people do something about it.

If you exist in the Social Security records then yes, your personally identifying information has been leaked to unknown actors a minimum of three times.

Whether or not your identity has been properly stolen and used for illegal business is down to luck and pretty much nothing else.

Should check out FFXIV with all the other WOW refugees, it’s a good game

The simulation is beginning to collapse. Buckle in folks, it’s gonna get real weird soon

Thanks, liver!

“She dropped that ass on me from an egregarious angle”