knokelmaat

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I have 600 hours in Slay the Spire and still want to play more. Heck, why not play a run right now...

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No, I'm sorry. The point was specifically to use a free and open source project so anyone can enjoy it. It is close to Minecraft feature wise, but is still a separately developed thing.

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

I had no intention of doing so, just a fun side project that spun out of a previous post here a while ago.

knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

I prefer performance mode if it is decently implemented. For slower games I go for quality mode if the difference is obvious enough. Recent examples that come to mind are Somerville and Forspoken. Forspoken is a strange one, as it is actually a really fast game, but it looked horrible on performance mode and actually worked quite well once I got used to the 30fps. I play on base PS5.

knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

I had exactly this issue at times! Sometimes it felt like Kratos just wasn't fast enough to react to my inputs, almost felt a bit over animated or something. I've dabbled in souls games (only finished Demon's Souls though), but there the movement and reaction always felt instant and fair.

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

The first one on PS2 or the version from 2018?

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

It was the cutscene where Kratos hurls a gigantic column if anyone remembers.

I think Kratos does this in just about every game. I was playing Ragnarok 5 minutes ago and he was hurling pillars at enemies left, right and center :D.

As for 2018: it's a game with a big focus on combat, exploration and character driven storytelling. I can understand feeling burnt out on the viking aesthetic, but the game feels way more fantastical than historical to me.

knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

Nice to see some more GoW3 love. I adored this game from beginning to end and loved the variation the different weapons brought to the table.

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

What device do you use to game? If you have a capable PC and are unable to pay for the game, there are simple methods to obtain it for free, for which you should feel zero remorse in my opinion :). Piracy when the person in question is unable to pay for the game is nothing to be ashamed for, and I've read multiple developer interviews who endorse this!

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

You mean 811K ;). At this rate it will only take a few more days!

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

Again, a Let's discuss post guided by what I am currently playing: God of War Ragnarok.

Let me start of by saying that I am a big fan of this series. I came late to the party, playing the original 2 games on my overclocked PS vita as part of the God of War Collection. I really liked the first, loved the second and actually absolutely adored the third game on my PS4 pro. Something about God of War 3 just going all the way on this mad destructive rampage really left me in awe. It has multiple incredible set pieces and Kratos truly becomes a vengeful monster in this game. The different weapons all felt amazing, it looked unreal at 60fps on PS4 pro and just was an all round epic experience.

I also played both psp games, which I thought were very impressive for the device, though a slight step down in all areas compared to the main trilogy. Still worthy entries though!

I did not play God of War Ascension yet, as this is the only one stuck on PS3.

I played God of War (2018) a few years later (a year or two ago), and while I did like it, I wasn't as in love with it as many other people. I felt the combat was often sluggish and the storytelling slow and meandering at times. The design of the different areas was a bit hit and miss for me. There were moments of absolute brilliance (the opening scene, Kratos carrying his unconscious son to Freya, the ending and its impact on their relationship with Freya), but felt a bit too stretched out at times. Still, with respects to presentation, graphics, acting performances and music this was an all time classic.

I now started God of War Ragnarok, and I must say I am really liking it so far. The stakes seem higher, the characters are all interesting and even the combat feels better to me (I started on the hardest difficulty, just to see how long I would be able to hold out, but it actually makes me use the different systems more precisely). I am very hopeful for this one!

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 5mo ago

These books were purchased by them before being destroyed in the scanning process. I fail to see the issue with this specific case. Lots of artists buy stuff and irreversibly modify it. Are we going to be angry now at people who glue their puzzles or use parts of books for scrapbooking? If these were unique works there would be an issue, but I don't think that truly unique pieces would be in their target group, as the destructive scanning is all about cost cutting and unique works cost a lot of money that they wouldn't just destroy.

The fact that they use it for model training and later sell access to that model's work is the shady part that has a severe whiff of plagiarism to it.

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 6mo ago

Isn't this site proof that the internet doesn't have to die as a whole? I mean, I agree with your sentiment, but I feel that this will mostly hit the middle to high traffic sites. The community based ones with organic discovery will remain OK I think. This might even evolve back to an early internet age of smaller hobbyist sites because there no longer is big money in the internet (apart from what google captures as "their" internet)

knokelmaat @beehaw.org 6mo ago

I'm glad you're enjoying it. I'm not going to be having a switch 2 any time soon but I do really like Nintendo games, so I'm glad I'll be able to get some of the excitement through you :).

I'm a bit sad about the free roaming part being a bit bare bones. When they first announced it I was hoping for the creativity of a Mario Odyssey crossed with Breath of the Wild in a Kart, discovering secrets and fun places everywhere.

Also with respect to pricing: I think it depends on the game to decide what an honest price is. I would gladly give 100 or more for the joy that Slay the Spire has given me over the years. I think that a big and polished Mario game is not immediately the worst offender for being this expensive. It's when the less polished and more cash grabbing AAA games start to follow this example that it becomes a problem. I do like how some games decide their price points differently, like Clair Obscur for example.

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 6mo ago

Is Warframe still nice to start out with in 2025? I remember installing it a while back and being overwhelmed by the amount of info and options and not really knowing how to simply progress the story in the original way.

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knokelmaat @beehaw.org 6mo ago

This is the one, playing through 1 for the second time right now and it's just so good. It's my first time as female Shepard and I think I like her more than male Shepard!