[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

I just played Dragon Age Veilguard, and I'm now playing Dragon Age Origins, which was released 15 years ago. The difference in graphics and animation are startling. And it has a big effect on my enjoyment of the game. Origins is considered by many to be the best in the series, and I can see that they poured a ton into story options and such. But it doesn't feel nearly as good as playing Veilguard.

Amazing graphics might not make or break a game, but the minimum level of what's acceptable is always rising. Couple that with higher resolutions and other hardware advances, and art budgets are going to keep going up.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

This actually sounds like depression. Being unable to find joy, and then unsuccessfully searching for it in places where you used to find it. I would consider talking to a professional if you can.

Or try Dragon Age Veilguard.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

At this point the screenshot thing needs it's own sub

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Is there anyone who likes reading code more than writing it?

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

I once took over an app that worked like this. Access to one thing? Access to everything! And they had a hard coded admin password in the server code. 🤦 The client wasn't happy when I proposed a complete rewrite. Eventually my manager begged me to stop working with them, so we did.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

I guess I'm a shit landlord, because I'm still charging the same as 5 years ago.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Omg, did you just invent MicroAI's? I love it. Huge potential.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Just tried this with my kids. I got broccoli and tomato. I didn't look cool at all.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Stupid question, but why not just target more immigration? It's not like there aren't enough people in the world. Having babies first taxes the economy, then eventually helps it. Letting immigrants in now helps now. And they'll probably have babies.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

There was a place on Venice beach called Rose's Thai Window which had the best pad Thai. You could get it mild, medium, spicy, or 'Rose spicy', which is how she made it for herself. Whenever we tried to order it Rose spicy, she would flat out tell us no. On the last day the place was open, before she moved back to Thailand, she finally made it for us. I lasted literally 2 bites before I couldn't taste anything anymore, except pain.

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I sleep well at night knowing nobody will steal my thing I don't care about because I don't own any. I just wanted you all to know that.

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OK, I finally took the plunge on Baldur's Gate 3, and, coming from playing several hundreds of hours of Solasta recently, the first thing I noticed is the lack of a combat grid.

Going back a bit further, my son and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. We were super pumped for the sequel, but when it finally came out, it kind of fell flat for both of us. Whether or not it's down to this, I don't know, but they also removed the grid.

That game, of course, was an XCom-like. XCom used a grid, but a more recent Firaxis game, Marvel's Midnight Suns, got rid of the grid as well.

To me, all these gridless iterations of classic strategy games just aren't as engaging. I guess they're going for a more immersive rpg type of feel? But to me it seems to sacrifice the strategy aspect, and ultimately, judging based on my hours played, that always ends up being too great a sacrifice. My play time on Marvel's Midnight Suns is less than 10% of Xcom 2, and the same is true for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope.

I'm sure BG3 is a great game, and I'm sure I'll enjoy the campaign, but so far it's not giving me the 'feels'.

Do you miss grids? Or did they only slow you down?

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