[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry Seagoon_, yesterday someone had posted a daily a few hours early before yours, so I had to delete one of the two and chose yours to keep as it was closer to the day of the thread.

Didn't mean to make you feel like you had to wait until midnight, I was just explaining why I was deleting the first thread in favour of yours.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

I wonder if aussie.zone will fall under the proof of age law now.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago

I was just checking to see if @Seagoon_ was alright, they haven't been online in 5 days.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Resident Evil 2 (2019) is a fantastic remake of the sequel, I've finished it multiple times.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

AntennaPod is available on F-Droid.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

The Steam Deck already has +6GB more RAM.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Any video I watch I have to consider if I want to be pushed more of it and delete from history whenever I look at something I don't want more of.

It's an annoying tightrope, I have considered no history but then I wouldn't get more of what I do want. This new change is to make turning off watch history worse, to no longer suggest any videos if you want privacy.

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Feel free to let everyone know what you're currently playing, recommend some great titles from yesteryear (especially on sale).

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[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago

I presume ad-free will eventually take over with the same price, after the other 2 plans increase.

It's likely with the household changes we will see an end to the old plans that were based on screens and we will have 2-tiers, ads & no-ads.

Netflix will only get more expensive from here and the ad plan was always meant to make the 'Premium' plan look better.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by briongloid@aussie.zone to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

Original post at gaming@beehaw.org


I see the phrase 'ahead of it's time' used a lot like a long with words such as 'underrated' or 'epic' or 'literally', or 'ironic'. I read how ahead of it's time is used for literally any popular game that it alters the meaning of the phrase.

Anyways here is a list of games I feel would have sold or been more known had they been released several years in the future:

  • Jurassic Park Trespasser: the YouTube channel ResearchIndicates and one of the most informative Let's Play videos of all time best explains this game.

JPT had a rather ambitious physics engine AND open world environments which seemed pretty much undoable at the time, along with non gameplay breaking story flow with Attenborough himself. But just like with No Man's Sky the hype engine and promising too much got the devs way over their heads and failed. Valve was able to continue what JPT started with Half Life, but I imagine if it had more time JPT could have been an immersive classic.

  • Time Splitters Future Perfect an FPS with sharable Map Creation content. The problem I feel was many people didn't try this as Halo's Forge wasn't out yet to bring to light what user content can really do, and less accessible online play at the time.

  • Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 Okay this doesn't count, but I just want to mention this because the official Sony Network Adapter wasn't even out yet when this released. You have to use a specific brand of Linksys or D-Link USb to Ethernet adapter on your PS2 to get it to work ๐Ÿ˜„. So I classify this ahead of it's time due to the first party product not existing yet.

  • Psychonauts. This was an easy one, non Mario platformers weren't the trend among the ocean of best selling Xbox titles. Thankfully A Hat In Time much later showed the more mainstream appeal of small dev platformers.

  • Dragon Quest 1 & 5 in the US. Not in Japan as you could shut down Japan for a day with the release of a new Dragon Quest game (tip for invaders). DQ has always struggled in the US partly due to, oddly enough, taking so long to reach the US. It's a mix of too early and too late, with DQ 1 inventing the traditional console RPG format, and DQ5 being Pokemon before Pokemon, to quote Tim Rogers. But early DQ games releasing far too late on the NES life and not releasing on SNES I feel could have made DQ games closer to FF games in the US

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by briongloid@aussie.zone to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

Fallout 4's announcement was a breath of fresh air after years of game trailers with exponentially long delays. It was the first time in the video game industry that we were experiencing multiple year periods between the announcement and release.

When Bethesda put up a countdown clock on their website in June, we had no idea that what we were going to be shown would release in November of the same year.

I think the whole industry changed its outlook on announcement windows from how much hype came from not just the announcement that a new Fallout was coming for the new console gen, but the excitement that we'd actually be able to play it within only a few months.

IMO the RPG elements were not as nice after having played The Witcher 3 just a few months prior, but the feeling of being the wanderer in a wasteland was still very cool and I enjoyed the building additions.

The Pip Boy might have been a bit of a flop, but the application itself was still a cool novelty addition to the game for 2015. I do wish that second screen applications had grown and gotten better, but it appears they needed to be good from the start for wide adoption.

The colour palate was massive improvement over the beige green and browns from the PS3/360 generation, I still have no idea why so many games used to have no colour to them.

There aren't that many games that have as much of a mod scene like Bethesdas games, if you don't already have the game and are going to buy it, get it on PC if you can. Also make sure to buy the GOTY Edition with all the DLC, as there are many mods that are dependent on all of the content.

I would also avoid the Creation Club and get accustomed to the NexusMods page, you should download and setup Vortex Mod Manager which handles mods fairly well.

Best Fallout 4 mods 2023

In order for mods to work on the PS4, within Sony's required limitations, mods themselves on consoles can't be much more than short in code length. So the Creation Club which was designed for consoles does not host the same quality in library.

Fallout 4 got an 88% on OpenCritic with one reviewer saying this;

Bethesda has created another game you can lose your life in. New experiences just keep coming, and you always have another perk to unlock. ~ Game Informer

The game with all DLC is -75% on Steam at $9.99 for the next week, even cheaper in my region with AUD.

Steam: Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition

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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition

I had bought this on GOG a couple years ago and had intended on getting back to it, it has taken me a few hours to wrap my head around what this game actually is as I was trying to complete all the quest for the first main area Fort Joy, but after watching Divinity: Original Sin 2 is an RPG Lover's Dream by Ghostcharm it's clicked and I am trying to be more open to not winning every situation as if it was a more genuine adventure.

With a 93/100 on OpenCritic for the original release, PCGamer had this to say;

Playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 is uncannily like playing a tabletop RPG. The way that Larianโ€™s sequel embraces player creativity immediately conjures up memories of days spent sitting around a table, asking the Dungeon Master if I can attempt the last stupid idea that floated into my head. And like a good DM, Original Sin 2 usually answers that question with โ€œYes, you can attempt it.โ€

My only regret is that I got it on GOG as it was cheaper, which has made mods less friendly without the Steam Workshop, but it was a lot cheaper at the time and hasn't gone below $15.74 on Steam since.

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[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago

I feel like Reddit already turned into a general social media underneath us already, with so many reposts from TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, it had nowhere near the amount of original style content as it used to.

The comments became no longer worth reading, with the same lame jokes populating the top of the thread, the atmosphere became toxic and not like a community.

What Reddit are doing is intended to turn the existing known entity into a profitable social media app, they don't care about the quality decline. The existing owners will slowly sell as the valuation increases and they will get their winnings at the expense of the decade of free labour from the content creators, moderators & developers.

We made them rich.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago

It's like small town, big city, smaller communities are usually happier and more friendly.

I do want it to continue growing, but I will be enjoying it while it lasts.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 9 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't mind knowing more info in what happened to AdviceAnimals, some people claimed that Reddit admins got involved.

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