pory

pory, 9 months ago

Now we just need a way to toggle (or hold a key to disable / enable) the ley-line mastery

pory, 9 months ago

That’s the point though. It’s really good to have a website selling DRM-free FLAC music instead of “streaming” it to you for a subscription fee. If “Songtrdr” fucks up bandcamp I’m going back to pirating indie releases which sucks but if they aren’t gonna sell me DRM free uncompressed files…

pory, 9 months ago

Seconding FX. It’s also got a super useful quick-share to other devices running FX.

pory, 9 months ago

Nintendo is at least publicly traded. Valve doesn’t need shareholders.

pory, 9 months ago

The S is a stellar emulation box that doesn’t need to be jailbroken. It’s a hell of a lot easier to configure than a custom Linux distro like RetroPie and the hardware packs a punch. I don’t own one, but I’d be more likely to buy a series S than a PS5 or series X.

pory, 9 months ago

Compete in terms of value, not price. The series S gets you Xbox’s current gen game library and a selection of 360 games, and if you’re willing to use dev mode a powerful emulation suite. Deck gets a huge percentage of Steam’s 20-year catalog as one-click installs, most other PC games that don’t use anticheat as slightly more involved installs, every PC game if you want to install windows, and also a powerful emulation suite. Plus it’s a dockable handheld instead of something that needs a monitor and controller.

The series S has better media apps and can be woken up from the couch, though.

pory, 9 months ago

Wait, a chatroom platform had anti-cheat? How do you cheat at VRchat?

pory, 9 months ago

Oh I need to try this. I hate getting flashbanged when I go to an add-on page (Dark reader my beloved)

pory, 9 months ago

Finally… Wii U 2.

pory, 9 months ago

KopiaUI is fantastic and easy to use. I used to run Duplicati but it had database issues that kept coming up and forcing a sixty-hour rebuild process every couple weeks and I wasn’t happy with the idea of my PC potentially failing during one of those six days per month.

pory, 9 months ago

It’s not an exclusive, it’s just not on Playstation or Switch. When did people decide PC releases didn’t count?

pory, 9 months ago

No way in hell they’re gonna still be supporting the Series S in five years.

pory, 9 months ago

Unity would like that though.

pory, 9 months ago

You did have to pay $100 to play this one on day 1. The plebs that bought the $70 version had to wait a week.

pory, 9 months ago

Everything I personally use works on the beta version through the collection method.

pory, 9 months ago

I am also concerned, because the game giving raw gold for low-effort (or zero-effort) farming is uncharted territory. Previously, it’d give value in laurels (t6/t3 materials) and mystic coins - when a player wanted to turn those into anything other than stuff directly crafted with those materials, they’d need to permanently remove gold from the game by using the TP. The only sources for meaningful chunks of raw gold (not valuable materials) have always been tied to time gated content like metas and instanced content, and it’s almost certainly how this 10 year old game has avoided inflation issues.

There’s a third type of login farmer between the “get 5aa” and “do weeklies” ones - the one who does the stuff that doesn’t require leaving a menu, like salvaging 10 items, identifying gear, AFKing in the daily activity, viewing a Vista, or some of the combat ones that can be done without leaving lion’s arch like breaking a bar (training golem).

pory, 9 months ago

BG3 has plenty of bugs, some of them game breaking. Look at the litany of fixes they delivered in each patch. It’s not about that. It’s about releasing a game that isn’t a “service”, and just a purely high quality game - tactical combat that works well, characters with good writing, a solid plot hook, a distinct graphical style, phenomenal voice acting and mocap (which matter more for this genre than they would in, say, a third person shooter).

pory, 9 months ago

The standard argument here is that you’re not supposed to look in every container for loot. However yep everyone I’ve seen play this game including myself is an absolute loot goblin. What if this rotten fruit basket has a +2 greatsword or boots of elvenkind!

I think there’s a mod that adds a button you can click to “loot the room” - characters make perception rolls and “find” anything of value and put the items into their inventories. Haven’t tried it but might be your jam.

pory, 9 months ago

Huh. I just looked up twitch drops for the game and I have those items. I never made or will make a larian account. Bizarre.

pory, 9 months ago

But when a game like BG3 comes out, with all the stuff no indie studio can afford to do and it has this level of passion without sticking its hand in your pocket, it absolutely reminds us that AAA doesn’t have to be like it is.

As good as indie RPGs are, Disco Elysium was only able to afford voice acting after being a giant commercial success. No small budget team is going to be able to have mocap work on the level of BG3. These things cost a lot of money and involve paying a lot of workers. BG3’s Kickstarter got to be carried by the name recognition of Baldur’s Gate and Dungeons & Dragons in general, following a huge popularity surge for the latter thanks to the rise of real-play podcasts and such.

Do games need hundreds of voice actors and incredible mocap to be good? No. But it’s something that only AAA studios have the ability to add, and it’s a shame that it’s all going into the next fifa/COD/whatever other money pit GAAS the industry is shitting out.

pory, 9 months ago

Yeah. BG3’s exceptional because it doesn’t need to sacrifice that stuff.

pory, 9 months ago

You’re arguing about visual fidelity with someone who uses their TV to “convert 24hz movies to 120fps”. It’s the equivalent of the guy who got into a heated debate over Italian food with a Redditor that also posted about drinking his own piss on /r/piss.

pory, 9 months ago

Amazon already tried, with a Twitch branded game launcher and included game licenses for that platform in Amazon Prime.

pory, 9 months ago

Any other character I’d agree with you, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Lae’zel is into that.

pory, 9 months ago

I’ve been watching a friend play and absolutely noticed that the romance stuff is a lot slower. everyone wanted to jump my wizard bones about 18 hours in, though it’s very easy to just not flirt with them. Meanwhile she’s 28 hours in and Shadowheart (who was trying to get me in bed with her in the first 10 hours of my play through) still hasn’t propositioned her.

pory, 10 months ago

The win comes later once gamepass gets netflix’d. It’ll only go on like this for so long before there’s UbiPass and EAccess and Sony Prime and so on and so forth. Then a few years after that, when the services finally get pushed back against and die, everyone who just kept buying games on steam/gog/itch/whatever (or pirating) just keeps on not paying sub fees. Like nothing ever happened.

pory, 10 months ago

Subscriptions and those that use them are a worse deal for indie devs, and it only becomes an even worse deal as big name publishers put their new AAA games in the subscription and demand a proportionate slice of the pie.

My opinion / analysis of the situation is that it’s only going to get worse for non-AAA and non-backed indies as “$180 a year gets me aaaaallll thiiiiiis, why would I spend a whole month’s of gamepass on your one game” becomes more and more common.

Furthermore, there was never a world where Netflix stayed as “$15/mo for everything”. Other corps want their own Netflixes. So they pull their content and put out another subscription. There’s no world where MS Gamepass stays the only subscription-based game service in town, and when users are paying for three gamepasses, they’re even less likely to buy a cool game that’s lacking AAA polish for $10.

However, unlike movies and TV, no game has really become exclusive to Gamepass (some tried with Stadia, which thankfully died). There are shows that were exclusive to HBO Max that cannot be legally acquired anymore. Players that want some degree of ownership of their games can buy them on Steam/Epic, or if they want full ownership of their games they can buy them DRM-Free like on GOG. Those guys can keep on doing that through the rise of the “wow it’s genuinely a good deal” gamepass, the “more corporations want their own gamepass” phase, the “prices go up and quality goes down now that we’ve got an audience” phase, and the “service is going away forever” phase.

It’s game buyers that’ll keep indie games alive. Subscription models are a poisoned treat that benefit indie games right now but are already shifting to be a huge blow to the indie game scene.

pory, 9 months ago

i say $180 a year because it sounds like less of a “good deal”. More people are willing to write off “$15 a month” than they are “$180 a year”.

pory, 10 months ago

Grappler Baki-ass post

pory, 10 months ago

Child sexual assault material - underage porn. For obvious reasons, you don’t want this to be something you’re hosting automatically out of your basement server.

pory, 10 months ago

Oh baby I forgot we weren’t on reddit for a second. Got a source for the leaks?

pory, 10 months ago

I dunno about this one chief, given the blurb for the actual extension seems to be rather poorly machine translated into English.

pory, 10 months ago

You don’t need a switch (hacked or otherwise) to use yuzu. The “dump the keys from your own console” stuff is cover-your-ass doctrine, the keys are easily available online

pory, 10 months ago

If you pick up container items like satchels and backpacks, you can use them as nesting storage in your inventory (perfect for all the letters and notes you pick up for example). But you can’t name the container, it’s just “pouch”

pory, 10 months ago

www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/880

pory, 10 months ago

They did detailed, stylistic, expressive animations for ANIMAL BODY LANGUAGE. and yes, you can talk to random rats and squirrels.

pory, 10 months ago

Your hypothetical strapped 495 people to train tracks, you absolute monster! Statically, about forty of those 495 have serious chronic back pain, too. You obviously don’t care about the disabled. Be more careful next time when changing the number of doors in a Monty Hall problem!

pory, 10 months ago

What do you mean prize? This image is about not murdering your fellow humans and nothing more. This explanation only raises further questions!

pory, 10 months ago

Yes I know, I posted / made the image in OP

pory, 10 months ago

Yeah, the writing’s on the wall here. The only problem with the HOT-POF LS3/LS4 model for players was the release cadence for raids/fractals/new metas. Anet has fixed this by just not releasing those things ever anymore. We’re getting single boss Strikes instead of a multi boss raid wing or a boss + event Fractal. Outside of the elite specs, the Dragonfall episode of LS4 alone added more meaningful content to the game than EoD did.

pory, 10 months ago

Unless you’re shadowheart? I told her I didn’t hate her god and the next day she was hitting me with the “I’ve never had a confidant quite like you… You’re very special to me…”

pory, 10 months ago

Secret stone? Demon king?

pory, 10 months ago

They do. Also you can play the pirated version online, there’s no DRM. Good on you for buying it though, it’s the kind of game it’s good to support

pory, 10 months ago

The account looks more real. A ten year reddit account with a bunch of real comments and 100k karma looks like a human being, so when they post something like “Razer mice have really gotten amazing over the past couple years! I have the new Naga and I couldn’t live without it” on the PC gaming subreddit, there’s a higher chance that looks like a real recommendation from a real human than a paid ad.

pory, 10 months ago

It likely means people didn’t pre-order. Probably a good thing.

pory, 10 months ago

First day is all that matters for a pre-order number. Anyone else is either gonna wait for launch or like a day before launch.

pory, 10 months ago

There’s a voice acting slider for Disco Elysium, what are you on about? You can also set the VA to “classic” and have the same experience as before the developers added VA to the game.