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  • eurodyne@piefed.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.works•What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?English
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    8 days ago

    See, I like my own private world. I can just build it and run around and discover stuff. That’s why I loved fallout 4 so much. No man’s sky is great for that because it’s infinitely generative. But that’s kind of all there is in that game. It’s just a big open world. There’s no real “game” to that game beyond the first 30 or 40 hours of gameplay.

    Unlike you, however, the one thing I hate the most in any game is other people. I wanna be alone and do my own thing. I never ever encountered another game player who has done anything than just fuck up my gameplay experience. maybe I’ve just had bad luck, I don’t know. But co-op playing has never been anything other than an extremely negative experience for me. other people are assholes.

    So, when left on my own in no man’s sky, it’s fine in small doses, but it’s easy to get bored. Because there are no Ongoing gameplay objectives. It really wouldn’t be difficult to build into the game, constant ongoing objectives and achievements that a single person could achieve on their own. Repetitive missions, etc. Star Trek online managers to do it. And it doesn’t have to be combat (although, combat in no man’s sky is actually very well done and quite fun). No man sky has ongoing rewards for discovery and exploration stuff, but it isn’t really structured very well and the rewards are really rather small.

    No man’s sky feels like a really fancy version of Second Life, but in space, where you can have a bunch of your own planets and build bases and whatever. And have entire fleets of ships. But to what ultimate end? It doesn’t seem like there’s any purpose to any of it. That’s what’s missing from the game.

  • eurodyne@piefed.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.works•What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?English
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    9 days ago

    Eh, I didn’t hate it, I just found it rather disappointing. A huge amount of buildup, and even in-game— a lot of effort… Just for very little delivery.

    This is a game and a game engine with nearly infinite potential, but once he got into it, once he started playing it, it just falls completely flat. Beyond a few initial and rather novel game mechanics, it just goes nowhere. Immedately

    Like, the game devs produced this incredible game engine, and then just expected it to produce the game for them, and it didn’t. You have this incredible, infinitely generated open world, but there’s no game to play. No story.

    It’s just… there. that’s not really much of anything to do. that is the major shortcoming. If, in the last 15 years, they bothered to fill this incredible space with anything worthwhile to actually do, it would be amazing

    That’s why Star Trek online is still so active. It’s a nonstop universe, full of missions. Also, it runs very well on multiple platforms.

  • eurodyne@piefed.worldtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•AMD Preps Entry-Level Radeon RX 9050 GPU at $279, Comes in 8 GB & 4 GB, With the Latter Cutting the Memory Bus in HalfEnglish
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    9 days ago

    You didn’t come off rude, but there was a bit of indignance— but I interpreted that as directed towards Apple, not at me.

    I grew up with Steve Job’s Apple, not Tim Cook’s Apple. Those two were galaxies apart. While Steve Jones was, perhaps, the biggest asshole in the entire world of computers, he insured that Apple and Apple computers, and Apple operating systems were the best. They were open, they were open source, and they served, before anyone, the user. Under Steve Jobs, Apple computer went up against the goddamn United States, Supreme Court, and won, in the name of user freedom and user privacy, not just for Apple users, but for everyone.

    Because of Steve Jobs, we finally got the first and only BSD distro for PCs— the very PCs that Steve Jobs, himself, invented. (By means of an extraordinarily talented team of engineers at the company he created, NeXT). Then, by means of business wizardry, he tricked the idiots remaining at Apple computers to buyout him and the remaining people at NeXT computers back into Apple, and convincing them to adopt NeXTSTEP as the new Mac OS X. The first iteration of BSD as a consumer-faced operating system. A silent revolution for UNIX. And FOSS. hate on Apple all you like, but even to this day, they’re one of the biggest single contributors to the free and open source software movement.

    And when he died, that all ended under the leadership of Tim Cook who spent his time rallying stock prices and profits and sucking Donald Trump‘s cock. Not to mention being a huge traitor to the LGBTQ community as a gay man myself, we all fucking hate that Cunt.

    Now we have a new CEO, and we’ll see how that goes.

    Before Linux was a widespread viable option like it is today, the BSD option offered by Apple and the FOSS contributions they made were a very important manner in this community.

    • USB. 1. 2. 3. Thanks, Apple!
    • firewire. 400. 800. Thanks, Apple!
    • thunderbolt. 1. 2. 3. 4. Thanks, Apple!
    • HDMI thanks Apple!
    • DisplayPort - thanks Apple!

    I could go on, covering 40 years of I/O transport technologies that Apple has been crucial in developing or helping to develop, but I’ll save you 20 hours of the lecture. Google it if you’re curious. but, long story short, we wouldn’t have any of that shit without Apple.

    And just because Apple, as a corporate entity, has become the unsufferable shit they are today, shouldn’t subtract from the contributions they’ve made in the past, nor the contributions they still make today.

    Under their veil of corporate cuntery, Apple still makes massive contributions to the FOSS community. Hopefully, under the leadership of a new CEO, we will see improvement in conduct and culture.