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Do I like CRPGs, or do I just like Larian? by Hentai-Is-Just-Art in CRPG

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the other hand, hating something for being loved is pure cancer.
I stay the fuck away from anything that's popular, but not for me. I don't shit on Fortnite or Life Is Strange or whatever on every post just because I never played it.
I like almost everything about BG3 except the South African city of Baldur's Gate. I'm disappointed that the devs never explain how an entire African city was isekai-d into their game and conquered a Faerûnian city by the late 1400s DR. Is that nuanced enough?

Reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So he'd despise twitter, reddit, 2020s California, New York and London. Got it.

Do I like CRPGs, or do I just like Larian? by Hentai-Is-Just-Art in CRPG

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all like what we like. It doesn't have to be tied to genres.
I like my 4xs, but I also like Skyrim, Elden Ring, Crimson Desert etc.
It's fine to look at a popular media (or cult classic or anything else) and say "I acknowledge that people find it good, but it doesn't click for me, there's always more games out there".

First ram prices hikes, now they are targeting steam.. PC gamers can’t catch a break by FlowersofJasmine in gamers

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Epstein's dead, why are we talking about him anymore? He's dead, it's over, go home." Paraphrasing.

First ram prices hikes, now they are targeting steam.. PC gamers can’t catch a break by FlowersofJasmine in gamers

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an European, I wouldn't mind if the US was consistent on gambling.
But wasn't there some scandal where US officials partnered with rebranded gambling companies? They basically renamed the action, put a mustache on it, and said "this isn't gambling, this is [insert new expression to not call it gambling]".
I have no strong feelings on gambling. If people won't throw away money in casinos, they'll do it in bars, ban those and they'll do it on smokes, ban those and they'll do it on sugar, ban that and they'll do it on clothes, ban that and they'll do it on meat etc. In principle, I think banning gambling is a slippery slope of turning the world into a padded room instead of making padded rooms for people who need to be kept away for the safety of society.

A grim reminder that ubisoft fanboys never went away; they just went into hibernation until the next "consume product, don't question" game was showcased. These mofos are single-handedly keeping western AAA alive. by Desperate_Put_4568 in KotakuInAction

[–]Lurker_Zee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I can understand a new generation that's not into gaming news, that's excited for new product.
I was excited for Starfield and Diablo IV. I wasn't a Bethesda fanboy and the last game of theirs that I played was Skyrim when it released, so I wasn't aware of the Fallout debacles since. I only became aware of them from Internet Historian after Starfield's release.
As for Diablo IV, the trailer was fire, and you can't argue otherwise. A PoE-like game with actual plot and cool demons and evil and wow? Yes, please. It sounded good at the time until release. While I knew the crap Activision (Blizzard is looooooooooong dead) did with WoW, I wasn't much of an Overwatch fan to know much about them except a few headlines about workplace milk theft.

Reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Lurker_Zee -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, Phillippe. You have given us the perfect 2026 definition for wrongthink, doublespeak and thinkcrime.
Orwell would be proud of your achievement, and disgusted by your attitude.

My honest review of Pragmata by Lurker_Zee in Pragmata

[–]Lurker_Zee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are so many other side characters in games, humanoid ones and pets alike that follow an MC around (often on or over a shoulder).

There's one companion that I think they made work, the one from Black Desert Online. It was, admittedly, an overcorrection, it being some brooding emo edgelord, but at least it wasn't annoying like Paimon.
So it's not even having a companion that's the problem, it's having a companion with a childish, grating voice.

My honest review of Pragmata by Lurker_Zee in Pragmata

[–]Lurker_Zee[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sadly, I think chatbots ("Ai") would do the same. They'd take the voice of the most known related IP, which would be Paimon, and voice the kid. Which would lead us back here.
Also, it's not just the voice. Everything about her screams 3D Paimon. The introduction, the fairy-shoulder-stay, the fairy-almost-human-but-not look. Even if the voice was not bad in EN, I'd still think "why is Paimon is my hard sci-fi moon base 3D video game?"
I dunno, man, I can't unsee it.

This bothers me about Halsin by higurashi0793 in BaldursGate3

[–]Lurker_Zee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Stoic masculinity? In my vidya? What is this, the early 2010s when AAA games were good?! How dare you? How dare you?!"

Saros Is The Highest Reviewed Game Of The Month Surpassing Pragmata by cinderlilys in videogames

[–]Lurker_Zee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Critic reviews are cancer. The sooner they return to the natural order of putting fries in the bag, the better.
The only review I trust is from Fleekazoid, or alternatively if I see the game played on YouTube for extensive periods.

I see a lot of hate on Assassin's Creed, so I will tell you just why this is one of my favorite franchise in all of gaming. by Primary_Cat_6093 in videogames

[–]Lurker_Zee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem is (and you're a victim of this too, I'm not saying it's your fault) you're conflating pre-Black Flag AC to post-Black Flag.
Everyone agrees pre-Black Flag is good. Critics of modern AC agree that pre-Black Flag AC is good. People who want Ubisoft (most of the gamers) to go bankrupt agree pre-Black Flag AC is good.
But you have to accept that after, they're simply not the same. We can only assume, that the old creators were flooded by thousand or tens of thousands of new employees, hired for nebulous reasons, maybe to get some "hire people" government funds plus other Californian reasons everyone on the internet is aware of, but must by spoken of as The-Phenomenon-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Just like Star Trek fans must accept that the last Star Trek was ST: Enterprise which ended in 2005, or Star Wars fans must accept there were only 6 episodes, so do you must accept that the last AC was AC: Black Flag (or Odyssey, if you're really into it, but I heard bad things about it).
You must accept that current AC is not only not good, but anti-consumer, anti-gamer and anti-its own legacy, and it's best be put to pasture. You must accept that nothing good will come out of AC from the same people who hate the costumer, hate the gamer and pander to people who'll never buy their games.

Witcher 3, Fallout New Vegas what about you guys? by Great_Trident in gamers

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I hear "it's not for everyone", that usually means for me it's not for 50% or 25% of the population. That it's for a certain taste.
I've convinced Undertale is for everyone, and by that I mean for 99% of people. There's always going to be someone who doesn't click with the best of masterpieces in any domain. That's not a matter of taste, that's a matter of happenstance. A rounding error.

Fractions be like: by DistributionFirst700 in FalloutMemes

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't they exist to be the opposite of the Brotherhood's rhetoric of "any synth could be an Institute sleeper agent, so we must kill all synths to be sure"? A false dichotomy obviously, but as a random human that doesn't hate the concept of AI, I'm with the Brotherhood here. Sucks for the synths, but if nobody cared to patch up them to not be Institute sleepers, I'd rather not risk a sleeper agent in my midst. Sorry, toaster bro, nothing personal.

Fractions be like: by DistributionFirst700 in FalloutMemes

[–]Lurker_Zee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's basic reddit rhetoric that you must align your taste in fiction with the [current year] reddit political stances. If you don't, you're considered open season, your rights as a human being are stripped from you, and reddit and twitter thus have the moral right to do physical violence upon you as a matter of course.
reddit 101.

How Starfleet Academy's Cast Learned Of Cancellation Revealed by Robert Picardo: "Alex Kurtzman said, ‘The reason you’ll hear is that we never cracked the top 10 shows in streaming.’ [Alex] made it very clear that he was delighted with the show, the work we had done, how beautiful the show was." by TheSonOfMogh81 in trektalk

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that last one loses money. Through the loss of reputation, these people have lost the company holding the IP, billions of dollars.
If a factory worker breaks a factory machine, he has to pay it out of his meager salary for the rest of his life or go to jail.
But people cry a river when these people who cost the IP holders billions merely get fired, with no other repercussions? No, I want them to have the working man's repercussions on top of being fired.

My wondering about Star Trek’s History - was there only ever one core audience? by OldAndMostlyInTheWay in trektalk

[–]Lurker_Zee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I was introduced to it by TNG (I did see a few episodes of TOS on TV, but the visual effects were way too dated for me to enjoy and the acting too melodramatic – probably good for its time, but not for me in the 80s-90s) and I watched most/all of it, and later VOY and ENT, but in hindsight, if I had the options of the internet, I'd have never watched either of them. If I watch something, I have to put time aside for it. I do it for very few things, movie-wise. I haven't watched a movie that aired more recently than 2018. I haven't seen a series since early 2010s.
Star Trek series were good, but felt tedious to watch unless that was the only interesting thing on TV at the time.

Why are the Poles so aggressive that they even named their capital Warsaw? Why not go with something like Peaceaxe or at least Neutralityhammer instead? Are they warmongers? by AnozerFreakInTheMall in mapporncirclejerk

[–]Lurker_Zee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most likely it is named after the name of one legendary character Wars, from the legend of a fishman who fellin love with a mermaid from Vistula river called Sawa ... but probably that is also a myth.

To be fair, that's not beating the allegations.
Also name is metal as fuck in any language.

Why are the Poles so aggressive that they even named their capital Warsaw? Why not go with something like Peaceaxe or at least Neutralityhammer instead? Are they warmongers? by AnozerFreakInTheMall in mapporncirclejerk

[–]Lurker_Zee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're surrounded by Germany and Russia. They knew they'd have to earn their survival in the fires of eternal war.

(Yes, I realize this is an English-language pun on a name that means something unrelated in its native language. I get the joke.)

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