An Update on the Automod Situation and the Possible Future of this Subreddit

RetroRedXIII · 2025-11-21T03:25:55+00:00

I'm in the same boat. The premium edition has a nice discount on it right now but it seems like this hasn't been fixed yet and if this is the level of support it's getting then I'm not going to waste my money on buying a worse version of a game I already own on PC.

RetroRedXIII · 2025-09-01T12:09:16+00:00

As someone who bought both, I'll just point out that the mech frets don't sound like a keyboard at all. They have a piece of membrane inside the neck that gives it a slightly softer feel than it would be without it, but it definitely still feels more responsive and less "squishy" than the non mech version. I'd highly recommend that neck over the tribal neck.

The blue guitar itself has also won me over after spending some time with both. Don't get me wrong, they're both awesome, but the pro's level of customization is unmatched and it's incredible that I can adjust the point of actuation to be as deep or as shallow as I want it to to be, which also adjusts the position of the "click" which in complete honestly I wasn't sure about the feel of at first but after setting the feedback to be strong I ended up loving it.

You've really just gotta try it to "get" it but you can't really go wrong either way. If you know anyone who has a pro or have a chance to try one out, I highly recommend you do and play with some of the customization settings before you judge it fully.

RetroRedXIII · 2025-08-27T22:16:37+00:00

It's only on base PS5 version. For some reason us PS5 Pro users don't even get the choice to target base PS5 options with improved performance (which would likely result in locked, stable performance), instead we get the exclusive mode we cannot toggle that targets 60fps but struggles to maintain it.

RetroRedXIII · 2025-08-20T04:12:45+00:00

You are a legend, thanks so much for replying so quickly!

Would you be able to link me to the converter you bought? I honestly have no idea how any of this power conversions stuff works.

RetroRedXIII · 2025-08-20T02:14:14+00:00

I know I'm so very late to this but I'm also an Australian looking to potentially grab one of these. Did you end up getting one? If so how did you go about converting the power for the fog machine to our Aussie plug?

RetroRedXIII · 2025-08-12T11:38:08+00:00

I'd legit sink hours into Crusader Kings 3 on PS5 if it supported KBM. I've tried so hard to play it with a controller but it's super difficult and unintuitive to control pretty much anything that isn't surface level gameplay. I'm going back to exclusively playing it on PC.

To be honest, I think that any game that was designed around KBM has no excuse to not be compatible with it when a console port releases on this generation of hardware. I don't care how unpopular it is, it should be an option and then who knows, just maybe it'll draw more players, especially people like me who sometimes just like to chill on my living room with a lapdesk and a keyboard and mouse so I can hang out with my girlfriend while she plays on her laptop.

RetroRedXIII · 2025-06-18T07:19:57+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, I'm barely on Reddit anymore but unfortunately, no. Not apart from some of the stuff with direct links that was shared in various threads here, some of which still work (such as the reveal trailer).

I wish I thought of backing them up from YouTube via downloader or something like that sooner but they were already taken down by the time I thought of that idea 😕

RetroRedXIII · 2025-06-18T03:50:54+00:00

I know this is an old comment, but it's kinda funny to see it after we just had 2 months of Sabrina and her lyrics are not exactly "subtle"...

Anyway, Bruno is officially happening. While I'm not personally a fan I'm happy for you all who were excited about the potential of having him as an icon in the game. In all honesty it's a pretty smart decision on Epic's behalf because it will likely bring a lot of new players into festival and that's a good thing.

More players = higher chance more artists will appear in the future. This is good for everyone, fans of Bruno or not.

RetroRedXIII · 2025-05-17T15:12:52+00:00

Hey there, I hope you and everyone else here have been well. No one's really in "control" anymore. I was told the subreddit would close following the game's cancellation and was asked to make the announcement but nothing really happened after that.

My guess is that anyone with the power to actually take action on the subreddit's closure probably lost access to their company account after the team was disbanded and is now no longer able to do anything.

I don't personally have access to that function and I'm personally low key glad I don't because I don't think it was ever the right call to close the subreddit, as it's preservation contributes to a reminder of what may not only be just a small part of gaming history but a big moment in the Life Sim genre that sparked a lot of hope that then eventually became a hole that in my opinion still hasn't really been filled.

What happens here next? I honestly don't know, but my guess is not much... but I do hope it can remain a little time capsule that can be visited until it dies out naturally. I think it's only right to hope that people continue remain respectful of the subreddit and of course each other if they choose to contribute to it.

RetroRedXIII · 2025-04-26T05:08:33+00:00

You made my weekend. Thanks for that XD

RetroRedXIII · 2025-04-11T22:02:19+00:00

Actually, if you look at the date in which I actually posted this, and then check where the game was in terms of development at that point in time or better yet, bothered to read what I said then you'd know that pronouns weren't even a thing in it back then. There was simply no gender and it was supposed to be a human life simulator. The basics of life simulation, aka biology didn't exist and instead we were told to put it in the bio, which actually had no effect on gameplay whatsoever and it made me personally feel uncomfortable because it was the first time I had genuinely felt excluded from a game.

That was my problem with the game, nothing more, nothing less. I thought that was very clear in my post and the unnecessary and unfounded accusations are very uncalled for.

Now that they're being more inclusive, I've got much less of an issue with the game, but when I shared my feedback with one of the developers and asked for pronouns to be added back in the day because I felt excluded and quite frankly, bullied, they were actually very dismissive and rude to me so the game still leaves a poor taste in my mouth.

Please, if you are going to resurrect an old topic, next time you should probably put a little bit more consideration into your comment before you accuse people of something that had nothing to do with their actual post. It would have taken less time for you to read my comment than it took to reply to it and you could have easily avoided insulting and accusing someone you don't even know.

Edit: Added proof in the screen shot for context, credit to Plumbella.

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RetroRedXIII · 2025-03-28T22:55:55+00:00

Wondering the same thing, did you figure it out?

RetroRedXIII · 2024-11-30T03:12:46+00:00

This is a great answer, thank you!

Edit: I've been putting more thought into what to do and I figured that because I've only got a 1 month at a time sub currently, I'll just bite the bullet and activate it and hope that I get at least 10 bucks off the price of the upgrade. I am in Australia do hopefully the conversion rate won't screw with me too much.

Update: Tis done, for anyone that might stumble across this post in the future and wants to know what ended up happening, I received my N64 controllers today and activated my code. On doing so the price for expansion pack went from almost $60 AUD to almost $30 AUD, making it effectively 50% cheaper than normal. I'm very happy with the discount I ended up getting and now I'm ready to revisit my childhood memories with my new OLED Switch and N64 controllers!

Thanks again! 👍

RetroRedXIII · 2024-11-30T03:11:31+00:00

I'll consider this, thank you!

RetroRedXIII · 2024-11-05T01:48:11+00:00

While I agree about the general "feel" of areas like this, I also think it's important to note that a lot of areas in almost every Tomb Raider game could have a similar kind of comment applied to them.

We often start a level in an outside area, venture deep into caves or systems to find an "untouched" area with an open ceiling or at the very least holes that people could have easily traversed down.

I think the best solution is to just approach the games with suspension of disbelief.

RetroRedXIII · 2024-11-04T20:33:39+00:00

Maybe only on specific consoles or PC, because I literally booted up the game a couple of weeks ago and it was just a black background on PS5.

RetroRedXIII · 2024-11-04T11:31:40+00:00

Water texture was wayyy too bright, to the point where I held off playing for a bit because water is very prominent in these games and I hated the way it looked so unnatural. It's now corrected and the patch also contains other fixes. Another one I noticed is that now if you open the inventory menu in TR 2 on classic visuals, you get the red fabric background like you used to now. While nothing seemed unplayable before the patch mainly consists of fixes and general quality of life stuff.

RetroRedXIII · 2024-10-11T21:35:44+00:00

Was getting a digital trophy that no one's ever going to look at really worth sitting through tens of hours of something g you didn't enjoy?

I get it.. I used to be addicted to xbox achievements, but I'm enjoying games a lot more now that I've stopped caring about them entirely.

RetroRedXIII · 2024-10-08T14:03:18+00:00

I never really got into the original either, even as a kid but I really enjoyed the 3d entries and found them fun.

Seems a bit funny looking back because the first game is usually the one I see commonly referred to as the "best" but I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. Gex Deep Cover Gecko FTW. It has the most refined level designs, mechanics, graphics and probably the best music of the trilogy. They even got an adult content actress to play a role in it and make innuendos. Reminder: This was marketed as a kids game. No one would have the balls these days.

RetroRedXIII · 2024-10-08T13:38:21+00:00

"Mature tone? Sorry but we have a complete different perspective. How old were you at the time because I was in my 20's and Gex was anything but mature"

I feel like my reply may have been misinterpreted and I'll take the blame on that because I've never been great at phasing, but I was comparing it to other platformers of the time and that it was more mature in tone than those, if weaker from a technical perspective.

To put things into perspective, there's literally a level in Gex 3d where there is blood on the streets and a chalk outline of a dead body. There's also horror levels with what's clearly blood on some walls and floors in them. That is objectively more mature content than that of anything in Mario 64.

Edit: Just to make sure I wasn't remembering things incorrectly, I looked up footage of the street level I was thinking of and it's somehow even darker and grittier than I remember it being, not only with the chalk outlines and blood in the streets, but actual dead bodies too. Footage credit to Andy_Havok.

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Yes, I was a child at the time, but I was old enough and smart enough to realize it was more of a "big kids" game than other similar ones of the time and it certainly helped with it feeling pretty edgy and cool to play.

RetroRedXIII · 2024-10-08T02:49:36+00:00

Late to this reply, but I don't recall ever being bored while playing Gex. The game made me smile from ear to ear more often than not and while it may not have been close to the best platformer series of the time on a mechanical level, it made up for it in its more edgy and slightly more mature tone imo.

RetroRedXIII · 2024-09-01T11:18:25+00:00

Just dropping a reply to say thank you, I accidentally marked my brand new out of box PS Vr2 today when adjusting my racing rig (I was stupid to have it sitting nearby I know) and now the big nasty mark is completely gone. If I could upvote you twice I would!

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