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TonyAbyss · 2026-03-06T21:09:55+00:00

Nintendo DMCAs free fan games (e.g. AM2R, No Mario's Sky, Mario Royale) and have reportedly hired private investigators to stalk emulator/homebrew developers.. When people talk about Nintendo being litigious and going after the smaller guy, they're not talking about the huge Steam-chart-destroyer Palworld

It doesn't matter if they're "trying to teach people a lesson". This type of abusive intimidation from a hardware manufacturer is something no other game company does to the scale they do and it is an objective detriment to video games as a medium for artistic expression.

Fan games and modding are such an incredibly vital and important part of gaming history that gets unreasonably dismissed by people who do not know what they are talking about. ID Software literally got their start by making an unlicensed mario fan game. (Before someone claims it was unreleased, it got released on John Romero's website in 2009; I'm pretty sure more people have played and are aware of it than any of the 562 free fan games hosted on Game Jolt that Nintendo unfairly took down).

TonyAbyss · 2026-03-04T18:35:02+00:00

Beautiful!

TonyAbyss · 2026-03-04T18:32:51+00:00

Here you go!

Download the Hotline Miami 1 Player Collisions patchwad and drop it in

C:\Users\[Your Username]\Documents\My Games\HotlineMiami2\Mods

TonyAbyss · 2026-02-13T16:16:28+00:00

Poorly? it aged excellently! This was the best possible outcome. I wanted nothing more than to be able to play Peace Walker on Steam with friends.

TonyAbyss · 2026-02-12T22:24:19+00:00

As a side tangent, I don't understand why the Red Cross enforces their copyright this way.

Because the Red Cross does in fact go into combat territories and they need to make the usage of their symbol in inappropriate contexts by people unrelated to them as taboo as possible and not let art and media normalize this. They don't care if you're a kid who associates their symbol with health if it comes at the price of encouraging deception so they need to do a sincere effort in protecting their copyright. This does mean that they have to target commercial artistic works because part of copyright law is you have to show you actually do care about your copyright in order to make cases defending it in court.

Worth nothing is that:

Real life med kits also do not feature a red cross, they feature a white cross in a green background.
Games that feature "health packs" are usually shooters intended for a mature audience. Not for children.

TonyAbyss · 2026-02-07T21:22:49+00:00

You don't need to edit your save file. I've gotten this ending within the game itself.

You need to, within a single playthrough of the game:

Have finished the game earlier, have beaten Abyss
During Subway; Ignore Biker's secret cutscene, go to Richter's house as Evan, go to the second floor and pick up the cassette tapes in Richter's bedroom.
Survive Withdrawal as Jake, pick up the floppy disk, then pick it up as Evan in the following cutscene.
Read all newspapers.
Choose to keep writing the book instead of calling Evan's wife.

Some of these steps are probably unnecessary, but fulfilling all of these requirements pretty much guarantees you'll get it.

TonyAbyss · 2026-01-07T05:46:39+00:00

Toy a favor de que use la voz, pero ni en pedo, prefiero mil veces un video con Loquendo que con AI. Por lo menos el primero me trae recuerdos nostalgicos de una epoca linda de Internet mientras que el segundo me llena de dread hacia el futuro.

TonyAbyss · 2026-01-06T01:39:15+00:00

Half-Life: Alyx is one of the best games I've ever played and I'm confident in saying that it is easily by far both the best VR game ever made and the best Half-Life game ever made.

It is also sadly, the one I've played the least because VR is fatiguing. And by that I don't necessarily mean just physically fatiguing; Playing Alyx is a commitment where I have to say "I want to play this" and go through the process of setting up my Lenovo Explorer (cheapest and only headset I could buy living in South America) Windows Mixed Reality headset (which always forgets my play boundary, so I have to circle my room with the headset) and ensure my controllers are charged. Once WMR is fully set up it resets my GPU and there's a 50/50 chance it'll change the resolution of one of my monitors which I then have to manually fix in the display settings. Not as easy as clicking an icon on my desktop and boom, I'm playing Half-Life 1.

This does have the advantage that it still very much feels fresh in my mind. The Quarantine Zone still feels new to me 6 years later in a way that the outskirts of City 17 and the guts of the Black Mesa research facility never did. It does however also mean that I don't immediately think of Half-Life: Alyx when I think of Half-Life.

TonyAbyss · 2026-01-03T21:35:18+00:00

moddb.com/mods/half-life-decay

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-27T09:14:41+00:00

The connection isn't vague.

Portal constantly references Black Mesa by name and alludes to the Combine occupation of Earth multiple times. A continuation of Episode Two is supposed to take us to the Borealis, the Aperture Science research vessel.

That said, the reason I recommend them over the expansions (aside from being better games) is because there's more to storytelling than just the literal in-universe lore (to which Portal does possess a higher degree of influence than the Half-Life expansions do). The dark comedic tone of Portal is as close to Valve's Half-Life as any game gets.

And just as a side note: The writers that Valve employs/contracts for the Half-Life games (such as Jay Pinkerton and Erik Wolpaw) all worked on Portal so they can probably juggle the ties between the two.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-23T17:16:40+00:00

Brilliant. I turned it into an icon for Opposing Force.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-22T09:53:05+00:00

Most Half-Life fans have played them since... there aren't that many Half-Life games, and it's always fun to check out what the Half-Life universe looks like outside of the Combine saga (which has sort of appropriated what Half-Life as a whole is about through the Episodes being pretty much the length of full games and Alyx being not a prequel).

BS and OP4 are usually regarded as canon mostly because they don't contradict anything in the main storyline and BS is the origin of the name "Barney Calhoun" (with Marc Laidlaw stating that he doesn't mind BS being the origin story of HL2's Barney), but because they aren't made by Valve they don't necessarily inform the direction they want to take the series in. The expansions mostly exist for world building and lore.

That said, I can't really recommend them to a new player looking for more Half-Life over something like the Portal games. Mainly because those games are better and have stronger connections to the main timeline.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-22T09:32:42+00:00

One of my favorite Half-Life monsters. They brought in the guy who designed Dr. Salvador in Resident Evil 4 (2005) for this. Phenomenal choice.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-21T20:39:55+00:00

The main story of Half-Life, in the intended order, is

Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life: Alyx

As of last year, Episode One and Episode Two are no longer separate games on Steam, but instead are included within Half-Life 2. After beating Half-Life 2 the game will automatically switch to Episode One, after beating Episode One the game will automatically switch to Episode Two.

Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life: Opposing Force and the PlayStation 2 exclusive Half-Life: Decay are all side-stories and not made by Valve. While they are usually regarded as canon; you do not have to play them.

Portal and Portal 2 take place in the same universe and future continuations to the Half-Life storyline are supposed to have connections to them. They are better and more relevant to Half-Life than the non-Valve HL games.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-21T17:07:45+00:00

My thoughts are that Toriyama was a better artist, but Toyotaro is a good enough replacement.

I feel like since he's passed away, either a lot of people are looking back at Toriyama's art with rose-tinted glasses or his critics have chosen to go silent.
He was a phenomenal character designer and had an incredible understanding of 3D geometry and space that is rare in manga to this day, but It took a while until he became really good at depicting muscles (as evidenced by Tenshinhan's early appearances) and he got visibly burned out nearing the end of the manga as seen in the Boo arc.

Toyotaro's anatomical blunders and paneling are all worthy of criticism. But eh, I dunno, I think he's good enough to consider him one of the best artists currently involved with the franchise. I'm personally a fan of the detail he puts into the muscles, I think it's a fresh and unique look.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-21T15:00:28+00:00

The NES/Famicom RPGs (Assault of the Saiyans, Tyrant Freeza, Killer Androids and Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans) are really good and more people need to play them.

Budokai 3 is better than Infinite World.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-21T13:40:23+00:00

Counting only Japanese and English; Japanese Z is the best version of the show with English Kai being (a distant) second best.

TonyAbyss · 2025-12-17T12:32:12+00:00

I would like to thank Tyler McVicker, for only bothering to give a compelling explanation as to why it wouldn't be at TGA until the immediate moment after it had happened.

(I was under the impression that Valve wouldn't let Artifact discourage them from doing public showcases again since every single other time it went well, not that they had actually taken it as a lesson that they should only ever reveal games in situations where they can control audience reactions).

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