Fruktansvärt. Kan tänka mig att förutom de skadade och omkomna så är det nog ytterligare en stor skara vittnen som blivit psykologiskt påverkade av att behöva se det hända.

Läskigt minst sagt. Absolut horribelt, svårt att säga något annat.

For me in general I think FPS games have aged the worst. There is such a big part of the pleasure that comes from animations, gunplay, recoil implementation, enemy AI, ragdolls, hit effects… I have a much easier time playing something like Fallout 1&2 - which are even older but have mechanics that are more timeless.

But yeah it was definitely a time in gaming where technological advancements felt like they were happening at an exponentially increasing pace. Comparing games from 2000 with just a few years later is like night and day. Splinter Cell came out only two years after NOLF and that’s a stealth game that’s aged spectacularly. And even Monolith’s own F.E.A.R. came out in 2005 and feels like one of the first truly modern shooters - one that still really holds up well.

The writing, setting and concept were charming and the art direction is good which means despite being polygonally challenged I don’t mind the way it looks. Great soundtrack too. That being said I tried playing it earlier this year for the first time and it just struck me as one of those games that have aged like fine milk mechanically. It really really wants you to be a stealthy spy sneaking around and being non-lethal yet the stealth gameplay felt terrible, and going guns blazing wasn’t particularly fun either as gunplay in these old games is hard for me to enjoy having gotten used to modern FPSes. And it doesn’t help that the guns blazing approach forces you to listen to a constant soundtrack of blaring alarms, which frankly was hard for me to deal with.

I couldn’t make myself finish it despite really wanting to be able to say I’ve played it, but maybe I’ll give it another go some day. At least I don’t think it’s all that long.

I know it was very original and different back in the day, but is it really one of the “best game ever”?

Ah. I guess of the Sigmas it’s the least offensive version. It’s a shame still though as NGB is the perfect version. But yeah I momentarily forgot about it being an Xbox exclusive.

Great game though!

Does the switch have Ninja Gaiden Black? 04 is good and all but Black is even better.

My STALKER: Anomaly playthrough is progressing at the typically languid pace. As soon as I find a scoped shotgun for Hip’s quest I can start thinking about migrating my base of operations a bit north. For a Loner run this would be prime time to setup in Rostok, but Mercenaries aren’t on friendly terms with Duty so that’s out. I’ll have to make it to Dead City probably and that will be quite a trek. I probably have to wait until I find and repair a better suit. And also hope my companions don’t die on me as I need them to haul over all my collected shit in my stash.

I’ve also been playing Chaos Zero Nightmare on my phone. Yes it’s a gacha game (don’t buy any currency to gamble) and yes the character designs are unfortunately a bit too gooneriffic, and yes the story is pretty bad and the translation is pure Google Translate level machine-translated slop. But you know what? The actual gameplay of the roguelike deckbuilder portion is actually very fun. Tons of customisation with an incredibly mutable deckbuilder that has tons of variations for every single card. Even the balance is surprisingly good, with such endless possibilities in combos and specific versions of specific cards that you can make pretty much any character shine with enough work on finding just the right decks and setups. Don’t know if it will stick, and I’ll keep an eye on balance going forward to see if they start making it more pay-to-win, but for now I’m having a surprisingly good time with it.

Ah. Ja för mig är det mest underhållning, även om jag sitter och skriver på den en del också. Men jag hade nog inte gått efter den om det var främst produktivitetsändamål. 1440p 27-tum tycker jag är sweet spotten för gaming men för typ kodning eller kontorsarbete skulle jag hellre ha en ultrawide tror jag för mer skärmyta. Och som du säger fokusera på annat än bildkvalitet och sådant.

Kanske nånting som Dell U4025QW?

Jag har använt en Cooler Master Tempest GP27Q de senaste åren och tycker det varit en otroligt prisvärd skärm för budgeten. Jag har i princip använt den som en tillfällig lösning medans jag väntar på den perfekta 1440p miniLED-skärmen.

GP27Q har bra HDR med väldigt stark färgåtergivning, absolut godtagbar prestanda i högkontrastsituationer. Man kan se haloing i vissa edge cases (typ ett FPS med vitt crosshair och ett rum i fullt svart mörker), men det är priset för en budgetlösning med bara 576 dimming zones. Ovanpå det har den otroligt imponerande peak brightness vilket verkligen kan få ljusa scener och partier att poppa.

Thank fuck, absolutely bizarre it was granted in the first place.

Subscribed/Scaled, mixed with occasionally keeping an eye on Local/New (as I’m on a small instance).

I never ever touch /all.

We need a remaster of that absolute classic.

Fantastisk rubrik.

Yeah I was pretty upset about Larian for that one. One of the best and most nuanced characters in BG2 reduced to a brainless cartoon caricature. Same goes for

Aha! Yeah I am still on my regular old Lemmy account even though I did sign up for a couple of Piefed instances. That feature sounds excellent!

You know, I’m impatient enough that I am probably starting to manually refresh before 5 seconds now that you mention it 😅

EDIT: Actually there is something - replying via the quick reply button doesn’t automatically mark read until refreshing the inbox. So if you quick reply the message is still in your inbox and the notification icon too, but both disappear on refresh (provided 5 seconds has passed). This seems like a bit of a halfway in-between behaviour between automatically marking read on reply and not?

It mostly happens after directly replying using the quick reply button without first tapping Mark Read. I had auto-mark off. Testing now with it on.

EDIT: Same behaviour. Reply gets sent, comment does not get marked read. On refresh of the inbox the message is removed (because it’s been replied to) but the notification remains. Requires a couple of reloads to remove the notification icon.

So now that you’re back, one thing I’ve noticed since the revamp of the inbox is that the little red number in a circle on the inbox indicating unread items is often very slow to update. Like, I will reply to my last unread message and the number is still there afterwards and I have to force refresh inbox and/or profile multiple times to make it go away. Not sure anyone else is experiencing this but it’s a bit of a minor nuisance.