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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Quicksave/quickload suck rear end but being able to stop playing whenever and resume where you left off is great. That's why save-and-quit is good Just alt-tab out of the program or put the console in sleep mode and walk away.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Quicksave/quickload suck rear end but being able to stop playing whenever and resume where you left off is great. That's why save-and-quit is good The Metriodvania Castlevania’s on the GBA and DS had a great system like this. You had Super Metroid style save rooms like any sensible metroidvania, but you at any time could select “suspend” from the menu, which would save your game at the exact spot and moment you were at. BUT doing so would kick you to the title screen and loading the suspend save deleted it. So you could use it if, say you had to turn off your game boy because the bus was at your stop, but couldn’t use it to savescum.
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galagazombie posted:The DualShock only still exists for branding purposes. It became so iconic, so visually self explanatory, so representative and visual shorthand of the consoles themselves, that they can’t change to the objectively better stick layout that everyone else, even third party PlayStation controllers, uses. I mean, it's apples and oranges. I used to prefer the Xbox layout and after years of mostly PS use I highly prefer the horizontal sticks, but it's just because that's what I'm used to. Ergonomically there is no reason offset sticks works better or worse than horizontal sticks, but more companies use it so it's more of the norm. I wouldn't mind a gold standard for everything though. Im sure I'd get used to it again quickly and it would make the two a lot less annoying to switch between.
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Nov 26, 2021 04:53
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just fix the goddamn letters in the buttons imo
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Playing on switch drives me nuts cause even years later I remember the Xbox positioning and prompts always make me hit the wrong button. I guess you can blame that one on MS not Nintendo though. Would have been nice if they thought of something better than jumbling nintendo button placements.
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flavor.flv posted:lol no they didn't, they just copied the dreamcast controller and put the extra stick and buttons whatever they would fit Dualshock came out 2 years before the Dreamcast. Thank you drive though.
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At least Sony has the excuse that “It’s not an X it a shape made of two lines” like the other face buttons are themed after. Microsoft just used Nintendo’s buttons backwards. Also it’s crazy that after all these years we’re still essentially using the SNES controller on all three brands. Even the GameCube uses the layout albeit obscured. Ironically Nintendo is the only company that has tried to use something besides it with the N64 and Wii, but each time gave up and went back to the snes next system. galagazombie fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Nov 26, 2021 |
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Caesar Saladin posted:i bet there are still pc gamers who are hammering F5 every four seconds, despite the fact that it doesn't do anything, its just so built into their muscle memory don't dox me
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Who What Now posted:Just alt-tab out of the program or put the console in sleep mode and walk away. I turn off my computer at night so the blinky lights don't keep me awake when I try to sleep
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Nov 26, 2021 05:53
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Don't have a case with a bunch of LEDs I guess?
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Nov 26, 2021 06:41
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It just has the one power led on the front but it blinks to indicate the pc is in sleep mode and i hate blinking lights
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Nov 26, 2021 07:36
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Provided it's standard ATX you could pull the Power LED cable from the header.
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Nov 26, 2021 07:39
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Sleeping mask was the best investment I ever made.
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Nov 26, 2021 07:49
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Black duck tape, or electrical tape. I know, I know, your precious child of a PC must have nothing but clean lines, but a tiny 5x10mm square will be invisible to the casual glance and save you time&money for finding a "proper" fix.
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Nov 26, 2021 07:53
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I think I will just continue saving and quitting my videogames the normal way instead of duct taping my computer to avoid having to close the game when I turn it off. I have an SSD so it powers up in a few seconds anyways.
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Nov 26, 2021 07:56
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galagazombie posted:At least Sony has the excuse that “It’s not an X it a shape made of two lines” like the other face buttons are themed after. Microsoft just used Nintendo’s buttons backwards. Can't beat perfection
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galagazombie posted:The Metriodvania Castlevania’s on the GBA and DS had a great system like this. You had Super Metroid style save rooms like any sensible metroidvania, but you at any time could select “suspend” from the menu, which would save your game at the exact spot and moment you were at. BUT doing so would kick you to the title screen and loading the suspend save deleted it. So you could use it if, say you had to turn off your game boy because the bus was at your stop, but couldn’t use it to savescum. lol the GBA castlevania collection now has save states and a rewind button
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Nov 26, 2021 08:32
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I guess this must be an unpopular opinion but I too hate the tendency of PC cases to have tons and tons of LEDs, but plenty don't have any LEDs so I just buy one of those instead of letting myself be annoyed constantly whenever my computer is on (that frees me up to constantly annoy others)
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Nov 26, 2021 09:11
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Unpopular opinion: VR games are universally bad and VR hardware is buoyed by pornography, can we all just agree to stop making bad VR games and admit to each other that VR porn is cool and good? It's fine you don't have to pretend to love that lovely Rick and Morty game to justify stroking your micropeen
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Nov 26, 2021 09:15
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VR porn (which is really just stereo 180 video) sucks. The real explosion (of cum) will happen with volumetric/lightfield video, but while hardware is getting to the point of being capable of decoding and displaying lightfield video in real time, capture is still prohibitively expensive and the production pipeline is immature.
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Nov 26, 2021 09:22
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I have to imagine there's a lightfield video of a google engineer banging a sex worker sitting on a hard drive out there somewhere
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Waltzing Along posted:Dualshock came out 2 years before the Dreamcast. Thank you drive though. They’re talking about the Xbox controller.
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any corporate porn studio that's big and rich enough to buy fancy vr equipment is gonna be evil and exploitative anyways
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Controllers are some wild poo poo. To be fair to Microsoft, by the time the original Xbox was out, Nintendo hadn't used the 'classic' controller setup for two console generations, with the N64 and Gamecube infamously doing their own weird thing, and I think the DS wasn't out yet with the return of the SNES style controls. It's not something I remember people really complaining about until relatively recently when the Switch came out. And at least thankfully Switch games just indicate which button to press visually, since they have to due to how joy-cons work.
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Sidestepping the size issue of being designed for large hands, the only real design problem with the first Xbox controller were those two buttons, black and white, which were in a really awkward position even when you had large enough hands to otherwise use the controller as designed.
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Nov 26, 2021 11:02
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The EGS owns and gives out free games weekly most of which are pretty good. People who hate it are addicted to Steam achievements and need to free themselves from the addiction to watching their Steam number go up.
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The only videogame opinion id push someone in front of a bus for is trying to claim the duke is a good controller
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Also its kinda funny to hear people say things like "you should be able to manipulate a single player game however you wish". You absolutely should yes but also how does that not make the experience way more meaningless? Yet another way in which dota breaks your brain. Not only does it make you ok with a game being a source of frustration but it also makes most other games mechanics feel so empty. Basically scoring a goal in rockert league or getting the last hit on a dota 2 ancient is just 100 times more enjoyable than any FROM boss because the FROM boss is a fake challenge (replace FROM boss with any number of empty single player videogame mechanics)
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Also its kinda funny to hear people say things like "you should be able to manipulate a single player game however you wish". You absolutely should yes but also how does that not make the experience way more meaningless? You could make a video game a million times more meaningless and it would still be just as meaningless as it was before.
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Quote-Unquote posted:You could make a video game a million times more meaningless and it would still be just as meaningless as it was before. No because it means something to the people that enjoy it Like I'm a celebrity get me out of here is meaningless to me but it means a lot to the three women at my work today
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"only dota is meaningful" has gotta be the worst display of moba poisoning i've ever seen
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JollyBoyJohn posted:No because it means something to the people that enjoy it Yeah so what does it matter if people fart about in single player if they're enjoying it?
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Quote-Unquote posted:Yeah so what does it matter if people fart about in single player if they're enjoying it? Oh Well it makes me feel superior since I've been there and realised how empty it is now that I've evolved i guess?
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Caesar Saladin posted:"only dota is meaningful" has gotta be the worst display of moba poisoning i've ever seen *Leans in close and whispers into your ear* You know you'd enjoy it if you tried it
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Caesar Saladin posted:"only dota is meaningful" has gotta be the worst display of moba poisoning i've ever seen
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dota with friends is fine but it's a trash genre
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Relevant Tangent posted:dota with friends is fine but it's a trash genre I should probably specify that i only play with friends
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Like lol yeah, no poo poo, grinding solo dota games sounds miserable but no more than grinding counterstrike or overwatch solo sounds equally miserable
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Friends don't let friends play moba's
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