cobysev

@cobysev@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the author of this article didn’t understand the gameplay mechanics. It’s supposed to be a slow stealth game that requires patience and strategy and avoiding threats, not an action FPS game where you run through and shoot everyone you encounter.

  The camouflage mechanic he mentions, almost as an aside, is crucial to sneaking through levels. Moving from tall grass to fallen leaves to swampland can drastically change your camouflage level, requiring you to quickly optimize for the environment or be detected. You need to pay attention to your surroundings and be very methodical in your approach, or risk being detected easily.

  I’ve played for 40 minutes and I’m still in the intro area. Granted, part of that is due to another common trope of Hideo Kojima games: lots of cutscenes and story-heavy exposition.

  But just learning how to sneak around and avoid detection takes time and patience. The first guard I encountered, I had to sit still for maybe 5 minutes and watch him slowly patrol around the small area, so I could figure out his patterns and approach him… and he still detected me when I got too close! Moving makes too much noise, so you need to wait for your target to approach you before going after them. It’s a process, and if you don’t have the patience to sit and wait for opportunities to present themselves, then this game is probably not for you.

  Nostalgia does help with gameplay like this. Metal Gear Solid 3 is my favorite of the MGS series, and I am thoroughly enjoying playing its remake with modern controls and graphics. Going back and playing the original game can be difficult after getting used to today’s modern controls in games, but this remake includes both classic and modern controls, so you choose how you want to play.

  Also, this game just dropped yesterday for advanced release. That’s hardly enough time to play through it and write a decent review. This article must’ve been written in a rush, which may contribute to the author’s poor experience.

  I actually write reviews for video games and post them to !games@lemmy.world. Just as a hobby. You can check my account’s post history to see them all, or go to my blog where I’m archiving them (This link). I’m excited to write one for Metal Gear Solid ∆: Snake Eater. But I need to play a bit more of the game before I feel I can give a proper review, so keep an eye out for a new post in the coming week or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody has turned a daft English cheese rolling festival into an even dafter free Steam game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheese Rolling on Steam. Saved you a click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] How is your Steam Deck's battery holding up?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting a new OLED Steam Deck in the mail within the next hour or so, so I’m glad to hear its battery is handing well.

  I have an original LCD Steam Deck from their initial announcement of the device, which is still showing 100% battery health. The battery doesn’t last very long unplugged, though. I’ve had to make sure I have a charging cable everywhere I go. So I’m looking forward to the longer lifespan of the new Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents told me about a time when people were scared they would get spied on if they had a phone in the house. And this it talking about a rotary land line…

  For the record, old phone lines were always connected. You’d pick up the receiver and just ask the operator to connect you to a line, no pressing buttons or turning a dial or anything. Sometimes you could pick up the receiver and hear phone conversations your neighbors are having because a neighborhood might all be connected through the same switchboard. It was super easy to eavesdrop on your neighbors through the phones.

  Rotary phones gave you an independent line, and allowed you to manually connect to another line instead of asking an operator to do it for you, but the mentality stuck for a while. Some people continued to be paranoid that someone might be listening to them through their phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Quietly installing? Heck, I keep getting notifications asking me to try out Copilot’s functions on my PC. I finally turned off all notifications about it today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, it was one and done. I grabbed a clean towel from the bathroom closet every day. Even though I was clean coming out of the shower, I also knew that showering loosens dead skin cells, which I was rubbing all over the towel. Over time, those skin cells would decompose, giving off a musty smell. I learned that from my dad, who almost never changed his towel. Ick. It made me extra paranoid about reusing them, so I swapped towels daily.

  When I became an adult and had to do my own laundry, I realized just how miserable it was trying to wash 7 towels every week. (Why did my mother let me use so many towels as a kid?!) So I started reusing them. I used a towel for a week before throwing it in the laundry.

  Now, I’m recently retired in my late 30s and shower every 2-3 days (or anytime I leave the house). Since I’m not showering as frequently, I will reuse a towel for about 2-3 weeks before replacing it. If I go to dry off after a shower and the towel smells a bit musty, I’ll toss it on the floor and grab a fresh towel instead. I think I’m on week 4 with my current towel, but it still smells clean, so I’m not too worried about getting a few more showers out of it.