ProdigalFrog
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- Comment on Indiana Jones devs MachineGames tease another Wolfenstein game - "we have a story to tell" 1 week ago:
Their first wolfenstein was a masterpiece with a surprisingly compelling man in the high castle-esqe story, the sequel tossed all that away by embracing a really cringe story that whiplashes between deathly serious discussions that are literally interrupted by bathroom poop jokes. That could’ve even been funny, but it didn’t seem to be poking fun at itself in a self aware way, it was just poor and inconsistant writing.
The 3rd was just an objectively bad game that tossed aside all the good aspects of the first game.
I was hopeful they would turn it around with the new Indy game, but that ultimately left me with a very mediocre feeling. Story was okay, but the gameplay left a lot to be desired, with repetitive ancient ruins puzzles that felt very gamey, combined with a bunch of somewhat lame side quests and okay-ish combat, and level design that felt a bit too restrictive for the stealth to really shine.
I’m no longer hopeful that Machine Games can recapture the magic of the first wolfenstein reboot.
- Comment on 'OLED and LCD will die out’: A microLED expert explains how the superior TV tech will finally become affordable 5 months ago:
Sounds like that’ll generate an untold amount of ewaste.
- Comment on 1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support 7 months ago:
Also new for me. Looks interesting though.
- Submitted 9 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Ubisoft is being sued over The Crew in a lawsuit that compares the server shutdown to a bumperless pinball machine 10 months ago:
Reminder to sign Ross Scott’s StopKillingGames EU Citizens Intitiative (which carries legal weight if it reaches 1 million) if you’re an EU Citizen! Ubisoft killing The Crew is what kicked the whole thing off.
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 1 year ago:
It’s shorthand for The Original Series, which a lot of trekkies use when talking about the first show with Kirk and Spock.
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 1 year ago:
Never played that one, but I gotta admit it looks pretty fun on youtube
- Comment on Would you recommend any of the Star Trek games? 1 year ago:
The Voyager Elite Force games are pretty excellent if you enjoy FPS games, and the TOS point and click games, 25th anniversary and its sequel are extremely well made too.
- Comment on What video game about the Vietnam war is your favorite? 1 year ago:
The old mid 2000’s game ‘Vietcong’ is still, IMHO, the most realistic depiction of jungle combat conditions in the Vietnam war. It can oftentimes be a janky, seemingly overly hard game nowadays, but there’s still nothing else quite like it all these years later.
The jungle is dense for that period, the AI is surprisingly tactically aware (at least from memory. They would ambush you, flank the player, and I think even run away if they were losing an engagement), there’s deadly, well camouflaged traps everywhere, making slowly walking the safest way to move around, the fights are short and deadly, and most impressive of all, it licensed a lot of famous 60’s songs from that era.
It can be a difficult game to get running on modern windows, but there might be some community patches for that. It would probably run better under Linux with wine.
If you’re looking for a hardcore singleplayer experience to explore that conflict from a historical context, I’d recommend giving it a shot.
- Comment on Short games with lots of replay value? 1 year ago:
Down well is a good one, very addictive too.
- Submitted 1 year ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Sullair - Proof that if you treat workers well and remove middle management, productivity increases exponentially | 60 Minutes 1 year ago:
Some comments on that video mention their dad’s who still worked there and that they still had that atmosphere until recently (even after Sullair was bought by Sundstrand Corporation in1984). They were recently purchased by Hitachi in 2017, and I assume that’s when those perks started getting removed.
- Sullair - Proof that if you treat workers well and remove middle management, productivity increases exponentially | 60 Minutesvid.puffyan.us ↗Submitted 1 year ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 5 comments
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