Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Atmostphere and “looks” wise. It does a great job of evoking the original, sure.

  And it’s far from a FF7 remake issue alone. FF12 kind of flirted with it, but starting basically at Crisis Core, combat went from something strategic to simply “mash a button until your ATB meter fills up and then perform a quick combo (usually the same one every time because you don’t have time to think about it so you rely mostly on muscle memory)”. There’s no thought involved in the combat. There’s no “what is going to work best against which enemy”. You might as well be playing Street Fighter.

  When I go up against a tough enemy in the original, I don’t immediately start slashing. I’ll have one person immediately focused on casting barrier on everyone. The second person will throw out a summon. And one person will have transform/mini set up with the added-affect materia and will do a basic attack. If I’m lucky, that enemy will turn into a frog or immediately shrink, making the combat that much easier.

  There is no thought process like that in new final fantasy. It’s just slash, slash, slash, combo. slash, slash, slash, item. over and over and over again until either the enemy is dead or you are.

  I get it. That’s what modern audiences want. And I know I fall squarely into the “old man yells at Cloud” demographic (ba-dum-tiss). But I had at least hoped that the remake would try to retain the old mechanics rather than just copy-pasting the button mashing of the new games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing against “new” and “modern” and “flashy”. But the remakes lack the unique charm of what made FF7 actually FF7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What emulated games hold up in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That really depends on your definition of “holds up”.

  For example, to me the original Final Fantasy VII is still a better game than the remake because what was a well thought out RPG combat system got turned into just another button mashing combat experience with a Final Fantasy VII wallpaper applied to it.

  Is the remake better graphically? sure. Does that matter to you? Than yeah…the original isn’t going to hold up for you. But if you prefer the classic design from those times, the game holds up great from a gameplay/story/character perspective. And I personally would take it over whatever mash-fest modern games use for combat systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp…I know what I’m doing tonight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube could roll out ads while videos are paused after “strong traction” in experiment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s their definition of “traction” if people literally don’t have a choice?

  Traction is a marketing buzz word, as though they’re trying to say “Our pilot project was a success because x number of people viewed our ads.”

  But that’s completely meaningless because a) they didn’t choose to do so, and b) YouTube has no fucking idea if any of those people actually watched the ads or turned elsewhere until they were done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What are you're thoughts on a Steamdeck with a PSP Go form factor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Much of the “slider” form factor died out early for a very good reason.

  The simple reality is that the more moving parts you put on something, the more parts there are to break. It’s why phones became boring rectangles, hand-held gaming devices became slightly less boring rectangles, and why physical buttons were phased out of mp3 players, phones, etc…

  Physical things cause complexity. Complexity disrupts efficiency.