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Wouldn’t that make it matter more? If your opponent can’t hear well and is relying on visual twitch to get an unseen opponent, but the unseen opponent can hear their location and is already aiming near the location of the opponent when they round a corner, the player with superior audio potentially has a much faster time to aim

I think there must be a degree of truth to the spaghetti code backstory, otherwise Rockstar would’ve just ported it already and raked in the cash

Yeah, I believe that began as a sort of Streisand effect-esque phrase, where if you want the internet to forget, it won’t, but of course other things that most people are not paying any mind to will disappear

If it’s free live service it’s probably locked down and won’t be moddable.

That’s a good example. You simply can’t grasp optimal choices or know possible events and outcomes before going through it a great deal of times, and it’s likely that you’ll get killed too fast to experience much if you start on normal. You definitely end up switching to normal as you improve, learn, and unlock, but it really benefits and smoothens the learning curve to start easier.

Playing on easy doesn’t mean you don’t want to play. Or at least, that’s not my personal experience when I put games on easy, which is not always.

I’ll throw out two examples. Age of Empires 2. I suck ass at real time strategy, so I put the bots on easiest. What this gives me is the experience and feeling of building up my faction, gathering resources, making upgrades, feeling later like those upgrades were smart (which I wouldn’t get on harder difficulties as my actual poor choices would backfire and punish me), and then I get to conquer my enemies with my large army.

I still got to build something up from nothing, create a satisfying army, utilize what I made to conquer. I got something out of it that I wouldn’t have if I played on normal. I would’ve struggled and likely lost. I might’ve just as likely actually risen above the challenge and came away with a more satisfying, but hard fought win, but I have challenging and hard fought wins at work every day. I don’t need that in a genre I’m only a tourist in at home. I have Monster Hunter for that.

I put Gundam Breaker 4 on easy, the combat is satisfying on a surface level, but too precise and finicky as the challenge rises. I enjoy the combat still, on a smaller scale, but I moreso enjoy acquiring gear and making a Gundam that looks a certain way. The things I enjoy more about the game are facilitated by easier combat, I can get to those parts more easily, but still enjoy the combat.

It’s really the kind of game that either requires a significant in-game tutorial and very long ramp up (and you’re right, even with all the info in the current tutorial it’s not all inclusive) or it requires someone to bounce questions off of, which is the far superior way to learn, even though it’s far less accessible.

Once you’ve learned it, though, I actually don’t think it’s all that complicated, it’s just such its own beast that someone coming from nothing would have a hard time wrapping their head around the whole loop and all of the systems, but once you do one time it’s like riding a bike.

The pause menu in Rise is if you press start, it’s the bottom option on one of the menu tabs, it’ll only show mid mission, so trying to find it in the village is pointless. But if you found a workaround that works too.

Also, yes, the free game breaking gear with no clear indicators is fucking stupid. I understand why it exists, but it trivializes the experience for so many new players due to the way its implemented that I think it should never have been created. I get wanting to get to end game fast if you’ve done it before, but the consequences are absurd.

I love this series. First played 4 Golden on the Vita, and it was really something that connected with me. I loved the combination slice of life and intriguing mystery, and the characters and voice acting really drew me in. It took me years to actually finish that game, and I’m about halfway through 3 Reload and 5 Royal as well.

However, biggest thing we need to mention here? The soundtracks. Holy fucking shit, these games have the best OSTs I ever damn heard, as someone who plays bass and loves acid jazz and other adjacent music every game hits the spot in different ways.

They are good posts, IMO. The title may not be extremely clean, but they’re also not unreadable nonsense, and I’ll take good content with less than perfect presentation over nothing.

TBW has a low poly, low texture detail art style in contained levels, and the controls are very simple. I think it would be more than possible to port it to switch, I hope the devs do! They didn’t port their last game, Heat Signature, but that game had a more complex and precise control scheme.

The Judge is the best character. He plays it dumb when it’s funny, but he hands down fair verdicts. He even appears in one of the Investigations cases as a witness! And it’s a little easier to understand Franziska given that she’s Manfred von Karma’s daughter. Being raised by a guy like that cannot be easy on you.

Tactical Breach Wizards just released, so I’m picking back up where the demo left off! Excited to see more of it, the writing is great and the gameplay is just complex enough while rewarding experimentation.

And I just got into Voices of the Void, a free (likely while it’s in pre-alpha) light simulational game about receiving outer space signals and recording them to sell. You use the currency to clean up, upgrade, and decorate your small facility while moving around the Swiss forest valley you’re in to repair and upkeep the satellite dishes that make the operation function. I’m very early in learning how everything works, but I’m really enjoying it!

And I’m imminently finishing Edgeworth Investigations, the last case is massive, but I’ve got the perp, so I should be very close and then onwards to Investigations 2! Glad to see you continuing Ace Attorney, OP. Franziska is indeed a hardass and slightly unhinged, but she’s not so bad!

Dead Cells released in a state that felt pretty complete to me, so I just appreciate all the extra content, especially the free updates. It’s a game that’s so good I’m glad it got such loving support, because the core is so fantastic that I really did just want some more levels and items to increase replayability.

I think it’s okay for it to end now. I’d also think it was okay if the devs kept going, but it’s in a place where it’s got enough content that it can end here and I’m okay with that.

Investigations (1 at least since I haven’t started 2 yet) has the greatest change in gameplay I’ve seen, I’ve otherwise played the first game up to Apollo Justice, then investigations 1.

Instead of exploring the town from a “first person” perspective, you instead explore a singular crime scene area of a few rooms in a more, sort of side-on almost beat em up esque perspective. You walk Edgeworth around as a character and interact with objects and people by walking up to them.

Instead of only having evidence (which you still have), you can also collect “logic subjects”, which you can connect in pairs when you think something is related to something else. For example, you might notice a string of objects scattered on the floor, adding the logic point “scattered objects”, then you might find a high powered fan, adding that logic point, and then you can connect that, logically, the fan was likely turned on and blew the objects around, and connecting them furthers your investigation or allows you to ask people about that subject.

You also don’t go to court to prosecute, though you still have testimony that you can refute and disprove, it just happens while you’re walking around the scene and talking to people, so you may not even necessarily be disproving witness testimony, you’re just trying to convince somebody of something or establishing the crime’s timeline by presenting evidence and pressing statements, much like you would in mainline Ace Attorney.

Overall, I really like Investigations! It’s a neat change of perspective, but still scratches the itch, has a good soundtrack even though it’s not as good as Ace Attorney 1, the GOAT, and overall I only had maybe three occasions where the logic was so obtuse I had to look up, which is par for the course for these games.

I also found it refreshing to follow Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma because their personalities are so different from Phoenix or Apollo, though there’s still a ton of returning characters, there are some new ones, too. I’d say if you like Ace Attorney so far you’ll certainly enjoy investigations.

And with Powerwash, I’m not sure why the crossplay wasn’t extended to PS. Xbox and PC are under Microsoft together, so that seems an easy crossplay negotiation, but I’m not sure why PS didn’t play ball since theyve it with other games.

On the final case of Edgeworth Investigations 1, which i was already playing when the remasters were announced. I’m going to play the second one with the fan translation, partially because I’m cheap, partially because I’m intrigued to see a fan translation of something this dense with text.

Otherwise, just bought Powerwash Simulator and have been enjoying that as a good unwind game! Saddened that it only has crossplay with PC/Xbox, and my friend on PS5 can’t play it with me. I would love to play this with others though.

Been playing Melvor Idle, really great one that replicates old school runescape’s Skilling experience as an idle game. I also enjoy Impossible Dungeon quite a bit as well, top down auto dungeon crawler where you earn points to upgrade and customize a party for getting as far down a dungeon as you can and competing with other players in tournaments and dailies.

It’s hard to outrun that kind of human interaction anywhere that there are enough users and the anonymity of usernames, I do think it’s not as bad on the Fediverse still, I hope it stays that way

The hilarious thing about My house.wad is that if you go in without knowing anything about it there’s a relatively high chance you just complete the level normally and think “that’s it? weird that had so much hype”

Nothing about Lemmy would suggest people would like Epic anymore than any other place on the internet. Their exclusivity deals have the potential to upset anybody regardless of what website they post on, so while there’s absolutely a degree of hivemind hatred, it’s rooted in understandable reasons.

That being said, it’s disingenuous of that person to imply that Epic never gives any good reasons to use the platform, the biggest being the waves of free games they put on “sale” from time to time, though you could go down another rabbit hole of whether thats really something that would make gamers want to use the platform, or if it’s just a nice bonus people pop in to claim while still spending their money on Steam when it comes to actual purchases.

Was it like that when the game was fresh and you were getting into it in the beginning, or just after youd put the hours into it, and the novelty wore off?

It’s funnily enough part of why I continue to return to it. Competitive games as a service are too much, I dislike having to keep up with an ever inflating hero pool and a constantly changing Meta. I can just enjoy the gameplay polished to a sheen and the natural depth