vortexal @ vortexal @sopuli.xyz

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The problem with most of the games you mentioned, it's just different objectives or play styles and not entirely different genres. I wanted something more extreme, like for example imagine playing Monster Hunter but you chose a professional racer as your character, so the gameplay would be similar to the Need for Speed games and probably have little to no combat. With the player having the option to either go for a high acceleration build, a higher top speed with better boosts build or some other build designed around a specific vehicle they like.

Or a better example I just thought about, was that you chose a theme park owner. So the gameplay becomes that of Roller Coaster Tycoon and you use the money you earn from your parks to hire hunters, upgrade their equipment and send them out to hunt the monsters for you.

Also, I was mostly talking about single player games, that's why I said "character" and not "player".

I've had an idea for a while but I'm not exactly sure how to make it work the way I want it to. The basic idea is that I want a game where not only are there multiple playable characters but each character would have there own game genre. The idea started off as a combination of a personal joke about both Armored Core and Ace Combat sharing acronyms and the fact that I don't think I've every really seen a game where, if it has multiple playable characters, that the gameplay is really that different. Then it snowballed when I started thinking about how that would work and I thought about adding other games like Kingdom Hearts, Resident Evil 4, Besieged and Fallout/Elder Scrolls.

I know for sure that I'd want the game to be kind of complex for every character because I also like it when games give you the option to build the character you want to play as and allow character builds to be vastly different. As part of this, the game would also have magic, modern firearms and possibly futuristic technologies while keeping everything balanced so that more "primitive" weapons are still worth considering.

I think that in order for a game like this to work it would have to either be determined by the character as well or possibly just mission based like how the "AC" games are (or at least were, I've only ever played the PS1 and PSP games for both of them).

Talking to the support team for most services. They have a tendency to act like your issue isn't real or that there is absolutely no way that the issue could be on their end and it just wastes both your time and theirs. You have to constantly repeat everything pertaining to your issue or else they forget everything about your issue and start asking questions or giving advice that is irrelevant to not just the issue you're having but also how you use the service.

For those who don't mind reading my rants, there are two times I think I had the worse experiences with.

The first was with Google, I had an issue on the Google play store where I couldn't review an app that I had downloaded because it would give a generic error message saying something like "an error has occurred". I tried writing the review both in a web browser on my computer and in the app on my phone but no matter what I did it wouldn't post the review. I thought the issue would be a simple fix for them but when I contacted them, they constantly forgot what my issue was and the fact that this issue happened regardless of what app or OS I was using. There was also an issue where at some point in the conversation where I thought they redirected me to a bot that then ghosted me after a few days, because up to that point all of the emails mentioned the name of who I was talking to and a survey that I would get after the conversation was over.

After that I was checked out and I just wanted the conversation to end. So when they did eventually start emailing me again, I told them that even if they don't fix the issue, I wanted the conversation to be over. I was checking about once a month to see if they fixed the issue and they did about 6 months after the conversation ended.

The second time was with HideoutTV (a youtube alternative that, at least used to, double as a "beer money site"). I had an issue where I can't watch any video on their website in any browser I use on my tablet. I thought this would also be a simple fix because YouTube works fine on my tablet. I mentioned what my tablet was and every browser I tried, even showing screenshots so they know what this issue is, that the browsers were fully updated and that I didn't have any extensions installed (for the few that had them). I did everything they told me to do and even provided further screenshots in case they would help. But the thing that aggravated me the most, was that the CEO of Hideout came into the conversation, ignored everything that I said and all the screenshots I posted and proceeded to insinuate that I wasn't being cooperative and made some excuse about how one of my browsers looked outdated (despite being the newest version available) and that if I just updated that browser, my issue would magically disappear.

This obviously upset me greatly because I thought I was doing more on my end then most of the users they normally work with. I don't remember exactly what I responded with but I remember saying that I thought their platform would be similar to YouTube and that this would be a simple problem for them to fix but the conversation proved to me that they're incompetent. I then asked how my browser could look outdated when I've already proven multiple times that every browser I used was reinstalled multiple times and fully updated every time I tried them. They never responded after that but about 9 months later, they had the audacity to mark the issue as "solved" even though it definitely wasn't and I decided to stop using their platform. Although, I don't think I'd be using their platform anyways because apparently they stopped paying their users.

So I just read the article and I was right and I'll be editing my comment to reflect that.

Also, I did just re look at the tweets, they weren't calling for the mass genocide of gay people, they were calling for the mass genocide of jewish people. The problem was that the tweet was linked with another tweet where they used the F-slur, so I forgot they said "jews" and not the F-slur. I'm going to have fix that too.

Just out of curiosity, have you even seen any of the tweets that I'm referring too?

While I have no problem with what Sweet Baby Inc does, I hate that all of the articles defending them (like this one) refuse to acknowledge a lot of the reasons why they are getting backlash. Like all of the tweets from SBI employees that either use racist/anti-LGBT slurs or advocate for the mass genocide of Jewish people or the fact that this whole thing started because SBI started a harassment campaign towards the creator of a steam group despite not having any information that actually proved that the group was in the wrong and also ignoring the fact that the group was created by someone from Brazil and claiming that the group was created by right-winged conspiracy theorists.

I don't know if you are looking for anything specific but here is a list of some of the games that I would recommend trying:

The Harry Potter games, the PS2 version of these games seem to be heavily inspired by the N64 era Zelda games as they have a lot of similarities. Chamber of Secrets is, at least in my opinion, the best of the three but the other two games are still worth checking out. Also, something interesting to note is that, unlike how games for these systems normally are, the PS2 versions of these games are technically better than both the GameCube and Xbox versions due to porting issues and some other poor design choices.

The Sly cooper games, these games, especially 2 and 3, are speculated to be direct inspiration for the Assassin's Creed games. Some say that Sly 2 is the best, while others say that 3 was the best, but I don't know which one I prefer.

Monster house, I know that this is a bit of a weird one to mention, but it was a really good game. The game is similar to Resident Evil 4 in both gameplay and atmosphere. It's one of the rare examples of a movie licensed game that was actually good.

Pac-Man World 2 and 3, both which are action platformers. I personally prefer 3 but 2 had a better soundtrack (I don't know why they put that much effort in the OST of a Pac-Man game).

While I have no interest in using a service like this, I understand why they are doing this. I would imagine that a service like this probably costs a lot to run and it looks like they are adding them in a sensible way. It's not like how a lot of mobile games are where the game just randomly stops in the middle of game-play to show you an ad.

I know this might sound stupid but for several years, I was using a regular kitchen chair with a towel to sit on and a cloth blanket to make the back more comfortable to lean against. Even though I have a different, much more expensive gaming chair, I am still using a towel because the leather sticks to my skin.

I haven't done much with it yet but I have Termux installed on my phone. Termux is a free and open source app that, while it's very limited, allows you to run Linux applications on an android phone/tablet. So far the only things I've done with it was that I ran neofetch and I used ciso to compress some iso files into cso files, both of which were just to test it out and get used to using it. I do plan on enabling and trying out X11 at some point but android prevents Termux from having hardware acceleration and the amount of software available for non-android Linux distros is very minimal, so I have no idea how useful it would be.

I'm not sure if you are looking for anything on a specific system/console but I have a few suggestions. The first one being Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and it's sequel. Eternium also looks pretty good, especially for a game that was originally exclusive to mobile. I unfortunately can't say much about these games because I have yet to play them for an extended period of time but I have played them enough to know that they are at least similar to the Diablo games.

I am also aware of some other games that might be worth checking out but I'm not sure how close to the Diablo games you are looking for and they are quite different from the Diablo games.

I haven't played all of the Phantasy Star games but Phantasy Star 4 was really good.

I know I'm a bit late to this post but no one else has mentioned pixeldrain, if you are still looking for suggestions.

I know it's technically not a mod but most older versions of RuneScape can be played "offline" by creating a personal private server. Everything from RSC to HDScape can have private servers but I don't think I've seen private servers for RS3.

It depends on the game. If the gender has an effect on the stats or gameplay, I may choose a female character if I think it would either benefit my character build or make the gameplay more interesting. If it's just cosmetic, I will play as a female if I think the male characters look ugly and the game doesn't have a femboy option.

I wouldn't say that anything ruined Christmas for me this year but there was some unfortunate circumstances with some of my gifts.

For example, I asked for an original Xbox controller with a USB adapter. I got them and they work perfectly fine in Linux but they don't work at all in Windows, which potentially limits how much usage I can get out of them. Apparently, Windows 10 blocks the drivers required to use the adapter, which if I had known I probably would've just asked for a generic USB Xbox controller instead (if they exist).

I don't remember how we had it but when I was growing up, we had a pc game called Adventures with Chickens. I might have to track down a copy and play it again because I'm confused as to why MobyGames says the game has "shoot 'em up elements" when I'm pretty sure it doesn't.

Ring The Bells - Eurobeat Union

For some reason the only real version I could find on YouTube is the first song in Zenki's Christmas Touhou Eurobeat Mix and it's kind of ironic because it's the only song in that mix that is actually Christmas related.

Outside of one troll that was banned for spamming comments sections with videos that I hope I never see again, I don't know if I've used Lemmy, whether it be my account on the main instance or this account, enough since the Reddit protests to really see anything "toxic". I have noticed that there have been more times where I've felt like I didn't belong here but I think I've always kind of felt like this and it's just more noticeable because I use Lemmy more since I stopped using Reddit.

Edit: You do know that down voting me just proves my point, right?

Quite often, probably mostly because I have social anxiety. Sometimes I feel like I'm not adding anything meaningful to that conversation or that I'm probably not being as helpful as I initially think I am. I sometimes also have trouble putting my thoughts into words.