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  • JPSound@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlNever again
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    5 months ago

    Modded version of youtube app that let’s you kill all the ads, among many other wonderful features. However, every 6 months or so, youtube does something where the videos stop loading effectively killing the app. I usually switch between vanced and revanced every 6 or so months because one has so far always worked when the other gets the axe. By the time that one goes down, the other one is back up and running.





  • JPSound@lemmy.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.worksEasy Mode Is Actually for Adults
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    6 months ago

    Years ago, I may have felt the same and I probably did but my life is not compatible with “getting gud” at every game that comes my way or that i even want to play. I grew up with the same systems as you as I know full well they used to be much harder and the challenge was the whole point. Not anymore so much with a lot of games.

    I have chosen 1 game to fully invest myself into and that’s BG3. I’m on my tactician run, just as I did with DoS 1 & 2 and I’m enjoying it because I’m willing to do so with that masterpiece of a gaming experience. But I also play other games when I can’t and I just want it to be fun. Hard, easy and everything in-between, I just wanna zone out, forget about my day and watch an interactive story unfold before me.

    Edit:typo


  • JPSound@lemmy.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.worksEasy Mode Is Actually for Adults
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    6 months ago

    I’m 38 and easy modes are made for people like me. I usually dont have the time, attention or patience required by some games to even have a fighting chance in game progression (looking at you FromSoft) I don’t regularly use easy mode as it does make many games trivially easy but sometimes it’s just enough where I can enjoy the story, explore a beautiful and imaginative world and see it through to the end without the bullshit. I usually have no desire to be a hard-core veteran of a game’s mechanics but I still want to play the game. If people don’t like it, we’ll, I’m still 38 and dont give a shit what others think anymore. Just take my $60 and entertain me.



  • Character movement. All the animations, running, walking, and turning in 3rd person are about the worst they could be. 1st person isn’t much better but at least you can’t see anything but the arms. My take is that the animations just didn’t match the quality of everything else.

    It’s like taking a beautiful road trip all the way down the Pacific Coast Highway from the Redwoods to sunny SoCal but doing to in a old ass rustbucket with no power steering, the breaks are shot and making that noise and it always smells like gas inside but the windows won’t roll down. What’s outside the window is pretty great tho.






  • I absolutely LOVE BG3. Currently in my 3rd play through (as The Dark Urge this time… amazing) and the one and only thing I feel they did a bad job on is their inventory system. They put in the alchemy pouch and camping supplies backpacks but nothing else at all to help manage anything else. You can switch between item categories but it’s really not enough when there are so many items for so many different aspects of game play that even those are not an effective way to manage anything in a meaningful and semi organized way. And the custom/item hot bars need to work exactly like DoS/2 bc rn they just dont cut it. DoS2 had a Inventory container upgrade but it was shit bc you had to move the items out of their bags to use them for crafting/hot bar so this inventory issue has been a problem for Larian for a long time. Larian is the gold standard for game development studios and i have nothing but respect for them but they need to get their shit together with their inventory seeing as it’s a HUGE part of the game play.