Great post, thanks for taking the time to write this up and share it!

Grab em by the intellectual property! When you’re a multi-billion dollar corporation, they just let you do it!

F-droid is something I genuinely enjoy browsing through, reminds me of the early days of Android 2.0-2.3 when I actually enjoyed using and customising my phone.

I miss the old days of phones being fun and looking forward to both hardware and software upgrades.

Sorry bud, I wasn’t trying to be rude lol just making a joke. I watch everything with sub’s tbh. It’s Kier.

Straight to the break room for misspelling the Founders name.

Final fantasy 13. Rented it as a kid for the 360 for a week and loved it. Didn’t get to finish it, but as soon as it released for PC shortly after I built my first PC I played it and loved it. I now have over 300 hours in the game on steam and have beaten it 4 times. One of my favourite FF games despite how much the fanbase shits on the game.

I also don’t care for the 2nd game in the trilogy despite that being the fanbase’s “preferred” game of the trilogy. Did not like the “monster as a 3rd party member” thing at all. Lightning returns is also amazing and I’ve put a couple hundred hours into that game and beaten it 3 times as well.

Love the FF 13 games even if they get shit on a lot by FF fans. 13 will always be one of my favourite games.

I get your point but the speed of the CPU means nothing without mentioning the specific model. My old i7-4790k came stock at 4.4GHz and would massively struggle to run modern games, but if I underclocked my current 7600x to 3.2GHz it would easily handle the latest games at 60 FPS.

Just gotta appeal to the lowest common denominator. Stupid/unempathetic people far outnumber decent people sadly. Or at least that’s what it feels like these days.

I keep listening to Lumière over and over, it’s such a good song as is the rest of the soundtrack! I was just telling my brother the last night that I like that it’s a French game, its exposed me to a culture I don’t usually get to appreciate.

The French inspiration throughout the game is a nice change from the usual English/Japanese inspired RPGs IMO, I especially like how Esquie refers to Francois as franfran with a French accent! (Although everything about Esquie is awesome tbh).

The French swear words are a nice touch as well, although I have to ask, is tabarnak not a thing in France? If not, what’s the equivalent in France? I only know that word because I’m a Habs fan and a lot of them frequently use that word in reddit game day threads when they’re playing like shit haha.

I’ve heard Quebecois French and France French (wording? sorry) is a fair bit different, but I don’t speak the language so I only have an outsiders level of knowledge at best.

Ha that makes them a bit more palatable but they’re still really annoying just like a lot of those old FF minigames were. Thank god for save states!

Thanks for the tips!

Been slowly going through the game over the last 3 weeks or so and my fucking god, this game is an absolute masterpiece.

I’m a huge fan of turn based RPGs so I’m biased, but everything about this game is just amazing. Music is insanely good (almost at Nier levels of good IMO) the combat is satisfying and challenging at the same time, the voice acting is extremely well done (Andy Serkis does one of the villains) and the graphics and cut scenes are gorgeous, I read that they used mo-cap and had the actors actually playing their scenes together so it feels much more natural as opposed to one person doing their part and then piecing it all together afterwards.

The story is really well done so far, I’m pretty sure I’m somewhere near the end of act 2 (level 40ish across my team) and the writing for the characters is top tier. Funny banter with your team and NPCs at times but lots of emotional moments, it’s been a long time since something tugged on my heartstrings the way this game has been able to so far.

Everytime I play it, I have multiple moments of happiness, some sad moments and some laughs in a couple hour gaming session. I seriously can’t recommend this game enough. Reading my post back makes me sound like a paid bot but I haven’t been this excited about a new game since I found Factorio back in 2020. Before that would’ve been Fallout New Vegas back in 2010.

Masterpiece of a game and I both can’t fucking wait to beat it and see how the story ends, while also dreading that moment at the same time. It’s (hopefully) gonna be like finishing a really good TV or book series and realizing there’s no more story in that universe. Bittersweet knowing you won’t get more of the characters and world you came to love over time. (Just finished Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth books, 7 in total and I’m super sad there aren’t any more stories to be told in that fascinating universe. I’m hoping to feel the same way after I beat this game)

Edit: Just to add some of my personal gripes so I’m not solely jerking the game off, some of the optional mini-bosses are annoying af, came across one that has a gimmick of needing to be parried constantly to kill it, and one of its attacks is an 8 hit combo. If you miss even one parry, then you don’t get the counter attack at the end, which means you forfeit all damage for that turn.

Alternatively, you can cheese it by building your characters for speed or using a pictos (permanent buff that slightly alters how each character plays slightly essentially) that guarantees the equipped character gets a turn before the enemy does. If you just try to dodge, then the enemy always gets an extra turn, leaving you no opportunity to deal damage. Basically, you either find a way to guarantee your 3 teammates get to attack first and finish it off, or weaken it enough that you only need a couple of good parries, or you parry it to death from full health. You lose otherwise. The parry timing in this game is quite unforgiving (but satisfying af, ngl). I ended up skipping that mini-boss after 5 tries cause I felt myself getting mad and that just makes me play worse.

Some of the optional platforming sections and minigames for getting extra skins are also insanely frustrating and take a lot of repetition to figure out. You also can’t manually restart a fight, which is really annoying when you’re trying to grind out a boss/miniboss cause sometimes you just lose if you don’t dodge/parry certain attacks from certain strong enemies. Forces you to just sit and wait until your whole team dies rather than being able to restart right away.

I have no clue at all. All I know is I could get 165 FPS in OW2 when I was running under GE Proton 27.

Same problem. The only thing that fixes it is playing in Proton 10 but that comes with the side effect of locking Overwatch 2 to 60 FPS despite playing on a 165hz monitor.

Doesn’t matter whether I change my settings to 720p all low or 1440p all ultra, I’m still locked to 60 fps.

Edit: 7600X, 32GB RAM, 6700XT and 2TB Western Digital Black SSD so it isn’t my specs holding me back. Was working fine just a few days ago but now I can’t play OW2 and Final Fantasy 16 since the last Proton update.

It’s like I say to my brother, she’s a huge pain in the ass at times and her saving grace is that she’s absolutely adorable. If she wasn’t so cute she’d be out on the streets lmao. She’s a talkative little cat and chirps and meows constantly, it’s so cute.

That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. I wonder what the purpose of that is.

I accidentally left out some plastic garbage in my room the other night, and I have insomnia so falling asleep and getting enough sleep is hard for me. I was just about to fall asleep and the cat started chewing on the plastic. I was so mad. She’s lucky she’s adorable as hell lol.

As a relatively new cat owner, why the fuck does she like to eat plastic? If she finds something with packing tape on it the little dumbass will literally peel it off and eat it. I don’t get it. That can’t possibly taste good.

I’ve got 700 hours in the game and I’ve finished 1 game. I usually get bored near the end when I’m either guaranteed to win or the performance starts chugging, or when I get bored of genociding the galaxy.

Cream.api is your friend 😉

I’ve considered doing that, but I got her from someone else that couldn’t keep her, and she’s used to being fed 3 times a day with a small amount of mixed wet and dry food. I give her 2 meals per day, some dry before I go to work, and a mix of wet and dry food when I get home.

She already complains after she picks out all the meaty bits from her food and doesn’t have any left, I don’t want to know how much she’d complain after having only dry food for even a day haha

Fascinating response, thank you for the detailed reply! That was a good read. This is one of many things I love about Lemmy, you get less but much higher quality replies to posts, unlike reddit where half of the replies are “jokes” from people that aren’t even funny.

Again, thank you!