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Posted: **Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:09 pm**

OSX update took Nuclear Throne away from me. Can't run 32 bit games any more.

Posted: **Sat Jul 23, 2022 3:18 pm**

Anthony Flack wrote: Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:09 pm OSX update took Nuclear Throne away from me. Can't run 32 bit games any more.

I don’t know the topsy-turvy world of gaming on a Mac, but the version on Epic is supposed to be 64 bit. Not sure about humble or gog. Steam might be the only one fucking their users over, which would come as no surprise.

Posted: **Sat Jul 23, 2022 5:18 pm**

Steam has 64 bit games, but it seems Vlambeer never updated it for whatever reason. Apple's "just run new software and move on dude" attitude is the root problem, which is a shame because this M1 Macbook is quite the beast. But Vlambeer doesn't even exist any more, Apple.

Fuck it I'll just buy it on the Switch.

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:57 am**

I've been playing "Terminator: Resistance" after someone recommended it to me; my feelings about it are mirrored by the person who wrote this:

It does a great job of capturing the whole future war sequence from the beginning of the movie (better than Salvation ever did), everything looks and sounds right, mechanically and technically it's clearly made on a budget but still worth playing through, and outside of nitpicks that clearly resulted from this being a budget title, it's good enough that it'll make you want the team to get a second crack at it, with an actual budget. As it is, they did a hell of a lot of what they had, and it's got this overall sense of giving a shit that even huge AAA games rarely have. The people who made it were clearly huge fans of the series and you get the feeling that put everything they had into making it the best Terminator game that they possibly could. When you consider the people who did this made Rambo: The Videogame and a bunch of shovelware, it's feels like it was made by a studio with something to prove, along with just the general love of the source material. You can see where the corners were cut (there's lots of treating the same map during the day and at night like they're two maps), but got a whole lot out of what was there, and the story has all the Terminator shit you want in it, and to avoid too many spoilers, it remembers that these are time travel movies and makes some pretty good use of it, with twists that you pick up on long before the reveal but still wind up being fun when you get exactly what you expected, mostly because they didn't use it as an excuse to be clever.

One of the things it did incredibly well was while most of the smaller robot enemies are cannon fodder, the walking skull-faced endoskeletons that you think of when you think of a Terminator remain a proper threat for a good chunk of the game.

Also there's a hacking minigame where you basically play Frogger, and the path through each of them is timed in way where if you know what pattern you're looking for as the bars scroll by, you can complete them by tapping out the DUNDUN DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN DUN DUN DUN drums from the Terminator theme, which was a nice touch.

TL: DR- budget title elevated by team that clearly loves the Terminator franchise, and made up for what they lacked in time, money, personnel and other resources with a huge amount of giving a fuck.

Once I'm done I think I'll either move on to a random game I picked up called, "Voodoo Detective", or take a crack at the, non-enhanced, Blade Runner game.

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2022 3:49 am**

kokorodoko wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:11 amthe 2013 Tomb Raider

Crappy story with a few clumsy instances of reverse plot armor, a rather anticlimactic boss fight, otherwise fun overall. The scenery is nice and I like how the whole game takes place on one single stage, as it were. As usual, Crystal Dynamics titles excel in game mechanics and less so in capturing the mood of the early games. The trend of making dead bodies disappear thankfully seems to be over.

Been spending some time on an action game called Kane and Lynch. Being made by IO Interactive (the Hitman games) peaked my interest - unfortunately this doesn't show. The game is not terrible, but it often boils down to defeating successive waves of enemies, and the combat is pretty clunky.

A much more pleasant find is the Russian-developed adventure game The Uncertain: Light at the End. Great setting and art. You have the option to skip puzzles, which some might consider awfully untr00, I lean more toward the other side: It's not fun being stuck on one moment forever, and the choice is still up to you - although, the option simply being there undoubtedly makes you more likely to choose it. The story has potential to be both interesting and lazy, it remains to be seen. Russian voice track is optional - seriously, why doesn't every Japanese title ship with the native voice track as an option? It would be so easy. Similarly, the sequel to The Longest Journey had Norwegian voices as an option. Too bad the game sucked, but it was a nice gesture.

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:33 pm**

I once made the mistake of saying Mirror's Edge was a brilliant game apart from the ugly, style-clashing cut-scenes and boring story which you are better off skipping (it's true). Caused terrible offence to the story writer who, whoops, was present. I haven't played 2013 Tomb Raider, but it's the same writer (worth paying attention to these things before I shoot my mouth off again).

I don't even think it was her fault the Mirror's Edge story was boring, it's just that Mirror's Edge is not a game that needs a lot of story, especially not pace-breaking talky exposition. Still, I guess it's no fun to hear somebody opine that a game would be much better if your contribution was cut and replaced with nothing.

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2022 6:00 pm**

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:33 pm I once made the mistake of saying Mirror's Edge was a brilliant game apart from the ugly, style-clashing cut-scenes and boring story which you are better off skipping (it's true). Caused terrible offence to the story writer who, whoops, was present.

Oof. Were you unaware that she was the one responsible, or did you just put your foot in your mouth?

Mirror's Edge was (is?) also on sale, but I've already spent too much of money I don't really have, so it'll have to wait. I've never gotten over the fact that it would look so much better in third person though. It would be nice to at least have the option.

Posted: **Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:47 am**

Oh, I didn't even think about that, I was just giving my opinion about Mirror's Edge.

I still think it's a terrible fit though. This enigmatic, minimalist game needed an enigmatic, minimalist story, not exposition-heavy sci-fi dyzzztopia wiffle waffle acted out by cheesy flash toons. They should have handled it more like Portal.

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:56 am**

I finally got my Steam Deck. Damn, it's as cool as people say. I haven't even done anything special with it other than install some games and play. It's pretty huge, but feels really light in my hands. Only thing I'd say is when it runs certain parts of Elden Ring, you can hear the fan, but I only really hear it because I had the audio barely on cuz my kid was sleeping near me. Anyone else get a deck or slated to get one or just curious about it?

Posted: **Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:56 pm**

^ I'll probably wait for V2 to come out, or pick up a used one.

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