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  • Live A Live on Switch is the example everyone should be pointing to of what a proper 2D-HD remake of FF1-6 could (and should) look like.

    It’s actually an almost offensive level of laziness, as a consumer, to have a company like Square Enix try to sell me a full-priced remaster collection that only includes partial use of 2D-HD in certain scenes and what essentially amounts to cheap 2D mobile game graphics everywhere else. And the difference is jarring. For the price I’m paying, I expect the full 2D-HD treatment, not…whatever half-assed nonsense this is.

    Edit: Also, Octopath doesn’t “get away with it” because of filters, it’s a game made entirely in 2D-HD, which is why it’s consistent. Same with Octopath II and Live A Live.


  • I don’t think it’s hardware. It’s a differentiator. Tell me why I (or whoever) should pick an Xbox over a PlayStation?

    What else differentiates it from the PS5 in a positive way?

    The thing is, it’s not even Games Pass or the hardware. For me, as a PC gamer, having an Xbox would be redundant. Anything an Xbox can do, my PC just does strictly better without a cumbersome UI and additional online subscription.

    I own a PS5 for access to Sony exclusives when they launch, instead of waiting 1-5 years for the PC ports. I also get access to PS Plus’ extensive classic collection and indie collections, which, regardless of the price of the subscription, broadens my gaming library extensively–something Xbox simply doesn’t do.

    Why would I purchase a console that only gives me access to the same games on a worse system vs a console that expands my library considerably?


  • If you like Harvest Moon, the new games are trash but the Story of Seasons games are really good for scratching that itch.

    Metroid Dread and the Metroid Prime Remaster are both excellent.

    In spite of their technical limitations and lazy graphical fidelity, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are legitimately fun games.

    DioField Chronicle and Triangle Strategy if you like strategy games.

    Octopath Traveller 1 and 2, Bravely Default II (the first game was a 3DS title), and the Xenogears games if you like story heavy RPGs.

    There are decent multi-platform ports like The Witcher 3 and Persona 5 Royal if you missed them, as well.



  • Do you mean you’re getting an error message saying the “selected file is not a proper BIOS file”?

    Or are you getting a different error? If it’s the above, you’ll need to remove and redownload the updated BIOS, as it was corrupted during download, and you’ll need to make sure you have a stable connection while downloading to avoid it happening again.

    If you’re getting a different error I’d need to know the exact wording to help any further.


  • Since what everyone else has suggested hasn’t worked, there’s 3 more things to test:

    1. Update your BIOS. Depending on the age difference between your CPU and your MOBO, the BIOS might not be configured correctly for your CPU and thus half your RAM is unable to be addressed.

    2. Test your RAM sticks and memory slots individually. Put your sticks in the primary channel (per your MOBO specs) one at a time and reboot to see if they’re actually working. Then try moving them around to see if the issue is a bad slot, rather than a bad stick.

    3. Are you sure you’re not running a 32-bit OS? You’d be capped at 4GB system memory on 32-bit Windows, for example, no matter how much physical RAM you have.







  • Pop!_OS.

    I have tried many Linux distros since I finally abandoned Windows for good, but in spite of the fact that I prefer Fedora over the other kernels, Pop!_OS as a distro, along with Pop Shell, is just everything I’ve ever wanted in an OS and all else just feels inferior.

    I’m a dev, though, so it would make sense that an OS made by devs for devs would be my cuppa.

    Most users won’t need 90% of what I, specifically, love about the OS, but it’s also the first distro I’ve found where everything I want to use just works out of the box without spending hours troubleshooting, and that’s not nothing.


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    Sync cannot come to Lemmy fast enough, sorry. Been using it for enough years that I will automatically trust it over everything else and I’m so used to it feature-wise that it’s not even worth giving other apps a shot when I know it’s in the pipeline.



  • I agree with this whole-heartedly, there’s simply no way any reasonable person would consider skipping story content as buying power in the context of how FFXIV works as an MMO.

    It lets players jump right into the new content without worrying about dozens or hundreds of hours of prior story they may or may not want to play through to get to the latest content at the same level as everyone else starting out, that’s all.