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Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by ahelwer »

fhood wrote: post #511

The main From Software games (Demon Souls, DS, DS3, BB, and Sekiro). They really are special, and a cut above games like Witcher 3 or BoTW imo. I don't think I have ever played a game where nearly every element was best in class and worked so well together. The "stories" are brilliant, and the way they are told is perfect for the medium. There is an incredible world, that is awe inspiring and fascinating, with deep a…

I've been replaying the first Dark Souls in co-op with a friend over the past few months. As long as you stay out of the shield-turtle playstyle trap (something that took convincing for my friend) it's a lot of fun. I will say there's a steep quality drop in the back half of the game (post Anor Londo). The Artorias DLC matches the best of it, though.

Only advice I'd pay to newbies is to get good at dodgerolling instead of using a shield. Turtling behind a shield is very effective in Dark Souls 1 (fixed in later installments) but becomes dreadfully boring after a while. The game has a reputation as being difficult but if you summon NPCs or other players for boss fights they are quite easy (purists might say this defeats the entire point).

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by CommieBobDole »

woodrowbarlow wrote: post #93
DonHopkins wrote: post #37

Factorio!!! (It wasn't really hyped, but if it was, it would have lived up to it.) Actual video from the game doesn't qualify as hype! And the code is rock solid and wicked efficient. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&ab_channel=Facto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVvXv1Z6EY8&ab_channel=Facto... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqaAjgpsoW8&ab_channel=Facto...

coffee stain studios in general are phenomenal at delivering exactly what they promise. whether that's a balanced, fun factory automation sim or a game where goats lick stuff for no reason.

They also made the Sanctum series, which is an extremely satisfying tower defense/FPS hybrid.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by BooneJS »

I love my reMarkable. The software might not be as polished as an iPad, but the marker, the feel of writing on the device, and the focus that it gives me is incredible. I love writing on paper, but I hate my disorganization with storing and referencing notebooks. The 8 month pre-order had me quite worried, but I’m so glad I waited it out.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by tsimionescu »

throw0101a wrote: post #398
LordNight wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>A lot of people watch it with no background knowledge and subsequently don’t quite understand the “best film ever” label, but Citizen Kane is indeed a fantastic film. Just read about Orson Welles first. Interesting. About 10 years ago I was tired of modern cinema and completely stopped watching new films. After some pause I decided to start watching classic cinema from 1930 onward in more or less chronological order…

> In general, the quality of 1932-1942 american cinema (and, to a lesser degree, 1945-1950) far exceeded my expectations. Survivorship bias? I'm sure there was as much schlock produced back then as there is now, it's just we elevated the best and have forgotten the rest. Revisiting the bad stuff is the entire premise of MST3K: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000

People often claim survivorship bias for such things, and it may sometimes be true, but I think it often misses the point. It may be true that overall, the landscape of an art form wasn't much different than today. However, it is obviously plausible that the "highest highs" would be higher in some period X than some period Y - it would be actually much more surprising if an art form were of uniform quality across many decades.

I don't have enough cinema culture to comment on cinema specifically, but I believe this is pretty obvious in music. Comparing things like Beethoven's 5th and 9th symphonies to any modern music (especially if comparing only the main themes, given today's preference for very short form music), it's obvious that there is nothing similar, and even modern audiences generally recognize the superiority of the older one.

As a more focused comparison, it's also obvious and largely uncontroversial that the amount of good rock music being produced has plummeted since at least the 1970s-1980s. There are still a few good bands (Rammstein has been an unexpected highlight for me), but compared to a period when you had Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Queen, Deep Purple, Metallica, The Rolling Stones and a good many others, it's obvious that something has gone down in the highest highs of music.

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Post by house9-2 »

ddek wrote: post #155

The Wire. I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures in mitigating the effects of crime, rather than a typical 'good vs bad' cop show. With that mindset, the possibly-underwhelming finale of S1 is much more effectiv…

One of my favorites from HBO.

The first time I watched it the first few episodes felt a little weak (like a network tv cop show), almost gave up on it but glad I didn't.

Re: Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

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Post by webmobdev »

thekyle wrote: post #20

When the M1 chip was introduced I was a bit underwhelmed. Apple being so vague about their performance didn't exactly inspire confidence. But as more information has come out it seems like the hype has actually increased.

> hype has actually increased.

Marketing can do that. And as Apple seems to be betting its future on ARM chips, you can bet that they will "market" the hell out of it.

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Post by generalk »

skohan wrote: post #368
aantix wrote: post #250

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Cannot agree more. The convention over configuration was brilliant - the implicit mappings made so much more sense. I could look at any given url and imply so much about what route/controller/view code was going to execute. The standardized code organization. ActiveRecord using the column names as data attributes. Was CoverMyMeds written in Rails?

Ironically this is exactly what I don't like so much about Rails. It's such a "batteries included" framework that if you want to do what Rails is good for, it's going to be super easy, but if you want to do something a little bit different a lot of times it feels like you have to almost break Rails to make it work. To some degree I think it's a matter of taste, but I would much rather start from a blank slate, with a…

For most of the professional work I've done, I'm doing a CRUD web app. So if Rails or Phoenix lets me get to market faster with a tested solution, I'm sold. I've even got a talk I used to give about getting Rails to work with a legacy database, which has gotten much easier from the early days.

Now that I'm hiring devs, I do not want to pay them to build a CRUD framework from scratch, I'd rather have them building business logic we can't get off the shelf for free.

But whatever ends up working for you is cool!

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Post by mcpherrinm »

matsemann wrote: post #519
CM30 wrote: post #426

As far as video game examples go... The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. The trailers made them out to be the pinnacle of their respective franchises, and people's expectations for the two games was sky high. This plus all the changes made to the 3D Zelda and Mario formats meant there was a lot riding on these titles. But both delivered on that hype. They've both done extremely well in term…

What I loved about Super Mario 64 was that it used the same area for 6 stars (+ coin star). But for Galaxy for instance, you would just land on another area of the same planet and kinda follow "rail tracks" to the star. Haven't played Odyssey, but that's because I was a bit put off because of this. Is it better in this regard?

Yes, Odyssey feels much more like Mario 64 in that regard. Each level has many moons (like the stars in Mario 64). There’s even one level which is straight out of Mario 64, just expanded and updated.

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Post by house9-2 »

burlesona wrote: post #131
Shared404 wrote: post #5

You could make a case for The Mandalorian, although that didn't get as much hype due to the internets... dislike ...of the sequel trilogy. Another one I can think of is Breath of The Wild, and probably Mario Odyssey. I've also heard good things about the FF7 remake, but haven't played it.

Rogue 1 was also pretty good. It seems like the Star Wars jinx is that nobody can pull off extensions of the Skywalker story without getting hokey and weird. But the stories that explore other parts of the universe tend to be at least interesting and sometimes excellent.

Rogue 1 is great, how many mainstream movies kill off everyone at the end of the movie - brilliant!
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