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frank, do gaming w boss makes Robux while I make a Rodime...

Your title is hilarious

theangriestbird,

thank u I was pretty proud of that one 🥲

FlihpFlorp,

I will also admit that got a very good chuckle out of me

magic_lobster_party, (edited ) do gaming w Let's discuss: Half-Life

HL2 is probably the game I’ve replayed the most. It’s just as amazing every time.

When I played it for the first time almost 20 years ago (gosh!) I expected all games would have this level of immersion onward. It was such a leap forward. Things I normally could expect from the real world applied to HL2 as well.

Oh, there’s roller mines hurtling towards me? Obviously I’m supposed to throw them down the cliff using my gravity gun. No explanation from the game about this. It just felt like I would do the same in the real world.

Is this immersion the future of gaming? I can’t wait to see what the future will bring!

Turns out 20 years later that HL2 was a one of a kind game. Other games might have better graphics and physics, but no game is HL2.

modifier,
@modifier@lemmy.ca avatar

The graphics still impress me. It’s like the effects in Jurassic Park in that, while the overall tech has improved by leaps and bounds, the execution is so good that it still dazzles.

teawrecks,

The original graphics, physics, and performance were incredible for the time, but to be fair, that’s not what you’re running when you download HL2 on steam today. The textures have been silently updated many times over the years. Your mind’s eye says “yeah, this is how I remember it”, and I’ve seen multiple streamers playing it for the first time thinking they’re seeing the original textures from 2004.

bonegakrejg,

It does everything through clever game design, nothing takes you out of the game. No cut scenes or text popping up or freezing everything while dialogue is going on. You’re just in that world.

Entropy, do gaming w Let's discuss: LEGO Games

I’m just gonna leave this here

manicminers.baraklava.com

You’re welcome.

HeartyOfGlass, do gaming w Let's discuss: LEGO Games

The LEGO Skywalker Saga did a better job of telling the story than the movies. One of the few games I 100% completed. Just a fun, chill way to unwind.

JasonHears, do gaming w Running With Scissors Studios gives permission to pirate games

I don’t think this post is allowed on lemmy.world.

dukk,

This post isn’t on Lemmy.world.

atocci,

It is funny though since they blocked the piracy community

CaptainPike,
@CaptainPike@beehaw.org avatar

Oh that’s what everyone was talking about… Well, i’m glad that I’ve got my BeeHaw at least

InfiniWheel,

The wonders of federation

authorinthedark, do gaming w really robs the dramatic tension

correction: UrFiNaLIY hEaR is said before the boss says it

zante, do gaming w he got his bachelor's in gender studies circa 1492

Not THIS man.

I am a little pile of miserable secrets. And thats not the same.

theangriestbird,

personally i’m a secret pile of miserable little men.

Wrufieotnak,

You are Legion?

theangriestbird,

yes, don’t tell Drac but I got an iPhone to try this doomscrolling thing i keep hearing about.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

3 miserable men in a trenchcoat

nyankas, do gaming w Cities skylines 2 is broken

While that‘s true right now, a big patch called „Economy 2.0“ is expected to drop this week (more on that here and here).

I really hope this will be a successful first step of making the game actually better than its predecessor. Unfortunately the economy simulation is only one of many issues which make me want to play something else after a few minutes of gameplay. I think it‘ll be at least another year until they‘re able to fix all these minor annoyances, which sum up to one very big annoyance. Like not being able to place stuff sometimes without any obvious reason. Or those ugly, steep pathways on lots, when the connecting street isn‘t completely flat. Or missing animations for firemen, which currently only have to drive up to a burning building in order to stop a fire.

Cities Skylines was a better Sim City (2013) and was justifiably loved for that. For now, Cities Skylines 2 is unfortunately just a worse Cities Skylines.

CinnamonTheCat,
@CinnamonTheCat@beehaw.org avatar

Building a pedestrian over or underpass is another story entirely, had to force the game to do it and even then I somehow managed to place a path that looked like it was going through the roundabout, but somehow it wasn’t

Gerudo,

I miss the mods of CS1. Move it and the traffic manager were must haves. You’d think they would have brought those features into 2.

The built-in path connections are so bad.

CinnamonTheCat,
@CinnamonTheCat@beehaw.org avatar

I think traffic manager is mandatory to be included in the base game to address traffic issues

appel, do gaming w Let's discuss: LEGO Games

I played this open world Lego game where you had to deliver pizzas on a skateboard or something, but I was too young and couldn’t figure out how to complete the game, or it kept bugging. I can’t remember what it was called.

Edit: ah of course it was Lego island 2, the image was familiar

I also played a sort of Bionicle mmo in the browser that i thought was cool. I wonder if any of the old flash games are archived somewhere? There were so many.

knokelmaat,

For your last question: BioMedia Project, they have almost everything!

appel,

Wow that’s amazing, thank you. It was the voa nui game I was thinking of. Is there something like this for the other Lego web games?

exocrinous,

Lego Island 2 was great

MossyFeathers, do gaming w passing on treasures
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

Meh, give it another 10yrs and Wii games will be selling at the original prices. Rip game/vintage computer collecting. You were a fun and inexpensive hobby until the rich assholes got to it.

henfredemars,

It will be double dead with the shift toward digital games over physical copies.

MossyFeathers,
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

There are still companies that make physical copies, but typically it’s in limited quantities and sadly I’ve found that most of them (especially one of the big ones, LRG) can be pretty scummy. I think the only two I’ve found that are worth buying stuff from are iam8bit and fangamer.

r00ty, do gaming w is this true?
@r00ty@kbin.life avatar

But I've never played smash. What does that mean? Oh! Oh.

Swedneck,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

ironically that raises your chances of getting to smash astronomically

Jimbo, do gaming w Uhhhh...King?
@Jimbo@yiffit.net avatar

A king may stare at any ass he wants

theangriestbird,

Go off, King

c0smokram3r,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

👑💣💦👸🏼

RobotZap10000,
@RobotZap10000@feddit.nl avatar

“It’s good to be the king!”

SnotFlickerman, (edited ) do gaming w Let's discuss: Mass Effect
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Mass Effect Andromeda is mostly hated, but hot damn, it’s disappointing that it was, because it brought back all the best aspects of the original Mass Effect and iterated upon them greatly. Open world planets to explore with a big, fun to drive vehicle.

I would say it’s main failing was the story and the companions, which was generally forgettable, but the world building was quite good and the environments were beautiful.

For all the failures of the facial animations and dead eyes upon release, the actual game itself is really beautiful when it comes to scenic vistas and so on. Part of the trouble is you spend a large mount of the early game stuck inside samey indoor environments with these dead eyed NPCs, so when it came out, the opening of the game gave people a bad view by focusing you on the games worst offenses right out of the gate. That’s a hard hill for a lot of people to climb over, understandably so.

I just think it was incredibly disappointing because it was in many ways a way stronger game (gameplay-wise and environment-wise) than Mass Effect 2/3. It was a huge step up in quality for the franchise, but because of a botched story and facial animations, it nearly killed the franchise entirely.

It was also one of those games that suffered from Gamergate bullshit. Complaints of Sarah Ryder not being attractive enough and complaints too many LGBT characters. I remember when I used to think EA was lying that they thought they won Worst Company from The Consumerist because they had anti-LGBT people doing write-in campaigns against them. I believe them now, even though it felt like they were hiding behind that at the time. Because those are bullshit complaints.


Also, is it just me or did Baldur’s Gate 3 prove you could do a modern version of one of these games in the classic isometric overhead view style?

I’d love to see a Mass Effect style game in a modern isometric overhead view turn-based tactical combat type situation, like X-COM but more like an RPG than a tactical combat game with minor RPG elements.

SteposVenzny,

Andromeda has the biggest difference I’ve ever seen between low graphics settings and high ones. I wonder if the lack of recognition for its beautiful environments isn’t mainly that they just weren’t beautiful on most people’s systems.

BolexForSoup, (edited )
@BolexForSoup@kbin.social avatar

One thing that really soured my taste with Andromeda was the very clunky, but for some odd reason still necessary platforming. It always ground things to a halt for me and reminded me I was playing a video game, which is not a fun feeling. Like recognizing that actors are on a set in the middle of the movie.

They also did not really explore what different species could look like. It just felt like any group I could’ve seen in the Milky Way when they had given themselves an excuse to do literally whatever they wanted. Like halo 4 choosing to have me fight the not-covenant again after 3 rounded the story out and gave them a mechanism for dropping the chief literally anywhere at any time.

I also found most of the squadmates to not be very memorable. It felt like they were going out of their way to make sure they didn’t resemble any of the previous ensembles.

That being said, I think the game did an incredible job of not falling into the usual paradigm of “this is the good option, this is the bad option.” There was a lot more nuance to some of the decisions and it really had me stopping and thinking about how I wanted to proceed.

Still, I never finished the game. Got several dozen hours and it was enjoyable enough, but a lot of dropped balls.

Viper_NZ,

The thing that I loved about Mass Effect was the characters.

Andromeda’s characters were straight up uninteresting or plain annoying.

postmeridiem, do gaming w Running With Scissors Studios gives permission to pirate games
@postmeridiem@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz avatar

The Darkwood devs did this even though they only have one game out, they even uploaded the torrent

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown, do gaming w it's big with all the kids, they're calling it "Karting"
@MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io avatar

I just lost “the game”

SteevyT,

God dammit.

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