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mech, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

Skyrim was re-released again!

HerbalGamer,
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Of course it was -.-’

Wrufieotnak, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Still wakes the Deep

Indika

Blue Prince

Hades II

Another Crab’s Treasure

Animal Well

mysticpickle, (edited )

Good list for everything I can think of in there

Broadfern,
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I’d add Moonlighter 2 in there as well.

e0qdk,
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I haven’t gotten around to playing either of them yet myself, but Nine Sols and Astro Bot also come to mind as titles that got a lot of attention.

mushroommunk, (edited ) do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

Welcome back to the digital world 👨🏼‍💻

Another vote for Expedition 33. Literally best game I’ve ever played. Loved it so much.

A lot of people loving Dispatch but not tried it myself yet.

Blue Prince is unlike a lot of games I’ve played before, bring a notebook though.

Heard good things about Metaphor: Refantazio

Not a 2024/25 game but I’m still gonna plug Inscryption too if you haven’t played it. Such a fun little game.

Edit to add: The game awards were last night. Might be worth looking at what won for ideas too

Katana314, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

If you haven’t played games in a while, a subscription service like game pass or PS+ can be a good idea.

It’ll let you try out a lot of games that you might not try otherwise, and also try/discard some games that seemed cool but turn out to be unlikable.

Broadfern, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?
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Depends what you’re looking for.

Adventure/RPGs: Oblivion remaster and Avowed both came out with pretty good ratings overall. Ghost of Tsushima was also a big hit last year, came out in May 2024.

Multiplayer indies had a good year as well - Repo, Peak, and Escape from Duckov have been popular.

Cozy/niche games: Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Deltarune, Slime Rancher 2.

Niche games I’ve personally enjoyed and/or want to get: Mudborne, Cryptmaster, Dungeons of Hinterberg, LAN Party Adventures, The Lonesome Guild, and Little Rocket Lab.

Feyd, do games w If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.

I don’t use retro achievements because games are supposed to be fun rather than about checking boxes.

TachyonTele,

I feel the same with modern games. But some of the retro achievements point you to hidden places and secrets, and challenges to complete.
So it’s a little different.

Fades,

You’re doing it wrong then

pixeltree,

Some people find it fun to challenge themselves, and achievements can be fun challenges to do

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

OP was the one who asked why people don’t use Retroachievements.

pixeltree,

Ah fair, snark begets snark

kratoz29,

I just leave them on and play my own way, what I got I got, what I didn’t I don’t bother… The same way I do with modern archivements.

demonsword,
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I kinda agree with you. I don’t use retro achievements because I’m an obsessed completionist. That means that I’d keep playing one game well beyond the point it stopped being fun just to tick all those boxes.

PonyOfWar, do games w Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

Welcome back! BTW, there were some users wondering whether you’re okay some months ago: pawb.social/post/33129287

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is excellent.

implosive_sprig, do gaming w Resident Evil Requiem - 3rd Trailer

Is this supposed to be a link to the trailer ?

Guitar, do games w Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something!

Lil’ Indigestion has a great blind playthrough of Outer Wilds. I would also recommend About Oliver’s Outer Wilds series as well. They also have great playthroughs of Subnautica.

W3dd1e, do gaming w What's going on over at dwarf fortress?

I just love this game. I don’t have the time to play but I love reading the weird shit that happens in it.

wjrii,

I don’t seem to hear as much anymore, but for a long time this was me with EVE Online.

tburkhol,

I kept reading r/Eve for years after winning. Seemed to slow down after the casino war, then the Mittani left. Just today I see that Pandemic Horde is disbanding.

scintilla,

I think eve might be winding down honestly. New player experience is still fucking awful and the people that had time and money in the past to dedicate to eve seem to be moving on.

Not saying it’s going to die soon probably just a gradual slow down.

W3dd1e,

I never really played that one or followed the stories on it, but I always thought it might be a good fit for me because I remember there were a lot of excited players when Excel integration was announced.

A user base excited about data and spreadsheets? Hell yeah.

prole,

I see you enjoy spreadsheets. Have you heard of our Lord and Savior Europa Universalis?

W3dd1e,

I have not, but you’ve piqued my interest. I’m bookmarking your comment so I remember to look it up.

capuccino, do gaming w A normal one...
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guy comming late to the bonfire Why are we burning megaman?

silver, do games w Day 511 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Waluigi moving like shadow the hedgehog

i_dont_want_to,

Maria WAAAH

silver,
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W3dd1e, do gaming w What's going on over at dwarf fortress?

If you’re interested, No Clip, a YouTube channel, made a 4pt documentary about Dwarf Fortress. He’s not my favorite documentarian, but I still thought it was interesting.

youtu.be/MxV24so-dw8

clay_pidgin,

I enjoyed this, thank you.

jlow,
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I just wanted to post this, personally I really like NoClip and this is one of the most personal documentaries they’ve done, so far, I think. The Dwarf Fortress brothers seem really cool, so humble and unpretentious (and giant nerds, obviously 😸)

prole,

Yeah, Tarn needs to be protected at all costs

makeshiftreaper, do gaming w What's going on over at dwarf fortress?

Dwarf Fortress bug reports are incredible. Since this is lemmy I’m sure people have heard of the alcoholic cats but it’s a fun reread

I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug… That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws.

I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks have alcohol. If cats step in something it sticks to their paws. Cats clean their paws, causing them to ingest what’s on them. Enough alcohol will kill a cat. Put together: dead drunken cats.

I vaguely remember that part of the problem was the game didn’t differentiate between licking a small amount of ale and drinking a whole glass. So the cats were basically chugging a beer each time they cleaned their paws

piyuv,

Oh my god, I didn’t know how complex Dwarf Fortress is (I’ve played rimworld so I’m familiar)

cecilkorik,

Yeah, no, it’s ridiculously, nonsensically complex. In the most delightful and unexpected ways. Like, it’s not necessarily complex in the ways that you think it is or should be complex. It’s complex in ways that you never even would’ve imagined. For no real reason. Just because.

flandish,

I’m digging rimworld and have df owned but odd sometimes the names of things are “fuzzy” to my eyes. maybe font, coloring, whatever … I just can’t find myself connecting to the names. I’ll keep trying though.

cecilkorik,

You can give them nicknames in game if that makes it easier. You can also change the pool of names or even the entire dwarven language if you want, it’s all text files (at least in the ascii version, not sure about Steam)

flandish,

thanks!! good ideas.

Buddahriffic,

Check your resolution and scaling settings if it’s literally blurry. If you’re not using an integer multiple of your monitor’s native resolution, fonts can become hard to read because they don’t scale evenly into the pixels available. Sometimes games launch for the first time with weird defaults for resolution, so worth having a look if you haven’t already.

flandish,

oh solid point. i’m going to check that.

9bananas,

here’s an example of an online calculator, in case anyone else faces similar problems:

calculatorsoup.com/…/aspect-ratio-calculator.php

there’s a bunch out there, doesn’t matter much which one you use; it’s a simple way to calculate ratios, so you don’t need to do it by hand.

i like this one because of the “nearest standard resolution” hint!

Catoblepas,

I’ve seen and picked up describing Rimworld as Dwarf Fortress for babies (positive). Sometimes I want a baby game! Like, 1000+ hours of a baby game. Don’t judge me.

lightnsfw,

Yeah Rimworld is definitely my go to if I want to play DF but don’t have the energy to deal with the complexity of DF. Both are great.

msage,

Or how carp was overpowered, and could take down entire squad of dwarves that wandered too close to water.

The carp stands up.

I need more DF bugs, that game is such a gem. Bought it 3x on Steam, just to support devs even more. Apart from Patreon I mean.

cecilkorik,

One of the few games so special that even bugs improve the experience.

pruwybn,
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Tarn mentioned a couple of his favorite bugs in this interview:

My favorites are the one where the farmer walked over to the furniture stockpile, grabbed a bed, walked over to his farm and planted it, and the one with the injured hammerer. The hammerer is the dwarven executioner. When both of his arms were broken and he was unable to hold his hammer to administer Dwarven Justice, he still went ahead with the punishment, but he bit his victims. This included shaking his head vigorously and tearing their arms off, which he then held in his mouth for years.

bitjunkie,

What the fuck is this game I am not capable of evening

rocketpoweredredneck,

DF is a unique, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes hilarious, always interesting experience. There’s nothing like it, although many people have tried.

prole,

Rimworld is the only one that kind of comes close. I do think it’s more fun than DF as a game though.

Jankatarch,

Work enthusiasim companies expect for minimum-wage be like.

Dojan,
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When I read “injured hammerer” I initially read hammer, which made me think of an ARK Survival Evolved bug from years back. This was more unhinged though.

Regardless; vehicles, I believe, are basically just dinosaurs without a lot of the dinosaur-ish abilities, as far as the code is concerned. At least that used to be the case. When rafts were initially implemented, they’d forgotten to disable the hunger functionality on them, because over time your raft would starve to death.

snugglesthefalse,

Thermonuclear catsplosions were my favourite

C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq, (edited )

IIRC, the devs re-used code for dwarves blinking, which resulted in cats licking their beer-soaked paws at the same rate as blinking. Even a small amount ingested per lick at that rate led to alcohol poisoning.

Jankatarch,

Why was the game tracking when dwarves blink wtf??

mrgoosmoos,

so it knows for how long dwarves are affected by spilled beer in their eyes, duh

Dagamant,

Because they would go blind if they got blood in their eyes

prole,

Have you seen that Rick and Morty episode with the mini universe in a box? That’s Dwarf Fortress lol

vortexsurfer,

My favorite bug ever.

Tarn once explained it in more detail: the game’s code is object oriented, and the small amount of beer on a cat’s paw inherited all the variables of a full mug of beer. And the game uses a creature’s body size + amount of alcohol ingested to calculate/simulate drunkenness (all the way to alcohol poisoning and death).

blazeknave,

It’s a different but amazing flavor of shit crusader kings or rimworld say

prole,

I wouldn’t even put CK in the same sentence. Love me some Paradox grand strategy, but DF is a different beast entirely.

DupaCycki,
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This might be the best advertising I’ve seen for this game, and now I want to try it.

piranhaconda,

It’s on sale on steam right now. I said screw it and am diving in mostly blind, only watched one video on steam after reading this post. Wish me luck

GianBarGian,

Good luck bit you won’t be able to dive in blind, it’s far to complex to do it without tutorials and so on. It’s a bit hard to get into it initially as the learning curve is steep and the UI clunky. (I played several years ago though so hopefully it improved) Also just for people to know the game is open source and free (like in free beers) if you don’t want to buy it on steam. On Steam you support the developers though

Master,
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Good luck… And when you get frustrated watch a 30 min starting tutorial before you abandon the game.

prole,

Don’t go in blind

Adderbox76, do gaming w What's going on over at dwarf fortress?

I always hear about Dwarf Fortress being the spiritual progenitor of Rimworld; “It walked so Rimworld could Run” kind of thing. But honestly everything I’m reading in the comments makes it sound even MORE fucked up than Rimworld (in the best kind of way).

Dagamant,

There was another bug where dwarfs would sometimes go blind after a fight. The problem was that they got blood in their eyes and had no way to get it out. This led to the addition of eyelids so they could blink away blood.

Starting with 2 cats would mean the extinction of local wildlife because they would breed and hunt everything until there are only cats.

Dwarf Fortress is so complicated that the bugs tend to be hilarious.

Then there is boatmurdered… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boatmurdered

MonkeMischief, (edited )

Those are hilarious examples!

EDIT: Okay clearly the cat alcohol story is already infamous and is recounted much better about a dozen times in this very thread. XD

Also don’t forget players discovering tons of dead cats, apparently from alcohol poisoning.

If I recall correctly, their fur absorbed liquids. The cats walked in booze. Each paw counted erroneously as a full mug of beer absorbed. When the cats cleaned themselves, they drunk themselves to death.

Game is absolutely bonkers wild and a gem of emergent mechanics.

winkerjadams,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI1UmlfP1Cg

Fredrick Knudsen video on boatmurdered if you would rather listen/watch

prole,

The simulation is more insane and deep, but the game itself isn’t as fun imo

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