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ampersandrew, do gaming w How about starting a challenge #VoiceLikeAGirl to put on the other shoe in gaming?
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Online games that let you talk to strangers aren't great when you're a guy either. Not because of targeted harassment, but because you often enough just end up with people screaming into the mic or repeating the N word over and over again for no reason. The last time I turned on voice chat with strangers was 7 years ago, with PUBG, and I quickly turned it back off. (It feels wrong that that game is somehow 7 years old.)

memo,
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I’m sorry but it is definitely nowhere as close as the kind of harassment women receive. They have to deal with insults based on their gender, sexual harassment, digital stalking outside of games, etc

ampersandrew,
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I didn't mean to imply that it's close, only that it's already awful enough that I'm not about to run some experiment for how much worse it can be. It's already an activity so bad that I haven't engaged with it in years.

memo,
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aaah sorry my bad, I guess I misunderstood

Kierunkowy74, do zapytajszmer w Jakie alternatywy youtube byście polecali?
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Największa polska alternatywa dla YouTube'a to w tej chwili cda.pl. Sekcja z wideami użytkowników

montar_,

CDA niestety daleko do bycia Fedi.

acetone, do zapytajszmer w Przechwytywanie neolibków.
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Stworzyć i stworzymy.

montar_,

Dziękuje.

hal_5700X, (edited ) do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)
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The arcade games in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Triple Triad from Final Fantasy VIII

Chocobo Hot and Cold, & Tetra Master from Final Fantasy IX

reflex, do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)
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For minigames as "games within the game" (e.g., GTA has a lot of these like pool, golf, etc.,) throw another one up for Witcher 3's Gwent!

For minigames as representations of some other mechanic (e.g., hacking, lock picking,) I remember liking the hacking in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Reminded me of hacking in EVE: Online.

Probe scanning was awesome in EVE too—at least...it was a decade or so ago. Who knows if it's still the same now doe? Not me.

yamanii,
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I always found the GTA ones pretty lackluster, even bowling was more fun in the Yakuza games. The videogame arcades and consoles in San Andreas were the only ones that I had fun.

FracturedPelvis, do gaming w What does everyone think about The Finals?
@FracturedPelvis@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s a shame it doesn’t run on linux though…

ZeroHora,
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I play with Proton Experimental, I don’t know if I’ll get banned, but until then I’ll keep playing.

FracturedPelvis, (edited )
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oh nice, Ill try again (I tried it ages ago and it was crashing, and protondb has a borked status)

edit: I confirm it works

ZeroHora,
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Now the status is silver, I don’t know if it was an update from them and they didn’t announce it, if it’s a Proton Experimental thing or just luck, but now it’s running.

CharlesReed, (edited ) do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)

I spent way more time than I should have playing Dice in Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Edit: I also just remembered the hacking system in BioShock had a very mini-game feel to it. I had a lot of fun with those too.

yamanii,
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Very flash puzzle game from newgrounds

Day24Walker, do games w New guide on Ico dropped on Gamefaqs

You made me look, shit it’s really been over 20 years, it came out in 2001…

altima_neo,
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I’m over here playing my ps2 and realizing this thing is a “retro console” because it came out over 20 years ago

WarmSoda,

I play Fight Night Round 3 all the time. It’s still the best boxing game. And it came out 20 years ago.

magic_lobster_party,

Wait until you realize PS3 is older than what SNES was when PS3 was released.

nodimetotie,

Huh. I’d expect the evolution of consoles to speed up

nodimetotie,

Love games from that generation. Maybe it’s my age but that era feels really special

workerONE, do gaming w What does everyone think about The Finals?

It’s fun and it’s not frustrating

NENathaniel, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th
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Quake Champions, still my fav shooter

pete, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th

@chloyster Guild Wars 2 World vs World and Ghost Recon Breakpoint (which was on deep discount). The latter appears to have been mostly turned around with regards to its release bugs but I am still in the process of gauging the capability of the enemy AI.
The fact that you can tweak the gameplay details on a scale of "the division Style looter shooter" right up to "almost mil-sim" levels is quite impressive to me.

naevaTheRat, do gaming w What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?
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Basically everything old. There’s such massive recency bias in game discussions. It’s very much an explicit marketing strategy to promote the new thing as more everything but somehow it’s infected almost all discussions.

Sure ok, playing an old game requires a bit more investment and effort than watching an old film or even reading an old book but mostly it’s just about lack of familiarity. Especially outside of fps style games where I’ll admit prior to halo 1 things were pretty all over the shop many older games are still approachable.

Coupled with the general dismissal of strategy and simulation genres (which were comparatively bigger in the past) and many things get forgotten outside of cult classic status.

ampersandrew,
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If I'm rattling down a list of my favorite games ever, they're heavily concentrated in the last decade, with a couple of stragglers from earlier than that. I don't think that's recency bias; I think developers have just, in general, gotten better at honing in on what people like, especially in the age of rapid patching. There's plenty of negative that comes along with this too, but for every game like Diablo IV that patches out builds because they were too much fun and impacted their live service retention rate, there are plenty of games coming out of early access after learning what worked and didn't work with their players, much more rapidly than the old days of iterating on yearly sequels.

JohnEdwa,

Old is relative though. Age doesn’t hit movies or books nearly as hard as it does to games and gameplay mechanics, and where exactly that acceptable limit happens to be differ for each individual - with no doubt a large correlation based on your age.
It’s just really hard to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone who didn’t grow up with them and doesn’t have the appreciation and nostalgia of those times. Heck, back when I was a kid with my PSX, anything on the NES felt like an ancient unplayable relic.

naevaTheRat,
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Idk, it’s pretty difficult to get my peers to check out black and white film, let alone silent, and yet most enjoy what they see.

I came to gaming after the NES (although I was alive at the time) and have recently been emulating games and have been surprised by how good some are.

There are still modern games that expect you to read a manual before playing, there are still modern games where it takes about 2 hours to learn the UI. There are older games with 3 page manuals and simple controls too.

You’ve got to remember you’re not immune to marketing tactics either. Like part of the resistance to checking out older stuff has been placed in us all by gaming companies training us to interpret stuff like low framerate as bad, or controls that aren’t fluid as bad.

Best game doesn’t necessarily mean most enjoyable now, or even an enjoyable experience at all. Some of the greatest art is difficult, unpleasant, and challenging. Some of the greatest video games are those that set trends, or do something unique despite rough edges, or are even straight up hostile to their player.

autumn, do gaming w What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?
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ooblets and fire watch are not difficult or lengthy games, but both were so enjoyable. i think casual games often get the short end of the stick unless there’s some online element a la animal crossing.

EmergMemeHologram, do gaming w Ghost of Tsushima's DLC Iki Island is the best part of the game

I loved GoT, agree it got repetitive, but it was also one of the first games I bothered to get all the collectibles in.

I couldn’t get into the DLC but maybe I should try again.

BeardedSingleMalt,

I was really into the game before the end of the first island but really started hating that there was a mongol group every 100 feet on the roads, and that even if you roll to dodge an attack if they’re mid-air lunge they will seemingly change direction mid-air and still hit you.

I took a break partway into the 2nd island and I’m still skittish about restarting because of how repetitive the game seems.

knokelmaat,

Honestly, I fixed this for myself by seeing each Act as a separate game (and DLC as game 4) and playing other games for a while after “finishing” each one. This way it feels fresh again :)

zepfhyr, do gaming w What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?
@zepfhyr@beehaw.org avatar

Marathon Infinity - The whole Marathon trilogy did a lot for defining the story-driven FPS (as did System Shock), but since the first and last title were Mac only for years, they didn’t get the credit they deserved among the pantheon of FPS greats.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP - For years, whenever someone asked me what the must-have game was for iOS, this was always my answer. It shows up on a fair number of iOS lists, but doesn’t get the same level of recognition on PC. One of the most well-crafted experiences ever.

Clash at Demonhead - Despite having an Easter egg in Scott Pilgrim, this NES game is largely forgotten. It was one of my favorites in my youth and I am always surprised by how few people have played it, let alone finished it.

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