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regitseroms, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th

Ghost of Tsushima, very good PC port. Also picked up Dying Light 2.

muhyb,

How is the PSN requirement?

regitseroms,

I believe that’s required for multiplayer. Haven’t tried yet and didn’t need to login for single player.

muhyb,

So it’s optional. That’s nice to hear.

bionicjoey, do games w [QUESTION] What is the most realistic-looking game that can also run on Linux distros?

I’ll answer your question with another question: What is the most realistic-looking game?

any1th3r3, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th

Just finished Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty, which I enjoyed greatly, despite all the jank!

I’ll likely move on to DMC 5 now, since I left it unfinished a few years ago and would like a shorter / fast-pace game atm.

I’ve also been playing a fair amount of Guilty Gear Strive on the side, first real fighting game and it’s a blast so far trying to learn the right combos, cancels, etc…

echodot, (edited ) do games w UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government

Honestly it’s cute that you think that the British government give a damn what you think. They are incompetent and corrupt, why would you possibly think that they would have the mental capacity to effectively respond to this petition?

The Conservatives only care about profit, what you’re asking them to do is legislate against businesses. They do not do that. They are not going to implement any pro-consumer laws because that just gets in the way of making large sums of money at the expense of everything else.

Delphia,

You’re right. Everythings fucked, why try at all lets just roll over and take it.

echodot,

Yeah because I said that didn’t I.

Jesus Christ doing pointless stuff is pointless. I’m all for action that is effective but petitions on the government website have literally never achieved anything in the entire history of the system existing.

LunarLoony,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

So what would you do instead?

eluvatar,

Complain that other people aren’t doing anything, apparently

xkforce,

And your suggestion is what exactly?

rikudou,
@rikudou@lemmings.world avatar

Turn back time and don’t leave the union that actually does pro-consumer things?

echodot,

Realistically that is actually the only option.

Turning back time but just hoping that the EU implements something. Then we all get to benefit from the Brussels effect. There really isn’t anything that we can do.

The best we can hope for is we can vote for whoever is necessary in your constituency to get the Tories out, and hope that Labour care, but they probably won’t.

Mongostein,

You’re right, but all I see is condescension and complaints with no solutions.

What have you done to improve the world lately?

echodot,

Banging your head against the wall is not a solution if banging your head against the wall has no possible hope of having an effect.

Mongostein,

So nothing but bitch. Gotcha.

echodot,

But the petition isn’t going to work so you’ve also done nothing.

Mongostein,

Well, I don’t live in the UK, so it’s not for me to sign, and I wasn’t talking about this specific thing.

Have you helped anyone lately? Try it. It feels better than bitching endlessly online.

echodot,

No I am talking about this specific thing. My point is that people sign the petition and then get all smug and feel like they’ve done something, the government doesn’t care about it, as is evidenced by their response.

If you want to do something go and publicly protest it’s the only thing that gets their attention. Things might be different in whatever country you’re from but in the UK petitions are not worth the paper they’re not written on. Also this petition was stupid anyway because it’s too focused on video games, (as opposed to software in general, operating systems, critical business applications, and device drivers) which basically guaranteed the government were going to ignore it from the outset.

This petition could have been much more broad and it would have had much more marketable appeal. All I’m doing is pointing that out, and I’m getting hate from all sides from people who seem to think that the government should somehow care about video games as much as they do. Now, if somebody came up with an actual campaign that had any chance of victory I’d be all on it. The trouble is no one ever does. They just create petitions ad infinitum.

Rentlar,

It already has done much more than you give credit for. People are talking about it. More importantly, legislators are talking about it, which is the first step for things for laws to change/clarify what it means to own a digital product in the UK.

Zekas,

Your body is an engine that turns useful words into grating screeches.

echodot,

Yeah whereas you’re doing loads

jaykay,
@jaykay@lemmy.zip avatar

Even if it has only 1% chance of working, I’m willing to spend 20 seconds putting my name and postcode on a website. I won’t die from typing 20 characters on a keyboard

Poopfeast420, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th
@Poopfeast420@kbin.social avatar

I've been playing the World of Warcraft Remix: Mists of Pandaria mode since it came out. It's fun, but extremely grindy at max level. I really hope Blizzard improves the balancing, since right now it feels like you gotta decide between spending the special currency on cosmetics and mounts or upgrading your gear. I chose a druid, just for the flexibility of potentially playing every role, but am currently Balance, which I never really played before.

comicallycluttered, (edited ) do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th

Chants of Sennaar and I’m having tremendous fun.

frank, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th

I just can’t put Hades II down! It’s not finished, and I’m running up against that more and more. But the polish is incredible!

Klanky, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th
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Islets. First Metroidvania I’ve ever tried and I love it.

uis, do games w UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government

I guess they want Pirate Party to win.

FiniteBanjo,

Pirate Party UK is very real and cool imo.

uis,

UK is one big Pirate Party

The_Che_Banana, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th

Half life Haven’t replayed it since it came out annnnd…just got a new steam deck and have it hooked up to the TV & controller…

thejevans, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

Majora’s Mask Decompiled on my Linux PC

GONADS125, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 19th

Super Mario 64 on my switch. Reminds me of great childhood memories.

littlebluespark, do games w If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it?
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Might as well ask if we included Tactics.

MacedWindow,
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

Tactics doesnt have a number though

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

That’s my point.

MacedWindow,
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve been playing through all the numbered games and its been great.

Its a numbered game and I’ve been playing the numbered games up till now. I’ve never played 11 maybe the stories incredible I think its worth asking in the context of what I’m doing.

zipzoopaboop,

Of course it should be included. It’s the best game.

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

It is the marathon.

SkyezOpen, do games w If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it?

I genuinely thought they killed it off. Wow.

But no, I wouldn’t include any MMO in a game marathon. XIV has a “story” but compared to a legit single player rpg, yeah no way.

Mako_Bunny,

XIV’s story is insanely good though but I guess we’re not counting DLCs here (although the first 2 expansions are free now)

SkyezOpen,

The story being told is good but the gameplay is eeeurgh. Endless boring ass fetch quests punctuated by pretty cool dungeons.

Granted that’s just the early msq. I enjoy the game and have several 90 combat classes, but it really was a slog to start.

Evotech,

The whole msq is like that in essence, not just the early part

SkyezOpen,

True, though the further you get, the more things you unlock and can do to distract you from how boring the endless fetch quests are.

I spent an entire weekend farming and crafting to furnish my apartment.

Evotech,

It’s not bad if you are an active player. The msq drips are a welcome addition when you have “run out” of content and is very manageable.

That said, I tried to catch up from 80 to 90 and I could just not justify any more hours doing the msq just to be able to raid. It was just hours and hours and days and days of clicking people reading text and going to the next location clicking more boxes

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll be honest compared to many of the main FF games like X, XIII or XVI, XIV’s story from ARR->EW, especially once you’re in the last segments of ShB and EW, easily outdoes them. It’s slow as molasses since it has to fit a whole MMO with 2y release cycles into it, but it’s also damn good.

catalyst, do games w If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it?
@catalyst@lemmy.world avatar

Oh hi! I played XI from release until recently (with some breaks). IMHO the original story (basically up to Rank 6 where you defeat the Shadow Lord) is fine, but it’s really more of a prelude and setting up the stakes. If you stop there it’s not really worth your time.

Rise of the Zilart and Chains of Promathia (+ optionally Apocalypse Nigh) are pretty good from a story perspective. These can be completed solo. This is what I’d recommend playing through to anyone interested in the real story.

From there it’s somewhat diminishing returns. Treasures and Wings add some interesting bits to the lore. Rhapsody is actually great but will take a lot of time and effort and is probably only worth it to a die hard fan.

MacedWindow,
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the details! I might try to beat the Shadow Lord and then see how I feel about continuing.

Evotech,

You must be clinically insane to start XI in today’s time

Just watch a couple of cinematics

MacedWindow,
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

It still has a decent population and it is a numbered Final Fantasy game, I don’t think it’s too crazy to consider (I will probably skip it though)

Evotech,

It has a die hard fanbase indeed. And has gone through a few facelifts to make it soloable.

But as someone who played xi back in the Day, it has not aged well. Neither the graphics or the game systems.

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