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Glen_McHardt, do games w What games have you been playing recently

Baldurs’s Gate 3. I’m in 70 hours and I love IT so far

ShitOnABrick,
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

I really wanna try Baldurs gate myself might get it on steam sale prehaps two games I really wouldn’t mind trying are baldurs gate and disco elysium

drz,

Both are amazing RPGs. Highly recommend checking them out.

ShitOnABrick,
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

Might check them out then I’ll probably look at getting them at the Christmas steam sale I almost certainly want to check out disco elysium

rainy,

I was told at some point to pirate disco elysium because the original devs got removed from making royalties on any sales prior to the release of the game. Does anyone know if this is a credible statement?

violetraven,
@violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I can’t find anything from the devs stating that either.

FluffyPotato,

Yea, basically what happened was some crooked businessman took over their company by some very fucked up methods, ousted the people who made the game and stole their IP. This is the most justified case of piracy is good.

Poggervania,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

Bear in mind, BG3 is more much like your typical cRPG while Disco Elysium is more akin to Planescape: Torment but without combat.

Both are extremely well-written, and I would say Disco Elysium is arguably one of the best written games period, but don’t go into DE expecting a whole lot of combat - it’s much more like a visual novel than a cRPG.

antaymonkey,

You just made DE a whole lot more appealing to me.

ShitOnABrick,
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

De sounds awesome I would love another well written game like rdr2 to sink my teeth into and get tons of hours out of and this sounds like that sorta game

CoderKat,

I’m doing an evil playthrough now and finding various things I missed from the first playthrough. But oof, I feel really awful about the horrible things the game lets you do. 😅

FluffyPotato, do games w What games have you been playing recently

I finished Baldur’s Gate 3, finished Starfield, finished Expeditions: Viking and I’m currently playing Expeditions: Rome.

MaxPower, do gaming w Cyberpunk dlc sucks. 10 side missions and like 5 story missions for 30 bucks.
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What’s the point of your post? You think it sucks and regret buying and playing it, OK.

I however enjoyed it very much and I wish CDPR would chuck out more expansions. Now what?

And yes, there are bugs. Show me a game of this scale that does not have bugs. At least it’s not a shit show like CP2077 at release date

Shalakushka,
@Shalakushka@kbin.social avatar

You know you could also make a post about how much you like it, right? The world would not end. A post being on the gaming board doesn't mean it's the objective truth, it's a forum. Both of your posts could be up at the same time, even!

Also it's hilarious to go "at least it's not buggy like the game this expansion is literally for"

sederx,

I don’t regret buying it since I didn’t.

That’s your opinion and it’s fine.

I cant remember last AAA game I played that required me to reload the game to get rid of bugs or getting stuck in my own vehicle,I don’t think it’s acceptable.

Fizz,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Did you play the dlc?

sederx,

What do you think?

Fizz,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

No?

sederx,

well you had 50:50 … yes i finished it before posting

Stillhart,

You realize that the 2.0 update that introduced all those new bugs is unrelated to the DLC right? Everyone got that update and those bugs regardless of whether they paid for the DLC.

sederx,

Not sure it changes anything

Stillhart,

Considering bugs are the main meat of your post, it seems like it should.

sederx,

Nah that’s an just an edit I made later

dino, do gaming w Cyberpunk dlc sucks. 10 side missions and like 5 story missions for 30 bucks.

Still the best action-rpg. :D

sederx,

Never argued against that

dino,

“just don’t buy it” sounds different, but I understand that you are just trying to stir some shit and don’t really care. :)

sederx,

im really not, people here are just looking to fight for some reason.

Jumi, do games w What games have you been playing recently

BG3, OW2 and Civ6

HumbleFlamingo, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 8th

Just picked up Darktide again. They released an update that overhauled the class system and rebalanced a lot of the weapons.

sub_, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 8th
  • I tried Star Ocean The Divine Force, up until the port town when they introduced a very anime character (after getting the healer), that I stopped.
    • The story didn’t grab me, and while I like how fast the combat and how agile the DUMA are, ultimately the combat feels very simplistic, even with the skill upgrades. It’s really a middling game
    • The only other Star Ocean game that I’ve played is Last Hope International, and I really dislike that game, because of Lymle.
    • tri-Ace has been insolvent, and it’s sad to see them struggling both financially, and in making good Star Ocean games. Maybe they should have gone back to 2D style to reduce budget, and to rely less on the exaggerated anime character animation style
    • Star Ocean 2 remake is coming out, and that HD-2D looks really good, hopefully that would help the dev a bit.

  • Replaying the original Wild Arms
    • The music is still really good in this game
    • The battle still feels very simplistic compared to Final Fantasy
    • Story wise, it’s less memorable than others, but there are parts that do feel melancholic
    • I found out that Media.Vision has 5 titles in development as in 2022, the last game they co-developed was Valkyria Chronicles 4
sederx, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.

Emulation full stop Anything else is a waste of time or a risk to get your kids addicted

Stillhart, do gaming w Cyberpunk dlc sucks. 10 side missions and like 5 story missions for 30 bucks.

It’s funny to see this because I have found it to be the complete opposite.

First, the amount is surprisingly copious for a DLC. The new area they added is deceptively large because it has so much verticality. The main story missions for Phantom Liberty are also much longer than normal missions. The “like 5” you quoted is ridiculous because not only is it WRONG, it discounts the size of the missions.

They also added a ton of side missions and gigs, as well as two completely new side activities in car missions and supply drops. It’s a lot of content and just saying “they only added x number of missions” is reductive and frankly deceptive.

And maybe more important than the amount of content they added, the quality of the content is off the charts. The art style and creativity in the new areas is fantastic. It doesn’t feel like just more Night City, it really feels like a different area. It’s visually distinct from the original game; you know you’re in the new area without being told.

And the missions… the main story missions are completely different than anything in the original game. Fighting through the wreckage of a downed airplane to rescue the president and then getting thrown into a spy story complete with James Bond style banter over a roulette table! Idris Elba is amazing. Even the side missions are interesting with different ways to resolve them.

If you liked CP2077, I don’t see how you could possibly not like this DLC. They added more of everything that was good about the original game and did it at a higher level than the original game.

When I think of some of the other DLC’s I’ve paid for that are basically just a few extra missions and maybe a new companion or something, it makes this seem even better.

Now just so I don’t sound like a complete fan boy, I will say they added in a bunch of new bugs making the game less stable than it was in 1.63, which is really frustrating. But everyone gets those regardless if you paid for the DLC or not. So as much as it sucks that they added those bugs, it has nothing to do with whether you think the DLC is a good value or not.

Sivick314,
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@Stillhart @sederx personally, I was really missing the "crime" aspect of the game, so the fact that there's the ability to steal cars is a big plus for me. Can't believe it took them this long to implement something that fun into the game.

sederx,

Idk I found the story to be pretty silly and again the bad acting didn’t let me get into it. All those story missions are extremely linear.

I’m not impressed. As I said in another comment I like the base game and this is similar im not sure where you see all this in value in so little.

The car theft is not fun it’s all scripted,the drops became boring after the second one. Like really that stuff satisfies you? A loot box with some average enemy around? Idk man this is nothing for me.

Maybe if they didn’t get Idris Elba they could have sold this for 14.99? I could take him or leave him tbh,I don’t think celebrities have ever helped this game and I thought they learned their lesson.

khalic,

Elba is a bad actor? That’s… new

sederx,

Never said that. The acting in this game sucks from everybody.

WagesOf,

"I never said Edris Elba is a bad actor"

Well pal, Edris Elba is an actor and is in this game. Saying all the acting in this game is bad IS saying that Edris is a bad actor.

JowlesMcGee,
@JowlesMcGee@kbin.social avatar

You can say someone gave a poor performance in a specific instance without implying they're overall a bad actor.

sederx,

No. In this game all the acting is bad which means is not about the specific actor.

Keanu reeves is a fine actor. He sucks here.

Stillhart,

Honestly, I think Idris Elba blows Keanu Reeves out of the water. Clearly we’re on very different wavelengths if you think the acting in this is worse than the base game.

sederx,

I mean bad vs bad,who knows. Doesn’t really matter the acting was never good in this game

GaimDS, do games w What games have you been playing recently
@GaimDS@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, I started replaying Skyrim to see if I can actually finish the damn thing lol

Alimentar,

Oh man every so often I boot it up with fresh mods! I love that game so much.

I remember when it launched, I never heard of it, didn’t see any promotional material and just bought it out of curiosity. Was an incredible surprise and put so much hours into it

Globulart,

I was a huge fan of oblivion and I remember staying up into the early hours at uni waiting for the crack to be released. I put 16 hours in on the first day and never really looked back.

Currently wrestling with whether or not I can justify spending £800 on my pc to play starfield…

Alimentar,

Eh, Ive got a 1080 ti and starfield runs terribly. I’m averaging 24 to 30 fps regardless if it’s high or low settings. So maybe wait. Not sure what you’re thinking to buy but starfield has pretty poor optimisation and if it’s a minor bump I’m not sure you’ll see much gain.

Globulart,

My graphics card isn’t horrible actually to be fair. I’ve got an RTX 2070 but it’s on a 10 year old AM3 motherboard with DDR3 in it so it’s time to replace cpu/mobo/ram.

At the moment it’s not playable for me, I forced myself to play the first few hours but speech visual lags behind the audio and I’m stuck waiting for 10seconds with every sentence. I know loading screens aren’t great for anyone but a solid minute for each screen wasn’t doable either.

NakariLexfortaine, do games w What games have you been playing recently

Rimworld, in a fucked up way, has become my comfort game, so it’s taken up a good chunk of my playtime recently.

Got a nice little colony going, nestled in some mountains. Working on clearing out our “home” area, and then I want to start coring out the others to keep this look of a quiet, sleepy village nestled among the rocks until you step into our killbox and realize we’re actually a highly militarized group of escaped slaves with Spacer-grade gear, a GlitterNet set-up running our defenses, and no plans of going back.

At least, that’s the plan. Now that I have the first wing of a permanent hospital down, I’m planning on getting the colony gym up and running, hopefully not have a meltdown happen when Partridge realizes his husband, Dog, is now psychically bonded with, and boning, the new Highmate, Sarai, and hopefully remember to actually finish building the prisons hospital wing and the bones for the Ripper and Hema wings so we’re prepared for when we need subcores and blood.

I might put the organ harvesting wing near the beach. Let the bastards have one last look at the ocean before a sawbones rips their liver out.

Ruben,

Most sane RimWorld player ever

getoffthedrugsdude, do gaming w What is some very predatory, sneaky and popular among children game?

Battle Cats

kratoz29, do gaming w What is some very predatory, sneaky and popular among children game?
@kratoz29@lemm.ee avatar

I saw this site the other day shared here, and it grabbed my attention.

Lolman228, do gaming w What is some very predatory, sneaky and popular among children game?

Literally any mobile game made in the past 5 years

somegadgetguy, do gaming w What is some very predatory, sneaky and popular among children game?

I got in pretty deep on Marvel Future Fight a couple years back. It really bothers me how a family friendly franchise will be packed with pressure points and gambling mechanics.

The game starts fine, as a short mission based story line, and progress happens fairly quickly. You play missions to get character bios (points) to unlock more marvel characters, and then you can build small teams for different missions.

As you start unlocking more characters, you also need to rank up the characters you own to make them more powerful. Again, the basic level upgrades are easy, as you collect material per mission, but as you start getting into the middle game, ranking a character happens through RNG.

You upgrade a character though multiple resource points, Rank, then Tier, then weapons, uniforms, gear, and crystals. There is no set “cost” for upgrading one part of a character. You build up a bunch of materials, and then you take a spin. There’s a random amount of progress made spending the material, and each upgrade path becomes its own slot machine, with its own materials to spend. You MIGHT get lucky and get a full upgrade to a power crystal in one turn, but more than likely you’ll need to burn HOURS of game time grinding to build up the materials, spend all the materials, and be left with nothing.

If you want to shortcut that progression, it can cost HUNDREDS of dollars to rank ONE character to a point where you can be competitive in online events and in guild play. You won’t be competitive with just a couple high ranking players, you need a FULL roster for the multiple events available.

At present, Marvel Future Fight includes over 250 playable characters. Each needs to be ranked and upgraded through multiple game mechanics, and new uniforms are regularly released that also require RNG mechanics to own and upgrade.

Whales will spend THOUSANDS of dollars at the start of a new event, and when new characters are released, to chase the game’s meta. Sure, you aren’t “buying a lootbox”, but players are spending money to build up resources, only to throw those resources away at multiple slot machines built into EVERY character. It’s one of the most insidious games I’ve ever played, and it’s marketed at kids and teens.

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