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tab, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves

when you can rebind movement keys (I’m an esdf player as opposed to wasd), but it does not rebind consistently. So a map is panned using wasd still, or menu browsing is, or even basic movement in a mini-game, or driving using a vehicle etc. It seems developers rarely really test anything but wasd…

Worst was cyberpunk, which always jettisoned me from the car in a super dramatic leap… on every right turn. XD

edit: also, when rebound keys are not represented correctly in tutorials or prompts… ugh.

groet,

I think in cyberpunk its because cars use a separate control set that can/has to be separately rebound. Its so you can use a joystick for driving and a gamepad for walking

tab,

you can configure the keys separately… but it does not work right - F remains hard coded for some features

Coelacanth, do gaming w It feels good to support
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-95% and an All-Time Low mark on isthereanydeal.com is like my personal catnip.

Deconceptualist,

Same! A Humble Bundle with 3+ games that mildly interest me was another, but they’ve been getting lamer and lamer.

BigDiction, do gaming w "gaming is dead"

How have I never heard of the Detroit game?

Localhorst86,
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it’s from the makers of “Heavy Rain” and “Beyond: Two souls”. The player has to play the role of three different humanoid androids throughout the game, and make choices that heavily affect the gameplay. Depending on the choices you make with every character, their story and outcome changes their future paths. It’s a good game, and can be bought quite cheap at sales. The acting is really good IMO.

entwine,

It’s incredible, and unique in that nobody else is really making those types of games, and it has AAA-tier production values.

Dagnet, do gaming w It feels good to support

Ah, how I miss flashsales

Fredselfish, do gaming w It feels good to support
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

This is me.

reddthat_209, do gaming w It feels good to support

& here I thought I was the only one…

Don_alForno, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves

Anything that needlessly makes me repeat content I already beat or similarly wastes my time. Some examples are:

Fixed save points in general.

Unskippable cutscenes between the last fixed save point and the boss fight.

No autosave or fixed save point after a boss fight.

Preventing me from backtracking after I stumbled into a cut scene and/or boss fight because it wasn’t obvious which path led to a point of no return.

Oh, and no PlayStation style controller glyphs. Come on, it’s an additional set of images, now hard can it be to implement?

HubertManne, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 23rd

im slow. still ff12. im building based on https://brightrockmedia.com/ff12-job-combos-and-best-jobs-for-each-character/#top-tier-equipment but changed it a bit to get 11 classes (stupid knight makes it hard not to double dip bushi) using this a another reference https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/191202-final-fantasy-xii-the-zodiac-age/faqs/79681/introduction

missingno, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves
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Points of no return and anything else that's permanently missable. No, I am not doing a second playthrough of a 100 hour JRPG.

MrFinnbean,

It really depends of the implementation for me.

I completelly understand that if you take a mission where you kill a merchant, you loose the option to purchace from them or miss their questline etc. Its a story point where your acts changed the world.

But if you miss some unique loot item from dungeon you can go trough only once, because, it was too well hidden or it was behind some convoluted puzzle that you missed, im pissed.

Katana314,

Trails in the Sky has some interesting logic behind this where the gameplay serves the story.

You’ll do some quests for people who actually end up being evil later in the plot. There’s also party members who temporarily join you while they have time off from their other job - then as the story progresses, their “lunch break is over” and they go back to their life. So, if you try to save content for later, it won’t be there anymore.

Those little things end up putting more focus on what is accessible at a given moment, so a level 60 player isn’t going back to the starting area to wrap up quests he doesn’t care about for completion.

mic_check_one_two,

Especially when there is some kind of “open every treasure chest” type of achievement, with one or two things locked out. So if you miss them in your initial playthrough, you’re completely locked out of that achievement until you replay it from the beginning.

groet,

Skyrim has a collectible item that is found in a main story area that is only accessible once. Its a very early mission and in one of the last thief’s guild quests they will tell you to get that item. That might be 200h after you did that main quest …

Good thing modding exists

Thom,

Final fantasy 9 comes to mind but I know all of them are guilty of it

_Lory98_, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 23rd

I’ve restarted Yakuza Kiwami 2 after dropping it a few years ago, but neither the story/sidequests nor the gameplay don’t feel as good as 0 or Kiwami 1.

Demonschool released a few days ago, so I’ve been playing that. It’s pretty good, I was expecting more of an RPG but it’s actually more like a puzzle game. The writing is charming and the art looks great.

This week I’ve been mostly playing Sound Voltex tho, as I finally got the controller. It took me a while to get used to the actual layout, and I’m still having troubles understanding the lasers’ timing. It feels much more fun with the proper inputs. I’m currently trying level 13 songs and clearing them with a bit of trouble.

Beebabe, do gaming w "gaming is dead"
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Mine is all farming/sim/tower defense. Because I no longer play (have the visual acuity for) fps I’ve heard I’m not a real gamer.

iAmTheTot,

What’s your top three tower defense games?

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Currently enjoying emberward. I really liked dungeon defenders and I played hundreds of hours of that. Kingdom rush. There’s a more mobile-like game islet defender or something. Gemcraft? I didn’t like bloons or plants vs zombies… Oh well, those are the ones I liked and if you have any recommendations glad to hear em.

baines,

best td game by a music company Arknights

iAmTheTot,

Thanks for the recommendations!

Cethin,

I played a lot of Dungeon Defenders with a group of friends ages ago. I know they made a second one. Is it any good? Are they good solo?

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

I liked playing 1 solo. I can’t speak for playing in a group as I never had a group. 2 was free to play by the time I got to it.

Minnels,

Gemcraft is pretty crazy. Once you learn that combining gems in different order change how they upgrade. Had to use a small program to optimize that. It is so much fun but forever since I played so… I would suck now.

Zephorah,

Sounds like it’s RPG time. Baldurs Gate 3. The original dragon age. ME trilogy. Dishonored 1 & 2. Fallout 3 or 4. Divinity original sin. Greedfall.

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

I have BG3 and I’ve played through a handful of times…I can’t bring myself to finish. I keep going back. I recently bought Divinity. I’ll add the rest to my list. =)

brucethemoose,

I can’t bring myself to finish.

I have the same habit, but recently discovered it’s apparently a neurodivergence symptom, heh.

Co-op with friends made me finish BG3 though.

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe I should try the co-op one day then…good idea

brucethemoose,

It’s great! Combat goes faster with players making moves in parallel (where possible).

Impulse offer: I’ve been pondering replaying BG3, or at least trying it out. If you want a random Lemmy stranger to help finish a save with, I’m down.

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah! 1000%. That sounds like a blast. Now I have motivation to work on a computer that can handle it. A lot of my little sim games aren’t very taxing. BG3 makes it overheat.

brucethemoose,

overheat

You can undervolt and TDP limit CPUs and GPUs to get that!


On GPUs, you can often get 90% of the FPS for like 60% of the power consumption, since AMD/Nvidia push clocks so hard. Download MSI afterburner, run its “OC curve” utility for an easy but optimal and safe undervolt, and then cap the max power at like 75% of whatever it normally is. Or cap the max clocks, which is what I usually do.


CPU depends more on which one you have.

But most games don’t need their max clocks. So one easy thing to do is download this little utility: …guru3d.com/…/windows-power-plan-settings-explore…

Unhide the “Processor Performance Boost Mode”, and set it to enabled or disabled (instead of the default aggressive).


Let me emphasize that this is safe, and not an overclock.

Basically all modern CPUs and GPUs overclock themselves, boosting higher and higher until they operate at like 80C+ steady state. It’s kinda stupid. Hence, all these tweaks do is get them to stop boosting so hard, so they run at efficient clocks that don’t overheat your machine.

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Alright. So I’m going to give this a shot tomorrow when I get home, after reading it a couple more times and mentally preparing.

Thing is with this computer is that I’ve had it since before Covid. I was already looking at parts anyway. It’s a hoopty.

brucethemoose,

Cool! reply/PM or whatever if you have questions, possibly multiple times since Lemmy sometimes misses notifications, heh.

And I don’t mean to shoot down the possibility of new parts! This is just a good workaround for overheating, far beyond what FPS limiting will net you. And it’s honestly a good thing to do on any hardware you may have, as it saves power and extends its life.

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah for sure. This is a new thing for me to learn. If it can extend the life of this computer I can use it for work/experiment with alternative operating systems xD. And be able to use it again for gaming? Win/win.

*I do feel like I play BG3 wrong and that’s why I can’t finish it. I’ve never formed a single relationship with any of the party members XD

brucethemoose,

Yeah, relationships were weird on my one run. I think I accidentally turned Will down after accidentally pursuing him, and never got the door to any of the others?

TachyonTele,

I highly recommend Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, too. If you really want a RPG to play

Zephorah,

This was also good.

Zephorah,

Divinity shows you why Wizards of the Coast went with Larian. At the time I played it popped as a game that had a lot of developer love, after seeing a lot of decline within the industry.

fushuan,

I hope you mean Divinity Original Sin. There rid a Divinity and it’s made by Larian too, bit old though xD

Zephorah,

Idk about Divinity. I was talking Original Sin, 1 & 2.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Because I no longer play (have the visual acuity for) fps I’ve heard I’m not a real gamer.

Bah! Real gamers play Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Idk why but pac man is the most anxiety inducing game I’ve ever played.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Is it because you’re just a disembodied mouth, eating pills in the dark while being haunted by ghosts?

Beebabe,
@Beebabe@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, x_x…well…that would be another reason. Sure. Or accidentally going left instead of right and losing the optimal route with the power-ups. Or my eyes played a trick and the ghost is gonna eat me and now I’m running and they’re all chasing me!

Can I get one last ghost before the power-up runs out? Oh no I have one more corner because I messed up…why does the music sound like a heart attack?

ameancow,

Probably more to do with the “ceaseless” nature of it, you can’t even stop and rest, it’s just pacman forever and ever.

Mpatch, do games w Day 495 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Fucking loved reach

Baguette, do gaming w "gaming is dead"

I mean I’m also guilty of playing like the same 5 games, haven’t moved on since like 2023

IronBird,

alternatively, own hundreds of games and play none of them

NotASharkInAManSuit,
SkaveRat,
InFerNo,

Me grinding 2003 games 👋

boonhet,

Kinda same but mostly because no time. I’ve yet to finish Elden Ring and BG3 so I’m still playing those when I get a moment.

filister, do games w Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007

Tell us you don’t have kids without telling us you don’t have kids

ElDuderino96,

Amen to that. Although I did complete RV There Yet with friends tonight.

scottrepreneur,

Actually heard about this game last night lol

ElDuderino96,

It’s worth the $8.

reev, do gaming w "gaming is dead"

Until Dawn catching strays

AquaTofana,

My eye immediately went to Until Dawn & Detroit: Become Human, and I was like “Wait! Both these are dope!”

I really like Butterfly Effect decision games.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I didn’t play Detroit for so long because I expected it to be like most other interactive movie type games where you maybe make 3 total decisions that actually have an effect on the whole story. Checked it out on PS+ and still felt that way up until I finished the first level and it shows the fucking massive decision tree of all the possible choices you could have made in that segment and was blown away. Hella them I didn’t even notice were viable things I could have tried.

This is what these kinds of games should be. It’s fucking amazing. It actually gives replayability to something that, in the past, was more of a one and done deal.

AquaTofana,

Bruh, yes, I know exactly what you mean. I’m actually getting ready to replay D:BH again because the last time I played was about 1.5+ years ago, and I think I’ve finally forgotten all my decisions. My husband said I got one of the best endings he’s ever seen someone get, and I really didn’t want to be tempted to answer everything the same. There’s SO MANY ways that game can go/end, and I want to explore them all!

I made the mistake of playing Until Dawn first, then D:BH, and then I downloaded the Dark Pictures Anthology and played 2 out of the 4 of those. I’m sure those would have hit different had I played them first, but knowing that the ending is ultimately the same no matter which direction you go definitely ruins the replayability. All 4 run into the very issue you were worried about with Detroit.

DupaCycki,
@DupaCycki@lemmy.world avatar

Definitely not the remake though

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