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eezeebee, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

You vote with your wallet. Look at all the cons you listed and think if you really want to support that. Do you want to tell Nintendo that this is ok, and you’ll pay the high price for it?

Have you looked at a Steam deck, or any other alternative like a regular laptop? You can run way more games, including emulating Nintendo games.

Diplomjodler3,
@Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world avatar

And you can get a whole collection of games for the piece of one Nintendo game. They have a lot of kids’ games too.

laopi,

Have you looked at a Steam deck

Thinking about it, I don’t think the fact that the Switch 2 is a handheld console matters much to me. Especially to play multiplayer games, I assume docked to a TV is the way to go.

or any other alternative like a regular laptop? You can run way more games, including emulating Nintendo games.

So this is what I’ve been doing, but I always end up spending hours configuring the emulators, the shaders, everything… and then not playing that much! That’s why I was talking about the “plug and play” nature of game consoles (even though it’s less true now that you have to create an account and stuff like that).

As for PC games, I never have the proper hardware to play in good conditions. Again, the “plug and play” nature of game consoles is appealing. A game you buy for a given console is working fine out of the box.

Robin,

Games on Steam that are “Verified” also give you that plug-and-play experience on a Deck

eezeebee,
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So this is what I’ve been doing, but I always end up spending hours configuring the emulators, the shaders, everything… and then not playing that much! That’s why I was talking about the “plug and play” nature of game consoles (even though it’s less true now that you have to create an account and stuff like that).

Simple solution: don’t do that. Are you trying to game with your family, or force them to watch you tinker? I’ve encountered ONE game where I had to adjust a setting in the emulator to make it playable. And occasionally adjust input mapping when it gets wonky or doesn’t handle the way I want, usually N64 emulation because of those pesky C buttons. Never had a problem with Steam games using an Xbox controller or third party controller (8BitDo Ultimate 2C with hall effect sticks and triggers, $30). They are plug and play.

As for PC games, I never have the proper hardware to play in good conditions.

Well, not yet you haven’t. But you’re prepared to drop $700 on a Switch 2? And $100 per game? You can get a laptop or pre-built PC for the same or less that’s capable of playing most games. Some newer games with intense graphics will have high demands for specs, you might have to turn down graphics quality for those, but there are thousands of games that can run on a bare minimum consumer-grade computer.

Again, the “plug and play” nature of game consoles is appealing. A game you buy for a given console is working fine out of the box.

Every one of my Steam games is working fine out of the box. You said you like to tinker, but you also don’t want to tinker. Wouldn’t you prefer to have the option? Besides that, PC gaming is virtually plug and play. Install Steam. Plug in a controller. Plug HDMI into the TV. Same number of steps to connect the Switch 2 to a TV.

I really think you should do more research on PC gaming before writing it off, and especially before giving Nintendo more money.

sevon,
@sevon@lemmy.kde.social avatar

A steamos device should be very much plug and play. I don’t know how good this would be in practice, but with a few clicks, non-steamos linux can be set to boot straight into steam’s tv interface, which has the necessary ui for power off, system updates, etc.

prole,

You can dock the Steam Deck as well.

Minnels,

Genki ac adapter is pretty cheap to do this. Can use with pretty much anything instead of getting something specialized. I use mine for steam deck and switch.

akilou, do gaming w I have a shelf of boxes that I just can't throw out...

Can’t speak for the switch 2 but for my switch I still have the box and use it every time I pack up and stay in an air bnb or something

Schwim, (edited ) do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

It sounds like you’ve found some games you like but are turned off of by some difficulty bottlenecks. If that’s the case, considerWeMod. It’s a trainer for a ton of games that allow you to “cheat” in singleplayer games(god mode, speed hacks, etc.)

I still love playing games but as I get older, my tremors get worse, making it impossible for me to get through one on my own. WeMod allows me to explore all of the game world without being stopped by something as simple as clicking on something quickly.

FenrirIII,
@FenrirIII@lemmy.world avatar

I love WeMod, been using it since it was created

solsangraal, do gaming w I have a shelf of boxes that I just can't throw out...

it gets harder to throw away the box after a few times of needing to exchange/return something, but you already threw away the box

Dremor, (edited )
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

I keep my boxes in two cases : the warranty is still valid, or the thing is fragile and has a form that make it hard to find a replacement for (usually large and fragile flat things, like screens).

All the other are waiting to be thrown away, in my garage.

ininewcrow, do gaming w I have a shelf of boxes that I just can't throw out...
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

I usually hold onto the box of anything I buy brand new for about three months. After that you can get rid of it.

Electronics either work or they don’t, there is seldom anything in between.

If your device doesn’t fail or develop problems within a month or two, then it will last the warranty period and much longer if you take care of it.

I just hang onto the box for two or three months just to be sure.

The only other reason to hang onto the box is if you plan on reselling the device in a year or two. It’s a lot easier to resell for top dollar or a higher price if your device is clean, undamaged, has original manuals and the original box.

pimento64, do games w Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads?

Is there a reason you can’t use a Playstation controller?

kayky,

How can I get them to pair with Android?

I don’t know much about it, but it looks like something specific is required ti pair controllers with an Android phone. I can pair them just fine with my PC.

I’m mostly asking out of curiosity; a regular Playstation controller isn’t able to hold the phone.

scott,

It’s been like more than a decade but there was some script I used to mod a PS3 controller (via USB) to connect to generic Bluetooth devices. They use Bluetooth, it’s just something specific value that needed tweaked.

glimse,

Hold Home and Screenshot until it turns on and starts flashing then pair it on your phone

Quetzalcutlass,

You need to hold the PS button and select (I’ll never stop calling it that) until the LED starts flashing, then it’ll be in pairing mode.

You can buy phone mounts for PlayStation controllers. It’d definitely be cheaper than a whole new controller.

kayky,

Thanks a ton for explaining this for me. I tried it out and it worked like a charm.

Now I will look for phone mounts.

Kyle_The_G, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

mass effect, cyberpunk, clair obscur, baldur’s gate 3 all super fun and have difficulty options. Doom is pretty fun too. I’ve just been ripping through game pass single-player campaigns and RPGs.

Talaraine,

All of these are top notch

Kyle_The_G,

Ya I’m a big single-player story-driven player. Other recommendations are red dead 2 (never played 1, I’d like to), lies of P, sekiro, elden ring, bloodborne, uncharted series, death stranding (I love this game but completely get why people bounce off it), alan wake 2 (also not for everyone), control, and I’ll always have a soft spot for halo 1-3+reach. Theres probably a bunch more i’m forgetting but I loved all of those games. I just love a really good story.

ampersandrew,
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I would describe Red Dead Redemption II as having significant fluff, not just in how much time it wastes getting from A to B a lot of times but also in that whole island chapter, Act 4, I think.

Kyle_The_G,

ya thats fair

nyctre,

Time spent riding during missions has never felt like fluff to me. As it’s usually filled up with dialogue and stuff. Plus the nature and views and stuff are relaxing.

For the in-between missions riding you can just get one of those cheat menu mods and use the teleport feature.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

It’s the in between missions riding that I was referring to. The previous game was much more lenient about giving you opportunities to fast travel. Also, when I played the game, mods weren’t an option, and OP might be looking for Xbox games.

nyctre,

Oh, you’re right, I missed that part. Shit.

dylanmorgan,

Sekiro? I guess it’s less of a difficulty “spike” if it’s just a difficulty cliff from the jump.

Kyle_The_G,

these are my favourite games, thats why I put them in the second comment I realize they’re a little on the more difficult side. My bad I didn’t clarify.

dylanmorgan,

That’s fair, I may have been traumatized by spending 3 hours trying to get through the first section in Sekiro before calling it 😅

Kyle_The_G,

One thing i’ll say about sekiro is that it demands you learn “the dance”. You need to play the game on its terms and learn the rhythms, essentially you just need to “git gud” but it is absolutely worth it once it clicks. Its an incredible game once you finally get a feel for it.

sylver_dragon, do gaming w What is your personal favorite multiplayer game and what is it's fatal flaw?

Valheim.

Mistlands - Not because “whaaa, Mistalnds hard”, but because the whole area is built around verticality and the game engine most certainly is not. Combat is Valheim is generally pretty good, but after a reasonable amount of playtime, you will experience the frustration of swinging under/over enemies, because of minor variations in terrain height. Mistlands dials this problem up to 11, with the added bonus of enemies which specifically take advantage of this problem.

The Mistlands also turns exploration into a boring, grindy chore. The shorelines are a nightmare to sail around and even with the wisp, the mist is always too close to deal with said shorelines. So, you’re hoofing it through terrain which is designed to be difficult to navigate and move across. The feather cape helps, a bit. But, you’re still going to spend way too long faffing about, jumping up one side of a ridge and floating down the other, only to find that you’re in a gully with nothing useful and need to jump up the other side. Seeing dungeon entrances at any range is impossible. Enemies regularly pop out of nowhere and you’re forced into dealing with the combat verticality problems.

I’ll also throw a bit of shade at “Refined Eitr” as a resource, though I think the problem is less the resource and more the grind to get the parts for it. To start with, you need to make a Black Forge, to make that you need Black Cores, to get Black Cores, you need to spend hours in the mists hoping to stumble across one or more dungeons to get the cores. And inside the dungeons, expect lots of combat where the verticality problem is on prominent display. Now that you have the Black Table, you get to make the Eitr Refinery, which requires more Black Cores. Hope you enjoyed getting them the first time! Ok great, more cores obtained, time to go stumbling about again looking for Soft Tissue. With any luck, you’ve been mining (or at least marking) nodes along the way. Though, expect to spend more time lost in the Mists, you need a shit ton of Soft Tissue. Thankfully, this is a resource you can take through a portal, so that’s nice.

And finally, you get to raid Dverger towns for a required material to extract sap, a Sap Extractor. “What about trade? Vikings were well know traders”, you ask. Nope, fuck trade, all that gold you’ve been collecting, go spend it on some clothes which you will never actually use. You want a Sap Extractor, put on your killing pants and get raiding. Ok fine, we have our Sap Extractor covered in Dverger gore. And that gets us to the least horrible part of our Refined Eitr. Sap extraction is not terrible, find a spot with several roots in close proximity and just rotate a few extractors through them.

Right let’s get our Eitr Refinery built…and why the fuck is one of the input ports on the top? Ok whatever, I’ll build some stairs and…why the fuck is this thing tossing off damaging sparks? Yes, I know you can wrap it in iron bars, but seriously what the fuck? Why is this even a game mechanic? It’s really the perfect metaphor for all of the Mistlands. It’s needlessly annoying and doesn’t really provide anything positive for gameplay or fun. Just another pointless grind tossed in because, “players like hard things, right?”

NotAGamer, do games w Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads?

Why? Split d-pads are shit.

RexWrexWrecks, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Any of the Naughty Dog games fulfill this criteria, especially the Uncharted games. They are mostly linear, all about exploration and combat, and very little fluff.

Indiana Jones & The Great Circle is pretty good too. You don’t unlock skills or abilities through experience but rather through finding books throughout the maps. The maps themselves are not too large and worth exploring.

nyctre, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

I mean, if you’ve enjoyed Skyrim, honestly you can just google “best RPGs of all time” and play any that will show up. I’m gonna go against the grain here and say that Skyrim’s world is beautiful and the combat is cool but there’s nothing special about the story or the quests. Try enderall, fallout London, gothic 1+2 + archolos, mass effect 1-3, disco Elysium, Witcher 1-3, Baldur’s Gate 1-3, Neverwinter nights 1+2, dragon age origins, fallout new Vegas, pillars of eternity1+2, Kotor 1+2, south park stick of truth + fractured butthole, cyberpunk, fable the lost chapters, divinity original sin 1+2, dark messiah of might and magic(fun and underrated, imo), etc.

If at any point you feel like the combat is too hard or whatever you can use cheats and just enjoy the story. All of these have pretty good ones. At least all of these have less grinding and better story than Pokemon games, in my experience.

Beyond that, just go for popular, widely acclaimed games such as rdr2, bioshock, whichever doom you want, portal 1+2, etc.

gccalvin,

+1 for Enderal

RightHandOfIkaros,

Definitely don’t recommend Enderal. OP mentioned they didn’t want a game with difficulty spikes, and Enderal is pretty notorious for difficulty spiking. Playing Enderal on Normal difficulty is like playing Skyrim on Hard.

It might be okay on its own, but it’s not what OP is looking for.

nyctre,

Yeah, that’s fair, had forgotten about that. Then again, that’s one of the games where cheats can make it playable.

Trail,

Planescape Torment.

nyctre,

Definitely. Thought I put it there, but guess not.

zerofk,

A “best RPGs of all time” list will inevitably include Baldur’s Gate 2, and likely other Infinity Engine games, most of which are definitely not games without difficulty spikes or required side content.

nyctre,

Which is why I suggested using cheats to make the game easier.

Midnitte, do gaming w Are there any Android controllers with split D-pads?

If you’re just looking for thumbsticks at the bottom together, 8bitdo has some options.

carlossurf, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Just started playing the indiana jones game, for fans of the movies its a love letter to them and a great game

Bieren,

One of the best games I’ve played in a while. Is it a technical masterpiece that will go down in history for anything, no. Is it fun af, yes. Can’t wait for the dlc.

Dyskolos, do games w (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)?

Trying to list some I haven’t already read here:

Len’s Island. Will even be released the next days.

Everafter Falls

Necesse (also releasing soon)

Palworld

Enshrouded

While some might not be “chill farming” only, they could be set (or modded) to nearly no danger. Actually most (more recent) survival-games could be played that way. I do 😁

If just chill is mandatory:

Farming Together (or alone, part two also incoming)

MojoMcJojo,

Enshrpuded is a great suggestion. You can ignore quests unless you want to expand your plot. Just pick a plot of land and start farming. Go out into the wild to find new stuff to plant. Unfortunately there’s not much to do with your harvest except to make provisions to go play the rest of the game, but that’s how you find more things to plant. I had a great time designing the layout of my crops.

Treczoks, do games w (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)?

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  • Tippon,

    It looks like you’ve replied to the wrong post. There’s a post in !asklemmy about a Luigi t-shirt 👍

    Treczoks,

    Thanks. I moved it to the right spot. Congrats on finding out where it actually belonged from the few clues!

    Tippon,

    No worries :)

    Besides, it was the luck of the feed. The t-shirt post was only two posts above this one when I was browsing :)

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