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Menschlicher_Fehler, do games w I finished all (current) main quest content for Death Trash
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Still waiting for the full release before buying/playing it. I tend to burn myself out on Early Access games before they are finished, never returning for 1.0.

setsneedtofeed,
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I often agree with this, though for Death Trash given the slow pace of major updates I figured I’d just jump in. It only took me about 10 hours to beat the main content, and a few more hours poking around to feel finished with the game. This isn’t something like Zomboid with a big sandbox element to sink hours and hours into.

Honestly, at the pace it’s being updated I don’t know if it will get a huge proper ending.

Rusty, do gaming w Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games

Does anyone remember the devs of Diablo 3 saying that the internal team found the game difficulty is too high and then they doubled it. https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/6ae5f82b-6bce-44e3-819d-f7dab1183c16.jpeg

chicken,

That’s weird, I don’t remember that game being very hard, at least on the normal difficulty

HereIAm,

On launch it was quite “difficult” in that good gear was rare (and why wouldn’t you sell a good piece of gear for 20 bucks instead of using it), and the damage being very one-shotty on higher difficulties.

Rakonat,

Yeah I remember the travesty of that game at launch. Competent gameplay hamstrung by devs leaving room for their micro transactions. But, you didn’t need to spend real money. You could grind for 20+ hours with pitiful low magic time until you find something mildly better or sell the good items you do have on the auction house to try and close loop to get better stuff.

Blackmist,

It wasn’t. But then you got to Inferno on act 2 (like 4 times through the game) and died over and over to flies.

catnip, do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?

Citizen sleeper! Card games also work

MaggiWuerze, do games w I finished all (current) main quest content for Death Trash
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I played it for a while when it cane out, but I’ll also wait until its done, so I can actually finish the story. Too bad its taking this long, but the game and story were fun, so I’ll be patient

cecilkorik, do gaming w A cold take on balancing

Also, at least in single-player games, and sometimes in multi-player too (depending on exactly where and how) balance is actually not even necessarily a goal you should be pursuing at all. The imbalance is the point, the BFG should be allowed to be the BFG, it doesn't need to be balanced. Even better is subtle imbalances that are not necessarily telegraphed directly. Not only does imbalance indulge the power fantasy when players can take advantage of it, but discovering those hidden "broken" mechanics makes players feel like they've either lucked out or outsmarted the game and is actually deeply gratifying on its own.

It can also lead to some very emergent metagames that maybe haven't been considered. Sometimes the instinctual reaction to immediately patch out and hotfix any mechanic that is found to be unintentionally overpowered might mean you're just being the "no fun allowed" police. And games are supposed to be fun. And in multiplayer sure you have to think about the fun of all players instead of just one, but maybe you should give some thought to what would happen if you embrace the mechanic instead. Maybe it could be a per-game setting instead of just removing it. Maybe it could turn into a whole new game mode. If some people are having fun with it and could have fun using it against each other, maybe let them? It's understandable if you're trying to make your game into an e-Sport but even sports have different leagues with different sets of rules.

Balance is overrated IMO. Imbalance can be entertaining, hilarious, and fun. Consider trying it.

BuboScandiacus,
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Ephera,

Yeah, I also have to say that I’ll often not even bother trying to work out what’s good and what is not, because there’s a voice in the back of my head that says, well, it should all be equally viable, because of balancing.

That’s a big part of the reason why I like random map generation, because it isn’t possible to make all options equally viable. Sometimes, you level up your axe skill and never find a good axe, and just have to deal with that.

Venator,

Fun should take priority, and I think it usually does. It’s just that in popular multiplayer games people usually find the optimum play style and then only do that, which can make the game quite boring and repetitive. One of the most viable ways to counteract that is to balance it so other play styles become more popular and make the game a bit more varied.

Another option can be to add some randomness to some mechanics so which play style is best isn’t as obvious or changes more frequently.

Venator, do gaming w A cold take on balancing

but what do the green and red arrows mean?

Scubus, do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?

The android port of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 is amazing! Id recommend turning on all the pause options, it effectively turns it into turn based combat. The gui is incredibly intuitive, and you can perform all of your actions either with a stylus or even a single finger. If you like star wars or dnd, its basically guaranteed to be a fun game. Do note though that you will want to install the Restored Content mod, which will require either a rooted android or a computer to allow you to install the mod. It fixes a massive amount of potentially game breaking bugs and restores a bunch of cut content. Not sure what happened with the development of the game, but im guessing the studio forced it to be released before it was complete.

theorangeninja, do gaming w Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games

And what are the games they talk about?

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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Kojima is talking about Death Stranding. Miyazaki is talking about one of the Dark Souls games. Itagaki is known for the early 2000s Ninja Gaidens and Dead or Alive, so I'm pretty sure this would have been in reference to Ninja Gaiden.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

I like the Dead or Alive where they play beach volleyball and their lady bits jiggle.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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Well, you can thank Itagaki for that.

https://media.piefed.world/posts/Id/1D/Id1DPlIi3LlSZEb.jpg

LyD,

Rest in peace

Deconceptualist,

Oh damn, he just died a couple weeks ago. Age 58. That’s sad, I hadn’t heard until now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomonobu_Itagaki

PieMePlenty,

Rocking that Rukia Kuchiki haircut.

daggermoon, do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?

Fucking hell, are you okay?

Edit: Also Syberia is a good game. It’s point and click.

con_fig, do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?

Point and click?

StarvingMartist,

Time to load up addicting games. Com?

brb,

OSRS is a point and click mmorpg. Can recommend.

TheBat, do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?
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Can’t do the steam deck.

You can, as long as the game works based on touch input only.

So games like Civ 5, Shadowrun, Slay The Spire, Mini Metro should be fine.

Inaminate_Carbon_Rod, do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?

Magic the Gathering: Arena

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Echolynx, (edited ) do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?

Point and click visual novels. Or JPRGs.

Inucune,

Submachine game.

missingno, do games w Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?
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  • Anything turn-based, especially mouse-driven titles. Slay the Spire, Chess, Riichi Mahjong, Balatro, etc.
  • Puyo Puyo Champions has a one-handed preset in its controller options. Do note that if you want to play online, only Switch is active since that's where Japan is, I can't recommend the game on other platforms.
  • Kirby Air Ride uses only one button + analog stick, and any button works, so you can use L. Would have to be left hand for the original, but the sequel coming out later this month has a detailed accessibility menu, which I bet will include right-handed settings.
  • Crypt of the Necrodancer is designed to be playable with just four arrows, in case anyone wanted to play it on a DDR mat. Which also means you can play with arrow keys or WASD.
  • Rhythm Doctor is actually just one button.
  • Rhythm Heaven Fever uses only A and B. Rhythm Heaven DS uses only stylus. The rest of the series uses d-pad as well though, so those are less playable.
  • Come to think of it, any DS game that only uses stylus.
Zoomboingding,
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I enjoyed Cadence of Hyrule a lot more than Crypt of the Necrodancer for some reason. Maybe I just love the setting of Hyrule that much more. Probably just the overall polish on the game. But that’s an easy recommendation.

missingno,
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CoH's control scheme requires both hands, so I can't recommend it to OP. But I'll also have to say that I have the opposite opinion, CoH was good for a casual playthrough but wasn't something I could sink several hundred hours into like the original. The overworld made runs much longer and much more repetitive since a lot of it is always the same.

waterSticksToMyBalls, do games w Would you like to playtest a new indie game? Just completed first playable version of my psychological horror/moral choice simulation.

I’d love to play test, does it work on the steamdeck?

Road_Warrior_10,

It’s not on steam yet. Only PC Windows right now

defaultusername,

The chances are pretty high that it already works on Linux via Proton, even without any testing.

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