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punk_princess, do games w What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?

absolutely not Warframe.

Darkenfolk,

Yeah haha. They made the tutorial slightly better nowadays, but your still getting thrown in the deep end after the Vor quest line.

Darkenfolk, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

Think The Sims, except you’re the one causing trauma.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ac3500b2-29c2-436e-8b1a-56f3fb356b5f.gif

Phen, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

Sir, there’s something wrong here. I spent 20 years believing I was the only person who ever played Septerra Core, and it’s too long to change my mind now.

Glide,

I still have the CD in a box somewhere. It was loaned to me by a friend and I never gave it back. Hilariously, I still see that friend, so that might make for a fun conversation.

Phen,

I got the game from some magazine, in a time I didn’t have many choices for games. I didn’t speak much English yet at the time so I had trouble getting past some stuff and didn’t get very far. I even named my first dog after the robot dog in the game.

I picked it up on steam a few years ago and tried it again. I think I got much farther than I had back in the day, but still didn’t finish it. I think I might try it again on deck now.

Bartsbigbugbag,

Same, and now this is the second mention of it I’ve seen on lemmy in two weeks. I got it for like $5 in a combo pack with a terrible mech game in the bargain bin in Walmart probably 20+ years ago. Never beat it, but the vibes are top notch and I replay it every few years. Still have the disks and all.

Duenan,
@Duenan@aussie.zone avatar

I haven’t heard Septerra Core in a long time.

I had to import it from the US when I was a kid and I’m pretty sure I still have the cd install somewhere in storage.

Rolive,

I played it too.

blimthepixie, do games w Day 331 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing

I really enjoyed it.

Like fallout 4 and other games, I pointedly ignored building the outposts et al. I didn’t even mod the ships that much because that was a ball ache as well.

It’s just an unnecessary element to the game IMO.

Halosheep,

Fallout 4 with the settlers of the wasteland (I think that’s the name) mod becomes a cool base management game alongside the normal fo4 stuff. It makes the whole system feel worth interacting with, in my opinion. Give it a try if you haven’t and are interested.

edgemaster72, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

So, did they actually get ports to non-PC consoles, or did console-form-factor PCs just become more prevalent?

TonyTonyChopper,
@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

They were “ported” to the Steam Deck. A Linux laptop. Which can run essentially any Windows software.

BlackAura,

With a built in game pad. And saying a game is SteamDeck supported means it supports SteamInput which means it supports the gamepad natively.

metallic_substance, do gaming w Just kill me

If this is happening to you, you may be in need of a CPAP machine and probably some long term fitness goals

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w Why do people like Mario Kart?

Are you talking about Mario Kart World or Mario Kart as a franchise?

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

The franchise.

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

Ohhh well because it’s casual fun I suppose. Why is Mario party fun? Sure it’s RNG bullshit but the fun part is playing with friends.

Mario Kart World is not a 9/10 game. It’s a 7 at best compared to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

I’m waiting for Sonic CrossWorlds to see what a Game it brings. The creative director was passively trash talking Mario Kart so let’s see if it can back up the talk

zipzoopaboop, (edited )

I do not understand how world is as highly rated as it is. The levels are awful, too big and lacking anything to make them stand out, moving between tracks is dull and just leads to extra win-moring, auto attaching to rails fucks up more often than not causing you to over compensate or just jump off of it by accident, it feels like they game just overrides your input sometimes even without auto steering, 24 players adds nothing but chaos if you aren’t leading the pack and is likely the reason levels are way too wide and featureless, and I miss custom horns per character.

World is a 7 at best and 8 is like a 9.

Edit; oh yeah free roam is worthless. The list of events in DS was better without contributing to fucking up the level design to fit the gimmick

mhague, do games w Why do people like Mario Kart?

Children can consistently win in Mario Kart. Adults shouldn’t have trouble seeing how the RNG works and acting accordingly.

Zarxrax, do games w Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up

I’m a little younger, I grew up playing the NES. I had so much fun and some of my best memories are from playing those games with friends and stuff. But I find it really hard to revisit most of those games based on their own merit.

There is definitely a thing about playing games together with another person that can be magical. And that isn’t gone. You can still do that today with modern games. So in that regard, I don’t think there is anything particularly special about 80s games. Heck, it wasn’t until the N64 that it was common for more than 2 people to be able to play together. A bunch of guys hanging out and all playing a game together was great.

I think losing that is just a factor of growing up. You move on from your friends, maybe you don’t make any new ones, you start mainly playing against faceless strangers online… It’s not a problem with the games, it’s a problem with the players.

SolidShake, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

I’m very confused… Before the steamdeck Alienware made steam boxes. We’re they good, meh. Would they sell like hot cakes today? Absolutely.

But calling a handheld PC a console is just weird. Nothing stops anyone from building a compact PC and just plugging it in to a tv… You could also just run steam os on it if you wanted to.

atomicpoet,

To me, what makes a console a console is the console experience. As in, you should be able to navigate everything with a gamepad.

SolidShake,

Yes. You can do that on PC. You can have steam run at startup andaunch straight into that one other mode it has. Or install steam os or bazzite etc. You don’t need a mouse and keyboard for a PC

atomicpoet,

Yes, you can do all that. Hence why I refer to Steam Deck as a consolized PC.

That said, the console experience on Windows 11 is subpar. Bazzite and SteamOS are far superior in this regard.

slaneesh_is_right,

So a pc

atomicpoet,

No, not all PCs offer a consoles experience.

slaneesh_is_right,

Yeah sorry, you also have to have the brain capacity to install steam

Venus_Ziegenfalle,
@Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org avatar

The Steamdeck is as much of a PC as a PlayStation. As in yes they’re both PCs but specifically built for gaming. If you want to use them for other stuff you can but it’s not what most people buy them for. One runs BSD and the other Linux but the OS doesn’t determine what is and isn’t a PC. Your phone is a PC too. It’s an umbrella term.

Zos_Kia, do games w What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Kind of tangential but I’ve always found the start of fallout 3 (the iconic scene where you exit the vault) to be a lesson in game design. Here’s a completely open world but I can guarantee in ten minutes you’ll be at the entrance of megaton. No direct prompting, just subtle framing and environmental clues.

prole, do games w 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

Even without the Steam Deck, Steam Input allows basically any PC game to be playable on controller (or like, literally anything else).

I feel like it’s one of the more slept-on features of Steam.

Though yeah, it’s true that they’ve probably put more work into the feature because of how well it integrates with the Deck…

Elevator7009, do games w Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up

I have definitely bonded with people over video games. Playing them together, or playing them apart but doing so physically side by side, talking about them… most social groups I’ve been, even when they were not formed around gaming at all, went and made a Minecraft server for us to play together. I think it is telling that the fastest way to get me to open a game and start playing is if my other friends are playing. I am younger than your generation, though, so I’m definitely not helping your argument for retro games specifically.

Online play has helped a lot for when I am physically separated from friends. Just hop in a game and voice chat, and play together anyways.

ivanafterall, do gaming w Can't relate. *Kills Arabella*
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

I played an earlier version of Baldur’s Gate 3 and encountered a bug where I couldn’t for the life of me figure out a way to progress without killing Karlach. I stopped playing that save-file, because I didn’t want to kill her. Now I’m going to revisit it after the big update from awhile back.

Siethron,

She wasn’t recruitable in her first instance during early release

conditional_soup, do gaming w Can't relate. *Kills Arabella*

I just… I will never be able to recruit Minthara.

JTPorkins,

I think you can knock her out and force her to join you, but even then…

DragonTypeWyvern,

At least it’s not 3.5 rules where mere association breaks paladin oaths!

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

You can knock her out instead of killing her. You can then save her from execution in Act 2 to recruit her. She can even have a bit if a redemption arc, iirc.

conditional_soup,

Oh no way! Agh! Okay, I know what I’m trying next time.

seejur,

There are some specific steps (knock her out before the hobgoblin boss, else she does not remain temporary hostile, and after you knock her out, you need to kill the other two bosses before the long rest, else she wake up and you need to knock her out again), but it’s feasible. There are a lot of YouTube video about it. She is in all my runs (she is one of the funniest companion), and I never killed the tielflings

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Arghhh

Why hasn’t anybody told me that before

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You need a mod for this. In Vanilla, if you save the grove, she’s treated as dead. At least that what happened for me.

VindictiveJudge,
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t need a mod. They added it in Patch 6.

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oh shit, I just killed her in my current playthrough because I thought it didn’t matter anyway. Which sucks. I really love her voice, and she has a fun arc.

Blackmist,

Honestly never even realised you could until I looked it up later. Just appeared to be another boss fight to me.

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