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ugo, do gaming w Is there any (single player playable) game with $10 which has made you point any go "haha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it?
  • Vampire Survivors
  • Dwarf Fortress

That said, I find it very hard to understand exactly what you are asking for, the post is rambly with a middle section about books that I couldn’t really understand even after 3 rereads.

I think what you are asking for is:

  1. It must be possible to legally acquire the game for 10 usd or less, even if only for a limited time (via discounts or other special offers)
  2. the game must not have any parts that become more frustrating as you play the game (which is how you seem to define 100% enjoyability)
  3. must be playable for 100 hours, or be replayable for that amount of time while being 100% enjoyable throughout
rtc,

I’ve not played vampire survivors or survivor likes. I could try it to see myself. Dwarf Fortress too I have had an eye on but it shows many situations which would be obviously frustrating (I enjoy some permanent death games which label themselves as roguelike/roguelite, without frustrating elements). I’d had a look at the ASCII version of Dwarf Fortress a while ago, I find those visuals more appealing in comparison to the steam version. I’ll add these to the list of games to play.

CaptainBasculin, do gaming w Is there any (single player playable) game with $10 which has made you point any go "haha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it?

Skyrim. I have 200 hours in and didn’t even complete all side quests. I bought it on a sale for 8$.

rtc,

Will be a while to get there. I’ve done a few runs of Arena and am playing Daggerfall sometimes.

hisao,

I played Morrowind multiple times in past, mostly aimlessly, only recently I decided to give it another go and actually focus on main questline. This way I beat Morrowind + Tribunal + Bloodmoon (TES III GOTY edition in Steam) in 96.4 hours. I don’t remember the price but IIRC I got it on sale very cheap. All those hours were very rich and enjoyable. I played with few dozens of visuals improving mods though, used this guide: wiki.nexusmods.com/…/Morrowind_graphics_guide

rtc,

I tend to play without expansions and mods the first time. The second time, with expansions. Later, with any mod I specifically want.

The exception was Daggerfall because Arena was pretty bad with a few bugs. However with Daggerfall Unity I didn’t install additional mods. I did look for additional bug fix mods, didn’t find any. That makes sense since if an external modder makes fixes, the Daggerfall Unity maintainers would make those fixes too eventually. I need to look again though.

Zahille7, do gaming w What order should I play the Halo series in?

The order that they appear in MCC, which is pretty much release order. I would 1000% get the ODST and Reach campaigns as well, as those are top notch too.

CE, 2, 3, ODST, Reach. You can play 4 if you want so you can see how it started going downhill, and it has its moments.

Ashtear, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Biggest surprise for length was Dragon Quest VII, the PSX version. Started playing it close to release, dropped it several times and finally finished it years later.

I’d played multiple games in the series before and I think the longest one topped out at 40 hours, so I really was not expecting a 100+ hour marathon like that was (although the very, very long prologue should probably have served as a warning).

Akuji,

In most JRPGs of the time, at the 30 hours mark you do your endgame sidequests, collect ultimate weapons and whatnot. In DQ7, you unlock the job system 🙃

fpslem, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Duck Detective. Charming game, but quite short.

Deadrek, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Astlibra: Revision

I’d put a conservative minimum first playtime at 60 hours… For slower, completionist, players? 80-100 hours.

If that first playthrough is on the impossible setting?.. I don’t wanna think about it. Lmao

iamtrashman1312,

Well thanks, you just promoted one of my steam wishlist items higher lol

MITM0, do gaming w Inspired by another post
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

Where ? I don’t see them

DragonTypeWyvern,

Don’t look at Steam discussions huh

Probably smart

Appoxo, (edited )
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

People look at them? The most I have contact with the general Steam Community is the artwork secrion beneath some games on the community hub.

MITM0,
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

I still don’t see them & their concerns are pretty valid to be fair

varyingExpertise,

Various comment sections on German IT news sites. Cesspit of incels and horny old men that complain about the ass they’ll have to stare at not being plump enough.

MITM0,
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

One question, do you have a GF ?

varyingExpertise,

I’m actually interested in both ways your narration is going to go. Please describe both paths:

a) No, I had one but then we married.

b) No, I don’t.

MITM0,
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

So shall I assume that you don’t ?

varyingExpertise,

I am unsure how to express myself any clearer. Please proceed.

MITM0,
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

So you’re an incel demonizing other incels ?

varyingExpertise,

Alright, not very original but I’ll take it. Now do a)!

LouNeko, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

XCom2 the content just DOES NOT END.

And MGS Peacewalker. How they cramed so much stuff unto the tiny PSP disk is beyond me. The list of unlockables is insane.

Macaroni_ninja,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

Ist too bad Xcom games are so focused on time limits. I know it meant to add to the tension but its just frustrating to me to non-stop rush everything.

LouNeko,

Literaly one of the most popular Mods for Xcom 2

Macaroni_ninja,
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

Im familiar with the mod, but its a mod, the game was designed to be played the way you always balancing on a knives edge. So not much time to enjoy the content (for me at least), when you have constantly ticking clocks reminding you to hurry up.

Crafter72, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Fallout 4. The amount of world exploration and itty bitty stuffs almost makes me lost myself in exploration, even though the story can be really short depending how you progress the content. On my first playthrough, I clocked at ~90hrs of play time and only just passed the 1/4 of story progression just because I sucked in sidequest and exploration.

Never thought I enjoyed the base building and assisting settlements aspects, Bethesda did great job on Visual storytelling speaking as Interplay/Obsidian Fallout fan.

Another case is STALKER Anomaly mod which can gives you theoritical endless playtime as long as you creative to build your own CYOA Stalker story. Though I don’t recommend Anomaly if you’re looking for the STALKER lore (as they’re fan project) and should be treated as post-vanilla playthrough.

durfenstein, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Hollow Knight.

Surely this is the end of the map… Ok but now Suuuuuurely this is the end of the map… OK NOW SUUUURELY…

Semjaza,

I love it when a game is about exploring and half of the content is optional.

durfenstein, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

I knew it was a jrpg from the beginning, but the way the stories unfolded and piled up had me confused. There was a new question every chapter and it just bwcqme bigge and bigger. Awesome game

BluJay320, do gaming w What order should I play the Halo series in?

As others are saying, just go with the release order. You can ignore anything after Reach.

sirico, (edited ) do gaming w Inspired by another post
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Beyond bored of both sides hijacking games for their identity me so specia outlooks. Get a personally FFS. Oh no she’s a bit hench for a woman. She’s been training and killing monsters most her life. On no people mad because woman in game. literally wgaf Geralt was awesome but the arc has ended for now nice and naturally.

If you read the books you’d be pretty excited about Ciri being the protagonist as in the books she just goes off into the sunset whereas now we get to see her return pick up the mantle and possibly get some new settings in France and England.

Cowbee, do gaming w What order should I play the Halo series in?
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml avatar

1, 2, 3, 3: ODST, Reach. That’s the most important order.

Bogusmcfakester, do gaming w What order should I play the Halo series in?

Just play 1, 2 & 3 chronologically and if you want more play odst. I, personally, wouldn’t recommend halo 4. They’re also great games for co op if you have a friend you can convince

slazer2au,

Pretty much this.

Kobek,

Thanks. What’s so bad about 4? Everyone talks bad about it.

cmrss2,

This video goes over it fairly well (note that this video does contain minor spoilers): https://youtu.be/O-x-1kS6TpQAnother video that goes over only the gameplay with no spoilers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBv8UVOSG8U

Spoiler-free TL;DW: Halo 4 was controversial because this was the first new mainline Halo game by 343 Industries, who changed things up from previous Halo titles.

But aside from questionable changes to the franchise in order to appeal to the CoD audience, there were a few genuine issues with the campaign (in my opinion, as a player who never finished Halo 4’s campaign).

In terms of gameplay:

  1. The sandbox was absolutely destroyed through many changes to older weapons, to encourage you to use the new 343 weapons. The weapons were either nerfed into the ground to make them unviable, greatly reduced in ammo/availability, or outright removed. This meant that you would constantly be forced to replace your weapons, or you’d have to use the newer weapons, which still ran out of ammo. This greatly limited your options when playing the game.
  2. The enemies would act in a way that greatly limited your options when fighting them. The most common weapons (plasma pistols and needlers) were both were used in a way that forces you to methodically take them out from a distance. Melee attacks were undodgeable instant deaths, forcing you to take them out from a distance. Then, the Promethian knights have stupid health, shields that recharge almost instantly, and the ability to fucking teleport to recover their shields (or hit you with an undodgeable melee attacks).

The result is that you are basically limited to only using long-range weapons to take out enemies. Hope you enjoy hours of Light Rifle gameplay!

In terms of other parts of the game, this is more subjective but:

  1. The story felt incoherent, especially considering that it is a sequel to Halo 3
  2. The sound design completely changed the iconic sound effects, and the music felt off
  3. The characters were bland and forgettable, only Master Chief and Cortana were anywhere near fleshed-out

Overall just a poor experience compared to older Halo titles.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

I agree but also how the heck did you forget Reach! 😅

What an absolutely phenomenal single player game in the series, and absolutely fantastic multiplayer to boot! :-D

Gosh the Reach score lives rent free in my head all these years later… ♥️

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