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danciestlobster, do gaming w What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game Discussion Thread #30

Like so many others I finished expedition 33 most recently and it was fantastic for anyone who enjoys story heavy RPGs. I also finished citizen sleeper shortly before that and the last dlc of not for broadcast, also both amazing. Now I am on to palworld, I am judging this to be the right intersection of good features added but no major losses from the ongoing lawsuit yet. Time will tell if that’s a good estimate.

I have loved Nintendo games for a long time but after their behavior lately I am disinclined to support them anymore, and the original switch will likely be my last Nintendo console.

I can be cynical about the game industry at times but the reality is this year we got a lot of great games from smaller studios and it’s a trend that seems like it will continue. With kkd2, expedition 33, and that new survival craft that just came out 2025 is a good year for games as far as I am concerned

Exusia, do gaming w Friendly Reminder
@Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

Oh man but what if i miss out on: preorder skin that is just the default outfit recolor, and weapon that is 20% better than starter, both made irrelevant by the first vendor outside of tutorial?

Rai, do games w Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?

Klonoa <3

TimeNaan,

Amazing platformer!

vagullion, do gaming w Friendly Reminder

That’s it. Patient gamers usually get the complete, most polished experience of a game for the lowest price.

RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

This is true, at the cost of having to avoid almost all game related discussions until they buy the game or severely risk having the game plot be spoiled.

njm1314,

I don’t know about that, I still don’t know what the plot to this game is for instance. Beyond the trailers of course.

Hadriscus,

yea, that’s never been an issue for me, and I rarely play new games

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

It’s the story of an angry man learning to be the dad of his boi

Klear,

SPOILERS!!!11!

vagullion,

True, depending how relevant that is for you. I usually don’t care, except for few games like the Final Fantasy VII remake series.

MonkderVierte,

What avoid? You have to actively look that up, which you don’t usually do if not for deciding if you want to buy the game.

glitchdx,

if knowing the plot beforehand ruins the plot, then it wasn’t a good plot. This applies to movies, books, games, everything.

StrixUralensis,
@StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr avatar
DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w Friendly Reminder

But muh 3 day early access guinea pig free QA testing though

Sibbo, do gaming w Friendly Reminder

Buying late also has the advantage that if the game is a technical disaster at first, you can wait some months until most of the bugs have been fixed and then still buy it and enjoy it anyways. Then you don’t have to go through the frustrating experience of trying to play a game that crashes or locks your progress due to bugs every half an hour.

JackbyDev,

Especially if it’s a console game. If it’s PC I can typically manually edit things to fix them, but consoles are locked down. I still remember Fallout 3 when I finished the Operation Anchorage DLC it also marked some other random quest I never started as complete. Realizing I could fix that bug with a console command on PC (ironic lol) made me not wanna play on consoles unless I really have to.

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

This applies even when the game isn’t a technical disaster. All games have bugs, and many will not be found until they’re released to the public. And then most games have quirks that you as a player don’t agree are good things, and mostly there will be mods to fix those. So waiting is always a good idea, no matter the state of the game at launch.

sp3ctr4l,

Yeah, basically nobody does actual beta testing anymore, been like that for at least a decade.

They say they do, but they’re either lying or lauguably incompetent at it, my rule of thumb is bare minimum 3 months for ‘day one’ patches, more realistically, 6 months for them to actually finish the last 10 or 20% of the game they initially rushed out the door not including.

The patient thing also sadly/hilariously allows you to avoid the increasingly more common multiplayer game that just fucking sucks actually and more or less tanks 95% of its player count before the 6 month mark, or has some massive controversial (in terms of actual game features or lack thereof) thing going on.

Don’t pay the FOMO tax, kids.

trinsec, do gaming w Friendly Reminder
@trinsec@piefed.social avatar

Unless you buy from Humble. I'm reading they're constantly running out of keys.

Mesophar,

That is slightly different, and those are usually (heavily) discounted prices and not available at launch of a game.

Zahille7, do games w Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?

Never seen a CD jewel case before?

DrDystopia,

No, only plastic ones.

nyahlathotep, do games w Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?
@nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works avatar

Is this because everything in america has to be bigger?

? it’s the same size?

Anyway, I guess they thought it looked cool? idk it’s just part of the back cover, it’s not molded into the plastic or anything

eru777,

As someone pointed out, they are actually not the same size. I was mentioning the grooves being part of the “everything needs to look bigger and meaner in USA”. As part of the whole marketing strategy that still goes on to this day. E.g. In kirby game covers in the US he looks angry.

Fredselfish, do gaming w Friendly Reminder
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

This is the way! Also you pick up the physical copies used from places like Vintage Stock. Don’t even have to pay full price. Best time to buy digital is during a Steam sell.

Brunbrun6766, do games w Day 385 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

I hope you have a rom where the elevator in the tower of the gods works…imagine getting 80% through the game and then an elevator doesn’t work, and you can’t finish the game…

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Oh god, is that an issue with ROMs for the HD edition? I hope so too, hopefully I can just swap save files over to a functional ROM. And if all else fails I can just say it ended there since it would be my second play through

jordanlund, do games w Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a holdover from the original PS1 long boxes:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/39433790-f69b-4d17-9878-902c58c8fe10.jpeg

brap,

I have never seen those before and I owned plenty of PS1 games. Is that how the American ones looked?

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, at launch in 1995 they were all like that.

glimse,

Really?? I got a PS1 when they were pretty new and all of my games are in standard jewel cases.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

The first 100 or so PS1 games in 1995 and 1996 were in the long boxes, then they shifted to the CD cases.

www.giantbomb.com/profile/marino/lists/…/359078/

glimse,

Wow, it’s not like I was doing the shopping myself in 1995 but I’m still surprised I’ve never seen one of these!

Carighan,
@Carighan@piefed.world avatar

That's fascinating. Why where those like it? To not slide around so easily?

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

I think it was just a design differentiator. Saturn and Sega CD cases looked like oversized CD cases.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6778b828-d906-4c60-85c9-8d45188114c5.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/adeedf0a-efce-480f-91cf-947de90be8cc.jpeg

eezeebee, do games w Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

Canadian here. We had that pattern too, except for things like Greatest Hits editions which were arguably even uglier.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/6b84a14b-ee7f-4232-bf26-3840be87d235.jpeg

I’m not sure why it’s like that. It does kind of remind me of the grooves in the side of the original PS1 though.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d7e34ba0-ff66-40b9-afb4-1f6b715b0553.jpeg

DrDystopia,

We only had the “Platinum” line, just a silvery platinum color instead of the very tasteful green you showcase.

wccrawford, (edited ) do games w Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases?

The grooves?

The pattern on the left is actually just inside the case, under a clear part of the case. That part is black in the Euro version, but the case looks the same otherwise. (We have cases like that, too.)

https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/6f4b022f-8072-47d6-9a72-2b73cd0c5691.jpeg

https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/9aa90df5-9bb0-4f69-924d-496d7bc4512d.jpeg

Edit: Also, that Japanese one? I’m pretty sure it’s the same style, but turned upside down. That’s the base of the case. Searching Google, I found a copy on Ebay that shows the front, and that section of the front of the case is clear for that one, too.

Mutterwitz, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

Might & Magic IX.

I love Might & Magic VI - VIII but IX killed the franchise for me. Wrong vibe, terrible bugs. I tried X when it came out, but it is also a different game.

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