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

Recently, I’ve been playing a lot of Brotato. However, there is no story.

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.

RickyRigatoni, do games w Day 346 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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FUCK GNOMES

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Me and my friend got to the mines and i said “It’s just Gnomes, how bad can they be?”. Turns out my friend wasn’t exaggerating

B0NK3RS, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?
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Citizen Sleeper

Flamekebab,
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What a soundtrack!

B0NK3RS, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

Switch 1 would be my recommendation.

Velypso, do games w Day 346 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Gonna be honest and say that Barony is so damn hard that I use some of the “easy” modifiers (keep loot on death being primary), and we still get our asses absolutely destroyed.

It has taught me to loosen up about dying in roguelites, though.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I believe my friend has keep loot on too. He said he had some easier settings on but i wasn’t sure which ones. Absolutely see why though lol

ILoveUnions,

It’s hard in a good way imo. I love jt

Flagstaff, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?
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Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.

Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you’ve gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I’ve beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.

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

This is why I sometimes enjoy Ubisoft trash. Especially Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint. Just the same old shit on a massive map, an okay story, fun gameplay. Easy. Simple. Nice for mindless bullshit.

For an RPG, try Kingdoms of Amalur Re-reckoning.

mic_check_one_two,

Yeah, Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry are great “no difficulty curve” games. Just the same shit on a massive map.

velxundussa, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

The portable part of the console doesn’t seem to matter to you.

So really I think the real question you have to ask yourself is: do you want nintendo games?

If yes, switch 2 seems like a good fit.

Otherwise, most other games are on everything now (PC, xbox and playstation)

Another console might fit your requirements.

If you are willing to disregard thenplug and play, you could also consider a PC with steam big picture: it’s pretty close to a console experience.

justOnePersistentKbinPlease, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

Get the OG switch.

Currently the switch two has exactly one game out for it. Mario Kart World.

Whose big feature is a single player open world.

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

Fe

I loved that game so much. Haven’t had quite an experience like it since

Rhynoplaz, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

Honestly, you should get the OG Switch.

It does everything you’re looking for in the Switch 2, but without most of the downsides.

If you haven’t had one already, you have a lot of great games to catch up on, which you could buy with the money you’d save by not buying a Switch 2.

ISolox, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

This is probably not to place to ask about getting a Nintendo console. Most people here are hardcore pc. (which is fine, but definitely biased).

My personal recommendation is this:

Do you want to play new Nintendo games? Get a switch 2.

Want to older Nintendo games and multiplats? Get a steamdeck.

Graphy, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

Personally, I’m skipping the Switch 2 because I used my Switch 1 like four times since its launch.

The Switch 2 will likely have games similar to ones that came before it, so if you haven’t been tempted into trying those, you probably won’t be into the new ones.

Like, I’d want the Switch 2 for Mario Kart World but then realized that I played Kart 8 like twice. Online play didn’t scratch the itch, my wife sucked at it, and it was hard to get a group IRL together to play often.

Maybe try emulating some of the older versions of games you’re interested in. It’ll at least give you an idea of how much fun you’d have on the newer versions.

Also ask yourself if you’re a handheld gamer. I don’t think I am which is why I also don’t use my steam deck ever.

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

You want the Outer Wilds. NOT Outer Worlds. That’s Bethesda trash.

iAmTheTot,

Outer Worlds wasn’t made by Bethesda.

ampersandrew,
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Nor is it trash. That game rules.

Flagstaff,
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Ironically, I couldn’t get into Outer Wilds, myself; it sucks to get stuck.

lime,
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there is no shame in asking for help; the OW community is extremely careful about spoilers so you would have gotten some very delicate pointers.

Nibodhika,

Both are good games, but they’re very different from each other. Also neither is made by Bethesda.

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