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dirtySourdough, do games w What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?

Figment. I’m not sure how much attention this one got, but I hadn’t heard about it until I was searching the Nintendo store for deals. It’s a short puzzle/action game with a good story that felt compelling.

zecg, do games w What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?
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Fly’n, it’s a brilliant platformer from like ten years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UECUVRWpFM

MangoPenguin, do gaming w Please help me select parts for a "competent" gaming PC

What resolution are you going to be gaming at?

If you’re only at 1440p60 or something then you can cut the GPU down for sure.

sludge, do gaming w Please help me select parts for a "competent" gaming PC
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if like, you aren’t too attached to the look of them, you could save a bunch by using an air cooler instead of an AIO water cooler, they don’t actually perform better than decent air coolers.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted, do gaming w Please help me select parts for a "competent" gaming PC

Don’t know how many AAA games you plan on playing, and I genuinely no expert, but 90% of the games I play are 3-5+ years old and my Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (or is it 2050? I always forget. Lol) works just fine as a GPU.

Faydaikin, (edited ) do gaming w What was the formative horror game of your childhood?
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Growing up with the NES, horror games weren’t really a thing.

Some were spooky themed, but I doubt they qualify as horror by any standard. Like Castlevania, Ghost & Goblins and such.

The first real horror game I remember playing was Phantasmagoria. But I was a teen at that point, so it’s not really from my childhood.

Edit: Remembered my actual first horror game.

BigBananaDealer,
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friday the 13th on nes is kinda spooky, especially the music

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w What was the formative horror game of your childhood?
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I loved Resident Evil but it was the third one that really got me, with the havoc in the streets and the scare where you realize Nemesis can literally chase you from room-to-room and/or show up literally anywhere at any time.

drewdevorcula, do gaming w What was the formative horror game of your childhood?

The first NES Castlevania. Still a classic.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I actually have a 3E diorama of from the opening level hanging in my condo. I replay it once or twice a year. Still holds up.

conciselyverbose, do games w Mad Max vs Days Gone, which do you like more?

Mad Max was decent, but it chose setting over gameplay with how insanely empty it is, and while car combat is fun, driving without the combat really isn't and there's a huge amount of it to make the big empty desert feel like a big empty desert.

storksforlegs, (edited ) do gaming w What was the formative horror game of your childhood?
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Festers Quest for NES. It is an Adams Family game where you shoot alien toads with a plunger. It is a definitely, definitely not horror game, haha.

BUT, to fight bosses you have to walk through these totally empty 3D buildings, not knowing what was around the corner. So uneasy.

And when you finally do find the boss BOOM! Almost like a jump scare, similar to the Friday the 13th NES game. Totally terrifying haha.

vettnerk,

I had forgotten all about that game until your description made uneasy memories of those boss battles awaken.

gaael, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 24th

Just finished Firewatch, and I’m a few hours in Outer Wilds. I enjoy having no way to really fail, and discovering the story bit by bit.

Started Torchlight 2 in coop with a friend living abroad, it’s fun to see a non-blizzard Diablo with a Warcraft 3 aesthetic. Still trying to figure out which mods we want in the long run.

And almost at the end of It Takes Two in couch coop with a friend, we’ve laughed a lot so far !

Radiant_sir_radiant, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 24th

I’ve had more unused time this and last week than usual due to a persistent case of Covid, so I’ve played Return to Monkey Island again. It’s so much lovelier than I remembered - it took a few “just average good” games inbetween to notice just what a piece of art this game is. There’s a billion of details you hardly notice: the pattern of the frame around the main menu changes every time, there’s so much going on even in the most obscure and distant corners of the background that adds nothing to the story but a lot to the atmosphere, and characters constantly hint at non-canon things that happened earlier in the game based on the player’s choices.

It’s also a bittersweet game for two reasons:

  • It keeps confronting Guybrush (the protagonist) with the consequences of his actions on his quest to find The Secret - he destroys an ancient tree and makes the woodland critters cry, a museum is shut down because of him, a friend is abducted and his shop is destroyed, a kingdom falls into chaos etc., all just because he wants to find The Secret for the principle of the thing.
  • It does a very good job of likening the changes in the game - new pirate leaders doing things differently than the old ones, practitioners of that new-fangled Dark Magic putting the Voodoo Lady out of business etc. - to changes in the real world, where the glory days of the Monkey Island series in particular and point-and-click adventures in general are all but over.

Still, for old farts like me who grew up with anything Lucasfilm from Maniac Mansion to Full Throttle, the game feels a bit like coming home - and as far as point-and-click adventures go, they don’t come much more brilliant than this one.

sherpajosh, do gaming w hello! looking to buy sub 1K laptop, general suggestions?
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I literally just bought this laptop for $1k, Eluktronics RP-15 15.6" RTX 4060 Gaming Laptop AMD R7 7840HS 16GB RAM 512GB SSD. It just arrived yesterday, so haven’t had much time to test it out yet.

www.ebay.com/itm/225757899047?epid=23062718349

itsjxssica, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 24th
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Finally got round to starting Starfield and all I have to say is… wow

CharlesReed, (edited ) do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 24th

I'm replaying The Sinking City which has a lot of problems but I'm in love with the main protagonist (obviously). Since I've already played it twice and I know what I'm getting into, I'm trying to figure out a nice balance with the main story line vs the side quests while also exploring other dialogue options (even though there aren't a ton).

Still working on season shit for Diablo 4. Some latency stuff on my side has made things difficult, and I'm a bit behind on my timeline that I made for myself. Still working on it though!

Still on the fence about getting into Gungrave G.O.R.E.. Definitely need to jump on it before it's taken off of Game Pass.

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