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vodka, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

Can’t wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time

lemmy12369,

Only way to get around it…

Nilz,

So that’s why he worked at Blizzard for 7 years and keeps bringing it up.

DogWater,

Full ambercrombie & Fitch mode

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

Live for the adventure, not the grind:

Journey (if you play one game on this list it should be this one)

Far: Lone Sails and the sequel Changing Tides

Jazzpunk

Master Reboot

Manifold Garden

Sable

Fract OSC

Chants of Sennar

The Red Strings Club

The Stanley Parable

Rime

Superliminal

Naissancee

Soul Axiom

Contrast

Flagstaff, (edited )
@Flagstaff@programming.dev avatar

Sable is on a giveaway this week by Epic Games. Use the free-&-open-source Heroic Games Launcher to play it without having to download their platform.

I got bored by FAR’s puzzles and didn’t finish it but I guess I should persist, huh?

NaibofTabr,

I really enjoyed both Far games. I never felt like any of the puzzles were large enough to get tedious. When I finished Lone Sails I just wished there had been a longer section of driving the ship… it kind of felt like you never got to really go before there was some interruption that you had to stop and get out for.

whotookkarl,
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

Jazzpunk is not a game I’ve heard of in a long time, great silly surrealism

Manifold garden is great too

NaibofTabr,

Jazzpunk was one of those games that left me wishing there was more of it.

Manifold Garden is just such a perfectly executed atmosphere, it’s hard to do it justice with description - like walking around inside an Escher drawing.

Arkhive,

Red Strings Club!!! Woah!! Been a minute since I thought about that game. Very, VERY, good. Sort of a precursor to Potion Craft in a way, that really didn’t over stay its welcome. The pacing was great, difficulty curve was great, and it had a distinctly finite story that still left you satisfied. I’ve bounced off potion craft a few times because at a point the scale, and subsequent grind, is a bit much for me. Red Strings Club nails the middle ground with good increasing complexity without becoming a chore.

NaibofTabr,

I totally agree on the pacing. The Red Strings Club is a masterclass of storytelling in a video game format.

I think it’s hard to describe as a game to gamers… the actual gameplay is pretty vague, the various minigame activities are almost inconsequential, but taken as a whole it’s a perfect experience.

Magnus, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Signed the UK parliament one, sadly drowning in those Brexit benefits when it comes to the other.

ProdigalFrog,

Thank you for your help! :D

missingno, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

I have a lot of childhood nostalgia for Donkey Kong 64. If you were a kid who could only get a new game every few months or so, this giant behemoth of a game will last a long time.

But it undeniably is a bloated clusterfuck, the internet is not wrong in hindsight.

Next thing that comes to mind for me is the GBA port of Tales of Phantasia. Symphonia was a huge part of my adolescent years, and as soon as I heard this was getting a GBA remake I was all over it. Loved it, and didn't hear until much later that GBA is apparently considered the worst version of the game. If PSP ever gets translated, I'd love to see what I missed out on...

B0NK3RS,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

DK64 for me too. I played the shit out of it for probably a solid 6 months to a year and loved it but it has no doubt aged badly.

nfreak,
@nfreak@lemmy.ml avatar

Honestly the collectathon genre as a whole doesn’t hold up much these days. A few modern games pull it off here and there, but going back and trying to play any of the classic Rare titles feels like a slog.

Loved all those games as a kid, and they did a ton to shape the industry, but they don’t really hold up.

Rai,

hbomberguy did a 50+ hour 101% nightmare stream for trans charity a while back and I watched the whole thing. I would not subject myself to playing that game but damn it was interesting to see.

Crankenstein,

Bro what people didn’t like DK64? I spent a large chunk of my childhood getting 100% in that game. Lanky Kong was my boy.

JackbyDev,

I wonder if a fan mod of DK64 where the bananas aren’t colored would fix many of the problems. I feel like that one small change might fix a lot of complaints. I haven’t played it though.

Denjin,

There’s a ROM hack that let’s you swap characters with a button press rather than trek through the level to find a swap barrel and then trek back again, and do that again and again for coins, bananas, etc.

Small change that has a big impact on the replayability.

www.romhacking.net/hacks/4961/

JackbyDev,

If I ever do a DK64 playthrough I’ll check this out.

who, do games w Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard?

You know that it’s common for companies to pay influencers and publications for favorable publicity, right?

SolidShake,

I’m not talking about streamers and big YouTube channels.

who, (edited )

The practice extends beyond those. Lemmy is not immune, for example.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

This community looks relevant in principle, although most of the posts right now are about political astroturfing (which is not the only kind):

!fediverse_vs_disinfo

missingno, do games w Why do people like Mario Kart?
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Are you really unable to understand why other people enjoy things? Is this a serious question?

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

I can understand why, but I wanted to hear their reasons for it.

I guess you’re just upset because someone was critical of something you like. It’s okay, I see it all the time.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

If you must know, I'm actually not a Mario Kart fan, played the older ones but haven't touched the series since DS. More of a Kirby Air Ride and F-Zero GX kinda guy. But I can still understand the appeal well enough to not post this kind of thinly veiled "I'm mad that other people like something I don't" thread.

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

Now you’re projecting.

I’m just going to ignore you.

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Projection is when you said "I guess you're just upset because someone was critical of something you like."

Elevator7009, (edited )

I think people are very much taking this less as an “I’m curious, why do people find this fun? I want to understand” post, and more of a condescending “I think it’s not fun because I have taste and am presuming people who think it is fun do not until proven otherwise, now prove me otherwise” post. Some people, including me until I saw these comments, were seeing your post body that tells us why you don’t like the game less as sharing your own perspective and wanting someone to show you a bright side, and more as trying to denigrate people who see it as fun. I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I think you can reread your post body and see how people might interpret a far less curious, far more judgmental tone from it.

To actually answer your question: I played Mario Kart Wii mostly as kid against the computer and other people, and a few times as an adult against other people. I like to think I was good at the game, that skill mattered and it wasn’t random and unfair. I won almost every time both against the computer, and against other humans. So I just didn’t perceive the game as “mostly random and unfair.” (Although now that I think of it, when I had the option I’d usually switch all items to Strategic against the computer, eliminating a lot of the catch-up items, so perhaps I did perceive it initially and just removed it from my experience to the point I don’t remember it? Although when I played against other humans it was usually on their console at their place with their settings, which probably didn’t have it set to Strategic.) The catch-up mechanics could sink me if I made a mistake, but if I drove well the whole course I almost always came out in front. Perhaps you’re thinking of later editions that I never played and have no opinion of, or the computer plays badly and the people I played against were bad at the game?

katze,

I can understand why, but I wanted to hear their reasons for it.

You make it sound like people make a pros and cons list before deciding whether to like something or not. We don’t choose what to like. People clearly have fun playing Mario Kart, that’s it.

mesitoispro,
@mesitoispro@ttrpg.network avatar

It’s okay, I see it all the time.

I’m going to block you now. Real sick of people who can’t take criticism of the things they like.

katze,

What? 🤣 Last time I played a Nintendo game was probably in 1995 on a Chinese clone of NES (or SNES, no idea).

Coelacanth, do games w What games are just objective masterpieces?
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

We’ll see how much is recency bias and how well it will stand the test of time, but I really think Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 will be on this list going forward. It’s definitely one of the best games I’ve ever played, and I’ve played a lot of games. It’s not perfect, but it’s close enough in all the parts that actually matter.

Otherwise there’s your usual suspects:

  • Disco Elysium
  • Portal
  • Half-Life 2
  • Bioshock 1
  • Final Fantasy VI
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • The Last of Us
  • Baldur’s Gate 2
puia,

I still have to play it, but Clair Obscus seems like this year Baldur’s Gate 3, which is rare. A game that came out of no where and is ready to win goty

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I know this is a hot take, but: BG3 is a good game. Clair Obscur is a work of art.

puia,

I must say you are really getting me hyped to play this game. Bgs3 was a masterpiece, and i also love games like Persona so i am really excited to try a French jrpg like Clair Obscur

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Props for DE being at the top of your list.

iAmTheTot, (edited ) do games w What games are just objective masterpieces?

None. There’s no such thing as an objective master piece. Games are art which is, by definition, subjective.

Edited to add, well this was way more controversial than I thought it would be.

sugar_in_your_tea,

“Masterpiece” comes from the art world, and there are absolutely works everyone seems to agree qualify, such as:

  • The Mona Lisa
  • David statue
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

It’s usually the best work by an artist, or at least the one that got them their recognition, and it stands out among other works in the field.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

If it’s the one that got them their recognition, it’s little more than arbitrary; luck, place and time; things that don’t have to do with how good the work is. Some “masterpieces” weren’t considered such until they were exposed to people over and over again, like The Mona Lisa at the Louvre or It’s a Wonderful Life on TBS. I’d have a hard time calling a number of games masterpieces that I didn’t care for, because this isn’t objective.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

A masterpiece could just refer to a piece of art from a master. It could refer to the quality of an engineering project, or the skill involved in the work’s creation. Are these not objective qualities?

I don’t really think the Mona Lisa is a great image, personally (it’s a boring portrait), but I can still recognize that it was masterfully done.

Katana314,

This gets trickier with games, because an experienced game designer can, for instance, look at the UI design and graphics programming of a Ubisoft open world slopfest, and say those parts were masterfully done (even if the overall game isn’t so fun). And, even the best of video games have bits of them that weren’t as good.

Krauerking,

Right… So what game gets the most of those bits the most right?

That’s how you start to separate out the best. Not that complex.

LandedGentry, (edited )

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  • seathru,
    @seathru@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    I think the word you are looking for is pedant.

    Better vocabulary will help get your point across better. Without also sounding like an edgy atheist teen.

    Krudler,

    It’s low-grade trolling, chill bro. They’re not serious.

    ms_lane,

    Games are not Art, they are Games.

    Videogames can also be art, but they are also games and ‘games’ (note: not ‘videogames’) are not art.

    Screen_Shatter, do games w Wait, that game is still playable online?

    Titanfall 2 servers were brought back online after being down for awhile.

    I still play Starcraft 2 occasionally.

    earned_myself_a_gin,

    Is there any community or a different set of servers to point to? Titanfall 2 was my favorite game before the DDoSes, and when I’ve periodically checked you can try matchmaking but there’s nobody left to play with anymore. Is there a Discord or another set of servers or something?

    Screen_Shatter,

    I’m actually not sure, its my kid who plays. He was very excited and playing on xbox. I thought it was cool and unexpected but I guess maybe it died back down again.

    Bogusmcfakester,

    On pc there’s a thing called the Northstar client that was pretty active during the ddos times

    Varying9125,

    I just found out about north star and looked into buying TF2, its $30 on steam! wtf I remember seeing it for like $3 before

    pedro,

    You can get EA keys dirt cheap on the grey market. Alternatively just wait for a sale and it will be a few quid on steam

    IronKrill,
    @IronKrill@lemmy.ca avatar

    It’s been on steep discount often, as recently as May 1st. Just gotta wait for the sale, it’ll go on again. isthereanydeal.com/game/…/history/

    sugar_in_your_tea, do games w I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?

    Here are my reasons:

    • no Linux support - Heroic works, why doesn’t Epic do what GOG do and revenue share w/ Heroic?
    • exclusivity deals, which reduces options outside of EGS
    • Epic’s anticheat works on Linux, but their own games that use it don’t, that’s a pretty big slap in the face

    I certainly want more competition to Steam, but that competition needs to do something other than exist for me to use it. GOG is that, and if they properly supported Linux, they’d get most of my gaming money. But they don’t, so they only get some of it.

    Yeah, this probably reads like a Linux fanboy post or something, but I’ve been using Linux longer than Steam supported it with its client, and I’ll still be here if Steam leaves. It’s my platform of choice, and a vendor needs to meet me here if they want my business. Valve did, so they get my money. I honestly don’t need much, I just need games to work properly on my system.

    Krudler, do games w I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?

    It’s very simple, valve is a gamer company. Epic is a money company. Every single thing each respective company does shows that. I’m not a bitch, I’m never going to let those Epic cunts have a penny of my money. Fucking with the games industry, fucking with gamers, locking exclusives, it’s all bullshit & they can suck my cock

    MajesticElevator, (edited )

    Meanwhile Valve pushing unrelated unregulated gambling to everyone, including children, through their case unboxing system

    kadup,
    @kadup@lemmy.world avatar

    Counter Strike is a M rated game

    MajesticElevator,

    Oh so they have no responsibility at all then. Might as well stop checking IDs when people enter casinos or buy alcohol because they’re not supposed to if they’re underaged.

    They make a deliberately addictive mechanic that they know ruin peoples’ life, and they also know they have a big young audience, but you think that’s fine? Shame of you, really.

    It’s also in TF2 btw

    And whatever you say, it’s still exploiting adults. In many countries, like France, casinos are legally obliged to detect addicted people, prevent minors from playing, and let people opt out legally, and never allow them to gamble afterwards. Valve blatantly doesn’t respect this and takes efforts to bypass the law. They got banned in Belgium and France, and used a legal loophole to avoid being banned in France.

    You’re acting like a Valve fanboy. Be objective. Apart from that, Valve is an overall good company for the video games industry, but they act like a piece of shit in other places.

    Goretantath,

    Parents should do their damn job and prevent their kids from playing what they arent supposed to, or teach them right from wrong.

    MajesticElevator,

    Teens aren’t kids. Gambling is addictive to everyone.

    Soggy,

    Teens are kids, they’ve just got half a brain and adult hormones mixed in. They still need guidance and supervision.

    kadup,
    @kadup@lemmy.world avatar

    I mean… Do you support the recent proposal to ban online porn? How about alcohol?

    Valve provides a game, an appropriate age rating, a description of the monetization scheme, and a way for users to freely trade items.

    If minors transform that into a gambling addiction, it’s certainly a big problem, but I don’t see how that translates into “Steam bad, Epic Games good”

    MajesticElevator,

    Do you support the recent proposal to ban online porn?

    No, but that’s another subject. Not easy to regulate and is not as life threatening as many other things. We all consumed some when minors and it never was a huge deal for most people. Gambling is much worse imo, as it impacts your finance. Gambling is already banned/regulated and Valve is avoiding the current laws.

    How about alcohol?

    It’s already pretty well restricted for minors. The world would be better without it, but as nicotine, can’t go back now that people are used to it.

    but I don’t see how that translates into “Steam bad, Epic Games good”

    Never said that.

    I talked about this because the original comment said Valve wasn’t here for money. Why do they push gambling then?

    Krudler,

    Whataboutism makes you look like an idiot

    WhatsTheHoldup,

    Not OP but your very first sentence was

    It’s very simple, valve is a gamer company.

    It’s not “whataboutism” to directly respond to your point and try to argue they aren’t a gamer company.

    I do agree with you overall though that Epic can suck it.

    MajesticElevator,

    You’re saying Valve acts for gamers, not for profits. I’m proving you wrong. You’re just entitled and love Valve.

    MajesticElevator,

    Wrote unrelated instead of unregulated, which changed the meaning of my sentence. Fixed it.

    simple, do games w I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks.

    I think a modern port for other systems would do very well, Sony just isn’t interested in reviving the series which does suck. They did HD versions for PS3 which regained some interest in the franchise, but then they just ported the PS2 versions for PS4/PS5…

    If we can have those HD versions on Steam, it’d be a huge deal. Right now most people can’t play the game without jumping through hoops. As an aside, you can play the decompiled versions on PC using OpenGOAL.

    octobob,

    I played the HD version on a PS3 emulator and honestly didn’t notice that much of a difference from the PS2 game with upscaled resolution.

    I think the point of this post, which I agree with, is that the PS2 version that is available via emulators or on the PS store currently is good enough as it is and the series doesn’t need revived at all.

    Sort of in the same vein is that I tried playing MGS1 twin snakes which is the gamecube remake of the PS1 game. Maybe it’s nostalgia of the original being my favorite game of all time, but it just didn’t hit the same for me as the original. It’s just about the closest thing to what a modern “remake” would look like, except I guess with the graphics of how the new remastered snake eater game looks instead of the GC graphics.

    It sucks that people might skip timeless classics like these because they’re not remastered with updated graphics.

    ozymandias117,

    Wow. This opengoal project is so cool!

    You made me dig through old boxes to find my Jak games. I know what I’m doing this weekend :)

    Zahille7,

    OpenGOAL runs flawlessly ime. For TPL and Jak 2, there are some extra qol settings and some added secrets to mess around with (in Jak 2, you can unlock cheats for invulnerable vehicles throughout the city, real time of day, turbo jetboard, etc). They’re still working on Jak 3, but you could always get PCSX2 for that one. PCSX2 is a fantastic emulator for PS2 games that also works pretty much flawlessly. It’s how I replayed the old Sly games and a bunch of others.

    HollowNaught, do games w What game is this? (On the Switch that they're holding)
    @HollowNaught@lemmy.world avatar

    a deep dive

    20 minutes long

    Not very deep then huh

    Nikls94,

    I once watched a YouTuber reacting to his own video. The original video was 20 minutes long, the reaction 110 minutes

    Edit: here

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=D5hJ9jhVlXY&pp=ygUjSm9zaCBz…

    simop_jo,

    I have run out of content Reacting to I have run out of content

    hitagi, do games w Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer he have simulate the performance on a similar PC

    Good ol 750 Ti.

    shiroininja,

    Still the best engineered bang for your Buck/power draw card ever created in my eyes. Power draw of a lightbulb and I put it side by side with my freinds Xbox one at release and beat its performance.

    I wish companies stayed on that track.

    B0NK3RS,
    @B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

    I wish companies stayed on that track.

    Welcome to a world of 1000W PSUs :(

    shiroininja,

    It’s like we’re returning to the early 00s lol. I used to rock a 450w psu in my 750ti build. :( granted I use a 650w today but my rx580 SND Ryzen 5 1500x is getting dated when it comes to new releases.

    This is the first year I really don’t meeet requirements. Don’t know what to do with this market lol

    B0NK3RS,
    @B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

    The pc market has taken a very consumerist turn and it’s actually pretty disgusting. Sad times.

    Zanshi,

    I’m in the same boat, haven’t really found anything good to upgrade to that doesn’t cost me a kidney.

    Artyom,

    1000W does sound big enough for a 5090, but what about the other computer components?

    sugar_in_your_tea,

    Yup, that’s what I’m using in my NAS for basic transcoding. Works great!

    lowered_lifted, do gaming w Can you *believe* how those Nords stereotype us?

    The people updooting this probably believe white supremacist myths about “black crime rates”

    Kusimulkku,

    I mean the top comments aren’t exactly arguing against those, rather saying that marginalized people have to resort to them.

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