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jorm1s, do games w Darkenstein 3D free on Steam

I just gave this a go not expecting much. Man is it fun! And works great on the deck too! Playing with a controller makes it extra hard, but then again the originals were hard too and had even worse controls, so it fits well.

jorm1s,

Oh wow. I thought this was just a fun little tribute to wolf3d. After two days and six hours of playing I now understand how wrong I was. After a few levels it turns out to be so much more, and just keeps getting better.

Schal330, do games w Day 461 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

They made a new game, Aethermancer which is pretty good so far!

MyNameIsAtticus,
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Oh wow. It’s really pretty looking and the concept sounds interesting. It’s interesting to see the leap in game quality. I guess having that first game under their belt was good practice

chunes,

The game seems pretty good so far, but the exploration aspect seems a bit lacking. I hope they can make it more engaging somehow.

AntiBullyRanger, do games w Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games?
GerardsGuitar, do games w Game recommendation - Snow, Skiing, Ice Skating
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I’ve never played It Takes Two but SSX is a fun snowboarding game, the whole Skate franchise is super fun just to mess about with- the movement mechanics are really smooth, and whilst I didn’t personally get on with it but Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (which is a bit like Jet Set Radio,) it also seems to have a similar vibe - in terms of movement at least.

Edit: just watched a video of the part of It Takes Two you were describing and it definitely gives me SSX vibes

Grebes, do games w I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.

Discounty has been fun, a supermarket simulator. It’s more story driven than Stardew and less open ended but similar vibes.

Wispy2891,
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That seems nice, it’s even on gog

AmanitaCaesarea, do games w I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.
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Eastward has been on my wishlist for ever. Not really a building sim, and not sure about controller support. But the pixel art might draw you in like Stardew did

hal_5700X, do games w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 | Review Thread

Just play the first game with the Unofficial Patch. You will have a better time.

Bloodlines 2 had been in development hell for years and had two dev teams worked on it. Being bland is a miracle.

jay2, do gaming w Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore.

Twisted Metal 2 was insanely fun and if you had it for the PC, it was even better. I had 6 different computers set up in various rooms in my house for TM2 parties since you could LAN everyone together. Couldn’t cheat off of other peoples screens either.

It’s still out there I believe, though it’s not the best port.

tomselleck, do gaming w Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore.

Conker’s bad fur day. The original N64 version was great for multiplayer as well.

lunatique,
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🐿️ yesss

TachyonTele,

I just played this last week to test the emulator i have!

Biiirrrrdies

helix, do gaming w Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore.

XIII. only that people talk about it, but the awful remake. I think they remade it again, but a bit less worse?

The multiplayer was so awesome.

tomselleck,

The little cutscenes you got for headshots was great.

lunatique,
@lunatique@lemmy.ml avatar

Yep! Remake was ass and should be considered a crime. At least everyone knows the remake sucks unlike some remakes that people accept blindly

Kolanaki, do gaming w Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore.
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I never once met anyone on or offline that knows how awesome Cybernator was on SNES.

TheLunatickle, do gaming w Turns out all you need to do is use what worked before!

My only gripes with Pokemon Z/A is the lack of abilities and not being able to leave the city.

I’m also scared that since it’s a “Legends” game and not a mainline game we may go back to turn based.

paultimate14,

I… Would not call a game a “main” game unless it were turn-based. Like, that’s kind of the whole point.

TheLunatickle,

I disagree, to me the corr of the mainline games is the Pokedex and region, the actual battles being turn based has always just been a negative to me.

In my opinion saying the turn based battles are critical to being mainline is like saying the saccrin and frankly bad writing is critical, sure it’s always been there but that just makes it a persistent problem not a feature.

paultimate14,

I’m kind of confused by that sentiment, because the Pokedex and region are the things that change from game-to-game?

And like, sometimes the writing is bad and saccharine, but not always. It’s subjective, but Gen V is widely considered to have pretty good writing. Gen 1 is pretty understated and well-grounded analog to post-WW2 Japan, with Team Rocket acting as a family-friendly version Yakuza.

I’m also not sure why turn-based games are a negative. Like… From board games like chess, to tabletop games like D&D, to strategy games like Civ, to card games and card videogames like Slay the Spire and Balatro… For me I view turn-based vs real-time as a tool for game designers to wield, not just a strictly positive vs negative thing.

Turn-based has serious positives. It’s less impactful to be interrupted, which is important for handheld games. I find it easier to play when I’m not sober. It’s also easier to play while active - I’ve played through multiple main line games on a treadmill, but even Scarlet and Violet has too much active real-time movement for me to be able to stay coordinated while doing that.

TheLunatickle,

Filling the Pokedex, not the actual contents.

I agree gen V had good writing, it’s a shame they forgot how to do that immediately after (This is part of why I fear them returning to turn based, they have back slid before)

Sure turn based has merits, even if you have to dig to find them, but it’s boring to me.

Board games being turn based are a completely different story, when you play a board game you are playing with a person, you’re talking to them, watching their body language and communicating the whole time.

Turn based in a video game is staring at a screen waiting until you have something to do again. It feels like a relic of a different time, when it wasn’t technically feasible to have live action Pokemon battles like the one in the show.

As for turn based being a tool, if course it is, but the setting and surrounding media and lore keeps claiming Pokemon battles are exciting and fast passed. You know, the opposite of turn based.

otp,

Turn-based is more fun to me.

The problem is that the battle system is slow. Other games in the genre know how to speed things up. Pokemon insists on providing information one message box at a time. If they fix that, they could make the game feel faster.

paultimate14,

Just emulating the old games and running them at 4x speed is an incredible QoL improvement.

Instead of implementing more options to speed things up, GameFreak instead decided to remove the option to disable animations.

I have been saying for years they need to split the franchise. From an anime perspective, before they retired Ash I was calling for them to let him age into a teenager, and for them to create a new character for a show for younger kids. For the games, i want them to split into 3D action RPG’s that play like the Legends games and Scarlet/Violet while the main games stay 2D and turn-based. Right now it seems like they’ve been adding new shit to the main games out of a fear of getting stale rather than to actually serve the games.

They seem to be doing some of that, with Pokemon Champions removing the burden of competitive play from the main games in the future.

nocturne,
@nocturne@piefed.social avatar

Turn-based is more fun to me.

My wife said the same thing. She is not a fast gamer, she likes the slower pace of Pokémon. I also have been forgetting the game is not turn based as zoning out during combat, or in a wild zone.

paultimate14,

I know that Pokemon is, ostensibly, a children’s game. But there is a niche in my life for games I can play when I’m not sober, and being turn-based greatly facilitates that for me.

lath, do games w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 | Review Thread

Guess it’s really Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2: The Masquerade instead.

DarkAri, do games w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 | Review Thread

I hope it gets good mod support

dharmacurious, do gaming w So *this* is how it feels?

Does the show ever show us what the inside of a pokeball is like?

Atlas_,

Don’t think about it. Don’t ever think about it. That way is madness

dharmacurious,

I can’t stop thinking about it!

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