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Whopraysforthedevil, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 15th
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I got back into BG3. Gonna finally get myself to Moonrise Tower.

sic_semper_tyrannis, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 15th

Been playing Shadow of Mordor again to tie in with Celebrimbor from Rings of Power. However, I found that RoP is terrible but the game is still great.

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lowleveldata, do games w Where are the improvements in AAA games?

It’s great. I don’t have time for AAA games anymore anyway.

Kolanaki, do gaming w What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty
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The Ascent.

Bit of diablo, bit of Borderlands; good game but lacks variety and also has some insane jumps in the difficulty. Playing on Normal is hard enough with no extra payout. Hard is impossible unless you are absolutely perfect in execution. Might as well put it on Easy and just have fun endlessly blasting punks, mutants and machines because when you start dying in the first 2 seconds of every boss fight, it stops being fun.

SuperSaiyanSwag,

There are a lot of indie games that suffer from this imo. Might be because they don’t have enough testers.

Kolanaki,
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Yeah. It’s a bit amateurish, but it’s a cheap game too. They clearly spent a lot more time on the writing and visuals but really my only heavy criticism is that there isn’t enough variety in how you play. There’s basically just 1 build and 1 set of viable weapons. But if you just wanna turn your brain off and blow things up, it’s an awesome game.

toxicbubble420, do gaming w What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty

XCom

sleepybisexual, do gaming w What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty

Literally any fire emblem game, I might just have dum tho

averyminya,

I think there’s something to be said about completing some games on yard difficulties, and Fire Emblem falls in that category. The category is puzzle games that require insane tactical strategy.

A lot of unit based RPG’s function this way, and they do a really good job a lot of the time. But that is just one way to play the game, and quite frankly grinding through levels to “properly” beat a certain difficulty is certainly a better option for the majority of players.

There is something unique about finally completing a damning level, but it’s only something that is there if the player has the drive to get that fulfillment.

I wouldn’t say you have big dum, more likely you just value your time and the engagement of the game is more rewarding on lower difficulty, due to the element that is driving you to play the game. That is to say, it’s aspects of the gameplay and the story that keeps you coming back, not necessarily the insane strategic plays needed to beat a hard level.

Both are completely valid forms of gameplay, the hardest difficulty is often min-maxxed and tends to account for a small section of players, and is probably included partly for replayability.

sleepybisexual,

Mainly I jsit enjoy the games. Not great at them tho

SuperSaiyanSwag,

Those games have a tough start, but if you can get over the initial hump then you can do pretty well in later level. That is until the final boss where shit hits the fan again.

sleepybisexual,

Blue lions final boss is a hell of a time.

Also with awakening. Shit hits the fan c19. Send help

Maalus, do zapytajszmer w Zgłaszanie użytkowników na instancji lemmy.ml

Lemmy.ml to bagno, najlepiej zablokowac cala instancje i miec spokoj. To czy dostaniesz tam bana czy nie absolutnie nic nie zmieni - o ile nie chcesz wrzucac dokladnie tego samego co oni. Nie ma po co sie wkurwiac, zdania im nie zmienisz a przez monitor w morde tez nie dasz.

scala, do games w Lemmy giveth, Lemmy taketh?

So no steam sharing but family sharing is okay. So what happens if the head of the family dies, can there be a way to transfer family ownership?

BadlyDrawnRhino,
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Just make sure your family has a way to access your account. I very much doubt that Valve or most publishers will care that your kids have access to decades-old games after you’re gone. Although I could see Ubisoft trying to take action out of spite, but that’s only if they’re still around by then, they’re on pretty shakey ground at the moment.

Better option if this is an important issue for you is to only buy DRM-free. You’ll have to wait for most AAA games, but most AAA games these days are increasingly not worth it anyway.

lazycouchpotato, do games w Crew 2 is on sale for a dollar on Steam, Epic, Xbox, & PlayStation until 23rd of September
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Surprised to see it 98% off. I thought Steam capped discounts to 90% a few years ago?

tal, (edited ) do gaming w Looking for a gamepad spec aggregation site
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I recall someone who build some automated system to measure input latency on gamepads, who gathered data for a bunch over different interfaces, which is a subset of that. They had some sort of automated testing system, moved the controls automatically with a microcontroller-driven system.

looks

Neither of them are what I’m remembering, but it looks like multiple people have built input latency databases.

rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency

gamepadla.com

The second looks close to what you might want. Each controller has a page with a fair amount of information.

EDIT: I don’t think that this is what I was thinking of either, but looks like another microcontroller-based system to measure input latency:

github.com/maziac/lagmeter

EDIT2: Also not what I was thinking of, but yet another input latency measurement project:

epub.uni-regensburg.de/…/ExtendedAbstractLatencyC…

EDIT3: Also not what I was thinking of, but another:

github.com/finger563/esp-usb-latency-test

TwilightKiddy,

That’s some good data! I’m mostly interested in filtering by Linux support and latency/accuracy measurements. Some of them are very helpful, thank you!

etchinghillside, do games w I Completed Assassin's Creed Blackflag And I'm Crying Why It "ENDED"

I wish this had Steam achievements so I had more excuses to replay it.

Arkhive, do games w Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2?

I’ve stopped playing since Microsoft copilot was announced and I fully ditched windows, but I held on until the final raid because of the gun play, nostalgia, and the representation present in both the studio and the game. I grew up with the Marathon games, and the early Halo series. The DNA of those games is still there and I can’t help but love it. I’ve been chasing a single player experience that gets even close to Destiny’s feel for so long. The System Shock remake is getting close, but I would love a PvE only game from Bungie. For a long time (read pre-Sony-buyout) Bungie was also a sort of hold out for various minority representations I try to support. The studio’s media showed an employee base that is diverse and they often did a good job pushing back against players saying any sort of agenda was being pushed just for including diversity in the game. This made them a company I was much more willing to throw money at, compared to say, activision/blizzard. That sentiment as largely faded for me as the studio had been turned into a “for the shareholders” cow Sony can milk.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2?

Addiction.

Same with why people play League of Legends or Genshin Impact.

Destiny 2 hasn’t been good for a long time. I haven’t played it in years and my friend who still plays shows me some stuff and its just depressing IMO. Nothing like what expectations were after Destiny 1 finished.

caut_R, (edited )

I’m sure we can be more open-minded and agree that people can enjoy the core gameplay loops of games which we don‘t personally enjoy without having to be addicted.

RightHandOfIkaros,

It is addiction. Addiction to the adrenaline of the gameplay elements, that’s literally how games like Destiny/League/Genshin are designed. The “loot box” mystery loot rewards is literally predatory and designed to abuse the psychology of the people that play those games to keep them coming back for more.

Destiny especially revolves around loot. And you get randomized “mystery” loot. I would know, I played the first game and the second game until the Shadowkeep expansion, then I didnt buy other expansions. Because why would I? Bungie deleted stuff I paid for.

conciselyverbose,

I played like 900 hours of D1 with the same or mostly the same gear because shooting stuff in the face felt better than anything else I’ve ever played.

The actual gunplay is really good. It’s just killed by all the other shit.

ampersandrew,
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Likewise though, I’ve seen people playing Destiny for the rewards when they weren’t even enjoying it. They just wanted the rewards.

_Sprite,
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I’ve never seen a happy league player

WittyBits, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 8th

Wrapping up Lies of P. Really fun soulslike. Picked up Avatar again now.

Playing Technobabylon on Deck. Been in my library for ages and I should have played it sooner. Great point-and-click.

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