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storksforlegs, do gaming w Does anyone know of any kid-friendly "horror" games out there for children ~7 years old?
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

Dont Starve is pretty dark… i wouldnt call it horror exactly but it has a spooky vibe. Its officially 12+ but I think a horror-loving kid would probably be fine with it.

rambos, do piracy w How to route transmission through Mullvad?

Consider moving from mullvad if you are into torrenting. Mullvad doesnt support port forwarding anymore. But no matter what provider you chose, use docker container gluetun to route traffic from any other container (like transmission). I like transmission, but most people use qbittorrent because its more advanced. You can also set up VPN in qbittorrent settings

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Which affects torrentors how?

Jerbil,
@Jerbil@hexbear.net avatar

If the port you’re connecting through isn’t forwarded, it isn’t allowing most connections through, drastically slowing down your speed and ability to seed, since you can’t connect to any peers.

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

I don’t torrent, as a rule, so I can’t say I’d notice any speed reduction. I had, however, noticed that no matter how long I kept seeding, I’d gotten few - or maybe no - connections. I didn’t know if this were because nobody else was leeching the thing at the time, or something else like this.

I’m very reluctant to give up Mullvad. So far, in all ways I care about they’ve demonstrated justification for brand loyalty. Plus, I’ve been with them for years and already have everything set up and configured across multiple deviiiiceeeessss.

As I said, torrenting isn’t a critical activity for me, so I’ll hang tight. I am curious to know if Mullvad has given a justification for stopping support for port forwarding. They used to, right? So it was work for them to stop.

lud,

Here is their blog post about it: mullvad.net/…/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-…

sxan,
@sxan@midwest.social avatar

Thank you for the link! Very informative.

matey,

You’ll get more connections if people can get to you; otherwise, you’re only connecting to people who are port forwarding themselves. If you’re port forwarding, you can connect to everyone.

SinningStromgald, do games w Do you find the description Live Service Game off-putting?

“Service Games”, gotcha games, games with excessive DLC (looking at you sim games), internet required and Denuvo games are all hard passes.

Fogle,

It’s actually gacha games

Rai,

feels the compulsion to make that correction

Sounds like they got chya, hon.

absentthereaper,
@absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml avatar

[snort] well ACKSHUALLY–

man don’t no one give a fuck unless they’re already in sunk cost fallacy with that ‘genre’ and its predators

Duck_Potaaato, do piracy w Virus Total

You cannot tell a false positive from a real positive. It’s a gamble. You need to check for every AV what’s the results and do your own risk assessment. Do I really need this software given that XX Antivirus consider it to be a virus? New threats will have a low number of AV that will detect it.

evanuggetpi, do gaming w Valve's next mystery gadget...

I think it might be a standalone VR headset like the Quest

ArchmageAzor, do games w What game has a great story and is worth the time investment?
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

I highly recommend Outer Wilds if you haven’t already. Just don’t get it mixed up with Outer Worlds

bionicjoey,

Outer Worlds is good too. Not as good as Outer Wilds, but still good. Sorta like New Vegas in space

bermuda, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

In Return of the Obra Dinn you play an insurance claims investigator. You can magically view the moment of somebody’s death and hear the audio prior to it to aid in your investigation of a ghost ship.

TheLongPrice, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Death Stranding

I’ve never played such a unique big budget game. The core mechanic is terrain traversal to make deliveries, and the game continues to give you tools throughout it to accomplish that.

amazing2,

I loved the traversal mechanics in Death Stranding. Kind of made me realise that in all other games the characters are actually gliding and not walking.

I didn’t however like that the game gets a bit too actiony toward the end. And the MULEs and the terrorists stop being a threat when you get upgraded weapons, and the BTs once you have that golden handcuff thing.

I hope they address that in the sequel. The BTs should have been a lot scarier and the stealth a bit more refined.

Still an amazing game. I loved just doing the deliveries. There’s a meditative quality to it that I only previously saw in Shadow of the Colossus.

Comment105, (edited )

The BT’s were scary enough that I couldn’t keep playing, I got to a bit after the part where you get the exo legs.

amazing2,

Well, if you want to try again at some point, I can tell you they get progressively less scary as the game goes on because you’ll get a bunch of tools to deal with them. In the last third of the game even getting caught by one is nothing because you’ll have blood grenade launchers that can easily kill them. And for those who like the stealth way better, you’ll get a special tool to sever the BTs umbilical if you get near them (the game is very liberal in what it counts as near).

myfavouritename, (edited ) do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Wow. I’m super impressed with all the suggestions here. I’ll add a few of my own that haven’t been mentioned yet.

Her Story - you query a police archive database for video clips, eventually revealing the plot. Kind of a mash between a murder mystery book with the pages out of order and Google. If you like it, check out Immortality

What Remains of Edith Finch - all you can do is walk around a very unusual house. The narrative reveals itself as you do so. That narrative is fantastical and heartbreaking and also very sweet.

Crawl - multiplayer game - you are all trying to escape a monster and trap filled dungeon. One of you is alive and the rest are spirits who can possess the monsters and traps. Any time a spirit kills the living player, they become the living player. Unique boss fight at the end where multiple spirits control parts of a huge boss monster.

Adramis, (edited )

Some of the CW Warnings for What Remains of Edith Finch (spoilers obviously):

spoilerDrowning, child death, divorce / arguing, pregnancy, child birth complications / death

myfavouritename,

Thanks for that! I actually had to put the game down for several months because my child had just been born and I couldn’t handle one of the scenes in the game. It was heavily telegraphed, so I had time to stop the game before anything upsetting happened. And when I went back to it months later it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it might be. But yeah, it’s a game about the death of many family members, told through metaphor and fanatical imagery.

merridew, do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics

Return of the Obra Dinn.

Dangdoggo,

Was gone be one of my suggestions. This game is powerful good. It is a true mystery with you in the drivers seat in a way no other game can touch.

Renacles, do games w Game recommendation, looking for easier western 3D ARPG

It sounds like you should play Skyrim.

whiskers,

It sounds like you should play Starfield

(If you want latest title and not bound by fantasy)

Renacles,

I should also play Starfield.

catsup, (edited ) do piracy w Lucky patcher guides?
@catsup@lemmy.one avatar

Honestly the best guide is within lucky patcher itself. Open luckypatcher and then tap on the question mark icon in the top-right corner. There you’ll see an explanation of all of the features within luckypatcher. There’s also a guide for creating your own custom patches.

Happy cracking!

SurpriZe,

Great. Thank you. And have you generally found it useless to try and crack without root access these days?

yum13241,

Yes.

newIdentity,

Nah. It still works sometimes. Try using the “restore purchache” option to enable the pro version of an app

catsup,
@catsup@lemmy.one avatar

It depends on the app, really. If the app verifies the purchase server side, there’s nothing you can do to bypass that. But if the app you wanna crack is just a game that doesn’t need internet, it works 9/10 times. With root, it works pretty much 10/10.

Asymptote, do gaming w I watched 2 hours of starfield gameplay and an hour of review

Sounds like you got No Man’s Skied

banana_havoc,

It’s ironic because no man’s sky does ship combat and ship travel so much better than starfield

jordanlund, do gaming w Starfield Review Thread
!deleted7836 avatar

I was surprised at the 7 scores until I caught the bit about how it’s all fast travel. You can’t just start on a planet, take off in your ship, point it at a moon or something and fly there.

OTOH, how boring would it be having 1:1 space travel?

…wikipedia.org/…/Penn_%26_Teller's_Smoke_and_Mirr…

“Considered by Penn to be the “best part” of the collection, Desert Bus is a simulation trick minigame and a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly’s preview. It is the most notorious minigame in the actual game. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, in real time at a maximum speed of 45 mph (72 km/h). The feat requires eight hours of continuous play in real time to complete.[2][3]

The bus contains no passengers, there is little scenery aside from an occasional rock or bus stop sign, and there is no traffic. The road between Tucson and Las Vegas is simplified compared to the real highways: it is now completely straight. The bus veers to the right slightly, and thus requires the player’s constant attention.[3] If the bus stops, or veers off the road it will stall and must be towed back to Tucson, also in real time. If the player makes it to Las Vegas, one point is scored. The player has the option to make the return trip to Tucson for another point, a decision which must be made in a few seconds or the game ends. Players may continue to make trips and score points up to a maximum score of 99 points, which requires 33 days of continuous play. Although the landscape never changes, an insect splats on the windshield about five hours through the first trip, and on the return trip the light fades, with differences at dusk, and later a pitch black road where the player is guided only with headlights.[2] The light eventually returns at dawn, but due to a programming bug it will cycle endlessly between dawn and night for the remainder of the game. The game cannot be paused.”

Comment105,

Starfield is a spacetravel ****tease.

Star Citizen is the **** that will do whatever you want, but she’s bloated and extremely dysfunctional, riddled with bugs and falls over drunk and passes out constrantly.

jordanlund,
!deleted7836 avatar

Some people pay extra for that… :)

Pxtl, (edited )
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

This was solved 30 years ago in Star Control 2, with a non-Newtonian Hyperspace that kept vast distances still feeling vast and made fuel important, while in-system travel was still free and newtonian. There are plenty of options between “fast travel all the things” and “1:1 model of the absolute terrifying emptiness of space” – and even then, the “1:1 model of vast emptiness of space” is still kind of doable, if you’re willing to make the hyperdrive flexible for the various increments of in-system/interstellar travel. The hard part actually would be modeling the surfaces of planets in a way that makes the player forced to land at the “interesting” parts of the planet instead of letting them explore the entire surface of boring procedural-generated landscape without making it feel restrictive.

thoro, (edited ) do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)

I typically patient game nowadays. I still have games from two years ago to get to and I’m currently slowly playing through Baldur’s Gate 1 so I probably wasn’t going to Day 1 this anyway.

But I thought about it.

Tbh, while I don’t really care for the big name review sites, there’s enough mixed reviews on the storytelling, procedural generation, and RPG systems, that I think I’m going to keep this in my wishlist for a while.

Might look at it closer later in the year and when I have more free time or just wait for the inevitable GOTY edition

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