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Wrufieotnak, do gaming w 7/7 of Required Countries Have Met the #StopKillingGames EU Petition Threshold.

Don’t forget that reaching the country threshold alone is not enough. We also need to hit 1 million petitioners!

So if you like the petition and you are a EU citizen, sign it!

Comment105,

0.18% votes per capita is nothing, gamers literally don’t even mind having a few of their games deleted. The numbers speak for themselves, we’re choosing to have an insane market.

chiliedogg, do games w What are the best games you can play on a laptop?

I built a $3,000 performance desktop a few years back, and the main games games I ended up playing on it were things like FTL, Shovel Knight, SNES emulators, and other games that could be run on an overclock ham sandwich.

TexMexBazooka,

Really curious what a $3000 performance bulld looks like

chiliedogg,

A few years back, a really nice graphics card was like $650, so $3,000 got you a lot of performance.

ggtdbz,

Unlike these days when it looks like 3000$ will get you a GPU and a water block for that GPU, if you want to spread your budget as thick as possible.

Wasn’t the original Titan like 1000$ and considered a ludicrously expensive piece of luxury tech?

HipsterTenZero, do games w What are the best games you can play on a laptop?
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

CDDA: it’s basically an immersive sim with zombies and mutants in an ascii new england. Sprites optional;

Stardew valley: haha ancient fruit wine go brrr;

Morrowind: whiff. whiff. cliff racer screech. the sounds of a wood elf screaming from the heavens and splattering on the pavement;

An SNES emulator: there’s like an entire library to play here;

Crafter72,

Seconding to emulation, for open world RPG you may find a lot of them on older consoles like pre-Gen 7 consoles (PS3/X360). To OP, assuming emlation is compliant with law on your country, older games are great too if you don’t mind delving pre-2010s games.

ImplyingImplications, do gaming w Why UE 5 is so bloated?

It might not be the engine. Some companies just don’t care much about optimization when they can just tell their players to buy better hardware.

Take GTA5 for example. It had a notoriously long load screen when starting up. Ranging from 2 minutes to 10 minutes depending on the read speeds of your storage drive. A modder ended up finding the problem. The code to load up the items in the game opened and read a file, but there was a bug that caused it to read through the entire file for each item loaded. The file was being read thousand of times. The modder changed one line of code and the loading time was reduced significantly. This was a bug that plagued GTA5 for years, caused by a single line of code, that the company didn’t fix because their fix was to buy better hardware.

catalyst, do games w What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?
@catalyst@lemmy.world avatar

I still use Left 4 Dead’s “pills here!” any time I’m dealing with medication. It’s an involuntary reflex at this point.

Also not really a line but the intonation of Chadley calling out “Cloud!” when he starts a conversation is seared into my psyche. Kind of like a modern version Navi’s “hey!”

Crafter72,

Dunno but I can hear Louis, Ellis, Bill voice line “pills here!” when reading that line. It just ear worm thingy

TotesIllegit,

“I hate Ayn Rand.” -Francis

glimse,

Grabbin Bills

Zahille7,
2fm, do games w What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?

Reticulating Splines

massive_bereavement,

Bzzzt

drasglaf, do games w Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread
@drasglaf@sh.itjust.works avatar

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0a6ec0ba-ee63-434a-900d-4d994a174b41.png

I’ve found this in the wild, it’s quite worrying, but not surprising, unfortunately.

Eccitaze,
@Eccitaze@yiffit.net avatar

This is gonna turn into the gamer version of “this is extremely dangerous to our democracy” isn’t it

drasglaf,
@drasglaf@sh.itjust.works avatar

That’s exactly what came to my mind when I saw the image haha

EyesInTheBoat,
@EyesInTheBoat@lemmy.world avatar

I think most of us are just tired of obvious paid for reviews with built in talking points like that. I’d like to be able to remotely trust anyone without watching a one hour unedited let’s play video but that just means you’ll accidentally buy Andromeda. I hope Veilguard is playable but signs are not good when bioware is “returning to form” x100

SlothMama,

This comes from review guides, so yeah, they are literally sent by the company with a set of talking points and things to mention.

Linktank, do games w Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas release 20 years ago today.

Still the best GTA.

FergleFFergleson, do gaming w Games that restore faith in the industry?

The first title that jumps to my mind, especially when you contextualize it around “restoring faith”, is Satisfactory. It’s been a very entertaining and challenging game, but also the development team has been exactly what one (typically) wants from a dev team. They’ve been very transparent about issues, their process, etc. Their interactions with the fan-base have been frequent and open throughout the years of development. Good game + good company. Worth consideration if you like a good factory builder.

notgold,
@notgold@aussie.zone avatar

Very down to earth people. Telling us they want to go outside in the summer so they won’t be working for a bit was a bit of a stab at us basement dwellers

SnotFlickerman, do gaming w [Official Art] Tourniquet Promo Art - Tomb Raider
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Tomb Raider 2013 really didn’t have to go that hard, but god damn it, it did.

ThirdWorldOrder,

It was much more fun for me than the originals. Back then it was just about seeing how clear I could render the boobs on my voodoo 3Dfx. Teenager things

Zahille7, (edited ) do gaming w I can't enjoy Diablo anymore.

That’s how I feel about games like Borderlands. They’re incredibly fun games with simple yet fun gameplay with decent stories and cool maps.

I can’t get into the whole min/maxing, “proper” builds, or gear loadouts. I just wanna run through a wasteland blasting dudes in the face with cool guns and abilities.

Euphorazine,

Elden ring was my first souls game and I kept away from fan sites and youtube videos as much as possible until I beat the final boss. Didn’t want to tempt finding a meta build.

If I needed help, I asked friends. It was a great experience!

Krakaval, do games w My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them

If everyone was following your path, micro transactions wouldn’t be there anymore.

Telorand, do gaming w Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually?

Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Never played ME, before, but I hear it’s pretty good.

averyminya,

My friend loves Mass Effect, he liked the LE quite a bit.

Gerudo,

I’m jealous of a 1st play through. It’s incredible.

Telorand,

That’s what I keep hearing! Looking forward to a good space opera

thingsiplay,

Me too. I have the “old” versions “Mass Effect 2007”, “Mass Effect 2 2010” and “Mass Effect 2 (2010) Edition” (for some reasons there are two versions of old ME2) on Steam and was about to buy Legendary Edition and finally getting started to play. But I’m not happy with the additional requirements of it, as it requires Origin client and an EA account to play this single player game. This is unacceptable to me. Old versions do not require this.

So after my research and being confused of multiple versions and if the Legendary Edition is worth it, lost interest. But ME2 is still on my list to play soon.

termus,
@termus@beehaw.org avatar

You can mod the first three to get it close to par with the Legendary edition. The improvements they made in LE on all 3 make it worth playing, but if a user account is your limit I guess not. There are a ton of mods for LE now as well.

thingsiplay,

I play most PC games without modding, especially because I’m on Linux. I’ve compared and read about the improvements, and to its just minimal changes. Only the first game got huge improvements, but I’m more interested into playing 2 only. And as someone playing lot of old games and emulate old systems, its totally fine with me. I even played GTA 4 (last year and this) without modding on PC, but still have to finish it.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Mass Effect is really one of a kind. The first game is the most epic Space Opera that I have ever played/watched. It puts Star Wars and others to shame. They retconned shit in the 2nd and 3rd games so in my opinion the first one remains the best story-wise. But honestly, all three are great.

I am very sad that no other studios tried to do anything even remotely comparable. The closest I can think of is Starfield, which wasn’t very good.

kboy101222, do games w I'm tired of every game being live service

Why’d you bring up tem tem specifically? It’s supposed to be “Pokemon but an MMO”. That’s the entire appeal. I had Pokemon loving friends that played it at launch and loved it dearly. It’s sad that it’s died, but if you want a single player version of tem tem, there’s about 22 Pokemon games according to Bulbapedia. Go play one of those.

catloaf,

And even more indie clones like Monster Crown if that’s your thing.

Zahille7,

Hell, even Palworld can scratch that itch a bit.

toofpic, do games w What letter has the best games?

D
Disco Elysium
Don’t Starve
Dirt
Dishonored
Deus ex
Darkest Dungeon
Deadbolt
Dungeon of endless
Dwarf Fortress
Dying Light

A well-rounded list with some great time-sinkers in it!

OhNoMoreLemmy,

And all the doom games.

toofpic,

Oh, yes, absolutely, I was just writing from memory

CharlesReed,
@CharlesReed@fedia.io avatar

I agree with D, and would also like to submit the Dead Space games.

Enkrod,

Enkrod feels euphoric due to every D-list in this thread menacing with spikes of Dwarf Fortress

very_well_lost,

No Dark Souls?

Shame! Shame!

De_Narm,

Anything Dragon Quest needs to be on the list!

edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

Diablo games as well

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