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PanArab, do gaming w What video game franchises do you not need to start from the very beginning to enjoy? What would you recommend as the entry point into your favorite series?
@PanArab@lemmy.ml avatar

Favourite Series - Recommended Entry Point

  1. Final Fantasy - VI
  2. Atelier - Sophie
  3. Dead or Alive - 5 Last Round
  4. Senran Kagura - Burst Renewal
  5. Romancing Saga - 2 Revenge of the Seven
Kingofthezyx,

Final Fantasy - VI

I actually think IV, but then skip to VI and go from there.

otp,

4 is better if you want an old school fixed-class character-driven JRPG. But 9 and 10 do that in a more modern way.

6 is better if you want an old-school blank-slate character-driven JRPG. But 7 and 8 do that in a more modern way.

7, 8, 9, and 10 are all retro themselves though.

5 is great if you want an old-school “character class” JRPG. And if you want it to be character-focused, you’ve gotta look at something like 10-2.

Recommending specific games from the franchise really depends on what someone is looking for.

TyrianMollusk, do gaming w Forza Horizon 5 will be coming to PS5. Likely other xbox exclusives will too.
@TyrianMollusk@lemm.ee avatar

I wish companies could do genuinely good things like release big games on more platforms, without everyone’s response being hand-wringing about what bad things it might mean for their own hardware.

Especially when it’s Microsoft, whose Xbox platform already extends into this tiny other thing people might have heard of, called Windows… I think they’ll be ok, somehow.

I’m more interested in this being FH5, which is just switching into a kind of maintenance mode, where weekly activity playlists repeat instead of doing new things, and both of those before there’s even talk about FH6. Adding significant new players to FH5 now seems an interesting choice.

raina, do gaming w What video game franchises do you not need to start from the very beginning to enjoy? What would you recommend as the entry point into your favorite series?

Spelunky, for co-op. I definitely prefer the first game for solo but it only has local co-op. Spelunky 2 has both local and network play but the difference between having a single camera follow the one flag carrier and everybody having their own screens is like playing a different game. Single screen is total mayhem.

maniacalmanicmania, do gaming w Demo: FreeSpace 2 Open with head tracking from Viture Pro XR glasses IMU data
@maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone avatar

Very cool. Are you meant to be piloting a Mark II or is it another fighter? It seems like the cockpit is far more exposed than what I imagine being in a Mark II to feel like. It’s almost like you’re on a surfski or canoe in space.

bekopharm,
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You know… I wondered about this before too and I tried to lower the seating position through manipulation of the Y value before and while this works to some extend => it’s not really possible to look over the fuselage any more so I guess it’s a compromise (or you’d be simply unable to aim at anything in the game).

spacedogroy, do gaming w Forza Horizon 5 will be coming to PS5. Likely other xbox exclusives will too.

I’m glad that PS5 owners get to play Forza, but overall I don’t have a lot of confidence in Microsoft’s ability to stay in the hardware market, which is concerning for everyone as I think Sony will leverage that position to raise their prices on their hardware and on PSN.

Xbox has said it will be producing a new console next gen with powerful hardware, but I will probably stay away, despite owning a Series console this gen.

BmeBenji, do gaming w What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics?

I absolutely loved the nihilistic ending to Mass Effect 3.

Objection, do games w What are your favorite games for killing nazis?

Shadowrun: Dragonfall, it’s only for one mission but it’s a really good one.

BusyBoy, do games w What are your favorite games for killing nazis?

The Commandos saga. Specially the first one (Behind Enemy Lines).

solsangraal, do games w What are your favorite games for killing nazis?

i just started another playthrough of company of heroes 1; timeless nazi smashing RTS that’s aged surprisingly well

codexarcanum,

In my mind the RTS genre hit major twin peaks with SupCom and CoH1. SupCom is the best of its subgenre (massive rts? actually the recent and free Zero-K hits real good in this genre too!) CoH 1 is the top of the Dawn of War family of more tactical RTS.

I haven’t played in a long time, but I recall the story being good. The mechanics though were just so top notch! Great squad controls, not too much micro, vehicles feel really impactful, the nature of control point capture means every skirmish is very dynamic. Ah, what a classic!

solsangraal,

holy shit i was playing the fuck out of supreme commander 1; never heard of the game, only played it because it came with my new GPU for free. i had been waiting for starcraft 2 for years and years and when it finally came out i was like wow…supreme commander was better…

codexarcanum,

If you liked SupCom and want to recapture the magic, do check out Zero-K! It’s free (like actually, no weird micro-transactions) and open source (though buried a bit on the site) It’s based on SpringRTS, which is great to see something cool being done with Spring!

ICastFist, do games w What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection.
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Battlestar Galactica boardgame. It’s mostly cooperative, with the chance of having one or two players being traitors, but even without them, it’s very unlikely the humans win in the end. It’s expensive and needs a lot of table space to play, tho.

Captain Sonar can be an interesting choice, since it can be played turn-by-turn or in real time, with two teams of 1-4 each. If you working with your team doesn’t create a sense of connection, I don’t know what will.

KolektywPrzyjazn, do wolnyinternet w Wolne media? Radar squat net do wydarzeń
@KolektywPrzyjazn@szmer.info avatar

To zainspirowało nas do założenia tam konta. Dzięki! Wkrótce będzie można śledzić wydarzenia mające miejsce na Osiedlu Przyjaźń bez użycia korpomediów!

mediocre_name_here, do games w What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection.

Here’s some great cooperative games that either have big groups working together OR have the whole groups:

Escape from the Dark Castle - a fun little dungeon crawler where you flip cards and roll against dangers as you try to overcome obstacles. Completely cooperative but mechanically simple.

Wavelength - the base way to play is technically a ‘competitive’ in that there are teams and points but it’s relatively chill and I’ve often played this at parties with large groups cooperatively cause it just makes for a great conversation starter.

Phantom Ink - two teams but the mechanics are very fun and the game overall has a great tone.

Ravine - cooperative game where you try to survive after a plane crash.

I would also maybe recommend looking into some light roleplaying games like The Zone or Fiasco. These are almost always gm-less or easy to run and focused on building a fun narrative together.

pathief, do games w What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection.
@pathief@lemmy.world avatar

In order to get good recommendations you’re going to need to provide additional information. How many people are playing? How complex can a game be? What games have you tried and loved? Is there a favorite mechanism? What is the game duration you’re going for? 10 min? 30? 3 hours? What’s your budget?

Generic recommendations based on my library:

  • Just One - Favorite party game
  • Brass Birmingham - My favorite; Beware it’s quite complex and lasts around 3 hours
  • Blood Rage - Cool dude’s on a map game with very nice minis
  • Turing Machine - Good puzzle game
  • Slay The Spire - If you love slay the spire, you’ll love cooperative slay the spire as well
  • Menara - Favorite dexterity game

boardgamegeek.com is the imdb of boardgames, check it out.

BuckWylde,
@BuckWylde@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t think anyone else knew about Menara. It’s so good, and no other game has made me laugh that hard.

pathief,
@pathief@lemmy.world avatar

It’s definitely an underrated game!!

petroskoi,
@petroskoi@sopuli.xyz avatar

We’ve really enjoyed playing Slay The Spire on Tabletop Simulator. It’s really fun to try and combine your abilites for the best results. And the roguelite makes it fun to play over and over again, just like the pc game. I would have already bought the physical game if it wasn’t around 150€ here

lysy, do wolnyinternet w Wolne media? Radar squat net do wydarzeń

Podpisuję się rękami i nogami! Radar to jest coś, co za granicą pozwoliło mi w prosty sposób znaleźć wzorowe towarzystwo i ludzi z podobnymi wartościami. Pamiętam, że mówiłem wtedy nowopoznanemu koledze, że kurde, w Niderlandach to tyle dobrych grup i wydarzeń jest a u nas w Polsce to w ogóle nic i nikogo takiego nie ma. Powiedział mi, że to nieprawda, że w Polsce też jest dużo anarchistów i grup tego typu, tylko, że wszyscy są na Facebooku, a że ja nie mam to nie mam do nich dostępu.
Nie róbmy tak, nie ograniczajmy dostępu do idei anarchistycznych i wolnościowych osobom antykapitalistycznym. Używajmy Radara :)

dj1936,
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Na szczescie w Polsce powoli kolejne ekipy z różnych miast zakładają konta.

Widzę duży postęp w porównaniu do tego co było 4 lata temu.

Pheonixdown, do games w What are your favorite board games? I'm looking for games that are satisfying and lead to a sense of accomplishment or fulfillment or connection.

Ok, if you are against hard feelings, cross off anything that is directly competitive, that would be any game where players directly and willfully interact with each other in a way where one gains while another loses as part of the core gameplay. To varying degrees things like blood rage, root, monopoly/solarquest, everdell, 7 wonders, clank, carcassonne, ticket to ride, dominion, etc.

If your group must have competition, you’ll need to stick to independent competitive games, this is anything where players are primarily taking actions in their own space and are progressing largely independent from each other. Example recommendations include things like Quacks of Quedlinburg, Shifting Stones, most roll and writes (welcome to series, cartographer with a minor exception), cascadia, verdant, etc

If you can do without competing with each other, cooperative games are definitely the way to go to minimize hard feelings (it’d only come up then if someone thought another player did something suboptimal causing a loss). The variety here is actually pretty large: simple trick taking games like The Crew series Information sharing games, like Mysterium “Combat” games of all complexities (generally ascending: Lord of the rings storybook, marvel united, D&D board games, Heroquest, Stuffed fables, Atlantis Rising, legends of andor, horrified, Arkham horror, marvel champions, mansions of madness 2nd edition, spirit island, Gloomhaven) Mystery/puzzle games (Adventure Games series, Exit The Game series, Animals of Baker Street)

I’d also like to call out 2 other games specifically: Stella, while it is a 1 winner competitive game where your score depends largely on other players, the push your luck and prisoner’s dilemma aspect of how you earn points I think largely removes the feel bad aspect of competition. Kitchen Rush: pure cooperative, but it’s also a real-time game where everyone is taking simultaneous actions to run a restaurant in 4 real time minutes stretches.

MarcomachtKuchen,

I love spirit Island sooo much. I’ve played the game regularly for over 2 years now I’m I’m still not tired of it. I did get myself the expansion and it’s worth every penny.

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