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cosmicrookie, do games w Some hidden gem demos and games I've found on Steam (2025)
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

God I hate abbreviations… Especially in a long post where the poster obviously doesn’t mind typing… SCP, MC, DDLC, VN,… 🤦

I_Jedi,

SCP - Entity from the SCP Foundation franchise

MC - Main Character

DDLC - Doki Doki Literature Club

VN - Visual Novel

FooBarrington,

I get it for most of those, but SCP isn’t really an abbreviation.

cosmicrookie,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

I went down the rabbit hole because it isn’t a word either… It stands for Special Containment Procedures

FooBarrington,

Interesting, I didn’t know that! Though honestly the perfect description.

BreakerSwitch,

Huh. Could have sworn in universe, SCP as an organization stood for Secure Contain Protect

FooBarrington,

It does in-universe, but out-of-universe it came later & is less recognizable than SCP.

silverchase,
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

SCP-4098 seemingly changes people spreading communication properly, specifically communication proximally Site-94 centered, procedurally. Said communication prohibits speaker’s choices, producing speech constructional primaries: SCP.

Klear, do gaming w Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games

I had read some posts on Usenet back then with some players saying UV wasn’t as tough as they hoped it would be. (…) I thought “Oh really? Ok then. You’re all dead.” (…) It wasn’t meant to be fair, or even finishable. I can’t even get past E1M3 in nightmare. Any level with backtracking would be almost impossible.

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hopesdead,
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There is a secret level in Doom II described in the biography Masters of Doom by David Kushner. It was made as a prank, where the boss had the face of one of the Johns and moved at 200% faster speed than the player. I’m not sure if this made it into the retail or shareware versions they shipped.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world avatar

You don't see this kind of attitude as often in games these days. Maybe indies.

cecilkorik, do gaming w A cold take on balancing

Also, at least in single-player games, and sometimes in multi-player too (depending on exactly where and how) balance is actually not even necessarily a goal you should be pursuing at all. The imbalance is the point, the BFG should be allowed to be the BFG, it doesn't need to be balanced. Even better is subtle imbalances that are not necessarily telegraphed directly. Not only does imbalance indulge the power fantasy when players can take advantage of it, but discovering those hidden "broken" mechanics makes players feel like they've either lucked out or outsmarted the game and is actually deeply gratifying on its own.

It can also lead to some very emergent metagames that maybe haven't been considered. Sometimes the instinctual reaction to immediately patch out and hotfix any mechanic that is found to be unintentionally overpowered might mean you're just being the "no fun allowed" police. And games are supposed to be fun. And in multiplayer sure you have to think about the fun of all players instead of just one, but maybe you should give some thought to what would happen if you embrace the mechanic instead. Maybe it could be a per-game setting instead of just removing it. Maybe it could turn into a whole new game mode. If some people are having fun with it and could have fun using it against each other, maybe let them? It's understandable if you're trying to make your game into an e-Sport but even sports have different leagues with different sets of rules.

Balance is overrated IMO. Imbalance can be entertaining, hilarious, and fun. Consider trying it.

BuboScandiacus,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar
Ephera,

Yeah, I also have to say that I’ll often not even bother trying to work out what’s good and what is not, because there’s a voice in the back of my head that says, well, it should all be equally viable, because of balancing.

That’s a big part of the reason why I like random map generation, because it isn’t possible to make all options equally viable. Sometimes, you level up your axe skill and never find a good axe, and just have to deal with that.

Venator,

Fun should take priority, and I think it usually does. It’s just that in popular multiplayer games people usually find the optimum play style and then only do that, which can make the game quite boring and repetitive. One of the most viable ways to counteract that is to balance it so other play styles become more popular and make the game a bit more varied.

Another option can be to add some randomness to some mechanics so which play style is best isn’t as obvious or changes more frequently.

BurgerBaron, do gaming w They literally don't know they were born
@BurgerBaron@piefed.social avatar

You probably owned 5 games that you personally were actually interested in.

Until 2024 I was still subbed to Amazon Prime. Their Prime Gaming (Shipping and the Twitch Prime sub were the draw I would never pay for Prime Gaming) campaign throws a fuck ton of games at you constantly. A lot of good games too. Keys for GOG/EGS,/their own launcher/some shitty pixel hunting adventure games website.

I also redeem the EGS weekly free game(s) most weeks. I miss a few.

There’s 500 games in my Heroic Games Launcher list combined. I’ve played 2 of them.

Kolanaki, do games w I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience.
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I have only ever played Stardew with a controller so I’m just wondering in what way is it not good? Because for some menus the right stick is emulating a mouse? Or targeting things?

May I suggest turning the always face target (or whatever it’s called) option on? It makes a big difference in how using tools works with a controller.

hendu, do games w Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)
ouRKaoS,

It’s a Toss up between Ayla and Lucca for me, because of Lucca’s little side quest of “Wait, we can time travel… Let me go fix something real quick…”

Ayla gets bonus points for “Magic? F that ‘new’ stuff… Imma just bite & kick!”

hendu,

Lucca is great, too! Really can’t go wrong with either, but I give Ayla the edge for being such a powerful badass who knows what she wants and goes out to get it.

dual_sport_dork,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Crono needs a legendary sword that requires a time-hopping fetch quest to get all the ingredients. Frog requires a sword that’s already legendary, and a whole episode devoted to getting it powered up further. Marle, Luca, and even Magus require triple techs and in the case of the former two, a deliberate power up by Spekkio to even be able to access them in the first place.

…Ayla can merely punch people for 9999 damage.

Toneswirly, do gaming w What game changed your life?

Spec Ops: The Line. Probably kinda dated now but there were multiple moments in that game where I had to cool down after some heavy shit happens.

Mobile,

I really want to play this game. I haven’t found a copy of it anywhere. I can’t believe it was pulled down online due to licensing 🙄

astutemural,

Really? I would think the lagoon of buccaneers would have it.

astutemural,

Do you feel like a hero yet?

wesker, do gaming w The true Baldurs Gate storyline
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Do we hate bangs now? Because I still like bangs.

Stamets,
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

I hate them on her

Atomic,

Well, it doesn’t matter if she follows selune or Shar, she will get rid of the bangs regardless.

If she becomes a dark justicer, she still changes her hair and says it’s to look more like Shar.

I think the only difference is the colour of her hair.

Korhaka,

The word bangs just seems so unusual to me, we call it a fringe here. Not sure why people wouldn’t like it or what it has to do with an emo phase though.

Ephera,

I feel like videogame technology isn’t there yet. It looks like individual strands of hair…

Nalivai,

Worst haircut a being can have, fight me. Slav gopnic aesthetic bullshit. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/83196398-2299-48e0-9b42-430241598411.jpeg

towamo7603, do games w Thoughts on the humble bundle this month?

Hard pass this month dawg.

Durandal, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33?

BG3 is a master class in RPG fwiw.

BG3 never goes much below it’s current sale. It’s slowly going lower, but it’s going to stay that prices for a while because it’s worth the money and it’s in high demand.

Both games are on sale on resellers as well which might get you some better prices:

isthereanydeal.com/game/baldurs-gate-3/info/

isthereanydeal.com/game/…/info/

BurntWits,
@BurntWits@sh.itjust.works avatar

That’s a good argument. I appreciate your insight.

HarkMahlberg,
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth avatar

BG3 is the only game I can think of that's worth an $80 price tag and the moniker of "AAAA." There is a frankly ludicrous amount of stuff in this game. The amount of effort it just have taken, let alone to ship 8 fully featured patches, borders on lunacy.

Rhynoplaz, do games w Didn't see that coming

Am I the only one enjoying the recent increase in “shadow” launches? I really appreciate not having to wait months or years or decades (looking at you Bethesda) after first hearing about a game.

SnotFlickerman,

I really appreciate not having to wait months or years or decades (looking at you Bethesda) after first hearing about a game.

That’s actually hilarious that you mention this in regards to Silksong, which was first stated to be in development so long ago that people thought it was never going to release. It’s actually a prime example of having to wait years and years after announcement to get any updates.

bassomitron,

Yeah, it was literally announced in February 2019. We’ve had to wait over 6 years for it.

Rhynoplaz,

And look how much happier I am for not hearing about it back then! 😂

Stamets, do games w (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.
@Stamets@lemmy.world avatar

A lot of private information

Public nicknames, passwords and emails that could be fished from public dumps and retried, public crew names… Where’s the private and where is the a lot?

Also you’re not even paying attention. You called someone Aaron well after they’ve left the conversation.

Yeah I wouldn’t have let you in either with that hostility and level of vaguery

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

I grew up on atari/nes/snes and so of course almost all of those games (pretty sure all) are written in assembly and are rock solid smooth and responsive for the most part.

HA!

Older games were laggy as all fuck and had very significant input delay.

But ignoring the rose tinted glasses: I DO think there is some element of truth to this: My formative years of online gaming were 56k and an ATI Rage. I probably logged at least a thousand hours of UT at 20-ish FPS and my ping was regularly in the hundreds. I can definitely appreciate lower latency games, but I mostly just need VRR (for screen tearing and the like) and I am set. Whereas one of the younglings from work pretty much can’t play anything below 60 FPS… and we have tested this.

bridgeenjoyer,

Im not certain what input delay youre referring to. It is likely very dependent on the games I play as well. Of course some of the older games pushing the hardware to the max were laggy when a lot of sprtes etc were loading.

Zahille7, do gaming w A message from the medic

White on a light blue background was a terrible choice

MonkderVierte,
Shawdow194,
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About that...

Derpenheim,

Sorry mate, looks like you’ve got 🎵Tritanopia🎵

edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

The music notes are giving this comment bill wurtz vibes and I love it

LordKitsuna,

The “this has been compressed 100 times” burn isn’t helping any

Kovukono, do games w The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.

If you’re open to a platformer, the only explicitly adult game I’ve tried is FlipWitch. The gimmick is that you can change your sex, with certain obstacles only able to be passed through by a specific sex. You also have clothing that can only be worn by each sex, and certain NPCs won’t interact unless you’re wearing certain items. It’s a solid metroidvania, and while it’s not going to blow you away, I still enjoyed my time with it.

Dindonmasker,
@Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works avatar

The music is really good too!

Apeman42,
@Apeman42@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah, I saw that one earlier and threw it on my wishlist for later. It looks pretty good. I picked up Scarlet Maiden instead for now, which is also a pixel-based naughty game, but looks to be a roguelite and is supposed to have great gameplay too.

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