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Jaderick, (edited ) do games w Any Roguelike/Roguelite suggestions?

Highly recommended Roguelikes from personal experience or friend recommendations:

Binding of Isaac, FTL, Risk of Rain 2, Enter the Gungeon, Darkest Dungeon (my favorite)[not the second one], Monster Train, Crypt of the Necrodancer (another favorite).

Timecircleline,

Thank you! I have binding of Isaac wishlisted. I watched some gameplay of Risk of Rain and it didn’t grab me. I’ll check out the other recs.

KoboldCoterie,
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It’s worth noting that Risk of Rain 1 and 2 are very different games (3rd person 3D vs. 2D side scroller), and both are good - so if 2 didn’t grab you, maybe check out 1 and see if that’s more your thing. (The remastered version has a lot of nice QOL stuff and some new game modes and items.)

FooBarrington,

FTL is amazing, especially with the multiverse mod. Basically a fan-made DLC, maybe even a 1.5-quel.

mox, do games w SKG Has an Official Discord Server Now!

Seems ironic for a project focused on access and preservation to adopt a closed messaging platform like Discord, that can and does lock people out on a whim.

I guess it might be a concession to reach as many gamers as possible. It’s an unfortunate situation, though. Maybe when we’ve stopped the killing of games, we can turn our attention to freeing ourselves from Discord.

ampersandrew,
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Discord is a bad place to put archived information that ought to be on a forum, but it’s just fine for this use case.

lime, do games w What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?

the ending of outer wilds, figuring out that the treasure really was the friends we made along the way, will always stand out to me as the most magnificent, joy-filled moment in my 25+ year gaming experience.

that, or getting the cool sunglasses in fez.

FabledAepitaph,

It’s been years, and I still haven’t recovered from the ending of Outer Wilds. I don’t think I ever want to either, haha

boaratio,

Outer Wilds is the correct answer. I wish I could unlearn that memory and play it again from scratch.

ylph,

Meeting [redacted] on the [redacted] was such an unexpected and powerful moment for me as well. I don’t even usually get into lore that much in games, but Outer Wilds is so well done I nearly cried in that moment.

dubble_deee, do games w What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?

Once when I was 8, a friend brought over his PS1 and Metal Gear Solid. We played pranks on the guards in the zone that has a bathroom using claymores and Nikita missiles and called snake the Toilet Stalker. Peak 8 year old humor, I couldn’t breathe from laughing.

Another in High school, visited my older sister in the dorms and the boy floors were having a massive halo Lan party since all the rooms were connected. I had never played a console shooter before but the guys were really welcoming and wanted me to join anyways. One match came down to a 1v1 with me and one of the good players, I almost got him with the sniper but lost. I wasn’t too bummed but afterwards everyone on the floor cheered me up. I stomped the same guy later that night in warcraft 3 and that one felt good.

donuts, do games w Android games

Try F-Droid, there’s some good quality games in their listing, and it’s a lot more transparent than the Play store.

There’s also a lot more indies (whether new or old) that have made it to mobile, like Stardew Valley, Terraria and Dungeon Clawler, so it’s worth checking out the “premium” category on the Play store to find some decent games too

P4ulin_Kbana,

Nah. There are few games on F-Droid, and most of them haven’t been updated in years. But could you please list some of them?

TeMccm2ZgLSE,

I play a lot of Shattered Pixel Dungeon. There is an unofficial release on f-droid

kronarbob, do games w what was the last game you played in 2024?

Skyrim… First try with adamant perks.

prole,

Why do people still play this game??

kronarbob,

Why not ? There is so much mods that you can play new adventures, with the feeling of being at home.

The base game is full of flaws, but the community makes it really enjoyable.

The balance of skills, the graphics, even the story can be changed. That’s why I like to play it again and again. I can play a Skyrim that people built. And with the perks mod, I can build so much differents characters, I really love that.

And with skyblivion coming this year, I’m not even close to stop playing it.

HipsterTenZero,
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

its the potato chips of video games. You can even add your own flavors

elephantium,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

Why not? If they enjoy it, more power to them.

There’s no law that says you can’t replay games you’ve enjoyed.

noxypaws,
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Skyrim is a great game, what are you on about?

rbos, do games w Would "suggest price" be a positive option for steam?
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They could add a bid price, so that you automatically buy at a certain price level. Sure, you could bid 0.10, but they’d probably never actually take it. And that way, they could know how much money is laying on the table. If there’s a thousand bids for $50, that gives them a pricing signal.

haui_lemmy,

Exactly my thought. Thank you for pointing that out.

ampersandrew,
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This sounds like it would just end up speedrunning Steam’s refund system. Plus, I don’t think it’s desirable for the seller. If they feel their game is worth some price, but a bunch of people know they can bully other developers into a race to the bottom, that could easily be a negative feedback loop.

tinwelint, do games w Would "suggest price" be a positive option for steam?

I think that would be abused pretty quickly to get games sold at 60+ down to 1 or less.

teslasaur, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

When I was young I always wondered why the nhl games had a 16+ rating and Fifa had 3+. Figured both of them where ordinary sports.

Apparently fighting automatically shoots that nhl rating to the same level as GTA and balantro.

lightnsfw, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Pokemon Silver. Beat the Elite 4 and surprise now you get to go back to Kanto.

cevn,

Blew my tiny mind…

ch00f, do games w What game surprised you with their length?

Portal

DrSteveBrule,

Surprised that it was so short?

ch00f,

Well I mean the false ending

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

For me Portal as well. I knew back then that people said it’s an afternoon game but I thought “an afternoon for a good player, certainly not me”. Finished it in an afternoon.

Gremour, do gaming w Inspired by another post

Isn’t female witcher technically a witch? 🤔

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

that implies that men are witch-er than a female witch? :D

Allonzee,

I don’t think so.

I think being a Witcher is a distinct moniker In universe for the training/vocation of hunting magical monsters.

The usual male analogues in media for witch are wizards and/or warlocks

Kazumara,

In general English usage I think you may be right.

In the world of “The Witcher” (which is translated from Polish) there are both male and female mages with inborn abilities. Sometimes they are called sorcerers and sorceresses, sometimes they are called mages, sometimes they are called something related to their specialisation of magic, and sometimes wise women who do magic but didn’t go to the academy are called witches.

Witchers, however, are not mages. They are made from ordinary humans and are gene manipulated and highly trained to be monster hunters. They have some witcher powers that are related to runes, and they make potions that have side effects only they can survive thanks to their manipulated bodies. Witchers at birth do not have special potential. Though a lot of little witcher trainees die, so you could argue they are artificially selected in that way.

Ciri is kind of neither of those, but she has special abilities related to space and time manipulation. In the new trailer it seems she drinks a witcher potion, but from what we know she never underwent the manipulation that witchers did.

GunValkyrie,

Cdpr confirmed that she underwent the trials and is now a Witcher.

Maggoty,

Weren’t the mutagens for the trials destroyed in canon? It will be interesting to see how they get around this.

vaultdweller013,

Could be that she used her space time powers to find a more stable version. Or who knows all the crossovers could be canon and she grabbed some bullshit from monster hunter or some shit.

_cryptagion,

She might have done the trials with another school. In the trailer, she is wearing a feline witcher medallion, not a wolf one. I don’t think the lore ever mentions the School of the Cat having their mutagens destroyed.

vaultdweller013,

Im not really into the lore, more of a Warhammer fantasy guy I was just making a guess based off of the sheer number of crossovers. Seriously that shit is absurd, its like a reverse Scooby-Doo.

_cryptagion,

I’m not too far into the lore either, but the Witcher audiobooks jsut happened to be up next in my listening queue, so I guess I’ll find out about all that pretty soon.

_cryptagion,

The Wolf school had it’s mutagens destroyed, yes. But in the trailer, it appears Ciri is wearing a feline medallion, implying that she is somehow affiliated with the School of the Cat now.

Maggoty,

Ahhh okay. I missed that bit.

Kazumara,
Trantarius,

IIRC, the original polish “witcher” was made by taking word for “witch” and changing the grammatical gender to be masculine. Evidently this was not an existing word meaning “male witch”, and so was better translated as “witcher” (ie a made up word clearly derived from “witch”) instead of “witch” or “wizard”.

LovableSidekick, do gaming w Inspired by another post

I don’t get it, Witcher already has a bunch of female protagonists.

tatterdemalion, do gaming w Funko Pop abuses domain name reporting system, takes down itch.io
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Sounds kinda like the registrar’s fault?

scrubbles,
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I’ll say both. Registrar was shit for just giving in and taking it down on what was essentially a “please take this down” note. Funko was shit for requesting it in the first place

apotheotic, do gaming w What do we think will be GoTY and which game do we think should be GoTY?

I think its likely that goty will go to Helldivers 2 or Black Myth: Wukong, both of which I think are aggressively “OK”. Goty awards are largely a popularity contest, after all.

Dettweiler42,

Considering I’ve been playing HD2 all year and I’m still loving it, my vote is for HD2. They did a fantastic job on the recent balance overhaul (dubbed “the great Buffening”).

Blisterexe,

i’ll have to start playing it again after christmas break

johntash,

I’ve never played it and haven’t seen nuch gameplay of it. Would you recommend d picking it up even if I don’t have anyone to play multi-player with?

Dettweiler42,

I’ve played with randoms many times. Most people have been good to play with. I highly recommend it.

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