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v4ld1z, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
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Enshittification, the rise of micro transactions in mobile games over actual in-game mechanics that make the game interesting etc

sleepybisexual,

Trust capitalism to ruin everything

Eeyore_Syndrome, (edited ) do gaming w Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?
@Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works avatar

Technically speaking it is not a distribution.

“Bazzite is a custom image of Fedora Atomic Linux 40, utilizing Universal Blue’s custom image framework designed to bring users the best in Linux gaming for their PCs, including the Steam Deck and other handhelds.”

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-3-0-announcement/1218

I’m too busy playing games and having no issues, to write why it’s amazing.

I am at 237 days with no issues, and that issue was Valves anyway.

Newsletter:

I used to write personal GitHub gists in the 6 years I’ve been using Linux/Fedora. To share with others to tweak their Fedora installs for gaming. Don’t have to do that anymore!

Thrickles,

Bazzite has been wonderful. I went in skeptical about immutable distris for gaming but Bazzite has been such a great experience.

The_other_fish, do gaming w Heroes 3 appreciation post

Recommend you try Horn of the Abyss mod. A couple of new towns and a lot of good balance changes. Works really well with the HD mod too

jaykay,
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WoG mod is also great

doctordevice, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 21st

Stardew Valley, the 1.6 update adds lots of small new content in all the right places to really take the game to the experience I imagine ConcernedApe always wanted it to be. This is something like my 10th playthrough and it’s easily my favorite one since the 1st.

Whenever it comes out, I’m so excited for Haunted Chocolatier.

ObamaBinLaden, do gaming w Good AA single player games?

I think these are fairly popular in their circles but I will take every opportunity to recommend sleeping dogs and judgement. Played both fairly recently and the plot is amazing and action is satisfying. Highly recommend putting them on your wishlist so you can pick them up on a sale.

CorrodedCranium,
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Sleeping Dogs was a lot of fun. Kind of like Grand Theft Auto but more serious and a focus on martial arts.

Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

A man who never eats pork bun is never a whole man.

vulgarcynic,
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As a reddit refuge and former long time troller of r/sleepingdogs, this warmed my heart. Ty stranger.

minibyte,

Thanks for the reminder that both of these games are sitting in my backlog.

Bugger, do gaming w Open world games, need recommendations
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Perhaps you may or may not enjoy Space Asshole Red Faction: Guerilla. It’s a 2009 game that got a solid enough PC port that may run on weaker systems. There’s a remastered version but if you’re aiming for low-spec the original might be a better bet.

Anyway, it’s an open world set on Mars and you go around wreaking havoc and blowing up buildings with ahead-of-its-time physics/destruction mechanics. The combat is more like a shooter and you play with lots of explosives. It’s not a huge map by standards today but is a big enough playground to keep one occupied.

account_93,

It’s also on the Switch!

ObsidianZed,

I’ll never not upvote Red Faction.

Trainguyrom, do astronomy w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.

My wife only went because I was hellbent on seeing the eclipse at totality (we saw the last October’s eclipse and 2017 both from around 90% coverage). Afterwards she said “the Grand canyon ain’t got shit on a solar eclipse” and we are both still in shock for how amazing of an experience it was.

The wonky colors as day slowly turned to night, the sudden whooshing shadow as totality began, the burning ring of fire in the sky then the light whooshing back as totality ended, the cacophony of yelps by folks too slow to put their eclipse glasses back on. It was a hell of an experience

rolaulten,

I’m in a similar boat. Flew across the country because after “missing” 2017s I immediately felt regret. Now I’m debating Europe in 2026.

But the colors. Can someone who understands this stuff please explain to me why a simple reduction in light in the lead up to (and following) totality makes all the colors seem “wrong”?

Kichae,

Ot depends on which colours you mean.

Fizz, do gaming w Open world games, need recommendations
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Dark souls 1. No other game made exploring the world so exciting. I was checking every single nook and cranny because the game isn’t afraid to give you good gear if you look. The combat can be frustrating but the further you get the easier the game gets. Also definitely follow a build guide if it’s your first ds game.

smeg,

Note that Dark Souls games are absolute Marmite. I’m aware that some people praise them as the greatest games ever made, but I had a terrible experience playing DS1 and have no desire to touch another one!

Fizz,
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Fair play I love marmite.

smeg,

and that’s good, I’m always happy to see completely different kinds of games get attention even if they’re not my cup of tea

UnbrokenTaco, do gaming w Open world games, need recommendations

Have you looked at “immortals: Fenix rising”?

It has borrowed many elements from botw but with a lot of the “Ubisoft open world formula” on top. I really enjoyed it. The combat is deeper than botw in the traditional sense but I found it responsive and easy to learn. The “shrine” equivalents also had some interesting and unique challenges too.

sleepybisexual,

Looks like a good game, just don’t have the power to run it and no way I’m giving Nintendo any more money

UnbrokenTaco,

It’s an Ubisoft game but you can usually get it for pretty cheap second hand for your switch if you’re against giving Nintendo more money

sleepybisexual,

Local market kinda sucks,

soulsource,
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I would recommend to play this on Switch though. That’s because, unlike the PC version, the Switch version can be played without an Ubisoft Account. All one has to do is to disconnect the Switch from the internet, and suddenly the game runs without login.

sleepybisexual,

Would play it. Just don’t have enough emulator power

Kichae, do astronomy w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.

So, apparently Potato World is actually open today, unannounced. So, just this once, everybody lives I really can have it all

Kichae,

False alarm. They just have an inflatable planetarium set up inside. No potato displays at all :(

soupspoon,

This was a roller coaster of emotions! I had to look up Potato World after that and saw Col. Chris Hadfield is giving a speech nearby this evening

Kichae,

He is! Though I’m not sure how anyone has anything left in the tank after the eclipse for a talk, even from him

AnUnusualRelic,
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“Potatoes throughout the universe! This week only at potato world!”

gimpchrist, do astronomy w After 30 years, I'm finally going to see a total solar eclipse. Also, Potato World is a thing.
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Hello from someone who lives in New brunswick! Small world

Kichae,

You’ve had Potato World all this time, and you didn’t share it with your neighbours??!?

zammy95,

I feel like no one else in the comments cares. I’m so VERY interested in Potato World.

I mean, not as much as in the eclipse, but still VERY interested.

Kichae,

Right??!?

And it’s a pretty big place, all things considered. But it’s seemingly only open from September to mid-October.

gimpchrist,
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That seems like a reasonably potato filled kind of time down here in Canada

gimpchrist,
@gimpchrist@lemmy.world avatar

I honestly had no idea, I figured potato world is just what we called Pei

yesman, do games w How do you play classic Mortal Kombat?

On the SNES, green blood and all.

nokturne213, (edited )

SEGA Genesis here. And i always preferred the original 3 button controller for Mortsl Kombat over the 6 button.

ETA: ABACABB

DABDA,

I haven’t looked into it but that code has to be a creative reference to the Genesis album/song “Abacab.”

MIDItheKID, do games w Which Mortal Kombat games across the years should I start with?

Probably “Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero”. Definitely the peak of Mortal Kombat as a whole, and defined everything we know about the series.

And for the love of Christ, /s if anybody didn’t pick up on it.

lung,
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I played this as a child it was brutal

Vordus, do gaming w Feel like a weak year for games?

The problem you’ve got is that the two lists that you’re looking at are ones with concrete release dates, and we’re currently in the period of the year where the release dates are the hardest to come by. Basically everyone’s either just started their fiscal Q1 and so have a completely clear slate, or like Microsoft have just started their Fiscal Q4 which means all they’ve got left on the slate are the delayed stragglers.

Panda, do gaming w Feel like a weak year for games?

Not sure about the upcoming months but I felt like 2024 started off with quite a few games coming out one after another, including Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth, Helldivers 2, Last Epoch and Dragon’s Dogma 2.

And Manor Lords is coming out this month as well.

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