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eneff, do games w Day 468 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

I rarely interact with these post, but I read them every time. Keep them coming, this is top shelf content. Thank you! ~

Oofnik,

100% agree with the above!

Jackhammer_Joe,

101% agree with the above

viral.vegabond, do games w Preserving Play: How Eden Grew Into the Switch Emulator Everyone’s Talking About (my interview with the devs)

Oh, awesome! I’m checking this one out later for sure 😁

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

I hope you enjoy it!

codexarcanum, do games w Why would I buy this?

This kind of thing is why I dont get excited for steam sales now. Oh, 50% off Recent AAA Game? Haha, yeah, half off the base price, but the entire game is DLC now and each of those is still full price, and there’s a dozen of them.

warm,

AAA is just cash grab, they haven't been good or innovative games for a long, long time now. They are very good at marketing to the masses though and they have the pricing tiers laid out perfectly to extract as much money from people as they can.

They start off with their massive price tag like $70-80, plus the deluxe editions for $100-120 for any suckers who want a fucking extra skin. Then after a couple months when sales slow down, they put it on sale for like 20% off, then a couple months more, its like 40% off and so on. DLC has kind of fallen off, as they get people stuck in the battle pass and cosmetic buying loop instead (people are crazy).

If a AAA game looks interesting to you at all, you are literally best just waiting a few months or more, it's a win-win, you either buy it it's actual value or you get the reviews that its a disgusting broken mess or was completely over-hyped (it's these last two 99% of the time).

Steam sales are for getting them older games a bit cheaper, good indie games are worth their price tag multiple times over honestly so unless you are tight on money, I'd support the developer regardless of sales.

Hond, do games w Darkenstein 3D free on Steam

Ugh, not available in my country because of stupid laws. My steam account is old enough to vote and drink liquor. But god forbid i could see the shop page of a game which wasnt rated properly.

dukemirage,

The dev/publisher is working on a solution and is considering the USK rating.

Hond,

Sweet. I didnt want to throw any shade towards the developer btw. Just in case.

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Games designed to be one thing, but are commonly played other than intended?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Just remembered all the servers for Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy that were dedicated to polite dueling. You had a big etiquette to follow if you wanted to do lightsaber battles. If you attacked someone with their lightsaber off you got banned instantly. Those servers were mostly used for chatting.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Those were basically the reason I played the game so much back in the day. The lightsaber combat was insanely good. I especially liked the ones that only allowed the Force Jump and Force Throw powers, so it was pure melee combat and not just throwing each other around or zapping a dude with lightning from across the arena.

False, do games w Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations)

I installed one that gives me 1000 rosaries when I press f3. I came to the conclusion that being able to buy things was more about grinding than anything else, and I didn’t enjoy it.

Technically cheating I guess but I don’t think it really makes the game any easier.

bamboo,

I might not be as far (just past act 1), but I haven’t felt the need to grind rosaries (yet). A bunch of times I’d be exploring for an hour and notice I have like 500+ rosaries, and then I get them made into strands till I have to spend them. I don’t think I’ve seen anything on sale for more than 800 rosaries, Maybe it’s different later in the game but at least in the beginning of the game, it doesn’t feel like a chore.

caseofthematts,

I suppose my experience may be different than others, I’m at the tail end of Act 3 and I have yet to grind for rosaries or shards. I remember people saying I’d need to do that, and I never have.

janewaydidnothingwrong,

I do the shard grind but that’s because I love messing around with the tools. Luckily I can farm 500-1000 rosaries relatively quickly and that lets me buy a full stock of shards and a backup of consumables if I do 1k

SnoringEarthworm,

My second run through, I knew what I needed to buy vs what I could come back for later.

Didn’t need to farm rosaries until the end of Act 2, when it was easy because of the tall bugs outside the gay robot boss room.

NavySqueal, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced
@NavySqueal@lemmy.world avatar

Extremely scummy to not even list the price, but I shouldn’t be surprised since it appears they are going to milk whoever still has autosub on for an extra 10 bucks.

ChickenLadyLovesLife, do gaming w What game changed your life?

I actually found Lemmings to be a game that changed my life. I played it just before I became a professional programmer. Solving Lemmings puzzles is not exactly like programming, but it does teach you that there is a solution and if you just keep persistently trying different shit, you will eventually solve the problem. Also, it actually helps to be high as a kite all the time.

HugeNerd,

I loved Lemmings on the Amiga. A similar but much less frenetic game is Loderunner.

Jinarched, do gaming w What game changed your life?
@Jinarched@lemmy.ca avatar

Dance Dance Revolution 3rd mix. It sounds stupid, I know, but hear me out. I really sucked at this game at first. My friends use to play every weekends at the arcade, so I really wanted to get better. So I really trained hard and became the best player in our group. People gattered around the arcade when I was playing. I was good enough for tournaments.

Now when I face something difficult, I’m confident I can overcome it if I really want to. I wasn’t like that before. Thanks Konami.

silasmariner, do gaming w What game changed your life?

Braid.

I won’t ruin it, but – it is not the usual ending.

SleepyPie,

My mouth was open in awe for like 10 minutes. Granted I was a teenager at the time and easily impressed

TheMinions, do gaming w What game changed your life?

Mass Effect.

3’s ending didn’t quite stick the landing, on launch, but was fixed a few months down the line with the Extended Cut DLC.

1 and 2 were amazing. 1 especially had a great ending.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge,
@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub avatar

3 was amazing too. I hate that muh ending ruined another romp with the crew for most reviewers.

It was more of 2 with QOL, and it was grand, a little emo tho.

TheMinions,

Truthfully the weakest and strongest part of ME2 is that nothing that impacts the overall plot happens basically at all.

At the start of the first game, the Council is shown irrefutable proof of the existence of Reapers.

Then the second game fully focuses on doing side missions and expanding lore, without anything directly related to the Reapers (Excluding Arrival DLC).

Then 3 has you actually confront the Reapers.

2 is likely my favorite of the games, if only because I love the set pieces, lore, gameplay, all the squad members, and the difficulty level of insanity.

But the ending of 1 with M4 Pt 2 by Faunts playing was just so incredibly like the meme in the post haha. I do also get the same vibe for the ending of Mass Effect 2.

Furbag,

Ending aside, I disliked 3 because of the forced over-the-shoulder perspective in missions. It made the combat, and more importantly the sections in between combat encounters, feel awkward and rushed.

e8d79,
@e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

ME3 not quite sticking the landing is an understatement. I mostly remember the awful unskippable dream sequences, Shepard suddenly becoming utterly incompetent whenever that mall-ninja cerberus assassin pops up in a cinematic, and to top it of the nonsensical red-green-blue ending. I tried to replaying it last year but couldn’t get any further than the second mission because I just got annoyed.

TheMinions,

I think the Dream Sequences were a little too long, but were a good way of showing Shep’s survivor guilt.

Especially if you lose any crewmates in the Suicide Mission.

I will agree that the whole Star-child, Crucible, Kai Leng stuff was all pretty poorly expanded upon and should have been better.

Krauerking, do gaming w What's the video game equivalent of fast food?

Any game like vampire survivors.
Passive bullet hells.

Literally people say its the thing they play when they dont have the energy for something else the way that people use fast food to replace cooking.
Easy to spin up and there are so many knockoffs that are “fine” but barely different.

It’s easy and pretty much automatic but filled with dopamine giving stimuli even if it wears off really fast. It makes it about as addictive as fast food too.

aeronmelon, do gaming w Wait, that's illegal

boss restores its health

boss restores its mana

boss changes color

music suddenly has lyrics

tiramichu,

the lyrics are a choir singing in Latin

n0respect,

cast blizzard

cast blizzarda

cast blizzardaga

dammit where’s my grape juice

ghostlychonk, do games w Happy Birthday!

Are they just talking about Super Mario Bros.? Because Mario is like 44 now.

TachyonTele,

Yes. Super Mario Bros (pictured) came out in 1985.

That was 40 years ago.

jj4211,

Right, but it says “Mario”, and that was not the first game that featured the character.

TachyonTele,

That's literally the box art for Super Mario Bro. (1985)

You playing concerned and ignorant doesn't change what it is.

__nobodynowhere,
@__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works avatar

The first appearance of “Mario” is in Donkey Kong (1981) where he is named “Jumpman”. The first game in which the character is named “Mario” is Mario Brothers (1983), an arcade game. Mario didn’t become a household name until Super Mario Bros. (1985) on the NES.

TachyonTele,

That's cool

FartMaster69, do games w Favorite Modded Console?

The PSVita is amazing modded, it has full support for running ps1 and psp games and psp home brew as well.

The vita home brew scene is also pretty crazy.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

Simply modding it to have expanded storage is fantastic. I have a PSTV hooked up to my hanging room TV (basically like a firestick/chromecast) since it doesn’t need to sit on anything.

It kinda serves the same purpose as that PS1 Classic, except better in almost every way.

FartMaster69,

Expanded storage is such a godsend for the Vita.

Fuck those stupid memory cards lol

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