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shyguyblue, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?

An oldie but goldie: Grim Fandango

You drive your character like a tank, up moves him forward from his perspective, though there might be a setting to change that, it’s been years.

When you walk around the environment, Manny will turn his head to look at interactive objects, then you have “interact”, “examine”, or “pickup”.

The inventory screen is a close up of his jacket, where he reaches in a pulls something out. Hit the “next item” keyboard shortcut and he puts that object back into his jacket, and pulls out the next item.

Example of inventory screen: static.wikia.nocookie.net/…/MarkedCard.jpg

TheSambassador,

The remaster of Grim Fandango does make the control scheme more modern (movement direction is camera relative), though you can switch to tank controls if you want.

Carighan, do games w Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Review Thread
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Damn.

This seems to be down to “do you like Ubisoft games” (the genre)? If yes, you’ll love this. If not, you’ll be bored out of your mind.

kromem,

The Rock, Paper review in particular seemed to resonate a lot with what I suspect I’d end up feeling when it talked about how glad the reviewer was to not have to keep playing the game any longer.

I don’t mind the core elements of Ubi’s design, but they’ve recently been cranking the dial on the repetition to 11 to the point I find myself exhausted by continuing to play their games to the end.

FC3 was the perfect amount of Ubisoft.

I was really hoping for something more like FC3 meets Avatar and not FC6/AC:Valhalla meets Avatar, which looking at the reviews is what they delivered.

Pietson, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Humongous entertainment

HipsterTenZero, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

The 3 Bs, baby. Blizzard, Bioware, and Bethesda.

Blizzards dead to me, Bioware fell off after dragon age 1, and Bethesda refuses to take its limiters off anymore (no drugs)

Telorand,

I’m enjoying heavily-modded DA:I, but I do feel like DA1 had some better writing and direction.

HipsterTenZero,
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

The only thing I can remember from inquisition is trudging through some high level desert looking for high level rocks (which very blatantly cut their drop rate from earlier zones) so that I could make an armor and weapon that still sucked and looked like pajamas.

also that the party loves to litter

Dalek_Thal,
@Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone avatar

Any recommendations for mods? I’m putting together a new build for it ahead of my semi-annual replay of the trilogy

Telorand,

Yeah, definitely!

I’ll skip the skins, because I assume you’ll want to pick your own that fit your tastes, but you can find all of these at NexusMods. Some of my favorites are:

  • Speed Launch
  • 60 fps in cutscenes
  • No fall damage
  • Infinite Respec Amulet
  • Party At The Winter Palace
  • Shorter War Table Missions (75%)
  • Party Banter Time (5-10min)
  • All Bard songs for CC Music
  • Stay still in CC - Natural Edition
  • Face Ash Begone
  • Bugs Be Gone
  • Skills Enhanced by NinjaReborn
  • Inventory Capacity

You’ll also need Frosty Mod Manager to set all those up (they seem to work for me in the order I listed) and Frosty Fix.

  • Set up the mods and load order in FrostyMM, and close.
  • Launch Frosty Fix.
  • Choose the profile/pack you want.
  • Mash go.
  • FrostyMM should open back up.
  • Open the pack you created.
  • The game should launch automatically with the mods correctly enabled.

All these mods feel “vanilla-ish” and shouldn’t spoil the original experience to any significant degree.

Coelacanth, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

Bullfrog for Populous and Dungeon Keeper (ruined by EA).

Troika for Arcanum and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines (ruined by Activision).

weew,

I only remember Syndicate from Bullfrog

TonyHawksPoTater, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
@TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social avatar

Neversoft, Rareware, Sega, Activision, EA, and Bethesda created a lot of great memories from my childhood. Neversoft is defunct, Sega still makes some decent stuff but nowhere near what they did in the 90s, EA is EA, and the rest are now owned by Microsoft... so...

perishthethought,

I just got THPS3 for windows (from Neversoft) running on my Ubuntu pc yesterday. So much fun, I find a way to play it once every ten years or so.

TonyHawksPoTater,
@TonyHawksPoTater@kbin.social avatar

THPS1 and THPS3 are untouchable masterpieces. The Tony Hawk license never faltered when they were in charge.

magnetosphere, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

As soon as I saw the title, I was gonna say Maxis, too. I like how they called their games “software toys”.

stoy, do games w Whats your favorite Main Menu music?

Unreal Tournament 2004:

youtu.be/uTFfxtb7q4M

Kraivo,

It wasn’t great. It was just good in sense of it’s time. Some of those music still instantly wakes me up and turns into hunting machine

stoy,

I have the entire soundtrack in my music library, Hyperblast 2 Redeux is awesome.

I also regularly play UT2004 online, DM-Deck17 is my favourite original map, amazing flow, it just goes hard.

Kraivo,

My favourite forever will be Gerudo valley remix from one of the custom games

But i know more song from original soundtrack

swordsmanluke, do games w What moment from a video game made you cry?

The ending of Limbo when I realized what that game had been about left me fucked up for weeks.

Similarly, the bathtub scene in What Remains of Edith Finch ensures I can never play that game again.

Grass, do games w What moment from a video game made you cry?

Shaauuunn! Shaun! Shaauuunn! Shaaauuun! Shauuun! Shaauuunn!

Ninjasftw, do games w What moment from a video game made you cry?

Titanfall2. Damn I got attached to BT

overthebrink90,

PROTOCOL 3

Th4tGuyII,
@Th4tGuyII@kbin.social avatar

I almost forgot about this - I was surprised how quickly I got attached to BT in such a short time

HipsterTenZero, do games w What moment from a video game made you cry?
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

Bastion’s near-ending, if you forgive

spoilerZulf and his boys gradually stop trying to off you.

simple,

Still remember this moment 10 years later. I never liked that character but it still hit me in the feels.

Quetzalcutlass,

!When the last guy to attack you gets smacked down by his own men and the rest just watch in silence as you leave.!<

dan_the_accountant, do games w What were your top favorite video games as a kid?

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past

Super Mario Sunshine

Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages

Golden Sun 1 and 2

These are the games that made my childhood great!

skybreaker,
@skybreaker@lemmy.world avatar

Golden sun games are so good. I wish that series would get a revival

JAWNEHBOY,

Oh golden sun was such a gem. My parents bought it used for cheap and I had such low expectations - spent so many hours playing through the storyline as a kid it has to be the best playtime/$ investment in my lifetime so far.

Definitely going to go hunt down Golden Sun 2 now

victron, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 26th
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I’m replaying Prey (2017) and Fire Emblem Awakening. Also, some Super Mario Wonder, when my children and wife are not hogging the switches.

Xero, (edited ) do gaming w How are you all playing these insanely complex games?
@Xero@infosec.pub avatar

I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with Wyll as my mage, and two custom hirelings that I brought in to replace Shadowheart the cleric, and the vampire thief guy who I was really liking up until he tried to bite me. So I killed him. Also thinking about letting Gale starve to death because I’d rather sell surplus magic items. The heroic characters talked too fucking much, and I didn’t appreciate all their drama. Hirelings are quiet and they kill who I want them to kill without complaing about it.

I’m playing a half-drow elemental monk who somehow learned to play the lute and lyre. He’s black because I’m black, which is also why I wanted Wyll. I found a cowboy hat somewhere. Cowboy monk

Necronomicommunist,

The best playstyle is to do whatever the fuck you want, and this is it.

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