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altkey, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

Singleplayer games with time-based farming simulator minigames you won’t complete without gaming the date\time in your system (easter eggs are welcome tho). Grindy platinum achievements well outside even a dedicated minority’s norms, just getting bigger numbers or save skamming for opposing endings. Button-mashers with an undisclosed randomization of a final result under the hood.

apotheotic,

Toby Fox was forced to add trophies to the PlayStation release of undertale and deltarune, and made them oppressively annoying in protest, so I feel like there are exceptions to this

SatansMaggotyCumFart, do gaming w You would think the dinosaurs would have been a greater discovery then the artifact she is chasing

Tomb raider came out six years after the Jurassic Park movie so Lara Croft knew what she was doing.

catsarebadpeople, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact
@catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works avatar

Good. Your choices are bad

MITM0, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

I am happy that it’s a Peripeteia developer saying this. The game is a mess (because it’s Early access) & needs a looooot if optimization, but boy it’s something else.

Gives me Ghost in the Shell vibes

bjoern_tantau, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Due to Long Covid I can only lay in bed and most games are too intense for me. So I actually do watch let’s plays.

I really like Welonz. She has a really nice mix of indies and big titles, regularly tries out a great variety of games. She is very thorough and while she might not find all the secrets she will go out of her way to show alternate endings and stuff. And she has an interesting voice, so rumor has it that she is actually a ten year old boy.

darkguyman,

While I have no problems with let’s plays, I still feel like they’re kinda subjective. No commentary playthroughs are on the opposite end of the spectrum but I feel really really bored watching them and I can’t say the same for let’s plays.

linrilang, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

23% played? That’s basically 100% by Steam standards. You’ve officially made it.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yeah, I have far fewer games and have played a lower percent of the ones I have. There are just so many bundles that have one or two games I do want and I just add the rest to my library.

grrgyle, do games w Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop

Perhaps this is a weird part to single out, but it surprised me

I mainly played on the 3DS from when I was 6 until I was 15, so I don’t have as much experience with other consoles.
[…]
The 3DS was simply Nintendo’s best era, and I don’t think we’ll see anything like that again given the current direction of their latest consoles…

Curious if others agree. I would’ve thought that it would be the SNES era, but that’s probably betraying my age more than anything.


Great article! On par with gaming publications, and actually probably better than most Nintendo Power articles I remember from back in the day. Great job!!

Daughter3546,

I guess nostalgia really is one hell of a drug. I am in my 30s and I view the GBA and NDS as the best Nintendo consoles.

skankhunt42,
@skankhunt42@lemmy.ca avatar

30s. GameCube, gameboy colour, n64, and xbox360. If I had to pick one it’d be n64.

Zoomboingding,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

Rofl this is what I most disagreed with as well. 3DS certainly had some bangers, but I think many would list it among the weakest first-party lineups

alk,

I’m in my 30’s and I think I agree with this. The amount of bangers for the 3ds is insane, and the virtual console lineups on both the 3ds and wii u were unmatched any time before or after. Even today, the 3ds is the best console to buy used and hack. You have QR-code access to ALL titles, including virtual console titles. It’s a Nintendo emulation powerhouse. Technically you can do all of that on the switch, but it’s much harder to do, much harder to get content, and not nearly as many things are compatible.

grrgyle,

I never had one but sounds like I missed out. I also wasn’t thinking of rereleases or emulation.

alk,

I actually never had one while it was “recent” (I skipped from the ds to the switch) but I’ve since bought a refurbished one and loaded custom firmware (very simple compared to other consoles) and played some of the top rated games and a few niche ones. I fell in love, and I use it for emulation of other Nintendo consoles up to N64 and all handheld consoles. I’m even working on a full living pokedex using only a 3ds and a switch, which is completely legit using Pokémon bank and Pokémon home and the virtual console, all official Nintendo software.

missingno,
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I'd say the DS was the best handheld of all time, and GBA was close behind it. 3DS had its share of bangers, but if you compare its library to the DS it's not even close.

3DS was the era where we started to see the conflict between handhelds being a place for experimental low budget titles, versus the need for larger budgets on better hardware. This also just made it more difficult to juggle supporting handheld and console platforms at the same time. And halfway through the system's lifespan, mobile gaming exploded in popularity, which really ate into the system's marketshare. There's a very observable trend in how third party support kept dropping over time.

grrgyle,

Username tells me you know your stuff

alk,

I’d argue that the backwards compatibility between the 3ds and ds makes the 3ds just as good as the DS if you’re counting ds games. Though if we’re talking how good the games are of each generation instead of how useful and fun each console is with all available means of play, it might be a different story.

missingno,
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I'm judging each platform's library individually. Though if you do want to look at it that way, I would still say DS + GBA > 3DS + DS.

Also, tbh, I never liked DS-on-3DS due to the screen resolution being such an awkward factor. Scaled looks awful, letterboxed is too tiny.

smeg,

Simple explanation: if you have one console full of fond childhood memories then of course that’s the one you consider to be the best!

essell, do games w Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing?

Have you considered that you don’t have to send a full message when you mistype?

People know that happens

Why are you not fighting for this?

nimble, do games w Why don't Steam or Discord offer the option to hide when we're typing?

Vencord has a plugun for this. It’s a third party discord app.

x00z,
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

Vencord is not an app by itself. It injects into Discord.

Vesktop is a client that comes with Vencord and is much easier to maintain, especially on Linux.

Taminator101, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #22

I love these posts but you health comes first. I hope things get better for you.

billbasher, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Dredge is a pretty unique one that I had a lot of fun with. Firewatch is good but short

paraphrand, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Well, that pirate guy didn’t do anything. (Unless he actually caused this, then… messy causality…)

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

He actively misrepresented the campaign and spread misinformation about its goals. I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake but he did a lot of damage to the momentum and perception of the whole thing.

It sucks these big creators only now pick up the mantle but it’s better than nothing. There’s still some time left.

SCmSTR,

I haven’t really been following it or him (I don’t really even know much, other than the gist of not wanting games to disappear when devs decide it’s too expensive to keep the servers). What did he do? Because normally he gives pretty good takes.

paris,

He wildly misunderstood/misrepresented the initiative two videos in a row (and continues to ten months later), and he continually discredits the entire initiative because of contrived edge cases.

I think this paragraph from this twitter reply really sums it up:

My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to keep all games in a “Functional Playable State” after sunsetting which is not possible for all games and could limit what kinds of games people make in the future.

The idea that creativity would be hampered because games would have to remain playable when the company shuts down servers one day is ridiculous. Can you imagine if we talked like this about anything else? “We can’t force every phone to use the same USB-C charging port because it would be too technically infeasible to do so and hamper creativity.” “We can’t outlaw CFCs because they’re useful chemicals and it would be technically infeasible for some products to be made without chlorofluorocarbons (the things that fucked up the ozone layer).” “My dislike of the initiative stems entirely from the wording to ‘make cars limit their emissions’ which is not possible for all cars and could limit what kinds of cars companies make in the future.” Ridiculous.

It’s absurd that I’m not exaggerating when I say his opposition to Stop Killing Games entirely boils down to “I think companies should be allowed to take games away because it would be really hard for them to leave some games playable when they’re done supporting them 🥺”

I used to passively like Thor, but when I watched those two videos he made last year about SKG I lost all of my respect for him.

MolochAlter,

I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake

Worse, he actively lied. In his edited video about the petition he actively misrepresents the initiative, then goes on to edit out the the part of Ross’ video that would have contradicted his misrepresentation.

This is not an innocent or negligent mistake on Thor’s part, it’s an active attempt at burial.

derpgon,

Even worse, he is a narcissistic lying piece of shit with high ego. He would never admit a slight mistake, and thinks of himself as all-knowing. Think ChatGPT - confidently lying all the time, but always doubling down.

chrislowles,

He’s like if ChatGPT hallucinations were kept in for the express purpose of profit.

Lyra_Lycan, do gaming w Honestly, it confused me at like 20

You only get to know if you’ve looked at the game manuals of old, and seen them annotated. I still refer to them as left/right stick in

cRazi_man,
@cRazi_man@europe.pub avatar

Oh yeah, push that stick right in.

victorz,

Giggety

Ziglin,

Don’t they have it the manual for the console too?

I’ve also seen the input symbol showing a stick being pressed down sometimes.

1hitsong, do gaming w Kiki
@1hitsong@lemmy.ml avatar

Game Dev 1: Let’s make a Tony Hawk Pro Skater style BMX game!

Game Dev 2: Let’s pretend it has nudity and call it BMX XXX

Gamers: Shocked Pikachu Face

ampersandrew, do games w Did nightreign flop?
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

No, it did not, and concurrent players is a very bad metric to use for something like this. They sold north of 3.5M copies. At $40 each, that’s about $100M. Even looking at concurrent players, right now, at 98k players, it’s the 14th most played game on Steam, so with the information you did use, as a paid game and not free to play, it would be hard to say that it flopped.

SolidShake,

Selling doesn’t mean anything to me. Companies don’t make a game just so people can play it for one day. (Well… Some do… (the day before))

There are LOTS of games that sold really well and then just died right away.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Typically, that’s how you’d measure a flop. Seeing as you only need two other people to play, this game isn’t dead as long as there are 3 people who want to play and a server running to facilitate them.

De_Narm,

You see, that’s your problem. Companies don’t make games for any other reason than money. Since there are no microtransactions or subscriptions available, they quite frankly don’t care if you ever play the game after you’ve purchased it.

They moved a lot of units already and considering it’s only a side game with reused assets, they made a profit. Therefore, the game by all means is a success for them, even if nobody would play anymore.

Concurrent players also shouldn’t influcene future sales by much, since you only need 3 people at a time

SolidShake,

So they won’t update it or anything?

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