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Spacemanspliff, do games w Recommendations for Pacific Northwest Themed Games?

Days gone

Sunny,
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I do like me some apocalypse. Thanks 😁

TheLightItBurns,

I just finished Days Gone earlier this week, and that game was solid. I wish I played it sooner.

Spacemanspliff,

I slept on it for a real real long time, had it in my library for like a year before I got around to it. Ended up getting platinum on it my first playthrough I liked it so much.

sebinspace, do games w The PlayStation 2

Bought a Steam Deck, first thing I did was put a PS2 emulator on it. Loving every second.

MamboGator, (edited )
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Same here. I find it isn’t powerful enough for a lot of modern PC games unless you drop the settings, but it’s amazing for retro and emulation. I’m living in 2004 again.

Katana314, do games w Controversy and Censorship

There’s such thing as consumer-driven censorship.

Let’s say that I’m a game developer, and also a terrible person. After beating my game, it shows a victory screen that says “You know, Hitler might have been right!” Everyone will shit on the game; and that’s just normal player reaction.

Now, it’s easy to predict that no one would be so negative towards giant exposed breasts - except yes, plenty of people are. For all the porn-obsessed pervs out there, tons of people just want to enjoy an action adventure game without cringing distractions.

Don’t believe me? Look at Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The game lost a bunch of its potential sales to players that might enjoy a sweeping JRPG, but couldn’t stand frequent boob/butt shots of its overendowed and subservient female main character.

eestileib, do games w Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game!

Looks like a great opportunity for non credibility.

neidu2,

I’ve played it a lot, and I can confirm that it has loads of NCD potential

SRo, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

They always sucked

Wahots, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Whales spend tens of thousands of dollars on p2w bullshit. It’s all unregulated gambling.

noob_dragon, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

Probably the only good mobile games are ports of console/pc games. There are some surprising ports, like the KOTOR games, medieval 2 total war, and lots of square enix’s older catalogue. Fortnite, genshin impact, and pubg are probably the biggest games on mobile right now. But yeah nothing really worth going out of your way for, or even bother with at all, if you already have a gaming pc or steam deck.

Maayybee the only real usecase is if you are going backpacking and want to bring some games into the backcountry with you without lugging a steam deck along lol. Digital board games like Root and Wingspan would work well there and have pass around modes if you are with friends. Just remember to bring a battery bank with you, or a portable solar cell.

skulblaka,
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I truly don’t understand how people are playing games like Fortnite or Genshin on a phone and enjoying themselves. That’s probably the single worst possible interface to play the game on, that’s like showing up to a counterstrike tournament with a racing wheel. I can’t even play Minecraft on my phone without getting extremely quickly frustrated and Minecraft doesn’t give half a shit about your reaction time or accuracy most of the time. If you want me to play an FPS on a touch screen I’m just gonna take the L and save myself the trouble, it’s not happening.

tamlyn, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
@tamlyn@lemmy.zip avatar

The short answer is, because they make money.

chameleon, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
@chameleon@kbin.social avatar

If you're a gamedev trying to make a decent mobile game, you're competing on all the usual fronts like price and perceived quality, but competing for attention has gotten a whole lot harder when [arbitrary card game] has a hour of dailies, [arbitrary gacha game] always has a special campaign going and [arbitrary fake gambling game] is about to have its battle pass end and they're only halfway through. And that has gone up by so, so much over the past decade. It was never good but it's gotten absolutely egregious. At this point, even any generic snake clone will have a battle pass.

Every person that ends up committed to a couple of those long-term-commitment games ends up having much less time for other games. And they make a lot of money, which means they also end up having a hell of a marketing budget.

autumn, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?
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assuming “PC” doesn’t count… i’ll be a basic bitch and say nintendo switch. it’s the one i’ve played the most games on.

tamlyn,
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I’m not the OP, but if you had the most fun on PC, it’s for me the only correct answer.

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
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Has it ever been better?

What happened was that they made a fuckton of money that way.

Ports of older PC games are also often quite good.

popcar2,

Has it ever been better?

Actually, yes, by a big margin. Back in ~2011 mobile games were actually trying to be great. Games like Edge Extended, World of Goo, Bounce Boing Voyage, Zenonia 2 & 3, etc.

I remember early Humble Bundles being full of exciting games for mobile, now you’ll be lucky to find just one of them that isn’t filled to the brim with MTX or ads.

erwan,

Survival of the fittest. As is, the type of game that makes the more money.

DJDarren,

I remember buying Bioshock on my iPhone way back in the mists of time, before decent controller support existed for iOS. The on screen controls weren’t great, so I didn’t spend much time playing it, always planning to come back at some point.

Then it got removed from the App Store so completely that it disappeared from my purchased list, and that was that.

Dudewitbow,

i mean its not like you cant go onto the mobile store and buy games like stardew valley or terraria. its just that pay to play games have taken a back seat due to the profitability of free to play games.

thejml, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

The OLED dock has an Ethernet port. They’ll work with non-OLED switches so you could buy one if you need the port.

The two USB’s on the side of the case seem sufficient for most use cases. Might be able to add a tiny usb hub if need be, there’s a few tiny ones fore less than $9.

Ergonomics are a bit odd, but the 3DS had similar issues as well. I ended up 3d printing ergonomics grips for my 3ds and I know they have something similar for the switch. I feel like they were towing a line between OTG usability and being able to hold the joycons in multiple orientations (think just dance, 1-2 switch, Mario party, 51 games, etc), or in different accessories (not sure how well an ergo one would work in a leg strap with the ring fit).

Edit: also the first thing I did was buy a cheap 128GB micro SD and never look back. Sure it probably would her been nice if it wasn’t needed, but it’s swappable and it’s cheaper than if they built it in.

sleepybisexual,

Mine has a SD too. Also not sending that much cash on a dock. I has a dongle,

stembolts, (edited ) do gaming w A personal argument for a benefit of gaming

Boop beep I got delete. .

Berttheduck, do gaming w Flashy, simple souls like?

Check out Furi.

It’s a flashy boss rush style game. A bit bullet hell a bit brawler. Might scratch that itch for you.

You could also try Sifu, it’s got really slick skill based combat and interesting bosses.

flashgnash,

Furi looks like exactly my kind of game. I will have to to give it a go, thank you for the suggestion

vulgarcynic,
@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works avatar

This was my first thought as well! Good call.

dogslayeggs, do games w [Gamers Nexus] Dragon's Dogma 2 is a Mess: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, Bottlenecks, & Crashes

One of the few times I’m happy to be limited to gaming on a console. The PS5 version hasn’t had any performance issues or crashes for me.

Pra,

Yeah pretty unfortunate there’s all this hubbub around the game with mtx and poor optimization… The game at its core I’m in love with.

dogslayeggs,

My only complaints are the inability to buy back something you sold to a vendor (not realistic) coupled with the limited carrying capacity. I didn’t have enough space to carry around a bunch of copper, silver, and iron ore at the same time, so I sold off the iron. Now I need the iron ore to upgrade a weapon but can’t find any and can’t buy it back. I know I can go online and find where nodes are or whatever, but if we’re going by the rule of “it’s not realistic to fight and run like normal if you are carrying around a really heavy pack” and “it’s not realistic to fast travel everywhere” then we should be able to buy back what we sold at an inflated price.

Pra,

Yeah I feel you there are a lot of features that I feel they could and the game still be “realistic” like they claim. I’m not sure if you know though, you can store items at inns and with the weight limit being what it is, it has forced me to be less of a loot goblin and not just picking everything up in a square mile. Buying back from vendors would be cool, but it’s also a pretty common mechanic to be missing from games too.

RageAgainstTheRich,

I dont know if you know, but at the inn you can put items in a storage that you can access at every inn and some other places. Just put everything except quest stuff and healing potions in it :)

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Honestly? Put most of your healing stuff there too. You are going to get a LOT more resources than you need in the early/mid game and are going to be glad it is there in the late/endgame.

Dragon’s Dogma is very much about the long journey to a vaguely known destination. Your personal inventory is very much a balance between traveling light enough to make good time and pick up items with having enough resources to survive whatever encounters you meet along the way.

dogslayeggs,

I didn’t know that… that completely changes my game.

echo64,

Putting (not realistic) after your first sentence, there was a little funny. That’s not something that happens in real life

dogslayeggs,

What do you mean it doesn’t happen in real life? Think about the times you’ve sold something to a company. Doesn’t happen very often, right? It is likely only selling a car to a dealer or maybe going into a pawn shop or baseball card store or used clothing store. Every one of those places will let you buy it back at an inflated price if they haven’t sold it yet.

Nosavingthrow,

You get scrap iron from Skeletons. Also, why not just put mats into storage? You

thedirtyknapkin,

You can buy back a lot of stuff, but only from the scrap merchant in the border town. The new black cat guy. Valuable things that you sell will end up in his shop sometimes, though I don’t know when or why yet.

any1th3r3,

Performance issues are definitely present in the console versions of the game, albeit not 4-5s stutters and whether you notice framerate drops or they bother you or not is a different thing entirely I suppose.

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