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steb, do gaming w Steam Deck Owners: What’s been your favorite game that you first discovered on Steam Deck and now you can’t seem to put down?
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Of games that I've ONLY played on the SteamDeck, I think Dead Cells is probably my favourite.

guyrocket, do gaming w Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.
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Made by hardware hackers for hardware hackers.

Appoxo, do games w What are your go-to sources for game reviews and finding new games?
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ACG Reviews: youtube.com/
Gameranx (Before you buy series)
Random yt channels specializing in the genre/series while searching for reviews.

oxideseven,

ACG is my go to. I don’t think he’s ever steered me wrong.

Obviously watch some reviews he’s done of games you’ve played to see if your tastes align.

AdmiralShat,

I like ACG because it never feels like he’s trying to sell me anything

plasticcheese, do gaming w The Talos Principle 2 Review Thread

I’m 9 hours in now and loving the game. The environment is superbly designed and the puzzle are just on the right side of too difficult.

I would LOVE to see this game in VR. Walking around the megastructures would blow people’s minds.

Saying that, my performance isn’t great, but playable. Let’s hope for some optimisation patches.

match, do games w What did you think of Sea of Stars?
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Did the true ending (and then the extremely true ending). The game is so full of love for video games that it’s contagious for me and I really appreciated how much the game makers cared about it

sosodev,

Wait… there’s an extremely true ending?

drkt, do gaming w Is Star Citizen's new server meshing tech plagiarized?

SC has been working on this problem since before 2021, but no they didn’t invent the concept. They are attempting to implement it at a scale that nobody has been able to do as flawlessly as SC requires. If they pull it off, it’ll be an incredible leap.

There are no game engines that do completely seamless server meshing at the moment. SC is trying to do that.

glau, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

For ARPGs if you feel burnt by Diablo IV, I can recommend Path of Exile. Arguably the king of the genre today.

Others mentioned Grim Dawn, which has a bit slower gameplay, but a good choice nonetheless.

If you’re looking for indie ARPG, then there’s Chronicon. Nice little game that I really want to go back to again.

SkyeStarfall,

Path of exile is great because it doesn’t shy away from complexity at all, instead it does the exact opposite, it just goes balls deep. It really make for a very refreshing change to typical AAA games where your intelligence as a player doesn’t feel insulted.

Vipsu,
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I second Grim Dawn as it’s clearly labor of love from the developers and still getting updates. I also like the fact that its not live service like Path of exile meaning that it does not require online connection and can be even be modded.

It remains to be seen with GGG will do with Path of Exile 1 when they release Path of Exile 2, it would be cool if they would release something like POE Unlimited a premium version of the game that would allow people to play the first game as single player experience, mod it and host their of servers.

But in this day and age it’s much more likely that they’ll just force people to move on to their next big thing.

Tywele,

They already said that PoE 1 will stay playable.

Vipsu,
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Sure but for how long and in what state?

There’s a lot of enshittification going around with games and services with more greedy business practices and it would be naive to think GGG is immune to it. When it comes to live service games certain level of skepticism is healthy to have. Now I do hope we’ll be able to play POE1 even 10 or 20 years from now with it being just as good.

Evotech,

An arpg that doesn’t require online is actually a negative for me. I’m not going to farm content offline

Vipsu,
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To Each Their Own I guess. Single player games tend to respect players time a lot more and thus usually require a lot less grinding or farming to complete. That being said Grim Dawn does have online multiplayer and community hosted seasons.

Artemis, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 29th

Dragon Age: Origins. Haven’t played since it’s release and wanted something in the same vein as the original Baldur’s Gate…does not disappoint!

sonovebitch, do games w Looking for a survival sandbox game where you progress through technological ages

Craftopia has technological ages progression.

paddirn, do games w Looking for a survival sandbox game where you progress through technological ages

Not sure if this is what you’re talking about, but Ancestors sounds like it might meet some of that criteria.

anakin78z, do games w New icon and banner for c/Games wanted!
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What are the specs? Dimensions, resolution, format… Can it be animated?

quinten,
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Rather not animated. There are not exact dimensions given by Lemmy as far as I know. I would suggest to follow the image size of !technology

Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w I tried over 20 Steam Next demos so that you don't have to!

OP, really appreciate your write up and going through each game!

Just reading your minicivilization review makes me both excited and scared for my time.

DestinyGrey,

Thanks! As someone corrected me, it it “Microcivilization”, my b on the misnaming.

Schaedelbach, do games w Just an observation on game engines

I always wondered on what engine the first Xenoblade Chronicles is running. Absolutely massive beautiful landscapes and it runs absolutely smooth even on the 3Ds! No pop ins either!

ioney,

they made a totally new and optimized engine for those games

The most difficult part of the development was getting the game’s scale to work within the new hardware. This entailed the creation of a new graphics engine with a custom visibility culling and complex level of detail systems. All of the environments were rebuilt and optimized for the new system while keeping the original aesthetic intact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoblade_Chronicles_(video_game)

Ashen44, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?

I only purchase full price games under one of 2 conditions. Either it’s a series that I deeply love and know for certain will always put out quality games (Zelda, Mario, Monster Hunter) or it’s a game that is extremely well reviewed and doesn’t go on sale (factorio, other Nintendo games)

As for whether I believe a game I’ve purchased was worth it, I don’t equate hours invested to price worthiness, but rather my overall enjoyment. I’ve put too many hours into games I regret ever buying (Ark) and played some games that were far too short but I would’ve paid double for (Outer Wilds). Rather, I believe it’s how much the game affects you when you come out of it. Ark was a frustrating, grindy experience, but Outer Wilds literally changed who I am as a person. When I play something like Sonic Frontiers I come out in awe, and giddy with how much excitement that game gave me, but when I play something like Elder Scrolls Online, I don’t dislike it but I don’t feel anything special. Frontiers was absolutely a worthy purchase but ESO was not, because one really affected me and the other, even though I wouldn’t call it a bad game, just didn’t really do anything to me.

tal,
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Either it’s a series that I deeply love and know for certain will always put out quality games

Just about every lengthy series I’ve seen has had some lemons (which is why I really think that the practice of preordering is a terrible idea).

Zelda

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPn3LIe2e3w

Ashen44,

Oh of course I never pre-order, but Zelda and Mario have not had any bad main games in the past decade so I don’t feel worried about buying them on release.

Butterbee, do gaming w When was a game's price worth it to you?
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A certain number of hours reached is a fairly easy metric to use and it works great for a lot of games. But let me tell you about Senua’s Sacrifice… that game is short. It was only $20 or something and 8 hours to play through. But it made me ugly cry at the ending. It was so emotionally charged I just sobbed for the girl. That was definitely worth the price.

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