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uninvitedguest, do gaming w What game genre would you like to see more entrants in?
@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca avatar

When I saw your title, space combat games are immediately what came to mind.

I adored the space operas that were FreeSpace and FreeSpace 2 (VIP Volition). I would love for something along those lines. Add in a little bit more management, some rpg/progression elements, even pilot/FPS sections, and it’s dream game for me. It’s one of the reasons I was so excited (and let down by) Star Citizen.

tal, (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

It’s not dead as a genre, but I was in a conversation the other day on the Fediverse – don’t remember whether it was this community or not – trying to figure out what happened to the space combat genre. One guess was that it was just a really good match for the hardware limitations of the time. In space, there often isn’t a lot of stuff near you, so you can get away with making 3D games that don’t have to render all that many objects. And they were popular in the early days of 3D hardware, around the late 1990s and early 2000s. So maybe some of it was that developers would have done other genres, but that hardware limitations pushed more towards space combat.

I think that some of it has to do with a sort of societal interest in space. In the 1950s and successive decades, humanity entering space was very new, was a completely new frontier – maybe a frontier that no life form out there has ever crossed the barrier on. People liked theorizing about what society in space would look like, and so you had schools of architecture that alluded to it, comic books and novels about it, and then later movies about it, and later video games about it. But maybe space just isn’t as novel any more, is part of ordinary life. The video game genre tended not to be hard-realism, but adopted conventions from movies and TV series, like slowly-moving visible laser pulses that make a distinctive, synthesized sound, ship orientation changing ship direction of travel, objects like nebulas based on false-color NASA images, audible explosions, and such, so I think that those were maybe important in building interest. I don’t think that there have really been recent new entrants in movie and TV series that inspired the video games – Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, stuff like that had their heyday in the past too.

averyminya, do gaming w Did anyone get the Limited Edition OLED Steam Deck

I did, and I’m very glad! I set an alarm this morning, made sure everything was good to go. Got the LE right at 10:00:03 and delivery said 1-2 weeks but then the purchase didn’t actually get through until 11:26 after many various different errors. Got the “out of stock” message maybe 5 times by which point it was saying 2-4 weeks lol. At one point had been restricted from “too many attempted purchases.”

I’m just glad I managed to get one. Valve hardware is truly something else. I happily use my 4 Steam Controllers (game nights and I rotate them :)), I got the Index when I was able to have space for VR and after that the Steam Deck was just a no-brainer (went with the 512gb for the anti-glare as I’m not a fan of gloss.)

When they announced the OLED I was a little remiss but accepted that it was gonna happen eventually. No plan to get it or sell the old one even though I’ve really wanted an OLED gaming device since emulating on phones actually looks really good compared to LCD screens.

Then I saw the red themed translucent and apparently something came over me and I’ll have 2 Steam Decks now. (don’t worry, my OG currently has 4 roles so it will still get plenty of use as a music tracker and girlfriend machine… er, machine for her)

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?
@steb@kbin.social avatar

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.
@guyrocket@kbin.social avatar

Made by hardware hackers for hardware hackers.

Appoxo, do games w What are your go-to sources for game reviews and finding new games?
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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?
@match@pawb.social avatar

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,
@Vipsu@lemmy.world avatar

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,
@Vipsu@lemmy.world avatar

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!
@anakin78z@lemmy.world avatar

What are the specs? Dimensions, resolution, format… Can it be animated?

quinten,
@quinten@lemmy.world avatar

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)

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