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NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

Even when the prompt is better (at all?) articulated, threads like these are a waste of time. People who respond barely read the prompt and OPs generally don’t even know what they are asking for. So obviously you should play a little cult classic indie game called Hollow Knight.

My suggestion is to instead put some time in to find an influencer/reviewer you like. Even if you don’t have a similar taste in games, a good reviewer will say WHY they do and don’t like something and you can make informed decisions from there.

Skua, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

Based on your enjoyment of management and strategy, Paradox's grand strategy games might be something you enjoy. Same publisher as Cities Skylines. There are four main series of them, each with their own mechanics but enough broad-scale similarities that knowing one helps with the others. They are:

  • Crusader Kings, set in medieval Europe, North Africa, and about half of Asia. This one is the most roleplay-heavy, as you play as a succession of characters within a feudal dynasty rather than a country
  • Europa Universalis, set from the European Renaissance up to the end of the Napoleonic wars. The whole world is playable, and exploration is a big mechanic
  • Victoria, which covers the world through the rise of industrialism. This one is the most simulation-heavy, focusing gameplay around economic development and the diplomatic manoeuvring of great powers
  • Hearts of Iron, which is the Second World War game. This is the one to go for if you want to play the military side of things

What distinguishes them from strategy games like Civ and Age of Empires is the greatly-reduced abstraction. There's no expectation of every starting point or playable country being balanced; if you start as Belgium in Hearts of Iron, you're going to have to do something clever to not get steamrolled by Germany. There's also no win condition beyond what you set for yourself. When I start a game of Crusader Kings, I'm not trying to win the game, I'm saying to myself "let's see if I can unite all of Britain and Ireland under a Gaelic ruler"

All Paradox games have quite a lot of DLC, but the base games are solid (often now including several of the earlier DLCs for free, in the case of older games) and they go on steep sales pretty often. If there's not a specific time period or mechanic that sways you towards one of the games, I recommend Crusader Kings 3 for the best new player experience

LordWiggle,
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

I played almost all of them. I like them, kinda, but they are games which are hard to master and I get frustrated when suddenly everything goes wrong and I can’t find out why. Like with HOI4, my logistics are perfect, my army hyper modern and trained, mixed infantry, special units and armor. Yet they fail battle against a few weak infantry. I spend hours and hours on YouTube tutorials but in the end it’s just a bit too much for me.

LMDNW, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

Oblivion remaster looks pretty good. Have you played through that game before?

anamethatisnt,

Original is on GOG for 1/10th of the price too, tons of great mods to improve both graphics and gameplay.
www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivion/mods?sort=downlo…
A must have for me is the All Plus 5 mod so I don’t feel forced to power game my starting skills.

LMDNW,

Nooo! Don’t do that. The initial leveling is my favorite part of every RPG. It really gets my dopamine receptors running.

anamethatisnt,

It only changes it so that you get your +5 choices if you have even one skill up in the category.
Without it the best way to play is to choose your main skills as Minor Skills and skills that are easy to avoid leveling up (and preferably easy to level up when you want to) as Major Skills to always get 3x +5 every level up.
With it you can let your character have major skills that you actively use during gameplay without gimping yourself.

LordWiggle,
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

I played all elder scroll games (except online) and fallout games but Bethesda lost me. They scammed me with fallout 76 (I have the special edition with power armor helmet) and their games after Skyrim just flatline imo. Fallout 4 got fixed somewhat, but that’s it. They won’t get my money anymore. Screw Todd Howard.

egrets, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11
@egrets@lemmy.world avatar

Great post.

Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

Ohhhhh thanks! I wondered where I’d seen it, it must have been there (I rarely visit reddit now!)

Kinda sad, it makes me feel for the people who try hard to create some buzz and it just collapses like that :(

egrets,
@egrets@lemmy.world avatar

Likewise, I avoid Reddit as much as I can; I found the AMA with a web search.

Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.

Tieas, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Great news round up.

Playing through New Vegas again. I bought the oblivion remake but unfortunately it doesn’t feel great on the deck so I’ll finish Vegas and get around to oblivion this weekend

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

I’m scared to admit I haven’t ever played New Vegas!

I’ve spent a terrifying amount of time in 4, and even the first two on PC, but…New Vegas is one of my ‘one day’ games!

Tieas,

I actually really love four, the story isn’t as good but the gameplay in the world is still incredible. New Vegas is talk to your story but because how old it is the gameplay doesn’t hold up quite as well. Still definitely worth experiencing.

Acamon, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Thanks! Intresting read, and I like the style.

blipcast, do gaming w Final clockstasy

It’s Tactics o’clock somewhere!

arakhis_, do gaming w Waiting for the official livestream to start...
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CaptainBasculin, (edited ) do games w Need feedback for my video!

The video pace feels way too slow and doesnt make the progress interesting to watch. I would reccomend you to watch this as a good reference for the pace you should aim to achieve at your videos. The AI voice cannot compare to how you can retale what you did about the project. Think of it like you’re presenting your work to your friends.

On the visual part, avoid showing the developer UI and show what you have done from the perspective of a player wanting to try the game. I’ve used the video in question becuase, it mostly has footage from the game itself and a viewer with no experience in development at all can tell what work has been done outright. You’re not doing a development tutorial after all.

If you’re trying to get more onto your thought process behind the development, show your thought process visually, not the development UI itself. For reference, i think this video executes this idea very well.

NigelFrobisher, do gaming w My basement wasn't always so clean I admit. Bad habits can be broken.

Why is the game a sequencer?

olafurp, do gaming w Oblivion "remastered"

Skyblivion better

Blackmist, do games w When Nintendo games were affordable

The half price games on various platforms (“Platinum” on playstation, can’t remember what they were called in other platforms) were great and made me get into consoles.

Feels like the PS4 gen when that stopped happening. Shame, because it’s not like you can magic your customers into having more money to spend. They’ll just buy fewer games.

dumbass, do gaming w My basement wasn't always so clean I admit. Bad habits can be broken.
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

Come on man, you coulda used one of those bottles for an ashtray, that’s how you get a dirty mouse ball.

tal, do games w Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance

So do I go back to end of now or never and change the answer? Do I go back further and leave novigrad when it was in chaos? Even further before the questline began?

If you think that you’d like to play The Witcher 3 more than once, one suggestion:

  • The first pass through a game is the only time that you can play the game without foreknowledge. You can never experience that again. If you’re going to play without guidance from a wiki or anything like that, really sit in the main character’s shoes, I’d do it that time. Just don’t worry that much about getting your ideal outcome, because you can do another run. Maybe it’ll give some interesting variety, have you experience something you wouldn’t normally have done, with foreknowledge of the consequences of decisions.
  • Then in subsequent runs, you’ve already experienced a number of “spoilers” from your prior runs, and you can try to use that knowledge (as well as knowledge from wikis or forums or whatever) to guide the plot to your desired outcome.
Lojcs,

I would like to experience the different paths the game has to offer but I don’t think life’s long eough to play a 300 hr game twice when i could play 10 others I’ve never experienced before

tal,

Fair enough. All that’s contingent on whether you’re up for multiple runs through a game.

Ashtear,

Highly recommend the sitting in the character’s shoes approach. I ended up

spoilerkilling Keira on the island on my first playthrough because I didn’t pick up on how desperate she was,

and really kicked myself for missing that cue after. Still one of my most regretfully memorable gaming moments.

BigBananaDealer, do gaming w Oblivion "remastered"
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

good, always hated that goofy ass bright ass color palette of oblivion

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