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REDACTED, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

Might and Magic 6-8. Thought it’s the best game ever during my childhood. Turns out it was pretty bad. Still like it (nostalgy)

vonxylofon,

7 and 8 maybe, but I lived under the impression that 6 was critically acclaimed and also very popular.

Omegamanthethird, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

Jaws on the NES. I absolutely loved that game, but I found out many years later that it was hated.

vasus, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

Literally every MMORPG targeted at an oldschool/hardcore/PvP oriented audience. Without fail the related comments and reviews will be littered by people angrily ranting on how these games are outdated and should change to be more casual

mic_check_one_two,

And inversely, games like RuneScape that changed to be more casual, which pissed off all of the tryhard players.

bstix, do games w A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)

I genuinely enjoyed the game. Fans of the series claim that it destroyed the franchise. Perhaps they’re right, but the franchise was pretty fucked up to begin with.

massive_bereavement,

Then I pick Ultima 8. It felt like Crudader No Remorse but with fantasy trappings (because it didn't play like Ultima at all).

That said, it is janky, full of bugs and incomplete (clearly there was a second part that never came), but I had fun and at the time it felt edgy and kind of a dangerous and misterious travel.

AnnaFrankfurter, do trains w Railway electrification of India by State in 2024

Sorry to be a buzzkill but ~70% of India’s electricity is coming from coal powerplants. They are working on using nuclear and renewable but still currently it is mostly coal.

zemon,

Might still be better for the environment overall than running trains on oil. I don’t know if any study exists on the topic.

AnnaFrankfurter,

I’m not sure about efficiency of oil engines vs electric engines but at least infrastructure is already available and once India switches to nuclear/renewable it’ll help massively…

glowing_hans,

Coal fired plants are more energy and heat efficient than internal combustion engines on trains. Waste heat can be used for industrial areas. Also the pollution is localized and heavy duty filters can be installed, while the train can not carry heavy filters without worse transport efficiency.

daw,

Electrification is always the first step to sustainability (at least from the efficiency approach to sustainability, post growth approaches should always come first) You can’t put clean energy into a diesel engine, to switch any electric system over from fossil electricity to clean electricity is much easier and most importantly can be done in increments making it easier to get going on such shifts.

sprite0, do games w PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?
jol, do trains w Railway electrification of India by State in 2024

Wow that’s amazing. Only like 60% of German rail is electrified, for comparison.

Vegeta, do games w First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)

DK64 comes to mind.

Flickerby, do games w Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo

Dark cloud is one of my favorites, I go back and replay it at least once a year. The second one was good too but it doesn’t quite have the same vibe as the first

ieGod,

Never played the first but the second had some mind numbing gameplay loops that didn’t do it for me.

damdy,

Both are great, but the drastically changed a lot in the 2nd. In UK they even called the sequel ‘Dark Chronicle’ rather than ‘Dark Cloud 2’.

At least the 2nd one removed the system where you could permanently lose your best weapons if you forgot to repair in time, they just become unusable.

capt_wolf, do games w First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)

Everblue 2 for the PS2 is one of my all-time favorite games. I play it about once a year. The original was an EU only release thst I didn’t get to play until a few years ago. It also had a sort of spiritual successor with Endless Ocean 1 & 2 for the Wii, made by the same developer. However, the first one didn’t have any of the treasure finding mechanics and there was no real threat to the player at any time. Neither series really let you walk on land, so to speak. The Everblue games do have above water parts, you return to the island between dives to talk to people, sell treasure, sleep and such, but they’re prerendered images that are more like a point and click adventure. There were a couple pc games I played around the same time that were made by independent developers that never really took off.

favoredponcho, do games w Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo

I vaguely remember playing Untold Legends back in the day. It was good.

lowleveldata, do games w Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard?

Why would you not get the bundle if you want MKW? It’s $50 that way.

isyasad, do games w PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?
@isyasad@lemmy.world avatar

Agree with Gordon Freeman 100%. I might also suggest the Guide from Terraria and the CS:GO player models. Maybe also the player character from Noita, the goat from Goat Simulator, Quote from Cave Story.

These ones may be more niche, but for me personally I would also add Guy Spelunky, Princess Remedy, and Worm (Worms Armageddon).

MyNameIsAtticus, do games w What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

The legacy console editions of Minecraft have always done a good job in my opinion as a tutorial. It’s hard to skip it (or at least was for me) and it really walks you through the basics. Then you have the choice of learning more or just… going out and playing minecraft

Dremor, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #19
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

Great read, as always. A little broken link on the previous posts section (forgotten “]”).

Nice to see MS decided to make their (remored) pricing quite aggressive. Especially since it is sold with the dock included.
The base Xbox Ally should be as powerfull as the Deck. It is basically the same chip with 5 more watts of TDP, which can easily be done on the OG deck with a little bios mod.
The biggest one will be a serious blow to the Deck as well as other handhelds. The specs are clearly superior on all aspects, while still being very competitive. Depending on the autonomy and how much bloat was removed, I may be really tempted, despite being a pro-Linux… And probably install SteamOS (or Bazzite) as soon as it works on it.
I hope this will prompt Valve to update the Deck to newer hardware, or at least allow to officially tune up the APU power envelope to 20-25W (vs 15W currently), especially when docked, so we can enjoy higher definition gaming without sacrificing too much graphical settings to the Frametime gods (E33 looks kinda bad on the Deck, especially when docked 😂).

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