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silverchase, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

Games I know of on Android:

  • Ganz Schön Clever — Digital adaptation of a board game. It’s like bingo except you roll dice and there’s actual skill involved.
  • Knotwords — Crosswords but instead of word clues, each region of the board indicates what letters appear there.
  • Threes — 2048 was a ripoff of 1024, and 1024 was a ripoff of Threes. Threes is the OG.
  • Sagrada — Digital adaptation of a board game. Build a stained glass window by rolling dice and placing them on your board in the right pattern.
  • Simon Tatham’s Puzzles — Big compilation of various puzzle types.
  • Handshakes (by Pet Pumpkin) — “Solo co-op” sokoban puzzle where you try to get two guys to shake hands.
  • inbento — Assemble lunch boxes by sliding tiles around to match the reference picture.
xavier666,

Alto’s Adventure and Alto’s Odyssey are excellent

MrCamel999, do games w Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?
@MrCamel999@programming.dev avatar

I use Privacy Friendly versions of Sudoku and Minesweeper on the F-Droid store. I also really enjoy Nonograms (aka Picross), and haven’t found a good foss app for it, but the app “nonograms.com” has been a good experience for me. I paid like $5 for the ad free version and that’s been it, nothing else.

kakes,

I also enjoy “1010! Klooni” on F-Droid.

MrCamel999,
@MrCamel999@programming.dev avatar

Will check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!

Ephera,

I’m using Simon Tatham’s Puzzles for nonograms.

It’s basically this webpage in app form: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/…/pattern.html

It doesn’t result in a pixel art picture when you solve it, if you care for that, but the solutions do have contiguous regions.

MrCamel999,
@MrCamel999@programming.dev avatar

This works for me! Thanks a bunch!

hperrin, do games w Is it possible to safely "give away" a Steam account to a stranger?

This is definitely against their ToS, so I would advise against it. That said, do you have any friends or relatives who might be interested? That’s less likely to lead to any negative consequences.

Btw, your original username will always be tied to the account. There’s no way to change that.

Odo, do games w Is deltarune available on mobile? Or this just a scam?

Scam. Note the low user score too, and user reviews saying how bad the app is. The official site is Deltarune.com. if it’s not listed there (which this isn’t), don’t trust it.

Lojcs, do gaming w Best Soulslike game for beginners?

Fallen order. You can adjust the difficulty!

Burghler,

Fallen order has this magnetic attraction between you and the enemy when swinging that really urked me. Felt likes souls on rails. Beautiful game though and nice levels

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Oggdo Boggdo flashbacks.

DebatableRaccoon,

He’s just a harmless little froggo. It’ll be fiiiine

bestagon,

“Oggdo Boggdo, I’ve come to bargain!”

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

“For the love of all things holy, it’s just a pink poncho, please leave me alone.

Annoyed_Crabby, do gaming w With studio closures, why is no one talking about the people who sold the studios?

Making game is extremely risky gamble. Sometime studio can spend years working on one game and it might result in subpar sales due to element that’s not in their control, like Spec Ops: The Line. Take Obsidian Entertainment for example, over the year we kept hearing how they’re financially struggling despite created some of the best RPG, and Microsoft acquisition suppose to free them from this issue to some degree. Same with Tango Gameswork. Zenimax and to some extend Mojang is different case though.

Lot of game studio open and close, if Tango doesn’t sold to Bethesda and in turn to Microsoft, it might already closed. Though on the flip side it also mean they’re at the mercy of their parent company, it still undeniable that Microsoft is the one killed them in this case.

Eiim, do gaming w Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?

Indie studios do in fact exist. I haven’t bought a game from a major publisher since… uhh… well, I guess I bought Portal for $1 last year, does Valve still count as a major publisher?

bekopharm,
@bekopharm@social.tchncs.de avatar

@Eiim @onlinepersona nah, just as the filthy richest one

acosmichippo, do games w Does Arkham Knight get better?
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

I liked it as much as the others ASIDE from the tank missions. they leaned on the tank WAY too much. There are two or three tank battles where you will be pulling your hair out for sure. Definitely focus on upgrading the tank as much as you can because you will need all the help you can get.

VaultBoyNewVegas,

I’ve only beaten it once for some reason I can never beat the Cloudburst tank again

BmeBenji, do games w Half Life 3

I can’t think of a game that Valve has released just to make money except for Artifact which totally flopped.

From what I understand, Valve has a non-hierarchical internal personnel structure and projects are started because someone has an idea that other people at the company like and want to work on.

Half-Life 3 won’t get traction inside Valve unless it has something to push the envelope like the other main-line games had. Half-Life had unrivaled first person storytelling. Half-Life 2 has unrivaled physics to play with. Half-Life Alyx had an interactive environment unlike anything else that exists even still. My money says if Valve can’t think of something gameplay-wise that’s as enticing right now as any of the previous games had when they were released, they don’t care that the story is still on a cliffhanger.

Zahille7,

Like Gaben has also said, if they did release it it probably wouldn’t live up to all the impossible expectations.

SteposVenzny, do gaming w A personal argument for a benefit of gaming

“It’s okay to fail” seems like it would have been a more valuable life lesson than “it feels good to beat a really hard video game” and it concerns me that you’re so okay with the amount of trauma this entertainment product caused him.

The fact that you’re sharing this story of years of repeated meltdowns caused by a video game and calling it an example of games being beneficial is pretty surreal.

remington,
@remington@beehaw.org avatar

You have made a mountain out of a molehill. Neither of my two sons have ever experienced trauma.

Go through and read the other comments in this thread. Has anyone else raised alarm bells? The answer is no.

Please, don’t make accusations here at Beehaw. It isn’t nice.

SteposVenzny,

These are your words, quoted from your post:

One of his most recent meltdowns was so traumatic for him,

remington,
@remington@beehaw.org avatar

‘Traumatic’ just means emotionally distressing. He was disappointed. He wasn’t harmed.

SteposVenzny,

My point is that I described the same distress you’re describing using the same terminology you did. I didn’t accuse you of anything, I just strongly disagreed with your takeaway that this story describes something positive.

Chozo, do gaming w Mariokart 8 Sucks.

Sounds like somebody's playing with tilt controls.

settoloki, do gaming w Mariokart 8 Sucks.

Awuh, does somebody keep losing? It’s ok champ, you’ll get em eventually

tehWrapper, do games w The Sega Dreamcast
@tehWrapper@lemmy.world avatar

Growing up then, I seem to recall the nail in the coffin was around the time we could use discjuggler to burn to standard CDRs.

3rd party games kinda tanked when anyone with a burner could download and burn the iso with no mod chip.

redditron_2000_4,

I think this is it. Within weeks I had downloaded every game from usenet and the only money Sega made from me was buying samba de amigo to get the maraca controllers.

It was a mistake too - so many games to play that I never committed to anything and got bored and stopped playing anything.

tehWrapper,
@tehWrapper@lemmy.world avatar

I feel like the system was neat but it only had a handful of games that I kept coming back to.

Kolanaki, do games w The Sega Dreamcast
!deleted6508 avatar

I have always thought the Dreamcast could have survived once I learned the history of its downfall in detail. SEGA simply had no confidence in it and killed it hella quick and it was just a monumentally stupid idea. It was, and still is, a great machine with a fantastic library that could have been even bigger if they didn’t just kill it on arrival.

AlternatePersonMan,

Seconded.

Dreamcast was solid. Decent games. Sega just had their collective heads up their assess. No one had confidence in their consoles. Genesis was a surprise smash hit…then Sega just spewed out consoles; 32x, Sega CD, mega drive, Saturn… Probably more. In that same time span Nintendo released…N64.

No one wants to buy a console that is outdated in a year or two. That game library is tiny and none of your friends have it.

Build a winner, milk it. Release another winner right as the previous one is winding down. Nintendo has mastered that formula.

ABCDE,

Genesis was a surprise smash hit…then Sega just spewed out consoles; 32x, Sega CD, mega drive, Saturn… Probably more. In that same time span Nintendo released…N64.

Nintendo had the SNES, N64, N64 DD, GameBoy Pocket, Colour, Advance, etc.

Build a winner, milk it. Release another winner right as the previous one is winding down. Nintendo has mastered that formula.

Every other generation; they’ve not been consistent in their success. The N64 did quite well, the GameCube was okay, the Wii did great, the Wii U did not, the Switch has done very well, I reckon the next won’t.

AlternatePersonMan,

I didn’t count handhelds. Seems like a different-ish market. Interestingly, I thought the game gear was way better than original game boy… Except it absolutely ate batteries.

I’ve never heard of the N64 DD. The 90’s had so many weird consoles.

ABCDE,

The Virtual Boy too, I forgot about that.

CheeseNoodle,

The game cube ended up being a bit of a curse for nintendo though, or at least they seem to view it as such.

sleepmode,

They kinda screwed up the timing with it. Launched when everyone and their mother already had a PS2 and got left in the dust. Was also difficult to get one due to limited supply. People tended to buy one console and stick with it for 5+ years, so the only people standing in line were fans or people with money to burn.

CheeseNoodle,

Its a shame too because it ended up with some really amazing titles (got one as a hand-me-down from an older sibling) that nintendo now keeps trying to kill.

sleepmode,

Yep. It’s such a nice piece of hardware. And the games hold up to this day. Glad it’s appreciated now.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

… none of your friends have it.

I feel like that’s what kept me away from it. When I was younger I probably would have been happy with the smaller library but I never had the opportunity to try it and get tempted to buy one

jkozaka,
@jkozaka@lemm.ee avatar

Isn’t the mega drive just the genesis, I understand counting the add ons for the genesis, but the mega drive?

Rai,

The Saturn was the equivalent of like 750USD in today’a money. Wild.

memo,
@memo@feddit.it avatar

Sounds pretty similar to what happened to the PSVita. Sony tought that there was no reason to support a portable console anymore. Pretty funny, now that we have seen the absolute boom of the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck.

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut, do gaming w Got a Switch today, need some recommendations.
@BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

As far as I understand:

  • both Zeldas
  • Super Mario Maker 2
  • Super Mario Odysee
  • Splatoon
ConstableJelly,

Aw man, I forgot about Splatoon, and I think that would have been great but apparently there’s no splitscreen multiplayer. Good suggestion though!

solivine,
@solivine@sopuli.xyz avatar

There’s a good Kirby game on the switch that has coop story mode.

ConstableJelly,

Hell yeah, that’s perfect! Kinda forgot that I did also have the original Gameboy, and Kirby’s Dreamland was almost certainly my favorite game on it.

eco_game,

I absolutely loved Splatoon 2, especially the DLC. It’s such a shame that you have to pay for online battles though.

ursakhiin,

I love Mario Maker, but I would suggest skipping 2 at this point. It’s been out so long that most of the hype has died on it and there is so much garbage content that somebody picking it up right now is likely to get frustrating for new players.

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