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decarabas42, (edited ) do games w The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!

I have been playing a lot of Vintage Story. It’s been drawing me away from “finishing” Blue Prince and really digging into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. They’re all so good, I just don’t have enough hours in the day to actually play everything. Stupid having a job and adult responsibilities.

PalmTreeIsBestTree, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

I’ll just stick to playing my console copy

FauxLiving,

console

If you’re worried about personal data collection then I have some bad news for you…

PalmTreeIsBestTree,

Every government and corporation has some data on us no matter how we like it. I was referring to my Xbox 360 copy which is totally offline.

vortexal, (edited ) do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
@vortexal@sopuli.xyz avatar

Is the EULA also applicable to the Linux version, assuming that Aspyr did actually port the game to Linux and not just use Wine or something?

aesthelete,

The Linux version is utter dog shit. It’s native but it’s really terrible looking.

vortexal, (edited )
@vortexal@sopuli.xyz avatar

Is it not fully compatible with newer versions of Linux? All the gameplay and comparison videos I’ve seen look identical to the Windows version. I’d test it myself but I’m pretty sure my computer doesn’t have the hardware to run it even on low settings.

JackbyDev,

Remind me and I’ll look into it. I have BL2 but never ever played it back in the day.

aesthelete,

I played it sometime toward the end of last year using proton. I’ll have to try it again.

thoughtfuldragon,

It’s also not been updated for a long time. You can’t play with the windows version anymore.

Korhaka,

If it hasn’t been updated that means the new user agreement isn’t asked surely?

Onyxonblack, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! "“FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!”

red,

Apart from the politics, the Borderlands games themselves are hardly utter shit for the most part.

Vanilla_PuddinFudge, (edited )
@Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub avatar

The writing is garbage but,… it’s a game for edgy teenagers. It would be.

The gameplay for me is Diablo with guns. It would suck for anyone not into that. If anyone isn’t into that, don’t buy Borderlands games.

red,

Got to argue, I’m a 39 year old gamer, started with PCs back in 90s.

The games are casual fun, they work great as co-op shooters. Story is what it is, but the games themselves are lighthearted and just pure entertaining fun.

Not masterpieces. Just good.

keckbug,

The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well.

Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety.

But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out.

bitwolf,

I liked 1 and 2. Got bored for the prequel and 3 early on.

Tiny Tinas I did play and really enjoyed that game. It felt like a reasonable advancement over BL 1 and 2. It felt like they stagnated for a bit and raised the bar slightly with Tinas.

I really wanted an MMO style Borderlands with 4, and I wouldn’t value 4 any higher than Tinas launch price. But I am interested in what the game has to offer.

If you liked only the first two, def give Tina’s a try, if it has a good sale.

MrScottyTay,

I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn’t mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn.

JackbyDev,

What are you arguing with? I don’t see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.

red,

I guess his premise, that it’s for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch.

JackbyDev,

You would’ve been 16 years old on launch if you’re 39 now though.

red,

True, but I’ve been couch-cooping them only recently.

propitiouspanda,

I think they’re pretty terrible.

I’ve tried multiple times to get in to them and I’ve come to the conclusion they’re just for a gamer with lower standards than me.

This is also based off of the games that I see borderlands fans like that I think suck ass.

dil,

Except lawbreakers but he tainted it by supporting it and made ppl against it

Crankenstein,

Bro thank you for mentioning Lawbreakers. Such a fun game that was cut short.

propitiouspanda,

Lawbreakers was made by Boss Key studios, headed by Cliff Blezsinski who was the guy behind Gears of War.

You may be thinking of Battleborn, which was made by Gearbox.

psycho_driver,

You’re definitely right about Pitchford or w/e dingleberry’s name is.

ms_lane,

everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit

OpFor was good, Blue Shift was alright too.

Everything since they stole the whole idea of Borderlands has been bad though.

MentalEdge,
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I’m sorry, but Battleborn was brilliant. Deadlock is the first game to re-capture (and expand on) the mix of mechanics Battleborn put together.

Didn’t stop Gearbox from shutting it down so that no-one who bought it could ever play again. Not even the story campaign.

Korhaka,

Yes, but it should still be illegal for a company to do this. Don’t let them blame the users for accepting this bullshit. As Louis Rossmann would say, they have the mentality of a rapist.

propitiouspanda,

Hear hear!

Borderlands is a neat concept, but it’s ruined by an awful studio and reddit-tier ‘humor.’

It was nice to see Battleborn fail because honestly that’s what the studio deserves.

sp3ctr4l, (edited )

Yep, I am jumping in with you on this one.

The cell-shaded art style? Not the problem, imo.

The problem is the just astoundingly terrible writing, immensely insufferable characters, and astonishingly brain dead gameplay.

Why have weapon balance ortactically interesting scenarios or any real sense of progression in gameplay when we can just procedurally generate guns and do everything we can to make everything into roughly the same level of bullet sponge with auto levelling?

They are the lowest common denominator of co-op shooter games, made for people who enjoy bombastic sensory overload and near zero prefrontal cortex brain activity while gaming.

Grandwolf319, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.

I’ll do you one better, a guitar solo comes on.

Hades’ third phase is a banger.

Amnesigenic,
@Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml avatar

Came here to say this, their implementation for his extreme measures modifier is ideal. Every other boss has all sorts of cool new moves, but the final boss is doing absolutely nothing new through the first two phases, then takes a knee like always. You might start to wonder if it’s malfunctioning for a moment, then that guitar tells you loud and clear that you’re about to get fucked hard.

EnsignPacts, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

I checked the Steam depots. It seems the game files haven’t been updated since 2022. All that seems to have changed is some license agreement in February. Seems to be a thing across take two games, and not specific to borderlands 2.

Basically nothing has changed in real terms for this game. Maybe borderlands 4 might have draconian DRM, who knows.

tomi000,

They can drop updates anytime after they made sure to have you accept the spyware.

EnsignPacts,

I doubt it though, the game will be 13 years old this year. It wouldn’t make financial sense for them to bother.

propitiouspanda,

That’s not the point.

emb, do games w Any interesting new (2024+ launch) browser games / web-based games?

Not exactly games I guess, but neal.fun always has neat stuff. I think some of them are relatively recent.

JoMiran, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

I only play AAA games on GeForce Now (cloud). If the game can’t run on my Linux system or on the cloud, I ain’t touching it. Also, there are so many wonderful games that do not require a colonoscopy into your personal data to be played.

FlihpFlorp, do games w This new game Jump Ship looks interesting

Yeah I was playing with my buddies and it was really fun piloting and our duct tape ship

Edit oressed send too early: but yeah we were tying to get into the closed betas with no luck

Dog fighting could be improved but I’m assuming that’s cus we only have access to the starter ship. You can dodge snipers if you ascend or descend then go in the opposite way while rolling, and the lock on if they’re infront of you if you roll and boost past them so they go over you, then boost forward the outrun then

_hovi_,

Oh nice, demo holds up then?

FlihpFlorp,

From what we’ve played yeah. It’s got a few problems here and there but that’s why it’s a beta

_hovi_,

Nice, excited to try it

BuboScandiacus, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

Don’t just review bomb it

Report it to steam as SPYWARE, with the little flag icon on the product page

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  • BuboScandiacus,
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    Steam has a history of removing things people don’t like (for example: banning ad-ridden games)

    So if all these reports can bring them to add this to their TOS, it’s worth it

    Owlboi,

    absolutely. Steam is not to mess with and takes such matters quite seriously.

    alanjaow,

    Fun fact, it’s called a parliament! I regret that I am not an owl.

    Jakeroxs, do games w The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!

    Abiotic Factor, Nightreign a little, Outlast Trials, Monster Train 2, Across the Obelisk

    Showroom7561, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

    Pirates are winning over my empathy.

    thermal_shock,

    They’ve been my best friend for years

    mrbubblesort,

    Piracy never gave me up, never let me down

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    They would never turn around and desert me

    Semjaza,

    Might maroon me for fucking up the FOSS though.

    DaddleDew, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

    A government that cares for is people would ban this shit and procecute any company trying to find ways around it.

    KneeTitts, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
    @KneeTitts@lemmy.world avatar

    Why isnt Steam banning them? Munny?

    NeryK, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
    @NeryK@sh.itjust.works avatar

    On one side of the ring, greedy corps which want to profile you better than the NSA does. On the other, drama-hungry and social networks-fueled outrage culture.

    That’s how an old game giveaway backfires and becomes the scandal of the day.

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