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Hackworth, do games w Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?

It’s an old game, but Pixel Junk: Monsters is a ton of fun as a co-op tower defense. Don’t bother with the sequel - s’bad.

JadenSmith, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Pacman was the first to simulate a real life mechanic, of munching pills, listening to repetitive music, and running from multicoloured ghosts.

DerArzt, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Rouge rougelike

Senshi,

*rogue Roguelike

Though rougelike certainly sounds like an interesting genre too 😉

CitizenKong, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Gothic had NPC pathfinding and behavior routines before Bethesda did it with Morrowind (and Gothic did it better).

resetbypeer, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Dune 2 for it popularized RTS genre. C&c to bring it to the masses

vikingtons, do gaming w Is it worth upgrading from a Ryzen 7 3800X to a Ryzen 7 5700X3d?
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If you intend to keep this platform for a while longer then for sure grab a Vermeer x3d. I think you’ll feel a pretty decent improvement in 1% and .1% lows

With that said, I’m not sure if cyberpunk in particular will benefit too much from this. If that’s your primary motivator for upgrading, then maybe hold off until you want to move on to a DDR5 (or later) platform?

Infernal_pizza,
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Yeah I can’t justify a whole new PC at the moment, and with a cpu and gpu upgrade to something like a 4070 I should be able to get several more years out of it.

Cyberpunk wasn’t my only reason for an upgrade but it was one of the main ones, I’d heard the newer dlc content is quite cpu intensive. However I’ve just checked the steam page and the recommended requirements seem to have gone up again to a 7800X3d

vikingtons,
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For phantom liberty? I don’t really see how it would be. Seems to have run fine on my 5800x3d + nv21 at 1440p

Infernal_pizza,
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Seems like I’m probably better off leaving it for now or just upgrading my gpu instead

ColdWater, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?
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Oblivion popularized fucking DLC, holy fucking shit I hate DLC so fucking much I pirated any games that has DLC, I don’t mind expansion but DLC can crash and burn in a pile of dogshit

ILikeBoobies, (edited )

Assuming you mean micro transactions rather than dlc like we saw in Halo 2

JamesFire,

DLC is literally just DownLoadeable Content

So like… I don’t get the hate for a specific method of providing content. Like, there’s obviously a difference between Factorio’s Space Age, and what The Sims does, even though they are both DLC.

Senshi,

Technically true, but I think everybody knows exactly what kind of dlc is meant, and because they still make up the majority of dlc content and addon-sized dlcs are so rare, it’s fair to call them that.

Moneygrab empty dlcs ( shiny horse armor! ) are stupid, and history has shown that people are not fiscally responsible enough to not be lured into spending absurd amounts of money for very shallow or plain empty content. “Vote with your wallet” doesn’t really work in the face of more and more insidious marketing efforts.

prole,

Expansions are DLC.

smeg, do gaming w best GBA games? I need recommendations

Wario Land 4 was probably my fave

ByteOnBikes,

Core memory right here.

I love the Wario games because they were so chill. You were a invincible protagonist whose goal was solving puzzles and getting money.

smeg,

I don’t remember 4 being that chill, when you press the frog button and have to leg it back to the start for fear of losing your loot it gets pretty intense!

Blackmist, do gaming w best GBA games? I need recommendations

If you want the worst, it’s Medal of Honor Underground.

I mean, fair play for trying to get a cutting edge PS1 game onto the GBA, but why would you persist if that’s all you could do with it?

krzschlss, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?
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Dark/Demon Souls. Elden Ring

Rolling to evade incoming enemy attack.

Always thought it being a strange way to do this. Bloodborne and Sekiro dodges seem more realistic.

Hope Vaati explains.

Decoy321,

Hate to break it to you, but this had been around for decades before those games came around.

ryathal,

Monster hunter beat them to it.

frezik, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Jurassic Park: Trespasser invented physics engines in fps games as we know it. The game itself was a buggy mess and a financial disaster. The player’s health was shown on the main character’s boob for some damn reason. However, they did have the basics of a very good physics engine, and Valve took a lot of their ideas and incorporated it into Half Life 2.

redhorsejacket,

Man, Trespasser is an example of a game with some pretty wild ideas about immersion and puzzle solving in a first person shooter game that the tech just wasn’t quite able to pull off. If anyone is curious there is a positively antique Let’s Play on YouTube that discusses the game’s development, its relation to the wider Jurassic Park franchise, cut content, and, of course, the game in context. I think it may have come from the old Something Awful forums, and it remains, to my mind, the gold standard for what I’d like Let’s Plays to be. Worth checking out if you’ve the time.

corvett, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Note: read “first” as “first popular/important”, not just for this thread but for most conversations across media like this.

Spelunky was the first “Roguelite” that brought permadeath with meta progression to another genre, starting the modern wave of Roguelites.

Pokemon kicked off “monster collection” as a mechanic

To my knowledge, Halo was the first major game to do regenerating health

Aussiemandeus, do gaming w #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold
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So certainly not a meme about the long haired house lady who is trying to defend our rights

Duamerthrax, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Serious Sam The First Encounter claims to have invented event cued music. Ie, intense fight music stops once an encounter is over.

Quake is believed by many to have invented Rocket Jumping, but Marathon (1993) had two forms of it first.

Marathon and Rise of the Triad both released with duel welding pistols in the same week.

frezik,

I dispute the Serious Sam claim. The LucasArts iMUSE system was doing things like that years before. Even among fps games, the first Dark Forces game used it.

Duamerthrax,

I might be miss remembering the claim. It was from a documentary, so I might be able to find to when I get home.

frezik,

It’s also possible they just didn’t know. LucasArts didn’t push the system all that much in their PR. You’ll see it in some bullet points on the retail boxes, and articles of the time might make a passing reference to it. It was quite a remarkable system for the time and they were very low key about it.

Duamerthrax,

Probably just that.

chanibal,

And ROTT also had rocket jumps.

drphungky, do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

DOTA popularized and also invented the battle pass mechanic.

PraiseTheSoup,

You mean DotA 2, but DotA (warcraft 3 map) also popularized the MOBA genre. It wasn’t the first MOBA however, as I believe that title belongs to an earlier StarCraft map called Aeon of Strife. But StarCraft didn’t have a robust enough hero system for it to really catch on.

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