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Carighan, do games w Against the Storm looks charming and cosy, but it's actually the best and most fiendish city builder I've played in years
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I agree, easily the city builder I sunk the most hours into in the last 10+ years compared to all other ones combined.

They also keep adding to it with more world events, a new resource (salt), new biomes, and with the expansion a whole new race.

Nop0po, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

That picture is spot on

finitebanjo, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

“Wow you’ve got a lot of 40 minute sessions on Sims 4, Fallout 4, and Skyrim.”

“Yeah I’m a completionist.”

“Do you play with mods?”

“What? No. Why? What have you heard?”

OmegaLemmy,
@OmegaLemmy@discuss.online avatar

Skyrim, I heard from hearsay Sims 4, I watched someone defend Wtf is happening in fallout???

finitebanjo, (edited )

All of the games listed have porn mods. A LOT of porn mods.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8b1f94f5-f350-4e38-9772-90377e573f45.webp

finitebanjo,

To clarify they can all be played perfectly normally without any adult content unless the user installs mods.

LordWiggle,
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

Baldurs gate 3 doesn’t need mods. There’s also no one stopping you when walking into a sex toy shop in cyberpunk after configuring your breasts and penis size (because you can have both), without mods. And boy do they have some nice toys.

Excrubulent,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

I have been playing Cyberpunk all wrong it seems.

Pichu0102,
@Pichu0102@lemmy.world avatar

Friend is now playing Skyrim. few minutes pass Friend is now playing Skyrim. few seconds pass Friend is now playing Skyrim. two seconds pass Friend is now playing Skyrim. 30 minutes later “Oh looks like they finally got it work-” Friend is now playing Skyrim.

CitricBase, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

Valve has always been pretty awful at granular privacy. For the longest time, no settings between “hide literally everything” and “broadcast to everyone I know every time I purchase or play anything.”

Still no setting between those two options, but at least it’s on a game-by-game basis now.

einlander,

Also the fact that on the steam deck there is no choice to add a pin before purchases is mind boggling to me. Hand it to a kid and they could run up serious bills.

9point6,

Do you not need to put your CCV in on most purchases? I’d say it’s more often than not that it asks

einlander,

Not every purchase, same if you use the PayPal option. At least not in my state in USA.

Regrettable_incident,
@Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world avatar

Not every purchase in the UK either.

inclementimmigrant,

I just put in a purchase and no, it did not ask me to re-enter the CCV.

zipzoopaboop,

Seems pretty random when it asks or not

Dettweiler42,

I think that’s store driven. I recall having to input my PIN on my Deck multiple times, but there was at least a few days between each purchase.

einlander,

I would prefer if it behaved like phone app stores. Have an option to ask for a pin right before completing a purchase.

Fiivemacs,

It took me too long to realize you folks didn’t mean pin as in pin the game to a dash board of something but a personal identification number for pin.

wizardbeard,

At least that one has a simple solution: delete your saved card.

moody,

As a matter of principle, I don’t save my credit card number anywhere. It’s a little more tedious when I make a purchase, but I’ve got my number memorized anyway, so it’s not a big deal, and it’s definitely more secure in that respect.

axby,

I leave my credit card stored with some places, but I specifically don’t leave it on steam just to add a speed bump for me to avoid buying a game unless I really want it. I tend to add games to my wish list, then sort of impulse buy if they go on sale for really cheap, or remove them later if I’ve decided I’ll never get around to playing them.

I’m not too worried about security, worst case I can get a new credit card number. But it seems like steam and other online retailers are pretty good about not leaking your credit card number.

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

the number of times i add a game to my isthereanydeal list and have no idea wtf it is when i get a sale notification.

srock,
@srock@sh.itjust.works avatar

The process being tedious helps you think before purchasing too, so it’s definitely a good thing in more ways than one.

greenskye,

Also in several games my ability to join friends in-game broke if I turned my profile completely private. As soon as I set it to friends only I could join them again.

Anticorp, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

Oh no! My wife is going to see that I played Baldur’s Gate 3 and Crusader Kings 3! Two games that end with 3!

inclementimmigrant,

Oh come on, we know what you’re trying to say to your wife here…

Anticorp,

Haha! Noice.

Deceptichum,

That they want HL3?

Breezy,

Thats a given, theres no way AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet’s wife wouldnt already know this.

Ashtear,

I dunno, I might side-eye my partner a lil bit if it turned out they were really good at CK3’s schemes.

Anticorp,

Unfortunately there’s not really anything I’m really good at in CK3, despite like 300 hours of gameplay. Perhaps open warfare, but that has other consequences that I’m not great at dealing with.

OmegaLemmy,
@OmegaLemmy@discuss.online avatar

Hiding ugly characters and seducing people I’m playing online with

DebatableRaccoon, do gaming w Sony's potential acquisition of Kadokawa seems to be quashed for now

Thank fuck for that.

brsrklf, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

I don’t care a lot that people know I play Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress and Skyrim.

… please don’t share the mod lists though.

yabai,

Ah yes, my favorite mod, Rimjob World

hoch,

the forbidden mod

OmegaLemmy,
@OmegaLemmy@discuss.online avatar

Someone defended having it in their modlist and I’m just curious why???

Sure it’s a game about war crimes but ugh

RebekahWSD, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
@RebekahWSD@lemmy.world avatar

Ohno, my twin will see what games I play. Although they already get the friends popup saying what I’m playing when I start playing it.

They also wander into the computer room frequently to ramble at me so see what I’m playing them.

In short, we all play Dwarf Fortress and it’s not a secret.

specterspectre,

Dwarf Fortress is my favorite abstinence method. I abstain from leaving the house on the weekends.

Skullgrid, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

“make sure your pops doesn’t see you spent 400 hours in futa games.” (I don’t know what that means and I’m not gonna Google it while I’m logged in at work.)

Why would you not look it up from this context, it seems to be a generic “don’t let them see” , why would you be so terrified unless you already knew what it was?

My mans denial game is a bit too forthright

r4venw,

For some reason, your comment made me think of a video game idea… Futa ball! Football where all the players are… yea!

If someone actually makes this game, no need to credit me. Game idea is yours to keep my friends

orbitz,

I bet the huddle sections would … have more code and or animations than most football games.

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

Not sure what my comment has to do with football, but sure…?

I mean, if any of my comments would have inspired Futa Ball, I would have expected it to be this one :

lemmy.world/comment/13700568

Islands at the end of something looking like boot : exists

Brazillians : 👀 o fute bal detectãoinho!

EDIT : I got inspired from the way Gremio spell out football :

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grêmio_FBPA

“Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense”

Feathercrown, do games w Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice

Helldivers players have no idea how good they have it. What a bunch of whiny entitled losers lmao

Atomic,

Just because others have it worse, doesn’t mean you should settle for slightly better than terrible.

Feathercrown,

Your dev team and management cares about the players, that’s much better than terrible already

Atomic,

let’s make sure we keep them to that standard then.

Zeusz13, do games w Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice

I don’t get the bitching. Is it brutally expensive? Yes. Do you have to buy it? No. In terms of stats the gun is nothing special, the armor is quite good, but not essential. For a one time crossover, it’s fine.

Mora,

Is it brutally expensive? Yes. Do you have to buy it? No.

Will people buy it? Yes.

Will there be more brutally expensive items because of it? Yes.

Kbobabob,

Will people still bitch about the price? Yes.

Atomic,

Can you easily farm SC in the game? Yes.

CaptPretentious,

They hire psychologists to explicitly figure out how to better make sales. Logical thinking will not win. Microtransactions, which consists of crap you don’t need, is a billion dollar industry and has bankrupted numerous homes.

lepinkainen,

Nobody is forcing people to buy anything, you CAN resist.

Womble,

Thats true in a surface level way. Buts its equally true about cigarettes, heroin any other adictive substance you can think of.

lepinkainen,

In-app purchases and limited time game passes are hardly heroin

Womble,

No but your argument that no-one is forced to buy cigarettes is equally valid to arguing that for micro-transactions. One is chemically adictive, the other uses physchological tricks and is almost entirely unregulated.

ripripripriprip,

“This doesn’t affect me therefore it should be a non-issue for everyone else.”

MrScottyTay,

It generates FOMO though. I remember when you didn’t have to pay for stuff in games, so I personally still find it very shitty to have to buy skins etc.

Zeusz13,

Yeah, I can see that one. Using dark patterns is not ok

lepinkainen,

If you’re too weak to resist FOMO, maybe stay off the internet

MrScottyTay,

Even so. There was once a magical time when games did not have FOMO at all.

lepinkainen,

Yes they did, not owning the game was FOMO, and they weren’t free at the time.

MrScottyTay,

I’d much rather buy a full game from the get go and have everything available with no time limit on when i need to buy it.

There is no FOMO if you can leave it for years, actually get the game with all dlc cheaper second hand for a couple of quid and still finding a thriving community online that isn’t focused on completing timed challenges for various currencies to get cosmetics you like the look of before they disappear from the store or the deal for the cheaper price runs out.

Katana314,

I’m still a bit unsure how plausible it is to make a multiplayer game, keep it updated, and not sell content within the game.

The good devs restrict it to cosmetic options, but I can’t say I’ve moralistically stuck to that kind of perfection - I’m okay with new weapons/characters as long as they stay balanced against old ones. It becomes a sort of hazy issue.

MrScottyTay,

Halo 3 and other games of it’s time did well enough, and the multiplayer for them lasted way longer than most live service games.

Actual DLC was better than FOMO cosmetics in my opinion.

Katana314,

Hello? Halo 3 sold map packs, and possibly other things I’m not remembering.

That’s setting aside that Halo 3 was an exclusive. It wasn’t made to sell itself - it was made to sell Xboxes.

MrScottyTay,

Yep, map packs are dlc. And it wasn’t alone. Every multiplayer game worked like that at the time. Exclusive or not.

Katana314, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page

I’m curious whether that new feature, Hidden games, appears in this summary. I think it had some early missteps because it would disappear from some views but appear in others.

mnemonicmonkeys,

I checked mine, and it doesn’t include hidden games on mobile at least

cobysev, (edited ) do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
@cobysev@lemmy.world avatar

You guys don’t share your Steam Relay publicly and put it in a showcase on your profile?

/s… but I totally do that. I’m not ashamed of my gameplay.

EDIT: I just read the article and saw the mention of the “Dwarf” category. It’s maxed out on my spider graph, and I’ve only played 2 games with dwarves this year, out of 180 individual games I’ve played.

MajorHavoc, (edited )

“Dwarf” getting added as a category was a publicity stunt write in campaign by Deep Rock Galactic players, if I recall correctly.

There’s not a ton of games with the tag, but both DRG and Dwarf Fortress tend to get a lot of play hours by their players, I think.

cobysev,
@cobysev@lemmy.world avatar

I used to be big on Deep Rock’s Galactic, but I’ve hardly played it at all this year. The other dwarf game I played was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.

MajorHavoc,

The other dwarf game I played was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.

Ha. I suppose that counts!

SacralPlexus,

I’ve only played 2 games with dwarves this year

Rock and stone!

AliasVortex,

Rock and stone!

sunred,
@sunred@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Rock and stone!

Sciaphobia,

For Karl!

Sanctus, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

They’re just jealous cause I always have Atlyss launched and they can’t play my copy.

tfw_no_toiletpaper,

I played it (almost done) with a friend, had it wishlisted since the IronPineapple video. But on god, finding normal players to do content as a group is nigh impossible, this thing is full of gooners and chat is full of uwu RP, I just left at some point and did the bosses solo.

Like:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e89a85fc-4472-4ef3-bd28-fc819e981b92.png

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah you gotta do private matches. Scrolling through the public lobbies really shows ya why this game was made.

Edit: Lmao, fatatouille

altasshet,

I have no idea what this is about, but the German guy’s reaction is hilarious

Skullgrid,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

seems like an austrian meme, also “I can’t take it anymore”

prole,

LOL that’s hilarious. The game looks legitimately fun, so I picked it up, but I had no intention of playing it online. Maybe now I’ll check it out hah

Kolanaki, do games w Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page
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Jode,

Cos you finished adastra lolll

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