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p03locke, do games w Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs
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This has nothing to do with Control, so I’m not sure why it’s in the thumbnail.

electrogamerman, do games w Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs

Kongregate was my teenagehood. I met so many amazing virtual friends through there.

eldritch_lich, do games w Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs

Ahh Kongregate. Haven’t heard that name in a long time. I’m surprised they’re still around.

rjthyen, do games w Kongregate, Digital Bros. cut jobs in a growing wave of video game industry layoffs

Kongregate is still a thing? I thought the move away from flash games killed the names of my youth but I suppose they transitioned somewhere

GrammatonCleric,
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

They make mobile games

ArmoredThirteen,

But they got rid of the ability for people to post their own games to the site and ditched chat, so it’s old format is effectively dead.

yokonzo,

Also all those sites are still online and you don’t even need flash to play anything

ArghZombies, do games w From Outer Wilds to Core Keeper and a new Shantae, here’s everything announced at Indie World - Polygon

Outer Wilds is so good. A perfect game for Switch. And the DLC included too, which was also superb.

Pity they can’t release a way to erase the game from my memory so I can play it afresh. Half the point of the game (and DLC) is just figuring out what the game is. Because I already know what to do I’d just complete it in about 10 minutes so it’s sadly not worth me picking it up again.

But anyone who hasn’t played it, please give it a go. It’s just wonderful.

TheEighthDoctor,

Pity they can’t release a way to erase the game from my memory so I can play it afresh.

This, so much this…

ioslife,

I played about 3 hours of it and didn’t like it. Everyone talks about how great it is and how it’s a once in a lifetime game, but it just wasn’t that enjoyable to me. I might revisit it one day, but we’ll see.

kick_out_the_jams, (edited )

It's not like many (any?) other games, not in the mainstream sphere anyway.
I made the mistake of trying to play with mouse and keyboard but once I got flying with a controller I was set.

p03locke,
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I still played with mouse and keyboard just fine. I wish they had finer thrust control for that one part, but it just made more sense to me as a first-person and space sim game.

Zoomboingding,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not for everyone. You have to actually learn what the game is telling you from text, little physics interactions, and more. Nothing is completely spelled out for you, and everything you accomplish is a result of diligent understanding on your part.

idunnololz,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

Also if you have certain phobias I can definitely see this game being an issue.

ArghZombies,

A shame, but that’s cool. Not every game works for everyone. I can’t stand the Dark Souls games and it seems I’m in a minority on that one.

Wes_Dev,

Oh my god, I don’t have a headset anymore, but there was a VR mod for it that I absolutely fucking loved. It was one of the things that the Index was made for. I spent so much time crashing into planets in VR.

Coelacanth,
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I’ve been hesitant to play it because I heard it’s existentially depressing and I don’t think my mental state is in a good place to deal with that. Otherwise I’d probably give it a go. I loved Return of the Obra Dinn and many people who love one of those games seem to also love the other.

SkyeStarfall,

I don’t know, slight spoilers for the general mood, but, outer wilds is that, but it’s more like… wistful, or melancholic, or bittersweet. It’s sad, but it’s a good sad. It’s emotional, and emotions feel good.

I feel like, if I were in a bad place when playing that, I don’t think it would have made it worse. It might have made it more meaningful, and be kinda… nice, in a sense. But I also feel like art like that help me a lot when I am in bad places. It’s kinda like seeing beauty in sadness, right?

But I am not you so, y’know, YMMV

Coelacanth,
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It’s hard because it depends on the type of melancholy. I get what you mean about wistful melancholy and “good sad” if the stories are on the smaller scale. Human tragedy, personal failure, doomed relationships, lost love, that sort of stuff.

I have a harder time dealing with elaborations on an existential level: the ultimate end of all things, the futility of existence, the meaninglessness of life etc. I’m hesitant because I’ve gotten the impression this is the sphere Outer Wilds operates in.

raydenuni,

It is some of the things you’ve mentioned. But it is not nihilistic.

Cowbee,

It’s a kind of hopeful nihilism, a sort of sense that no matter how far apart you are in space or time, everyone and everything is ultimately connected, and looking up at the same stars.

Fermion,

You should try the talos principle 2. They’re not apples to apples, but I’d guess that most who loved outer wilds would like it. The first talos principle is also good, but far less refined than the second.

The outerwilds dlc does add a fair bit of content. Although, I really don’t like jump scares so the dlc was not my favorite.

LemmyTryThisOut,

Massively overrated game. I thought it’d be an adventure game, but it turned out to be a timed puzzle game where you end up just rushing back to the same spot over and over again because the game kills you when times up. and you don’t even know if what you’re doing is correct. By the time you figure out this isn’t an adventure game it’s too late to return it for a refund.

Yamayo,

Of course it’s an adventure game, but it’s not lineal, everything is already unfolded.

ArghZombies,

That’s not really a problem with the game, but with your expectations. If I watch the film Alien expecting a comedy but it’s actually a horror I wouldn’t complain the film is overrated and not funny.

p03locke,
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Pity they can’t release a way to erase the game from my memory so I can play it afresh.

That’s why people watch playthroughs to see somebody else go through the game for the first time. There’s an “Interloper” Discord server for people who are looking for VODs or live playthroughs.

Here’s one I really enjoyed recently.

ArghZombies,

Ah interesting option, thanks! I’ve occasionally watched a few speedruns of it but I didn’t realise there’s whole first time playthroughs.

Running_Nose,

While I haven’t played Outer Wilds, I with I could erase Witcher 3 from my mind. Going back for a second play through is a bit more tedious as I already know the storyline. Only completing secondary quests is somewhat fulfilling, but they end quickly. And after a point you’ve leveled up so much pretty much all combat becomes a bore.

Ganondorf, do gaming w Nintendo is making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie with Sony
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This director doesn't have many directing credits but seems that worked out well for The Super Mario Movie. His current catalog is averaging around 7 on IMDb, which is a far better indicator of quality than RT, so that's promising.

e0qdk, do gaming w Nintendo is making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie with Sony
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So... do you think we'll get "silent" Link (as in the games; the version of Link who doesn't have much to say -- besides his iconic mouth noises, of course), a return to "Well, EXCUUUUSE me Princess!", or something different?

Ensign_Seitler,

Timothée Chalamet will have the slightest a hint of a British accent

SpeziSuchtel, do gaming w Nintendo is making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie with Sony
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Interesting that they are opting for a live action movie. The Super Mario Bros movie was produced by universal, so them going with Sony is quite nice.

thingsiplay, do gaming w The new voice of Mario is also the new voice of Wario
@thingsiplay@kbin.social avatar

The new voice of Mario who is the new voice of Wario, is also the voice of Luigi. Either this man is a talent who can do multiple voices, or they sound the same. I didn't play enough to know the answer. Has anyone listened closer?

ElBarto,
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Do you think voice actors can only do one voice? Being able to do multiple different voices is the basic requirement for a voice actor, unless you’re one of the select few who get away with one voice (looking at you Patrick Warburton), but for most voice actors, they learn by mimicking as many characters as they can.

thingsiplay,
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If you say so and I think about, It makes sense. It's like an actor playing different roles in movies. I was really impressed when reading the news the Mario voice actor could do Wario as well and feel kinda dumb now. :D

ElBarto,
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Sall good, I forget people aren’t as obsessed with voice actors as I am, there’s some really talented people out there doing voice acting and I hope more roles can open up for them.

tonamel,

The original voice actor, Charles Martinet, also did Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi himself.

CharlesReed, do games w Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item

Looking at the comments, I feel like I'm the only one who likes this game lol

Goronmon,

I actually enjoyed the game quite a bit, but then BG3 and Starfield released and I just haven't come back to it.

I did feel like the first season stuff was a little bare, so that didn't help things.

Abucketofpuppies,

Nah I really liked D4. But then the Path of Exile 2 gameplay dropped and I felt like I was eating saltines whenever I played it

lorty,
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PoE2 is going to be so good

maleficentdingo, do games w Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item

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    PD2 Season 8 is looking pretty good, in case you’re interested.

    ocassionallyaduck, do games w Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item

    Can I play solo offline?

    Then no thank you.

    Naatan,

    Can I use group finder?

    Then no thank you.

    Kinda funny how they screwed it up for both the online and offline use case.

    Eeyore_Syndrome, do games w Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item
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    Can’t even earn enough currency to buy the premium pass for next season is a hard nope for me. Fuk U Blizzard.

    And I’m not buying the $6.99 whatever horse pack just to get enough for it either.

    Because I’m pretty sure same thing would happen Season 2>3.

    I didn’t even bother getting my S1 Druid to 100.

    Holyginz, do games w Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item

    I’m not going to even consider playing again till more comes out about it. Diablo is grindy by design and I have no interest in going through the grind until I know that there is going to be a good return on that effort.

    ObamaBinLaden,

    Brother this entire patch has been designed with reducing grind in mind and now you can target farm uber uniques. Is that not worth it?

    (To put things in numbers, in the previous Dev stream they said grind to level 100 is now reduced by 40%)

    thantik, do games w Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item

    Too little too late, and soon they’re gonna be owned by Microsoft. Fuck 'em. Let them eat cake.

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