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Kepabar, do gaming w I've got a bad feeling about this

That’s how they used to be in the early days of the Internet. The earliest online multiplayer games like Cyberstrike charged by the hour. Cyberstrike cost six dollars an hour! Games in the BBS days were by the minute.

… Not that I feel there is any reason to bring that back. I am ok with live service games charging a monthly subscription though.

But the idea itself isn’t as unheard of as everyone here acts like it is.

quams69,

This is absolutely not what he is saying, and no one is pretending this is new

Daqu, do gaming w I've got a bad feeling about this

Microsoft will send the bills for Solitaire and Minesweeper next week.

Mr_Blott,

Uh oh Age of Empires is going to be painful

Agent641,

Factorio devs just became trillionaires

Evotech, do gaming w I've got a bad feeling about this

I’m sure that’s not going to increase grinds

setsneedtofeed, (edited ) do gaming w The right tool for the job
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

I’m still a little disappointed at that part in the movie when the guy simply recommends an AR. Dude should have listed off a bunch of specifications like in movies when a Car Guy lists engine details.

“Ah, I think you’ll be interested in a new build I have here. Noveski upper with a ten point three barrel, suppressor compatible, monolithic handguard, there is an adjustable gasblock which I’ve left a little overgassed but I get the feeling you won’t be using this piece long enough for that to be a problem. The lower has a two stage flat trigger. Very good break. Ambidextrous controls. Non-latching charging handle of course. I’ve taken the liberty of putting a low power variable zoom Trijicon optic on top. Twenty five yard zero with M855.

It comes standard with six anti-tilt steel magazines. Although, for you Mr. Wick I’ll go ahead and make it twelve.”

That or it should have just been Ian recommending obscure French guns until John Wick leaves.

ChicoSuave,

To this day, the best scene where a character gets a gun is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly when Tuco, the ugly, walks out of the desert and makes his gun out of the parts of other guns. John Wick movies feel like they are only trying to be cool, not fun.

setsneedtofeed,
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

A scene that John Wick referenced, which was fun.

The original version had the great negotiation about how much Ugly was going to rob the shopkeeper though.

sorghum, do gaming w The right tool for the job
@sorghum@sh.itjust.works avatar

precise

It certainly isn’t the power glove

De_Narm, do gaming w Game of the year?

Kinda a nice example why it is bullshit to rate stuff on a one-dimensional scale. Given the right point in my life, I too would like the calculator app more than Elden Ring, for example during a math exam back when +/-/*// were all the operations I needed. Good times.

Zehzin, do gaming w Game of the year?
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

And I thought Elden Ring had too many tangents 🥸 🚬

Rhoeri, do gaming w Game of the year?

Trolls fuck up everything.

chunkystyles, do gaming w I knew he'd understand

Real gamer move.

iHUNTcriminals, do gaming w Unfortunately

They just put that in the food.

DanglingFury, do gaming w Unfortunately

What game

csfirecracker,

Fallout 4

DavidGarcia, do gaming w Unfortunately

no one tell her about psychiatric medication

Dadifer,

She’s saying that you can’t package suicidal depression, whereas psychiatric medication would be the antidote. I happen to disagree, as I get suicidally depressed every time I go on Facebook.

JoShmoe, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

Don’t forget minetest and gamehub

sexy_peach, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!
@sexy_peach@feddit.de avatar

I don’t even like steam

AceSLS,

I use dedicated cpu cores and other tweaks on my setup to reduce game input latency. Steam is always the 1 fucking program that randomly starves my remaining cores for absolutely no reason

dan1101,

It uses a lot of my RAM. I love Steam but it needs some optimization.

famousringo,

It’s such a garbage-tier app and always has been. Credit to Valve for busting open online app stores, but I have no idea why people like Steam so much.

Hexarei,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

but I have no idea why people like Steam so much.

Convenience is, I think, the primary driving force.

pleb_maximus,

Absolutely hated it when I was forced to use it. Nowadays I don’t mind that much anymore. But if a game needs to launch another launcher first, that drives me crazy.
Looking at you, EA and Ubishit.

wreckedcarzz,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

I got into steam because I could (using modded files) download valve games for free. It was like piracy but without the torrenting and gameboxart.jpg.exe shenanigans.

Then I liked Counter Strike, and portal was coming out… and now I have a few thousand bucks in games.

Still don’t like having to run a nanny program to be “allowed” to play the shit I paid for. But steam is the best of that garbage pile.

pleb_maximus,

I got into it because I got Total War Napoleon (another annoying launcher with the Total War series nowadays…) and didn’t realize beforehand that you needed an Steam account for it.
I came around to appreciate the storefront and library for my purchased digital games. But as you said, I don’t want to have to run a nanny program to play my games. Especially my single player games.
That’s what I like about gog though, I can just download an offline installer for my games from them. Although I think by now even they have games on their store that require launchers.

Kecessa,

That’s what I always find funny about the EGS hate crowd… They complain about the features it didn’t have at launch (that it now has) but in the end having to launch any launcher pisses me off, might as well use the one with the least garbage! No Valve, I don’t need fucking trading cards with my games!

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

might as well use the one with the least garbage!

That’s why people use Steam!

Kecessa,

Steam has a whole lot of useless features compared to Epic or GOG Galaxy, it’s the most bloated launcher available at the moment. Do you need cards and tradable items linked to your account to play your games?

What’s funny is that if the roles were reversed Epic would be accused of trying to monetize whales and gamblers, but no one bats an eye because it’s Valve doing it.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95kNwZw8YY

Valve is also improving overall gaming experience by supporting Linux but go off about opportunistic Tim Swiney.

Kecessa,

You’re mixing up two separate debates, we’re talking about the launcher experience, not about the OS they support.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Supporting an OS is a part of launcher experience ya dingus.

Kecessa,

It’s clearly not part of this discussion because you can’t compare the user experience on Linux when the product you want to compare to doesn’t exist on it.

Also, you can just shut up if you can’t have a discussion without insulting the people you’re talking to, no one asked you to take part in the first place since clearly you’re trying to derail the discussion.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Lack of OS support is not a relevant point? Utter galaxy brain take lol.

Kecessa,

In a discussion where we’re comparing the user experience of two products we need to compare them in an environment where both products are working so the user can experience them both.

I don’t know how you can’t figure that out but here we are.

Pyro, do gaming w I just love collecting them all!

That’s why I use Playnite

Poggervania,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

It still will launch a launcher if it needs to, but at least you can see all of your games in one place

KrokanteBamischijf,

Which is absolutely a must if you have a huge library across multiple platforms. How else will I find out if that indie gem in the latest Humble Bundle is already in the library somewhere?

Joking aside, Playnite is especially awesome if you like admiring a collection in gallery view. The “sorting title” feature is exactly what we need in a day and age where publishers don’t give a fuck about proper naming schemes.

They be like:

  • Game
  • Game II - Electric Boogaloo
  • Game 3: Definition of Insanity
  • Game™, the Return of Shenanigans
  • Game V; "Definitely the Last One"™

I just want my collection displayed in the proper order, stop that shit!

Hexarei,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

DOOM

DOOM II

DOOM III

DOOM

DOOM Eternal

KrokanteBamischijf,

Ah yes, DOOM… Which is not DOOM IV, because that was a separate project that has been cancelled.

[sad demonic noises]

b_crussin,

Playnite is sick. I’ve spent a ton of hours writing my own themes to customize it and set up categories for all of my games. And by that point I don’t even want to play the game I opened it for anymore lol

winterayars,

Oh good, it’s like a launcher for my launchers.

pete_the_cat,

Yo dawg…

rdri,

Jokes on you but that is what it actually is.

nihth,

Really liked it, too bad it’s not for Linux

pineapplelover,

Heroic launcher

FrenLivesMatter,
@FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today avatar

Heroic is pretty good too. Supports a lot fewer stores than Playnite (only Epic, GOG, and Amazon at the moment), but it doesn’t require any of the original launcher to be installed in order to download and play any games (with a few exceptions, such the the Star Wars games on Epic which still require the original launcher due to some fuckery).

Works on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and on the latter two, will even help you set up and configure Wine automatically in order to run your Windows games.

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