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ThunderComplex, do games w What is the definitive way to play certain games?

For League of Legends the definitive way to play is to not start. I swear I do not know of any other game that has such addictive properties while being so absolutely fucking awful. You don’t stop playing this game, You take extended breaks.
Friends don’t let friends play League

KuroiKaze,

I found it incredibly easy to walk away from. Whatever it is that is supposed to be addicting about it it just didn’t fire on me at all.

ThunderComplex,

The chosen one!
Keep your talent hidden lest everyone side-eye you like this

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/d3bca8c2-2fef-4409-ab76-70d5f89aa6f3.jpeg

KuroiKaze,

Hahaha I’m also the kind of person who has never bought a single cosmetic in a video game. I think I just don’t have an addictive personality generally.

ThunderComplex,

OK well that just makes sense. Cosmetics are so dumb. $25 to look different? Do you know how many games I can buy with that?

TallonMetroid, do games w Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?
@TallonMetroid@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, I kinda want to play Stellar Blade to see if the gooner bait makes up for what I’ve heard about the gameplay, but I’m not gonna shell out actual money for it, especially since it’s got Denuvo.

Also, I know it hasn’t even been announced yet, because Metroid Prime 4 only just came out a couple months ago, but Metroid Prime 5. At this point, it would have to be a Switch 2 game, and I refuse to get one because fuck that game key card shit.

MidsizedSedan,

Shaun has a video essay on Stellar Blade. According to him, its very much “can I copy your homework” of Nier Automata, and some sekiro gameplay.

I have only played the the later 2. Nier Automata is something I will never forget, and (IMO) Sekiro is the best Fromsoft+Combat game. Highly recomend both of them

Katana314,

I stopped Nier Automata midway because it felt completely awful. Then I was sternly motivated by someone to give it a full go and finish it all the way, and it got EVEN WORSE.

Stellar Blade, though, made the gameplay very enjoyable; and its writing, while following a very similar theme, didn’t feel nearly so excessively ultra-grimdark. It kept some core reveals for close to the end (I guess unless you were paying attention to what few audio logs amounted to more than just “They’re coming…! Agh! We’re all dead.”) but I liked the dilemma it posed.

MidsizedSedan,

Shame that you didn’t like Nier Automata. If I have to point a flaw, it can have “im14andThisIsDeep” vibes, but I wouldn’t call it awful.

100% I was (still am) biased. Shaun’s was the only thoughts I had until here. Felt unfair that I hated a game so much I’ve never even played.

Opened Steam to check the price and OH BOY. $109 AUD. Guess the demo will have to be my thoughts for the time being

((Dark Souls 3 is older, also that price, and also not reccomended at the price. But I’m not paying 109 for a “maybe I will like it” game))

JeeBaiChow, do games w What is the definitive way to play certain games?

Mgs on a ps. With a memory card with konami saves on it. Iykyk

Ugurcan, do games w Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026

Hitman in 10 years club? You might’ve mixed in the reboot. OG Hitman was released in 2000, which makes it 26 yrs old.

thessnake03,

10 years ago, it was also called hitman

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman_(2016_video_game)?wp…

metallic_substance, do astronomy w Red Spider Planetary Nebula from Webb

Beautiful. Also it’s red and it looks a lot like a spider, so 10/10 on the naming

VerilyFemme, do games w Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026

Oh that New Super Mario Bros HURT.

carotte,
chunes,

I think we can officially start calling it old super mario bros now

mohab, do games w Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026

The 20-Year Old Class of 2006

GOD HAND

Casually dropping Okami and God Hand in the same year… Clover were CRACKED.

fyrilsol,

Too bad neither of those games saved Clover from going under. Quite a damn shame.

Mohamed, do games w What is the definitive way to play certain games?

Duke3D - would recommend eduke32 port. The High-Resolution Pack is quite nice, butperhaps some prefer the retro feel of sprites.

BigBananaDealer, do games w Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026

smackdown vs raw 2007 one of the best wrestling games ever alongside no mercy, here comes the pain, and svr 2006

breadsmasher, do games w Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

mmm no. nope. pokemon red/blue was maybe 15 years ago. and oblivion is pretty recent.

nope time hasn’t really moved on that much. that cant be right …

jk

VonReposti,

I’m pretty sure it was yesteryear that all the kids were hazardously catching Pokémon outdoors while staring blindly into their phones.

BoiLudens,

To be fair I’ve aged 30 years in the past 5

missingno,
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Assuming you don't live in Japan, Red/Blue actually is slightly more recent than OP led you to think. JP Red/Green was 1996, but international Red/Blue was 1998. Assuming you don't live in Japan, you get two years of youth back.

Underwaterbob, do games w Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

Bloodborne

The last console I owned was a PS3, and I don’t plan on ever having another. Sony thankfully mostly got with the program and released a bunch of their stuff on PC, but Bloodborne remains a standout.

GunValkyrie,

Emulating bloodborne is really good now. It is 100% playable with rare minor bugs now. Highly recommend playing it. It’s the best souls orne out there. Imo

Underwaterbob,

What kind of specs do you need to run it smoothly? Does any of the online stuff work?

Grass, do games w Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026

I know these kinds of posts absolutely mummify me but I read them anyway…

duelistsage, do games w Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

Star Citizen

Still waiting for it to release.

bitjunkie, do games w Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

The Dark Souls series takes place in a fascinating universe and I’m sure the lore is enthralling… I just refuse to play games that are made artificially hard for the sake of it. If it’s single-player, the devs shouldn’t have an opinion on how much time each player is comfortable wasting on it. Give me “story” difficulty, cheats, etc., and let me decide what to do with them. All you’re hurting are your own sales.

fyrilsol,

Agreed.

I love dark fantasy as a theme. But I can't enjoy the theme if the game is going to be padded like that. That's how you make games not fun and there's nothing fun when you're killed in one or two hits. There's challenge and then there's not fun and all soulslike games fall into the not fun part.

duelistsage,

Part of what makes Souls games fun is that you can work together with others.

I pretty much only play them co-op.

mech, do games w Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

Daggerfall.
It has the most elaborate character creation and most freedom of choice of all the Elder Scrolls games.
You can walk, ride or fly through an open world that’s as large as Great Britain, with thousands of realistically modelled towns and cities, and enter any house in them. You can turn into a vampire, werewolf or were-boar, buy a ship, make deals with the gods, invent your own spells, and commit bank fraud.
First time I played it, it took all night to download the 140MB installer from Kazaa.
But actually playing it now, after so much development in game mechanics has happened, is a chore.
When doing quests, you just go through the same loop of “talk to person, clear an absurdly huge dungeon, kill dozens of enemies that aren’t scaled to your level, die a couple dozen times unless you cheesed the game to become invincible, solve a text riddle, find the McGuffin, return, repeat” over and over again.

fyrilsol,

They really favored being a lycanthrope in that game. It's the most OP transformation, especially when you get a special ring that takes away some of the negatives of being a lycanthrope. All of your stats get maxed, you can instantly heal between transformations, you are immune from what the guards try hitting you with.

Being a vampire in Daggerfall, isn't as fun.

duelistsage,

When doing quests, you just go through the same loop of “talk to person, clear an absurdly huge dungeon, kill dozens of enemies that aren’t scaled to your level, die a couple dozen times unless you cheesed the game to become invincible, solve a text riddle, find the McGuffin, return, repeat” over and over again.

That’s pretty much all Elder Scrolls is. What’s particularly impressive is that they’ve been releasing the same game since the 90s.

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