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Vodulas, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 24th

Picked up Lies of P yesterday. I am enjoying it a lot, and a lot more than I thought I would. I saw some pre-release playthroughs that left me hesitant, but it is on GamePass, so I figured why not.

It is a great mix of FromSoft concepts, pulling a lot from Bloodbourne and a little from all of them. Highly recommend if anyone wants a soulslike but don’t want to play Elden Ring again.

dditty, do games w [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?

Can someone help me remember the name of a certain game? I heard about it in an LTT video. Apparently it’s a really cheap 8(+?)-player Steam game that is a sort of magic/wizard free-for-all game that’s lots of fun with little strategy. I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember the name of it.

dj1936, do zapytajszmer w Bateria do lapka
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Powiem Wam, że sprawa nie jest taka prosta, bo w linku z ceneo bateria jest niedostępna. Chciałbym kupić jakąś powiększaną baterię (np. około 6000mAh), ale bardzo ciężko taką znaleźć (jedną znalazłem za 300zł, ale to już mógłbym kupić 2-3 oryginalne, mniejsze baterie. Swoją drogą nie wiem, czy to się tak nie skończy…).

Szukałem na świat baterii, szukałem na stronie green cell, szukałem na allegro, na polion też (tu jest najbardziej sensowna oferta, jeśli Polion faktycznie można traktować jako dość porządną firmę e-polion.com/…/bateria-l11m6y01-do-laptopa-lenovo…). Tutaj bateria geencela o identycznej pojemności jest droższa o 80zł. greencell.global/…/2070-bateria-l11s6y01-l11s6f01…

Tu jest super oferta, ale produkt niedostępny - swoją drogą cena dziwnie niska. Może coś się pomylili - tak czy siak kliknąłem w “powiadom o dostępności”. Nawet na amazon i na aliexpress szukałem

Ehh, tyrania wyboru…

VulKendov, do gaming w If you could gift a videogame to anyone, what would you give to whom? And why?
@VulKendov@reddthat.com avatar

Gifting someone a f2p game kinda sounds like a dick move imo

Lunar,

Would it be better if I didn’t?

idunnololz, do games w [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?
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I don’t see people mention Cross Codes often and no one has mentioned here yet so I think it’s “lesser known”.

It’s one of the games I got. I’m 20 hours in and the game is amazing so far.

The game can be pretty challenging sometimes so I’m not sure if it’s for everyone. I’d describe the game as a MMORPG but without the MMO. It has a lot less grinding than a MMO and a lot more puzzles.

I saw some people compare it to Zelda but I feel like that’s only accurate for some aspects.

Osa-Eris-Xero512,

In a similar vein i would add Unsighted to this list.

Piemanding,

Cross code won awards and was featured several times on Linus Tech tips. IDK how lesser known it could be then. It did come out a while ago. I agree that the game is good, but it is one of the few games I quit because of performance issues.

idunnololz,
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

Oh wow. I only learned of the game this year so I might just be living under a rock. I don’t watch LTT often, do they do game reviews now?

Piemanding,

They don’t do gaming reviews, but Crosscode was always that game Linus tested on those handheld consoles up until and including the Steam Deck. I remember him playing it to test latency and stuff on displays and stuff.

Podryban, do zapytajszmer w Bateria do lapka
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W trzech laptopach używałem / używam baterii Green Cell. Kupuję przez tę stronę: https://swiatbaterii.pl/. Fajnie jest, że jak napiszesz do asystenta, to pomoże dobrać model do laptopa. Jak dotąd po czterech latach od użycia najstarszej z baterii złego słowa powiedzieć nie mogę.

nudnyekscentryk,
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Mają też dystrybutora na allegro.

Również polecam GreenCell, kupuje do wszystkich laptopów w rodzinie i pracy. Tak samo zasilacze. A jeśli przypadkiem Świat Baterii nie ma potrzebnego modelu, to można też sprawdzić markę Polion — na moje oko z tej samej fabryki w Chinach, identyczny sprzęt i opakowania.

Traegert, do games w Are there games similar to Borderlands Science?

…Tetris?

magic_lobster_party, do games w What are some 3D platformer/3rd person shooter hybrids aside from the Ratchet and Jak series?

It was a long time ago I played it, so I’m not sure how well it has aged.

But I recommend Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. It’s a platformer where boomerangs are your weapon. Over time you unlock different kinds of boomerangs with different perks (like fire boomerangs or exploding boomerangs). I remember it being quite fun at the time.

Zahille7,

It’s aged pretty well, especially with the HD remasters available on steam. My favorite is Ty 2.

savvywolf, do gaming w If you could gift a videogame to anyone, what would you give to whom? And why?
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

Probably Celeste to anyone that has anxiety. I know it’s probably not the most profound representation of anxiety, but it’s a nice little game, it’s nice to feel seen and there’s a chance that some of the stuff in it will help.

Crotaro, do gaming w If you could gift a videogame to anyone, what would you give to whom? And why?

Assuming that the premise is, they will actually magically play it even if they would usually go “Oh…nice…”, I would give Sky: Children of Light to a former classmate who was (haven’t talked to him in 6 years) the sort to throw his controller when he lost particularly bad in Call of Duty.

Sky is kinda like Journey (made by the same developer as well), but with an increased multiplayer- and social experience, to keep it short.

dj1936, do zapytajszmer w Bateria do lapka
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Czy taki wybór to dobry wybór? A może słaba firma? A może niepotrzebnie przepłacone?

m.ceneo.pl/56495773

Podryban,
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nie ogarnąłem, że jesteś autorem też. :D Green Cell ogółem polecam, ciężko powiedzieć, żeby było przepłacone. Na ich stronie możesz się upewnić, czy to dobry model pod tego lapka!

Yerbouti, do games w [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?

Cloudpunk and a DLC for the crazy good Not for Broadcast game.

KISSmyOS,

Just in case you haven’t played them, I’d highly recommend Papers, Please and Headliner Novinews.
Those would be right up your alley.

frogfruit, do games w [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?

Cattails. It’s like Stardew Valley but with cats. I played the first game on Switch and just picked up the sequel to play on Deck.

Viper_NZ, do games w What's up with Epic Games?

Paid exclusives locking content away from other online stores. Basically trying to force me to use it is a sure fire way of making me refuse.

mammut,

Why are paid exclusives worse, though? I’ve never understood that. I understand why we hate exclusives, but I’ve never heard anyone explain why paid exclusives are worse. Steam has tons of exclusives, some of which are exclusive because they targeted Steam APIs that are proprietary and the developers don’t have the resources or incentive to port the game to another platform. Why isn’t it bad to encourage developers to use proprietary APIs that make it difficult to port games to other platforms?

As a consumer, exclusives are shitty because they restrict where I can buy and play a game. This is true whether they’re paid exclusives, technical lock-in exclusives, lazy developer exclusives, etc. All types of exclusives suck. Is it worse that Borderlands 3 was exclusive for 6 months compared to Borderlands 2 being exclusive for ~7 years, just because one was paid? I can’t understand why the 6 month exclusivity period is worse for a consumer than the 7 year one.

Viper_NZ,

Most of the salt I have for this behaviour from games that were pulled from Steam because Epic threw cash at the developers, or they’re exclusive despite there being no reason to be.

I have no issue with Epic releasing their own games in their store, just like valve do, or EA/Actvision did.

mammut, (edited )

This is the same kinda shit that Valve / publishers pulled when Steam launched, though.

Half-Life and Counterstrike originally didn’t require Steam, and then one day Valve told everybody they’d need to start using Steam if they wanted to keep playing the games they’d already bought. That’s a Valve game, but it’s akin to Epic moving Rocket League to EGS (which also pissed people off).

For more general / non-Valve games, there was a time period where you’d pre-order a physical copy of game and honestly not know if it would require a launcher. Tons of games that launched in early days of Steam didn’t bother to tell consumers upfront that Steam was required, and consumers wouldn’t find out until the game hit the shelves and there was a little note on the back of the box, “Internet access and Steam account required.” In that case, non-Steam pre-orders weren’t even given an exception – every copy required Steam. That seems even worse than the Epic mess IMO. There, the publishers at least made an exception for people who thought they were ordering a Steam game. If you thought you were gonna get a real physical copy of game that didn’t require a launcher, and it ended up requiring Steam, the publisher just told you to either use Steam or pound sand.

I don’t like the behavior either, but pulling already announced / released games and forcing them onto a different launcher is standard practice when a new launcher comes out. It’s happened to paid and non-paid exclusives. It’s happened to EGS and Steam (and probably Origin or Uplay or others too). I don’t see any reason to be any more upset at publishers over the EGS debacle than the Steam one.

My take is that launcher exclusivity shouldn’t exist, because every single launcher has just pissed off / screwed over consumers when there is exclusivity / any requirement to use the launcher.

JamesFire,

This is the same kinda shit that Valve / publishers pulled when Steam launched, though.

Irrelevant.

mammut, (edited )

Yes, in the long run it always is. That’s my point. EGS will probably be successful, and 15 years from now someone will bring up a story about how EGS really infuriated people “back in the day”, and everyone will say it’s irrelevant.

Nobody cares how the service got started. They only care where it goes. It doesn’t make a bit of difference how pissed off everyone is at Epic. It didn’t matter how pissed off everyone was at Steam in the early years. There’s a reason these companies start off by pissing everyone off: it works. There’s no long term downside, and, in the short term, it gets you users. Users don’t show up voluntarily on the early days, and they defend the service once it’s established.

As long as Epic lasts long enough for everyone to later forgive them for their anti-consumer beginning, they’ll be golden. It’s the market standard. The early days will always be viewed as irrelevant. “It was a different time,” people always say. “You can’t compare it to now.”

wahming, do gaming w key reseller yuplay. trusted?

FYI, key resellers actually cost game publishers money, due to frequent credit card chargebacks. Many indie devs have stated that if you’re going to buy something from a key reseller, they would actually prefer you to just pirate it instead.

squid_slime,
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So ive heard, I remember the pricing before all the controversy was much lower, now most games after service fees either match steam price or slightly above a recent sale price.

Not advocating previous practice’s but saying that the issue seems to be a lot less prevalent to how it used to be

Katana314,

Besides the difficulties for players, there’s also the fact that key reselling is an excellent method for credit card pickpockets to launder money quickly.

Someone’s credit card is swiped in the streets, and in the time before it’s reported stolen, the thief buys many copies of expensive games, to be resold on a place like this. The key resellers themselves claim they’re purchased directly, but…I personally have almost no faith in them or their claims.

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