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ieatpwns, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Color blind options even for those that aren’t color blind. Sometimes they add a different ui color palette which is fun

derekabutton, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Multiplayer games should have toggles to allow more than 4 people. Why do we need to install mods or change a 4 to a 6 in some config file?

This obviously doesn’t work for games like It Takes Two where more than 2 players would be senseless, but your survivalcraft game shouldn’t be limited in the same way.

sqhistorian, do stauf_mansion w The 11th Hour {the five stages.} from Next Generation magazine 13 (January 1996)
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@Die4Ever Well, at least they leaned into the "we're so incredibly behind schedule" angle.

criss_cross, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

Sonic 06.

If you try to play it casually it’s absolutely awful because there’s no guidance on what to do and some of the tasks are awful if you don’t know how to skip them.

But if you watch enough speed runs and LPs of the game you start to figure out why the game breaks, how to do the bad parts, and how to intentionally mess with it. And it’s hilarious to do so. It’s like an unintentional broken sandbox. And the best part is even when you’re not trying to it breaks anyway.

Also the physics in the game are absolutely WILD. It’s one of the few games on earth that’s so bad it’s hilarious.

dingleberrylover, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

Turok 2 for GameBoy Color. It was one of my first games for the GameBoy and I still love it, although, objectively speaking, it might not even be average. The translation was bad and left me confused (non-native English speaker), the levels were not particularly well designed and the platforming and shooting was very bland. But I did not care and it really threw me into the Lost World (was a huge fan of the Lost World movie based on the novel and also the cheesy 90s TV series). The music was great, though, to the point that I would consider it to be in my top 3 all-time gaming OSTs (I think the composer was Alberto Gonzales). Nowadays, I replay it from time to time on my retro handheld. Despite the general forgettable nature of the game, I still have fond memories playing it and the music plays a big role in this as well.

kazerniel, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
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I guess Genshin also counts. The monetisation is horrible, the character designs are facepalm-worthy, the localisation is so bad it makes me wince, Paimon is the worst, but damn, I love the exploration gameplay, landscapes and music 🤷 (Also it helps that I’m f2p, so at least I’m not supporting Hoyo’s predatory practices…)

kazerniel, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
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all those Artifex Mundi hidden object games :D

They’re essentially reskins of the same simplistic gameplay and weak stories for like 15 years, but sometimes I still get in the mood for one :D

I love the better ones’ environmental art, but I’d be wary to pick up ones made in the last few years bc I’m pretty sure they started to use AI as soon as it became available, due to the conveyor belt nature of the genre.

EDIT: Ok apparently I was wrong, and they just altogether stopped releasing their games on PC since the pandemic O.o

rowifo7664, (edited ) do trains w A picturesque NG station

Barog station is indeed one of the gems of the Kalka–Shimla narrow‑gauge railway, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Nestled in the hills of Himachal Pradesh, it’s famous for its dramatic setting: the platforms EZPassNC website curve gracefully right as trains emerge from a long tunnel, creating a striking visual that feels almost cinematic.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

Goddess of Victory NIKKE.

I try to be careful where I play it because the character designs are pretty uh… well the characters have huge personalities, usually. That’s not why I play the game, but I recognize some people have more of a problem with that than others so I try to be respectful about it. Also, NIKKE is a mobile gacha game, which a lot of people dislike. So I would say it counts as a guilty pleasure, although I don’t really feel guilty for playing the game.

For me, I don’t really spend money on it. Except for their two collabs with Neon Genesis Evangelion and one collab with NieR, because for me it is literally the law that I pay at least a little for IPs I really like. I am not a Whale (Richard Nixon impression lol), I am not even a Dolphin(?) I think I am called a Minnow. Whatever they call a basically F2P player that spends so rarely they might as well not spend at all. Besides, I have played for 3 years and only spent $60 total, I think that’s a pretty good deal so far.

Anyway, I like the gameplay. I realize to some people this might sound like I am saying “I read Playboy for the articles,” but hear me out.

When I was younger, I really enjoyed going to arcades. In the tail years of the arcades, newer games started to pop up, among them being lightgun games. I really enjoyed playing Time Crisis and Lethal Enforcers, and later on playing Silent Hill The Arcade, Alien, Terminator, and others. It was fun while it lasted, but now arcades are dead and game developers don’t really make those kind of games anymore. Beside my home arcade cabinet where I emulate the older games (and get a worse experience because I have neither the pizza grease and cigarette smell, nor the different shaped controllers), I don’t have new options for lightgun games these days. Then NIKKE came out and the gameplay was close enough for me that I felt that same fun of a lightgun game. I enjoy my time with the game mostly because it reminds me of the fun I had in actual arcades with lightgun games.

CookieOfFortune,

Stellar Blade has got some personalities as well…

REDACTED, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

Escape from Tarkov, but single player (SPTarkov, not the paid upgrade). Lots of controversy surrounding the game, but I quite enjoy it playing at my own pace and difficulty

SupraMario,

If you got friends, grab project fika mod and enjoy pve with friends. It’s a ton of fun and works great.

andxz,

Same same. It’s a whole other game when you can progress at your own pace and don’t have to worry about resets.

thatKamGuy, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

It’s interesting to see what people genuinely consider to be bad, or maybe they just missed that word? 😅

For me, it would have to be Under The Skin; a solid 6/10 game, in a world where 7/10 is considered average!

SkunkWorkz,

I think some of the people posting comments don’t know what “guilty pleasure “ means.

UltraGiGaGigantic, do gaming w It feels good to support
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Thankfully steamdb exists

Lootboblin,
@Lootboblin@lemmy.world avatar

or IsThereAnyDeal

maxxadrenaline, do gaming w It feels good to support

Lost all my grumpy coin cause devs were a bunch of meth addicts.

Sibshops,
@Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one avatar

Oooh which game was that?

UltraGiGaGigantic,
@UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml avatar

Schedule 1

urandom, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

Lego Tower. It’s a silly game with almost nothing to do. And I put more hours into it than anything else

Katana314, do gaming w It feels good to support

It’s rare, but there’s a few indie games where I did not wait for a sale, even knowing I wouldn’t play it for a while, because I wanted to be supportive to devs that made something I wanted.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

That was me with Dispatch. Got the Deluxe too

Support your Indies. They are the future of gaming once the AAA industry collapses in on itself.

kazerniel,
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I’ve even come across games, like If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers, that is free, but it’s such a great game, that I just had to buy the supporter pack :) (I even waited a bit for it to go off sale :) )

skulblaka,
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Moonring is another free game who had to add a $5 megadungeon DLC after being harassed by fans for months to give them a way to support the game monetarily

MonkeMischief,

This thread has some bangers. Thanks for sharing!!!

I really like this “supporter DLC” model. And it legitimately warms my heart to see a lot of people saying they go out of their way to support indies this way.

That is how gaming should be. <3

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

does that have anything to do with the calvino book?

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

I read the book’s wiki page, but it doesn’t seem to, besides the title. The game does have a narrative frame of strangers meeting at a masquerade ball on an odd train going through a winter landscape, but most of the game is the self-contained stories of 3 of these travellers, it doesn’t directly talk to the player.

Uebercomplicated,

Transport Fever 2 🙏, only time I ever spent 50€ on a game.

They’re releasing 3, so there might be a second time soon…

UltraGiGaGigantic,
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Dwarf fortress. I bought the game and researched for a week how to play

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