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BootLoop, do gaming w Portal vs Half Life gameplay

Right click shotgun fired two shells? Or am I misremembering. It was awesome during the prison level. Nova Prospekt?

CaptSatelliteJack,

Yeah, that’s what that did because Valve thought the tube under the barrel was… another barrel, for some reason.

t3rmit3, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?

One thing I recommend for horror games is to play with a friend (i.e. in the same room). You can even figure out a way to do old-school controller-swapping (for a VN, maybe each chapter, or after a fixed time interval e.g. every 10 minutes). My partner is a huge horror buff, but also has a hard time with the longer periods of stress that horror games impart vs movies, so we play games this way.

taiyang, do gaming w 8GB ram, now only €200!!

I’m so glad my mobo died last year so I got new one with new DDR5 ram before this happened. It’s like a good example for bad things not always being so bad after all.

Darkness343, do gaming w It feels good to support

Friendly reminder to never buy anything at full price, even if it’s stuff to help good devs.

Flipper,

There are a few games that never go on sale, like factorio.

StarvingMartist,

I have absolutely bought factorio on sale before

Flipper,

It used to be cheaper, yes. They increased the price for the release. Maybe you bought it on a key site at a discount. But you certainly didn’t buy on steam, gog or their site on discount. They have state the will never do discounts.

SCmSTR,

Uh… unless I’m reading this wrong, they are correct that it has never gone on sale before. Games like this do exist. It’s rare, but it happens. Like they said, maybe you bought on a key site or maybe a different platform or currency? But on steam in usd, yeah, doesn’t go on sale.

steamdb.info/app/427520/

ayyy,

Why?

Lfrith,

Getting in the habit of willing to be patient and reducing money spending are pretty good general habits.

ayyy,

That is true but it shouldn’t be a hard rule. For example, do you not think the launch price of Hollow Knight: Silksong was fair?

Lfrith,

Shockingly good price, but that doesn’t tend to be the norm. Its more an outlier with retail price of games these days with even games with f2p monetization charging way higher.

Credibly_Human,

You say reminder like you just made a factual comment. Its literally a completely subjective value appraisal by you.

There are plenty of reasons to buy at full price:

  • You want to support the dev (many of these reasons can be suspect to me but its still a valid reason for a perspective buyer)
  • You want to play the game right now, as opposed to waiting to where you wont want to play the game
  • Many multiplayer games are most fun initially before the awful meta and hyper online people screw the fun out of it/force it all to be competitive af/necessitate you needing to look up guides
  • Speaking of multiplayer, you might want to play with friends/be social
  • It’s just not that much money to you

Personally, I’ve stopped trying to do any sort of trick to save money on games because I realized I actually probably ended up spending more on games that were on sale that Id just never actually bother playing than when I just bought a game the second I felt like playing it and then played it. It ended up being a bit of a fallacy for me, and I imagine its the same for many other people.

Darkness343,

Buying at full price is evil. It means you were coerced by the devs to pay their whimsical inflated fake price.

Credibly_Human,

Is buying literally anything at full price also evil to you then? Everything that isn’t rare loses value to time.

Darkness343,

Of course. Gotta cheat the system and buy at discounts. Fuck the economy

tynansdtm, do games w A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd

Neat! I’ve signed up!

Anissem,
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Look forward to seeing you there!

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

separe audio settings for bgm, sound effects, etc

Areldyb, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?

The game may not be for you, and that’s okay.

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?

If you’re triggered easily, I’m not sure if the game is a good fit for you as it does delve into some deeper, more serious topics.

The only other thing I could think of to try and resolve this issue would be to purposely spoil the plot of the game for yourself by reading summaries in advance and then make the judgement call on whether or not you believe you can handle the subject matter?

Katana314, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)
  1. Developers should spend effort vouching for a launch without startup logos. Even if supporting libraries/publishers are credited some other way, startup movies take up a lot of time when gamers launch the game many times.
  2. Trails in the Sky has a feature where you can choose to launch the game directly into your most recent save game rather than ending up at the menus. This would be a boon for many singleplayer games, especially those with densely animated menus.
orenj, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Silly Mode, ofc

Skyline969, do gaming w How do I get into Doki Doki Literature Club?
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You don’t.

_spiffy, do games w A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd
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I joined recently and it’s been a nice and friendly place.

Anissem,
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Thanks so much! Hoping we can get some more great new members!

psx_crab, do gaming w More than enough

I just got a 1tb ssd last month, and holy crap it’s the same price i got for 125gb 8 years ago.

Also i still remember the 8gb pendrive i got in around 2008, for that price today i can get 256gb storage with the size of my cat’s toe bean.

tiramichu, (edited )

My first-ever USB pendrive was 256 megabytes, in 2003.

It was a godsend, because to that point I’d been using floppy disks. It was brushed metal and came in a little faux-leather carry pouch. I guess they figured it was so damn expensive, they should at least make it feel premium.

I’ve still got it, and it still works. Quite useful actually for random jobs like flashing the BIOS on old machines that refuse to read from anything too large, or too new.

Ulrich, do gaming w More than enough
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This is a pretty terrible comparison considering those cartridges didn’t include any game data… You could probably still use them today, the only thing they held was game save data…

betahack, do games w A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd

that’s fucking awesome! rad!

Anissem,
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I’ve tried many communities before this that were either toxic, pressured you for lack of attendance or were just pretty much dead. I’ve had the opportunity to be a member for over 6 years and it’s been amazing. Hope you find it to be the same!

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