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koncertejo, do games w One-handed games?
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You might be interested in the videos made by Champutee, a one-armed gamer who has done several experiments with both genres and controllers to continue enjoying gaming.

smeg,

That’s an incredible username!

moncharleskey, do games w Day 249 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots

Infinite is no perfect game, but to me it felt like a great foundation for a game. I liked the open world aspect a lot, but it needed at least double the content in my opinion.

Stalinwolf,
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I remember at least liking it a fair bit because it played a lot like Halo 1. I was a huge fan of the original and never cared as much for the sequels. I remember all of my friends got really into ODST, and I hated the direction it had taken the gameplay. So when Reach came out and felt comfortable in my hands again, I was stoked.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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Definitely. For a base, it’s amazing. It needs some balancing imo, and like you said, some more content. My friend I play with was commenting that he wishes there were more biomes, which is definitely something I agree with. The generic “grassy hills” thing definitely gets boring to look at after a bit.

moncharleskey,

Yeah, that would have been great to have a tundra and jungle biome. Spawning patrol groups would have been cool, and having to defend FOBs periodically from attack or risk losing them. Ah, what could have been.

Kolanaki, do gaming w Tetris
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It does have an ending tho. And until recently, when a 13 year old kid managed to do it, the end of the game was only achieved by machines/AI. Tho, to be fair, the ending is basically just going so far that the game stops working.

embed_me, (edited )
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Truly, reaching singularity is the end goal

Kolanaki,
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Tetris as a commentary on transhumanism.

SpaceCowboy,
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the ending is basically just going so far that the game stops working.

Seems even more appropriate for a game from the Soviet Union.

m0darn,

Isn’t it a lot more like a capitalist treadmill? Work hard to make number go up! It is in fact beatable in the sense that the number can’t actually go up forever, eventually the system crashes.

ZhprbE,

This description of capitalism perfectly reflects soviet communism as well, tho

marsNemophilist,

you do realise that are hundreds of Tetris games where you can play endlessly?!?

kuberoot, (edited )

Virtually endlessly. What they’re talking about is, AFAIK, the actual original (not actually original, but NES) Tetris. It was meant to be infinite, but at some point the numbers get too big to store, and the programming starts breaking down. Some games might be able to keep going indefinitely, just resetting/looping some numbers, and in modern games it might take years, centuries, or even universal lifetimes to reach that point, but almost all “infinite” games will break down at some point.

ActionBasto,

they’re talking about the nintendo entertainment version of tetris, which is the most popular competitive version of tetris.

marsNemophilist,

i wouldn’t call it the most popular.

ActionBasto,

it’s the one that they play at the largest tournaments, and the tetris game with the most sought after world records, so i’m using that as my indicator. what would you say is the most popular version for competative play?

marsNemophilist,

Nes Tetris is practically unplayable for today’s gamers. While it draws massive nostalgia-driven tournaments targeting the US audience, games like TGM, TETR.IO, and PPT are far more popular globally.

ActionBasto,

yes, that’s why i specified competitive tetris.

YiddishMcSquidish,

When watching any big competition, it’s the one they use. While arcade variants like Grand Master have their own cult following, they are clearly in the minority.

marsNemophilist,

original Tetris was made on Electronika 60, very few people played that version.

kuberoot,

That’s cool, I didn’t realize that - according to Wikipedia, it was “adapted to the IBM PC” and spread throughout Moscow and then to eastern Europe, so I wonder how many people actually played that. I guess the NES version was the first commercial one

PieMePlenty, do games w Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

It wasn’t “my” Half Life but it was a damn good one. It felt true to the series and that brought a tear to my eye. The writing, the environments, the soundtrack all felt very Half Life without compromise. I didn’t like that it was a VR title but I understood why they went that route. In 2D, it would probably lack in depth (in more ways than one).

I borrowed a VR set from a friend to play it and bought the game at 60% off, which it frequently drops to. I’d urge anyone who has a VR capable PC to try and play it some way but VR is always going to restrict access to this. I’ll probably play through it in 2d Mode (via mod) some day in the future to try and relive it. And if non-VR is the only way you get to experience it, at minimum, use headphones… and dont go online saying it sucks after because, remember, it was made for VR.

danciestlobster, do games w One-handed games?

Caves of Qud is keyboard only option (no mouse), mostly just need wasd. Definitely an atypical RPG but very fun all the same.

BleatingZombie, do games w One-handed games?

I went through the same thing a while back

I played a lot of turn based RPGs

gonzo-rand19, do games w One-handed games?

I think you should be able to play Organ Trail one-handed. It's a zombie apocalypse version of Oregon Trail.

BagOfHeavyStones,

Organ Trail... What's the objective?

gonzo-rand19,

The objective is to make sure you have enough supplies to survive for as long as you can while making it across America to a place safe from zombies.

I believe the goal is ultimately to get to Canada (I haven't played in a while) but I might be mixing it up with Death Road to Canada, which is similar in premise but probably not something you could play one-handed.

lunarul, do games w Day 249 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots

I don’t get how people do this. I obsessively play a single game until I exhaust everything possible to do in that game. Only then I move on to the next game. In 243 days I would probably have screenshots of 2 games total.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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Part of it just that I like taking screenshots of my games. I’ll take a picture of anything I see that’s slightly interesting in games. So much so that I used to have a whole extra storage drive for all of them until I trimmed them down and limited myself lol

lunarul,

It’s not about the screenshots, I’m just amazed with how you’re playing a different game every day. I can’t put down a game until I 100% it.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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Oh, I get what you’re saying. I try to 100% things, or at the very least beat the story. But some times I’ll get burnt out easily or just won’t have the time for that specific game. Usually I try to balance a single player game and then multiplayer game with friends I’ll shuffle through whenever.

Right now my single player is Far Cry 3, and then my multiplayer rn is mostly Halo Infinite with my friend, though occasionally I’ll drag my PS3 over to my friend’s house for Splitscreen Minecraft (like today), so that could be included under multiplayer too.

ExtraMedicated, do games w Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots

Far Cry 3 was the game that got me to stop buying Ubisoft games. I enjoyed the game, but when someone invited me to an online match (something that almost never happened for me) I found that playing online required some U-Play account or whatever they called it, and it cost $10. I tried the free account code that came with the game, but my brother already used it. So at that point I was pissed. I didn’t play online often, but it would’ve been nice to play with one of the very few friends I had without being expected to pay more money for the game I already paid for.

Fuck Ubisoft. I hope that company burns.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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Fuck. I completely forgot they used to do that bullshit thing for Multiplayer. I think I still have a card for it that came with my childhood copy of AC Revelations somewhere

DigDoug, do games w One-handed games?

One really handy thing with the Steam Deck is the ability to remap all of the buttons (as well as the two paddles on the back for each hand), so one could probably make a decent one-handed control setup for 99% of turn-based games. Even ones that require the use of the mouse, given the Deck’s touchpads.

Vampire Survivors requires nothing except the stick/dpad outside of menus (and I’m pretty sure you can use the touchscreen for menus, too).

If your friend(s) are stuck using the dpad, it might not be suitable, but Crypt of the Necrodancer only requires four buttons or left, right, up, and down (and you can assign buttons for the button combos normally required to do things like use bombs). This assumes that they like rhythm games.

Ellvix,
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I second Vampire Survivors

WhippetBowie, do games w One-handed games?

…steampowered.com/…/Lorelei_and_the_Laser_Eyes/

Brilliant puzzle game

Designed to be played on a controller with one hand so you can take notes with your other hand.

Such a cool stylish game. Highly recommended.

lolola, do gaming w Tetris
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Tetris 99. It’s like racing side by side with 98 other Sisyphuses to see who can get their boulder up the hill most efficiently.

Linktank,

God that game was such a letdown. I heard “Multiplayer tetris” and thought I could play with friends.

Nope.

greybeard,

There are plenty if multiplayer Tetris games out there. Tetris 99 was going for something very different.

Linktank,

Yeah, I hated it.

I don’t give a fuck how 99 other random ass people are doing in their own personal tetris game.

Damage, do games w Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

What’s the status of VR games on Linux? With headsets that don’t require weird accounts (Meta)

antithetical,

As I mentioned in another comment it plays quite well. At least with the Steam Index that I use. Most games seem to work out of the box. One thing that isn’t currently implemented is BT communication with the lighthouses which is a bit annoying but there are other apps and tools to workaround that.

chronicledmonocle,

If you have a Quest headset, ALVR allows you to stream SteamVR to it.

I believe the Valve Index allows for Linux usage, but I’ve never owned one.

koncertejo,
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Seems like WiVRn is also a good solution these days, just tried it out for the first time a few hours ago and I’m very impressed.

chronicledmonocle,

Wow never heard of this application. I’ll have to give it a try.

Die4Ever, do games w Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!
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definitely Deus Ex

but also The 7th Guest lol

Rai,

The 7th Guest defined my childhood, along with Quest for Glory I.

Die4Ever,
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I’m obsessed with The 7th Guest lol

!stauf_mansion

Rai, (edited )

I remembered the level skip code waaaay before I was old enough to know what ZAPHODBEEBLEBROX meant hahahaha <3

Rai,

Addendum: my parents wouldn’t let me get The 11th Hour cuz I was 10 :c

I STILL HATE THE CHESS PUZZLES FROM 7TH GUEST AAAAAAA

Rai,

Addendum2: my partner and I are stuck on a chess puzzle but I know that BrutalMoose did a 7th Guest playthrough that we are now going to watch.

Die4Ever,
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I also have hints here youtu.be/T5rBc_T8x2g

Rai,

Oh you fucking ROCK. I forgot which puzzle we were stuck on, but we’ll boot it back up and check out your hints <3

I can’t believe I beat this game when I was younger, especially without Internet!

Rai,

Random memory: I put disc two in my new discman when I was super lil and my mind was blown when the entire (incredible) soundtrack started playing.

Die4Ever,
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Rai,

Oh heck yeah, thank you! I like you.

kerrigan778, do gaming w Tetris

This is just inherent to the history of games stemming from arcades. If you “finished” the game you had to insert more coins again, basically every game was structured so that if you “won” you kept playing until you finally lost, setting a high score.

Asetru,

While that’s true in general, tetris wasn’t designed for arcades.

Alenalda,

Maybe not the original Tetris, but there are many very popular arcade ports. Early versions of Tetris didnt even have line clears and the game just ended when the board filled.

ActionBasto,

i’ve never heard if a version of tetris without line clears. as far as i know it was in the original version distrubuted on floppy disks.

YiddishMcSquidish,

Yeah, quick Google search shows the original 1984 mono chromatic one had line clears and kept track of score. Homie is clearly making stuff up

Nikokin,

And don’t forget grandpa pinball. Always gotta lose

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