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yggstyle, do games w Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers?

Meanwhile StarCraft, one of the most pervasive rts for its time and in the PC gaming sphere in general … let you have multiple people play multiplayer on a single disk. Offline. It’s kinda like it advertised itself and people went out to buy it… which influenced more people… who bought it… gasp.

Mindblowing.

Yermaw,

Legend has it the original Worms was similar. The DRM was a notepad readme that basically said “share me with your friends but buy a copy if you really like it please”

yggstyle,

mmmm banana bombs, holy hand grenades, and those cursed shopping levels * shudder *

very_well_lost,

And it still has a thriving competitive scene more than 25 years later.

In fact, ASL (the biggest SC tournament) is going on right now!

yggstyle,

Funny how that works. ;)

apotheotic, do gaming w What are the best gaming moments of the last decade?

Basically everything in Disco Elysium, there were so many moments that made my jaw drop.

The first ‘ending’ to Void Stranger.

Horizon Zero Dawn had some jaw dropping moments of storytelling.

endeavor, do gaming w Openings (Monster Hunter)

Facts. Lances no brainer fast and strong block is really good.

I just dropped it cause it isn’t interesting mechanically. T. CB main

filister, do games w I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon.

Ughhh you have UHD620. I also have a ThinkPad T14s with Ryzen 4750U and my APU should be more powerful. Do you have any luck of running the Oblivion in a playable manner?

shiroininja,

I have the i7 in it. Oblivion plays about as well as it did at release. lol like I’m not pushing it maxed and graphics mods are out

filister, do games w DOOM: The Dark Ages | Review Thread

Advanced access costs 20 Euro on top of the already overpriced price, in order to be able to play it two days in advance.

slaneesh_is_right,

People who pay for early access are even worse than pre-order people.

Skrufimonki,

It’s their fuckin money! Who gives a fuck if they waste it?

Blah blah it incentivises companies to keep doing early access… well guess what they ain’t going to stop.

Saying people are bad because they want to spend their money on early access, now that’s someone I judge.

Get over it.

slaneesh_is_right,

Chill out, you can pre-order whatever you want, you’re still an idiot for doing it.

Essence_of_Meh, do games w DOOM: The Dark Ages | Review Thread
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like another success for id. I’m curious how players (as in general public) who liked 2016 but didn’t vibe with Eternal feel about it in a few months to a year. I’ll guess I’ll keep an eye out on those discussions.

There’s truly nothing else like it on the market right now, especially in today’s overly sanitized, pussy ass snowflake-infested gaming landscape.

Bruh…

simple,

The downside of opencritic is that the barrier to entry is so low you eventually get stupid quotes like that.

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

I’m glad he found an extremely rare example of a game that doesn’t offend his delicate sensibilities, I guess? I’m sure it’s not easy being a REAL MEN’s MAN these days.

twinnie, do games w Day 297 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing

I didn’t want to say this but I can’t help myself.

It’s addictive, not addicting.

EncryptKeeper,

It’s either my guy.

shiroininja, do games w I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon.

I have the model with the i7. Yeah, it’s playable

Venus_Ziegenfalle,
@Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org avatar

Yeah, it’s playable

It’s Oblivion, that’s really all you can hope for no matter your setup

shiroininja,

lol true

glitchdx, do games w I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon.

I miss having the spare time necessary to enjoy fiddling with settings.

shiroininja,

Fiddling with settings is ok, but I don’t have time to spend trying to get a game to work. Like i game on Linux and 90% of games just work for me. A few years ago they didn’t and I stuck to windows for gaming. I have no time to figure out why sound doesn’t work in Skyrim lol.

But it works now

synapse1278, do games w DOOM: The Dark Ages | Review Thread
@synapse1278@lemmy.world avatar

It will be hard for me to not buy this game. I am a huge fan of the previous 2 games (extensions included). But I will wait at least 2 weeks and check the ratings on Proton DB before anything.

Agent_Karyo, (edited ) do games w Day 296 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

I really got to try Daggerfall, some of the mods radically improve the coherence and depth of the open world.

For some reason, I really like the graphical style (probably nostalgia).

Wizard_Pope,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

The style also kinda has a charm to it.

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

I agree. I love the style. But that being said, I have some younger family members (in their 20s) who are into gaming and they think this is some old school stuff that’s unappealing (they like modern RPGs).

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

The general vibe i really love. The NPC portraits i don’t really care for but everything else looks gorgeous. I especially love the snowy region

Dr_Box, do games w Day 296 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing

Daggerfall is my favorite Elder Scrolls game and what the community has done for it is amazing. A lot of people hate the dungeon design but honestly its my favorite part. I love how mazelike they are and I have become very good at navigating them. The immersion is good too if you can wrap your head around it. Most quests having a deadline really makes you question whether or not you can fit that 8 hour rest in. Caught a disease from a rat? You wont know it until later when you start feeling too sick to travel. Cursed with lycanthropy? Better get out of town when the full moon hits. I wish they had stuck to this formula for elder scrolls games but as others in the fanbase have pointed out, these mechanics have been thrown out in favor of attracting a broader audience which sucks but I understand

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

The immersion is so much fun to get involved with. It can get a little frustrating at times, but damn is it so cool most of the time. The scale of the world is probably my favorite part. Having something of that size just makes it feel so much more immersive

farcaster, (edited ) do games w I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon.

Running on underpowered hardware somehow reminds me of the good (or bad) old days of PC gaming where individual settings could make a huge difference.

Shadows off: Smooth

Shadows on: Unplayable

biofaust,

Now it is almost always unplayable, but the settings on don’t really make a difference

Big_Boss_77, do games w I know this is going to sound like copium, but I love having to fiddle with settings to get original Oblivion running on my 2019 X1 Carbon.

Very seldom is anything dialed in right out of the box. No copium in my book, getting the game perfect is the whole point of pc gaming.

shiroininja,

Yeah, it’s part of the fun.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

TBH I’m kinda surprised the game doesn’t run maxed out without problems. I know the IGPU wasn’t the greatest back then, but it wasn’t that bad.

My current laptop has a 96 eu iris Xe IGPU and it runs a LOT of games very well.

Sunsofold, (edited ) do games w What is your favorite indie game?

I play, almost exclusively, non-AAA games. Some gems, known and hidden:

  • Autonauts and Autonauts Vs Piratebots - Cute automation games
  • Spelunky - Elegantly simple and well executed platformer
  • BPM: Bullets Per Minute - Rhythm FPS. Others have tried. None I have found have been as good.
  • Immortal Redneck - FPS roguelite
  • Ziggurat - FPS Roguelite
  • Receiver II - Unique FPS roguelike. Every part of everything that moves is simulated. The hammer on your gun hits a firing pin which hits the primer on the cartridge. You can get stovepipes, misfires, double feeds, etc. You don’t reload by hitting ‘reload’ but go through the full manual of arms in a shooter where the tolerances for failure are fairly slim.
  • Valley - running game. The feeling of letting a hill propel your running to otherwise impossible speeds, bottled. Nice little story too.
  • Dredge - Lovecraftian fishing game.
  • Tunnet - lovecraftian network technician simulator. Build a network to allow communication between computers in an underground society with unspeakable horrors occasionally destroying your mind/body.
  • Opus Magnum - Programming puzzles
  • Vagante - roguelike with tight tolerances
  • Ruiner - Cyberpunk slash n dash with a soundtrack half by Sidewalks and Skeletons. Very fun.
  • Tails Noir - Detective story. Normally find the anthro thing a bit tiresome but this was pretty good. Well written.
  • Elderborn - First person brawler
  • Webbed - be a peacock spider. Rescue your lady spider. Help insects. Fight a bird. Dance.
  • A Story About My Uncle - Movement game. Jump, dash, grapnel. Simple and elegant.
  • Tormentor X Punisher - Top down twin stick shooter. Everything dies in one hit. All the enemies, and you.
  • Tin Can - Survival game in which you try to keep up an escape pod long enough to be rescued, which is hard when it seems to have been made by the lowest bidder’s lowest bidding subcontractor and maintained with all the loving care of a convenience store bathroom.
Azrael,
@Azrael@lemmy.ca avatar

Tails Noir was a cool little game! I really liked it. 🤩

Sunsofold,

I liked that it wasn’t a parody of itself. Most of the writing could have been unchanged if it hadn’t been anthro themed. And the writing was nice, nothing ham-fisted, and had some respect for the reader. I keep running into games where you’ve just talked to an NPC about how they need you to hit the blue button, and you’ve gone through a hallway of posters saying your goal is to hit the blue button, had a quest marker guiding you there that says ‘this way to the blue button you need to press,’ and your character still feels the need to speak to the air about the need to hit the blue button when you walk into the blue button room.

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