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

A way to start a fresh save. Or better yet, allow multiple saves/profiles. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to search online for where save files are located and delete them myself.

And if it’s a Steam game, you also have to worry about cloud saves undoing whatever you did. Please, just make it simple for players to do this.

asiago,

for that matter, why can’t we ever add a note or a tagline to save files? too many rpg’s and console rpgs have multiple save slots, multiple endings and all that other added content jazz, but no way to internally identify the save files that matter?

chunes,

For real. Especially if there are settings that permanently and drastically alter the game that you select when you start.

coriza,

Om that note, see the save-tree would be nice. So you know when saves diverge and such.

HeyJoe, do games w Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

When i was looking into switching to linux I tried out a bunch of flavors through vm’s and I am glad I did because the one I thought I wanted ended up not even working through a vm and in the end I also loved CachyOS the most as well! This was earlier in the year and honestly I am still planning out how to rebuild my main pc. Im more afraid of spending an entire day formatting and rebuilding and not be in a position where it works well enough and be disappointed that I lost my setup that worked fine.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I’ve been thinking about swapping some parts and that’s how I am too. Namely my GPU and Wi-Fi card. I’m paranoid it will bust something. I suppose tinkering is like 50% of what I do for fun, but still. With how much I need my PC I’m hesitant

AnimalsDream, do games w Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

I love some classic Mario Kart 64, but a family member and his friends kind of ruined that one for me. It’s a game that has relatively little content and is best played in small doses to not get sick of it, but they didn’t do that. They went through a whole phase of playing it every day and gaining expert level skills in it. I was not aware of how deep the meta for MK64 is, because the last time I played against them, they were exploiting glitches in virtually every track and leaving everyone else in the dust.

Was always more of a Diddy Kong Racing fan anyway.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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That’s how I am with 8. All my friends like to play 8 and they’ve got over 500 hours in it, meanwhile I have sub 100. They’re over here pulling off tricks and glitches while I’m accidentally drifting the wrong direction.

Also yeah, I agree with the small doses part. Whenever I try to relax with it I can only do 1 cup

lazycouchpotato, do games w Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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I love Mario Kart but for some reason I’ve never been able to get into any version older than MK DS.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I’ve always heard good things about DS specifically, but never really could get into it. Except DK Pass, I love that track

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

Thanks for sharing! Definitely nice to find mature corners of the internet. I’m excited to check it out later!

Do you have a rough idea about the demographics? Most places I find are still 90% men. Not saying anything is inherity wrong with that, but the vibes are different. It’s easy to feel “other’d” if you’re not “one of the bros.” I wish more places had an even split with women/nonbinary folks.

Anissem,
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We definitely have a mix and our weekly shenanigans organizer is female. As with most gaming communities, it’s probably more men than women overall, but there’s even a ladies-only channel and even a ladies night I believe. Hope you give it a shot!

WhatTheDuck,

That’s all great to hear, thanks for the details! It’s hard meeting new people these days, so it’s great this type of post was allowed by the admins.

Anissem,
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I’ve left many toxic communities in the past, and over the past 6+ years it’s been a positive outlet for me. I left all forms of social media a while ago, so it’s nice to have a pressure free outlet with people who understand having little free time but still an interest in gaming. Currently I have lots of free time since I’m between gigs, and I know I’ll sadly have to go back to being less active. Other groups in the past I even got booted from because of similar inactivity. It’s just nice to have somewhere to be. Hope you enjoy it!

WhatTheDuck,

It’s crazy to hear you’ve been booted for being inactive! It’s not like Discord has a limit on usercount (…do they?). I’ve know people who disappeared for a year+ only to return like normal. Life happens and it’s best to leave the door open for anyone to return someday.

I also don’t use other social media outside the fediverse. Public discords have always been a gamble. Mods can only do so much to filter out children/assholes. Private discords tend end up in a death spiral of inactivity in my experience. This one sounds like there’s a ton of people, so hopefully it continues to thrive!

Anissem,
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The first few I came into had weekly attendance requirements, and you’d hit up after a week or so of inactivity which was super stressful considering I wasn’t attending due to work and life stress. This new community I’m a member of definitely understands that. We have parents, working professionals, retires, all sorts of people from all walks of life.

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

What's the Euro population like? With the timezone and all.

Anissem,
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We definitely have some UK and European folks, we’d love some more!

Agent_Karyo,

Cheers!

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

Excellent. I’ll save this in be back in 2½ years.

Anissem,
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Look forward to it! We’ll be there

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

Any chance of a Matrix server? I’m trying to get away from discord and other corporate platforms.

Anissem,
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I’d think if there was a way to have a matrix sever in addition to the discord it would be a much easier suggestion for them, is that a possibility?

currycourier,

There are discord-matrix bridges the last I checked, but I never got around to actually setting one up so not sure how difficult that would be. Also not sure what limitations there are.

Anissem,
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I’ll take a look, thanks!

AstroLightz, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
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As weird as it sounds: Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (The OG one).

On the surface, it’s a shit platformer game for kids, but what makes it interesting is the ways you can break the game and the lively speedrunning community. If you just try to play the game by following its rules, you’re going to have a bad time.

However, if you use cool speedrunning glitches and exploits, it becomes much more fun to break the game in ways the developers didn’t intend. I tend to play from time to time 100%ing it using exploits to reach locked areas earlier, skip entire sections, and play some levels backwards.

Theprogressivist,
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That’s a classic! I hear the new one Titans of the Tide is really good.

Bazoogle,

I still enjoy the game even as is. It’s well made for a show/movie themed game

yuriRO, do gaming w Portal vs Half Life gameplay

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/f6aa5bc1-9f76-405e-b0fd-b23d428761e2.webp

Gordon is so based, achieving high level education to achieving the biggest successful coup from an inter dimensional alien race

Taco2112,

He’s only 27!? I’ve never paid that much attention to the details of these games so I just always assumed he was in his 40s.

SalamenceFury,
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Nahhh this mf had a whole ass PHD while I am STILL struggling with ONE college degree that was supposed to take six semesters since 2017!! Altho I had 3 whole years where classes were suspended (thanks to the Plague 19000), so technically I’ve only been at it for five years… BUT STILL!!

GORDON GIVE ME SOME OF YOUR LEARNING POWERS! I BEG OF YOU! I CAN’T POSSIBLY BE THIS WASHED AT STUDYING!!

https://media1.tenor.com/m/8wane_Lo91UAAAAC/no-no.gif

the_crotch,

He was the new guy, straight out of MIT, lowest on the totem pole. That’s why he was the one shoving that crystal into the gigantic laser.

SalamenceFury,
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HE’S YOUNGER THAN I AM RIGHT NOW???

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/257e3781-0d86-4d22-8168-179b5e0eab81.jpeg

BRO LOOKS 40!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!

capuccino,
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marighost, do games w Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Fellow Bazzite-to-CachyOS user! I agree, Cachy is so much better, especially for learning Linux. Bazzite was great, but layering packages with RPM-OStree was just too esoteric for me.

Know_not_Scotty_does,

Yeah, you aren’t really supposed to layer packages they want to use something like distrobox or similar. I know some things basically have to be (I am fighting with openjdk) but that is where 99% of my issues on bazzite came from. I started just spinning up a vm to run all my random bullshit that required layering in and its been solid ever since.

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

Wrestling games.

missingno, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)
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If I'm going to put 100+ hours into a game, there better be a setting to mute BGM, because no matter how good the OST is I will eventually tire of it and want to listen to something else.

CentipedeFarrier,

Similarly, granular audio options that separate dialogue from ambient from music from system sounds. Definitely don’t need my ears blown out just to hear dialogue.

I like having the background music very low, but not off, system sounds a bit above that, sound effects higher than system but lower than dialogue, which is maxed. And of course ambient sound levels really depend on the game and what kind of ambiance it has.

Same thing with granular contrast/gamma/etc. Don’t just provide a few preset options, especially if they can only be set before you start the game (also they should never only be set from the main menu, never). Let the player choose whatever they want on the fly. I love playing with everything bright so I can see wtf I’m doing, I don’t give half a shit if the devs think it should be so dark it’s not navigable. I disagree.

Katana314,

I’d love it if a group could collude on a standard for music signals.

Imagine this: You have a music player following this signal standard.

Game starts, it signals GAME_STARTED, and the media player signals STOP_GAME_MUSIC, so the game itself plays no BGM, leaving it to the music player. But, then the game can also signal later on: THEME_MENUS, THEME_EXPLORE, THEME_COMBAT, THEME_BOSS; and the media player can respond to that by cross fading between playlists built for each.

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

Adding a reboot button is ONLY necessary if the game isn’t made correctly. There is otherwise no reason to ever need to restart the game. I would see the addition of a restart option as lazy or an admission of failure by the dev.

Katana314,

I could still see it as an admission of imperfection.

Arc Raiders includes an “unstuck” feature. They’re aware their physics system isn’t infallibly perfect, and getting stuck permanently could lead to loss of hard-earned gear. So, if a player is in one spot for more than a minute, they offer an option to teleport you to a safe place a few feet away.

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

Love me some Far Cry games

It’s the only time I’ll ever get an Ubisoft game, and usually I’ll pick them up on deep sales

But for whatever reason they just scratch a particular itch

I hated the ending of 5, but it was otherwise alright

6 was whatever, but overall not as bad as the reviews made it out to be imo

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