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

Random my little pony and other young kid games. Hate to admit it but even the paw patrol games are entertaining in this way (had a ps+ subscription, wouldn’t have paid for these). They are short and easy, and kinda junk, nice palate cleanser, and often very cute and encouraging. You don’t know a silly morale boost until you play something that says “you’re doing great!” periodically on the easiest thing you’ve done all day.

Kolanaki, do gaming w Portal vs Half Life gameplay
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I remember an ad for Half-Life that was like “Most shooters just have you run and shoot, but Half-Life will make you think.

It did not. The puzzles weren’t anything a toddler couldnt solve in 2 seconds, there are barely any of them anyway, and most of the game is just running and shooting.

Live_your_lives,

I haven’t played half life. Isn’t the point to make you think more about the story than about the challenge of the game?

dragonfucker,

Drag got stuck in Black Mesa at the reception area. It looks like the way forward is through the big doorway, but it’s actually through the tiny vent drag didn’t notice for 20 minutes

termaxima, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves

Every game has controller remapping with Steam ! But the on-screen hints might get mighty confusing 😅

Doc_Crankenstein,

Too bad PS5 doesn’t have steam.

termaxima,

If only

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

2-5 times a year I get really into Enlisted. It’s a really grindy free to play game, it feels like 90% of my teammates fail to work toward the objective, and every other round there’s an enemy player that paid for overpowered equipment wiping us out.

But man, it is a thrill to charge through whizzing bullets to get into the midst of the other team before firing round after round from a lee enfield bolt action. And if I am playing with friends there is constant strategic and tactical chatter that makes it so engaging.

murmelade, (edited )

Hah! That game is such a mess. It is so ridiculously mismanaged I doubt it will ever leave beta. There’s no matchmaking, most of the lobbys are 50%+ bots and the bots are laughably bad in all the worst ways, every single update they break something and introduce new bugs so every update has a follow-up “oops” update trying to fix what they broke. Oh man I could go on and on but despite everything the actual gunplay and the buildable spawn point tactical meta game is actually very fun.

Oh and the community! A janky Russian WW2 f2p with low moderation? Yep. It’s bad. Really bad.

It is definitely my guilty pleasure game. It’s full of bots, noobs and console players so just being half decent is enough to make you feel like Rambo out there. I’ve introduced 2 friends to it and they laughed at me for playing it. :(

Semi_Hemi_Demigod, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

Ravenfield is a stupid shooter with bad graphics but it scratches my itch for destruction without a lot of work.

If I have a bad day I throw on some metal and shoot those little stick men.

RandomStickman,
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I've sunken so many hours in that game, half of which is fiddling with load outs to fit the scenario I'm thinking of lol

REDACTED,

Ahh yes, the “army of 10 from future is invading army of 100 who have WW2 weapons”

Theprogressivist,
@Theprogressivist@lemmy.world avatar

Man, I wouldn’t even consider that a bad game. It’s awesome.

alfredon996,

If only they would add multiplayer to Ravenfield…

Semi_Hemi_Demigod,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

One reason I like it is because it’s not multiplayer

REDACTED,

It’s battlefield but for single player. Even the name is similar.

Assassassin, do gaming w Portal vs Half Life gameplay

This meme has been sponsored by the year 2008.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world avatar

That was a good year.

Assassassin,

God I miss og TF2. The orange box was truly one of the best deals in gaming.

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

You know what they say woman eating doritos and gooning has orange box.

Assassassin,

That’s actually my favorite passage from the old testament!

explodicle,
@explodicle@sh.itjust.works avatar

If you’re an American, that’s the year they bailed out the banks and stopped even pretending to give a shit about our futures.

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

Far Cry games at least until 4. I like mindlessly collecting 300 map markers sometimes. Funny enough, I don‘t like 5 cause there doesn‘t seem to be a collectibles map that lets me just move up and down the map collecting everything lol

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

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.

Yes the DoA franchise has a solid fighting game mechanic, but this was made purely for the fan service.

Novamdomum, do gaming w It feels good to support
@Novamdomum@fedia.io avatar

I used to buy Steam games without a care in the world. Now to spend even 5 bucks I make myself go through a quality control checklist so vast it would impress a space shuttle commander. There's just been too many abandoned games, terrible sequels, fake reviews, unnecessary game launchers and disappointing Steam sales. That's not to say there isn't still an excellent bunch of games on there, but they're all hidden deep in the forest and I have to go sniff em out like a basset hound.

LeFrog,
@LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

How dare you not sharing your list with us uneducated

Be our messiah

Spider89,

I got one!

Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

i got stuck in valkyria chronicles 1 right before you get the valkyries or whatever they’re called in game.

Spider89,

I’ve gotten stuck a couple of times.

What chapter are you on?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

uh, alicia is about to become a valkyrie i think? there were a lot of tanks and this was a while ago

Spider89,

ah! That one is hard.

(I put my tanks behind their spawn and started shredding their rears.)

Novamdomum,
@Novamdomum@fedia.io avatar

Well ok but I did say it was long. Tbh, my checklist is almost a minigame itself now 🤣

So once I've found a game that looks interesting, I do the following:

Google video search for the game's title and filter to past week, then month, then year and that shows me how many people are actually talking about this game right now and who's doing the talking.

I look at the Steam reviews and initially filter to only show negative ones. I find it's a lot easier to see if the game's been review bombed that way. Also, a lot of negative reviews complain about features I find positive so that's helpful too "This game was way too easy! I finished it in 30 hours and I still had all my hair at the end, harumph!". I also check phrases like "Abandoned by the devs" or "Yet another asset flip" or "Beware! The EULA is a privacy nightmare".

I then switch to positive reviews and read the short ones. The dissertations are just way too much detail at this stage (or any stage really for me).

At some point early on I check the Steam update history. If the last update was years ago I factor that in. I also try to keep on top of relevant news like that time the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive quit, making a sequel to Stray unlikely.

Also, if it hasn't had that many recent updates I'll join the Discord and see how active that is. That's usually so revealing. Often in a positive way like with the G-Rebels devs.

Then I go through my top YT game reviewers like Raptor, Scarlett Seeker, Splattercat Gaming, Orbital Potato and Nookrium and see if they've talked about the game.

I look for the title on Allkeyshop to see if there's a cheaper EU unlockable Steam game key available.

I check for trainers in case I need an escape hatch if it turns out to be too grindy or tedious but still worth playing.

If all the searches have been positive so far I'll wishlist it around this point. If there's a demo I'll play it. If it looks amazing from the start I'll install the demo after looking at a couple of gameplay videos.

I also have a 21:9 monitor so I hop into the Steam discussion group for the game and look for confirmation that it's compatible.

If it's too expensive I'll check SteamDB and look at it's price history. My personal limit is <7 bucks for an old game and <18 for a relatively new one (unless something exceptional suddenly appears like Eriksholm).

I'll check if there any Steam sales coming and if the theme is likely to match the game I'm looking at.

I really do actually do all this by the way. It's the only way I've been able to get more sensible about the games I buy.

LeFrog,
@LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Actually that’s not a bad list at all. But reading this I am asking myself: isn’t that more a list to detain YOURSELF from adding too much on your pile of shame :D

Novamdomum,
@Novamdomum@fedia.io avatar

Oh yeah definitely :) Also I've noticed there's kind of a new feeling of satisfaction when a game does somehow make it through this assault course and I buy it finally. It feels like an achievement in itself.

Lfrith,

I would throw in isthereanydeals and gg.deals into the mix. Those provide good historical tracking of multiple stores for games, so you can really be sure you are getting the historical low during a sale.

Novamdomum,
@Novamdomum@fedia.io avatar

Excellent! Thanks for those :)

murmelade,

I just pirate what looks interesting to me and then buy the stuff I like, on allkeyshop like you, and discard the rest. Kinda like a demo.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

If I spend a fiver on a game and it entertains me for two nights I still consider that fine value to entertainment ratio. If I went out somewhere in real life with the boys I’d be spending a minimum of $50 and that’s for a single night out. So I buy a lot of indie games in the $5-10 range without much guilt over it. Weird single-dev projects with pixel art and a 5 year span in early access are my favorite kind of art.

Now if you’re asking me more than about $20 for your game then yeah the quality control checklist comes out. But my standards are much lower for the $10-tier and I’ve found some really good games in that tier. Not ones that I’m still playing, maybe, but ones that I had a good time with for a few days to a few weeks and that I remember fondly.

knatschus,

I’m more of the just stick to the indie goats type of guy, those which give you unlimited replay ability, but reading your comment made me fondly remember Yes your Grace!

A little game which i got through in two days and probably never touch again but absolutely loved. It made feel more like a King (of a really small realm) than a crusader kings or civilisation.

doingthestuff,

Firewatch checked that box for me. Two of my kids did a playthrough too.

grue,

I pretty much only buy games that are either very well-known to be good (famous on the level of Skyrim, Stardew Valley, etc.), or that I saw a “let’s play” of.

thermal_shock,

My experience too. Being burned day one release sucks, looking at you Back 4 Blood.

MBech,

I’ve started just waiting a bit. If a game is actually good, waiting a few months won’t really matter. If the game is dead by then, it was never worth the money in the first place.

Also, I got burned by No Man’s Sky back then.

thermal_shock,

Same. I’ve got a huge library of rpg games I can play, don’t really play games that I need to have day 1, I just watch a few hours of someone play it and I’m good.

No man’s sky did make a full 180 recovery though, I bought it after the fix for me, my kid and some friends so we could play together.

Kolanaki, (edited )
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I avoided B4B because I remembered why Turtle Rock broke up with Valve after L4D and the disaster that was Evolve.

thermal_shock,

Yeah, I learned about it all after. L4D is one of my favorite arcade shooters of all time, I really wanted a part 3.

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

Mechwarrior 5 Mercs - stomping around the inner sphere with a 1000 to 1 kill ratio

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

Man I really want to get into Mechwarrior but I’m just so ridiculously bad at the game and I have no idea how to get better.

I’ve tried to begin the MW5 campaign three times now and I’ve been priced out of existing every time, I take way too much damage and my repair bills vastly outstrip my income. Combine with having to spend hundreds of thousands of credits in travel fees to get anywhere and I’m very quickly even more broke than I started.

Just for kicks the other day I set up an Instant Action for testing purposes and I brought two Atlases, a Highlander and an Archer to some random backwater mid-difficulty mission and still barely limped out of there alive, with the Highlander and one of the Atlases downed. That’s just shameful.

_cryptagion,
@_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus avatar

Yeah, I like the game but have the same problem. I’m just not good at the avoiding damage part.

But at least you can still enjoy the lore. There’s Mechwarrior books as well.

MoonManKipper,

Play with keyboard and mouse - makes hitting things much easier. Redesign all mechs to have max armour. For most of the campaign bringing as many SRMs to the field as possible is good. Focus fire with your lance mates - makes them much more effective. Remove JJ - useless. LBX10s are great. Remove useless single LRM 5s and 10s from most things - put a lot of lrms on mechs with good quirks - Archer, Longbow. Keep moving, ideally always at least 45 degrees to your target

mech,

I only played up to MW3, back then the meta was maxing out on armor and medium range lasers. Go in close , aim for the opponent’s leg, shoot. Your mech powers down from the heat for a couple seconds, but the other mech is out of the action. Proceed to one-shot almost every opponent.

MoonManKipper,

You can’t do that anymore alas (except with the clan Nova) - you’re limited by the number of weapon mounts and heat management is now easier…

XeroxCool,

I tried MW3 (I think?) but never figured out ANYTHING. I was young, joystick drivers didn’t work, and I hadn’t the slightest idea how to map out all the functions of a mech suit. Now I have nearly 50 inputs mapped to an Xbox controller for Elite Dangerous fully memorized. What a change in times.

I liked Cauldron Born. I had that and Mad Cat as K’nex models. Hated Orion. Since I never figure out how to do anything, all I can judge them on is their appearance in the build menu. I was also like… 10?

OhStopYellingAtMe,
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

I still play that on my PS4 when the mood strikes. Fun game.

vogi, do games w FediCraft - Season 0
@vogi@piefed.social avatar

Just played on there myself.

Didn’t know the cold taiga was so hard to play in. Especially with a snow storm going on. The constant thunder strikes created a bunch of skeletons, skeleton horses and special skeletons with ice arrows.
Soon the whole forrest was riddled with them.

I did manage to create a safe house though. There is also a bed inside for anyone joining so you can sleep through the night:
https://media.piefed.social/posts/dM/Go/dMGo9Q75QLiPJ5t.png

After the snow storm was over I was also able to bring in some cows and sheep they reside now behind the safe house. Please make sure theres enough cows! If you are hungry you can also go fish in the frozen lake, i put a fishing rod in the chest inside the safe house.

Essence_of_Meh, (edited ) do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

Can’t say I feel guilty about liking these but if we’re talking about mediocre games I love that would be:

  • Drakengard 3 - simple, repetitive gameplay, huge amount of asset reuse and terrible performance if you’re crazy enough to play it on PS3. It also has a really engaging and tragic story, full of weirdness unique to the series (well, the first game anyway, haven’t played D2 yet).
  • Kane & Lynch (both games) - they’re rough, gritty and don’t pull any punches. Pretty divisive in terms of gameplay though I personally think it’s thematically consistent and adds a lot to the atmosphere. My favourite games from IOI despite not being as well designed or polished as the Hitman series.
  • Oni - 2001 action game by Bungie. Really cool hand-to-hand combat system, huge empty levels, simple story with wannabe Ghost in the Shell elements.
  • Starbound - lots of hype about Terraria in space, lots of wasted potential and cool features that didn’t make to the final release. I tend to prefer beta versions (mainly “Glad Giraffe” beta) but the final one also seemed alright based on what little I played of it. Definitely not as good as it had chance to be during development.
  • Scarface: The World is Yours - budget GTA clone based on the 1983 movie with Al Pacino (it’s actually a sequel). It looks bad even for the time but it plays well enough and has some neat mechanics which made it stand out, if only a little.
  • Tresspasser - the infamous Jurassic Park game with full control of your arm and focus on physical interactions with the environment. It’s a bit clunky and far from polished but it’s an interesting experience nonetheless.

That’s all that comes to mind for now, I might update the post if I remember anything else.

Theprogressivist,
@Theprogressivist@lemmy.world avatar

Dude, I loved Kane and Lynch! I co-op both of them with a buddy of mine. The jank was real but added charm to it. People complained about the violence but that shit was great. Also might be bias because IO Interactive made Hitman and that’s one of my all time favorite series.

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

It was also an unfortunate victim of the time when IOI struggled with figuring out how to transition from “classic” way of making games to the modern, high budget approach. I’m glad they managed to get back into the rhythm with new Hitman games but it’s still a little disappointing K&L had to serve as a stepping stone towards better times.

cecilkorik,

Beta Starbound was the shit. Release was just shit, with no “the”. They took a great game of endless discovery and procedural generation with a gameplay loop that just worked out of beta and filled it with completely predictable set pieces and juvenile hard-coded nonsense. They literally added a poop emoji monster FFS.

Essence_of_Meh,
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world avatar

The worst part is there’s no “full” version since each beta added new features and removed other ones. I’d give a lot for a build which combines all of the lost mechanics into a single package.

zod000,

I don’t think the final release was “shit” per se, but I was super confused when I played it and expected cool features from the beta. The beta was also very beta and not all of the features were actually good, but I feel like they ran out of time/money/patience and just cut down a ton of stuff to ship it.

Endymion_Mallorn, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
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When it comes to games, I have no guilt anymore. I enjoy some games and despise others. I think the only one that comes to mind for this category is E.V.O. The Search For Eden (SNES). I prefer it with a patch to improve the translation.

zod000,

A classic. I loved how in the last phase you could make the right combination of nonsensical choices and end up with human and do really well. Not as well as my hyper-evolved Rhino-montser, but really well.

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

I guess it depends on why you think it’s bad, so for me it’s Wuthering Waves. I absolutely love that game, but it’s “bad” because it’s a gacha game and that monetization scheme is absolutely fucking disgusting.

The game itself is actually really good and the story/side stories had me cry like 4 times already lol

Katana314,

On the gacha front, I play Zenless Zone Zero. Parry mechanics are nothing new, but I love both the way they have you parry by swapping in an agent to take the blow, and the very detailed effects and animations they have for each attack.

It’s still a gacha, and I remind myself to stop playing anytime it bores me; but it manages to hold my attention decently.

Asafum,

I play that as well as genshin… I have a problem lol

ZZZ got me to stop spending money though, they’re way too fucking greedy. I went full pity and lost every single 50/50 in that game and almost all of them were nekomata… Hoyo can go to hell lol

Katana314,

Yeah…a long time ago I learned lessons about patience, delayed satisfaction, and ended up building a large roster in that game without giving them a dime. I could afford their packs, but it seems like a bad price ratio especially when acknowledging the low chances.

davidgro,

For me it’s Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. It would be super easy to whale out and spend a bunch of money to get the characters and weapons I want, but I (almost 100%) limit myself to the basically fixed monthly costs.

orenj,
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I was surprised how super in on hoyo stuff I was until I started doing the dailies and the checklists on the regular. I kinda ruined my approach into Honkai because by the time I got into it, I learned from genshin I needed to do those dailies to get a decent shot at getting characters I actually cared about. And then I didn’t make any progress, and didn’t get in like I did for genshin

davidgro,

Ah, I got into the dailies immediately in both games, just part of playing for me.

Coelacanth,
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Does the story actually get good? I tried it out around launch but when they introduced a knockoff Paimon I noped out. I was there for a dark post-apocalypse story, not Sunday morning cartoon. Not that there is anything wrong with it but just not for me. I felt a little mislead.

Asafum,

It all depends on what you like. It’s a good mix of dark and light and the paimon knock off is pretty chill, they really only pop up at important times in the story they aren’t the constant annoyance always speaking for the player like paimon is.

The 2.0 arc goes through a fantasy like land that leads to a gladiator/rome themed area so not sure how you feel about that but it gets dark all throughout that. The next area we’re going to is kinda unknown but it seems like it’s going to be much heavier in the “tech” vibe and should give a lot of backstory to the main character since they seem to have some connection to this new place.

s3rvant, do games w What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
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Polarity

You’re essentially just trying to make less mistakes then your opponent but the semi-hovering magnets have an awesome table presence

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