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viral.vegabond, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 30th

-Escape from Duckov (still)

-Constance has been amazing so far

-Spindle (this one’s a bit more relaxed)

Deconceptualist, do games w My review on the AYN Odin 3

Ok serious comment: That’s a damn good review. And a surprisingly good quality device that’s a little ahead of its time.

I’m impressed that you reached out to devs, contrasted with other handhelds, and tried so many different games. That’s almost everything I’d want to know.

What kind of battery life does it get with various games? Sorry if I missed that. I expect ARM is a lot less power hungry than x86.

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you so much! It’s always a bit of a nervy experience when I’m sharing a review. Even more so when I linked it in their own Discord, because if anyone will rip through details and point out flaws…its gaming fans. So hearing this? SO kind of you!

I’m lucky that I manage to somehow convince all these people (the devs and other creators!) that they should in fact be friends with me, and that they’re all kind enough to listen to my requests. In fact, the PortMaster team are going to let me interview them soon, so that’s something to look forward to!

Battery depends on settings, like always. But one example was Nier: Automata with high settings across the board, for around 1:25 playing, it took just under 20% of battery. But that’s because I pushed the settings. Emulating PS2 it coasts, but best to limit to to say 2.5x upscale (obviously), unless you’re going for a full 4K in a monitor. And further down, the old systems will go for eons. Android native games gave me 7ish hours at the highest settings I could opt for? While running at 120FPS and not dropping a single frame.

Take this with salt, because I’m hopped up on codeine waiting for Tuesday when I can get tooth pain sorted!

(thank you again SO much for the nice comment!)

jacksilver,

Just a note, I’m pretty sure Arm is only “efficient” in low power modes. I’m not sure there is much (if any) energy saving when running heavy loads.

For example, running heavy ML workloads on a Apple Silicon still burns through battery.

crmsnbleyd,
@crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz avatar

Your example might not be correct since I’d expect ML to be more about the GPU?

Deconceptualist,

Is the GPU in this chipset not also ARM architecture? Genuine question, I’m more of a desktop PC guy and don’t usually follow mobile platforms.

thatKamGuy,

To the best of my understanding, AMD/Nvidia/Intel each run their own forms of architecture (eg. AMDs RDNA) which are probably closest to RISC for simple instructions and SIMD/SIMT (single instruction, multiple data/threads) for more complex vector calculations.

gwl, do games w A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again

Did you know Shadows of Mordor copyrighted the Nemesis System and then proceeded to never use it in any other games ever again despite people calling out for it?

That’s one I’d like to see

JackbyDev,

Patented, not copyrighted, but I think you double posted.

gwl,

Nah, they’re different comments

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

Every game should have the option to toggle motion blur off, toggle frame gen and upscaling off.

RampantParanoia2365,

I don’t think I can name one game without a motion blur slider, or toggle.

Auth,

I’m pretty sure just cause 3 didnt have an option to disable it and it was horrible. They fixed it later I believe.

9point6, do games w Best vertical games on Android?

I guess it’s my turn to say it in a thread:

Shattered pixel dungeon

Best classic roguelike on mobile IMO

I was going to also suggest Downwell but it doesn’t seem to be available any more

Sturgist,
@Sturgist@lemmy.ca avatar

Bump for Shattered

tal,
a_person,

Also, rat king pixel dungeon, a fun fork with added items.

blimthepixie, do games w Best vertical games on Android?
besmtt, do games w Best vertical games on Android?
original_reader,

This is so basic, it is creative. 😄

garretble, do games w Best vertical games on Android?
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

It’s an older game, but Downwell is fun. Just a little action/arcade game where you fall down a well and try to get combos by not touching the ground by bouncing off of enemies.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devolve…

silverchase, do games w Privacy respecting "Charades" game for Android
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

There are a few web adaptations of Monikers, a party game that has a charades component. I’d imagine a bit of the fun of the original is lost, though, because part of the setup of the real game is everyone building the deck together.

nine11rsr, do games w Best vertical games on Android?

Rogue Adventure is great. I recently switched to iOS but I miss playing this game.

Link

almost1337, do games w Best vertical games on Android?

Dungeon Tracer is a pretty decent remake of one of my favorites from back in the day, Dungeon Raid

orenj, do games w DAE name their characters by their official name?
@orenj@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Well, yeah. That’s their name. I mean, it can be funny to name them fuckface or whatever, but his name is Chrono.

pory,
@pory@lemmy.world avatar

Well, his name is Crono, but you’ve got the spirit

atomicbocks, do gaming w Living the dream

Did you only bring the one controller?

morphballganon,

They appear to be fighting 3 cpus

fakeman_pretendname, do games w DAE name their characters by their official name?

I either use the default names, or give them “standard English older bloke names”. The grander the adventure, the more un-grand a name they get.

Things like “Ian Williams”, “Neville Smith”, “Terry Phillips”, “Frank Jones” etc. The sort of names that would work for the City Council’s Road Maintenance Department.

Wrufieotnak, do gaming w I call this the "True Catholic/Christian combo"

While I appreciate the enthusiasm, you might want to read about pope Pius XII. and also about the ratlines after the second world war.

SalamenceFury,
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t measure who is a “true christian/catholic” by what the Church does, I go by who follows the actual teachings of Jesus better.

Wrufieotnak,

While I can understand that stance for the christian label, the Catholics are organised religion and hierarchy through and through. If you don’t want organised religion than the reformation and the protestants should be more up your alley.

But that theological discussion is probably a bit outside of the gaming community, so let’s agree to pump the shotgun and exorcise demons. In that regard: what do you like more about Doom Eternal than Doom 2016? Because I like the latter one more, as it is more direct in it’s action.

SalamenceFury, (edited )
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Well I like both in different ways. Eternal is harder and more reliable in weapon swaps, but it’s also VERY fast paced (and as a CoD oldhead who doesn’t mind current movement in CoD, while I do wish it was a little slower or took more skill, it is very fun), and I personally LOVE when a singleplayer shooter has crazy movement. Doom 2016 however is a little slower but it’s still very good and I throughly enjoyed playing it!

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