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CharlesReed, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 20th
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Finally started in on Diablo 4: Season 6, and it was a little bit of a pain leveling up with the new system, but once I got into the paragon boards, man, things really took off. I am in love with my Dance of Knives Rogue. She is mowing down mobs like they're nothing. It's only been a week and I'm already on the Slayer chapter for season objectives. At this rate I'll be done faster than my Necromancer last season.

Played Amnesia: The Bunker (again, lol) one night for a couple more achievements: never dropping/storing an item and playing through the whole game without saving. I was also trying to go for three with one about taking out a bunch of rats, but for some reason I could never get more than a group of 4. Oh well.

v4ld1z, do gaming w [Official Art] Tourniquet Promo Art - Tomb Raider

There’s you can nitpick about the reboot but for its time, it was a phenomenal game. Had a lot of fun with it

DdCno1,

The presentation was genuinely astounding. An absolute marvel for the hardware it runs on and it still holds up today, at least visually. Gameplay-wise, not so much, unfortunately.

Dymonika,

Gameplay-wise it’s still fine!

Kolanaki, do gaming w Can anyone help me identify this Xbox controller?
!deleted6508 avatar

The “you died” text on it makes me wonder if it was some kind of special Dark Souls thing. But I don’t remember any special Dark Souls release on Xbox.

It could have been custom made back when they were doing that if you bought directly from MS. Not sure if they still do that, but I rememeber it being a thing back in, I think, the XB360 days.

theskyisfalling,

Yeh it was the text that was throwing me. I’ve customised my own controllers with different coloured buttons etc before so that part was easily explainable but the text is professionally added and I never knew that was a thing people did (seems like a waste of money to me)

Turns out it is a design labs custom one as per the other responses though. Learn something new every day!

twinnie, do gaming w [Official Art] Tourniquet Promo Art - Tomb Raider

This one was much better than the sequels and I think it was because in the sequels I found Lara unbearable. In this one she was scrappy and there was lighthearted chitchat to just make everyone feel a bit human. In the sequels everything was just so melodramatic and it all took itself way too seriously, especially considering how silly the stories were.

klisurovi4,

The sequels also got way too bloated imo. If i wanted to collect 50 feathers or whatever I’ll go play a Ubisoft game.

I can’t really say exactly what made the 2013 reboot special but it felt unique. Its sequels feel like any other open world game these days.

Broken,

Absolutely. And particularly it was is “batches” especially as you get to Shadow.

Collecting stuff as you go along playing is fine (I mean, I’d argue not because it’s lazy game making but its normal). But going along and hitting a village that has 50 side quests in it just interrupts flow.

Plus, they made nested fetch quests so I felt trapped in a loop. OK I’ll just do this one quest…“hey, now that I see that you are good at fetching arbitrary items, I want you to go get this for me too”

thingsiplay,

I enjoyed the first Tomb Raider of the reboot series shockingly more than I thought I would. A few years later then played the sequel and wrote a big letter of complains in a review. Maybe I was a bit overly negative because of some frustrations, but overall it was boring, bloated. Skills weren’t interesting or any game changing, collectibles were annoying but needed and part of the gameplay. There wasn’t even interesting enemies, they were the same all over again.

It started fun, but overall was the same again and again, without interesting story parts, and always climbing and climbing. There was no challenge I liked to do. Too many checkpoints and all the hints what to do next if I get stuck just a little bit took any tension and challenge from the game. Especially the third half of game was a huge time waste. The “Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch”-DLC was actually pretty good.

And then after finishing it, the cliffhanger at the end… man that was frustrating ending without answering the questions.

ton618, do gaming w [Official Art] Tourniquet Promo Art - Tomb Raider
@ton618@lemm.ee avatar

Oooh this brings back memories! I had this image as my phone background. Thanks for posting it!

Paradachshund, do gaming w Favourite puzzle platformers?

If you want to double down on the puzzle aspect, check out Toki Tori 2. It’s a metroidvania side scrolling puzzle game. The wild part of it is you basically only have 2 moves, but you have to figure out how to use those moves to solve puzzles in the environment to progress. There are no actual hard walls like in a regular metroidvania, it’s just your understanding of how you can manipulate and influence objects in the world that gates you from getting to new places.

Knitwear,

I’ll take a look, thanks

silverchase, (edited ) do games w Are there any apps or sites that collate all the patch notes for games?
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

If patch notes are announced in an official blog, it’s likely that it has an RSS or Atom feed. You can subscribe to the blog from an RSS reader and it’ll appear in the feed.

And if you haven’t heard of RSS readers before, welcome to the world of being able to subscribe to almost any website you want! The news and webcomics come to you, not the other way around.

Update: an example.

I open my reader (Inoreader), select “Add feed”, and enter https://www.teamfortress.com/. It detects the TF2 official blog and I select “Follow” to add it to my feeds. Now, when TF2 updates and patch notes are posted, I can refresh my reader to see the latest patch notes.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2d51734a-4ff2-46e5-a24b-f2e2a4c92fd3.png

rockerface,

Do you use an RSS reader on mobile as well, by any chance? If so, which would you recommend for Android?

silverchase,
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve been out of the RSS metagame for a long while, so I don’t have any particular recommendation. I’ve just been using Inoreader on mobile as well for the past several years since it works for my purposes. There very well could be better choices out there but there’s no urgency for me to switch.

Dark_Arc,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

I’m happy to say, IMO, you’re still using the meta RSS client haha

rustyricotta,

I haven’t gotten around to using it yet, but I’ve seen a lot of people recommend Feeder

Dark_Arc,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

I use Inoreader on both desktop and mobile (they have a very feature rich app, synchronize your experience up, and have a generous free plan).

Leuthil, do gaming w Favourite puzzle platformers?

Braid Anniversary

ClassifiedPancake, do gaming w Favourite puzzle platformers?

Not sure if it counts as platformer but Talos Principle and Portal.

_Lory98_, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 20th

Metaphor! I’m at the third town and loving every part of it.

I’m kinda struggling with the difficulty on hard, so I might turn it down a bit, as the resources feel a little too strict and stressful, but it makes finishing a dungeon more satisfying.

Duke_Nukem_1990, (edited ) do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 20th

I recently started playing WoW again. This time on Turtle WoW and it’s really impressive with how much care the devs expanded on vanilla. Love it, really.

Also started playing OSRS again since I hate my job and will only do the absolute bare minimum going forth. In between it’s time to grind lol

DrSteveBrule,

I love Turtle WoW! It feels like one of the last MMOs that really encourage working with other players

Duke_Nukem_1990,

Welllll I am doing a hardcore run so my grouping up is limited ^^

grrgyle, do gaming w Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 credits pay homage to TotalBiscuit

Real

ledix, do games w Are there any apps or sites that collate all the patch notes for games?

Steam has all the patch notes listed under every game they have available

DebatableRaccoon, (edited ) do gaming w need helpbuiltding a PC, not sure where to ask

lemmy.ca/c/buildapc

If local supplies are that limited, importing might be your only option short of catching a ferry to the mainland and stuffing a duffel bag with what you’ve been able to buy.

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

!buildapc for a link that will work for anyone, regardless of their home instance.

DebatableRaccoon,

Thank you. I provide links so infrequently I manage to forget the format by the next time I need it.

Gamers_mate,

Thank you for the link it seems like a good place to ask about a question I have been curious about.

sleepybisexual,

There is no mainland to go to, I live in the mainland and its still bad, Italian market is just as bad

DebatableRaccoon,

Continental mainland is what I was referring to, yeah, but I can’t say I know much of anything about the Italian market.

sleepybisexual,

I can’t, I’m a kid and at that point I might as well import.

claymore,
@claymore@pawb.social avatar

Check if bpm-power.com ships to your location, depending on the item they have decent prices. Based in Italy

sleepybisexual,

Cool, unfortunately both are above my expected budget, I decided on importing. Thank you anyway :3

ClassyHatter,
@ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz avatar

!buildapc is a more active community.

lvxferre, do gaming w need helpbuiltding a PC, not sure where to ask
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

The site that you’ve linked blocked me for some reason, and cost/benefit in Malta is bound to be different from the one here in LatAm, but I’ve recently built a midrange-ish computer, so might as well list what I bought for reference.

  • CPU - Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Good cost/benefit ratio, and rather good performance. I had to buy a third party cooler as the CPU doesn’t come with one, so keep that in mind. I considered the Ryzen 5 5600 for budget reasons, too; it might be an option if you want to make the build cheaper.
  • Mobo - Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite. If coupled with the above you need to Q-Flash update the BIOS, but that was relatively painless. So far it’s working great, can’t complain about it.
  • RAM - I went for 2*16GB instead, mostly to future-proof my build. The brand is Apacer Nox, I didn’t find people complaining about it and it had a reasonable price.
  • SSD - Adata 480GB.
  • PSU - Gamdias Cyclops M1-750B, 750W. Frankly my method to look for a PSU was to look for 700~800W ones in a local forum, with the word “porcaria” (rubbish, shit) alongside it so I could see complains, then I found people actually praising this one.

If I convert my overall costs from reals to euros it was around €500, but keep in mind that I didn’t buy a new HDD or a new GPU. GPUs in special are relatively expensive here, I’m hoping that the prices go down next year.

sleepybisexual,

Thank you

Gamers_mate,

The site blocked me as well. Probably to protect it from being overloaded since its a local shop for malta and probably would have trouble handling traffic from all over the world?

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