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123, do games w Are there any reputable independent gaming sites left?

I’ve started following two recently: DSOGaming and TechRaptor.

LucyLastic, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

1: An open world exploration game that doesn’t have combat … like Breath of the Wild but without all the fighting and with lots of short stories and puzzles.

Basically I want to be able to go wandering off and uncover ancient ruins etc without having to fight for my life.

2: Snowrunner, but with a good narrative story mode and gearboxes that actually work.

There’s so much potential to have engaging stories in that game, which could be tied into improved game structure (namely restricting truck / tire choice to make some tasks challenging in an interesting way).

Ultimatenab,

For your #1 point, have you heard of Palia? It got released last month and it is a chill have where you gather and build your house. Additionally you can explore ruins to uncover your origins.

JakenVeina,

Give Outer Wilds a go.

laxu,

This fits OP’s description perfectly. Great game. It’s on PS+ if you play on Playstation 4 or 5.

space,

Wobbly life is like that. It’s targeted more towards children, but my kids absolutely love it.

Dark_Arc, do games w Are there any reputable independent gaming sites left?
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If you are okay with Vox Media Group, I’ve been pretty happy with Polygon. They even have RSS!

mana,

I think Mike Mahardy from Polygon is alright, but generally I find their content leans into social commentary more than I want in a gaming outlet. I respect that some people want that, and I’m glad these sites exist for them.

Dark_Arc,
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I haven’t really noticed that…? But, maybe that’s just because whatever’s being said “agrees” with me or isn’t in the articles I choose to read from them (?)

bighi,

I’ve never seen any social commentary content from them. I haven’t watched everything they do, but can’t be that common if I haven’t seen it yet.

totallymojo, do games w Are there any reputable independent gaming sites left?
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Are there any international Discord server for gaming news?

RxBrad,
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No.

This is not what Discord is for.

People need to stop trying to use Discord as a forum, or a wiki, or a website, or a file repo, or as the Support page for a product.

Discord is group chat. You say something. It’s relavent for five minutes. Then it might as well have never happened.

totallymojo,
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Huh? There is even a forum function that can act as a news feed.
It is what you make it.

bmaxv, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?
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@Ultimatenab

A single server MMO like eve online, but with real stakes.

In eve, when you die, you keep your character, most of your assets are safe, either by meta gaming or game mechanics.

You can't really harm/steal from characters.

Which reduces the need to work together and defend your character and your assets. Risk aversion and occasional replacement is a valid strategy.

There is more stuff wrong with eve... but the biggest problem is the stakes.

lloram239,

Very tricky to accomplish as long as people can interact with each other in the real world and bypass whatever rules and restrictions you have in the game rules, be it in terms of just communicating in situations where they shouldn’t be able to or running multiple accounts and characters at the same time to boost their power and influence.

You’d need to get extremely draconian with the anti-cheat, require real world ID for account creation, not allow new player once the game started and all that.

laxu,

Plus there would always be griefers who just want to ruin other people’s game because the repercussions are at most a bit of money (if they get banned and have to buy a new copy of the game), rather than incarceration, bodily harm, or death in the real world.

Crotaro,

May I introduce you to Ultima Online?

You have some items that are not lost upon death (either by them being special and “blessed” or by you paying some in game gold to insure them (costing you every time you die), but everything else? On your corpse, ready to be taken by the nearest player and even humanoid enemy. More than once have I seen a lich just grab some of my stuff and cackle off back into the dungeon.

Aside from being able to lose stuff on death, there are actual Thievery skills ranging from sneaking to pickpocketing and lockpicking (for stealing from player homes or when you unearth treasure chests). There is a “safe overworld” but many popular private servers have removed that. You might go about your daily business to grab some stuff from the bank teller and next thing you know, a grandmaster thief took your precious sword from your backpack (there are a lot of skill checks involved depending on how many possible witnesses there are (player and NPC), if the thief is invisible, how heavy the item is and such).

adriator, (edited ) do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

I really want to play single-player versions, or at least on my own private server, games like Travian or Ikariam. Basically resource management strategies but without the insane need to be 24/7 online in anticipation of an enemy attack.

Edit: Also a single player tab targetting open world rpg.

Faydaikin, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?
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I think most of what I’d like has already been made. But they are old, few and far between.

I’d really like a modern Freespace game.

I enjoyed how it made your keyboard into a functional cockpit and how you could customize your own and your squads fighters and loadout. And sending tactical info in the thick of battle.

All that junk. It was great. But the old games are showing their age.

space, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

I wish there were more Sims like games. I feel that under EA, the games aren’t living up to their full potential, and they could be so much more.

SwiggitySwole,

There are a few on the horizon, look into paralives and life by you

ameliatoami, do Psychologia w Błędy przy przeprowadzaniu badania kwestionariuszowego MMPI-2. Wskazówki dla badanych
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Popełniłam taki wpis, gdyż upomniano mnie, że rozwiązuje MMPI-2 poza oddziałem (na ławce przed budynkiem) a jednocześnie sami psychologowie nie mają sobie nic do zarzucenia, gdy sami np. nie dali mi instrukcji.

Commiunism, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

Science-based dragon MMO

_who_was_phone_,

Someone should take this project on as their first foray into game dev. Bonus points if it’s a middle-aged woman.

whoisearth, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?
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A remaster of the original two Thief games of the quality they did with Dead Space.

Crotaro, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

A bard/artist game that really makes use of the creative potential of music/painting. A great example of a “tech demo” of what I’d like is the magic system in Tchia. You got a ukulele that you can play super freely (possibly the most realistic thing if you don’t play it irl), but depending on what notes you play, you unleash different spells (kinda like in the old Zelda games with the ocarina).

I would absolutely love if the creative spell freedom of Magicka (or Fictorum) was combined with the freeform instrument play of Tchia.

darkfiremp3, do gaming w At which level you are at candy crush saga ?

I have played a bunch on the train into work for the last 10 years… I am at level 10035… I also have a excel table of level date and number of gold bars I have at that point when I hit big checkpoints

kinther, do games w Are there any reputable independent gaming sites left?
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Does Rock Paper Shotgun count?

the_gmg,

No, they are owned by Relx (fka Reed Elsevier), known for PAX and the scam which is the academic publishing industry.

kinther,
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Reed Elsevier

Oh damn, I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know…

squirrel, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 1st
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New Trackmania season came out an hour ago. Learning all the new tracks.

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