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NeryK, do gaming w Seeking: Kid-friendly Adventure/Exploration Games (PC)
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If combat is an option, those simple ARPGs could fit the bill nicely:

autokludge, do games w Recommendations for Pirate Games?
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BarrierWithAshes, do games w Recommendations for Pirate Games?
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I like Raven's Cry but it is a janky game so be warned.

Fizz, do games w Is there any love for BAR (Beyond All Reason-FOSS RTS) on Lemmy?
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Since seeing this post I’ve played 20+ hours of BAR. Holy shit this game is so hard to learn but so fun and the community is awesome.

Helix, do gaming w Dissapointed in Xbox Elite Series 2 Controller
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8bitdo controllers are good. They care about making good input devices.

Fanghole, do gaming w Pokemon TCG Card Distribution

Obviously it depends on the deck, but in general you want a large number of item cards and less pokemon and energy.

Item/trainer cards provide a lot of ways to draw/recycle and support your pokemon/energy and you’ll likely want to see a bigger ratio of them in your opening hand. Especially since you’re not going to go through too many more pokemon than you have prize cards and you can only have 1 active pokemon at a time with 6 total in play.

So the exact ratio depends on the deck and the pokemon you are trying to support, but essentially you shouldn’t be running more the 15 pokemon and 15 energy on a high end. 12 pokemon is pretty standard. Most of the rest of your deck should be search and draw cards which there should be plenty of.

Disclaimer: I don’t play this game.

TwilightVulpine,

That's right. It's preferable to go for 10-15 pokémon, 30-40 trainer and supporters, and 10-15 energies. As long as you can guarantee a basic pokémon in your starting hand, many trainer cards let you get the other basics and evolutions that you need. 15/30/15 is a more casual friendly mix, the tighter ones are used by people with optimized strategies.

It's also good to have 4 copies of whatever basic pokémon you want to focus on, as well as anything else that's necessary for your main strategy.

I play it casually but I held myself against the utterly savage folks on the TCG app's ranked mode to have some idea of the basics.

FlihpFlorp,

Thanks for the tip

I was rebuilding my decks and in my water deck i have a lot of stage 1s and basics to make it easier to build them up so in that deck I’d probably want more trainer cards

As for my psychic grass deck for example It still has a couple evolutions but it’s nothing I can’t go without so then I’d probably want slightly more energies since I thought that was a problem area

I always struggle with starting (no matter the task) so would a good general be start with 10 pokemon then build items (like if im going for evolutions or something) around them. Then build the energies based on what pokemon I want to pull and how their energy demand is. Then in occasionally see if I’m lacking damage or don’t have enough support

I mean that’s what I’m thinking but like I said starting is hard for me

TwilightVulpine,

Figuring out decks can be a lot of work but some cards are pretty much always useful. Professor's Research can save you from a bad hand and Ultra Balls can get you evolutions if they aren't showing up. For mixed color decks you might want Energy Search or maybe some variety of Rainbow Energy cards (but you can only have up to 4 of each special energy).

FlihpFlorp,

Ok so pretty much start with the few pokemon I really want then item cards to get them. Then just kinda fill in the gaps with other pokemon and items that have synergies as I go

I don’t remember if I said it here but this is just for fun between friends nothing serious

ICastFist, do games w Which games do you dislike, but the rest of the world loves them?
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Dota and League of Legends. The moba format simply doesn’t click with me. Them being hyper competitive doesn’t help, and I’m someone who played plenty of UT2004 during my late teens

Renacles,

Nobody hates LoL more than LoL players.

yamanii, do games w What are some hidden indie gems nobody knows about?
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Andor’s Trail is a foss roguelike with a twist that it’s story based, something quite rare in this genre.

Immortal Life is a farming game but with a Wuxia twist where you can use chinese magic to help you do your chores and there’s a twin stick combat inside the dungeon. What surprised me was seeing the game selling well on steam, but never seeing a single article about it, strangely common with chinese indies over here.

AngryCommieKender,

I would imagine that most articles about Chinese Indie Games are written in Mandarin, so it’s unlikely you’d see them without the ability to read Chinese.

yamanii,
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The games are in english and they talk about japanese indies all the time though.

AngryCommieKender,

Weird. IDK

MonkderZweite, do games w What are some hidden indie gems nobody knows about?

Universim.

sundray, do games w Can someone explain to me why Honkai: Star Rail is treated as something other than trash? I keep seeing posts about it, all over.

Can someone explain to me why Honkai: Star Rail is treated as something other than trash?

Nah.

delitomatoes, do gaming w Get the PS5 now or wait for the pro?

One game, I don’t know why

Someonelol, do games w What are some hidden indie gems nobody knows about?
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Shadow Tactics and Shadow Gambit are two brilliant gems that come to mind by Mimimi Studios. I discovered them a few weeks ago and just learned they went defunct back in August because they were too niche a genre and couldn’t make enough sales. They’re Stealth Strategy games where you control a group of ninjas/pirates through a heavily guarded level to the objective, stealthily murdering everyone along the way. If you get seen you can easily jump back to a quick save and try again. You’re not overpowered and can easily be killed by enemies so save scumming is deliberately built in to the experience to experiment with your approach.

Carighan,
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It’s in fact three games:

  • Shadow Tactics is set in feudal japan. This one has an expandalone.
  • Desperados III then takes the game to the wild west.
  • Shadow Gambit goes wild and gives us a magic ship and an undead pirate crew. It has two rather pricey expansions, one bringing in a character from the first game. It also has a hidden character to unlock after you beat the game, which is kinda cool.

You can notice how each game perfects the formula, but they’re overall extremely similar. I would very much recommend the last one if you have to pick one, as the focus on magic allowed them to go truly wild with the character abilities. Gaelle shooting corpses and partymembers around with her cannon is a particularly fun one.

Sidenote: Far as I can tell they didn’t go bankrupt or anything, they just … stopped. They’re done or so. Did the same concept three times, happy now, works for them.

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N, do games w What are some hidden indie gems nobody knows about?
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After Hades, I hope some folks went back and played Supergiant’s other titles. I love them all. But even amongst them, Pyre is the underdog, unknown, shunned. And I think it’s fantastic. The music and writing is top notch. You can really see the bones of Hades in all their games, but they polished their world building and story telling to perfection in this one.

NOPper,

I played it when it came out, and I still think about those characters sometimes.

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N,
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Same. It’s been years and they’re still with me

Stillhart, do gaming w Get the PS5 now or wait for the pro?

IMHO, Xbox is a better console than PS this gen. I was a PS guy all the way but I got both XSX and PS5 when they came out and I barely touch my PS5 compared to the Xbox.

To be fair, most of the reasons I prefer the Xbox are just user experience things. The biggest one is that I think the PS5 controller is horrible. The ergonomics are all weird for me (yeah I realize that everyone’s hands are different) and the fancy trigger buttons are real cool in the one or two games that make use of them but they’re squishy and vague feeling in the other 99% of games. The Xbox controller has better ergonomics, and better feel in the hand with its materials and button feel. Yes, ergonomics and feel preference will vary from person to person but it’s worth mentioning since I never had an issue with PS controllers until the PS5.

The other reasons I prefer the Xbox are things like how much better it is for things on your TV that aren’t gaming (streaming shows, watching movies, etc.), I think Gamepass is WAY better than the Sony version, it has more exclusives I am interested in, etc.

Anyhow, you do you, but you might look into the Xbox a little before blindly just going with the PS5 on the strength of the older consoles. I was surprised by how much I didn’t want to use the PS5. And a little bummed if I’m honest. It was a lot of effort to get one at launch and a lot of money and it mostly just gathers dust.

And to answer your specific question, if you do decide to go with a PS5, just get whatever is available when you are ready to get one. When it comes to tech, there’s always something better coming so you can wait forever because they will never say “okay, all done!”.

ashamam,
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I'm the opposite on every point. I have both and seriously considering trading both towards a Pro and hitting up Geforce Now every now and again to get some use out of my stacked UGP sub.

But as to waiting or not, if you aren't a dedicated console gamer I can't really see that you would value the extra's a Pro would bring. 80% of the experience will be offered by the base machine anyway.

ivanafterall, do games w What are some hidden indie gems nobody knows about?

I've never heard or seen anybody else mention Suzerain. It's like a choose-your-own-adventure political strategy game, which is pretty unique. You are the new leader of a fictional nation wrestling with corruption. Your decisions will affect the outcome. Game is only $6 on Steam right now and is well worth it.

Also worth mentioning Ostriv, a beautiful city-builder in which you build an 18th Century Ukrainian village, complete with individual little villagers wearing their villager clothes. It's lovely and made by ONE GUY, as best I can tell? Also, last I saw, the entire game was somehow under 1 GB, if I remember correctly. It's absurd.

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