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Nibodhika, do games w Games that force you to make hard choices

Life is strange is very close to what you’re asking, in the game you can rewind time to a limited degree to try different thing, but sometimes your actions only have consequences much further into the game. Even the things that you can rewind and try different things there’s rarely a clear better choice, since all of them are morally ambiguous, do you take a picture of the security guard harassing a student or do you intervene? One is obviously better, but the other gives you proof which you might need later on.

Voroxpete,

Amazed I had to scroll this far to see LiS mentioned.

There’s a decision in the first game that legitimately made me get up from the computer and walk away. Absolutely fucking brutal game.

calamitycastle,

I know exactly the part you mean and same. Amazing moment. I also LOVED the sequel. Criminal that it didn’t do as well as they wanted because I want them to make an even bigger version next. True Colours was pretty good though

AdellcomdoisL, do gaming w Get Humble Choice and other package titles for cheaper

Not only are Kinguin and other key resellers notorious for having scamming cases - to the point of having “protection fees” you can pay while purchasing from them - they’re also pointless in any way except for adding a library entry for Steam - and even then, one that might be removed

Even developers would rather people pirate than buy from key resellers

pcgamer.com/developers-tell-people-to-pirate-thei…

www.bbc.com/news/technology-48908726

mateomaui, (edited )

they’re also pointless in any way except for adding a library entry for Steam

uh… yeah… that’s the point. It works exactly the same way it does for keys you get from Humble, Fanatical, or Amazon. If it’s added to my library, and if I can install it, and if it doesn’t get removed, then I own it, regardless of where the key came from.

edit from main post:

I have purchased literally hundreds of steam keys from such shops over the years and have had a grand total of only 3 keys be removed from my account within days or weeks, and was granted refunds from the shops when I provided proof from Steam that the keys were rejected as duplicates. Every game I’ve installed other than those 3 have worked without issues. It’s an educated risk that I failed to mention because it’s been over 99% successful for me. Make your own call.

edit: Also worth mentioning that there are many games in my Steam account that were added after the games were delisted, such as the original GTA Trilogy, solely because I could still find keys on keyshops. If you want a delisted game, it’s worth considering.

tvbusy, do games w What's up with Epic Games?

Epic wanted exclusives by pulling games from other platforms. I will never spend a single cent on Epic Games. I’m happy to spend it on Steam, especially games that I have pirated before (Commandos series for example) or indie games (Banished anyone?).

For bigger games such as Civilians, I’ll purchase it on Steam and then pirate so I don’t need to run Steam. I am a big fan of patches to remove the intro screen.

madsen,

Intro screens and the like can usually be dealt with easily in many games. Look up the game on PCGamingWiki — it’s usually much easier (and less malware prone) than pirating.

derpgon,

Fun fact, many intro screen can be disabled via program flags, those are put there due to faster testing, and usually not disabled due to either laziness, the way the SW is tested, and/or because the devs have some empathy for the players not wanting to watch 15 minutes of crap - like it’s “made for Nvidia”

lemann,

My partner has a bunch of AC games and it’s pretty much a ritual at this point to delete the launch screen logo files from the game’s data folder.

For other games like CS, there’s a flag to bypass the whole launcher which is really nice 👌 if only more games did that

520, do gaming w Trying to play my old CDROM games on Windows10 and about to lose my marbles. Could you help me?

Consider installing a Linux distro and trying WINE.

Sounds incredibly stupid, I know, but WINE has far better backwards compatibility than modern Windows.

skullgiver, (edited )
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  • 520,

    Yeah, not gonna lie, screwing around with WINE can be an aneurysm unto itself.

    Maybe there's a decent QEMU setup available? One that can emulate a decent GPU for the time?

    Grimpen,

    I used to use PlayOnLinux for exactly this thing. It’s a front end/manager for WINE. Heroic and Lutris are similar, but have carried the concept further.

    Send_me_nude_girls, do games w For the people playing City Skylines 2 how do you solve 'High rent"
    @Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de avatar

    You can just ignore it, it didn’t have an impact on my city. Buildings didn’t get abandoned nor did the demand for business go lower.

    piyuv,

    Exactly what actual politicians do!

    ZILtoid1991, do gaming w How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
    @ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

    Install an emulator for her alongside with some roms. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only option we have nowadays.

    sylverstream,

    Interesting, hadn’t thought about that. Will read more about it!

    sic_semper_tyrannis,

    Lemuroid is a great open source emulator. Vimm’s Lair is a great place to find games/ROMs. It’s difficult to play games though that require the bumper buttons on a touch screen. Maybe consider getting her a retro gaming handheld device. They can either run based on Linux, so an emulator, or Android which can operate like normal and then you can select an emulator to play. ETA Prime has lots of reviews of these devices.

    sylverstream,

    Awesome, thanks! I’ve tried retro gaming before but they didn’t really like it, we also had a Wii for a couple of weeks, but perhaps I should try again.

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

    Star citizen

    Ultimatenab,

    Hopefully our grandkids will play a game like that, or be it in real life by the time it is complete… I’m saying that as someone who backed in 2013 and have about 2k worth of ships.

    interolivary,
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    This but unironically. A game like SC would absolutely be My Thing™, although maybe without the MMO part (so I guess Squadron whatever-it-was from the SC team?) – generally people are twats and I want nothing to do with them.

    ggnoredo, do games w What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?

    The Talos Principle It’s not just a puzzle game.

    Sabin10,

    It’s also 90 percent off on steam right now. Just grabbed it for $4.40 Canadian after tax.

    Nyanix,
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    Good timing, too, Talos Principle 2 was just announced

    M137,
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    No it wasn’t… It was announced two years ago, they did announce the release date three days ago though.

    Nyanix, (edited )
    @Nyanix@lemmy.ca avatar

    Ah, details…What M137 said

    Buddahriffic,

    Nice, that’s one I have in my library not yet installed. Bought it when there was a cheap bundle with others by that company, but was mainly looking at The Place which kinda turned me off of those style games. I’ll have to be sure to give it a shot now.

    RizzRustbolt,

    Needed more crates.

    SeaJ, do piracy w With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

    Geez. Hetzner is super affordable.

    Anyway, as others have mentioned, Jellyfin is not a centralized service so that is not something they can do.

    Vaggumon,
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    Even more so if you check out the auctions they have.

    Auli, do piracy w With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

    Jellyfin can’t do the same thing. Well they might be able maybe. Everyone logs on through plex servers and Plex has the IP address of all the servers. Jellyfin everything is local so no central servers to control who logins from where.

    obinice, do games w PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion
    @obinice@lemmy.world avatar

    They’re gonna delete my game without giving me a refund? Fuck them.

    juliebean, do piracy w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

    i have no idea what connection you think there is between piracy and adblockers. if anything, wouldn’t killing all adblockers encourage more piracy, not less?

    Four_lights77, do gaming w What's the funniest game you've played?

    Disco Elysium. It’s much more than funny, but it can also be really funny. Cuno is really funny.

    CumBroth,
    @CumBroth@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Came here to say this; just wanted to add that it was simultaneously the saddest game I’d ever played.

    Coelacanth,
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    It’s both the saddest game I’ve ever played and perhaps the most uplifting one. It balances the knife’s edge between nihilism and hope so well. It can also be hysterically funny, yes. It’s truly unique in terms of writing.

    reka,

    It’s funnier than 95% of film or TV comedies. The writers are amazing.

    JJROKCZ, do games w Why do modern strategy games hate the grid?

    I do not miss the grid at all, I hate being conformed to grids instead of more fluid real movement. It’s just more immersive to order my troops to move as a real person could move, not slide on a rail and stand there in this open space like a chess piece

    bighi,

    Your comment doesn’t make sense. There’s no relation between a grid and standing out in the open. With free movement, if you order the character to finish their movement in the open, they’re going to be out in the open.

    And I also don’t see the relation between grids and “sliding”.

    Lazylazycat,

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure in X-com there wasn’t any sliding? It was all very fluid movement, but you could easily see where you troops could move to.

    nevemsenki,

    Jagged Alliance 3 has grid, but the movements are more fluid than I’ve seen in a while. It’s all about polish and execution.

    WoofWoof91, do piracy w How can I use yuzu If I don't have a switch in the first place?
    @WoofWoof91@hexbear.net avatar

    here you go, this should get you up and running

    filgas08, (edited )

    I’ll try it, thank you very much

    yay it works!

    tetrabrick,
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    IgnacioM,
    @IgnacioM@lemmy.ml avatar

    Idk why but markdown guides on github are my comfort food

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