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Strayce, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 24th

I just finished The Invincible. Runs like dogshit on my system (i5-9600 16Gb/RX6650XT 8Gb), but very engaging for a walking simulator. About ten hours long and very little replay value unless you’re a completionist. Recommended if that sounds like your cup of tea, but don’t pay full price.

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

As for minor issues, EGS does not have feature parity with Steam or GOG. They don’t have user reviews, for example. This makes it a worse user experience.

More importantly, Epic has a habit of anti-competitive or anti-consumer behavior. When EGS first launched, they were keen on doing console-style timed exclusives, even for games that were already purchasable on platforms like Steam.

Lastly, Epic has a history of neglecting or shutting down games. A few of their older games were taken offline permanently when Fortnite started gaining traction. They then purchased a few studios, namely Psyonix (makers of Rocket League), Mediatonic (Fall Guys), and Harmonix (Rock Band/Guitar Hero series). These studios seem to be a shell of what they used to be. Psyonix’s first major project under Epic was Rocket Racing in Fortnite, and this project seemed to be prioritized over Rocket League and even caused the removal of core features of Rocket League. Harmonix worked on Fortnite Festival, but that came at the cost of Fuser, which shut down and was delisted about a year after launch. As for Mediatonic, I don’t think they worked on anything else yet, but a large portion of the studio was recently laid off. Needless to say, fans of the affected studios aren’t happy with Epic as they’re being treated as 2nd-class citizens compared to Fortnite players.

ElPussyKangaroo,

Regarding the user reviews, I would much rather prefer stores integrating with existing sites like IGDB rather than have independent review systems.

But that’s fine I guess.

Araithya, do games w Do you play games over the holidays with your family?

Crawl is a holiday tradition in our house! I know it’s on PC and Switch, not sure what else though.

B0NK3RS, do games w [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

I didn’t buy them this year but

  • Software Inc, management game
  • Ostriv, 18th century city building game
  • Off-road Mania, 4x4 trials game
registeredusername, do games w [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?
@registeredusername@lemmy.world avatar

Songs of conquest and street of rogue

CharlesReed, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 24th

Diablo 4: Season 2 - Still working on farming for Midwinter Blight. But I finally hit level 100 in doing so, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Slender: The Arrival - Apparently I got around to this just in time for the 10th year anniversary update, and I must say I was super impressed with the overhauled graphics. There were a few areas that I wished hadn't been very chase heavy, because I would have loved to explore the surroundings more. I guess they also added a chapter or two. It wasn't a bad play overall, and there was some great tension and scares, even if a few of them were cheap jumpscares. I've read that the devs will be expanding on it over the next year with new DLCs and multiplayer (of all things, after ten years lol), so I'll have to keep my eye out for whenever those drop.

Today for Christmas I finally got an Xbox Series X, so I have a nice little line up of games that I've been nearly dying to play. Right now I'm trying to decide between playing Alan Wake 2 or the Dead Space remake first. Dead Space is one of my favorite franchises, but I also adore the first Alan Wake game. Either way, I think I'll be looking at a good time this week.

petrescatraian, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 24th

@chloyster Still playing Stardew Valley. But I just got a dock to my Deck, and an SD Card. Moved all the remaining games from my PC to my External Drive, plugged that shit into the dock and installed whatever the fuck I'm not finished yet or wanna play. Fuck yea, let the fun begin!

dj1936, do zapytajszmer w Znacie jakieś filmy/seriale o mniejszościach etnicznych w Polsce?
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Serial „Infamia” - jest na netflix, ale na torrentach pewnie też.

Polski serial o Romach. Jest niezły.

lysy,

O, dzieki, obczaje 8)

dj1936, do zapytajszmer w Automatyczne zmniejszanie obrazów
!deleted2556 avatar

Używam telefonu :p

mateomaui, (edited ) do games w What's up with Epic Games?

Epic’s customer service sucks. Consider my last experience from a prior xmas sale:

  • had multiple games in the cart with discounts applied, checked out with paypal, but for whatever reason the communication broke and didn’t go through
  • my cart then got stuck in a limbo where I couldn’t check out with any method to receive the discounts, everything was full price again
  • opened a customer support ticket to get the problem resolved, then went through 3 days of back and forth, explaining the situation over and over because
    • each of your replies are handled by whoever the next agent is
    • who apparently don’t read any history of the ticket, so they provide feedback or advice that already didn’t work
    • and it can take a full 24 hours or more to get a reply that ignores all previous replies
  • by the time the error was resolved by a competent person, the sale was over by only a few hours
  • despite the fact that I only missed the sale window because their reps were incompetent, they refused to make any exceptions to apply the sale prices I had been trying to checkout for 3 days

So, fuck them. I only claim free games from them now.

And I concur with problems other people have mentioned.

BigVault,
@BigVault@kbin.social avatar

each of your replies are handled by whoever the next agent is

The names of their support agents is truly odd. I’ve seen people post complaints about their support that is little more than this:

Hi, this is Charlie Uniform November Tango here to help.
After receiving all the information that you sent us that we requested, we sadly can’t help because reasons.
Thanks for being an epic gamer.

Hilariously bad.

mateomaui,

That sounds about right. I’ve gotten a few replies back then that I would assume were AI generated if I received them this year.

pfm, do zapytajszmer w Automatyczne zmniejszanie obrazów

Z tego co pamiętam używałeś Linuksa. Jeśli nadal go używasz, to polecam pakiet ImageMagick i dostarczany przez niego program convert.

Możesz nim pliki zmniejszać co zadanych limitów, np. convert zdjęcie.jpg -scale 512x512 miniatura.jpg lub do jakiegoś procentu oryginału: convert zdjęcie.jpg -scale 25% miniatura.jpg.

Jest to narzędzie linii poleceń i możesz używać go do skalowania wieku plików na raz. Jeśli chcesz pomogę Ci to zautomatyzować.

B0NK3RS, do games w What's up with Epic Games?
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

There are issues with every platform so all anyone can do is make their own decisions.

ElPussyKangaroo,

I guess so… Unless a company is objectively terrible, I guess it does end up being “subjective”.

For example, I like the idea of Linux, but am happy that things work on Windows. And MacOS is too restrictive for my tastes.

Now, surely there are objective reasons for why Linux is better than the others. But the entry point issue for me is that each distro is different, and while I love customisability, I cannot expend energy on setting up my distro at the moment… (Soon.)

Plus, games work on Windows. I do plan to dual boot when I get a better PC, but not yet.

And fuck Apple (subjective, but I don’t wike em). So, yeah 🫡.

Zorque,

... and OP is asking for perspective so they can make their own decision.

B0NK3RS,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I was a bit vague with that comment. I guess whenever this topic comes up it, at least to me, feels like most of the comments are I’ll informed.

MrScottyTay, do games w What are some 3D platformer/3rd person shooter hybrids aside from the Ratchet and Jak series?

I would love their to be more games like this. I just finished Nexus and just started rift apart and absolutely loving it. So annoyed we’re not getting another R&C game to 2029. I LOVE the Spiderman games but rift apart is leagues ahead of them.

stagen, do gaming w Terra Nil - Launch Trailer - Nintendo Switch - YouTube
@stagen@feddit.dk avatar

Thisll also be on PC. I played the demo and I’m patiently waiting for the full release.

Poopfeast420,

It’s been on PC sine March, full release. You can get it in the current Steam Sale for 30% off.

Nacktmull, do games w What are some 3D platformer/3rd person shooter hybrids aside from the Ratchet and Jak series?
@Nacktmull@lemmy.world avatar

Risk of Rain 2 maybe?

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