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rustyfish, do games w Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before
@rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

Iron Lung. Everyone is gone. Every star, every planet and every moon. The only people left are those who were on spaceships and stations. With one exception: A moon is found, glowing in the light of a star that doesn’t exist and filled with an ocean of blood. Desperate for answers, the new makeshift government sends prisoners in submarines deep into this ocean with a simple task: make it to a hand full of coordinates, take the pictures and make it out alive. Did I mention it’s an ocean of human blood?

This game fucked me up that one night I played it alone. And no, it won’t take you longer. The dev literally says so in the description. About an hour. But it’s cheap and takes you on a crazy ride. By David Szymanski, the mad genius behind Dusk.

sjmulder, do games w What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from?

Okami! Please, more!

cheers_queers, do gaming w I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness

Starfield did this the right way, just as you are suggesting. it’s the only game I’ve seen so far that does it, but your character body exists on a wheel of buff, slender, thicker, etc. you can adjust every little part of this to get a truly unique character. i believe there were also at least 4 voice options. the rest of the game was meh, but maybe other games will start doing it that way. i think inclusion is still a very new concept in gaming, everyone is trying new things, and i appreciate the effort. it’ll get there.

HawlSera, (edited )

I definitely have to say, Body Type A/Body Type B definitely feels like a groan-worthy growing pain that will be ironed out sooner or later. It’s just disappointing that we have to resort to such awkward terms that mislead players about how much variety across the gender spectrum is actually being offered. It almost feels like a vegan menu that still heavily uses animal byprdouct.

This almost makes me want to buy Starfield to support a proper way to revamp gender selection, but it’s going to need the same amount of work that FO76 getting it from how it was at launch to the awesome experience it is now for me to dip my toes in that…

BigBananaDealer,
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shattered space might be a perfect time to try it. that dlc is just 1 planet so it’ll most likely be made how previous bethesda games were

Trainguyrom,

The Sims 4 actually added a similar approach to character creation about 2 years ago, but very different kind of game with a very different market

Off the top of my head it has options for male presenting body type, female presenting body type, sliders for fat and muscle (and you can generally reshape most of the body) and the available clothing and hairstyles got sorted into masculine and feminine with I believe more traditionally gender neutral stuff getting placed into both, then for biological purposes there’s “can pee standing up/cannot pee standing up” and “can impregnate/can be impregnated” It defaults to Male/Female defaults but makes it easy to customize, and a good mix of default townies (NPCs) are all over the spectrum.

They also recently added more complex relationship and romance preferences, so sims can be sexually bi but romantically straight for example, but also expanded to allow various levels of openness to relationships as well as poly relationships

USNWoodwork, do games w Mafia: The Old Country will offer voice acting in Sicilian

TIL that Sicilian is a language that is separate from Italian?

Virkkunen,
@Virkkunen@fedia.io avatar

Never confuse an Italian with a Sicilian

computergeek125,

I hear it’s also bad to get into a battle of wits with a Sicilian - especially when death is on the line.

WatTyler,

Italy is incredibly linguistically diverse.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy?wprov=sf…

PeroBasta,

Its a dialect. But i assure you if a Sardinian, a Pugliese, a Siciliano and a Valdostano all speaks their dialect only, there won’t be any communication going

snooggums, do gaming w I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Honestly only having two body types is the lazy part, no matter what the two types are. The best solution would be a variety of heights, weights, shoulder, waist, and hip sliders with boobs and butts and whatever else as add ons to the body shape. That should cover everyone as long as there is plenty of range on each option.

Unless everyone is in armor, in which case two or three gender neuteal body types are fine because boobs and butts won’t be noticeable through armor anyway. Height is pretty much all that is different if everyone in the armor is in decent shape and the armor is made to fit a range of people.

missingno, do gaming w best GBA games? I need recommendations
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  • Boktai series: Hideo Kojima's most unusual work, and I mean that in the best way. These games were so near and dear to my childhood, especially 2. Really though you want the Solar Sensor hardware for the full experience, but I love these games too much not to plug them anyway. Emulating them is worth it over not playing them at all. And for the third game, you'd have to pick between original hardware or the translation patch anyway.
  • Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: It's Castlevania. It's good. Also check out Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance, but AoS was by far the best of the GBA entries.
  • Golden Sun 1/2: These games were way ahead of their time for how they designed a combat system that encourages you to use all of your tools and not just click basic Attack as if you gotta hoard your MP for a rainy day. Fantastic puzzles too.
  • Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: If you've played any of the other Mario RPGs, this one's great too. Has a 3DS remake but I haven't played that version so I can't tell you how it compares.
  • Metroid: Zero Mission: The original Metroid has aged rather poorly if you ask me, but this remake does a perfect job modernizing it into one of the best games in the series. Fusion is good too, but some fans have opinions on that one.
  • Mother 3: Surely you have already heard of this game and do not need me to tell you to go play it. Have you not played it by now? Why not? Well, okay, if you haven't played Earthbound first, go do so, then play this.
  • Rhythm Tengoku: A wonderful game about pressing the A button. Sometimes you press the d-pad too. Translation patch.
  • Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 1/2: If you've ever played the classic 2D Tales games, these are excellent spiritual successors to those. There's a third game that's JP-only, translation patch is being worked on but it's been stuck in development hell for years...
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Zelda.
sleepybisexual,

Thanks for the list

Ambiguity7300,

Holy shit boktai was kojima?! Only reason i about this series was the crossover chips and and endgame quest in MMBN4 and on. Super cool and unique concept with the solar panel stuff.

mox, do games w Looking for Overwatch alternatives

Maybe Deadlock?

EarWorm,

Yeah, it does look promising but knowing Valve time it’ll release sometime in the 2030s.

Cyv_,

Send me your steam friend code, as far as I can tell I can invite any steam friend, with no limits on numbers. Dunno how long the playtest is running, but they usually do half the day live, and half with matchmaking shut down for patching stuff.

MentalEdge,
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!deadlock has a thread for inviting and getting invited in case the guy who already commented doesn’t get you in.

huginn,

Get in the closed alpha/beta and play. It’s a ton of fun.

Cadeillac, do games w Is mafia 3 really that bad?
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

Can somebody please tell me why this is the third Mafia thread I’ve seen? Are they on sale or something?

Edit: nevermind, it is all the same person. Would I be a dick for suggesting they contain it to one Mafia thread?

FeelzGoodMan420,

No. OP is a clown. Look at his replies in one of the RDR2 threads.

Cadeillac,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

The main reply is me lol

VonReposti, do games w #StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25%

Denmark is at 87%, nice. Let’s make it reach 100%!

BluesF, do games w Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha

Worst kept secrets, aka, clever marketing.

simple, do games w What are some good games worth buying on play store?
  • Dead Cells
  • Dicey Dungeons
  • Stardew Valley
  • Bloons TD 6
  • Slay the Spire
  • Castlevania SotN
  • Baba is You
  • The Room (and its sequels)
  • Game Dev Tycoon
meco03211,

Friendly reminder Bloons TD 6 is free for Netflix customers. Unsure if that’s all counties or restricted or tier restricted. It’s been pretty fun, but the best aspect is offline play.

simple,

Oh yeah, there’s actually a fair bit of good games on Netflix if you have a subscription. Unfortunately, they’re online-only even if they’re singleplayer… I hate subscriptions…

Sonic Mania, Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon, Into the Breach, and Wonderputt are pretty fun. I haven’t tried anything else.

teemrokit,
@teemrokit@lemmy.world avatar

I can play Bloons offline as long as you update it before you go offline. I was playing it on the plane a few weeks ago.

TIN, do games w Good game soundtracks?

Another vote for the Bastion soundtrack by Darren Korb.

AliasVortex,

Seconding Bastion! That soundtrack got me though so many grad school papers/ projects. I keep telling myself I’ll get around to actually playing that game, but I can’t shake the feeling that the second I hear “Build that wall” I’ma have some ptsd flashbacks.

all-knight-party, do gaming w Prey 2006 or Prey or Prey 2017; which do you prefer?
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

2006 was a neat game with some particularly cool bits, but 2017 is one of my favorite games of all time and pound for pound is a superior game due to 2017 being a spiritual successor to System Shock 2.

Very different games though, I don't honestly think they should be compared directly, it was already a weird choice for Prey 2017 to receive the franchise name.

Deconceptualist,

I’ll second this entirely.

Prey 2006 is a slightly gory boomer shooter with interesting topsy-turvy levels, gravity tricks, a few cool enemies and guns and powers, and a campy alien abduction / invasion story. It might be a little underrated in its genre. Definitely fun.

But Prey 2017 was more of a clever stealth action / psych horror title in the vein of Deus Ex and of course System Shock. Brilliant interconnected level design, a deep story, a good (though not super original) roster of guns and superpowers, some tricky puzzles, and a few interesting and enemies. It gets a good amount of love but I still think it deserves wider recognition as an excellent game.

It’s frankly stupid that they have the same name.

Sterile_Technique, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

Orcs Must Die! $9.99 $2.99 (70% off)

Hybrid tower defense and 3rd person shooter/slasher. This game is… fucking stupid! Like by design - your character is a moron, and says some of the dumbest shit you’ll hear come out of a protagonist’s mouth. So with this game, you get a high dose of face-palmy humor paired with orc arms/heads/bones/etc flying across your screen after they get blended up by all your traps. Gameplay is surprisingly solid; you’ll get some time to think and plan where to place traps and obstacles; then you’ll get hit with a wave of orcs and other fantasy critters and try to manually pick off any that make it through the traps. There are a couple more games in this series - imo #1 is the best, but if you like this one, keep the others on your radar too.

misk, do games w The N64
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Every piece of hardware in a given budget is ultimately a product of compromise. 3D capabilities of N64 are way beyond what PS can offer - texture filtering and Z buffer just put Playstation to shame. No CD is equally embarrassing to N64. The controller… well, it was a weird time.

glimse, (edited )

I played a lot of THSP2 on my PS2 PS1 and was horrified by the N64 version’s audio quality when I played it at a friend’s house

Num10ck,

the ps2 came 4 years after the N64, a crucial time window of consumer audio chip evolution. but even more importantly, the N64 didnt even have a sound chip, relied on the CPU for it while competing for resources.

glimse,

Sorry I meant PS1! It played CD quality audio as well

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