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ombremad, do games w Fuck Ubisoft.

Me in 2004: Yeah I’ll never play Half-Life 2 because I hate that it comes with a mandatory useless piece of software. « Steam », what the hell is that? Full of DRMs, ugly, bugged to the core, eating up my precious RAM.

TwilightVulpine,

There are valid concerns but there are benefits to using one game manager. There’s nothing good about having to install a bunch of them because every other game is in a different store.

It still would be best if games came DRM-free and all of them were compatible with whatever game manager someone chooses, but a lot of them aren’t, especially from big publishers.

ombremad,

« There are benefits in using one game manager »

That is very true, and that’s why your game manager software shouldn’t be tied to any storefront or online service.

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

I’m pretty pragmatic. While I appreciate what Valve has done for PC gaming, I like the idea of them having some legit competition in the space. So when the Epic store started, I bought a bunch of games there to give it a shot. Outer Worlds, Control… And of course I grabbed up a bunch of free games, too!

…and then, over time, I’ve repurchased all of the games I liked on steam anyway.

Make of that what you will.

ElPussyKangaroo,

I might be on the same trajectory too if my experience worsens 🫡.

Kecessa,

The only thing I make of that is that you are bad with money.

swordsmanluke, (edited )

Ha ha - I mean, you’re not wrong!

Edit: for the downvoters - as OP, I officially congratulate Kecessa on their sick burn. It made me lol. So… If you were feeling conflicted here, go with the upvote.

MeanEYE,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

Epic is not a competition to Valve. They are long ways from that position. If Steam ever was afraid of competitor it was from Windows Marker Place or whatever the name of built-in windows crap is.

gerryflap, do games w What's up with Epic Games?
@gerryflap@feddit.nl avatar

Personally my main gripe is their aggressive strategies to force people into their garbage-tier launcher. Compared to Steam it’s just miles behind, and it’s yet another app to run on your PC. All my friends are also on Steam, and Steam had Linux support. However, if all you want to do is launch singleplayer games, you don’t mind the Epic launcher, and you get a good deal, then do whatever you want to.

ElPussyKangaroo,

Hmm…

I have never used a launcher before (for obvious reasons as mentioned in my post), so I found the idea of a separate launcher dumb in the first place. I have used it in recent times thanks to Epic’s free games. Finished two of the Tomb Raider trilogy.

Like, I’m fine with a store, but I gotta open the launcher to launch the game? On Windows, with the Tile based Start Menu, I kind of thought it was a terrible idea NGL. I gotta open, wait for it to load, open the library, then click to run, THEN it’ll open…

Plus, if I want to track progress, it’s a hassle because I can’t track without the damn launcher…

Glide,

This.

I fundamentally have no issue with the Epic Games launcher. Steam needs competition to keep it in check. Without alternatives, Steam can and will strangle Dev profits, which is a problem. But Epic is a mediocre service, another app to be running, and actively going out of their way to prevent games from being on the platform of the consumers choice, which I am not a fan of.

Related note: does Epic have any DRM free games? Even Steam has a fair portion of games that are DRM free and work perfectly well from a flash drive on a computer that doesn’t have Steam installed. As far as I am aware, Epic does not.

There’s just a series of minor ways in which epic is worse, and I don’t like having front-end clients for my games as is, so a second, competing alternative going out of its way to push me into using it rubs me the wrong way.

MrScottyTay,

Where can you find what steam games are drm free?

wolfshadowheart,

Steam DRM is optional and implemented by the developer.

OrgunDonor,
@OrgunDonor@lemmy.world avatar
MrScottyTay,

Thanks!

MrScottyTay,

You don’t need all store fronts running at once on your pc though. Just boot up what you need for the game you want and it’s just six and two threes, whether it’s steam or epic, or any other launcher.

Kecessa,

You don’t understand, it’s ok if the extra app you need to run is Steam, it’s not ok if it’s Epic!

gerryflap,
@gerryflap@feddit.nl avatar

The issue is that I miss features when using Epic. Additionally, games from Epic are not visible in my steam library which leads to me forgetting that they even exist. And also nobody uses it, so there’s no community feeling like I have with all my Steam friends.

I don’t mind it for free games though. If they give me a game for free, they deserve me using their launcher for that game haha.

pylohn, do games w What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

Cassette beasts is a great pokemon like with some fun twists and great sounds track

lemmy___user,

Congratulations on your excellent taste!

mesamunefire,

Coromon has a similar vibe. Such good games.

kadu, (edited ) do games w Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)
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  • Frozengyro,

    You assume it takes anything to be a journalist these days

    Gyrolemmy, (edited )

    Im a journalist!

    And this post is my journal. Please respect my 11/9 review

    Annoyed_Crabby,

    Remember Dean Takahashi? I member

    RHSJack,

    RIP San Jose Mercury News. You have the best game and movie reviews of any media.

    bozo,

    Honestly, most “professional” game reviews are made by average joe gamers who happen to have a platform to broadcast their thoughts. Most of these writers are not expert players nor are they always well versed in the genre of the game they’re reviewing.

    I never understand why people put so much stock into them when their opinions are no more valid than any random person on the internet.

    DulyNoted,

    Docking point for subjective things is weird to me as well. “I wanted a minimap!”

    Skimmer, do piracy w Proton VPN. How good is it?

    Proton VPN is probably one of the best VPNs out there. Has open source clients, is based in Switzerland so under their strong jurisdiction for privacy and data protection, doesn’t keep logs or sell data, has good speeds, includes useful features, etc. I’d definitely recommend it, as well as Proton’s other products.

    seb_tmg,
    @seb_tmg@mastodon.cosmicnation.co avatar

    @Skimmer Yep. Reading your post through a Proton VPN at the moment. 🙌🏼

    dustojnikhummer,

    Fuck, wish I didn’t have a year of surfshark remaining

    whyrat, do gaming w How much 5e do you have to know to enjoy Balders Gate 3?

    None really. The game will walk you through everything through tool tips and help menus.

    JollyBrancher,

    I’d second this as someone who is only lightly aware of 5e. If only I could remember my attribute points before some dialogue choices. Whoops.

    Pyro,

    At least on pc over over the option and it will show what your roll will be.

    Can’t see the DC till to late but that’s a normal rpttrpg thing

    JollyBrancher,

    Ahhh ok. I’m using a controller at the moment for accessibility reasons, but I’ll definitely look into doing that when I can again! Maybe it’ll show if I just idle a couple seconds over the selection

    Aurenkin,

    It’s possible to view on the controller as well. I think one of the bumpers maybe? I don’t remember exactly sorry but it’s definitely possible!

    JollyBrancher, (edited )

    Right on 🤙🏻 I figured there had to be with how accessible the controller options truly are - I haven’t been able to check since my initial response. I should get to relatively soon though! Option on the controller is: select --> enable help tools

    NineSwords,

    Press the left stick during dialogue choices and a little window will tell you what stats are used and if you get any boni on the rolls.

    TheLowestStone, do gaming w Kiki
    @TheLowestStone@lemmy.world avatar

    Two pyramids? You wish. Original Lara Croft had one massive wedge.

    IndiBrony,
    @IndiBrony@lemmy.world avatar

    A Toblerone, mayhaps

    TriflingToad,

    shopkeeper: “hey where did that Toblerone go?”
    my suspiciously Toblerone shaped tits:

    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/989661da-8893-4881-94ce-f45a7156c8d5.jpeg

    TriflingToad,

    HAPPY CAKE DAY 🎉🐛🐛🎉🎉

    captain_aggravated,
    @captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

    And girls cosplaying as Lara Croft by putting a box in their shirts will never stop being funny.

    EccTM, do gaming w (SPOILERS) Bethesda is shit - Fallout 4 (2015) Impressions

    Now try Starfield.

    You’ll find it so shallow that Fallout 4 seems like the Mariana Trench.

    ISOmorph,
    @ISOmorph@feddit.org avatar

    Hard disagree in my case. But that might be because it’s a new IP. When I play Fallout 4 I can’t stop myself of thinking what was and could have been. I obviously don’t have that with Starfield and found it much more enjoyable

    EccTM,

    I found Fallout 4 had good gameplay, but the main questline didn’t connect with me at all. I’m currently playing through Starfield at the moment, have like 220 hours playtime, I honestly wish I wasn’t finding it so boring but it’s easily the most bland Bethesda game I’ve ever played.

    The story writing seems kinda half-arsed, but my main issue with Starfield is in the environments. Every location feels the same, and the planets are all just barren deserts with a random base and two caves plopped on it. At least Fallout 4’s environment felt hand-crafted, and not just like they rolled three dice.

    What part of it do you connect with most?

    ISOmorph,
    @ISOmorph@feddit.org avatar

    I thought the main story was pretty enjoyable tbh. I can still remember some side quests really vividly as well, which is a good sign. The batman nod for example, or the 0 g casino. There was a lot of copy and paste, agreed, but the gunplay was fun so I didn’t mind that much. Also I spent hours on ship creation, thatwas cool

    EccTM,

    every time I got lost in the ship builder, I’d spend an hour on some crazy design, be a piece away from saving it, and the game would just lock up and stop responding to input. Only ever happened in ship builder. I lost like 4 hours to that flippin’ bug!

    xylol,

    I like them both, to me starfield just feels like a newer fallout 4, but I also like space and the guns, but at the same time after playing oblivion a ton in highschool all bethesda games just feel like the same thing with a bit less. at least with fallout and starfield you could build up bases and stuff, ive actually been replaying oblivion remastered a ton since I havent really gamed in a long time just because its so familiar but new at the same time after all these years

    plm00, do gaming w Let's hear both sides

    4,572.1 hours played. “Not Recommended”

    Come on man do you hate yourself?

    DragonTypeWyvern,

    I’ve got that in League of Legends, so yes.

    Do not recommend. 8/10 in 2016, 0/10 in 2025. Tread not upon the path.

    plm00,

    Yeah that’s fair.

    Rin,

    Yes

    kazerniel,
    @kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m like this with Genshin. I’ve played it for almost 2k hours, love the exploration gameplay, environment graphics and music, but the monetisation system is extremely predatory, and the character designs and writing are bullshit, so overall I still wouldn’t recommend it to others, or only with heavy caveats. But it really scratches my exploration itch, so I’ll keep playing it myself 🤷

    Ricaz,

    Usually happens when a game was good initially, but then publishers get greedy and push RMT/pay-to-win/freemium features to please investors.

    Maybe not a great example, but I played Eve Online for many years, and while the game is actually very playable with RMT (it feels fucking great to destroy somebody’s virtual property they paid 20$ to acquire), it kinda got out of hand and diminished the thousands of hours I put into the game.

    thermal_shock,

    That makes sense

    ArchmageAzor,
    @ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

    Reminds me of Destiny 2. There was a period where the game was amazing, so great to play. Then it hit a downwards slope.

    Croquette,

    Destiny has the best gun play hands down. It’s shame the monetization is so predatory

    ByteOnBikes,

    I read one recently that complained the devs didn’t listen to them about this one extremely specific sounding request, and therefore cannot recommend it.

    The review was at like 1400 hours, and they played 1900 hours.

    Which means for another 500 hours, they continued.

    jjjalljs,

    I think i already commented on this somewhere else, but a lot of bethesda games are like that for me. The vanilla game is kind of shit, but with a lot of mods it can kind of be hammered into something I enjoy. it’s still kind of bad, but sometimes you just want to eat junk food. I wouldn’t recommend someone go to McDonalds, but sometimes it’s just right there and it’s easy.

    Aganim, (edited ) do games w What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

    Morrowind.

    Can you find this person whom wandered off into the ashlands? They went east-ish.

    I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit in the Construction Kit to find out where in Vivec’s name I had to go this time. Usually it turned out I just barely missed the person or location I had to go before starting an hourlong search.

    But despite that still a game I deeply love.

    ArtificialHoldings,
    @ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world avatar

    The number of times I totally overshot distance based on the quest description and ended up in the Ashlands…

    Twinklebreeze,
    @Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s what I like about the game. The NPCs tell you where to go to the best of their ability, and you follow to the best of yours. I like it a hell of a lot more than quest markers.

    skulblaka,
    @skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

    There is at least one occasion where NPCs just straight up lie to you in quest directions though. I can’t think of it off the top of my head but I remember it existing because I complained about it on a forum.

    On one hand - great worldbuilding! “Local dumbass gives you bad directions” is a funny and memorable point on top of what might otherwise be a forgettable side quest. On the other hand, I spent the better part of four hours looking for whatever egg mine or ancestral tomb or whatever it was he asked me to find before getting fed up and having UESP tell me “lol no actually it’s off in this complete other direction”, and I’m pretty sure I assassinated that NPC after I turned in his quest.

    Milksteaks,
    @Milksteaks@midwest.social avatar

    Yeah I remember some fuckin guy said you can find the herb east of balmora. Que an hour long search and epic journey for the ages only to finally read a guide that says the guy lied

    GoodLuckToFriends,

    Jesus, the finding people thing was tough, but finding the quest item that I had already looted from a grave and either dropped or sold to a random merchant? Game ending, man.

    skulblaka,
    @skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

    This was me lmao. On my first playthrough of Morrowind as a teenager I dicked around and did everything except the main quest for ages. Around level 18 I decided to actually progress the main quest. Hasphat, check. Arkngthand, no sweat. Talk to Sharn Gra-Muzgob, she says to fetch the Skull of Llevule Andrano. Cool, go to Andrano’s tomb, looks kind of familiar. Where is the Skull of Llevule Andrano? Cause it sure ain’t here in his tomb. Whoopsie.

    Never found the skull, never progressed the quest, had to start a new character to actually experience the main story. I wonder how many potential Nerevarines failed to ascend due to missing minor quest items. Wish I could ask em that inside the Cavern of the Incarnate.

    GoodLuckToFriends,

    Yes! That’s the one! That damnable skull!

    ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    So many failed nerevarines. If only they knew they were just an exploit INTENDED FEATURE away from saving Morrowind

    ampersandrew, do games w GOG seems to be considering paid membership option
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    I got the same survey. The ones that they definitely do not want to do, if they value their reputation, are things like “increased cloud save storage (that’s still probably less than what Steam offers)” and things that they took away, like 1.0 installers. But some of the other options look to be more squarely aimed at the enthusiasts of the preservation program that this subscription is designed to financially support, as well as one or two actually good features like legal account sharing. Hopefully they go down that route instead.

    MudMan, (edited )

    It's on par with Steam, I think. You get like 200 megs per product. I know because my Witcher 3 install is above that and it's annoying. That wouldn't be a dealbreaker as a subscription benefit, I don't think.

    With the rest I do agree.

    I can tell they're struggling and have been for a while. It isn't easy to compete with Steam, and the thing that would have done it (having DRM'd new games in the service) was voted down in a similar survey some time ago.

    I would not be against some Patreon-like crowdsourced solution for behind the scenes stuff and prioritization rights. GOG, or something like it MUST exist. Steam is bad enough with their current dominant position, it can't be the sole remaining option in this market.

    I would much prefer to be able to give them more money in exchange for more games, though. I am constantly frustrated by how often some indie game is only available on Steam, and I've started buying things full price on GOG but waiting for sales on Steam as a matter of policy.

    Sorse,
    @Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    It’s on par with Steam, I think.

    IIRC Steam lets developers code how much storage to use, with a 5GB cap per game

    MudMan,

    Is that where it is now? I haven't looked at the documentation in an age. I think most stay lower because ultimately cloud storage is a cross-platform concern and different first parties have different requirements. Plus you want to keep it under control anyway. At any rate it's not a huge concern and other services like PSN or Nintendo Online already charge for it, so... not a dealbreaker as long as the base implementation stays free.

    CosmoNova, do games w Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?

    What makes BG3 so great is that it doesn‘t just have voice acting, it has full acting. The actor of Astarion worked for 4 years on it and claimed it was the equivalent to shooting 4 seasons of a TV show. It‘s a huge scope that almost nobody can or want to afford. I mean those studios who can just don‘t take that part very seriously and are eyeing with simply opting to use AI instead. I doubt it will ever be recreated, maybe not even by Larian themselves.

    koncertejo, do games w One-handed games?
    @koncertejo@lemmy.ml avatar

    You might be interested in the videos made by Champutee, a one-armed gamer who has done several experiments with both genres and controllers to continue enjoying gaming.

    smeg,

    That’s an incredible username!

    Zacryon, do gaming w Stay strong this upcoming sale. The game you want but don't have temporarily licensed (AKA "own") is not going anywhere.
    @Zacryon@feddit.org avatar

    Nope. I’m gaming to have fun, not to work off some backlog. And if I buy a game, barely touch it and never play it again, that’s fine. Keep the fun in games and don’t treat it as an obligation.

    franklin,
    @franklin@lemmy.world avatar

    i think they mean sometimes people leave fun on the table because of fomo

    Flamekebab,
    @Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

    To be fair, FoMO can be justified. That multiplayer game isn't going to be worth playing in five years time. That game that has cool new tech isn't going to dazzle once things move on, etc..

    SuperSaiyanSwag,

    Also, with big single player games like Elden ring, it was fun seeing community discover new things as days went by.

    TankovayaDiviziya,

    Yes, but it is more about the cost. Games are pricey enough as they are. Why keep the games perpetually unplayed but then buy new ones and put them aside as well?

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