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SirKitBreaker, do games w What game do you recommend someone who likes the mechanics but not the setting of Baldur's Gate 3?

If you liked these, you can check out the other games by Larian - Divinity: Original Sin (1 and 2). There’s also Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic (very old game though). Also, Never winter nights 2. I’m sure there’s a bunch more.

loobkoob, do games w Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?

Last Epoch and Grim Dawn are probably most in line with Diablo, I think.

People have mentioned Path Of Exile, and I've played a lot of it, but I don't think it feels particularly like Diablo any more, even though it started out that way. It's quite unforgiving, and even a lot of experienced players feel like they need to follow build guides rather than work things out for themselves. Its learning curve is hundreds or thousands of hours long. Of course, the reason for that is that it has incredible depth, variety and complexity, which may be a selling point or a deterrent depending on what you like! I definitely like the complexity of it myself, but it's very overwhelming when you're new. The reason I don't think it's all that in line with Diablo these days, though, is simply the pacing of the gameplay. You blow up screens of enemies at a time, and your deaths are often so fast that you're not really sure what killed you.

Path Of Exile also heavily revolves around its trading economy. Item drop rates are balanced around players being able to trade for them, which makes trading somewhat mandatory (unless you're a bit of a masochist). The economy is fairly complex, with there being a lot of different currencies, and quite a lot of factors that can affect the value of an item. I'll let you decide whether you find this appealing or not - some people do, some people don't! I do think it causes some issues with the balance and progression of the game, but it's interesting to say the least, even if you wish you didn't have to engage with it.

Grim Dawn feels a little mechanically dated at this point but it's still solid. It's got some good builds, the dual-class system and constellations system make for some interesting variety. It's got an offline mode, as well as online co-op play. Its real selling point, though, at least for me, is it's absolutely soaked with atmosphere. It's very, well, grim, but the world is really immersive and it has a great setting in general with a solid story and some great lore. It also has quite a lot of mods available (including the Reign Of Terror mod I mentioned in another comment in the thread that adds the entire Diablo 2 campaign and all its classes to Grim Dawn).

Last Epoch is more mechanically interesting than Grim Dawn, I think, but it's lacking in the story and world-building. It's still in early access, although its full release is next week. It has quite a lot of depth and complexity, but it's all done in an intuitive way that means you can jump into the game blindly and work things out for yourself fairly easily. It has a good variety of skills, and the fact that each skill has its own fairly comprehensive skill tree means you can play the same skills in very different ways. It has a wonderful itemisation system that does a great job of making you actually engage with the loot you find on the floor (which is an issue in other loot games), and some of the best crafting I've ever seen in a game. The dev team also manages to come up with some really creative and somewhat intuitive solutions to things they perceive as issues in other ARPGs.

Last Epoch's biggest drawback is that its endgame is currently a little lacking in comparison to POE (which has a very rich and deep endgame, but is also a ten-year-old game that's been updated constantly). It's still far, far better than Diablo 4's, though, and will obviously only improve as more is added. Last Epoch has some truly brilliant systems in place for the devs to build off - and frankly, I still think it's great now - but it'll only get better as more content gets added over time.

I love all three games I've talked about for different reasons, and honestly, they're all well worth playing!

falsem,

The reason I don't think it's all that in line with Diablo these days, though, is simply the pacing of the gameplay. You blow up screens of enemies at a time, and your deaths are often so fast that you're not really sure what killed you.

Yeah, that's why I don't care for POE anymore these days.

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

This War of Mine. Honestly can't believe nobody else has mentioned it.

You play as a group of civilians in a war torn country. By day you craft things needed for survival like a stove for cooking, guns for protection, barricades to prevent raiders. At night you send one person with a backpack to scavenge an area of your choice for things like food, medicine, supplies etc. The others will either sleep or guard the property. Things you do while scavenging have real effects on your characters. Decided to rob an elderly couple? Your characters will react based on their personality.

Things become grim fast if you decide to start robbing supplies or get attacked. Your players get sick, become depressed, starve, get hurt etc. I've never made it to the end.

It's a great way to understand the struggles of being a civilian in a war. The Polish government actually recommends it for educational purposes and the devs have donated a lot of proceeds to charities serving people impacted by war, including Ukraine most recently.

B0NK3RS,
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TWOM is so good. What you say about things going bad fast is very true and the repercussions of something minor are real.

DeepFriedDresden,

I was a bit aggressive on like my second playthrough and ended up killing a couple people to get their medicine. The guy that killed them was too depressed to scavenge and killed himself. Then another person got depressed because of that and wouldn't do anything. Then she got sick and died shortly after. I was too sad to play for awhile after that one.

ByteJunk,
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I feel the same. I’m too traumatized by a couple of my playthroughs to play it anytime soon… But what a great game.

setsneedtofeed, (edited )
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It’s very good, but the tone can be totally broken if you master combat. Killing soldiers doesn’t lower morale, so they are free targets.

Depending on what locations spawn, it is possible to completely ruin the intended vibe. I’ve wiped out the military outpost and ended up with so many supplies I didn’t know what to do with them all.

ByteJunk,
@ByteJunk@lemmy.world avatar

I was going to mention this game, +1.

Trying to desperately survive in a world that’s upside down, fighting the hopelessness and trying to survive just one more day and slowly realising the you’re just one day closer to death…

Man, it’s a really great game, but I can’t play it again anytime soon.

Squiddles, do gaming w Has anyone tried to mark a game private in Steam? Does it work as intended?

I have two steam accounts, and I was not able to see anything related to a game marked private from my second account except when family sharing was enabled between the accounts. With family sharing on I could see all private games from my primary account on my secondary (including games which were not installed on the local system).

If you have family sharing on, hold off. Otherwise as far as I know it works as intended.

Anarki_,

Family sharing has a family view mode that lets you hide certain games unless you input a password.

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

Exclusives suck for everyone. Especially when Epic started out, they only had payment processors in certain countries. This meant that some people literally had no legal way to play the Epic exclusives. I'm not sure where they stand today, but that annoyed me enough, along with other shenanigans by Epic and Sweeny, that I avoid the whole ecosystem.

BlinkerFluid, do gaming w The gaming industry needs to become more like holywood
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I hope OP is aware of how underappreciated and thrown away visual effect studios tend to be in Hollywood.

JohnnyCanuck,
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Yeah this is another point I could have added to my rant…

ram, (edited ) do gaming w Looking for games with unique core mechanics
@ram@lemmy.ca avatar
  • Majora’s Mask: a 3-day timeloop where everything resets when you go back
  • Katamari: A giant ball gets rolled around and collects stuff forever
  • Baba Is You: Movable text is rules to the game
  • Untitled Goose Game: You have to piss people off the right way
  • Billie Bust Up^[unreleased]^: Musicals tell you upcoming platforming challenges
  • Celeste: every time you die you quickly reset on the same “page”/small tile of map
  • Splatoon: you shoot at the ground to go faster, hide, and/or win
  • Odama: real-time tactical wargame pinball
  • Golf Story: Golf-based fetch quests
  • Astral Chain: asynchronously control a companion in combat
  • Okami: paint skills on-screen in combat
  • Astro Bears: Snake but in 3D
  • Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime: Up to 4 players pilot parts of a ship together
  • Pokemon Ranger: draw circles around monsters to catch them
  • Viva Pinata: breed pinatas to create new species
  • Spore: create and evolve a creature
Shilkanni,

Katamari Damacy is a great example, built around a very simple but satifying mechanic snd good controls.

Natanael,

Okami plays extremely well on Nintendo Switch with the ability to paint with your fingers on the touch screen

Schadrach,

Majora’s Mask: a 3-day timeloop where everything resets when you go back

As far as time loop mechanics go, there are some other strong contenders for playing with the concept:

The Sexy Brutale - you are stuck in a short time loop in which people die, and you need to save them. Successfully saving someone grants you a special power that can be used to try to save others. You have to untangle who and how to save each one and exactly what’s going on. You keep the powers between loops, and also start each loop from the last clock you checked in at.

Deathloop - Arkane stealth shooter stuck in a one day loop. Several locations, different events in each location each day, goal is to arrange the right day so you can kill all your targets in one loop.

Death Come True - interactive film game. You wake up in a hotel room, and have to figure out what’s going on. Loop continues until you die, at which point you wake up in the hotel room again.

12 Minutes - You come back to your apartment, and unless you change the course of events (or on the first loop, do not touch the controls at all) you will die in less than 12 minutes. Then loop until you understand what’s going on.

myfavouritename,

Oh man, I just want to give a shout out to the Splatoon ink mechanic.

The game is a competitive arena shooter. That would be pretty uninteresting, but instead of competing for kills or holding objectives, the teams are competing to cover the largest surface area with ink or paint. That’s pretty neat. But there’s more.

Every player has a special “squid mode” they can use when standing on ink of their colour. When in squid mode players travel much faster, can travel up walls, and are extremely hard to spot, but can not attack or lay new ink.

This makes the laying ink in specific areas valuable, as it makes it faster to get from the spawn point to the front faster and easier. It also rewards holding contiguous trails of ink, or conversely, cutting off your opponent’s ink trails.

sub_, do gaming w Beautiful games?

Journey still looks pretty pretty.

Not sure whether it’s still enjoyable to play, since probably not many people are playing it these days.

loops,

Mmm yess. Recently did a play through, and luckily I played most of it with a fellow pilgrim. IMO Journey will always be gorgeous. The graphics are perfectly balanced between realism, performance and art. To me, it’s a timeless classic.

sub_,

Oh wow, if it’s still possible to meet with online players, then I might want to replay the game again.

loops,

Still possible! Go forth!

apotheotic,

If you enjoyed journey for its beauty and the experience, I strongly recommend checking out their most recent game, Sky: Children of the Light

Overzeetop,

Though exclusively single player, ABZU is also a nice, atmospheric game as well.

ram, do gaming w "X is about to change forever!"
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EvaUnit02,
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

The thought of such a video being fifty minutes long makes me nauseous.

WalrusDragonOnABike,

How else will you fit in dozens of ads?

Stillhart,

We call this “The Full Asmongold”.

smeg,

You’ve seen other common denominators which you might have thought were pretty low, but here we unveil truly the lowest common denominator.

HappyMeatbag, do gaming w What game mechanics do you love and hate?
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Hate: disproportionately excessive penalties for falls (usually found in platformers).

If you get shot in the face by an enemy, you lose your shield, lose a life, whatever. In a bad platformer, if you don’t time a difficult jump exactly right, you lose a life, lose everything in your inventory, get sent back to the very beginning of the level, get audited, and have to mow the developers lawn for an entire summer.

Platformers are “guilty until proven innocent” - I won’t play one until I know it won’t destroy my will to live.

iusearchbtw,
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Out of interest, what platformers are you referencing here? I can’t think of any that are that punishing.

HappyMeatbag,
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I honestly can’t even remember the one that first set me off. It’s been a while. I just remember realizing that gravity was more punishing than any of the enemies, and thinking “oh, to hell with this.”

Nanokindled,
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I stopped playing salt and sanctuary because of the platforming, despite being an ardent lover of souls likes.

peterpan520,

That’s why Celeste is one of my favorite platformers. If you fail, you respawn at the very “screen” you died.

Exec,
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at the very “screen”

In older games they were called “rooms”

Psythik,

For platformers, maybe. But for certain genres – like battle royale – the risk of losing it all after one mistake is part of the thrill. It all depends on the game.

8ace40,

You would hate Nocta lol

Schwim, (edited ) do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

It sounds like you’ve found some games you like but are turned off of by some difficulty bottlenecks. If that’s the case, considerWeMod. It’s a trainer for a ton of games that allow you to “cheat” in singleplayer games(god mode, speed hacks, etc.)

I still love playing games but as I get older, my tremors get worse, making it impossible for me to get through one on my own. WeMod allows me to explore all of the game world without being stopped by something as simple as clicking on something quickly.

FenrirIII,
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I love WeMod, been using it since it was created

Etterra, do games w Signatures skyrocket for **Stop Killing Games** campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 48 hours. (Details on how to help in text body of post)

Makes me wish I was European so I could sign it too.

ArchmageAzor,
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In that case, help spread the word.

Dreaming_Novaling,

Reposted it to Mastodon! Hope it makes a change, cause America can usually catch the waves.

Bronzie,

Am European, but not in the EU.
Wish I could do my part too

MentalEdge, do games w Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy teo longest eunning best friends.
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I strongly disagree on their roguelite “bug” being something they need to drop.

Bastion didn’t land for me, so I didn’t play it, but Transistor would have shined as a roguelite. Its combat system is far too complex, and has potential for so much more, than what can be explored in one or two playthroughs.

The same goes for Cloudbank as a narrative setting.

Transistor, but with Hades’ gameplay loop and storytelling style would be insane. It already felt like a roguelite, but without a gameplay or narrative reason to go in for multiple runs.

Supergiant hasn’t cought a roguelite bug… They’ve found the perfect narrative and game format to match the gameplay systems and worlds they like to create.

Krudler,

Bastion is an absolute stinker of a game.

It’s completely pedestrian, and there are so many bad design decisions it’s hard to even take it seriously.

It’s a game where marketing really did its job because the game could never carry itself based on its presentation or mechanics.

sem,

It was really groundbreaking to have the narrator react to what you were doing, in a “Half-Life feels like a real world that you inhabit” way. The way the music was woven into the game was also amazing, and the art! There’s a reason it put them on the map.

I didn’t like the gameplay all that much though and the world building didn’t make too much sense to me. These parts have aged the most poorly. But it was way better than just marketing.

Krudler,

It wasn’t groundbreaking, it was a bad design decision. Evidenced by the fact the biggest patch was a toggle to take the fking narrator out.

And they weren’t even the first.

sem,

Different strokes for different folks I guess. The narrator was my favorite part. That or the music.

SnotFlickerman, (edited ) do games w What games are just objective masterpieces?
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Holy shit somehow no one has mentioned:

Nier Automata

It counts as a masterpiece because of how well it blends game design, gameplay and story. I have played very few games as thoughtful, or that weaved the gameplay together into the story it was telling in such a meaningful way. I never thought once in my life that I would think philosophically about bullet hell but somehow Nier Automata has something profound to say and even manages to say it using bullet hell as a gameplay mechanic.

On top of all this, it also has a lot to say about classical philosophers, their works, and honestly deeply subverts things they had to say. It asks tough questions about their thoughts and ideas, once again, through gameplay. Numerous characters are named for classical philosophers: Pascal, Jean-Paul, Simone, Engels, Immanuel… (Yoko Taro obviously has feelings about how Jean-Paul Sartre treated Simone de Beauvoir.)

Further, Yoko Taro is doing something that a lot of game developers fail to manage to do: He is embracing gaming as a storytelling medium and eschewing the traditional three-act arc from film. Because gaming is not film. As Marshall McLuhan posited, “the medium is the message” and unlike other developers Taro’s writing is aimed at the medium he is working in instead of leaning on the ropes and tropes of other mediums. (Referring back to above, tying the gameplay into the story, focusing on the medium)

It’s basically impossible to not break down into tears at the ending.

Don’t write it off because of the scantily clad anime women. Stay for the depth of the human condition. It is truly a masterwork in multiple respects.

TomSelleck,

I didn’t know Chris Plante is on Lemmy.

SnotFlickerman,
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For a moment I thought you were talking about the Newsmax host and I was very offended and confused, but it looks like there is another, lesser known Chris Plante in gaming journalism.

TomSelleck,

And he fuckin LOVES NieR

shrodes,

Quick, go through their post history and see if they’ve mentioned any Neil Breen films

sugar_in_your_tea,

Nier Automata

I loved Nier Replicant, but didn’t get into Automata, maybe I’ll give it another shot. I do love that style of storytelling though.

Bbbbbbbbbbb,

It’s basically impossible to not break down into tears at the ending.

The god damn ending is a gameplay mechanic to tell a not yet finished story. Damn you Yoko Taro

SnotFlickerman,
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spoilerThe wild part is that he’s so good at subverting anime tropes, too. The “killing god” trope is mentioned in the first lines of the game… and then going on to battling the end credits themselves?? Literally killing the gods who created the world this all exists in? Taking it to the absurd yet logical extreme, so brilliant.

https://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tim-and-eric-mind-blown.gif

MarauderIIC,

I appreciate that you justified your submission, unlike many answers here.

mintiefresh,
@mintiefresh@lemmy.ca avatar

One of my favorite games of all time.

Katana314,

Man, I wish I understood a single bit of this evaluation of the game after finishing every chapter (sorry - “Ending”). The whole thing felt mostly like a waste of time.

That said, I’m a fan of Spec Ops: The Line, a game that has much the same level of division among its players. Interesting how philosophical games get that reaction.

msage,

I tried to play that game, expecting perhaps a DMC-like gameplay.

Instead I got a 2D plane scroller?

Then 2D sort of platformer?

Then some weird 3D action that I did not understand at all?

What the fuck is that game.

If I enjoyed combat more, I could give it another go. But it was just not for me.

tanisnikana, do gaming w You made your choice, fuckhead

Fun fact: you can drop your KKK guys in a pig farm, and they are hungry.

saltnotsugar,

Silence of the Rootin Tootin Lambs

boonhet,

For real? I need to snatch me some KKK guys next time I play.

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