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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot, do games w History in the making.

Ever heard of SpaceWar? Hunt the Wumpus? Tennis for Two? Pong didn’t introduce violence to the world.

happybadger, do gaming w What's a good slow paced shooter game?
@happybadger@hexbear.net avatar

store.steampowered.com/app/393380/Squad/

This is my favourite shooter, based on the Battlefield 2 mod Project Reality. Everything feels, looks, and sounds realistic. Matches take several hours and have a lot of coordination between specialised squads. The maps are huge and detailed. I’ve played rounds where I only fire a couple bullets and like PUBG it’s so much more thrilling than an arcade shooter with nonstop action.

Moonguide,

Great rec. Teamwork required, easy to learn but hard to master (especially the vehicles, which also require teamwork).

Honestly squad is pretty strange for me. I’m not very fond of talking to people (SzPD at least, might be on the spectrum), but Squad does not work without teamwork and communication. Guess the difference is that I don’t really get casual communication but effective comms on Squad rely on briefness and exactness. Triple Ds, that kind of stuff.

If you do end up jumping into Squad, expect some hiccups. The game is not terribly well optimized, and the community almost always picks the same factions and divisions. The devs have shown off a UE5 upgrade that’ll be dropping in the near future, so that might be good.

In a similar vein, ArmA: Reforger is great. Completely replaced my Squad addiction. While Squad is more focused (which is good), ArmA is way more free and varied in objectives. Plus, I feel like it might be more easily moddable. WCS and RH feel almost like they were vanilla, while the most polished Squad mods feel like mods. Not a knock against the mod teams, maybe unreal is harder to mod.

happybadger,
@happybadger@hexbear.net avatar

Does the new ARMA have a more intuitive UI and control scheme than ARMA 2/3? That’s what keeps me from recommending it instead. Squad is much more streamlined in that regard without losing the depth, like comparing Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld.

Moonguide,

Oh yeah. They added contextual interaction promots. The closest thing I had played before reforger was DayZ though. But Reforger is very intuitive. Most everything can be done by looking at stuff and pressing F (entering cars, bandaging wounds, taking on and off attachments on weapons, etc.).

It’s a bit more complex than Squad in the things you can do, but the approach is much more simple (like, in Squad you press f1-8 to switch seats, in ArmA you can freelook and look at the seat).

dan1101,

It’s a large leap forward in UI, graphics, and performance.

Elevator7009, do games w [DCSS] I did it! I touched the Orb...

For curious onlookers like myself out of the loop, this is Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Best wishes OP

windowsphoneguy, do games w Suggestions for mouse only games?
@windowsphoneguy@feddit.org avatar

Into The Breach

LoreSoong, do games w Suggestions for mouse only games?

Every game can be mouse only with an mmo-mouse

Contentedness,

Haha good point, unfortunately I’ve also bruised right hand thumb so even if I still had mmo mouse I think it wouldn’t work that well. Good suggestion tho!

GreyCat, do games w Should we boycott games with loot boxes?

While I agree with the spirit of moat answers, I don’t think that the few of us boycotting such popular games will harm or affecg them at all. We are a very small minority.

However, I do think we can support a sustainable niche market of good and sensible games.

So I think a it’s a better use of anyone’s time to try and support good games than spend your energy on bad games.

moody,

More important than who you choose not to give your money to is who you do choose to give it to.

vegetvs, do games w People who call the PS1 'PSX' make me want to kill kittens
@vegetvs@kbin.earth avatar

I'm in the complete opposite side of this spectrum. I just feel apathy towards people who call the PSX "PS1", even though I am not sure if they're talking about the real PS One or just being ignorant.

over_clox,

The real PS was called the… PS

Where did this 1 and X shit come from?

vegetvs,
@vegetvs@kbin.earth avatar

Well, it came from... Sony, their creators!

PSX was the codename for the original model. It was spread even before it was launched. PS One was the PlayStation "Slim".

over_clox,

And the real PS was the one that had the parallel diagnostic port on the back, what’s ya point?

vegetvs,
@vegetvs@kbin.earth avatar

That's precisely the PSX.

over_clox,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

No shit. When it came out, it was most commonly abbreviated simply as PS.

Guess you weren’t around when the system and the games came out.

vegetvs,
@vegetvs@kbin.earth avatar

No and nope. Guess you weren't around when it came out.

over_clox,

I’m 42 years old and wrote DOS drivers for mice, joysticks, graphics and audio cards for hardware back in the day.

Oh yeah, check my comment history, I literally just dropped a modded port of Tomb Raider 1 for Debian Linux.

I’m old enough to have repaired three different original PlayStations in one night.

Riddle me this… How many screws hold together the optical assembly on an original PlayStation?

Bogusmcfakester,

This smacks of cringe insecurity

vegetvs,
@vegetvs@kbin.earth avatar

Be glad you already had mice then. I'm past 42, by the way. Probably older, if needed be. But 42 I can guarantee.

My DIY days happened a very long time ago, when parts meant capacitors, diodes, resistors and transistors. And the VCS was next gen.

But I can still remember them announcing the PSX in video-game magazines. Feels like yesterday.

LunarLoony,
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

As someone who was around when it was current, yes, everyone called it PSX.

thatKamGuy, (edited )

Blatantly stolen from r/PSX:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/fdb3a08e-bdcf-4c58-8108-46c3bab79c88.jpeg

Additional link to Imgur source, in case the above is compressed to hell:

This is something every PSX fan needs at least once in their life

vegetvs,
@vegetvs@kbin.earth avatar

I mean, really... absolutely nobody. /s

samus12345, do gaming w Spend money and consume!
Ghyste, do games w Day 264 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing

Who the hell downvotes these posts‽

I love the daily stories.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I had one person tell me that they feel like they’re too many daily so they’re blocking and downvoting. I’m not sure whether that applies to any of the other people. Only 3 people as far as I can remember have been vocal about downvoting

Ghyste,

That’s too bad. I really enjoy you talking through what you’re doing, and you play a lot of games I haven’t played yet. Keep it up, I say!

ieatpwns, do games w I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists?

So yall don’t just play anything on your steam deck? I have viewtiful Joe on my ps2 emulator And the entire gba library on an sd card

Korhaka, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Been on Linux for like 15 years now

zhyl,

You walked so our games would run 🫡

Rolive, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I’m already on Linux, gaming isn’t as good but I only play old games anyway so it doesn’t matter.

brysmi,
@brysmi@lemmy.world avatar

Fwiw, a great majority of my Steam library plays great in SteamOS.

Rolive,

Indeed. I use a steam deck primarily for gaming and it surprises me every day how well it performs.

PersnickityPenguin, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Linux doesn’t support VR.

TroublesomeTalker,

ALVR isn’t awful. I needed new hardware and bit the bullet knowing I was likely going to lose VR, but with the hardware upgrade, it’s nicer in the new machine (Bazzite, 7900XT) than the old (Win 10, 2080 Super Max Q). Definitely not a drop in replacement yet though.

AppleTea,

steamVR works on it

of course, the only good VR game is Alyx and once you finish that it’s only tech demos and chat rooms - nothing else really worth the bother of strapping a monitor to your face.

RememberTheApollo_, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world avatar

Not gonna upgrade.

Have already had Linux for decades.

Linux still can’t handle anticheats for the games I play, so primarily on Windows I stay.

DaseinPickle, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

I moved back to Linux and it works wonderfully. Except for HDR. That require a bit of tinkering. And there is no good way of getting it to work in any Linux browser, except for some very clunky workarounds. Hopefully that will be fixed.

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