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AnIntenseMoist, do games w What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?

Never should’ve come here.

inlandempire,
@inlandempire@jlai.lu avatar

Citizen.

SnotFlickerman, do games w Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone?

Bioshock Infinite - Elizabeth as a constant companion is a big theme in the game.

Beyond Good and Evil - A lot of great supporting cast like Pey’j.

Baldur’s Gate 3 - Massive emphasis on the relationships you have with your companions.

Brutal Legend - A quasi-RTS where caring for your bandmates and roadies is the only way to win.

Disco Elysium - Kim Kitsuragi, enough said.

Firewatch - Story driven rooted in character relationships, about being alone but trying to stay connected.

Hi-Fi Rush - Great cast of characters who are heavily involved with story and often around or talking to you.

Just Cause 3 - Probably the best in the series, for threading the comedy/action needle and giving you characters that are really lovable.

Katamari Damacy - Feel the love of the King of All Cosmos!

Life is Strange - Rooted entirely around your relationships with close friends and classmates.

Mad Max - Your own personal Gollum!

Nier Automata - You’ll always have your PODs.

Portal 2 - Wheatley will keep you good company.

Psychonauts / Psychonauts 2 - How can you be lonely when you’re inside someone else’s mind?

SkateBIRD - Make friends with birds!

Terraria - There’s always some new villager to find.

dual_sport_dork, (edited )
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Katamari Damacy

Which typically culminates in rolling up everyone on Earth by the time you get to the final stage, no less. If that’s not a group hug, I don’t know what is.

Edit: I’m also going to second the Psychonauts recommendation, especially the second game. Despite the gameplay itself inevitably lending itself to the protagonist performing every little bit of work by himself, there are strong themes of teamwork all throughout the game’s story and the excellence of its final sequence cannot be understated:

Ding dong.

Whale-O-Gram.

SnotFlickerman,

I wanna wad you up into my life / Let’s roll up to be a single star in the sky

Such a killer fucking happy/upbeat soundtrack, too.

SnotFlickerman,

To your edit, similarly the final sequence of Nier Automata is so deeply rooted in not being alone, and encouraging one another, and being there for one another. A chance to break the cycle.

If I recall correctly, Yoko Taro had said he had been somewhat inspire by this Coca-cola campaign the “Small World Machines.”

classic,

Excellent list. I was wondering if BG3 was too obvious a suggestion, but it fits the bill, right?

Edit: maybe some of the Yakuza games would work?

B0NK3RS,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

Psychonauts didn’t come to mind but it’s actually a really good suggestion.

corvett,

I felt oddly alone in Psychonauts, though.

Also, is your PFP yellowboze?

B0NK3RS,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

is your PFP yellowboze?

Yes it is.

I can see why you felt that but all the characters in both games are so wonderful that to me it was the opposite feeling.

Davel23,

Mad Max - Your own personal Gollum!

Fun fact: Chumbucket has a bit part in Furiosa.

SnotFlickerman,

That’s a neat fun fact I didn’t know, thanks! Looking it up now.

IchNichtenLichten,
@IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world avatar

Firewatch - Story driven rooted in character relationships, about being alone but trying to stay connected.

My pick as well. It’s well written with a nice relationship at its center.

Kolanaki, do games w Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing?
!deleted6508 avatar

The PC side of this is not all that bad, outside of EA and Ubisoft.

Meanwhile, Nintendo doesn’t even have sales. Games that launched with the switch are still $60-70.

elvith,

Nintendo in my experience:

Physical: Get it right on release day (or in the first week after) in retail for about 40€, otherwise you will have to rely on rare good retail discounts to get it below 55€

Digital: Don’t you even dare to think about discounts

PieMePlenty,

I don’t know how to feel about Nintendo pricing. On one hand, all of their games keep their value long after release, but that also means they are hard to get cheaply. I know when I sold my 8 3DS games a few years ago, I made about 230 eur which was pretty good for some used games. I dont play their games anymore but I’m not sure I’d even want to now since they never drop in price.

Anivia,

Yes, because the only people buying Nintendo Switch games are the ones who don’t care about the price in the first place. If you want to save money on switch games you just pirate them

Paradachshund,

I haven’t owned a Nintendo console for many years now because I kept waiting for the cost to go down (it never has).

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov,

Nintendo does have sales from time to time, they’re just rarely great discounts. If you have a switch and you wishlist games they will email you if your wishlisted game goes on sale.

obinice, do games w Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

You can make any graph look bad if you control the axis bounds weirdly like this.

Not that I have good things to say about ubisoft, but at a glance one would assume their stock value plummeted to zero, which is not the case.

HeavyRaptor,

This was also my initial take but look at these graphs with the Y axis starting from 0 https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/22781696-3e59-4fe8-9b47-37104417e22a.webphttps://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/d84502e1-edde-45bc-8263-80b5a004c2a1.webpStock lost 67% value in the last year alone, and lost 85% in the past 5 years. Looks pretty dire to me. I would say this is undervalued but I have no confidence in the ubi leadership to turn it around.

Croquette,

Might be that the CEO and upper management are dumb fucks running the company to the ground.

No more innovation, just microtransactions in shitty games, and the same old rehashed concepts.

omarfw,

I saw an anecdote from someone who used to work there and they said their infrastructure and resources were outdated as hell. Basically zero support or investment from leadership. Those corpos are intentionally just trying to milk them and the customers dry before total collapse or a buyout.

trolololol,

You can make 20% drops in value look harmless if you flatten the graph enough

thingsiplay, (edited ) do gaming w TIL I can restore games on Steam, which I removed years ago

Yes, removed games are not really removed, just hidden. And for the reader here, we are not talking about hiding in the client. If you go to support page of game at help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithGame and click “I want to permanently remove this game from my account”, then its like you wouldn’t own the game anymore.

Not many know you can go to same page and restore the license. It’s noted that you get the same license of game than before, not a new license. I don’t know why Steam has the permanent removal, if its not permanent at all. But now you know; you can restore. And that is what the user in this post is talking about.

Edit: I thought about why that maybe. It makes sense to keep the license bound to an account, so the key cannot be activated again by someone else. Otherwise people could sell their activated keys like that.

Tarogar,

There are reasons for why that is possible, for better or worse.

To reverse malicious actions that may have been taken by other people that got access to the account for any reason for example.

There may even be legal reasons for why that is the case. Licensing law can be quite complicated.

And then there is the fact that if it’s hidden it’s effectively gone anyways and that may actually be what people actually care about. Not whether or not they technically still have that game or not. People wanting a clean library is a thing and it ties into the concept that is the right to be forgotten.

CommanderCloon, (edited )

Also, even if it was permanent, it would still be something like a permanently_removed set to TRUE in a database. License keys probably are one of those things no company truly ever deletes from their records.

Tarogar,

Yet… Ubisoft did go and “remove” the keys for the crew when they shut that one down. No one but them can really say if they actually deleted them or not. though I have my doubts with how that company has acted in recent years.

averyminya,

I feel like the main reason would be money laundering prevention. It’s slightly harder to create new accounts than it would be to have one account repeatedly buy, remove, and repeat for new licenses.

DarkThoughts, do gaming w I typically avoid online games but this is why I'm fine with it in Elden Ring

The main purpose of the online feature is so that other people can invade your games to gank you. For me that's the epitome of games to avoid.

ShinkanTrain,

I think people straight up can’t invade you in ER if you aren’t either doing multiplayer or used the “I want invaders” item.

entropicdrift,
!deleted5697 avatar

Yeah, no. The main point of the multi-player is to get help from allies. It’s only if you get that help that anyone can invade your game in Elden Ring

Sas,

Literally not, how Elden Ring multiplayer works.

  1. You can’t invade solo host unless they specifically use an item for it
  2. If you are coop you open yourself up for invasions and since a session has a 4 player limit you’re always either in the majority (aka ganking) or on even grounds if you decide to only summon 1 friend and let the invader live long enough for another to show up. If you invade you are pretty much always going to be in a 1v3 situation.
Blaster_M, (edited ) do games w Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before

Sulphur Nimbus: Hel’s Elixir, a $6 (currently) game on itch.io. It started from the idea of an MLP fangame, but early in development evolved into an original setting.

This is a 3D physics platformer adventure with an unhindered flying character. Your hippogriff, Sulphur Nimbus, is an aerial photographer aboard a cargo ship, which is passing a mysterious atoll on the way to their destination. The crew want you to get pictures of the island, which has a castle that’s been abandoned for decades. Unfortunately, after flying over there, a nasty storm builds up and you get zapped by lightning. After a flashback tutorial on how to fly, you wake up on the island shores, your wing is injured, and you have to run to safety, finding out this place is dangerous… so dangerous a resident dogicorn (like a hippogriff, but it’s half dog and half unicorn instead of half bird half pony) has to rescue you when a lovecraftian horror tries to take you down into presumably Hel. Waking up in a castle room, your wing is healed, and you can fly again.

Now the game begins. Clear the boss monsters and rout them out of this island, area by area. Break the curse that binds you to this island. Find out what happened here.

What’s unique about Sulphur Nimbus is the movement. Running, fighting, and jumping has physics to it, allowing for some parkour stuff to be possible, like running up steep inclines and wall jumping. Flight is realistic. There are no arbitrary limitations, other than a regenerating “flap” stamina. If you can get enough speed to take off, and if there’s enough room to maneuver, you can fly. Level designs include lots of caves and enclosed spaces, but also lots of open areas, so being able to fly is a requirement to get through it, while also a challenge. While the game is designed for kb and mouse controls, honestly, a gamepad works very well with this game and is preferred. It also is cross platform, as it is made in java, and includes Windows, Mac, and Linux. The source code is on sourceforge and allows you to build the whole game yourself if you are so inclined.

There’s no other platforming adventure game that attempts this, and I have tried every “become birb” game out there. They all are either bird simulators or use flight as a fast travel, but not as a core gameplay mechanic like this.

Aviandelight, do games w Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before
@Aviandelight@mander.xyz avatar

Maize, a point and click/walking simulator/puzzle game about a secret military project to create sentient corn. Quite possibly the silliest game I’ve ever played.

ByteOnBikes,

Link doesn’t seem to work for me because the parentheses breaks the link.

Here’s the steam link for anyone else

Aviandelight,
@Aviandelight@mander.xyz avatar

That’s weird. The link should be to the Wikipedia entry but thanks for making a steam link too!

all-knight-party, do games w Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before
@all-knight-party@fedia.io avatar

Voices of the Void a free (likely while it's in pre-alpha) light simulational game about receiving outer space signals and recording them to sell. You use the currency to clean up, upgrade, and decorate your small facility while moving around the Swiss forest valley you're in to repair and upkeep the satellite dishes that make the operation function.

It sounds very purely simulational, but there are a lot of secrets and interesting signals that are more than signals. It's also an Unreal engine game, but features a lot of Source engine love, for example the art style is reminiscent of Half-Life 1, all of the sound effects are EXTREMELY Source game nostalgic, and there's crouch jumping.

mariusafa,

Goated game. I enjoyed so much and it has tons of replayablity.

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

Avorion - In which you command and build a spaceship designed by yourself (or others on the internet). Soon you have AIs you command and space stations you own. The game allows you to lean as much or as little as you want into the fleet command and economy aspects. If you want, you can just pilot one big-ass ship and do it all alone.

subignition,
@subignition@fedia.io avatar

I had a good amount of fun with this game, it's a shame I have to downvote it. It was a little difficult to get into at first, but I stuck with it and had a lot of fun. I chose to develop a big-ass ship like you speak of and eventually became a lumpy Death Star knockoff.

AdNecrias,

Oh no, avorion is getting down votes!

BombOmOm,
@BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

Seems it is better known than I thought!

wcSyndrome, (edited ) do games w What games popularized certain mechanics?

Maybe cheating a bit but there are several genres of games that are named after the games that popularized their mechanics such as roguelike/roguelite, souls-like, metroidvania

sonori, do gaming w What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to?
@sonori@beehaw.org avatar

Minecraft, you can only pretend to have gotten away for so long before the block game calls again.

blackluster117,
@blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

They have bees now!

navi,
@navi@lemmy.tespia.org avatar

We play it HARD a few weekends a year. So amazing to get lost in a new world every now and then.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

One thing I’ve gotten into doing is instead of starting a new game I just run off in some random direction for an hour. It’s neat to stumble across things you built years ago

I definitely get what you mean

echo64, do games w What are the best Samurai period games?

If you’re looking for a samurai game, rather than a samurai themed game. Then there’s really no question, it’s Ghosts of Tsushima. It’s the closest thing we’ll likely ever have to a Akira Kurosawa game.

JoeKrogan,
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

And its coming to PC in may. Its on steam to wishlist for those who dont know

technomad,

Thanks for the heads up! Super excited to get back into this one!

Daxtron2,

It’s also got a Kurosawa mode for that extra mid century Japanese movie feel

Zahille7, do games w What games do you recommend for my girlfriend?

Any “cozy” game. Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, others like those.

One that I personally really like, that sort of blends different aspects of AC and SV, is Paleo Pines. You have a ranch that you little by little clear out, fix up, and decorate; all with the help of adorable dinosaur friends. There’s actually a surprising number of species and map space in the game, and the vibe and aesthetic are ridiculously cute. I will say it’s slightly more laid back than SV as there are no real timers for the different quests and such, and there are fewer characters to keep track of/befriend.

theskyisfalling, do gaming w Who, in your opinion, is the most annoying character in any game?

Fucking Claptrap…

Helix,
@Helix@feddit.de avatar

Naaaaw, I love him! He’s just a misunderstood ADHD robot without friends. Cut him some slack!

Did you play his sidequest with getting people to come to his birthday party in Borderlands 2?

I actually named my home server claptrap. My desktop is chappie (from the movie of the same name, with another anthro robot).

bionicjoey,

Wdym “another”? Claptrap isn’t an anthro robot lol. He’s a trash can with feet for hands (and I love him)

theskyisfalling,

I did, I played all the borderlands until the third (which I just couldn’t put up with) multiple times and he just annoyed the piss out of me constantly xD

restingboredface,

I agree, but I do think that is kind of the point with him.

I do not get every other character’s willingness to overlook it and treat him like just another quirky member of the gang. I mean, Tanisha has no social skills but she’s at least clever and has some clear utility to the Raiders.

theskyisfalling,

I realise that is the point, doesn’t make it any less annoying though!

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