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storksforlegs, do gaming w I watched 2 hours of starfield gameplay and an hour of review
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

People are getting pretty spicy with the responses. OP was just underwhelmed by a game getting a lot of hype. Like lots of people are going to like it, but not everyone. I think theyre just trying to generate discussion, not say “everyone who likes starfield is an CHUMP!!” or something.

sexy_peach,
@sexy_peach@feddit.de avatar

haha thanks yeah I just shared my thoughts, but this is the internet after all ;)

BentiGorlich, do gaming w What's a good game you played with an awful tutorial?
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

All Paradox Interactive games ever created 😂
The worst I had was Hearts Of Iron IV. I played a 2h tutorial only to not understand a single thing the real game threw at me afterwards...

EvaUnit02,
@EvaUnit02@kbin.social avatar

I adore those games, and while I think they've made great strides with CKIII and Vicky 3, I agree that the tutorials are severely lacking.

Uncle_Bagel,

You gotta just start with an easy country. The CK2 community used to call Ireland “Tutorial Island” since it was low key and a good place to learn the mechanics, same with Spain in EU, or Belgium in Vicky.

VentraSqwal,

About what Hearts of Iron? I tried that game once (3 or 4, don’t remember) and basically gave up when the tutorial ended and I still had no idea how to do anything.

BentiGorlich,
@BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de avatar

Don't get me wrong, I love most of them, but the learning curve is very steep and the tutorials in most of their games just suck...

alchemy88,
@alchemy88@lemmy.team avatar

This I agree with. Stellaris is very confusing starting out and such a huge learning curve the tutorial just doesn’t cover.

Rinnarrae, (edited )
@Rinnarrae@beehaw.org avatar

It’s not nearly as complex as it initially looks imo, but I also play with a million mods some of which make the game needlessly complicated so maybe the vanilla game just looks simple in comparison to me now lol

CrateDane,

Stellaris is far from the worst offender, and yet you’re still entirely right.

soulsource,
@soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Also, the tutorial has suffered bitrot quite a lot. The game has seen many significant changes since release, but the tuturial was only partially updated to reflect them.

alchemy88,
@alchemy88@lemmy.team avatar

Yeah I think this is a big one for me.

I come back after a major patch or every 6 months and its all changed again! Which is good as it keeps it fresh, but the tutorial is very lacking on the changes.

AdellcomdoisL,

Some Paradox games literally teach you how to play wrong, CKII being an example IIRC

sapo,
@sapo@beehaw.org avatar

Thank god that’s changing tho. CK3 and (though to a lesser extent) Vicky 3 both have relatively decent tutorials.

Helldiver_M,

The imbeded tooltips are a real godsend. I have no idea how I would wrap my head around Vicky 3 otherwise. The tutorial is still worthless tho.

Plibbert,

I still don’t know how to play hearts of iron IV. I’d love to learn but I’m a trial by fire learner. It’s really hard for me to make it through a 2hr YouTube tutorial with monotonous robot voices.

dawnerd, do gaming w What are some game genres / styles you like that aren't being made anymore, or are being mde but not very often?
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Sim games. Not THE sims but like SimTower, SimAnt, etc. There’s been some attempts over the years but everyones missed the mark.

jsomae, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

How about let’s all not talk or make angry memes about the guy. Ross requested that he not be harassed. Something about not wanting negative energy.

Randomgal,

It’s not about Ross, it’s about sending a message.

TheGreenWizard,

I doubt he’ll ever use Lemmy to be honest, but I get what you mean.

jsomae,

Since what happens on Lemmy stays on Lemmy, I guess it must be fine.

TheGreenWizard,

I said I get what you mean.

DreamlandLividity,

I’m not gonna go out of my way to review bomb his game or send him messages or at him on twitter. But I am not gonna stop calling him a narcisistic idiot whenever the topic comes up. People should know. That is not harassment, that is countering misinformation, at least IMO. A meme like this is not harassment in my book either. He is a public figure.

bilb,
@bilb@lemmy.ml avatar

Ross is not my dad

jsomae,

yeah but he’s a daddy tho 😘

mriswith,

One of the big reasons many people are “okay” with making fun of him. Is that he could basically make it all go away if he just admitted he was wrong.

The whole thing stems from him being so full of himself that he cannot admit any fault, ever. He has been objectively proven wrong many times on several different topics, there are a lot of situations that heavily indicate misconduct, etc. And he literally went on a stream with a licensed psychiatrist who tried to explain some of his faults. To which he laughed and said “Okay, don’t see it that way, but alright”.

At the end of the day, he seems almost incapable of admitting that he ever did or said anything wrong. So people keep making fun of him, since he’s objectively proven wrong repeatedly.

waggz,

If you’re not familiar with it, check out his classic wow hardcore drama. He’s absolutely incapable of admitting any fault. And he and his mods just ban anyone immediately if they try to have a discussion.

esc27, do gaming w Can't relate. *Kills Arabella*

There was a moment in my evil playthrough of fallout 3 where I robbed a man’s house, killed him in his sleep, ate him, then slept in his bed. After a moment of clarity, I closed the game and never played that save again.

Nurse_Robot,

I didn’t realize post cannibalism clarity was a thing

ouch, do gaming w Some slight regret

I hope WINEPREFIX is thick enough for a condom.

nesc,

I think wine maps at least your home directory into prefix, so your data would be in danger.

baguettefish,

yup, home (or was it root actually?) is commonly mapped to the Z: drive, and it’s writeable too. Wine isn’t meant to be a security layer.

DarkDarkHouse,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Wine, in Bottles, in Flatpak. Worst IKEA experience I’ve had.

baguettefish,

is that some kind of newfangled swedish fetish?

MTK,

Now say it with me, WINE IS MALWARE COMPATIBLE

SkaveRat,

Run wine with sudo. Yolo

OmegaLemmy,
@OmegaLemmy@discuss.online avatar

Not if I don’t give it access to my Linux files

MTK,

Not exactly true but for simple malware yeah

Aceticon, (edited )

Windows applications can still access the Linux functionality when running under Wine, though of course that has to have been purposefully coded in.

However you can run wine itself inside something like firejail to properly sandbox the whole thing - I have Lutris in my Linux gaming machine configured to do just that for all games by default (my firejail config even blocks networking).

ouch,

How do you configure that by default?

Aceticon,

There is a launch configuration option under each game (under System Options tabs, if I’m not mistaken) called “command prefix” were you can put the firejail stuff (so if you put just “firejail -someoption” there your game gets launched with, for example “firejail -someoption wine …”) or whatever other sandboxing command you want to use (such as bubblewrap).

In the main Lutris options, there’s a section with the default values for all those launch options for games, so if you put it in the “command prefix” there, all games get launched with that command prefix unless you override it in that game’s launch options (so, for example, if you’re blocking networking for all games but want to run a game for multiplayer over the net, you override the sandboxing wrapper options in that game’s launch options specifically, which won’t affect any other game).

MonkderVierte,

There’s a Bubblewrap wrapper for wine: github.com/hartwork/sandwine

fxomt, do games w Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months
TragicNotCute, do gaming w Now this is gaming
@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

You just know the teen rating is because they are chugging sherry the entire game.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world avatar

It’s the healing potion, for sure.

Remember_the_tooth,

I’ll drink fino from the fridge. It seemed strange that he’d sip on amontiado straight up from a decanter. I don’t know a lot about wine, though.

Remember_the_tooth,

That and some of Roz’s and Martin’s more colorful dialog.

aeronmelon,

Rated T for Britishisms.

Remember_the_tooth,

Frasier: Is Dad home?

Daphne: Nope, I haven’t seen him since he knocked me up early this morning.

Frasier: [putting his coat up, slows and turns.]

Frasier: What?

Daphne: Knocked me up. Woke me up. It’s an English expression. What does it mean here?

Frasier: Oh, something else. You’d definitely be awake for it, though.

archonet,

fun fact: this expression comes from the time before alarm clocks (or clocks in general), where towns had someone whose job it was to go round the town and knock on windows and doors in the morning, waking people up. Knocker-uppers.

Remember_the_tooth,

They would also wait for the men to leave for work and then attempt to seduce the women who stayed behind. It lead to a lot of contention from the resultant pregnancies. This angered a lot of men and women who left for the new world. This is why Americans use the phase to mean something related but functionally different. I made all of that up, but thank you for citing an actual historical fact that added context to my previous comment.

DogPeePoo,

I thought maybe it had to do with the racy theme song about “tossing salads” and “scrambled eggs”

Remember_the_tooth,

If I remember correctly, he tossed so many salads that he didn’t know what to do with them afterward.

DogPeePoo,

They’re calling again

Remember_the_tooth,

These thirty, thicc, thirsty thots thralled by thoughtful, theatrical therapist.

kadup, do games w Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer he have simulate the performance on a similar PC
@kadup@lemmy.world avatar

Around the same as the Steam Deck when portable, but with access to significantly better upscaling.

Such a shame FSR looks so terrible, the Steam Deck would otherwise hold up much better against it.

I’m still not going to buy one and only use my Deck though.

echodot,

So there really is no excuse for the new Pokemon games to look so terrible.

bungle_in_the_jungle,

There never was a good excuse other than greed and the fact that everyone keeps blindly throwing their money at them anyway.

Elevator7009,

As a !pokemon fan I didn’t buy for these reasons but that doesn’t stop hordes of parents or certain fans from buying anyways. If they’re happy, I guess… meanwhile I’ll be fine as long as they don’t go after ROM hacks.

fishy,

Rom hacks can be so good, but why can’t we move past hm’s??

fishy,

From what I’ve heard a lot of the same og programmers and animators from the game boy days are still in charge of making the games and they don’t want a large team. They also don’t want to have to work really hard or learn new skills, so basically all the work falls to inexperienced people being led by people with incredibly dated skills. Nintendo still rakes in tons of money so they don’t see the need to interject.

KindaABigDyl, do games w Rust's new jungle update has finally brought me back to it.
@KindaABigDyl@programming.dev avatar

I thought this was a post about the Rust programming language at first, and I was really confused

simple,

The opposite used to happen way more back in the day. People would go into /r/rust and talk about the game.

sugar_in_your_tea,

To be fair, things tend to get rusty in the jungle.

ImplyingImplications, do games w Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?

You can always request a refund while outside the 2 hour limit, it’s just going to be manually reviewed instead of automatic.

The time limit is arbitrary. There are lots of games that can be finished within a few hours. I’ve heard some devs say their short games are refunded at much higher rates than longer ones and recommend ensuring a game is at least 2 hours long. It’s like YouTube paying more money to creators who make videos that are 10min+. Now you have videos that could have been 2 minutes stretched out for meta reasons.

I doubt Blue Prince specifically tries to hide game mechanics for 2 hours to prevent people from refunding it. It’s just a slow burn puzzle game.

SoloCritical,

This is the answer… the 2 hour “limit” is just the window in which it will almost certainly be automatically refunded… anything more than that 2 hour limit and they will actually look into your reason why… I’ve refunded games over the 2 hour limit for reasons like “game isn’t what I thought it would be” or “just not very fun” and I’ve never been turned down over it.

MajesticElevator,

Most of my requests after 2 hours or 14 days have been denied

jewbacca117, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Starting to plan my next build and will likely go full Linux

cannedtuna,

Same. I just gotta figure out what distro I want to run. Nobara, Bazzite, Mint, Zorin, Kubuntu, idk. I get analysis paralysis. I’ve run Ubuntu, Fedora, and even tried Arch once, but it’s been a long while since I’ve been full Linux. I’m definitely done with Windows tho (at least outside of work, but I can’t control that).

Cethin,

I’m using Garuda and it has a setup specifically for gaming. The gamer look it comes with out of the box is ugly in my opinion, but that’s easy to change.I highly recommend it. It’s Arch based, so the AUR and Arch wiki work great with it. It’s really great and (in my opinion) user friendly.

jewbacca117,

Awesome, thank you for the recommendation! I’ve been wanting to try out Arch on my laptop but I don’t have as much time on my hands as I used to. Have been reading that POP OS is good for gaming but I will definitely do some reading on Garuda.

Cethin,

Garuda is great because it comes with a tool where you can select a bunch of packages you may need (but also most won’t, so it’s not built in), then it’ll install them for you. You don’t need to search for what you’ll need because they’re listed with a description for you right on the first boot. It makes it very quick and easy to get set up, while still being Arch underneath.

andros_rex, (edited ) do games w Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

I play heavily modded Elder Scrolls, where my character never touches the main story.

My favorite Morrowind run was a princess who ended up creating an agricultural baron, buying up every plantation and owning probably hundreds of slaves. She also got into the skooma business on the side (needed money for all of her dresses). Morrowind had a ton of wacky mods that were just fun to play in general - people made Star Wars and LOTR questlines. There’s also the work of Tommy Khajiit (RIP), which is something unique and which has never gotten the respect it deserved. (Or Lady Rae - she liked to recolor the game bright neon colors, and basically got bullied out of the modding community.)

Skyrim is a hunting/vagrant simulator for me. I usually play a Dunmer refugee and avoid the in-game quests entirely. Survival and economy mods to make the focus of the gameplay getting enough gold to afford a room for the night, tweaks to loot to make things more “mundane.”

The Sims for me is either 1800s Utah polygamous Mormons, post apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale scenarios, or prisons.

Elevator7009,

I always like to see people who go all in on the roleplaying in RPGs.

I do wish people would leave mods that aren’t for them alone. There are a bunch of mods extremely not to my taste that I just scroll past instead of intentionally clicking to tell the mod author just how much it is not to my taste and that they should not have made it because I am uninterested in the content.

andros_rex,

Modding is a really under appreciated art form.

Downloading unhinged Morrowind mods in the mid naughts exposed me to new franchises, music, ideas… Like this banger, which plays at some point in the Underground 2 along with this one. (btw, Dawnguard is Emil or whoever wrote it ripping off story beats from a 20 year old Morrowind mod based on the Underworld series lol - play both and don’t tell me that the Soul Cairn sequence isn’t inspired…)

SendMePhotos,

I’m not into mods but if I remember right, isn’t Lady Rae the one who left the modding community and started making music?

andros_rex,

Did she make music? Holy shit - if you have a link I’ve been trying to figure out what happened to her for years. She’s genuinely a major inspiration for my painting and art.

SendMePhotos,

Took some digging and I was incorrect. I was thinking of another modder.

Kukielle went from Skyrim mods to music: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwchfbSVSfmpLMGe1fhE0w

gamesradar.com/…/it-makes-me-sick-popular-skyrim-…

mojofrododojo,
@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world avatar

The Sims for me is either 1800s Utah polygamous Mormons, post apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale scenarios, or prisons.

lolwtf

andros_rex,

The prison mod is great for running the “re education” camps in the Handmaid’s Tale scenarios. I usually rezone all of the lots in Downtown to residential, and then explode a series of bombs across them (+ enhance with some assets ripped from the Fallout games). Occasionally I add in a zombie apocalypse to shake it up.

My Utah Mormons I play out the generation after they moved from Nauvoo. Clothing is period accurate, as much as possible. The goal is to populate an empty map, and find something to do with all of the extra men (wars, Indian raids…)

When I was ten and playing the original Sims, it was Roman families with historically accurate slavery (minus the sex stuff.)

Elevator7009,

then explode a series of bombs across them

Have not played The Sims in a hot minute, is this a mod? I don’t remember being able to do this.

ArtificialHoldings,
@ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world avatar

I thought that was the Sims intended playstyle? You mean to tell me the developer didn’t intend for me to make a family of 8 of my friends, then trap them in a house until each of them dies one-by-one Hunger Games style? Then build a glorious mansion for the final one?

andros_rex,

Will Wright after seeing everything he owned in ashes after a series of major wildfires in the Palisades: “what if I made a virtual dollhouse for people to explore sexual and violent fantasies that would make Freud say, ‘no, that’s too much.’”

Elevator7009,

I get the tone is jokey but I wasn’t sure if that was a hypothetical alternate universe proposition with a different Will Wright, or something that happened in real life, so I looked up the wildfire thing.

Wright’s house was caught in the Oakland Hills firestorm.

Rebuilding his life, and having to reacquire so many of his basic possessions, fed into the idea for The Sims.

www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/…/ar-AA1yqxwx

Yep, real life and not just hypothetical, ouch.

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

BG3 has great voice acting, but I don’t really think it’s that far beyond any other games. As a personal example, Cherami Leigh as Female V in Cyberpunk 2077 is probably my favorite voice actor in the last several years, even if BG3 is probably my favorite game in that same time.

justsquigglez,
@justsquigglez@lemm.ee avatar

Dude Cherami Leigh also voiced my favorite gaming character, Gaige the Mechromancer from Borderlands 2. She’s fucking phenomenal.

It’s a bummer none of the echo logs made it into the game, but they’re still great. The fact that she cuts her arm, and then instead of patching it up, she just slices her arm clean off and then builds a mecha arm WHILE she’s bleeding out is so fuckin hardcore. I love it

duchess,

Cherami Leigh did a great job, but the script was sometimes such a cringefest, ugh.

MarcomachtKuchen, do games w Upscaling is actually good (as an option)

Upskaling is a fabolous technology and the split that quality needs to do between hardware upgrades and software support. Overall the existence of the technology is definitly a positive one.

However people are worried about a development that we are already seeing where games are just not efficient with their resources and require way to much computing power. People are afraid studios will decrease the amount of work they put into optimising because they feel like Upskaling will solve all perfomance problems for them. But optimisation needs to happen on both parts. That’s what people are afraid of.

unknown1234_5,

ofc optimization is still needed, I meant that upscaling improves the maximum you could reasonably get out of your hardware. I'd also like to see actual low options come back bc it's really annoying not being able to turn the graphics down anymore.

MarcomachtKuchen,

I think the greatest growth for me is realising how good “high” or “medium” presets are nowadays. There is a lot of FOMO on missing the best (looking) experience, but IMO modern medium settings are stunning. I was watching a graphics comparison of Kingdom Come 2 and the improvements from “ultra” were so miniscule. The jump from “low” to “medium” to as incredible tho.

dormedas, (edited )

I’m a game developer and I will 100% confirm that studios have already started and will continue assuming the user has DLSS/FSR/XeSS enabled because it turns out rendering half as many pixels can get you across the finish line.

It was already fairly standard practice to try as hard as you can for performance, and when that fails to bring you good performance at native resolution, just cut some resolution (for example, to 900p from 1080p).

However, I do want to add that DLSS/FSR/XeSS is great technology for the low end of the market who can’t afford insane rigs but do get to have a slightly sharper image than previous upscalers could accomplish.

ZeroHora,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

Look at the release of Rise of the Ronin for PC, the game has a huge CPU bottleneck, poor performance around big cities, looks like the game render stuff that shouldn’t be rendered. The last patch they released? “Graphics mode”…

unknown1234_5,

yeah I wish there was more optimization, but upscaling is still an awesome tool to get extra capability out of older hardware

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