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Kolanaki, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?
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Dark Souls (any) and Bloodborne.

The others don’t pass muster because they do have some insane difficulty spikes. These don’t, really. Smough & Ornstein is really the only spike I can think of in the entire DS series and BB actually felt pretty even through the whole game.

Grinding isn’t necessary and there is essentially zero fluff in all of them, tho.

nova, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

If you liked Life is Strange, I strongly recommend Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. Made by the same team.

RickyRigatoni, do games w Day 346 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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FUCK GNOMES

MyNameIsAtticus,
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Me and my friend got to the mines and i said “It’s just Gnomes, how bad can they be?”. Turns out my friend wasn’t exaggerating

Flagstaff, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?
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Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.

Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you’ve gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I’ve beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.

callouscomic, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

This is why I sometimes enjoy Ubisoft trash. Especially Ghost Recon Wildlands and Breakpoint. Just the same old shit on a massive map, an okay story, fun gameplay. Easy. Simple. Nice for mindless bullshit.

For an RPG, try Kingdoms of Amalur Re-reckoning.

mic_check_one_two,

Yeah, Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry are great “no difficulty curve” games. Just the same shit on a massive map.

ISolox, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

This is probably not to place to ask about getting a Nintendo console. Most people here are hardcore pc. (which is fine, but definitely biased).

My personal recommendation is this:

Do you want to play new Nintendo games? Get a switch 2.

Want to older Nintendo games and multiplats? Get a steamdeck.

Goretantath, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

Get a steamdeck and wait for the emulator.

iAmTheTot,

I love my steamdeck but I would not exactly recommend it to someone asking for a family gaming console.

Carmakazi, do games w Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...

I haven’t powered on my switch in years, but when I used it, 99% of the time it was docked with a TV, so the battery life and screen didn’t matter to me. I would think that’s the best setup for family gaming anyway.

The cartridge/download code is a step down in ownership of your games, but that’s been a lost battle for years. Steam is widely seen as the standard for gaming, and you are only buying a conditional license when you buy a game on that platform, you don’t own those either. This change only really matters if you, personally, rip games from disks/cartridges.

Uff, do games w What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?

Dragon Age, the first one.

Maestro,

Yes, Origins is by far my favourite of the series

Tattorack, do gaming w Did you even try?
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That’s a lot of effort put into getting a console with little value. Maybe wait till after it’s hacked in… Oh… Like three years or something.

frenchfryenjoyer,
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Yeah imma wait until Ryujinx 2 comes out lol

Tattorack,
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Probably won’t ever get a Ryujinx 2. I’d keep an eye out on Torzu.

However, the system will have to be hacked and decrypted first, but as of right now no real vulnerability has been discovered.

Robust_Mirror,

I mean the easiest switch to hack is the release day switch. And this is a pretty common pattern across all consoles including playstation and xbox. Generally the earlier hardware+earlier firmware will give you the best chance.

Tattorack, (edited )
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Yes, that’s why some over at GBATemp aren’t updating their switch and poking at it. But it’ll still take a while, and “while” is measured in years usually.

There’s a good chance that those with banned switches will be more motivated to find vulnerabilities in the system. Or give their banned switches to those that like finding vulnerabilities.

Also, just because some vulnerabilities are found, doesn’t mean that piracy is a guarantee; there was some drama with the 3DS, and then later with the Switch 1, with the people who found vulnerabilities and built hacks not wanting their work to be used for piracy. Piracy only started becoming a thing, then, when other parties replicated (or surpassed) the original hacks and made it available for piracy. This caused some of the hackers to to leave (I think one of them was RXTools. Luma3D far surpassed RXTools).

Robust_Mirror,

My point is, usually the launch model has the most value, often costing a premium even in the second hand market.

Vince, do gaming w Did you even try?

Haven’t checked since launch, is it still hard to find?

beben_egg,

Just picked one up from gamestop, and it was the only one available from any store within the last two weeks in a 50 mile radius.

Vince,

Sounds like I’ll still be waiting then, thanks.

FinalRemix,

The systems weren’t hard to find on day 1. The overpriced accessories were all sold out, though.

Dagnet, do gaming w [Lvl2Frog] Tips and Tricks

Most underrated power the dragonborn has is to be able to stop time indefinitely to eat, drink and swap gear as he wishes

SolidShake, 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)

Wow, so that won’t do anything.

ProdigalFrog, (edited )

Very insightful. Thank you for your wisdom.

SolidShake,

You are welcome good sir 😊

sp3ctr4l,

Go back to reddit

FartMaster69,

It does infinitely more than sitting around being a doomer.

SolidShake,

What’s a doomer?

MotoAsh,

Like a boomer, but even less respectable.

SolidShake,

Oh. No I’m a millennial

TheHotze,

Someone believes a cause is doomed from the start, so doesn’t even try.

SolidShake,

Because gaming companies are all greedy fucks. They aren’t going to give a fuck about people’s signatures lmao. You have to not buy the game in the millions. Not sign a website, and still buy the games anyways

RicoBerto,

This isn't a petition like change.org.
It's to get this brought in front of politicians that HAVE to make a ruling based on it.

lime,
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eu citizens initiatives are official tools of the public to help draft new laws.

Feathercrown,

You speak on matters which you do not understand

MoreZombies,

Ah, like PirateSoftware! :D

sp3ctr4l,

I do find it kind of funny that uh, seemingly this is the situation:

If gamers want to actually, truly, literally RISE UP… and do something useful and good, for once…

They will have to defeat Thor, in online combat.

(The PirateSoftware guy goes by Thor, not sure if thats his real name, a nickname, who knows)

There’s a dumb as shit Marvel knock off fanfic plot line in here somewhere.

Hadriscus,

I assume by “gaming companies” you mean game publishers. No they won’t care, in fact this initiative is not meant for them. It is meant for EU lawmakers, which after a certain signature number threshold are required to look at the issue. Once a protection is written into law, these same companies have to, of course, comply with it, or face whatever consequences were prepared for this case (fines, probably).

echodot,

Oh come on you can’t actually be that dense. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there are these things called laws and companies have to follow them.

Tattorack,
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This is not a change.org petition. This is a European initiative. Meaning if this gets the necessary number of signatures this could get brought forth to the European Parliament, where laws on the subject can get negotiated over.

sp3ctr4l,

Its not a meaningless web petition.

It’s a formal, direct democracy style legal process in the EU, to get the relevant legal authorities to review and revise the laws that currently allow gaming companies to be greedy fucks.

A similar concept exists in many US states amd cities:

If enough signatures can be gathered in a defined amount of time, then the proposed legal concept that has been directly endorsed by enough citizens then is automatically either pushed to the legislators and courts to review, or to be included for broader democratic voting up or down on by the next local election.

You apparently have no idea that initiatives and petitons can be more than just a legally non binding, essentially useless virtue signals on some random website.

In many, many parts of the world, something like an initiative serves as a way for the citizens of an area to bypass their own representatives and force them to directly engage with an issue.

If this initiative crosses the threshold, it stands s good chance at reforming the laws around games as a consumer product, from a consumer rights point of view.

Governments do actually have the ability to restrain and modify the actions and practices of corporations, by altering the laws that define what they are and are not allowed to do.

Further, because the EU has so many people, is such a large market for games… there is a good chance that if the EU reforms what game companies are allowed to do within the EU… well, developing an entirely different game for the EU and the US, totally different in the underlying internal design, more than just translstion/localization… from a business POV, it may end up making more financial sense to not essentially develop two games at once, and instead just develop a single, global game, that is compliant with with EU laws.

Go look into how digital privacy laws being different between the EU and US and other parts of the world are currently, right now, forcing many US based tech firms to alter their practices within the EU, and sometimes even in the US and elsewhere, due to the propagation effect of a huge market altering its laws.

Another example of something like this is firearms in the US: California, and now several other US states, have passed laws stating that for certain kinds of guns, a magazine can hold no more than 10 rounds.

Prior to this, when such laws did not exist… not many firearm companies made and sold guns with only 10 round mags. Now, many of them actually do.

This has also occured at a Federal level with barrel length restrictions: Basically, you cannot sell a civillian a short barelled rifle, something that has a barrel less than 16 inches in length, or a total butt stock to tip of barrel length less than 26 inchds.

Before those laws were passed… you could buy those, companies could sell those.

But because a compact, higher powered rifle is the easiest thing to use in a confined space, for something like a school shooting… well, now all the guns have to be at least a bit bigger, so that they’re more difficult to use in a ‘moving from room to hallway to room’ kind of scenario.

Laws passed by governments can alter industry practices, thats the entire concept of regulation.

Laws and legal review processes can be formally initiated within a government by formal, legal, citizens initiatives, that’s the entire point of them.

ijedi1234,

Someone born within the years 1992-1995. You can spot 'em easy.

loonsun,

I feel attacked, I’m doing my best 😭

voytrekk,

It is better to try and fail than to not try at all.

Klear,

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Owlboi,

you do realize this isnt some dumb online petition but rather a official citizens initiative to create new laws, right?

actually you clearly dont realize that.

who, do gaming w Here's why Inscryption is a good game

I only played through the first stage of the game before putting it aside. Thanks for reminding me that I ought to pick it up again and continue.

(Nitpick: Unique doesn’t have degrees. A thing can be very, very unusual, or it can be unique if nothing else like it exists.)

PhilipTheBucket,

All I can say is you’re missing out… I can see that it’s a type of game that may not be for everybody, but it is honestly probably the most unusual game I have ever played in my life and I’m enjoying it a lot. I almost did the same as you did, I beat Leshy one time and then continued messing around with it sort of out of curiosity… and then the whole actual fuckin’ game started.

It just made me pick a file from my hard drive, made me a card based on it, and then told me if I let that card die, it’s going to delete that file. This game is nuts man.

who,

lol… I had a feeling it would take some drastic turns. That’s great. No more spoilers, please. I do intend to get back to it.

In case you’re not familiar with it, Doki Doki Literature Club has some surprises, too. I enjoyed it even though visual novels are usually not my jam.

PhilipTheBucket,

Yeah. That one was on my list to play but I haven’t checked it out yet, I have heard similar things about it.

Chronographs,

As I understand it all of daniel mullins’ games have layers like inscryption, to put it mildly. I’d check them out when you finish inscryption if you’ve enjoyed it

AbelianGrape,

Americans often incorrectly ascribe degrees to “unique.” At this point it’s so baked into all of their dialects that it’s hard for me to keep calling it wrong.

PhilipTheBucket,

TIL.

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unique definition 3 includes examples like “very unique” and “fairly unique.” So it’s incorrect only if you assume that American usage is wrong and British usage is right, I guess. According to the Cambridge Dictionary I think you are right about how it’s used in British English.

afansfw, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #21

Thank you for doing these!

And I still don’t get what is the value proposition for the Junk Store when Heroic exists, seems like it allows for less tinkering and I don’t see it as a positive thing considering how janky the Linux experience can still be at times

smeg,

I guess they’re trying to make it more integrated and covering every source they can, but something about taking an open source project and turning it into a subscription service to play the games you already bought on the computer you already bought is… not to my taste

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