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TON618, (edited ) do gaming w The steam deck is just great

We have basicly everything you play games on, so also both of these. But the Steam Deck is absolutely the gigachad, even moreso than my actual gaming pc if you just look at hours used.

If you forced me to get rid of all my devices but one, it’d probably be the Steam Deck that’ll be left. And yes this consideration included my gaming pc and smartphone.

The only regret I have about buying the Steam Deck is being so late to the party. (i got it like 6 months ago)

hitagi, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

Dota Underlords

omarfw, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

I miss firefall. It was very innovative and enormous. The devs were trying new ideas in the alpha all the time.

GusTheBard,

I never played that game, but I was about to… I literally installed it, but didn’t play it, and it got canceled and shut down very shortly after. (I was a bit out of the loop, I guess)

I still have it late in my Steam library, so I think about it a decent bit

Aielman15, do games w Video game genre communities on the Threadiverse
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0

Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven’t seen a post in there in a while.

lemm.ee/c/the_talos_principle?dataType=Post&page=…

lemmy.world/c/residentevil?dataType=Post&page=0

Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.

lemm.ee/c/gamemusic?dataType=Post&page=0

Community for sharing game music. Not very active, but I see posts in my feed every now and then.

retrolemmy.com/c/TipOfMyJoystick?dataType=Post&pa…

Fairly new community to help people looking for a specific name they forgot the name of.

Sorry for not sharing the generic link, I’m on mobile and that’s the link my app generates when I click on “share”.

Elevator7009,
tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Another adjacent community that is seeing no real activity: !arcadesticks

tal, (edited )
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

!gamemusic

Community for sharing game music.

On that note, !gameart for video game artwork.

Communities for Talos Principle and Resident Evil, but again, they aren’t active.

Yeah, there are a bunch of communities for individual video games, but they’re all pretty dead. I think that !pixeldungeon, where the dev actually shows up, posts, and moderates is probably one of the most alive.

This came up when I originally got on the Threadiverse — I remember suggesting that people post in generic gaming communities, then when the load became too high, move to genre-specific, and then when the load became too high, move to game-specific. Otherwise, the userbase in any one community just isn’t large enough to get much community activity.

Aielman15,
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I agree. In the days immediately following the APIcalypse, people attempted to move all their favourite niche communities to Lemmy, but the site’s active userbase isn’t there yet for that kind of content - much to my displeasure: I was only active in two/three niche communities back when I was a Reddit user, but they are pretty much nonexistent here, so I’m forced to include more generic communities in my Lemmy feed to keep it from drying up.

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Oh, and @PugJesus has kept a flow of material to !fallout, for one other game-specific community that has some activity.

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

PugJesus and The_Picard_Maneuver are single-handedly keeping half of Lemmy afloat.

Elevator7009,
tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

sffa.community/c/sffgaming?dataType=Post&page=0

Sffagaming is for sci-fi games, but I haven’t seen a post in there in a while.

I can’t DNS-resolve sffa.community, either on IPv4 or IPv6. Google’s DNS root can’t see it either:


<span style="color:#323232;">$ host -t a sffa.community 8.8.8.8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Using domain server:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Name: 8.8.8.8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Address: 8.8.8.8#53
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Aliases: 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$ host -t aaaa sffa.community 8.8.8.8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Using domain server:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Name: 8.8.8.8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Address: 8.8.8.8#53
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Aliases: 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Host sffa.community not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$
</span>

It clearly existed at one point, because lemmy.world has local copies of some stuff from a year back:

lemmy.world/c/sffgaming@sffa.community?dataType=P…

But I think that the instance is gone now.

EDIT: The last time archive.org’s Wayback Machine was able to successfully index it was September 16, 2024:

web.archive.org/web/…/sffa.community/

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, that’s sad. No point in staying subscribed, then.

Hadriscus, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?
Srootus, do gaming w The steam deck is just great

I recently learned that the eshop on the Switch is a browser and the eshop you buy from is a website which is so funny to me for some reason

morphballganon,

That would explain the slow load times

melsaskca, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

The Original Lawn Darts. Life is no fun without a bit of risk.

nutsack, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

titan fall 2. never actually got to appreciate it because by the time i found it the server matching was completely broken. all they need to do is allow private servers or fix the matching system and the game would be playable. seems like plenty of people want to play it. I don’t know why they decided let the game die instead. makes no damn sense.

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N,
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It’s playable now on vanilla servers, but the North Star client also exists, pilot.

nutsack,

interesting if true

dominiquec, do games w HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war
@dominiquec@lemmy.world avatar

Diplomacy Is Not An Option, maybe?

Goretantath, do games w Analog Retro Gaming: Water Toss

Found a new version like this a year or two ago at a dollar store, still fun.

thatradomguy, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex First Assault

All due to capitalism ruining things as usual…

XM34, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

Hellraid! God damnit, I was so ready for a first pirson action dungeon crawler in the style of Dying Light 😥

LunarLoony, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?
@LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Blacklight Retribution was pretty great. I played quite early in its lifespan, during an event which gave me a special nameplate - nothing more than a participation trophy, and at the time, loads of people used it.

Signed in a few years later to.play a few rounds, and some guy begged me to let them use my account because of that now-rare nameplate.

(I also had an extremely cool helmet and some seriously powerful guns I got for free in that game’s equivalent of a lootbox)

homicidalrobot, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

There’s a lot of games being mentioned here that had a full run. Let’s talk about an actually cancelled game - SkySaga: Infinite Isles. Block game in the vein of Portal Knights that was extremely inspired.

The gameplay loop consisted of using “Keys” on a portal at your home island that would randomly generate a floating island with various objectives on it and a boss, all of which was harvestable for materials and blocks to build with back on your home island. There was a social hub city island everyone could access that alowed access to PvP and a few types of guilds with various combat, gathering, and exploration quests. Crafting was pretty good, allowing you to use metals with various properties to mix and match your own gear - some metals did more damage or applied an elemental effect, some had quicker swing speed, some were durable as armor and others not so much but they increased movespeed or jump height.

The game had about a dozen beta access phases then dropped off the face of the earth, with the server (and how it worked) lost forever. Completely lost to time, cancelled before it could release proper. No other block game has come close to the kind of structural appeal it had for me, and I think about it frequently. There’s a few reverse engineering projects in the works but they are stagnant.

I love a lot of the games in this thread but they had an actual release and real servers, you could play them for multiple years. Some others promised a bit more than they delivered, and were cut a bit short by EA or other trash publishers. SkySaga was killed before launch and placed in an opaque prison, truly cancelled.

taiyang, do games w What's a cancelled game you really miss?

Concord

Haha, just kidding.

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