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hal_5700X, do games w PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug

Funny, how all the bugs hurt the players not them.

ytsedude, do games w Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th.

Well, time to start a new farm. Again.

Squibbles, do gaming w What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty
@Squibbles@lemmy.ca avatar

FTL. At least until you’ve beaten the game several times

SuperSaiyanSwag,

This is such a good answer. I remember playing it on easy back in the day and the final boss still kicked my ass.

smeg,

I remember having some really solid runs, easily beating every enemy I encountered… and then not even being able to make a dent on the final boss

RisingSwell,

I spend the entire game prepping for the boss. Just because I can ohko every other ship the moment I land doesn’t mean I can touch the beast. I’ve done the last sector without taking a hit just to never even get past the shields in phase 1

smeg,

Yep, that’s what everyone realises after getting stomped a few times!

ahal,

I think that’s my main complaint with the game. Once you find a way to beat the boss, you just go for that build every time. It’s so punishing and the path to get there is so long, that it’s a massive disincentive to try new things.

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@fedia.io avatar

That's a good example. You simply can't grasp optimal choices or know possible events and outcomes before going through it a great deal of times, and it's likely that you'll get killed too fast to experience much if you start on normal. You definitely end up switching to normal as you improve, learn, and unlock, but it really benefits and smoothens the learning curve to start easier.

smeg,

Into the Breach too, it’s just a less brutal way to learn how to play

DdCno1,

And once the game has become a breeze, with 100% of your runs being a success, install the Captain’s Edition mod and suddenly, it’s a pleasantly challenging title again. The add-on that turns it into an endless game in particular is so good, I spent dozens of hours playing it.

henfredemars,

Shoutout to Twinge’s Balance Mod. It’s actively maintained, and it makes the game more interesting by encouraging use of unpopular weapons and systems

Captain’s is great too, but it can be overwhelming.

DdCno1,

Thanks for the recommendation!

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

The difficult steps in FTL are no joke. I was having no difficulty clearing on easy and was just trying to unlock all the ships. Once I did I switched to normal and had to restart 3 times before getting out of the first sector.

Varyag, do games w Does AAAA just mean awful triple A games now?

Yes, yes it is. The term coined by the Ubishit CEO trying to cover his own ass by claiming that Skull and Bones took so much time and money to make, and was being sold for higher than $60 (while still being a pile of shit) by saying it was a “AAAA game” and the term stuck. I mean, it’s own very first use was to describe a terrible AAA game. It’s only natural.

LucasWaffyWaf,

Oh hey, I forgot about that game’s existence until now. It’s name is so generic I used to accidentally call it Sea of Thieves, cause that’s a more memorable name. Also a more memorable game.

ivanafterall, do games w rdr2 question
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

The guided part does take a bit to get through, but it sets you free pretty soon after you’re out of the snow.

It’s very much worth it, in my opinion. It continues to ruin many other games for me.

scrubbles,
!deleted6348 avatar

Yeah, after replaying a couple of times idk why but the training area felt very locked in and long, but really it’s only 3 missions.

moonpiedumplings, (edited ) do games w Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before

Aw yeah! This is where my knowledge of absurdly good but extremely niche games comes in. I think I’ll make multiple replies to this comment.

Chronosphere

Think enter the gungeon combined with superhot, but simplified a lot. It’s a turn based bullet hell, and an excellent arcade game playable in the browser.

EDIT: I’d also like to take this oppurtunity to talk about flashpoint. Flashpoint is a massive archive of basically every flash game and animation, and you can even play them again.

However, in addition to flash projects, I also noticed that flashpoint also archives HTML/HTML5 games… but only a subset of them. Although flashpoint’s primary purpose still is as a flash archive, it can also be used as a curated list of HTML5 games.

Here is a website that lets you search the flashpoint database

moonpiedumplings,

Swarm Simulator

Open source idle game, playable in browser. No clicking, just watching numbers go up.

moonpiedumplings,

A Dark Room

Open source idle game, but not quite. It eventually expands beyond watching numbers go up, into a sort of roguelike, where you can wander the world and collect stuff. And die. Die a lot.

A Dark Room was where I first saw the @ symbol used to represent the player character.

moonpiedumplings, (edited )

Gridland

Also by double speak games, and open source gridland is a variant on the match 3 style. During the day phase, you accrue and store resources, and build stuff. During the night phase, you fight.

moonpiedumplings,

Ember Skull

Fun arcade bullet hell survivors (think vampire survivors) type game. Dodge bullets, and survive as long as you can.

moonpiedumplings,

The glitched attraction

A fnaf fangame that is close enough to feel like fnaf, but has a twist: Every single level also involves a puzzle. While trying to survive enemies fnaf style. Although I’ve never played this game, I LOVE watching it on Twitch. I like to call it “Human’s can’t multitask: The Game”.

moonpiedumplings,

The Game

Absolutely obligatory, the simply named “The Game” is a work of art, and truly a life changing experience. You’ll never think about things the same after experiencing “The Game”.

moonpiedumplings,

Code Romantic

Learn the pleasures of loving another human, and the pain of being a programmer — at the same time!

moonpiedumplings,

Touch Some Grass

A wonderful and life changing experience.

I like to link it without the ending title, like store.steampowered.com/app/1944240/ because it’s funnier when people can’t see the game title in the link.

moonpiedumplings,

Warfork

Fork of the older warsow, open source movement shooter. Think quake.

Sadly, it seems to be dead on steam.

moonpiedumplings,

Bonk.io

A simple but elegant io game. You are a ball, and you want to knock other balls to the ground.

One thing I like is that rounds in small, 4 person lobbies, rather than the massive worlds of other io games. Although you can’t really make friends, you can know personas, and it’s more personable.

moonpiedumplings,

Mole Mania

Gameboy puzzle game. Very high quality.

shrodes,

Always love to see Mole Mania get some love. One of Shigeru Miyamoto’s earliest titles he worked on also

moonpiedumplings,

Cave Noire

Gameboy roguelike that is simple, but very elegant.

Sadly, since romhacking went down, I don’t think it’s possible to find the translation patch for it, unless they uploaded it to the internet archive.

moonpiedumplings,

Spent

A short questionaire game that demonstrates the difficulties of poverty.

Lightsong,

Spent

This game hurts, got a bit of water in my eyes. Hit me in feeling bruh.

moonpiedumplings,

Keep Out!

A webgl/browser based 3d dungeon crawler with proceduraly generated levels.

moonpiedumplings,

PhobosLabs

This site has a few high quality browser games. The one I come back to is X Type, a bullet hell shoot-em up that has ever expanding enemy ship sizes, and never ends. It gets hard fast.

I also like Xibalba, which is a Doom/Wolfenstein style game playable in the browser.

The creator also did a rewrite of quake in 13 kb of javascript

phlegmy,

That guy’s seriously talented!
Among the things he’s made, he’s also made some really nice, easy to understand, high-speed compression formats (QOI/QOA), as well as a public domain mpeg decoder.

I’ve used all three for various projects and I’d highly recommend that most software developers check them out. If only for the learning experience.

moonpiedumplings,

Free Rider HD

Simple bike racing game, although the player is very fragile, which adds some difficulty. Playable in browser.

All the maps are user created content.

moonpiedumplings,

Master Archer

Addictive arcade game about archery. Reminds me of flappy bird, not in the raw mechanics, but in the way they are both addicting in the same manner.

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

this game is really fun

wise, do gaming w #StopKillingGames Update: Germany becomes 4th county to hit threshold
@wise@feddit.uk avatar

God, I miss the EU

Vittelius,

There is a UK petition in the works. It’s not quite ready yet, because thanks to your recent election the team behind the initiative had to redo all of their work. (Your government requires everybody to resubmit petitions if a new parliament is elected)

Beaver, do games w #StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25%
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

Damn Poland beat out the Netherlands.

We need to focus our efforts on Malta 🇲🇹

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Nah, France and Spain. We only need 7 countries to pass their thresholds, and after that, only raw numbers matter. We need the big population centers, and France and Spain are way behind Germany.

Brickardo,

This initiative has been barely mentioned in Spain anywhere that I know of.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re there, perhaps you can signal boost?

something183786, do gaming w Do you know any singleplayer games that are infinitely replayable?

FTL. It’s a simple fun cheap game. Steam says I’ve played this for over 3,000 hours!

subsetgames.com/ftl.html#_

Ragnarok314159,

FTL is so much fun. Finally beating by first run felt amazing.

silverchase, do games w Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals
@silverchase@sh.itjust.works avatar

Tunic $14.99 (50% off, new all-time low)

A little guy in a green tunic picks up a sword and goes on an adventure, but the game is in an unknown language and you only have a few pages of the manual. It’s like a metroidvania but your progress is based on knowledge.

Blackmist,

It’s a great little game, but don’t be afraid to drop the difficulty down later on. It really does detract from what makes the game special.

Katana314,

As someone who never touched the difficulty, I think my smooth experience came down to considering the encounters more, not dial-mashing the controller. Some fights work a lot better with certain equipment. There’s three kinds of defense suitable for certain attacks: Shield, dodging, and sprinting (a certain enemy has a long gun attack, for instance, that’s good for sprinting).

I think I did struggle a bit at an eventual “rush” segment, but that’s coming up near the end of the game.

Gamerman153,

Such a great game

WeLoveCastingSpellz, do games w [QUESTION] What is the most realistic-looking game that can also run on Linux distros?

the most realistic game that can run on windows

supangle, do gaming w Got a Switch today, need some recommendations.

i cannot recommend any nintendo product since they are the by far the most evil company in gaming industry. you would be pretty much happy with metascore nintendo switch list. i would return switch and buy steam deck oled with a little bit more budget and pirate all nintendo products using steam deck. heck, most switch games runs better on steam deck than it is on switch.

solivine,
@solivine@sopuli.xyz avatar

This is a dude buying a gaming console for a kid, and he’s already bought it. I would chill a bit lol.

wizardbeard,

Wow, that’s certainly a take. How are they worse than Sony or fucking Microsoft? Microsoft was under IRS investigation at one point. They dragged thing out resulting in multiple millions of taxpayer money being wasted, ruined the professional careers of the lead names on the investigation, bribed politicians to cut so much funding from the IRS that another investigation of that scale is simply not possible, and bribed other politicians to sway laws in their favor to help make what they were investigated for much harder to pursue charges on.

Do you have any substantive shit that the other big names aren’t guilty of as well? I’d love to hear it!

lobut,

“most evil company in the gaming industry”

EA backs away slowly

Btw, we all love Valve and the Steam Deck but Valve ain’t clean either.

JustEnoughDucks,
@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl avatar

No company at all is completely clean outside of some non profits and even then, most of them aren’t.

There is an orders of magnitude difference in anti-consumerism and bad practices between Nintendo, Activision, and EA vs Valve.

ulkesh,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

hugs his Switch and the many physical Switch games he owns

also hugs his Steam Deck

The two aren’t mutually exclusive nor does one random opinion on the internet a fact make.

OP asked for what specific games to get, not some anti-Nintendo rant.

Scrath,

How regularly do you use both of those devices?

I was eyeing the steam deck for its portability but I rarely would have reason to use it so I held off. Same for the switch.

When I’m at home I play on my desktop. When I’m not at home I’m mostly actively moving about or only waiting small periods of time which are not worth it to start gaming. The only reason I would have to really use them would be during vacations.

Matomo,

I’m in a position where I can’t access my desktop for a few months, and my Steamdeck is absolutely great for lazy couch gaming. It runs pretty much any game I play atm, and with some tweaking per game, the controls are almost always great.

But I also use my Switch from time to time. It’s a bit more portable, it’s a kind of “just works” device where I don’t need to worry about controls or tweaks, and Tears of the Kingdom runs significantly better than it ever did on my Steamdeck, last time I tried.

It sounds like a Switch would be the best option for your use case, if you’d have to pick one. Something the Switch does very well is being able to pause any game by just putting it in standby and not worrying about it. Makes it ideal to play in between doing other stuff.

ulkesh,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

It’s a good point. I would say I don’t use them often enough to justify owning them, but I use them just enough to be okay with it. I go in spurts. I get on a Mario Maker kick and play a ton on the switch, and then I get on an emulation kick and load up a lot of retro stuff on the steam deck. But I have gone weeks or more without touching either.

darkmogool,

Holy shit. This is a terrible game recommendation.

Sterile_Technique, do games w What are y'all buying on the steam sale?
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

Xcom 2 has been on my list for years… hit 97% in this sale, figured it’s finally time.

vasus,

I recommend getting the bundle with all the DLC, slightly more expensive but very worth it esp. for the big content expansion War of the chosen.

Sterile_Technique,
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world avatar

That’s the one!

$3.88, only about $0.50 more than just the standalone game. If the reviews are any indication, this is a damn steal!

SuperSynthia,

Holy smokes what an incredible deal. I loved the first XCOM (which I believe is actually a remake). Gonna have to pull the trigger

Cethin,
RampageDon,

I would say that’s a steal. I love that game, it has tons of replay ability, and a huge modding community.

AFallingAnvil, (edited )
@AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca avatar

I envy you greatly right now, you’re about to embark on a beautiful journey. Xcom2 is one of my favorites, especially once mods factor in, of which there are thousands covering so many franchises and ideas you can’t possibly play them all.

I wish you nothing but an excellent time and lots of dead aliens.

TheCannonball,

If you don’t get War of the Chosen then you will be missing out on one of my most played games of all time.

EitherEther,

There is an XCom joke in there: 97% to hit… and you missed.

Cethin,

Xenonauts 2 is 30% off also. It’s a modern version of classic X-COM, which is quite different from modern XCOM. It’s still in early access, but it’s very good. I’ve done one playthrough (to the end of what was available) and I’m waiting for release to do another. It’s much better than what XCOM has become in my opinion though.

Ragnarok314159, do games w What are some good games with *zero* replayability?

Subnautica.

I found it to be one of the best games I have ever played with a fantastic story that really pulled me in. If you do decide to play it, look up nothing. As in don’t even google it because it’s a slightly older game and people spoil the entire thing.

Tedrick02,

Great game, too little story line and too much grind to replay.

dustyData,

It’s actually very granular on the grind difficulty. There’s a story only mode that removes the survival elements and leaves only the material gathering for crafting. There’s also a creative mode where you don’t even have to gather materials and can just build whatever and go wherever and see all the story bits with almost no challenge at all. You choose how you want to go at it.

toddestan,

For me, it wasn’t just the story, but also just randomly going out and exploring, checking things out, and finding cool (and sometimes scary) things.

It’s one of those games that I’m hoping in like 10 years or something I’ll have forgotten enough of it that if I go play it again it’ll be mostly all new again.

Cagi, do gaming w Simcity 2000 feels.

Did you ever play SimCopter? Fly around your simcity 2000 city in a helicopter doing jobs? It was my favourite game for a long time.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

SimCopter has a very special place in my heart as possibly the prank that led to the formation of the Yes Men.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter#Easter_egg

The game gained controversy when it was discovered that designer Jacques Servin inserted an Easter egg that generated shirtless men in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other and appear in great numbers on certain dates, such as Friday the 13th. The egg was caught shortly after release and removed from future copies of the game. He cited his actions as a response to the intolerable working conditions he allegedly suffered at Maxis, particularly working 60-hour weeks and being denied time off. He also reported that he added the “studs”, as he called them, after a heterosexual programmer programmed “bimbo” female characters into the game, and that he wanted to highlight the “implicit heterosexuality” of many games.

Based “Andy Bichlbaum.”

Midnitte,

Servin presents Exxon’s new human flesh-derived “Vivoleum” future fuel at a Keynote Luncheon at the GO-Expo 2007 (Oil and Gas Exposition) in Calgary, Alberta.

Ah geez, what a ride his Wikipedia page is.

Butterbee,
!deleted4292 avatar

What, and I can’t stress this enough, THE FUCK

comicallycluttered,

Lol, it’s actually pretty funny.

On June 14, 2007, the Yes Men acted during Canada’s largest oil conference in Calgary, Alberta, posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives. In front of more than 300 oilmen, the NPC was expected to deliver the long-awaited conclusions of a study commissioned by U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman. The NPC is headed by former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond, who is also the chair of the study. When the Yes Men arrived at the conference they said that Lee Raymond (the promised speaker) was unable to make it due to a pressing situation with the president. The Yes Men then went on to give a presentation in place of Lee Raymond.

In the actual speech, the “NPC rep” announced that current U.S. and Canadian energy policies (notably the massive, carbon-intensive processing of Alberta’s oil sands, and the development of liquid coal) are increasing the chances of huge global calamities. But he reassured the audience that in the worst-case scenario, the oil industry could “keep fuel flowing” by transforming the billions of people who would die into oil.

The project, called Vivoleum, would work in perfect synergy with the continued expansion of fossil fuel production. The oilmen listened to the lecture with attention, and then lit “commemorative candles”. At this point, event security recognized the Yes Men and forced them off stage, and the ‘punchline’ — that the candles were made of Vivoleum obtained from the flesh of an “Exxon janitor” who died as a result of cleaning up a toxic spill — was not delivered to the audience, but only to reporters.

Love these kinds of protests. The fact that no one even bothered to verify anything and still listened without much resistance says a lot about these corpos. The candle thing is just the delicious cherry on top.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

These kind of protests are almost exclusively what the Yes Men do! They got their start when they were making a parody website of the WTO (Then GATT) and suddenly had a bunch of serious industry people mistaking their parody site for the real one and sending them emails inviting them to conferences. Thus Andy Bichlbaum and the Yes Men were born! They always go way beyond absurd to try to capture people’s attention, but most often with groups of “experts” everyone takes them all to seriously.

comicallycluttered,

Thank you so much for introducing me to them! I wish I’d known about them sooner.

Some of this stuff is hilarious and the fact that they’ve been consistently doing this for so long is impressive.

I also love that he claimed it was a “hacker group” that added the code, and then it was “revealed” that he was “the leader” of the group.

The sheer creativity in fucking with people like that is admirable.

Butterbee,
!deleted4292 avatar

Oh my god that is hilarious! Thank you for explaining it

comicallycluttered,

LOL, I actually went looking for more about this specific prank and it gets better. The “janitor” was fucking Reggie Watts and they played this tribute during their “presentation” while people were confusingly looking at these strange candles.

I really need to check out the rest of their work. I’m very glad I learned about this group today.

Butterbee,
!deleted4292 avatar

Apparently there’s a free documentary on their exploits en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men_Fix_the_World

trslim,

I never got the chance! That sounds very cool though! Do the Arcos show up in sim copter?

Cagi,

Yep! Every building has a 3d representation in sim copter.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

I had SimCopter and Streets of SimCity just to get up close looks at my cities.

It’d be sweet if City Skylines had stuff like that… I mean, you can drive cars in it, it just doesn’t change the camera to first person while doing so.

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