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MonkderVierte, do gaming w Can you *believe* how those Nords stereotype us?

Careful, “Blacks are always criminals” territory. How do you think a Khajiit makes a living where nobody gives them a job?

_vote,

Isn’t that the point the meme is making?

rishado,

I think the meme is actually blaming khajits for their own reputation

_cryptagion, do games w Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style?

Old mechanics? No. Old aesthetics? Yes. Pixel graphics are best.

technomad,

What new mechanics would you consider to be in the ‘can’t live without’ category?

_cryptagion,

Sorry, I should have phrased that a little differently. What I mean to say is the game should not be limited to just the mechanics of the older games. There’s so many small mechanics they’ve added since the days of the 2D games on GBA that shouldn’t be ignored just because they aren’t retro.

One mechanic I’ve always loved in any game it’s been in is the ability to have a hideout/home/etc that you can deck out with furniture and whatnot to make it your own. It’s just a comfy mechanic to have.

cattywampas,

I remember this from Gen 3, which is as far as I’ve played. I’m curious what other mechanics are around now that people consider must-haves.

MegaUltraChicken,

Being able to trade with anyone around the world is pretty dope. It was much harder finding another kid with Pokemon Blue so I could get a goddamn Pinsir.

BurntWits,

In HeartGold/SoulSilver specifically (and then not again after for some reason), you could toggle the running shoes. So much nicer than having to hold B all the time. They also allowed for two Select items (items you can activate without entering the items menu), which also never carried over to other games.

I seem to remember one of the more modern games allowing you to view move details (description, power, accuracy, etc) from the movelist screen during a fight, rather than having to go to Pokemon > [Pokemon] > view moves, or whatever it is. I think one game also allowed you to see if the move you’re about to use is super effective or not, but I’m not really a fan of that one. Learning type effectiveness is part of the game imo, but my opinion on this isn’t too strong.

Not really QOL but I loved mega evolution and would like to see it come back. It was exclusive to Gen 6, which was the last Gen I played, but I heard they never included it in following Gens. It was basically a temporary “evolution” (a different form) for specific fully evolved Pokemon for just the fight. Only one Pokemon can mega evolve per fight though, so you gotta choose wisely. Gen 6 competitive battling was peak imo for just that reason.

I really liked the EV training in Gen 6, not sure if that carried over but it made it much easier to increase EVs, rather than having to fight the same Pokemon over and over again.

HMs eventually disappeared. Gen 4 had a whole bunch, then in Gen 5 I think there were still a lot but most weren’t required for progression (I think in order to beat the game you only needed one of the HMs, I can’t remember which. The rest were just for optional stuff I think. It’s been a while though). I think in Gen 7 they finally removed HMs. The moves are still available I think, but they don’t do anything outside of battle.

I’m sure there’s more I’m forgetting, someone else can expand on this list.

Bbbbbbbbbbb,

I dont know which game but they did add a QoL feature that tells you whether a move is effective, super effective, or ineffective vs monsters youve fought before, based on typings.

smeg,

I remember that being the “feature” which really highlighted the dumbing-down of the game. Work things out for yourself? Look them up? Remember what you’ve learned? No, we’ve solved the puzzle for you, don’t worry.

JcbAzPx,

It’s not meant to be a rote memorization game. That sort of feature is meant to enhance the true point of the game.

A game they make for children, btw.

smeg,

Not to blow my own trumpet, but I was able to memorise basic type relationships as a small child!

That is a summing-up of the criticism that I’ve seen a few times though: they refuse to accept that their players grow up and only ever aim the games at youngsters, difficulty-wise.

doug, do games w My Steam Community Content bingo card: appreciative screenshot, endearing fan art, random Russian post, how to sex, and an in-depth guide.
@doug@lemmy.today avatar

Unoriginal ASCII art review asking for Helpful votes.

JustARaccoon,

Comment quality:
[x] - amazing
[ ] - great
[ ] - good
[ ] - bad
[ ] - terrible

LunarLoony,
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Oh man, I hate that ““review”” format

Chesckers, do gaming w Why doesn't Steam support Android?

Maybe, just maybe, they are waiting for proton for ARM to be a thing.

Imagine having actually a big percentage of your steam games just work on android. Now that would be disruptive for the market.

If it worked like I imagine it would.

mp3,
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Knowing Valve, they wouldn’t wait but build the thing.

Personally, I’d be happy to have another reputable place to buy Android games that isn’t Google Play, Amazon or Epic Games.

tias,

It’s not that simple. Proton implements the Windows API functions required to run a Windows game on x64-based Linux, but it’s not a CPU emulator. Emulating x64 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.

If Steam comes to ARM / Android, it would have to be a whole separate ecosystem of games. But Valve is late to the game there since we already have several players on that market, not least the standard Google Play Store.

Toes,

Emulating x64 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.

This has been done and it works reasonably well on a case by case basis.

Much like protondb they have a list of confirmed broken and working games.

box86.org/app/

ZeroPoke,

Thats a possibly I didnt think of. My thought were with Deckard, ARM laptops, or possibly better mac support cause they use ARM now.

Ulrich,
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I think that’s the more likely scenario. They plan to transition their hardware to ARM processors.

Statick, 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 used to only do something called “surfing” in the Counter-Strike: Source days.

There are dedicated servers that only run surf maps.

whotookkarl,
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

There was a game called tribes that combined the surfing/skiing movement with combat before the counterstrike mod levels came out, it was pretty fun the sequel tribes 2 was pretty popular for a minute when it came out too. But the skill ceiling on some of those cs surf maps was wild.

Agent641,

TF2 Had surf maps too, and I spent an embarrassing amount of time on those. Got super good at it too.

match,
@match@pawb.social avatar

you might enjoy the game Haste, it has a demo on steam

Million,

Source best game.

I still have KSF Clan server list in my bookmarks for easy access. When theres nothing to play, just play surf.

Also, shoutout to momentum mod, a standalone game with surf, bhop, defrag, rocket jump, sticky jump and more in one single game. Coming out soon ™️

Hazelnutcookiez,

100% of my CS playtime is surfing it’s so fun.

wizzim, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #8

Thanks for the really interesting mish mash of information 😁

You are a Linux gamer with a love for GOG. May I ask how are you accessing GOG games on Linux/Steam Deck: Lutris? Heroic?

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

You should check my previous weeks of News Posts!

I go into detail on which ones I use to play GOG games, with links and guides and videos etc!

Junk Store and Heroic are my recommendations, they both handle GOG so well :)

wizzim,

Thanks I’ll have a look.

Unfortunately, my personal curse is the love of achievements 😅, and heroic support of them with GOG is still a little bit lacking. But with the new comet support with overlay in heroic, hopefully it will change soon.

PerfectDark,
@PerfectDark@lemmy.world avatar

I wasn’t ever much of a fan of achievements, but the last, idk 6 months or so I have been so invested in them. Its nice to check my profile on GOG and see my play-time and achievements logged :)

Comet does all I need to, but I am also looking forward to the upcoming overlay!

wizzim,

At first I found achievements a bit ridiculous, like in the old days at school where you received an image if you did good.

In the meantime, some smart achievements forced me out of my play style and made me try things I would never had the idea of trying. Those are the best achievements for me. The game with such achievements that triggered the achievement crazyneness of mine was Trine 2 😁

Ulrich, do gaming w It's so frustrating every time I remember to check the freebies
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I tried to make a Blizzard account recently, just for testing purposes. Literally could not do it. Spent half an hour trying to complete weird math quizzes, at the end of which it would just fail. Gave up.

evilcultist, do games w Gaming has a polarization problem

93% vs 77% doesn’t strike me as polarized. 16% difference?

77% doesn’t even seem that bad if it’s a style of game I like. From about 2001 I used to see sci fi movies that looked interesting as long as they had at least a 25% Rotten Tomatoes score because my tastes were different.

Is there something I’m missing? I haven’t played either game and I haven’t looked at reviews. Won’t buy KCD (no character creation) and probably will eventually buy Avowed.

MarcomachtKuchen,

I think there is a strong difference since the steam rating usually ranges between 70% and 97%. This makes the gap way wider then the numbers suggest

Cethin,

The thing is, those reviews must be left by someone who purchased it. It’s got a self-selection bias. People purchased it presumably expecting to like it. They thought it would be a style of game they enjoyed. Most people who think it isn’t something they’ll like will just pass over it and not buy it, and obviously not effect the score.

TachyonTele, do games w Favourite Metroid game?

Absolutely Super.
Right now I’m playing through a new run of Super Metroid+A Link to the Past. The game is so perfectly made that it’s just as good with a randomizer.

Glemek,

The super + alttp rando is so fun

TachyonTele,

I love going through most of the game and then finally realizing i don’t have a shield lol

missingno,
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It's super cool that SMZ3 is a thing that even exists, but beyond the novelty of it I felt it was dragged down by the fact that ALttP is so much bigger than SM, to the point where it kinda drowns SM out.

adam_y, do games w Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot?
@adam_y@lemmy.world avatar

"If it was easy, it wouldn’t be a shortcut, it’d just be the way. "

Modding varies from game to game, but having been doing it for nearly 40 years now, I can say it has generally become easier in the titles that want you to and harder in the ones that don’t.

SplashJackson, do games w Tango Gameworks studio has been reborn, joining Krafton Inc

“joining”

notice how they never say, “we’ve been bought out!”

FelixCress,

This. And they will pretend to be happy until redundancies come.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

This cynicism makes no sense unless you’re completely unaware of the context of this studio.

FelixCress,

I am perfectly well aware what happens after acquisitions. Give it six up to twelve months and check again.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Are you aware that this studio was already fully shut down by Microsoft and this company swooped in to keep most of it intact? No matter what happens 6-12 months from now, it’s better than if they weren’t purchased.

conciselyverbose, do games w Would "suggest price" be a positive option for steam?

Wishlist vs purchase is already a signal that maybe you’d benefit from a sale. Seems like it’s enough. “Suggested prices” from gamers would be way too noisy to mean anything.

thebigslime, (edited )

Yeah I suspect the wishlist-discount-purchase nexus is sufficient and more reliable means to determine what the best price would be.

Deestan, do games w What games have you sunk the most time into?

Factorio for me. Steam has 3000 hours logged, but I played it for ages before getting Steam version so really no idea. Estimating 4000 hours total.

scrubbles,
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Satisfactory for me. 2000 hours and counting

Sixner,

I feel like I would love this game, but I already have plenty of other games to enjoy I’m trying to hold off.

Lots of rimworld time though.

Deestan,

Rimworld! For me it is right after Factorio in playtime list if I filter out idle or semi-idle games.

Poopfeast420, (edited ) do games w What games have you sunk the most time into?
@Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

World of Warcraft by a huge margin. A couple of years ago, I went through all my characters, and added the /played time up. I think it was already over 10k back then, and I’ve played a bunch since then. Also, I often delete characters, so I can’t count those. My sub runs for another 10 days, so I might take the time to check again.

Next is probably Diablo 2, but that was 20 years ago, when this stuff wasn’t really automatically tracked.

On Steam I have two idle games at 800 hours, FF14 650h, both Nioh games 600h each.

Nythos,

Likewise for me.

I have upwards of 6k hours in WoW and my next closest games is Rainbow 6:Siege is ~500

pupbiru,

for sure wow… i remember in xfire days it logged like 20-25k hrs

… i literally have nightmares where my character is reaching out of a black void sobbing “please im so lonely come back and play with me”

fuck that whole game

Cocodapuf,

I played Wow for the first 3-4 years after its launch.

I had a part time job back then, but otherwise I was playing wow. At some point my /played time passed a year, after that I refused to look. I don’t know if it ever got to two years, but I fear it may have…

lorty, do games w Would "suggest price" be a positive option for steam?
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Have a look at steam reviews then ponder how people would use it

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