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Diabolo96, do gaming w Braid Anniversary Edition has ‘sold like dog sh*t’, creator Jonathan Blow says

Tried braid and got bored real quick.

Tried fez and didn’t even continue past the first 30 min

Tried Undertale, but basically knew the story already from spoilers, and it was kinda boring, uninteresting and too hard.

Played Crashlands and it was a grindfest that actually made me relieved that I finished the game, only to discover it was planet 1 of 3. 👉Uninstalled.

Really enjoyed fear and hunger despite being shit at the game and ended up just cheating. (Was still freaking hard 😭)

Finished and enjoyed Limbo.

I just want a game with a great story, a gameplay with medium low difficulty that isn’t a grindfest and isn’t too long ( usually caused by the endless grinding).

theangriestbird,

I just want a game with a great story, a gameplay with medium low difficulty that isn’t a grindfest and isn’t too long

you’ve described like 60% of all popular indie games. are you coming here seeking recommendations? what genre?

Diabolo96,

Rpg or platformer.

The only way I can access games is by pirating them and I don’t pirate indie games unless they already pretty successful and it wouldn’t hurt them. Yeah, even that 2.99$ is too much when you live in shitty third world country.

theangriestbird,

i respect that, homie. Have you spent a lot of time with retro games? I think there might be a lot in that category that fit your wheelhouse, but I don’t want to start rattling them off if you don’t have an interest there.

For RPG, you could try something like Sea of Stars, Night in the Woods, or Transistor. For platformers, you could try out Celeste (with assist modes), Inside (from the Limbo people), Sonic Mania, A Hat in Time, or Pizza Tower. I could think of some bigger games as well, but not sure what kind of hardware you’re working with.

Diabolo96,

I actually enjoy retro gaming. Earthbound and mother 3 are my favorite games! The professor Layton serie is also great! The thing is, while retro games are a huge source of “free” games, they’re often too hard. I also found myself falling in a rabbit hole with an entire generation of retro games that nobody cares about anymore despite being full of great games : flip phone java games" (j2me). I highly recommend trying them if you want to play games on your phone without being thrown a billion ad and microtransactions. Just play the touchscreen variants and your golden. Some good games are : doom RPG 2 and Wolfenstein RPG, literally any game by digital chocolate.

thanks a lot for recommandation, sea of stars and pizza tower look 👌! and yeah my machine isn’t capable to run bigger 3d games. Lol.

ElcaineVolta,
@ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org avatar

if you liked LIMBO you should definitely play INSIDE

CaptainBasculin,

Would recommend Chrono Trigger, as the story progresses you get stronger as you progress naturally even though there is an XP system.

tomato,

Chrono Trigger in fact is a grindfest as beating the game without doing all equipment related sidequests is very hard and for most people - impossible. Additionally I also consider figuring out and searching for stuff in jRPGs as a grind.

CaptainBasculin,

Heh? It didn’t feel like a grindfest for me at all. I just look around a lot while playing in general, and i recall there being quite a lot of loot available everywhere i walked. Maybe it’s because of the way i played it idk

Bldck,

Check out Spiritfarer. I loved it

DJDarren,

I finished that last week, and yeah, it’s wonderful.

apotheotic,
  • The Last Campfire
  • Journey
  • GRIS
  • Night in the Woods

Have fun!

Klanky,
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz avatar

Ooh Night in the Woods was good.

Gregg rulz ok

apotheotic,

Die Anywhere Else is forever a banger

GammaGames,

Knife fight!!!

DJDarren,

I loved To The Moon, which fits your requirements, I think. The sequels are fine, but the stories are pretty well standalone, so you could play just the first one and leave it at that. And it’s only £1.70.

averyminya,

I never played it but you may as well add Firewatch to your list.

Check out Kentucky Route Zero it seems to be what you’re looking for, maybe.

Megaman_EXE,

I’m hit or miss when it comes to walking sim games but I really enjoyed firewatch

apotheotic, do gaming w Tango Gameworks employee shares pictures from the Xbox studio’s final day

A reminder that Microsoft coined the term “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” and they are going to continue doing this on purpose

RizzRustbolt, do games w Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo

The only Dolby worth sitting through is Thomas.

Mastengwe, do gaming w Opinion: Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it

But how? Buying out Bethesda and turning them into an exclusive-only producing shitshow was probably the most business savvy move of the century!

Lol

B0NK3RS, do games w EU says it’s investigating why Apple terminated Epic’s developer account
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t like either company (but in this case I do side with Epic) but I do like all the drama they bring.

bungle_in_the_jungle,

Agreed. This here is a hornet’s nest in desperate need of a kicking. Glad epic is happy to do so!

banazir, do games w The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega
@banazir@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m sure they will take everything that made the original game great and bin it in a misguided attempt to appeal to a customer base they don’t understand.

snownyte,
@snownyte@kbin.social avatar

But people will still, en masse, be like "REMASTER DIS GAME! REMASTER DAT GAME!"

Never learning what the risks are.

echo64,

Can we not bring the “make up things, then get mad at the made-up thing” mentality over from reddit, please?

GammaGames, do gaming w Sources: Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in 2025

Apparently Eurogamer and Bloomberg have also corroborated, so I’m more likely to believe it. The rumors are plentiful while we wait!

Computerchairgeneral, do gaming w Phil Spencer has reportedly reassured employees Microsoft ‘won’t stop making Xbox consoles’

It's really been whiplash inducing to go from reading about how Microsoft was going to dominate gaming because of the Activision buyout to reading about how Microsoft is going to be the next Sega and are possibly exiting the console market. And it all happened in the span of a few months.

caut_R, do games w Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’

So it has potential to be a quadruple fail and sink the company?

Lanusensei87, do games w Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’
@Lanusensei87@lemmy.world avatar

This game is a collab with the Singaporean government, their workforce has terrible salaries plus benefitting from generous federal subsidies. Is that not enough for you Yves?

verysoft, do games w Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’

Game is boring. Ubisoft somehow eclipsing EA at shitting the bed in every aspect.

moon, do games w Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide

Nooooooooo!

I mean both were good games, but Zelda is just legendary status and on another level. It holds a special place for me, and they somehow nailed it out of the park yet again with TOTK. I don’t know how they keep doing it! They have some geniuses over there.

randomaside, do gaming w Over 5,000 games industry workers have already lost their jobs in 2024
@randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Cool maybe this means more indie games…

Idk I gave up a long time ago when I learned rolling layoffs was the norm in game development.

cyclohexane,

Unfortunately it doesn’t mean that. Game corporations have too much power and influence over the market.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

What are you talking about? Indie development studios spring up out of mistreatment at AAA studios all the time. Where do you think Supergiant, Second Dinner, and Frost Giant came from, for instance?

Geek_King, do games w Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy

I purchased Palworld today, started it up, I made a character, and walked around a bit, but I had to exit the game to go get an errand done. I get this game is aping pokemon hard, but the thing that struck me hard was how much they ripped off the “New Area Discovered” sequence Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom used. Palworld did the same behavior as I left a cave, almost the same sound/music clip, the font looked the same, the color too. Yeah, very much felt like a copy/paste, what a bizarre thing to copy.

dojan, do games w Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

I’m hoping this also means that voice actors can choose not to enter such a deal?

arquebus_x,

It does, yes. And they can also choose to opt out of future uses of their voice in the AI trained model. Which essentially means that their contracts are on a per-project basis, rather than allowing the game developer to force them to contract for the current project and any future use of the model by that game dev.

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

The way I see it, if they want to train models on someone’s voice they should hire them specifically for that purpose. Ergo, clips that are used in production should not be used for training voice models.

arquebus_x,

The contract would be a combination contract, for performance and AI training. That's explicitly the thing that's been agreed to here.

johannesvanderwhales,

Yes but it also means that the studios can only hire someone who will sign off on it.

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

Not if they want a particular name, like Elias Toufexis seems pretty against having his voice cloned.

johannesvanderwhales,

That’s fine for people who are established, but unions are supposed to protect all members, especially the ones just getting started who don’t have as much bargaining power.

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

Then everyone should unionise and fall under the same protections. It’s how it works here in Sweden.

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