To clarify, if I was introducing someone to the Diablo series for the first time and told them they'd have to start on the first one. I wouldn't want them playing the bare vanilla version. There is a Bezelbub mod out there that gives the game lots of QoL improvements, you'd be thinking you're playing a build of Diablo 2 before...
Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago....
D2R even dropped LAN play and backwards compatibility with classic D2. Those had both been promised during development.
And I would also like to play D4. The atmosphere in the beginning is great, really felt like Diablo 1. But apparently the rest of the game is more like D3 again so I’m not that salty that I can’t play.
There are a lot of games I simply don’t have the brainpower or energy for because of !myalgicencephalomyelitis. I have started Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Mass Effect. But they’re too wordy for me. And I can’t bring myself to play them in a way where I don’t fully exhaust every conversation.
I hope I will be able to stomach the Gothic Remake. The original is one of my favourite games ever.
Yeah, I don’t know exactly what it is but I always feel like I don’t have enough overview in those. Like I can’t really make out the enemies. Apart from that I don’t really like the gem system. I think PoE 2 had something new but PoE2 is too hard on my brain unfortunately.
D2 exactly hits that sweet spot of simplicity and new mechanics for me. Although nothing beats the atmosphere of D1.
What I loved about Duke Nukem, especially in contrast to Doom, was the interactivity and that all the places actually looked like places. Doom’s levels just looked like video game levels. In Duke Nukem 3D you were in real cities with real shops. And the cinema worked, the billiard table worked, he’d comment when you tried to use the arcade machines, the toilets worked, electrical outlets gave you a shock, etc.
An article from this weekend that seemingly got buried by soundbites about the Steam Machine price in the same interview, but given that we have no information on price, this seems way more interesting to me. I mean…I basically self-select games that don’t use these kinds of anti-cheat at all, but this is important...
They’ve worked on anti cheat support before. It still depends on the devs actually activating that support. That will always be the case whatever they do.
It’s a sign of the times. When I was a kid the cutscenes were the reward for winning the game, or a portion of the game for those bigger games that could afford more than two cutscenes.
But for my kids cutscenes are the boring things that keep you from playing.
OP, you would love the Steam Deck, or in a few months the Steam Machine. Or any other PC with Steam for that matter. With Steam Input you can rebind the controls of even the most stubborn game.
I really hope that we can buy the Frame controllers separately. Playing Twilight Princess on the Wii with one hand behind my head and the other resting on my lap was the most relaxed gaming experience I’ve ever had. Miles away from the crazy flailing about that haters would describe Wii gaming as.
They showed a special build of Alyx only rendering where the eyes are looking and supposedly even that works well. I bet they’re working on a version of Alyx that can run natively on the Frame but it wasn’t fully ready for the announcement.
Or maybe we actually are the first interstellar civilisation. With features like Jupiter and especially our giant ass moon seeming to be pretty rare we still don’t know what it really takes to make a planet habitable. Let alone habitable in such a way that it creates intelligent life.
Someone on YouTube made their first playthrough an all-hit run without parries or dodges. On Expert. They had to grind a bit but made it work. I think the Curator fight where he teaches you jumping was the hardest because his damage scales with your level.
spoilerThey even beat Simon without one-shotting him. Impressive stuff.
It really proves that the game can be a normal JRPG, albeit a grindy one in the beginning.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has one of the most interesting world in stories inside and outside of gaming. I hope we will see many more stories set in that world.
The hook alone is great.
Spoiler for the prolog and trailers.Around the end of the 19th century the whole world broke apart and a part of Paris (called Lumiere in the game) was thrown into the sea. And this giant “Paintress” started painting the number 100 on an enormous monolith and each year she counts down. And everyone who is that old or older evaporates into ash and flower petals.
So the people started sending out expeditions to find out wtf is going on.
Spoiler for the rest of the game.The world is actually a magical painting the Paintress’ son made when he was a child. For him, his sister and their parents to play in. But when he was an adult their other sister was tricked by “the Writers” into setting a fire which killed him. In her grief the mother fled into the painting because it was the last bit she had of him. Fearing she would stay in there until she died of starvation the father went in as well to get her out. As she wouldn’t relent he started erasing the painting and she tried to prevent that. Every year painting the age of the people she wouldn’t be able to save from him onto the monolith. So we actually have this world of magical Painters and Writers who are at war with each other and it is hinted that there are Musicians as well. And who knows what other artists with magical powers exist in this world. I’m imagining Programmers joining the fray in the future. The possibilities both inside any art pieces and outside in the “real” world are endless.
I’m reminded of my daughter who used her Hulk puppet as a baby puppet. Kids will always find a way to play what they want.
She also didn’t care much for the story in Spider-Man or GTA but then again I think those games are designed with such players in mind.
Every time I think of some example I realise that it’s actually encouraged by the game. Like Creative Mode in Minecraft to just build stuff, playing Sim City without catastrophes, killing every NPC in an RPG.
My brother used to shoot me in the back in Doom co-op. But if PvP wasn’t intended it would be turned off.
Just remembered all the servers for Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy that were dedicated to polite dueling. You had a big etiquette to follow if you wanted to do lightsaber battles. If you attacked someone with their lightsaber off you got banned instantly. Those servers were mostly used for chatting.
I think the only game that really let you branch out with your choices was Detroit: Become Human. You could literally delete fully playable characters and their storylines from the game by the first choice you make with them.
It probably doesn’t work with interactable objects and other edge cases. And it for sure doesn’t work with trees because they highlighted in the Witcher 4 showcase how they created a version specifically for trees.
To paraphrase Jeff Grubb, there’s been more smoke lately indicating a console than VR, but “frame” implies glasses implies VR headset. It could go either way or both, where the console and VR are complementary. Or neither! But I think smart money is on Valve announcing new hardware imminently, and personally, I think...
The thing that would speak against ARM are the recent sightings of new AMD based APUs from Valve on benchmark sites. Unless that is the next thing over and they are actually now ready with Deckard/Frame.
What is the definitive way to play certain games? angielski
To clarify, if I was introducing someone to the Diablo series for the first time and told them they'd have to start on the first one. I wouldn't want them playing the bare vanilla version. There is a Bezelbub mod out there that gives the game lots of QoL improvements, you'd be thinking you're playing a build of Diablo 2 before...
Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? angielski
Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago....
Baldur's Gate 3 (techforum.tr) angielski
Baldur’s Gate 3
'PETTY THIEF: DEADLY SHADOWS #1' - Civvie11 (www.youtube.com) angielski
I don't think we're ever getting the next one. angielski
Duke Nukem 3D 30th Anniversary Tribute | The Voice, Creators, and Legends Behind the King (www.youtube.com) angielski
Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective (www.theverge.com) angielski
Life is Strange: Reunion officially announced, will conclude the Max and Chloe saga | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
release date is March 26
Standing on a Button for 8 Hours Breaks Portal 2 | Msushi (www.youtube.com) angielski
Talk about Source spaghetti!
World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles angielski
GOG and CD Projekt founder Michał Kiciński acquires 100% ownership of GOG (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
For me, it was Microsoft Ants angielski
The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? angielski
The game awards begins roughly ~11 hours from now. what announcements are you hoping for?
Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! angielski
Looking for recommendations of games you think translate well to a Let’s Play....
Can You Conduct A Census In Red Dead Redemption 2? (www.youtube.com)
Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support (thisweekinvideogames.com) angielski
An article from this weekend that seemingly got buried by soundbites about the Steam Machine price in the same interview, but given that we have no information on price, this seems way more interesting to me. I mean…I basically self-select games that don’t use these kinds of anti-cheat at all, but this is important...
The Witcher 3 director's new RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is different to that classic CD Projekt Red game in one big way: it doesn't have a main quest [Eurogamer] (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’ (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
Gaming Pet Peeves angielski
What are some things that just get under your skin about games?...
We don't have to make it complicated angielski
Valves first title with a 3 in it angielski
Just saying
Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] (store.steampowered.com) angielski
No prices yet. I may never financially recover from this.
Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason (www.popularmechanics.com)
We just live too far apart.
Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games angielski
What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? angielski
What games have what you’d call really good worldbuilding, and what in particular do you like about them?...
When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? angielski
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/37932218...
Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders (www.thegamer.com) angielski
Games designed to be one thing, but are commonly played other than intended? angielski
Not sure how to title this better 😅...
Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing (www.thegamer.com) angielski
AAA game? Performance issues and crashing on release? Why I never.
Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com) angielski
New Valve trademark for 'Steam Frame', looks like we're getting new hardware (www.gamingonlinux.com) angielski
To paraphrase Jeff Grubb, there’s been more smoke lately indicating a console than VR, but “frame” implies glasses implies VR headset. It could go either way or both, where the console and VR are complementary. Or neither! But I think smart money is on Valve announcing new hardware imminently, and personally, I think...