Today I’m going to be looking at the demo for an upcoming narrative-driven simulation game that looks like a lot of fun! It’s called inKonbini: One Store. Many Stories. This demo is free on Steam, so feel free to check it out for yourself....
I felt the same way. It was even more disappointing because Epic Games got their claws into it, so it released as an exclusive title. I had to wait a year before I could play it on Steam, and it didn’t even live up to the hype!
I recently re-installed Far Cry 6 and a friend and I have been replaying it in co-op mode. It’s actually a lot more fun than I remember. I don’t know if it received a bunch of patches/updates since I last tried it, or if I was just super-critical after Far Cry 5. But it’s not a horrible game. At least not yet; we’re only a couple hours into it so far.
Oh damn. I’ve spent $30,359.76 on Steam in the 17 years I’ve had an account. And I just passed 4,000 games in my Steam library within the last month. That checks out.
I really like video games. And I’m retired young(ish), so I have all the time in the world to game now.
Plus, I have a (relatively new) blog dedicated to introducing games to people, which encourages me to play through a variety of games in my library. It’s basically just archiving my “Random Screenshots of my Games” posts in !games.
And according to the SteamDB, I’ve played 26% of my games. The last time I checked, it was at 38%, but that was maybe 2,000 games ago. I need to keep working through my library!
Video games and collecting Sonic the Hedgehog comics are my two expensive hobbies; I don’t spend money on much else besides essentials (food, shelter), so I can afford to splurge a bit on these hobbies. I am not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination, but the US military took really good care of me for 20 years and continues to provide for me in retirement, so I’m able to live a pretty relaxed life now.
If you somehow dont have Metro 2033 yet, you can still add it to your library for free today.
I saw that it was free for 48 hours! I already have the whole Metro franchise, but I’ve informed my gaming friends about the deal this morning. Thanks for spreading the news!
One caveat to my Steam library is that I always try to wait for deals before I buy; I rarely buy anything at full price. I don’t want to think about how much money I might’ve spent if I bought everything at full price! 😱
Long time no see! I really need to stop promising to write about specific games. I get too in my head about it, then I feel obligated to write instead of wanting to write. This is supposed to be a fun personal writing project, not work!...
Here’s a bonus screenshot for you. I really like this image, just because it’s sort of an ominous “quiet before the storm” shot. Seeing both scientists watch you with silent anticipation as you’re about to cause a world-altering event in that next room.
They put a ton of effort into remaking Xen so that it blends better into the gameplay and story. I think I read somewhere that Half-Life took about an hour to slog through Xen, but Black Mesa, despite having around 4 hours of Xen gameplay, was actually really enjoyable.
Thanks for your support! My posts originally started as just a random screenshot or two of the latest game I was playing. But I always hated how people just talked about specific video games like everyone on the thread was intimately familiar with them. Especially if it was a game that sounded interesting to me. I wanted to know more about it!
So I decided to use my screenshots as a way to introduce newcomers to each game; give them a little intro to the plot and gameplay so they’d be interested in trying it out for themselves. Or to remind previous players of a great game they hadn’t played in a while.
By the time I started writing long-form blog entries on video games, I already had a bit of a series going and I didn’t want to suddenly change the title of my numbered posts. So they are “random” screenshots of my games, but they’re also a spoiler-free in-depth exploration of each game.
One day, I plan to go back and re-do some of my earlier posts so I can actually have in-depth discussion on those games too.
I’ve also been archiving my posts on a personal blog, in case any of them get taken down or blocked here for any reason. If anyone’s interested in checking out my history of posts, it’s a bit easier to review the archive at that link.
It’s not that bad. They have three difficulty settings: Normal, Black Mesa, and Hard. I played on Normal and I haven’t really struggled anywhere. I think I’ve only died once in my whole gameplay, and it was when I was fighting off waves of Marines flooding a single large space that I couldn’t leave. I’m assuming “Black Mesa” is their suggested difficulty level.
Top ones I know of these days are siege, but some people have made a case that dead by daylight is pretty bad as well. Like if any of you remember the Xbox 360 Halo days. I think those would pass for toxic today. What do you guys think? Is the most toxic community out there in gaming?
A childhood friend of mine worked as a developer for Riot Games over a decade ago, when League of Legends first became popular. He tried to get me to play it with him, but the community was so toxic, it’s the first and only game I ever quit solely because of the community.
If you didn’t play specific characters with very specific builds, you were just wasting everyone’s time and any losses would be blamed on you. It was really bad.
I love the content and lore that comes from LoL (Arcane, K/DA, etc.), but I can’t stand the game itself.
I was actually in the middle of a Half-Life review (spoiler for my next post!) and I got a new Steam Deck in the mail, which thoroughly distracted me for the past few days. That, and I threw my back out, so sitting comfortably at my gaming PC has been impossible lately. Instead, I’ve been lying in bed, enjoying some of my...
This is actually my second Steam Deck. I bought the original LCD-screen one back when they were first announced, but they had a nasty habit of the bumper buttons (L1 and R1) breaking. Sure enough my L1 button broke and I just never sent it back to get it fixed. I’ve just been re-mapping that button to the L2 (trigger) button instead.
Recently, my wife expressed interest in having a Steam Deck (she almost bought her own when they first came out), and she claimed she was perfectly content taking my old one, since she doesn’t game as much as me anyway. So I bought a fancy new HDR OLED-screen Steam Deck. It’s much more responsive than my first one. And the bumper buttons work! I forgot how nice it is to just play a game without re-mapping buttons first.
The plots of Portal 2 singleplayer, co-op, and PTI are very “distant” from anything happening with Half-Life.
From what I understand (it’s been a while since I read up on the lore), Portal 1 and 2 take place after the Combine invasion of Earth, shortly after the first Half-Life game. That’s why Aperture Science is almost completely devoid of life, minus the personality cores that are attempting to continue running things. It’s because of the resonance cascade incident at Black Mesa that Aperture Science is now mostly defunct, and Chell is trapped as a lab rat at GLaDOS’ mercy.
So the Portal series is pretty reliant on Half-Life’s story to justify their plot, even if it’s never directly addressed in the game itself.
Today i continued through Alan Wake 2. I have started Alan’s Section. I got to the very end of Chapter 2, but ran into a bug where Alan doesn’t push a subway car door open while being chased so i stopped there....
Epic just recently announced that they’re never releasing it outside of their store. They’re the exclusive publisher, so they have distribution rights, and their CEO Tim Sweeney is determined to snub his nose at Steam, even though Alan Wake 2 still hasn’t earned back its production costs. It’s a complete flop, but they won’t extend to the Steam market to help sales.
Unlike other games, where publishers sign exclusivity contracts with Epic Games for a certain time period, Alan Wake 2 was actually published by Epic Games, meaning that Epic Games gets to decide what systems the game releases on. So it’s not coming to Steam. Which means I’ll never get to play it, because I’m never giving a penny to that awful store of theirs.
On the surface, MiSide looks like a dating simulation game. And I very nearly passed right over it in the Steam store. But then I caught the “psychological horror” tag and thought, ‘That’s an odd tag to put on a dating sim.’ At worst, maybe it’s commentary on dating sims as a whole; letting you experience a loving...
I have not; although I have been warned that it’s not at all what it appears to be and that I should go into it blind for the best experience. So I’m assuming it’s going to be something like MiSide. It’s definitely on my list of games to play!
Don’t worry, I’m alive! I took the holidays off and traveled to visit family, then had a hard time getting back into posting about the games I’ve been playing, so I apologize for my nearly 2 months of silence. I actually have a bunch of games lined up that I want to write about, so hopefully you’ll see more posts in the...
Does anyone remember Seaman? That game was great! Why are you giggling? I’m just talking about Seaman! Why does everybody giggle when I say I want to play with Seaman???...
This happened to me with Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor the year it released. I got tired of waiting for it to go on sale, so I finally bought it at full $60 price. The very next day, it was on sale for $5.99. D’oh!
I picked up Total War: WARHAMMER III and Pennon and Battle, both strategy games. I’m thinking of getting Baldur’s Gate 3 as well. This should keep me busy for a while. My holiday plan is to stay home and game! https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ecf5697b-192e-4bcf-87ce-7f1dfec76993.png
The Winter Sale isn’t over until January 2nd, so I might buy some more games before it ends. Problem is, I own most of the games on the Steam front page, so finding new and interesting games is getting difficult.
You guys don’t share your Steam Relay publicly and put it in a showcase on your profile?
/s… but I totally do that. I’m not ashamed of my gameplay.
EDIT: I just read the article and saw the mention of the “Dwarf” category. It’s maxed out on my spider graph, and I’ve only played 2 games with dwarves this year, out of 180 individual games I’ve played.
Is it just me or does this not exist on Steam anymore? This SteamDB page just redirects me to the Steam homepage when I click on the game’s store page.
Yes, I was curious enough to click for more information. 😒
I used to be big on Deep Rock’s Galactic, but I’ve hardly played it at all this year. The other dwarf game I played was The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria.
Considering Ubisoft is struggling to stay relevant after saying players should feel comfortable with not owning games anymore, poor sales with Star Wars: Outlaws, and the controversy over their upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows game, I’m sure they’re doing everything they can to draw people back to their games right now. Achievements bring some replayability to their old titles.
Get To Work is a tongue-in-cheek game about climbing the corporate ladder. But it’s more metaphorical than literal, as you spend the game on your hands and knees, rollerblading your way up difficult obstacles (and falling back to the ground level) just for the slightest recognition in the workforce....
LocoCycle, despite its appearance, is not actually a racing game, but an action/adventure fighting game that happens to take place on the open road....
Good morning! Today I’m going to be looking at the latest game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise: Sonic X Shadow Generations. This game is a 2024 remake of the 2011 game Sonic Generations, which itself was a modern tribute to Sonic’s past games fighting against Dr. Eggman....
By the way, I took these three screenshots in order during my gameplay. While reviewing them later, I thought they were hilarious out of context. Enjoy!
How do you do, fellow gamers? I’m back with another set of video game screenshots! And today’s game is a simulator game. I actually love simulator games; I have a whole category in my Steam library dedicated to them. It’s the only library collection I’ve made that’s specifically for a genre of game....
For single player games, I don’t see why players shouldn’t be able to play on their own pace.
Agreed, I always hate when games force me to rush an event or situation. I’m here to have fun! Let me enjoy it at my own pace!
Although I think the days in this game are plenty long enough. Just when I’m getting tired from running around, I realize it’s evening time in-game. It’s mostly morning that comes too soon. Once I’m prepped for the next day, I don’t have much time to run around and explore before it’s time to reopen the tavern.
I could just close earlier, but the more stuff I sell each day, the more money I have to work with for the next day. Upgrades cost money to unlock, so I’ve been saving up to expand the tavern. I haven’t bought any decorations and I only bought more tables so I can sell to more customers at a time. Although I don’t get enough customers to fill all the seats right now.
Not at all. I believe the game was actually made for English audiences because the speaking animations seem to match the English subtitles and look like a bad dub in French. There is a lot of French in the background, but it’s more like immersive world details. The important stuff is either place names that are explicitly mentioned, like the Saint-Michel Rotunda in the first screenshot, or written in English. Heck, I think there’s more English in that first screenshot than French.
Say No! More is a relatively short but comical game about empowering people to say “no” more often. It mostly plays itself, with you interacting enthusiastically at key points throughout the gameplay....
Yeah, that $950 was already 2 years of payments, which OP was complaining about “investing” in his games. Where are they coming up with an additional $200 per month?! At that point, why not just invest that $200/mo and keep enjoying your games?
EDIT: OP changed their math literally a minute after I posted this. It makes more sense now.
Note: I set this game to display in 4K resolution, but it enabled a resolution scale and wouldn’t scale larger than 1080p for some reason. After I beat the game, I realized I was in borderless windowed mode. Changing it to fullscreen granted the full 4K resolution. So these screenshots are all going to be 1080p instead of my...
Cult of the Lamb is a cute game about building, maintaining, and running a cult in order to overthrow the four Bishops controlling the Old Faith. But is there such a thing as a good cult…?...
Did you know you can save Doretta’s head in the Escort Duty missions? I make it my goal to always return home with her. No dwarf (or machine) left behind!...
The Driller I regularly play with has a nasty habit of abandoning our group to go drill tunnels where we don’t need tunnels. He’s always looking to take shortcuts directly to his objective instead of following the caves.
Then, when we’re trying to run to the drop pod, Molly will just go straight up one of his tunnels in the ceiling, where we can’t follow. Then we’re frantically running around, trying to find another route to the drop pod without Molly’s flags.
Oh, and he fights every large bug with C4, nearly killing us all in the process.
I’m jumping into psychological horror today, with a walking simulator called POOLS. This game has no jump scares, no monsters. It’s just dark (and sometimes bright), liminal spaces that give you an eerie, creeped-out vibe, themed around indoor pools with unnaturally dark waters. The longer you walk through this maze of...
I’m just an enthusiastic gamer, raving about some of the games I’ve enjoyed. But I’m sure the developers of this game will be glad to hear that you’re interested.
Random Screenshots of my Games #61 - The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog angielski
Sheesh, Amy, don’t look so happy that Sonic’s dead…...
Random Screenshots of my Games #60 - inKonbini: One Store. Many Stories (demo) angielski
Today I’m going to be looking at the demo for an upcoming narrative-driven simulation game that looks like a lot of fun! It’s called inKonbini: One Store. Many Stories. This demo is free on Steam, so feel free to check it out for yourself....
Random Screenshots of my Games #59 - Far Cry 5 angielski
Welcome back! For my next screenshot-laden game discussion, I’m going to be talking about my favorite of the Far Cry series, Far Cry 5....
'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Random Screenshots of my Games #58 - Black Mesa (Half-Life) angielski
Long time no see! I really need to stop promising to write about specific games. I get too in my head about it, then I feel obligated to write instead of wanting to write. This is supposed to be a fun personal writing project, not work!...
What games have the most toxic communities? angielski
Top ones I know of these days are siege, but some people have made a case that dead by daylight is pretty bad as well. Like if any of you remember the Xbox 360 Halo days. I think those would pass for toxic today. What do you guys think? Is the most toxic community out there in gaming?
Random Screenshots of my Games #57 - Aperture Desk Job (lemmy.world) angielski
I was actually in the middle of a Half-Life review (spoiler for my next post!) and I got a new Steam Deck in the mail, which thoroughly distracted me for the past few days. That, and I threw my back out, so sitting comfortably at my gaming PC has been impossible lately. Instead, I’ve been lying in bed, enjoying some of my...
Day 201 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (pxscdn.com) angielski
Today i continued through Alan Wake 2. I have started Alan’s Section. I got to the very end of Chapter 2, but ran into a bug where Alan doesn’t push a subway car door open while being chased so i stopped there....
Random Screenshots of my Games #56 - MiSide (lemmy.world) angielski
On the surface, MiSide looks like a dating simulation game. And I very nearly passed right over it in the Steam store. But then I caught the “psychological horror” tag and thought, ‘That’s an odd tag to put on a dating sim.’ At worst, maybe it’s commentary on dating sims as a whole; letting you experience a loving...
Random Screenshots of my Games #55 - A Way Out (lemmy.world) angielski
Don’t worry, I’m alive! I took the holidays off and traveled to visit family, then had a hard time getting back into posting about the games I’ve been playing, so I apologize for my nearly 2 months of silence. I actually have a bunch of games lined up that I want to write about, so hopefully you’ll see more posts in the...
We all need Seaman back in our lives! angielski
Does anyone remember Seaman? That game was great! Why are you giggling? I’m just talking about Seaman! Why does everybody giggle when I say I want to play with Seaman???...
It's like they wait for you to buy it (lemmy.world) angielski
What did everyone grab during the Steam Winter Sale? angielski
I picked up Total War: WARHAMMER III and Pennon and Battle, both strategy games. I’m thinking of getting Baldur’s Gate 3 as well. This should keep me busy for a while. My holiday plan is to stay home and game! https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ecf5697b-192e-4bcf-87ce-7f1dfec76993.png
What games have you sunk the most time into? angielski
I was looking at my playtime for some games and realized I have over 450 hours in PlanetSide 2....
Valve is fixin' to start some arguments over the holidays because 'All adult members in a Steam Family' can see your Steam Replay page (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
I may have just missed the news on this, but i guess Assassins creed and presumably other Ubisoft games are getting Steam Achievements now? angielski
I woke up this morning and found that Assassin’s Creed Unity, Black Flag, and Syndicate all have steam achievements...
Random Screenshots of my Games #54 - Get To Work (lemmy.world) angielski
Get To Work is a tongue-in-cheek game about climbing the corporate ladder. But it’s more metaphorical than literal, as you spend the game on your hands and knees, rollerblading your way up difficult obstacles (and falling back to the ground level) just for the slightest recognition in the workforce....
Random Screenshots of my Games #53 - LocoCycle (lemmy.world) angielski
LocoCycle, despite its appearance, is not actually a racing game, but an action/adventure fighting game that happens to take place on the open road....
Random Screenshots of my Games #52 - Sonic X Shadow Generations (Shadow Generations) (lemmy.world) angielski
Good morning! Today I’m going to be looking at the latest game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise: Sonic X Shadow Generations. This game is a 2024 remake of the 2011 game Sonic Generations, which itself was a modern tribute to Sonic’s past games fighting against Dr. Eggman....
Random Screenshots of my Games #51 - Tavern Manager Simulator (lemmy.world) angielski
How do you do, fellow gamers? I’m back with another set of video game screenshots! And today’s game is a simulator game. I actually love simulator games; I have a whole category in my Steam library dedicated to them. It’s the only library collection I’ve made that’s specifically for a genre of game....
Random Screenshots of my Games #50 - Remember Me (lemmy.world) angielski
Happy (belated) Veteran’s Day! Sorry for posting this so late; I’m a recently retired veteran, so yesterday ended up busier than I expected....
Random Screenshots of my Games #49 - Say No! More (lemmy.world) angielski
Say No! More is a relatively short but comical game about empowering people to say “no” more often. It mostly plays itself, with you interacting enthusiastically at key points throughout the gameplay....
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Random Screenshots of my Games #48 - Death From Above (lemmy.world) angielski
Note: I set this game to display in 4K resolution, but it enabled a resolution scale and wouldn’t scale larger than 1080p for some reason. After I beat the game, I realized I was in borderless windowed mode. Changing it to fullscreen granted the full 4K resolution. So these screenshots are all going to be 1080p instead of my...
Random Screenshots of my Games #47 - Cult of the Lamb (lemmy.world) angielski
Cult of the Lamb is a cute game about building, maintaining, and running a cult in order to overthrow the four Bishops controlling the Old Faith. But is there such a thing as a good cult…?...
Random Screenshots of my Games #46 - Deep Rock Galactic (lemmy.world) angielski
Did you know you can save Doretta’s head in the Escort Duty missions? I make it my goal to always return home with her. No dwarf (or machine) left behind!...
Random Screenshots of my Games #12 - POOLS (lemmy.world) angielski
I’m jumping into psychological horror today, with a walking simulator called POOLS. This game has no jump scares, no monsters. It’s just dark (and sometimes bright), liminal spaces that give you an eerie, creeped-out vibe, themed around indoor pools with unnaturally dark waters. The longer you walk through this maze of...