I remember when a friend of mine got that and showed it to me and I thought it sucked because it made the games too easy, but never in my life would I have thought anyone was infringing copyright by using it.
You needed something to convince gamers it was worth buying. Note the awesome art doesn’t actually give any sort of realistic idea of what the product was like.
Adults were fans of Minecraft when it came out since there was really no other sandbox game like it at the time. There were precious few sandbox games at the time period.
This is amusing to me because I’m super old school and was using local dialup BBSes in high school. We all used each others’ BBS handles when we got together for local meetups. I’m still friends with some of them and they still call me by that name even though I haven’t used it since the 90s. I’ve been called by my handle(s) for literal decades.
I went to a really lovely meetup recently of people I’ve been talking to on a small forum for years who I never met before. One of the hosts had the same first name as me. People just called me Squid. I was fine with it.
That’s pretty cool! I’ve wondered more than once what prompts trans people to choose the names they choose but I’ve never felt it was really a polite thing to ask. That is one possibility for choosing a name that makes a lot of sense to me, especially when you can be completely genderfluid in a game. You could be biologically XY but have played games as a woman named Miranda for 20 years, so when you finally transition, you call yourself Miranda. I like that.
I can see that. You’re trying out new ways to express yourself and you’ll feel like you got it wrong sometimes, so you revise it. That could be your voice or the way your walk or the style you wear or your name. You’re living as your true gender for the first time in your life, so there’s bound to be plenty of trial and error.
Right in front of the Dunkin, huh? It would be terrible if people kept accidentally spilling their coffee, hot chocolate and the like on it considering you have to immediately scrape bird shit and dead bugs off of it when you get to where you’re going to avoid corrosion. (Really.)
Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren’t filled with microtransactions? For example: easy puzzle games, match-3 games, low-difficulty adventure games, or clicker-style games....
Word Cookies. I absolutely love it. You can pay for things, but it is absolutely not necessary and is basically only if you feel the need to use boosts that allow you to cheat your way past the level. I think it costs $2 to go ad-free.
It does give you regular popups asking if you want to buy coins, which I admit is annoying, but they are unnecessary to enjoy the game. There’s also endless opportunities to get coins and other boosts for free. I have something like 80,000 coins and dozens of boosts and other than the $2 to go ad-free, I’ve never given them any money.
You do have to have certain word skills to enjoy it as much as I do. If you’re the sort who can crush it at Boggle, it’s the game for you.
I love that Fallout is now thought of as a first-person game, but it started as a turn-based isometric team RPG in 1997 which was, itself, a near-remake of a 1988 game, which I spent hours playing as a kid.
I was well into adulthood when that came out. If you want to make me feel old, remind me that the Atari 5200 came out 42 years ago. And almost no one bought it. And the people who did regretted it. And now it’s only old people like me who remember it even existed.
They’re amazing. I highly recommend it if you like games in that style. The first two Baldur’s Gates were also like that (I haven’t played the latest).
I’m not a huge gamer anymore, at least not of newer games… aren’t microtransactions a bigger problem in multiplayer games because it gives player willing to spend money an unfair advantage over skilled players?
Sure, not necessarily… but in practice? Again, this is not something I have personal experience, but based on what I’ve read about it, it generally is about giving someone an advantage, isn’t it?
It’s not even a beta tester thing. They just bought it from Oculus, made a few minor changes (most notably requiring you to have a Facebook account to use it) and that was it. This is a “force consumers to upgrade” thing. And it should be illegal.
My daughter does too. She stopped touching it about two years minus one day after we got it for her for Christmas. And she really wanted it for Christmas too.
There hasn’t been a lot of good news out of EA lately, but here’s some: the company just launched a bunch of classic games on Steam. The new (old) releases include nine games in total, spanning franchises like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and SimCity....
For those who are traveling across the U.S., Terre Haute is on I-70, so you will probably drive through it. There’s not a huge number of reasons to stop (I know, I live here), but I highly recommend this one. It’s just off the interstate in a shopping mall, so it’s very easy to get to....
If anyone is old enough to remember Infocom games, they came with “feelies,” just random fun stuff related to the game they decided to include. It occasionally was needed to solve a game puzzle, but usually not.
[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday (lemmy.world) angielski
Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement (www.techdirt.com) angielski
The Beamscope TV Magnifier - one of the most worthless game accessories of the 1980s. (gamingafter40.blogspot.com) angielski
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9e178b6b-9c41-4b66-b1a9-5c3fdaf3dbdc.png
Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Kotaku being Kotaku (lemmy.today) angielski
At this point I’m going to Ladbrokes and betting against everything Kotaku promotes. They are like Jim Cramer of the gaming industry.
One of my biggest fears. (lemmy.world) angielski
One of my biggest fears.
I only ever used it for Pokemon, but I'm sure there were other uses. (lemmy.world) angielski
Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN (www.ign.com) angielski
Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? angielski
Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren’t filled with microtransactions? For example: easy puzzle games, match-3 games, low-difficulty adventure games, or clicker-style games....
Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries (steamdb.info) angielski
Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite “internal discussions”.
Feeling old (lemmy.world) angielski
"Scrabble: The Presidential Edition." I saw this game in Goodwill today. It's like the Homer Simpson car of board games. (boardgamegeek.com) angielski
Here is how the BoardGameGeek link above explains it how it is different from regular Scrabble:...
CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games" (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 (lemmy.nowsci.com) angielski
Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs (kotaku.com) angielski
EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam (www.theverge.com) angielski
There hasn’t been a lot of good news out of EA lately, but here’s some: the company just launched a bunch of classic games on Steam. The new (old) releases include nine games in total, spanning franchises like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and SimCity....
Bank of Pinball - Pinball arcade in Terre Haute, IN with over 50 tables angielski
For those who are traveling across the U.S., Terre Haute is on I-70, so you will probably drive through it. There’s not a huge number of reasons to stop (I know, I live here), but I highly recommend this one. It’s just off the interstate in a shopping mall, so it’s very easy to get to....
I miss manuals... (lemmy.world) angielski