@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world

TropicalDingdong

@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world

“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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TropicalDingdong,

This is literally the dumbest idea and it has been the whole time.

Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games?

Long story short, I was trying to make some pork buns and it ended with the tip of my thumb being sliced off, after hospital visit and six stitches and back. But I’m kind of bored out of my mind. Can’t do the steam deck. Can’t do really anything with a controller. I have a large library of games, most of which I haven’t...

TropicalDingdong,

dance dance revolution, while wacking it.

Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Free Windows 10 support ended for most people this past month, and the trend line of Linux usage has been quite clear leading up to this, as people prepared for the inevitable. An increase in Linux usage is also correlated to a drop in Chinese players, which did happen this month a little bit, but Linux usage is also trending up...

TropicalDingdong,

Having been gaming on Linux for the past 10 years and facing basically 0 issues, I can also affirmatively I don’t understand the attachment to windows. I get it if you need specifically word or excel. and I guess if you’ve got kids who want to play fortnite.

TropicalDingdong,

I use arch btw.

TropicalDingdong,

I still don’t understand why this sub has a veiney bad dragon thing for its image.

TropicalDingdong,

Online mode?

Bruh I can’t beat the coop.

TropicalDingdong,

boner-free, dusty corner of gaming.

Well you clearly didnt check all the corners because theres one right there.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cb1c6162-6482-4585-99f9-3e24444f528d.png

TropicalDingdong,

Balatro.

TropicalDingdong,

The steam deck controller is the final culmination.

Literally perfection.

TropicalDingdong,

The steam deck controller addresses all of these issues. I was literally an anti-controller (wasd gang) zealot and the steam deck controller converted me because I can literally play city skylines in bed now…

TropicalDingdong,

bipolar radio jet is stored in the balls

TropicalDingdong,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5bc9a5d1-c5cc-4e0e-b842-7540c782cc03.gif

TropicalDingdong,

100%

And all, ideally with a

nice fruitbowlhttps://files.catbox.moe/47ze7c.mp4

TropicalDingdong,

I want to gamble on Balatro.

TropicalDingdong,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/907f1411-d033-4b57-b8be-b9106299932f.png

TropicalDingdong,

But poly is going to fix all my problems!! At least thats what the OF model told me.

TropicalDingdong,

Is the switch 2 even competitive?

It’s a hall pass to an ecosystem. It’s barely hardware.

TropicalDingdong,

I mean the hardware is at least decent. And they aren’t shitting out another one because they aren’t seeing the generation improvement in performance they wanted (its coming). If I buy a Steam Deck, I at least get capable hardware.

Nintendo last several generations of hardware are born anemic. They start behind where even close to the cutting edge is. Nintendo has long since gave up pushing any kind of interesting boundary with its hardware.

I can’t just download “SwitchOS” and throw it on some non-anemic hardware to get a decent experience.

As much as people want to project onto Steam the idea that its a walled garden, its not. It is a cultivated garden, but its not walled off. You can enter and leave freely.

TropicalDingdong,

What are you on about with the switch having higher specs?

hothardware.com/news/switch-2-vs-steam-deck

“Not pushing any interesting boundary” is somewhere between extremely opinionated and outright incorrect, quite frankly.

I mean its not. Nintendo, in ancient history, did actually push boundaries around hardware. Most console makers did. The switch did not represent that. The completely transformed their approach to hardware, to shift to weaker, cheaper hardware so that they don’t push themselves out of reach for their target market: children.

The steam deck was a real advance in that regard. The handhelds that have followed have also pushed further. That’s not at all what the Switch2 is. Its behind the starting point for things that were available a few years ago.

The hostility is that Nintendo products have developed from actually capable, latest capabilities things, to a ticket you need to have punched to play a brand of games. The franchised is being carried by fan-boy-ism, not anything that they are doing that are objectively good, or that advance the industry. Its annoying also, that they are constantly being white knighted.

It seems like you are mostly concerned about grinding your axe against steam.

TropicalDingdong,

https://files.catbox.moe/cyvfid.gif

TropicalDingdong,

I wonder if getting further away from it (in time).

TropicalDingdong,

Was just now in another thread having nostalgia about this game: Reamlz.

It was distributed as freeware/ shareware back in the 90’s. You had to physically mail the producers cash if you wanted to get the expansions. I played through Balders Gate III recently and honestly, it doesn’t even come close to the replayability that Realmz had.

TropicalDingdong,

Me and my friends, we would play together by each getting a character and then taking turns during combat moving each of our characters.

I might buy that bundle on just your recommendation. I never tried those but if its vaguely like Realmz, I want to try it, since I pretty much only play on my steam deck these days.

TropicalDingdong,

Its the replayability. I mean, look how many people are still playing chess. Stick a human intelligence on the other end of the stick and you’ve pretty much got it figured out.

TropicalDingdong,

So Realmz is truly open world in a way that BG3 only pretends to be. In BG3, they create the sensation of this huge diversity of endings and paths you can take, but its all pretty much a fugazi: the illusion of choice when actually only a small number of endings are possible. In BG3, the choices add “color” along the way, but they don’t fundamentally change anything about the game, or what its about (like what even is the point of the game?). I have a whole essay of criticism I’ve developed on it, because I truly did enjoy it, but it was so… it pointed in the direction of how much possibility it could have but didn’t execute on it. Its really only an impression of what it claims to be.

There is no ending in Realmz. Its just a big open world. And as you dig, you find more, and more and it just keeps going. But there is no particular path to take. You just can go anywhere and find adventure along the way. There are a huge number of random encounters, and the combat style is basically top down tile based D&D, which BG3 is also, more or less. Then you get into some corner of the map in Realmz, and you find some cave or castle or dungeon to explore… and it just keeps going. And going and going and going. And instead of it being one monolithic story like BG3, its a world in which many BG3’s happen. The spider tower. The kobald army invasion. The castle in the clouds. The necromancers tower.

Another thing is, predictability/ “jail breaking”. Modern games have this expectation that we “know” everything that is possible for an item or method or whatever. This is a big departure from early games where we would often “find out” about what is possible. In modern games when something unexpected happens, the dev’s patch it and change the game. In old games when something unexpected happens… well… thats just part of the game. Dota is a great example of this, where basically, finding ways to break the game to come up with a new strategy was quite literally how the game was played. Its now devolved into a poor impression of itself. In realmz, I remember beating some adventure and its final wizard and getting a wand of polymorph. I used it on one of my characters and it polymorphed them into a red dragon and it killed the entire party. I highly doubt the game developers planned that as a possibility, but game development then was often about creating possibilities, not limiting them. Whenever anyone figures something like that out in BG3, they patch it and the game becomes a little more sterile, a little more boring.

Also, BG3 is just kinda… empty. Which I was really surprised by, considering how many studios create amazing, populated worlds with complex day night cycles and economies. In BG3, once you’ve pretty much cleared an area, thats it. Not much more to do other than advance to the next area. In Realmz, you had to watch your ass if you were really out there, because no-matter what state your party was in, a random encounter can happen at any time, and in that game, death is permanent. Also, wtf is with there not being a day night cycle in BG3? Like wth. I’ve got a damn vampire and they aren’t weak during the day and OP af at night?

TropicalDingdong,

I’ve definitely played City of Bywater.


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Same. I also definitely played City of Bywater, and I know I had both Assault on Giant Mountain and Castle in The Clouds (this one was giants right?)

TropicalDingdong,

This abandonware site appears to have a Windows release:

Yeah I downloaded it while we were chatting. I’m going to try and get it running after work.

TropicalDingdong,

Oh man. When I was in the Navy, I had the game boy advance. Advance wars had this sick turn based mode, where you could get your moves in, and then stick it in your pocket and wait to hand it off. We’d have four players playing games that might take all day, sometimes days. Just make your moves, stick it in your pocket, and whenever you find your shipmate, pass it along.

TropicalDingdong,

I’m trying to recall. I know we always had a solid supply of rechargeables underway. I also distinctly remember that there is a kind of blanked out hand off screen between players because of fog if war. I don’t recall it having any kind of sleep function. But I know it could run for several hours no issue. I don’t recall having to mind the batteries in particular.

Sorry I can’t be more helpful.

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TropicalDingdong,

Make Lamont Hill is always great

TropicalDingdong,

^ This comment is fucking delusional

TropicalDingdong,

Hide and go seek.

Budget gaming: steam deck or build a cheap gaming PC?

Hey all, sorry in advance if this kind of post isn’t welcome in this community. I wasn’t really sure where to post this question and I didn’t see anything in the rules against text posts or questions. If there’s a more appropriate place to post I’ll take this down and repost somewhere else....

TropicalDingdong,

I play more than I ever had time to with a PC on my deck. Also, I can play in the yard, on the couch, or if I’m feeling fancy, with a monitor, mouse and keyboard. Its great on a plane,

Also, it was a serviceable backup for the week where my work laptop died. I’ve felt priced out of a “fun machine” since the 30 series.

Its graphics are so so. I am in no rush to buy triple A’s, although I did play through BG3 a couple times on it. Witcher3 was great.

It depends on how seriously you are with yourself about always being docked. A $700 PC, if you can get a used Vcard, a PC is going to be an improvement. But have you ever been exposed to the mobility a deck offers? You can play in bed. At the breakfast table. In the back of a car. What the steam deck offers is bigger than just graphics. You may not think “I’ll do those things” because right now, its not even an option. But once it is… suddenly gaming on the porch with a beer becomes a mighty fine way do do things.

TropicalDingdong,

I played through all of BG3 with no issues. It was a pleasure. The only real graphics hiccup I had was when i stacked barrel after barrel of smoke powder in Gortash’s throne room and one shotted him.

TropicalDingdong,

Heres the thing. If you get a deck, you know that at least steam won’t be gaslighting you to buy another one for a hot minute.

I liked my deck enough that I bought the OLED when it came out to give my old one to my partner. Now we play in bed together side by side. She hadn’t played in years because well, life and being busy.

A deck can (somewhat) replace a PC. A PC could not replace a deck. Its a fundamentally different thing. I am going to buy a banger gaming PC. My deck allows me to play and have fun until I can buy the rig I want instead of the one I can afford.

TropicalDingdong,

I bought Witcher 3 AND ALL dlc for like 8 dollars last year during this sale.

TropicalDingdong,

I think part of this has to be related to the idea that you cant do good, creative, interesting things on e the number of cooks in the kitchen gets above a certain size, which might actually be quite small. I mean look at terraria and stardew valley. Microscopic dev teams with impact the size of asteroids in terms of total effect and the long term impact on gaming.

I think “good” in media is an extension of having a singular vision for what you are trying to do. Focus too much on crowd pleasing and you lose the plot.

TropicalDingdong,

We are the internet that Aaron wanted to see.

Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? (lemmy.world)

So I just read this book on history of games called “Blood, Sweat and Pixels” and was fascinated by the chapter on The Witcher 3 and mostly how the team put in so much thought and care in every single side quest. And seems that there are a lot of moral decision to be made on each adventure. So I finally decided to give it a...

TropicalDingdong,

I completely disagree with the top comment. Dont worry about the main game.

I advocate that you go in with the mindset that you are a part of an old and important guild, and that the main story is just an extension of your every day job of being a Witcher. The “side quests” are unbelievably good. So good that half of them have better stories than entire video games and series. I didn’t bother with the main story (only in parts, organically). I just wandered the country side and “did the job of a Witcher”. There is sooooooooo much to this game. Also, get the DLC’s.

One word of warning however. The power scaling is somewhat broken. If you over-level before moving forward, the game can get pretty boring only because the enemies become trivially easy to beat.

edit: Also, try and bang anything with eyes.

TropicalDingdong,

Interesting. I found the game to be basically boring without the extended difficulties.

TropicalDingdong,

Be, um, …selective seductive

ftfy.

TropicalDingdong,

Yeah I think I tried like 4 controller layouts on the steam deck before settling on one.

TropicalDingdong,

I didn’t have an issue reading small text on the Deck.

I will say that I found the experience of playing Witcher on the deck to be an absolute pleasure.

TropicalDingdong,

Idk. Like, I’m sure some of you have seen the most recent gen-AI stuff, but its like, un-fucking-canny.

I don’t know where this all goes, but its happening so fast, I’m sure legacy institutions like unions are going to struggle to keep up.

TropicalDingdong,

10 years? Bruh 10 months. I saw some stuff recently that was image gen, and there is not a fucking chance I would be able to say it was or wasn’t generated. Like I do some aspects of this shit for a living and I’m fucked.

Code generation, image and video generation, voxel generation, voice generation.

We’re fucked. This is like, seeing the iceberg in that minute before it hits on the titantic.

TropicalDingdong,

You know I could have played Euro Truck simulator for more than an hour if it had been an online pay-to-win MOBA.

TropicalDingdong,

It’s my bonsai buddy. how else would I find good deals on the Internet?

TropicalDingdong,

Depends on the game. I couldnt play bg3 without pads. Really need both.

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