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Until Dawn catching strays
My eye immediately went to Until Dawn & Detroit: Become Human, and I was like “Wait! Both these are dope!”
I really like Butterfly Effect decision games.
I didn’t play Detroit for so long because I expected it to be like most other interactive movie type games where you maybe make 3 total decisions that actually have an effect on the whole story. Checked it out on PS+ and still felt that way up until I finished the first level and it shows the fucking massive decision tree of all the possible choices you could have made in that segment and was blown away. Hella them I didn’t even notice were viable things I could have tried.
This is what these kinds of games should be. It’s fucking amazing. It actually gives replayability to something that, in the past, was more of a one and done deal.
Bruh, yes, I know exactly what you mean. I’m actually getting ready to replay D:BH again because the last time I played was about 1.5+ years ago, and I think I’ve finally forgotten all my decisions. My husband said I got one of the best endings he’s ever seen someone get, and I really didn’t want to be tempted to answer everything the same. There’s SO MANY ways that game can go/end, and I want to explore them all!
I made the mistake of playing Until Dawn first, then D:BH, and then I downloaded the Dark Pictures Anthology and played 2 out of the 4 of those. I’m sure those would have hit different had I played them first, but knowing that the ending is ultimately the same no matter which direction you go definitely ruins the replayability. All 4 run into the very issue you were worried about with Detroit.
Altho CoD and GTA are my main games I still play other things and I have like, 251 games on my Steam account, and countless others outside of it… Like, you do not need to restrict yourself to only yearly release triple A stuff… Those games get boring eventually.
except they’re on console
Fifa 25, Fifa 24, Fifa 23, etc
I know a guy who owns every single FIFA game form 96 on the PSX all the way to 23 on the PS5, gotta admit it’s an impressive collection
If he’s keeping them that’s pretty awesome.
98 was the last good one
“EA completely blew this game release, I’m never buying their slop again”
Back then I would play games for hours and hours to the point my parents would get angry at me. Now above my 18s I can not even play more than 50 minutes because for some reason everything quickly gets boring.
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For me, it’s a lack of friends to play games I like with
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I used to draw a lot back then. My loss of interest for games gradually made me go back to drawing and I am fine with it, it is nearly a decade I have not drawn until I decided to work on something yesterday on a paper. Did my first dedicated drawing yesterday and I am planning to do more in the next weeks 🙂.
I still play games sometimes though (warframe, minecraft, worldox) but again just for a few minutes and rarely an hour or more.
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Hey, that wasn’t mean at all! I don’t believe you are a mean cow.
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What’s your relationship with social media, or cannabis? Do you scroll short form media? Do you post lots of comments on Lemmy/reddit?
If none of those are an issue, then maybe you just got older.
I do not use drugs. I do not scroll short form media because it irritates me too 😅. Social media use is occasional.
That’s great! I assume your interests have just changed as you got older then! Or, the demands of adult life are pulling your attention.
i get that but it might not be the games fault dawg
Definitely isn’t
I mean I’m also guilty of playing like the same 5 games, haven’t moved on since like 2023
Me grinding 2003 games 👋
Kinda same but mostly because no time. I’ve yet to finish Elden Ring and BG3 so I’m still playing those when I get a moment.
Thats how life gets to ya
My huge backlog of games is because i have 0 motivation after work and starting a game is a hard task
alternatively, own hundreds of games and play none of them
Vermintide 2 is/was free on steam yesterday
I claimed it myself and played through act 1
Is it good? I am yet to try it
Pretty much what Kolanaki said. It’s just you and some teammates carving your way through ratmen and undead hordes, but it is fun for that kind of “just want to get in and play some rounds” without having to deal with a ton of story or plot. Especially if you’re looking for something medieval/fantasy themed.
Instructions unclear. I started a Reikland campaign on Total War Warhammer 3 and the Vermintide end game scenario spawned.
I am so fucked…
If you like Left 4 Dead, you’d probably like Vermintide. It’s basicslly the same thing. A little more varied in missions, tho, since you do more than just run to a safe room.
How have I never heard of the Detroit game?
It’s incredible, and unique in that nobody else is really making those types of games, and it has AAA-tier production values.
it’s from the makers of “Heavy Rain” and “Beyond: Two souls”. The player has to play the role of three different humanoid androids throughout the game, and make choices that heavily affect the gameplay. Depending on the choices you make with every character, their story and outcome changes their future paths. It’s a good game, and can be bought quite cheap at sales. The acting is really good IMO.
It’s a choose your own adventure take on the civil rights movement set in the future. Because of course society will have to deal with this shit all over again.
Mine is all farming/sim/tower defense. Because I no longer play (have the visual acuity for) fps I’ve heard I’m not a real gamer.
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Any favorites you want to recommend?
- Any 4X - Civ/Master of Orion/Endless Space
- BATTLETECH (2016)
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Kingmaker
- Shadowrun: Dragonslayer and Hong Kong
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Thank you!
Because I no longer play (have the visual acuity for) fps I’ve heard I’m not a real gamer.
Bah! Real gamers play Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
Idk why but pac man is the most anxiety inducing game I’ve ever played.
Is it because you’re just a disembodied mouth, eating pills in the dark while being haunted by ghosts?
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Sounds like it’s RPG time. Baldurs Gate 3. The original dragon age. ME trilogy. Dishonored 1 & 2. Fallout 3 or 4. Divinity original sin. Greedfall.
I have BG3 and I’ve played through a handful of times…I can’t bring myself to finish. I keep going back. I recently bought Divinity. I’ll add the rest to my list. =)
I highly recommend Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, too. If you really want a RPG to play
This was also good.
Divinity shows you why Wizards of the Coast went with Larian. At the time I played it popped as a game that had a lot of developer love, after seeing a lot of decline within the industry.
I hope you mean Divinity Original Sin. There rid a Divinity and it’s made by Larian too, bit old though xD
I can’t bring myself to finish.
I have the same habit, but recently discovered it’s apparently a neurodivergence symptom, heh.
Co-op with friends made me finish BG3 though.
Maybe I should try the co-op one day then…good idea
It’s great! Combat goes faster with players making moves in parallel (where possible).
Impulse offer: I’ve been pondering replaying BG3, or at least trying it out. If you want a random Lemmy stranger to help finish a save with, I’m down.
Yeah! 1000%. That sounds like a blast. Now I have motivation to work on a computer that can handle it. A lot of my little sim games aren’t very taxing. BG3 makes it overheat.
overheat
You can undervolt and TDP limit CPUs and GPUs to get that!
On GPUs, you can often get 90% of the FPS for like 60% of the power consumption, since AMD/Nvidia push clocks so hard. Download MSI afterburner, run its “OC curve” utility for an easy but optimal and safe undervolt, and then cap the max power at like 75% of whatever it normally is. Or cap the max clocks, which is what I usually do.
CPU depends more on which one you have.
But most games don’t need their max clocks. So one easy thing to do is download this little utility: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/windows-power-plan-settings-explorer-utility.416058/
Unhide the “Processor Performance Boost Mode”, and set it to enabled or disabled (instead of the default aggressive).
Let me emphasize that this is safe, and not an overclock.
Basically all modern CPUs and GPUs overclock themselves, boosting higher and higher until they operate at like 80C+ steady state. It’s kinda stupid. Hence, all these tweaks do is get them to stop boosting so hard, so they run at efficient clocks that don’t overheat your machine.
What’s your top three tower defense games?
Currently enjoying emberward. I really liked dungeon defenders and I played hundreds of hours of that. Kingdom rush. There’s a more mobile-like game islet defender or something. Gemcraft? I didn’t like bloons or plants vs zombies… Oh well, those are the ones I liked and if you have any recommendations glad to hear em.
Gemcraft is pretty crazy. Once you learn that combining gems in different order change how they upgrade. Had to use a small program to optimize that. It is so much fun but forever since I played so… I would suck now.
best td game by a music company Arknights
I played a lot of Dungeon Defenders with a group of friends ages ago. I know they made a second one. Is it any good? Are they good solo?
I liked playing 1 solo. I can’t speak for playing in a group as I never had a group. 2 was free to play by the time I got to it.
Thanks for the recommendations!
The idea that this same person would actually play something with as much soul as Until Dawn is pretty unbelievable. Can you believe they have like, emotions and crap? Plus just so much talking, I mean come on. They don’t even have a BattlePass!
I so much wait for the next game from Quantic Dream. Detroit is one of my all time favourites. There was no better visual novel yet.
I have steam account from CS 1.0 (can legally buy beer), and hundreds of games. I still say that gaming is dead, especially AAA gaming. This year has been quite shit compared to previous one’s and it has been a trend for years. Indie and small studios are the way forward.
For AAA yeah. This year however hades 2, kingdom come deliverance 2, and silksong all came out to great acclaim and still managed to get outclassed by Expedition 33. If that’s what dead looks like I want more of my hobbies to die
True, kcd2 was awesome. Let’s hope the collapse of AAA just means better indie and small studio games
Gaming was killed by the same thing that kills everything: capitalism and exceptionalism, with no regard for social responsibility and morality.
Also, steam came out with cs 1.6, not 1.0.
So long ago, that might have memory corrupted.
Ha
Those were before times.
I am but a failed reinforcement for a machine of which I cannot prescribe.
You can call me sentimental, but 1996-1999 were the golden age of new gaming IP. Most of games are sequels to franchises created in those few years. Like Fallout, GTA, Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Baldurs Gate, Smash, Quake, and many more.
It was a privilege to live as a teenager then.
AAA gaming is definitely dead but i dont think its a bad thing. Ive just about only played Indie games and even AA(?) games to great satisfaction the past couple of years. Im not a light gamer either have thousands of hours in games like Avorion, Stormworks, Battlebit, Juno: new origins (kerbal space program like). That is just to name a few but right now im binging Space Station 14 real hard which im not even playing from Steam. If anything the death of AAA has created a great opportunity for smaller devs to start showing up and showing off
Space Station 14
Thanks, I will have to check this this out.
…You ever play Barotrauma?
Its a lot of fun! If you like barotrauma but want something more long form youll love SS14 its much more goofy than barotrauma
Yeah, you are correct. Dead of big studios is not probably that bad.
What are you on about? The non viability of games from Big studios that still exist is a literal disaster. Their desire to still remain as businesses and suck money from us is why that article came out, saying that 50% of kids want virtual currency for Christmas now. It also means the death of GOOD big games, not the death of BAD big games. And many people WANT big games, and will compromise their judgement to play them, dumbing down not only themselves, but the entire landscape in the process.
In reality, “the death of big studios” just translates to “widespread addiction to high volume gambling in children and adults”. E-waste, more capitalism, worse society, etc.
“Not that bad”. Come on…
This year has been quite shit compared to previous one’s
The number of games being voted on for GOTY this year is pretty hard to choose from since there’s so many. They just aren’t AAA games. They’re all AA or indies.
Someone being smart with their money by not wasting it on products they won’t play
G*mers:“The fuck kind of bullshit is this”
No they just have bad taste.
plays the games there’s interested in.
G*mers: What a normie normie piece of shit. Not like me, I only buy cultured indie titles.
I only buy cultured indie titles that I’ll never play.
FIFY
ffs let people enjoy things
That’s not the point of this thread. It’s people who only play AAA titles complaining that “gaming is dead” because AAA games are all annual recycled bullshit, despite this being the best time ever for indie/niche/mid-size games.
