• goodboyjojo@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 days ago

    i know it can be hard sometimes to have a deep conversation about videos games. but in defense of these people gaming is very vast and the freedom of choice and variety of stuff to play can be to much for some. i thinks thats why many people don’t explore what gaming all got to offer.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    5·
    6 days ago

    Yes the same with sport. There’s too many damn sports there should only be one sport at a time.

    All sports players should be required to play in all sports. I want to see baseball players doing ice hockey, but that would probably lead to a blood bath. So we’ll do that one at the end.

  • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    6 days ago

    I enjoy trying a lot of new games, but I do tend to gravitate to rpg and exploration, or tbs. And yea a couple favs from childhood make constant reappearances

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I’m really hoping the new expansion for d4 is to d4 as reaper of souls was to d3. But I have a sneaking suspicion that Blizzard is actually done.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Yes d4=Diablo 4

          Diablo 3, post its expansion, specifically, was actually really good. Probably peak Diablo. And they still do regular updates and additions. It’s actually an extremely polished and fleshed out and fun game right now.

          D2 resurrected is fun too, but it’s EXTREMELY punishing in comparison. I loved Diablo 2 and still so, but also really love Diablo 3.

          A lot of people do NOT love d3, and sort of for good reason. They played it at launch and not after the expansion. It was an incredibly fucked up, mid even at it’s best, at launch. It was a hot mess, with constant server issues, no progression, very little content, the item generation was actually terrible, and they were pushing an in game player to player auction house. The items you’d get dropped were just… Actually all shit.

          And it wasn’t until after the expansion that they basically gutted the loot and the loot tables and redid the entire game. It was blindingly new after that, not even comparable. And if i remember correctly, they did that again at least once, making it even better each time, constantly adding in new major features, etc. And each season, they add in a bunch of new sets and builds and legendary powers and do the power creep thing that is so addicting and fun.

          I haven’t played d3 in at something like 8 years, but I’d confidently bet that it’s even better than ever.

          Uh, on the other side of this, is Diablo 4. A hot mess of blandness. The game is, in every thinkable way, brown. Brown being the color of nothing.

          The world is brown. Reddish brown, greyish brown, VERY red brown, etc. The fx aren’t really that colorful. The story is brown and boring. Even the gameplay is brown.

          I have no idea how they fucked up THAT bad. How do you go from D3 with it’s colors and demons and scaling and unique builds and depth of features, to … Whatever happened in D4?

          Sure, D3 was kinda cartoony. It could have looked better, yeah. But it was fine enough. D4 looks like somebody smashed their face into a slab of clay a hundred times, and dropped it on the wet ground outside to pick up some dirt.

          I played through the campaign and don’t remember literally anything about it other than the end had a red tree and something about souls on it.

          They released an expansion for it, but it doesn’t sound like it’s made any real change. So, I’m hoping they can realize how much they fucked up and the coming soon expansion they can pull their heads from their rectums and fix the game like Reaper of Souls (d3’s expansion) did for D3.

          Rant over. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
    3·
    7 days ago

    Uh, 300h with X4, 700h with Palworld… I’d expect to be autistic with the former more than the latter

    Don’t forget the normies that only play FIFA <current year>

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      6 days ago

      ADHD means a lot of games with a ton of hours. Over 1k include Ark, Warframe, FFXIV, Civ V and Civ VI, Monster Hunter games, Elite Dangerous, Fallout 4, Pal world is close at 996h etc. Generally I like a lot of stuff, except maybe most first person shooters, battle royales, and I can’t actually recall playing a sports game past some SNES basketball games. Do Mario mini games count?

      • WonderRin@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        7 days ago

        “Damn, Conversations suck since the latest update, they changed the entire gameplay”, except they were just playing it wrong the entire time and the update just patched a bug.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      511·
      8 days ago

      The fact that no one has said anything about RimWorld shows how far you all have to go

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        16·
        8 days ago

        RimWorld is great, but it’s a shadow of what Dwarf Fortress offers. DF is the gold standard for depth and mechanics.

          • MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
            4·
            7 days ago

            I always default to answering with this when somebody asks questions like that.

            Darwen childcare:

            It’s like regular childcare, except with more dogs, and less care. The idea is simple, but will take some finesse to perform.

            1. Construct a box. It should be 3x3, leaving a 1 tile center free. The walls should be wall grates and the corners should be actual wall. Alternatively, perhaps ideally, the center tile could be a floor grate (not a hatch). The roof should be either a floor grate or a hatch.
            2. Place a child into the box. Creative abuse of levers, wall deconstructions, and hatches can be used.
            3. Place 12 years worth of ☼Dwarven Syrup Roast☼ and assorted booze into the box, by “dumping” it onto the roof and then opening the roof via lever, causing the items to fall down. For this reason, the floor would need to be solid to accommodate a food stockpile.
            4. Place a female dog in the box.
            5. Wait 12 years to unleash disaster.

            The premise is fairly simple. Animals enclosed in a tight space will lash out randomly, often attacking a dwarf in the same tile. This extends over time to create a biological danger room, where the dwarven children are subjected to 12 years of consistent dog biting, scratching, and watching the dogs kill each other, quickly leveling up the child to legendary dodger, perhaps wrestler/kicker/biter/etc if the dwarf manages to counterattack. Not sure if a dwarf will counterattack an animal. The child will eat the food from the floor that he’s been staring at for the past 12 years, and will ideally be comforted by some lovely mist falling right beside him. Once the years have passed, and the child grows into a scarred, hardened, tough-as-steel dwarf (don’t forget agility, endurance, etc) who doesn’t care about anything. Or, keep the lid closed, and throw in a weapon and shield, and replace the dogs with goblins.

            The only issue is trying to get the child to survive without going berzerk. But then again, that might just turn into training for the other caged children, right?

        • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
          5·
          8 days ago

          Yeah, but the learning curve. I just can’t seem to find a good rhythm with timing (that is: either I’m playing with the dwarves moving and they go crazy too fast, or I’m paused and just don’t feel engaged with them). I def feel Rimworld hits a good comfy zone on this.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        14·
        8 days ago

        If you haven’t used the Geneva convention as a checklist, have you really played Rimworld?

      • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        8 days ago

        Haha yeah I just used the first games that came to mind, and since automation games are by far my most played I suppose those might be overrepresented. But rimworld is a time sink too haha

      • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
        13·
        8 days ago

        That’s fair, I never really got into the strategy genre so those didn’t come to mind. But I have people on my friends list who have an absolute insane played time in Civilization so I can see where you’re coming from

      • WonderRin@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        7 days ago

        I’ve been playing EU4 since around 2018-2019 (on and off, to be fair, not consistently), and still don’t know a lot of stuff about the game.

        It probably doesn’t help that I’m playing it on and off because I keep having to relearn things I used to know.

      • SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
        6·
        8 days ago

        I tried to get into it a while ago, but it felt so half-cooked. This weird voice-over with the mispronounced words, the obscure tech tree and overall progression, I don’t know…

        It felt like a lot more work to get into than Factorio or Satisfactory did back in the day, with a smaller payoff.

        Am I missing something?

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          8 days ago

          I dunno, I played it very early on because it was factorio with space travel. Now factorio is factorio with space travel though… It was fun at the time but not for very long (like 20 hours and I finished it).

          I don’t even recall a voiceover…

          Honestly, the orbital stuff and different planets were the best features, but Factorio has those now and they’re pretty great.

          • Minnels@lemmy.zip
            4·
            8 days ago

            I love Factorio but I don’t know if I like the new planets. Except Gleba. That place is great. Think I spent like 50% of my space age play through there. Maybe it is just the space rocket part of the game I don’t like… Stupid rockets look awesome but such a pain to design every time :(

    • 50MYT@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 days ago

      This one is missing “captain of industry”

      Anyone who ticks the factorio/satisfactory/Dyson box should check it out. Free demo.

      Don’t blame me if you time skip a few days after.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      KSP Realism Overhaul players:

      …Amateurs!

      lol I kid, I kid.

      Lets also not forget the various autism powered map painting simulator games.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    59·
    8 days ago

    “Oh yeah, I’m a big gamer. I play FIFA and COD. And next year I’ll play next year’s FIFA and COD.”

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
      19·
      8 days ago

      That’s literally my barber. Every time i sit there he asks: you play video games, right. And i’m like :yeah. Then he asks what i’m playing, and i just name the games i play right now. Just four or five games. Over the span of almost 10 years now, he hasn’t heard of any game I’ve played. When i ask him back, the answer is always either fifa or cod or both.

      • FatVegan@leminal.space
        2·
        7 days ago

        The thing that i don’t get is that they always seem to hate the games the most, but are always excited to get the new one.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    51·
    8 days ago

    I used to play everything. Then I developed a sense of taste and learned to recognize what I know I wouldn’t much care for, and don’t bother with those games. I like shit with complexity, depth of mechanics, and loads of weirdness. Like Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi, Earth Defense Force, and soulslikes. Popular AAA games tend to be anything but that. The newest game of high caliber complexity that is also popular and AAA I do like is Baldur’s Gate 3.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      16·
      8 days ago

      That’s me, but in a wildly different direction. Lol. I wanted to a be “gamer” so badly, because I enjoy story telling, puzzles, exciting worlds, all that jazz. But I figured out years ago, I’m just not that into most games. “Go kill these dudes/monsters/whatevers that want you dead” just isn’t a thing I can get into easily, so I found the games I like, which are generally not gamer-y games, and I play them to my heart’s content. And I’ll try other things, because you should always strive to try things you think you won’t like… But I’ve found what I like, and I mainly stick to it.

      That is, when I actually have the time to play games and don’t choose TV or an audiobook+embroidery as my wind down routine

      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip
        4·
        8 days ago

        I’m halfway between the both of you (minus souls like games, fuck that noise) got any recommendations? I’ve been leaning towards “not gamery games” a lot more lately

          • domdanial@reddthat.comEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            Took me 3 tries to finish it, and I basically had to be firm with myself to only play that and not get distracted by other games.

            It’s very good, but it’s one of those games you need to play in a relatively focused way, like watching a movie.

            • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
              2·
              6 days ago

              Same conclusion I came to. It’s why I haven’t gotten very far in. I generally only play games for about an hour or so before bed, and it requires too much attention to be able to do that, so it was back to desperate housewives and cross stitch before bed

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    44·
    8 days ago

    Have you heard of this one game? It’s called SUPER MARIO BROS!!!

    Indy classic. Came out a few years ago. You probably never heard of it.