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. =)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, x_x…well…that would be another reason. Sure. Or accidentally going left instead of right and losing the optimal route with the power-ups.
Or my eyes played a trick and the ghost is gonna eat me and now I’m running and they’re all chasing me!
Can I get one last ghost before the power-up runs out? Oh no I have one more corner because I messed up…why does the music sound like a heart attack?
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.
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.
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.
Maybe it's just the type of games you play that you've lost interest in. Steam has lots of demos for games from just about every gaming genre, so maybe try out demos for highly rated games of genres you don't normally play. You may end up surprising yourself. Maybe you do like cosy games, or real time strategy, or management simulations, etc, but because you've never tried them, you never realized that you like them.
That doesn't look like a gaming laptop, either. $20 says it has integrated graphics.
Reminds me of the "gaming laptops" at Walmart. The other day I saw a RoG laptop being sold with an AMD 740M, a integrated GPU from 2023 with performance from 2010. They dressed it up all pretty with RGB and a 144hz display to make it look like it could actually run games, and then had the nerve to charge $699 for it.
I hate shit like this so much cause people who don't know any better will buy this thing, get 15 FPS in modern titles and think that PC gaming sucks, when it's just their computer that sucks.
Except I'm pretty sure thats shopped on there. It has a weird border around it and the entire steam app has a different pixel density than the rest of the photo.
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!
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.
Oh most of the games I play are also super old (2011, and whatnot) but I said 2023 because at least back then I'd play a random new indie game every so often
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.
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.
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.
Because there's a boom of Roguelite games and assumedly they don't like it. For my part I love how many options and different spins on the genre/idea there are.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 255d
except they’re on console
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 255d
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.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 27 pts · 255d
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.
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 255d
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. =)
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 255d
I have the same habit, but recently discovered it's apparently a neurodivergence symptom, heh.
Co-op with friends made me finish BG3 though.
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
Maybe I should try the co-op one day then…good idea
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
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.
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
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.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
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.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 5 pts · 255d
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.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 254d
I hope you mean Divinity Original Sin. There rid a Divinity and it's made by Larian too, bit old though xD
Zephorah@discuss.online · 1 pts · 254d
Idk about Divinity. I was talking Original Sin, 1 & 2.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 255d
I highly recommend Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, too. If you really want a RPG to play
Zephorah@discuss.online · 3 pts · 255d
This was also good.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 255d
What's your top three tower defense games?
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 255d
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.
Minnels@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 254d
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.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 255d
Thanks for the recommendations!
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 255d
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?
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
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.
baines@lemmy.cafe · 2 pts · 255d
best td game by a music company Arknights
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 255d
Bah! Real gamers play Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
Idk why but pac man is the most anxiety inducing game I've ever played.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 255d
Is it because you're just a disembodied mouth, eating pills in the dark while being haunted by ghosts?
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Oh, x_x…well…that would be another reason. Sure. Or accidentally going left instead of right and losing the optimal route with the power-ups. Or my eyes played a trick and the ghost is gonna eat me and now I’m running and they’re all chasing me!
Can I get one last ghost before the power-up runs out? Oh no I have one more corner because I messed up…why does the music sound like a heart attack?
TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
Beebabe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
Any favorites you want to recommend?
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 254d
DragonslayerDragonfall and Hong KongBeebabe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
Thank you!
TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
TheBat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
reev@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 255d
Until Dawn catching strays
AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 255d
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 255d
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.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 255d
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.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
Definitely not the remake though
collapse_already@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 255d
Fifa 25, Fifa 24, Fifa 23, etc
hushable@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 255d
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
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 255d
If he's keeping them that's pretty awesome.
pyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
98 was the last good one
YgestWefsid@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 255d
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.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 255d
YgestWefsid@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 255d
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.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
Zombie@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 255d
Hey, that wasn't mean at all! I don't believe you are a mean cow.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 254d
Zirconium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
For me, it's a lack of friends to play games I like with
ameancow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
Zirconium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
Yeah, I've only gotten one friend ever to get vintage story and play it with me
zerobot@lemmy.wtf · 27 pts · 255d
i get that but it might not be the games fault dawg
Skipcast@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 255d
Definitely isn't
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
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.
YgestWefsid@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 255d
I do not use drugs. I do not scroll short form media because it irritates me too 😅. Social media use is occasional.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
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.
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Maybe it's just the type of games you play that you've lost interest in. Steam has lots of demos for games from just about every gaming genre, so maybe try out demos for highly rated games of genres you don't normally play. You may end up surprising yourself. Maybe you do like cosy games, or real time strategy, or management simulations, etc, but because you've never tried them, you never realized that you like them.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 254d
That doesn't look like a gaming laptop, either. $20 says it has integrated graphics.
Reminds me of the "gaming laptops" at Walmart. The other day I saw a RoG laptop being sold with an AMD 740M, a integrated GPU from 2023 with performance from 2010. They dressed it up all pretty with RGB and a 144hz display to make it look like it could actually run games, and then had the nerve to charge $699 for it.
I hate shit like this so much cause people who don't know any better will buy this thing, get 15 FPS in modern titles and think that PC gaming sucks, when it's just their computer that sucks.
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
Except I'm pretty sure thats shopped on there. It has a weird border around it and the entire steam app has a different pixel density than the rest of the photo.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
To me it just looks like upscaling artifacts. The aliasing is identical across the every straight line in the image
otacon239@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 255d
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!
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 254d
G*mers:"The fuck kind of bullshit is this"
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d
No they just have bad taste.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
G*mers: What a normie normie piece of shit. Not like me, I only buy cultured indie titles.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
FIFY
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 254d
How have I never heard of the Detroit game?
entwine@programming.dev · 10 pts · 254d
It's incredible, and unique in that nobody else is really making those types of games, and it has AAA-tier production values.
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 8 pts · 254d
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.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 254d
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.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 255d
I mean I'm also guilty of playing like the same 5 games, haven't moved on since like 2023
IronBird@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 255d
alternatively, own hundreds of games and play none of them
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 254d
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 254d
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.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 254d
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
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 254d
Me grinding 2003 games 👋
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 254d
Oh most of the games I play are also super old (2011, and whatnot) but I said 2023 because at least back then I'd play a random new indie game every so often
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 8 pts · 255d
The 12 subscriber youtuber library.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
Vermintide 2 is/was free on steam yesterday
I claimed it myself and played through act 1
yum@lemmy.eco.br · 1 pts · 255d
Is it good? I am yet to try it
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 255d
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.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
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.
Darkness343@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
Instructions unclear. I started a Reikland campaign on Total War Warhammer 3 and the Vermintide end game scenario spawned.
I am so fucked...
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 255d
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.
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
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.
mika_mika@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d
Rogue-likes killed indie game development on the opposite side of this spectrum.
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 254d
what do you mean?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 254d
Because there's a boom of Roguelite games and assumedly they don't like it. For my part I love how many options and different spins on the genre/idea there are.
TurboToad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
And it isn't like the other genres are neglected by indie des. For me there is a constant stream of new and amazing indie games I can't keep up with.
I recommend steam250.com, if someone is struggling to find them.
ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 254d
Can you elaborate on this?
mlg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
"EA completely blew this game release, I'm never buying their slop again"
afox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 254d
Look. He's all about his business like a suit and tie gamer.
SanicHegehog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
ffs let people enjoy things
definitemaybe@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 254d
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.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 255d
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
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 255d
True, kcd2 was awesome. Let's hope the collapse of AAA just means better indie and small studio games
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 255d
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.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 255d
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
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 255d
Yeah, you are correct. Dead of big studios is not probably that bad.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 255d
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....
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Thanks, I will have to check this this out.
...You ever play Barotrauma?
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
Its a lot of fun! If you like barotrauma but want something more long form youll love SS14 its much more goofy than barotrauma
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 255d
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.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 255d
So long ago, that might have memory corrupted.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 255d
Ha
Those were before times.
I am but a failed reinforcement for a machine of which I cannot prescribe.
Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 255d
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.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 255d
You aren't wrong. Movies have shifted that way, largely, too.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 255d
sorry, I seem to be traveling backwards in time 😵💫