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all-knight-party , 10 months ago

Been playing Melvor Idle, really great one that replicates old school runescape's Skilling experience as an idle game. I also enjoy Impossible Dungeon quite a bit as well, top down auto dungeon crawler where you earn points to upgrade and customize a party for getting as far down a dungeon as you can and competing with other players in tournaments and dailies.

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

I don't think there are technically dupes. You could have multiple communities across different instances all called "gaming". But that wouldn't mean they all share the same rules and posting formats, etc.

They'd basically be like different subreddits. So you could potentially create a multireddit, but not truly merging "duplicate" communities.

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

Ohhh, yeah, that is a sort of unique issue. Even then each one would have different vote and boost counts as well as unique comments sections. I think with a clever enough UI you could still work it out, though.

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

What's the the unhelpful hostile attitude? Is it still 1996 where it's cool to shit on people for not knowing everything about what they're doing and call them "noobs"?

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

Nothing about Lemmy would suggest people would like Epic anymore than any other place on the internet. Their exclusivity deals have the potential to upset anybody regardless of what website they post on, so while there's absolutely a degree of hivemind hatred, it's rooted in understandable reasons.

That being said, it's disingenuous of that person to imply that Epic never gives any good reasons to use the platform, the biggest being the waves of free games they put on "sale" from time to time, though you could go down another rabbit hole of whether thats really something that would make gamers want to use the platform, or if it's just a nice bonus people pop in to claim while still spending their money on Steam when it comes to actual purchases.

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

It's hard to outrun that kind of human interaction anywhere that there are enough users and the anonymity of usernames, I do think it's not as bad on the Fediverse still, I hope it stays that way

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

The hilarious thing about My house.wad is that if you go in without knowing anything about it there's a relatively high chance you just complete the level normally and think "that's it? weird that had so much hype"

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

You display the problem with that system in your own comment through your wording of "should be". Everyone knows what downvotes and upvotes should be, but due to their intent being unenforceable they just become "that person liked or didn't like this for reasons beyond my knowledge and understanding"

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

You can include all of the Ace Attorney games in the DS visual novel category, and I can thank them for gatewaying me into visual novels in general. Also throwing in 999 since it wasn't mentioned yet and is great.

I far prefer visual novels to real books. Visual novels allow for more "showing not telling" of an environment and a character's mood, allowing you to sort of "skip" all the stage setting description of an environment, though a developer can totally insert more description if they like, so it lets them control the pacing more tightly.

The controlled "dialogue box by dialogue box" progression of a traditional visual novel also allows for tight control of the reveal of information. I'm sure many people can relate to reading a book, and accidentally reading a section far ahead they didn't intend to while flipping to an incorrect page. This box by box approach allows interesting games like Doki Doki Literature Club to reveal information deliberately and immediately for maximum impact, where a book may reveal a twist if the reader happens to glance further down the page.

I also find having character art/voice acting helps me to remember and separate different characters more easily than just using my own memory and imagination, half a benefit, half a symptom of my smooth brain.

Unless character skin, hair, eye colors etc. are specifically described in a book they tend to just become a homogenized blob of generic person in my head, and I've read books where I formed a mental image of a character, only for a line to be dropped later that causes me to have to change what they looked like in my head. The weight of the imagination on the experience of books can in that way be a blessing and a curse.

There are also lots of visual novels with exceptional soundtracks that heavily aid the atmosphere and emotion in a game, such as Ace Attorney, or Danganronpa. This introduction of other media to the format can also be taken further towards games like the ever cult popular Persona series in which RPG turn based gameplay is fused with time management, choice, and heavy visual novel elements, to varying effect. Though the soundtracks are always bangin'.

As much as visual novels can aid the experience, they can also let it down in more ways than books. A book really just needs to deliver on its premise, and a writing style and story that the reader enjoys. A visual novel must satisfy in story, writing style, music, gameplay (if any), visual style, voice acting (if any), etc.

And, due to their higher degree of complexity, visual novels are often more expensive than books to boot.

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

I felt that too, there's absolutely a map just like this in For Honor. Can't recall the name, but the center of it is an overgrown cathedral like this.

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

Was it like that when the game was fresh and you were getting into it in the beginning, or just after youd put the hours into it, and the novelty wore off?

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

Playing Heroes of the Storm vs AI, the Hitman WoA trilogy, Left 4 Dead 2, and Diablo 3 Hardcore. I can always chill on this stuff and know it'll be a good time

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

It's funnily enough part of why I continue to return to it. Competitive games as a service are too much, I dislike having to keep up with an ever inflating hero pool and a constantly changing Meta. I can just enjoy the gameplay polished to a sheen and the natural depth

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

For me, Fallout 3's setting and atmosphere is more interesting to me. Plus nostalgia plays a much heavier aspect since it was my first Bethesda Fallout and the premise and mechanics of the world were more novel.

Gameplay wise 4 blows both of the others out of the water for me due to the addicting loop of collecting salvage and modifying equipment, along with the shooting finally becoming enjoyable in its own right.

all-knight-party , 10 months ago

Ooh, that'd have to be Monster Hunter for me. For a while it's fun, then it becomes pain

all-knight-party OP , 10 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if the Slurm company dragged his mangled corpse from under the rubble and prevented him from escaping his partying even in death

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Such a shame, I would've been more interested in this game, but the similarities to both Breath of the Wild and AC Odyssey meant the itches it scratched were already taken care of for me, and partially by the same publisher, too.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Usually a rebrand signifies a change in the direction or focus of the brand. I don't keep up with it much, so on a surface level this rebrand seems like more of a "I like it better this way" on Elon's part than a true rebrand with a point and reason.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

There's a fan made patch that fixes the major problems of the port. I played it totally fine using that.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Mocking someone because they don't understand a reference. Very Reddit of you

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

I always figured he would plant one in a real store, take a picture, and then the rest were for people to actually buy.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

I think you should try piano in a way that works better for you. Piano is not too difficult, you press a key and a tone comes out. Keyboard will let you get so many different sounds, too, and keyboard is fun to play with other instruments or alone.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

This time we won't forget the blackjack, or the hookers.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Been playing through Borderlands 3. I always loved the pretense and style of the older ones, but the shooting just never felt good enough moment to moment to stick it out. This one's finally got it and I've been enjoying my time, even though the characters and dialogue are funny at rare times, and mostly pretty terrible.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

When you go to check on Sayori in Doki Doki Literature Club. I went in blind.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

I'm so ready for the next Doot of Cally

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

You need to get the fuck out of there, there's more to life than being suffocated by your parents. Don't let them have the last laugh, the biggest fuck you you can give them is to escape their obvious need for control.

I can't pretend like that's easy or that I would know how, but you've got to explore everything you can possibly do to be removed from that situation. By your description it sounds like they're doing things that are likely legally abusive. If you can get out of there just imagine how much better your life can be out from under their thumb.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

The only time I've ever used swipe was when Nintype/Keyboard69 was still supported. The two finger swipe was the only time swipe could keep up with my tap typing speed, and sometimes exceed it, but since then nobody has come in and done anything as revolutionary with the typing game, and Nintype is simply too out of date and buggy, but man, I really miss it.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

You could probably just skip the whole anxiety issue by buying a portable battery and using that whenever you're low. If your phone is fully charged at the start of the day and you burn through the whole battery and a mid range portable battery you're using your phone quite excessively and may need to figure something more reliable out.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

I think the apple looks so evenly lit it seems unreal, but a bird holding a piece of fruit is such an easy situation to create I feel like it'd be harder to Photoshop that than it would be to just give a bird a piece of fruit for real.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Check out professor specieist over here. #dogrights

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

I still think about this. It's so weird playing Jedi Survivor if you're paying attention at all to the saber. There was a Rancor fight, you slice that thing about a million times with a saber, then in the finisher animation you cut its leg off with one slice.

Used to be in Outcast/Academy that you could be standing still and still kill a dude if the saber was even contacting him idly.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

SWAT 4 is still an excellent tactical shooter the likes of which we don't see anymore, short of Ready or Not, or Doorkickers, if you count that.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Same sort of idea if you went to a small culture in a third world country who isn't used to eating any fast food, and gave them McDonald's. They'd be diarrheaing all over the place because they're not used to it.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Vanquish, best "cover" shooter that I've ever played, really wish it'd get a Switch port and that Platinum would revisit it.

Sliding around on jets, going into slo mo to hit weak points, vaulting cover and initiating slomo, it's all so fucking fun and visceral.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Thank you guys for posting this. Pretty incredible... I wonder how it'll shake out.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

If you're cool with visual novels, Doki Doki Literature Club is an incredibly interesting game, not very long. It really stuck with me.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

That's the secret. It sorts all threads so that the ones about hot things are first.

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

In my experience, I don't believe you'll be able to "train" the cats that way. They'll be more cautious to keep an eye out for your dog, but if your dog is not around they're not gonna want to miss a hunting opportunity. I could be wrong, but that's the way my cats behave at home. Being trained not to do something is really just a "be more careful of when I should do this" to them

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

I just squat on the toilet seat straight up, if I'm at home. It helps, it really does, I swear by squatting

all-knight-party , 11 months ago

Interesting, I've done it my whole life and have never broken anything, but I also weigh about 115 pounds, so my method is not for everyone, haha.