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all-knight-party , 10 months ago to gaming in What incremental games do you enjoy?

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 to showerthoughts in After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/

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 to showerthoughts in After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/

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 to piracy in Risk of using public trackers

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 to gaming in You can play Starfield on PC and Xbox even if you only buy it once

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 to gaming in Most emotional moments in games? (SPOILERS)

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 to gaming in You can play Starfield on PC and Xbox even if you only buy it once

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 to nostupidquestions in What's going on with the downvote button?

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 to 3ds in August debate club: Hotel Dusk, and "book" games

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 , 11 months ago to mildlyinteresting in Mother Nature Reclaiming an Old French Church

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 , 11 months ago to gaming in I hate how much my brain starts remembering interesting stuff when I finally sit down to play a video game

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 , 11 months ago to gaming in We all have 'that game'. For me, it's Europa 1400: The Guild. What's your's?

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 , 11 months ago to gaming in "Let's see Paul Allen's Fallout"

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 , 11 months ago to gaming in We all have 'that game'. For me, it's Europa 1400: The Guild. What's your's?

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 , 11 months ago to gaming in Y-yeah... I'm r-really good at this game series I've been playing for two decades...

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