• Beesbeesbees@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    6 个月前

    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.onlineEnglish
      27·
      6 个月前

      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.

      • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 个月前

        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.worldEnglish
          9·
          6 个月前

          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.

            • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              6 个月前

              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.

              • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 个月前

                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.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  6 个月前

                  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.

        • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
          5·
          6 个月前

          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.

      • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        6 个月前

        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.zipEnglish
          2·
          6 个月前

          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.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          6 个月前

          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?

          • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 个月前

            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.

          • Beesbeesbees@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 个月前

            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?

    • AquaTofana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      6 个月前

      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.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        21·
        6 个月前

        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.worldEnglish
          7·
          6 个月前

          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.

  • Ygest Wefsid@lemmy.todayEnglish
    231·
    6 个月前

    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.

      • Ygest Wefsid@lemmy.todayEnglish
        10·
        6 个月前

        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.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 个月前

      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.

      • Ygest Wefsid@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        6 个月前

        I do not use drugs. I do not scroll short form media because it irritates me too 😅. Social media use is occasional.

        • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 个月前

          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.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 个月前

      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.worldEnglish
    18·
    6 个月前

    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.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 个月前

      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.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 个月前

        To me it just looks like upscaling artifacts. The aliasing is identical across the every straight line in the image

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 个月前

    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.worldEnglish
    121·
    6 个月前

    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”

    • entwine@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      6 个月前

      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.orgEnglish
      8·
      6 个月前

      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.worksEnglish
        4·
        6 个月前

        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.

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    6 个月前

    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.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 个月前

    Vermintide 2 is/was free on steam yesterday

    I claimed it myself and played through act 1

      • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 个月前

        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.worldBannedEnglish
          2·
          6 个月前

          Instructions unclear. I started a Reikland campaign on Total War Warhammer 3 and the Vermintide end game scenario spawned.

          I am so fucked…

  • mika_mika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    117·
    6 个月前

    Rogue-likes killed indie game development on the opposite side of this spectrum.

  • Sal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 个月前

    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.