Elevator7009

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Golden Krone Hotel - a roguelike for vampires and their beloved bats (also tidbits about DCSS) in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fun read, thanks for the writeup!

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The Art of Warlocks (lemmy.zip)
 

Not getting alt text option, so:

alt textAn image of a statue of Sun Tzu. Superimposed on the image is text:

"Just use Eldritch Blast lol" —Sun Tzu, The Art of Warlocks

If you could only play 10 games for the rest of your life, which would you choose? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've also really enjoyed myself some Timberborn 🙂 glad to hear your thoughts!

If you could only play 10 games for the rest of your life, which would you choose? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

Mods are allowed, but you’re not allowed to make any for you to play. You can try to commission someone else to make them for you, though

For gamers looking for ways to "get a new game" while still staying under these restrictions, it seems you pick a game with a ton of mods and an easy-to-mod and/or well-documented codebase so that the modders you hire are more willing to say yes to you.

  • The Sims (not sure which one though)
  • Skyrim (all the mods)
  • Stardew Valley (mods, plus has been go-to #2 for gaming with friends in my social circles)
  • Minecraft (mods, plus has been go-to #1 for gaming with friends in my social circles)
  • Factorio
  • Pokémon Soul Silver (we have ROM hacks!)
  • Crusader Kings 3
  • I was going to put a puzzle game here but I sadly don't remember which one
  • either Kittens Game or Antimatter Dimensions. Long-lived incremental games. Gave up on Antimatter Dimensions after a certain point, but it by far has the most of my Steam hours. Limited to 10 games I'd probably pick it back up again.
  • either holding out for some masterful innovation in the visual novel genre, specifically one aimed at women; or Infinity Nikki, because if I get all the DLC automatically (or magically through an unlock process more like that in pay-once games) that means I can just enjoy a pretty game and forget about all the gacha stuff.
If you could only play 10 games for the rest of your life, which would you choose? in c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

As much as I like Timberborn, I do wonder about its replayability value. Near endgame, I kind of run out of stuff to do. Although its mod scene is definitely growing, so that should help.

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Soup Sourcebook (lemmy.zip)
 

No alt text option, so here we go:

alt textA social media post, showing a person holding Trader Joe's Chicken Noodle Soup with Veggies. The font looks like that on the cover of Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks, hence the caption "Why did they make this soup look like a 5th edition D&D sourcebook"

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Fantasy races and the video games they develop (lemmy.zip)
 

I did do a cursory check to see if this was a repost before posting. It is and has some pretty fun discussion so I recommend checking out the original post! But that original post has a broken image link both on ttrpg.network and on my instance lemmy.zip, so I figured it was fair to post again.

Not being given the option for alt text, so here's a transcript instead.

TranscriptA tumblr post by @normal-horoscopes.

Elf video games: 300 hour jrpgs with legions of characters and several novels worth of text. Labrynthine upgrade trees and customization options. The most insufferably unintuitive Ul possible. A single turn based battle can take hours. Every character has an ennui stat.

Dwarf video games: Basebuilding strategy FPSs that has a whole wiki page on the flexile vs tensile strengths of different building materials. Dwarven rhythm games have minigames where you have to manage supply lines. Mortals cannot comprehend dwarven grand strategy games.

Halfling video games: What appears on the surface to be a viscerally calming farming sim is actually an extraordinarily complex social combat game about cutthroat HOA politics.

Goblin video games: Wildly unbalanced collectathon gatchas where half the fun is finding new hilariously broken strategies. Zany uberviolent team shooters about bugs. MOBAs so bad it's almost art.

Orc video games: Addictive in-browser flash games with names like "Beast Crush 4" and "Borag Meat Game." The art is always kinda bad but in a charming way. The music always slaps.

#humans only have one game in this world and its counterstrike source

Also incredibly related is this tumblr post which I might go post here separately at some point. Or not.

Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Big shapez fan who wasn't interested enough in the sequel to buy it. What do you like about it?

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Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? (lemmy.zip)
 

I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they'd just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.

Skill issue in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

work to improve the skill gap or draw 20

acknowledge that one singular woman is currently better than you at this one particular skill or draw 20

man it's like there are options that don't involve aggression towards another person for… not being bad at a video game

I count myself lucky the men I know in real life are chill, and that I am not too interested in PvP games, scared off by the constant reinforcement from stories online that someone will be shitty to me because I am a woman. When I did play TF2 it was always pubs mic off and with a very gender-neutral username.