Comment on Anon misses flash

captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That said, indie games are way better these days

  They all seem to be the same boring stardew valley/dead cells/anyotherauccessfullindiegame clones with pretty pixelart and too much time e commitment needed

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  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are lots of other games as well. Let me recommend a couple:

    • What remains of Edith Finch
    • A short hike
    • Outer Wilds
    • Disco Elysium
    • Feather
    • Gris
    • Journey of the broken circle
    • Sayonara Wild Hearts
    • Untitled Goose Game
    • a dark room

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    • Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your “couple” is a whole extended polycule

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Disco Elysium by itself is an extended polycule.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Some people just have more exciting … gaming lives.

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    • pory@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you like these narrative driven games especially Disco, you owe it to yourself to check out Esoteric Ebb and Many Nights a Whisper

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      • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the recommendations.

        I’m not specifically into narrative driven games. I love Tetris Effects Connected, Boomerang Foo, and Mario Kart.

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  • procapra@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As if flash games weren’t 75% dressup games, tower defense, and shit platformers. We still got plenty of that slop don’t worry, we just have other kinds of slop to go with it.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      XiaoXiao stick fighter games were absolutely awesome.

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    • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I remember a horrible tower defence with dinos and ugly towers, maps and really strange upgrade designs. Rated one star on some old flash games website.

      However absolute masterpieces like fancy pants man are forever good.

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      • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The game you are talking about is Age of War and is arguably one of the most well known and beloved flash games ever. It might just not have clicked with you but I have very fond memories of it and find it to be more enjoyable than most recent releases as you could just launch a game, play a bit and be done with it, no toxic mechanics, no forced wait, no super extensive (and kinda boring) content.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah there’s a lot of copycats, though even within that there’s some great stuff. My wife has been loving fields of mistria. But also I’m currently playing slay the spire 2 and loving it. You’ve got games like cult of the lamb, Rogue Legacy (1&2), every supergiant game, Cassette Beasts, and less well known ones like Song of the Deep. Flash games were their own thing and it was awesome, but with limited time for games these days I’d rather be playing modern indie games. But I understand why some people would feel the opposite

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  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the time commitement bit is real.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was a lot of lazy copies with flash games too

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some of the best games are copies of earlier games that flopped, because they were poorly implemented or lacked good marketing or were just ahead of their time.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    :: looks around nervously as someone who loves those specific games::

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    • ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I love the clones, it’s like bonus levels

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They definitely skew to the pixel games and the rogue-likes, due to the limitations of a cell phone interface. But Idk if I’d call stardew valley boring.

    I had a lot of fun with Slay the Spire and Balatro. There’s a bunch of indie board games that are on mobile as well, Root being one of my favorites. And then there’s all the digital CCGs (basically the only way I play MtG anymore is on mobile).

    I would say the bigger problem with finding good indie games is the nightmarish volume of bad games (both indie and otherwise) that crowd out everything in the marketplace. I learn about the ones I like through word of mouth. Anything I just randomly install and fool around with, I inevitably hate.

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idk if I’d call stardew valley boring.

      Oh stardew wasn’t (ok, the start of year one, maybe)

      finding good indie games is the nightmarish volume of bad games (both indie and otherwise)

      Yeah, that seems to be the issue. It became so easy to make games (and now even more with vibe-coding) that the market is flooded, often with clones.

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s just hard to find the good games now since there are so many

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  • pory@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you browse on itch.io by popularity and go down the list until you find one you’ve never heard of (or never played, if you want easier standards) that’s where the “newgrounds culture” is nowadays. Plenty of stuff that works in browser for free.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was fucking about in Flash back when it was Macromedia Flash.

  Yeah, a good many of us did not ‘celebrate’ its downfall… maybe we took it for granted, but that’s not the same thing.

  Thankfully, NewGrounds is still up and operational.

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