Wimopy

@Wimopy@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m not sure what might make you not feel lonely or anxious. Things like how directly you control the characters with you could he factors I imagine, so I’m just going to list a bunch of things:

  A shorter one, but Star Wars Republic Commando. You’re a commando unit and work as one.

  Dragon’s Dogma, either Dark Arisen or the new sequel.

  Mass Effect series.

  I don’t know if Earth Defence Force would be like that or not, at the end of the day your NPC allies could be hit or miss (literally, depending on the weapons you use).

  Not sure how you feel about party-based RPGs, but there are tons of them.

  I’m wondering if RTS games with campaigns would feel right as well. StarCraft’s campaigns have a lot of people constantly talk to/around you.

  The Lego games?

  Stardew Valley?

  Can’t really think of indie games at the moment.

  Games I haven’t played so I don’t know if they apply: Persona? Space Marine games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is. Newer EA games, anything with Epic Online Services (but especially with a login), etc. They get negative reviews fairly consistently.

  Some older games get overlooked, but even then adding in a third party software (not even necessarily needing an account) often lowers a game to a mixed rating on Steam for recent reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games would you recommend others to just play on easy difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Three games came to mind just now, for slightly different reasons.

  Similarly to others, just for feeling good: Earth Defense Force (whichever release, really). While it’s great to have a challenge in the missions, getting through the game, finding a good mission to farm weapons on, then using those fun weapons to destroy horses of insects and aliens is just so fun. And some missions can feel a bit BS with the weapons you might have available normally.

  I would also actually say Baldur’s Gate 3. I know a lot of people enjoy the tactical side of things, but my opinion is that the DnD 5e ruleset kinda just sucks for a video game. I play it as a TTRPG, it’s fine. But I found rolling badly in something my character’s meant to be good at just so frustrating. This let me actually explore the story and world my own way, which was way more fun to me than restarting combat because I got unlucky.

  That one might be controversial, but I was also speed running completion because I wanted to know conclude the story and see the world, but something about the game just didn’t click for me.

  And finally, because I think it’s a fantastic game that deserves attention (with the best soundtrack I’ve heard in a while): Rabbit and Steel. It’s a brutally hard roguelike bullet hell that’s based on dungeon raid boss mechanics from FFXIV (which I haven’t played, but that’s what everyone says). The difficulty will make you want to not play it, and for me stuff only really clicked once I unlocked my penultimate class. I can now heat Hard fairly consistently, but it has taken a lot of runs to get there. No shame in admitting that those started from Cute and Normal and involved me grinding out all the unlocks by charging through Cute difficulty.

  So really, the summary of this far too long reply is: just lower the difficulty when it’s frustrating or keeping you too much from getting to the fun stuff. You can always try again on a higher difficulty later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need tips, when is a non-campaign game considered 'completed'?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to add some even longer time goals to the other replies: you could get all achievements for games that have them. Though some of those, like the ones for Civ 6, are excessive. It could give you ideas or shorter term goals to work towards, then you can decide if you’ve had enough at any point before 100% if things get too BS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How climate crisis made this UK summer feel like a letdown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they just compared averages/peaks and said “it’s just your perception being used to too hot weather, it’s not unusually cold”.

  Fair, but that feels very superficial. Was the temperature variation higher than usual? More/less rainfall or humidity?

  This is not to say our perception isn’t warped by climate change, but climate change isn’t just higher temperatures. Normal weather patterns changing, more extremes, etc.

  I don’t have the time or will to check on that, but I just feel making a 3 paragraph article on a complicated phenomenon as weather and climate is just a bit lacking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard sees BioWare refocus on companions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My impression from the trailer was that the combat lacks any weight. The player character floated all over, the attacks looked like they didn’t even make contact, and the enemies seemed to be on the spongy side. That makes it look and feel bland. If that is the case the reaction won’t be great even from players who like action games.

  And yeah, I think making this the first Dragon Age game after so long is a mistake. People will expect a game that follows on with same or similar gameplay. This feels like a spin-off game. That’s not inherently bad, but you do want mainline games to also release to keep the main fan base happy. Right now it’ll just be judged compared to mainline expectations and will obviously not meet most of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I tried Lethal company... and didn't like it. Does it get better eventually ?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others said, it’s not for everyone. The gameplay loop is and will remain repetitive.

  For what it’s worth, I hate horror but I generally just get surprised, not scared in this game. To me it’s a game where you go in with the mindset that you’ll likely die in some horrible way, but it’ll make for a funny scene or story afterwards.

  I’d actually recommend watching clips of people. Not big name YouTubers, just the random 5-60s clips people upload and figuring out if those sort of events would be things you’d laugh at or enjoy being part of yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were can find a list of Safe Sites where buy Seam Games/Keys/Bundles??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any examples of dubious sites they list? To my knowledge they take the legitimacy of the sites seriously, so it would be great to know if that’s not the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Were can find a list of Safe Sites where buy Seam Games/Keys/Bundles??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  isthereanydeal.com lists only legitimate retailers, no second hand/grey market sites. Not exclusively Steam though, so check on the site before purchasing (though usually every website will be selling Steam keys except like Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store, Ubisoft, EA Origin).

  You can also link your Steam wishlist, set up alerts for when a game falls below a certain price, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man who publicly restricts his freedom has his freedom publicly restricted.

  On a more serious note though: why is sharing his name and face necessary or even allowed? Seems like it’ll result in consequences greater than what the court has deemed appropriate to dole out.