Astaroth

@Astaroth@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly nothing will beat Warcraft 3 (pre reforged refunded) custom games for LAN parties.

  Some of my favorite maps: Warlock (any 1.0X version), either teams or FFA, Uther Party, Battle Tanks, Archer Wars Legacy, Survival Chaos, Legion TD, Farmer vs Hunter, Founders of the North, Hungry Hungry Felhounds, The Predator (Version FINAL), etc.

  Honestly there’s just too many to count and even remember

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s also a mod that makes it so you can have simultaneous turn enabled permanently, although it does allow for some quirks and bug abuse, but it’s such a massive time saver when every player can take their turn at the same time that its well worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a game for me to play with my partner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me I just found it annoying that whenever we wanted to go in different directions one player would end up getting dragged back by the camera border. So many failed jumps…

  But that’s fair, if someone thinks that being able to get in the way of each other and being forced to cooperate better due to it adds to their enjoyment of the game then playing the games without split screen could be preferable.

  I just never considered that possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a game for me to play with my partner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lego games like Lego Starwars has already been mentioned and I will second those (especially the newer ones that have split screen).

  Divinity Original Sin is also great.

   

  Honestly most games I can think of have already been mentioned or don’t seem like that great of an option since it seems your partner isn’t normally into gaming.

  But I will suggest some anyway just in case

   

  Starcraft 2 has free online multiplayer which includes a COOP vs AI mode.

  There’s also a 2 player campaign adaption of Warcraft 3’s normally single player campaign. Although it might only be available for pre-Reforged.

  Also I didn’t know about it before now when I googled it just in case but apparently SC2 also has COOP mods for its campaigns.

   

  You mentioned having a Switch so I will recommend Advance Wars Reboot and Wargroove 1 & 2, although there are no COOP campaigns but you can play multiplayer maps.

  Besides Advance Wars Reboot Camp on Switch (or the originals for Gameboy, which you could play with emulator), there’s also an online fan site called Advance Wars By Web where you can play advance wars in the web browser, although there’s no single player.

  Wargroove is also on Steam and besides the campaign and regular game itself there are puzzles.

  And speaking of Puzzles, card games tend to have Puzzles. I haven’t actually played Magic, Yu Gi Oh, etc. so I can’t say for sure whether they have any, but there’s puzzles in Faeria. (I would’ve recommended Might and Magic Duel of Champions, it had some great puzzles, but Ubisoft shut that game down many years ago)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend a game for me to play with my partner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I second the Lego games. Although the older ones (Complete Saga) & Lego Indiana Jones were annoying to play COOP because there’s no split screen.

  But Lego Star Wars Clonewars has split screen so you don’t get in the way of each other. I haven’t actually played other newer Lego games but I assume they will have split screen as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Mass Effect Lead Forms New Studio To Make Narrative-Focused Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh… I had a tiny bit of hope before reading this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game did you last finish? What did you think of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest I don’t remember the last time I finished a game.

  Not counting Rogue-lite games where you replay them over and over like Slay the Spire I think the most “recent” game that I’ve finished might be Mass Effect 3, which is from 2012…

   

  Oh actually I did finish The Banner Saga 1 a few years ago. It’s pretty good except for being somewhat lacking in Quality of Life features. The main selling point are the art style and gameplay-story integration. The tactical combat gameplay is okay but very repetitive, although it got a lot better in BS2 (which I haven’t finished) with more varied mission objectives than just “kill every enemy” over and over again.

   

  Skyrim and Xcom 2 are probably in my top 3 or at least top 5 most played games but I have never completed them.

   

  The games I’ve replayed and finished the most times are Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect 1&2 (only completed ME3 2 times).

  I’ve replayed DA:O more than 10 times and I would highly recommend it, although I would recommend getting mods and especially get the increased memory patch so it doesn’t crash as often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨505 Games' parent company lays off 30% of its workforce, says gamers really only want sequels so that's what it's going to make⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling BG3 a sequel is very disingenuous, it shares nothing in common with BG1 and BG2 besides the name.

  Being based on d&d and having two previous big hits in a row (Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2) obviously mattered though.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Really?

  I would’ve expected 3DS at most

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to have to wait 5~10 minutes on the loading screens before missions before when I didn’t have an SSD and only 8gb RAM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Warcraft 3 (RIP)

  Skyrim

  Xcom 2

   

  Honorable mentions: Mass Effect trilogy & Dragon Age series

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  no one needs to play any game

  it’s just a matter of how willing someone is to compromise on their principles for entertainment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Addressing the boost in users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s probably also because people leave lemmy.world and lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else getting server issues?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t had any timeouts but I’ve noticed that some images don’t load, so e.g. on some of the meme posts I have no idea what they’re talking about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat, we need more games like AW and Wargroove

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Advance Wars By Web

  Advance Wars is an old turn based strategy game, for the Game Boy Advance, and AWBW is a fan site to play AW online.

  I’ve gotten pretty into it ever since Advance Wars Reboot was announced, and being able to play it in the web browser means I frequently find time to play…

   

  Ironically I don’t play the actual AW Remake because in classic nintendo style the multiplayer is extremely lacking, only being able to play with players added to friends list, not being able to upload/download maps except to friends, and extremely limited map sizes for online maps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While fandom sucks (although I think it used to be fine before the redesign many years ago) and game companies/publishers are cheap, I still think 3rd party wikis is going to better, even shitty ones like fandom, because guess what?

  Just like every other ‘live service’ (or even just old games!?! if you’re Ubisoft) everything will be fine and dandy until one day some suit decides to shut down the wiki to cut down on costs and all that information and community work gets flushed down the toilet.

   

  With that said, instead of them making some wiki website, it’s nice when games lets you look up information in the game itself, without having to open the web browser and going to some wiki.