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- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 7 hours ago:
I have a very low opinion of “sidegrades.” Games used to give you all their options up front.
This overwhelming trend during the past 15, 20 years to trickle-feed the player unlocks does a lot of untold harm. For one, players are rarely ever talking about the same game because everyone is at different points in the progression. The actual game doesn’t start until the final thing is unlocked and this is often a place that most players will never reach.
Can’t tell you how much advice I’ve read that goes something like “use X with Y” where at least one of those is locked behind 50 more hours of progression and my eyes once again roll all the way out of my head. As a developer, don’t you want players to experiment with the things you put in the game?
Can’t tell you how refreshing it is to play a game like NetHack where I can install a fresh copy and not have to worry about managing my save files because everything that’s in the game is… in the game. Also, a quick study can start winning games much sooner because their options aren’t all gated behind arbitrary time sinks.
But even just… skin selection in multiplayer. Games used to give you ALL of them from the start and players could just, you know, pick the one they liked. This whole ‘grind to show off how cool you are’ is so patronizing.
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 18 hours ago:
I think we can officially start calling it old super mario bros now
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 1 day ago:
Hey Sharon I noticed you clocked out a few zeptoseconds before the end of your workday. Let’s try to be a little more accurate, hey?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 day ago:
I quit my job and dropped out of college to do nothing but play WoW for 8 solid months. It was worth it
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 day ago:
I’m sure there’s a cheat engine invulnerability hack or something I could use, but it would kinda take the fun out of it.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 days ago:
Sometimes I think it’s nostalgia talking, then I go back and play Civ II or Civ IV and confirm that no, no it is not.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 days ago:
Silksong. My muscle disease has progressed too much to physically play it. That really stings because Hollow Knight was one of my favorite games ever.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 3 days ago:
sounds like you should have sued nintendo a long time ago then
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 5 days ago:
I don’t see a difference between the last two
- Comment on cats are so silly 6 days ago:
I do the complement to this: I hunt down my cat and make sure he gets a whiff because I enjoy the silly faces he makes.
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 week ago:
I’ve been working on my Steam exit strategy for years. It’s nice feeling like I could bail at any time without too much pain.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
I’ve got nothing against people with former drug problems. I don’t trust him because he’s a doofus.
- Comment on I got a DMCA notice for having a fork of GPL 3.0 code 1 week ago:
Why even use a service that has the functionality to serve you dmca notices
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 week ago:
It’s fair to expect every therapist to be better than this.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 2 weeks ago:
Can you explain the joke? It just comes across as an insult to me.
- Comment on Things used to be simpler 2 weeks ago:
Now try looking at a math textbook from a hundred years ago
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, because it’s kind of harder to get better than photorealistic.
- Comment on quack 2 weeks ago:
I bought Quake 3 not knowing it had no campaign and I was so disappointed
- Comment on Day 547 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I remember seeing this screenshot before the game came out and thinking there is no way graphics could ever get better than this. Image
- Comment on dating 2 weeks ago:
The fundamental issue here is that they call this dating when it’s something else entirely. They should have made a new name for it when it became like sifting through resumes.
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like mental illness to me.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 3 weeks ago:
Lack of gameplay options and cheats. I’ve never thought a game was worse because it had cheats. Quite the contrary.
- Comment on Help is needed 4 weeks ago:
Or Mute haha
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 4 weeks ago:
You know you’re crooked when “users can run the software they want on their own hardware” causes the sky to fall.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Love to see any engine that isn’t Unity or Unreal get some support. I’m getting really tired of the absurdly bad performance that a lot of simple unity indie games have nowadays.
- Comment on Dying Light 5 weeks ago:
Make sure to play the second one too! It’s widely regarded as the best game in the series.
- Comment on Niche species 1 month ago:
Yeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.
- Comment on Niche species 1 month ago:
As an American if someone said “nitch” out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:
- Comment on I just want to play a game... 1 month ago:
Steam shouldn’t allow this kind of crap, much less have software support for it.
- Comment on Lemmy and PieFed users in 50 years 1 month ago:
Most lemmy users will be long gone in 50 years
