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- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 1 hour ago:
While that’s very much true, that’s not really what I take away from it. The bible could be 100% true and this wouldn’t really change anything in this particular case.
What it instead tells me is that people will pick out whichever parts of the bible suit their biases and follow them, all so they can feel good about themselves despite ignoring the half of it they don’t like. I also don’t see many Christians avoiding mixed fabrics despite their god supposedly saying that’s a no-no two different times.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Probably a bit niche of a game series, but Dungeon Defenders. It’s an Action RPG / Tower Defense hybrid that I loved as a kid. And all the sequels kinda sucked for one reason or another. I’ve played all of them a little bit too much, so I’m going to go into way too much detail here lol.
The first game was one of my all-time favorites on the xbox 360 as a kid (which is kinda funny because it has like 100x the content on PC). The game was riddled with cheaters and hacked items, but damn did I have fun anyway. My friends were practically begging me to play anything else when they came over to hang out.
Then they made Dungeon Defenders II and charged $20 for it in early access. I bought the game in a heartbeat because I loved the first one so much. But it just turned into an always-online, live-service game without any actual story, that forces you to buy multiple microtransactions for necessary QoL features in order to play the game in the way it’s intended. Eventually the game went free-to-play and pushed that model even harder. Its a shame, because underneath all the bullshit it looks like a fun enough sequel.
Then Dungeon Defenders: Awakened came out. Half sequel, half remake of the original (time travel shenanigans), it had a lot of potential and it’s one of only two games I’ve ever backed on Kickstarter. The game is basically a modernized Dungeon Defenders, with some new content and a boat load of QoL additions. They even release all future content for free instead of as DLC like the original, so its a one-time purchase (and very strange coming from the same studio that runs DD2). Unfortunately, it was too damn similar to the original and didn’t do enough on its own. DD1 had a community dev team adding new maps and content for over 10 years, so why the hell would you buy the new game who’s original content amounts to like 6 new maps? The game did eventually get more content, and is honestly not a bad purchase at this point imo, but it could never catch up to the original.
Funny enough, the original DD1 started getting new DLC again a few years ago, so all three of these games are being developed simultaneously by different teams despite being sequels to the last.
- Comment on Day 743 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Even the sleep mechanic is exclusive to single player
It’s actually not, it’s only disabled by default. The speed up will only take affect the moment every single player is sleeping, so it’s not something you’d want in a massive public server with 73 players online, but for a small group of friends it works fine. Highly recommended, unless you like sitting around for 30 IRL minutes reading in the dark every night. Speaking of, one thing that IS exclusive to singleplayer is unfortunately the fast forward button, so reading really sucks and I always turn up skill gain speeds in MP.
- Comment on What games did you sleep on for too long? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really play a lot of new games anymore, so I guess the last time I slept on a game for too long was The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. This was many years ago, I’ve got 1,200 hours in the game now and 100%’d it multiple times. Butt I can’t stand potty humor, so seeing literal giant piles of crap all over the map and dozens of fart related items always immediately turned me away from the game any time I looked at it, despite knowing I’d love playing it. Eventually I gave in and bought it, and surprisingly, the poop didn’t bother me much because they don’t really make it look especially gross (except for tainted blue baby… fuck you, tainted blue baby). The farts were still bad, but most of those items suck so I can gladly ignore them.
For a while I was desensitized to the potty humor, but then they released the Repentance DLC with the character tainted blue baby, and… ugh. If you don’t know what he looks or plays like, feast your eyes on this wonderful wiki page and see how many results show up when you Ctrl+F “poop”. He’s a character based around the released bowels of a corpse who attacks by defecating. As much as I love the game, the potty humor remains my least favorite part of it by far, and I wish Edmund McMillen wasn’t such a freak sometimes.
- Comment on What's the rarest Steam achievement you got? 3 weeks ago:
CoD BO3 zombies cheevos are insanely common for how hard they are
Zombie Chronicles and steam workshop support turning BO3 into something of the definitive classic zombies mode probably helps those statistics. BO2 has a different executable and achievements specifically for zombies, which should help heavily skew its statistics towards being actually completed, and the Origins achievements are still 3x-4x rarer than they are on BO3.
- Comment on What's the rarest Steam achievement you got? 3 weeks ago:
All but one of my 20 rarest achievements are from the game Barony. The game has ruined my rarest achievements showcase lol. 16 of them are at 0.1%, the others are 0.2%.
- Comment on Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games? 3 weeks ago:
Every time I see somebody talk about Postal 2, I misread it as Portal 2 and get very confused.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 4 weeks ago:
How is having access to previously xbox-exclusive games on the PC good for anyone? Seriously?
- Comment on Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be 5 weeks ago:
They literally show half a dozen pictures of denuvo games running on Arch in the article. Several of the top posts on r/crackwatch (the subreddit mentioned in the article) about the Linux denuvo workaround. It’s called DenuvOwO. (because of course it is lol).
- Comment on Day 723 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, I didn’t even think about shaders, though fortunately that wouldn’t bother me too much. I like real time shadows and reflective water, but I seem to be in the minority in thinking that most other shader effects are ugly outside of screen archery.
- Comment on Day 723 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Ooh, AotBT. I’ve heard a lot of good things about it. Never played it though, I’ve unfortunately come to really appreciate a lot of the conveniences of modern versions, and despite growing up on older versions of MC, I’m not sure if I’m ready to go all the way back to 1.6 lol.
- Comment on Palworld v1.0 - Official Release Changelog 1 month ago:
Yeah, if you don’t like the open world survival crafting genre then you’re probably not going to like the open world survival crafting game Palworld. What’s the point of your comment exactly? You know they’re not going to jump ship to a completely different genre right at full release.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 1 month ago:
Mortal Kombat: Deception. Honestly, fighting games are one of my least favorite genres nowadays. But as a very young kid (way too young to be playing MK lol), it was a lot of fun.
I always got my ass kicked by my older siblings, so I preferred taking turns in the story mode over playing against other people. Probably one of the reasons I strongly prefer co-op and PvE games even today, now that I think about it.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 month ago:
How can a game be a game when…
Well tbf, just about anything can be a game that will appeal to someone. Somebody could make a game about exactly what you described without hyperbole (like driving around and going shopping or something), call it “daily chore simulator”, and it’d probably sell surprisingly well lol.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 1 month ago:
I’m not at all surprised to see the “not interested” and “wait for a sale” options being massively ahead on Lemmy. Though it’d be interesting to see how different the “not interested” crowd would be if the option were split into “not interested at all” and “interested but wont buy for political/moral reasons”.
The comments here imply most would vote for the second option, but I’m in the first camp myself. I’ve never been interested in any of the GTA games.
- Comment on Single player games 1 month ago:
Competitive multiplayer games are a big no, but I love cooperative multiplayer games. I’d much rather play one of them with a friend or two than play something by myself. I couldn’t tell you the last time I’ve actually beaten a single player game, I tend to get bored and lose interest half way through.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun 1 month ago:
with mods other than just skyui for the first time this time
Congrats, you are well on your way to becoming the type of person that spends 6 weeks making a skyrim modlist instead of playing the game, launching it for 15 minutes to make sure everything works, and then losing interest in the game after a day or two.
I recently found out about a mod called Sentinel, and holy hell is it exactly what I needed to actually enjoy the cool looking but blatantly overpowered Creation Club armors.
- Comment on Am I just bad at games??? 1 month ago:
Cassette Beasts took me about 40 hours to beat and close to 60 hours to fully 100% (though I did play on the hardest difficulty, which slows the game down A LOT). You’re just taking your time and that’s fine.
I personally didn’t experience any crashes or incredibly long loading times… it ran just fine for me. What are you playing it on?
- Comment on Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexe 2 months ago:
Believe it or not, the people complaining about it care.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not everybody knows you shouldn’t fill up your hard drive completely. If someone doesn’t explicitly mention it, its safer to assume they don’t know so that you don’t accidentally give them advice that harms their drive. And no, saying play space instead of space (especially when your title just says 20 gb left) does not count as explicitly mentioning it. You never mention having room to spare or even knowing the difference.
It’s clear now that you probably do, so all you needed to do was say “don’t worry I know” or even just ignore the advice entirely. I don’t know why you’re being annoyed by people for not having the info you failed to provide them.
- Comment on Life Is Strange 2 months ago:
Are we talking about the original Life is Strange? The thumbnail shows the newest game, Reunion, but I’ll assume that’s their website being dumb and we’re talking about the original. I absolutely loved it when I played it years ago, and I loved the way it made me feel powerless when my powers suddenly didn’t work. Like with Kate… I didn’t pay attention to or help her the first time I played, and I eventually replayed the game just to change that. If you haven’t played chapter 5 yet, you’re in for a treat.
I want to play through it again and 100% it at some point. Though to be honest, idk if that will ever happen, I suck at finishing new games let alone ones I already know the ending to. Maybe I’ll give the remastered version a shot or something. There’s several other games in the series, and aside from True Colors and Reunion, which I have not played, I enjoyed them all to some extent, though not as much as the original.
- Comment on Day 677 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
I’ve never seen a car like that before… it looks like a big cat of some kind.
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 2 months ago:
For a few years now, Phasmophobia has been a game my friend and I like to play for a few hours each weekend. But they recently came out with a disappointing and terrible update, and its pushed us to try out some Phasmo “clones”.
The Other Side is the one we’ve had the most fun playing over the past few weeks.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
I think survival games are the type of game that are infinitely more fun with a friend or two to play along with. As long as said friends are the cooperative type and not the type that gets upset over having stuff taken from their chest. Being able to split up the grind and show off your accomplishments or frankly terrible builds to friends always makes them a lot more fun to play. They also just tend to be pretty laid back experiences usually despite their genre’s name, so it gives plenty of room to just chat.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
I mean don’t get me wrong, the stories don’t tend to be anything crazy, and they’re basically never the center of the game. Like, you’re not going to find a story on par with The Witcher 3 in an idle game. They’re usually just there to give a justification as to why you’re doing things, and in some games it’s pretty obvious that the gameplay was designed first and the story was more of an afterthought.
I don’t mind that personally, I’ve never been one to seek out games just for their story.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Bit of an irrelevant metric if you’d ask me. Best-selling game of all time run by owner of both Windows and Xbox has bigger numbers than indie title, color me surprised. I’m not arguing that Minecraft is unpopular or that it doesn’t allow for near unlimited creativity. It’s one of my favorite games. I was just naming a couple of other incredibly popular games like you asked.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Old School RuneScape and RuneScape 3.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Terraria just had its 15th year anniversary less than a week ago and is more popular than ever. World of Warcraft is still popular as well.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Not everyone’s looking for a story or skill development when they play games. Sometimes you want to just turn your brain off for a bit and enjoy the dopamine. Plenty of clickers and idlers have actual stories regardless. As for RSI, most “clickers” don’t actually have you clicking much past the very early game anyway. It’s almost always automated.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 2 months ago:
Now to be fair to other survival games, 7 days to die is just a terribly made game imo. They’ve been consistently dumbing it down and straying further from a zombie apocalypse every update. Nowadays zombie dogs look more like wendigos, and for a while they had literal yetis and plague spitting mummies in the game until they got a lot of shit for it and had to retexture them into proper zombies. I’ve got 900 hours in the game and I just can’t touch it anymore, it’s no longer fun.
