Arkhive

@Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Red Strings Club!!! Woah!! Been a minute since I thought about that game. Very, VERY, good. Sort of a precursor to Potion Craft in a way, that really didn’t over stay its welcome. The pacing was great, difficulty curve was great, and it had a distinctly finite story that still left you satisfied. I’ve bounced off potion craft a few times because at a point the scale, and subsequent grind, is a bit much for me. Red Strings Club nails the middle ground with good increasing complexity without becoming a chore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches The Whale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A wizard every now and then as a little treat?‽!!!‽‽

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a very well done in game journal, that is essentially the wiki. It includes crafting recipes, as well as more free form, expository writing on general gameplay and progression. Most mods also do a good job of including their own journal pages and info as well. Though there’s some things that take struggling on before the info provided fully clicks. There is a prospecting system for example to help you locate ores since they are rarer with bigger deposits. I struggled with it for a while, but eventually you develop this sort of intrinsic sense of how to use the info the tools provide. There’s a very satisfying progression in most of the game systems from floundering at first, then understanding the numbers behind it, then internalizing the optimization and it becoming instinct. Very much matching the layperson to apprentice to specialist progression. I’ll finally add that the game does have sort of RPG style classes that encourage people to play multiplayers and specialize into a particular job. There’s is a commoner class that doesn’t have any drawbacks, but also doesn’t have the bonuses the other classes get which is okay for single player, but to give a small spoiler,

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  I’d suggest using the tailor class for you first solo play through. Winters are brutal and being able to repair clothes rather than always have to craft new ones is huge. Also flax, plant lots of flax as soon as possible.

  Don’t be afraid to abandon a save after a few in game days and take what you learned into a new one. Or check out the difficulty settings/sliders, there’s lots of ways to tune your experience. If you don’t get your feet under you it can be grueling to try to recover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you know Terrafirmacraft it’s roughly that. Basically to even get to a point where you’re chopping down trees, there’s a few hours of gameplay trying to replicate fairly realistic early human technological progression. But it has a shockingly good late game with quests and dungeon and bosses. Due to the slower nature of the tech progression, and you being a relatively fragile creature in a shockingly cruel world, the game feels like it’s always going somewhere. There is always something you can be doing to prep in some way.

  It uses a lot of diagetic UIs and in world crafting which I love. Modding it is as easy as clicking the install button on the mod webpage and it launched the game and prompts the install. I do suggest using some mods, even on a first play through, because a lot of them are just things that make sense, and often get worked into the full game over time.

  A couple more game changing mods I’d suggest are rivers, wind, sailboats, and canoes. Basically anything that makes water a slightly more viable form of transport once you’ve got a bit of tech. The game has more or less accurate geology, so materials will only spawn in specific rock types, and those rock types only occur in specific areas due to tectonic plate interactions. This means you’ll often go on loooonnngg expeditions to find a particular material, and I find water transport to be a very balanced tool with rivers because you cannot sails of paddle up stream, but downstream is very fast. You can use this to you advantage in some way, while still forcing you to portage your gear at other times.

  Anyway, I love this game. Check you the comm for it! !vintagestory@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vintagestory is my Minecraft killer, but it’s also get very different item/tech progression, so probably not perfect for many (former) Minecraft fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arcturus looking for playtesters!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix, and there’s a P2P one that just went around called PeerSuite? Both are far from perfect, but at least aren’t yucky corpo platforms. Sorry to come across so harsh in the initial comment, the tone in my head was light hearted I promise lol. More of a “I’m happy to help figure out an alternative communication stream in order to make me a useful tester.” Might be worth making your game a Mastodon account to direct people to from the Steam page? Could be a good spot to encourage people to learn about the fediverse and provide a channel for updates and a message system for testers? Idk. Discord is somewhat unique still in the type of organizational tools it provides, hence the love-hate relationship I have with it lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arcturus looking for playtesters!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a discord hater and low key refuse to join more servers as I try to convince my communities to move to different platforms. Would love to test on Linux for you though. Happy to provide feedback back here or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, that game is still playable online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Straftat. Free to play, fast paced, 1v1 movement shooter. It’s a wildly under appreciated game that would hugely benefit from a small to medium sized, consistent player base. It does have a paid dlc, that mostly functions as a tip for the dev. The DLC has some cosmetics and a few maps, but it’s not really gatekeeping any of the fun of the game, plus it’s only $5 USD so I just bought it and considered it the price of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I rock climb as my job basically, and I finger health is in the bin most of the time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooohhhh yes!!! I haven’t gotten to play it yet which is why I forgot it! It’s on my list!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a game I chip away at. I’m at a point in it that the levels often take hours and/or multiple sittings to work out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fan of taking turns “driving” for slower paced logic or puzzle games. Titles that come to mind:

  • Myst
  • Curse of the Golden Idol
  • Summertime Madness
  • Chants of Sennar
  • Superliminal
  • Viewfinder
  • Baba is You

  I can highly recommend all of these as they almost universally benefit from more minds working on them together. I would say Baba is the only one that gets REALLY challenging, but there are good mind and logic bending puzzles throughout them all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for the LEGO games. Sort of my go to sleeper pick for surprisingly good games. The humor is good, gameplay is decent though I have to go on big breaks between playing through one because gameplay game to game can be a bit samey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re open to the idea of ditching a Microsoft product, I’d suggest Vintage Story as a Minecraft alternative that I think has a nicer aesthetic. It’s meant to be a sort of slow, “grindy” game, but if you sort of rewire your thinking to it being a slice of life game, akin to Stardew, I think it’s very fun. Fair warning the early game can be very punishing if you’re brand new to it, so explore the world and difficulty setting when you make your first save.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many games do you manage to play at the same time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I often get game choice paralysis, so I have extensively categorized my game library to help with both decision making, but also time management. I use numbers to force my categories to sort in the order I want rather than alphabetically by category name.

  Also worth noting I only started doing this after I stopped playing an MMO and reclaimed whatever % of my life.

  First is my “currently playing” category. This contains roughly one game from each other category/genre.

  • A story driven RPG (Witcher 3 at the moment, the Metro series after)
  • A rhythm game (McOsu, an Osu mod)
  • An optimization/building game (Shapez 2 but maybe back to factorio soon)
  • An action rougelike (going back to Hades before Hades 2)
  • A deck builder (currently MTGA, but my group really wants to ditch WotC)
  • A puzzle game (probably Blue Prince once it comes out)
  • A dedicated indie game spot (the Cairn demo)
  • A few other odd games that I like having quick access to because I like them

  There is sort of a secret bonus game to this section, but it also sits outside of this system entirely, because I will ALWAYS go back to it. And that’s the “block game” category. For a long time this was various flavors of modded Minecraft, but I’m so fed up with Microsoft enshitifying my baby that I’ve jumped ship. I’m playing Vintage Story (also heavily modded) and it’s just a better game top to bottom in my opinion.

  Then there is an “Interesred” category for games I’ve either been told I should try and also think I might enjoy. I try to keep this small, following roughly a similar “one per genre” as the previous category. I honestly don’t really touch these much, it’s more there for when a spot is freed up in the “currently playing” section. This is also where demos for unreleased games go.

  Then there is a “favorite” and “liked” category which largely contain games I’ve played before or are intentionally hyper replayable. This has a lot of my favorite puzzle games, a lot of the various rogue likes with a different game as the core mechanic (think peglin and ballionaire) stuff like that. Basically things to sift through if none of my current games are sparking an interest.

  After this is just genre categories used for storage essentially so I can collapse them and not be sick scrolling the whole list.

  I have a decent amount of time to game, but also work a very physical job, so I need to be very into a game to prioritize it over sleeping and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently went through getting it to run on Linux. It’s one of the only Bungie games I haven’t played. Shockingly in depth combat, I’m enjoying it, but I’m bad at combo based fighting games, so I’m playing it in very bite sized pieces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How am I supposed to obtain income?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love lemmy for people like you!! Feel like this type of generosity just doesn’t show up on other platforms. OP please see this^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Productivity App | Ithya: Magic Studies on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love their YouTube videos! Had no idea this was in the works though. Thanks for posting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally kicked my Destiny 2 habit by installing Linux, and while I absolutely miss the gameplay and my team, I haven’t really looked back. I’m involved and interested in so many other things now. I still see the odd post that gives ma a pang of FOMO, but the thought of booting into my windows install makes me want to peel my skin off with tweezers.

  Not an MMORPG by any means, but I’ve been really enjoying a “Minecraft like” called Vintage Story that is giving me the same feeling. The commodification of Minecraft has finally frustrated me enough and I’m jumping ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there Cozy shooter games?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to say Roboquest. Replaced Destiny 2 for me when I finally ditched windows for Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory, and please please take this as the most silly of jokes: pushes up glasses UUUMMMMM akchually WINE is a compatibility layer, not an emulator, its name literally stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.

  Again, it’s just kind of a running bit in the Wine community. The same thing is right at the top of the projects home page if my memory serves, and it is definitely easier to refer to it as an emulator. “Compatibility layer” just doesn’t have the same ring to it lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout London - I just can't anymore⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am in the exact same position lol checking off some other games while it matures

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some rows of videos have different padding⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated, but we have a near identical feed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve stopped playing since Microsoft copilot was announced and I fully ditched windows, but I held on until the final raid because of the gun play, nostalgia, and the representation present in both the studio and the game. I grew up with the Marathon games, and the early Halo series. The DNA of those games is still there and I can’t help but love it. I’ve been chasing a single player experience that gets even close to Destiny’s feel for so long. The System Shock remake is getting close, but I would love a PvE only game from Bungie. For a long time (read pre-Sony-buyout) Bungie was also a sort of hold out for various minority representations I try to support. The studio’s media showed an employee base that is diverse and they often did a good job pushing back against players saying any sort of agenda was being pushed just for including diversity in the game. This made them a company I was much more willing to throw money at, compared to say, activision/blizzard. That sentiment as largely faded for me as the studio had been turned into a “for the shareholders” cow Sony can milk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 41 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Sea of Thieves)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate it!! I realize it’s a pretty niche request, made mostly selfishly, but it’s very fun for me!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 41 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Sea of Thieves)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been really enjoying Shapez2 after getting back into Factorio in preparation for the Shapez2 release. In the end very similar, but I’d say Shapez is like creative mode of factorio and doesn’t have any blatant colonialism lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 41 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Sea of Thieves)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is really random, but could you go back to omitting the title of the game from the title of the post? I’m possibly the only one, but guessing the game before looking at the post text has become a sort of daily game for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just recommended a video about this game earlier today. I had already opened this thread, but had not read everything yet. I’m taking it as a sign. Terrafirmacraft is one of my fav Minecraft modpacks, and Vintage Story looked to lean into what TFC was trying to do to Minecraft. Cheers for the recommendation!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Longlegs’ Becomes the Highest-Grossing Indie Horror Film of the Last 10 Years⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not going to lie I found it to be quite mid. I’m sort of tough to please when it comes to horror, especially supernatural horror, so take that with a big grain of salt. From a technical stance it is a fantastic piece of cinema, the filming itself, the sound design, the pacing, like it’s there, but I found the plot lacking in ways I won’t explain due to spoilers. I’d say it’s worth seeing on the big screen, and I’m so glad the crew is seeing such big success from the film, but it didn’t quite live up to the hype for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game fits this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Shocked Donkstiny Destiny 2 didn’t get mentioned yet.