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gmr_leon

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i ramble about video games. i like sharing & weird stuff. @ me with weird games.

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gmr_leon, to gaming
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Huh, this is kinda cool. With some of the updates to Lemmy, I'm starting to see posts from an instance's gaming community thanks to following the gaming tag.

It looks like they're trying to make it so the community names are read by Mastodon (& maybe other fediverse microblogs) as tags.

#Gaming #VideoGames #Fediverse

gmr_leon, to gaming
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In a character creator for ages before setting out into the rest of the game...Only to face the final boss: character name...And neither a default name nor a name generator built-in.

Forget the Souls games, the most difficult type of game is the Character Creator.

gmr_leon,
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The hardest metagame to avoid sometimes is fear of missing out, subsequent backlog buildup and choice paralysis.

A winning strat is to wait new releases out and focus on playing what interests you of what you already have to completion before getting any new games.

gmr_leon, to steam
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Tried searching around but didn't surface any clear info: anyone know roughly how many people have to use a tag on Steam before it starts appearing for others to apply/search by?

I realize the info is likely deliberately withheld by Valve to mitigate people gaming the system, but also that that won't stop people figuring out some rough info on it.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Is Steamdb's tags page relatively comprehensive for the tags used across Steam?

If so I'm kind of surprised that Grindy isn't a tag on there. I'd like that to filter out those games, and those that love them could more easily find'em. Win-win!

#Gaming #VideoGames #AskGaming #AskGames #AskFedi #Steam

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Any time I see relaying of big game companies' marketing anymore I get bummed out and feel like maybe I should get away from everything.

But then somewhere amidst all that some small game ekes out some signal that I manage to tune into, making me go, or maybe not.

That game this time around is the splendidly strange Arctic Eggs.
https://the-water-museum.itch.io/arctic-eggs

Thanks @jeffgerstmann for checking this out!

chris, to PCGaming
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New Adrift expedition begins today: "Just you the player as a tiny dot lost in the infinite - for the first time players can be truly alone in No Man’s Sky. We think it’s a special feeling."

https://www.nomanssky.com/2024/05/expedition-thirteen-adrift/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVy8Wj0CdlA

gmr_leon,
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@chris Somehow I skimmed over the quoted line the other day, and it's...Not really true, about the first time being alone in the game.

But that's perhaps semantics

didier, to amiga
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Everything I’ve done recently getting my #Amiga 600 up and running would have been impossible without web searching (and finding!) answers to long forgotten problems.

If this knowledge was produced now, it would unfortunately end up in a convo on a Discord server somewhere and would be impossible to search (and find…)

Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Future nerds will thank you.

#StopUsingDiscord

gmr_leon,
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@CerebralHawks ? While you're technically not wrong in some ways, if it's a smaller or more focused community, similar can occur even on Discord. E.g. if there's one primary community for a subject, you could essentially get shut out if one person/group running it takes a dislike to you.

At the same time, the benefit of Discord you mention with there being many communities can also exist with many forums, & arguably even better given independent servers altogether.

gmr_leon,
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@didier Speaking of open web, if you're not into the forum model, consider blogging/personal sites!

It's good to work through your thoughts and it builds your own personal store of info if you use it as such. Plus you can entirely set aside any of the social elements if you like, making it a nice little creative reprieve away from others for when you need it.

https://neocities.org/ is a good platform for this sort of thing for any interested but wary of getting into the weeds of hosting.

LadyMarth01, to gaming
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While Letterboxd seems to be the popular option for logging and reviewing movies, there doesn't seem to be a consensus option for video games. In the past I've used Backloggery, Grouvee, and Playfire (RIP), but dropped those years ago.

So, what does everyone on the fediverse use for logging/reviewing video games?

#Gaming #VideoGames #PCGaming

gmr_leon,
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@LadyMarth01 Dunno what everyone uses but https://backloggd.com/ has a slick design.

gmr_leon, to PCGaming
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I take some small credit for the naming of No Man's Sky's latest expedition, Adrift.

When I was still active in the No Man's Sky community I referred to the pre-Foundation version of the game as Adrift, because it preceded the shift to settler/colonist gameplay that Foundation introduced.

You can see this in several rough, silent playthrough videos I recorded of that version:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Wqxp_H9yGkP9b1qp_qoryN3zsB88Gsf

Update notes:
https://www.nomanssky.com/2024/05/expedition-thirteen-adrift/

gmr_leon,
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Honestly I doubt it had any real influence on the naming, but the parallels are so striking it's hard to ignore.

However if it did have any influence, the slight acknowledgement being a throwaway expedition feels kind of like a weird insult. Expeditions were among the last changes that finally pushed me away from the game.

I could see the writing on the wall for awhile, but expeditions helped make it very clear the game had fully shifted from what I appreciated about it, and hoped for.

gmr_leon,
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The expeditions in No Man's Sky were the real answer to the community requests for a more dynamic universe, in my opinion.

A compromise between those wanting a universe that changed according to underlying simulation, a difficult task, and those wanting continuations of the game's light storytelling but with more unique missions.

I think it clearly worked for enough people, but it wasn't for me. Too live service, too MMO-esque.

But that's compromise for you.

PixelBandits, to VideoGames
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Hey Bandits! Hope you've all had a wonderful bank holiday Monday (if you're in the UK).

Sorry for the quiet one, today. I have been sinking myself into a family outing, but I have also been delving into Theme Park World and wanted to share some memories with you 🥰

#VideoGames #Gaming #Gamers #RetroGaming

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gmr_leon,
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@PixelBandits ...I still have this game, but haven't thought about it in forever. Think I picked it up because back then (& tbh even now) you rarely saw games of its sort on consoles!

I should revisit it now that I'm somewhat more patient, and willing to muddle through the finance stuff.

Remember enjoying it despite never really getting too far into it all.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Awhile back I had some odd physics ideas but was having trouble finding user-friendly tools to try them out.

Somewhere along the way I stumbled across Principia, & while the base version wasn't capable of what I wanted to try, I appreciated it regardless for being a cool, user friendly physics toy.

Sometime maybe I'll try modifying it to try out my odd ideas. Give it a look if you're into digital toys!

https://principia-web.se/

gmr_leon,
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Btw, since I'm probably among a few people (at least on here) talking about Principia. Some advice: if after running the installer on Windows it silently crashes, uninstall and reinstall.

Not sure why, but that resolves the issue for me.

If after that you try to pull one of the custom levels from the site & it does nothing, close the game and relaunch it, then try again. As before, that's resolved it for me.

Again, I don't know why, but at least it works thereafter.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Mildly confused by @itchio's lack of activity around here. They have around 5x the followers here as on Bsky, but are more active there. Around 37.5x the followers here as on Threads, but some more recent posts there.

With the last one I suspect that may be related to how recently Threads came out, & with Bsky, I'm guessing it's a mix of recently opening up & simply not being a Facebook product making it more appealing.

gmr_leon,
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This brought to mind as I check their socials to see what's going on with Itch in general as it seems they're having some kind of issues.

Hopefully nothing too serious though, as they're excellent!

gmr_leon, to gaming
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If you're into tower defense games, Anuto TD on Android via F-Droid is a solid FOSS one. Has this charming hand-drawn look to it as well and a number of maps to play with.

Also, and this may just be me, but I really enjoy that it's played in portrait/vertical view instead of landscape/horizontal. Dunno why but I find handling phones in landscape awkward feeling, personally.

gmr_leon,
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Played some more Anuto TD and almost forgot that you can upgrade your structures.

Some require a ridiculous amount to do so, but are well worth it. The glue spewer in particular becomes incredible with upgrades.

gmr_leon,
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For those interested, as mentioned in the first post, you can download Anuto TD for free via F-Droid. Here's a link, which if you've F-Droid or Droidify installed should prompt you to open via them, I think.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.logixisland.anuto/

#Gaming #VideoGames #FOSSGames #FOSSGaming #Android #FDroid

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Love looking at guides and tips for old games, especially RPGs.

I feel like if you did a phrase cloud of frequent phrases for tips for old RPGs, among the top ones would be: "easy/fast leveling", "9999 mana/gold/etc.", and so on.

gmr_leon,
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I've written thoughts on RPGs here before, and elsewhere, but not sure if I've mentioned this thought here yet.

If your game's combat is some of the primary gameplay, & you offer an auto-battle option, I feel like you're kinda admitting you botched the combat gameplay.

Similarly, if people are looking for ways to fast-track through gameplay systems, I think something may have gone awry in design/tuning.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Me being the stubborn sort I am, really wanting people to describe their low-poly/pixel art games in platform independent terms. For one, while you may be intentionally narrowing your audience to those nostalgic for the old platforms, you're narrowing your audience! Why do that when the art style and game genre will already do that?

For two, why nod to big businesses that don't need it & occasionally denigrate their own old work?

I get the intent but it seems unhelpful.

gmr_leon,
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Also I'm aware that there's arguably plenty of market evidence to suggest whatever downsides may come of playing up nostalgia and associating with big businesses are negligible, so it really is much more the principle of it to me.

Making your own spaces and all, being more independent so much as one can.

gmr_leon, to art
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This looks wicked! From Rebels_Droppin on CRT Art on Lemmy World:

https://lemmy.world/post/12681909

#ElectronicArt #CRTTVs #Art

gmr_leon,
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btw @mcc you may dig this person's CRT TV art posts!

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