@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

gmr_leon

@gmr_leon@mstdn.social

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

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

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.

#Gaming #IndieGames #VideoGames

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

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, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

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,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

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.

#Gaming #VideoGames

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

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.

#Gaming #VideoGames

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

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 gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

Was curious if there were any FOSS 3D RTS games with a fantasy style to them, thinking of some of my old favs like Age of Mythology & Rise of Legends.

Pleased to find that there is one, & it mixes magic & tech factions much like Rise of Legends did back in the day!

It's a game called MegaGlest, well worth checking out! A little rough in some respects, but still altogether impressive!

https://megaglest.org/

#Gaming #VideoGames

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

I really dig some of the little touches to MegaGlest, such as the mages using their abilities to gather resources instead of pickaxes. The brief pause as gatherers switch from gathering to hauling, pulling the resources together to haul & deposit.

The visible progress bars as buildings/units are researching/producing upgrades or units. The way the main building lights up as night falls.

#Gaming #VideoGames #FOSS #RTS

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

Increasingly drawn to more gratis, or truly free, games as potentially better shared experiences than commercial and freemium games. I think a lot of the broad nostalgia for old Flash games can be related to this as well.

There's also something to be said for older shareware, & in-between when commercial games encouraged local multiplayer, which itself was a form of sharing.

Think it can be better for games culture to have these sorts of unmonetized shared experiences.

#Gaming #VideoGames

Knoebel, to random
@Knoebel@mastodon.social avatar

IGN Entertainment acquires the Gamer Network family, including Eurogamer, GamesIndustry. Biz, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more.

IGN Network makes redundancies across the Gamer Network.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ign-entertainment-acquires-eurogamer-gi-vg247-rock-paper-shotgun-and-more

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

@Knoebel 😬 This is only gonna get even worse for an already struggling industry

princessviola, to Nintendo
@princessviola@retro.pizza avatar

Back during the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U eras, Nintendo fans were constantly complaining about how Nintendo were selling old games on the VC individually and saying that they need to do a subscription service instead.

But now that they're doing that on the Switch, they're complaining about the subscription service and saying they should sell these old games individually again.

What do you even fucking want Nintendo fans, or do you just wanna complain?

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

@princessviola there were people asking for them to move to a subscription service??

that's just backwards af. Much of what I saw was that maybe prices could be better, but not so much of a push for a subscription service. In the long run that's gonna cost you more than paying for what you want once after all...

decipher2k, to gamedev
@decipher2k@mastodon.social avatar

What do you think about ingame ads in PC games?

Surely they can be anoying, but aren't they a chance to publish games for free and still make some money?

I'm asking for a friend 😅

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

@decipher2k if the choice is not to play, or play with ads, i'll opt not to play, as i don't want the experience disrupted with ads.

if instead there's another option to pay with no ads, then i'd go for that if the game interests me enough & i can afford it.

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

@decipher2k ooh, gotcha. If it's a contemporary game where they fit and are kept more in the background (unless it's maybe a sports game where they're more upfront), then it's kind of whatever.

Not a fan of them still, but less disruptive than the ones I had in mind.

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

Something that's been cool to see over the past few years is the emergence of more non-combat focused building/strategy(?) games like Islanders and Autonauts.

I think maybe Dorfromantik fits into that category too? Not played it but that's the gist I've gotten about it.

Should look into more of'em tbh. They manage a nice slow-burn pace without as much tedium as games that try to explicitly slow you down (i.e. many RPGs).

#Gaming #VideoGames

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

Never really understood competitive games, for a mixture of reasons, and among those reasons is:

if you excel at a game, you kinda narrow down who you can enjoyably play against, and doesn't that kinda suck?

Personally I've never found it much fun to wipe the floor with opponents, AI or otherwise, so I don't get wanting to excel at a competitive game. In my mind you're undermining your own enjoyment of it somewhat.

#Gaming #VideoGames

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

This was brought to mind again as I played several rounds of Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition online for the first time, despite having played the original off and on for a long time, and as I expected, I got wrecked each time.

I let my opponents smash up what little I'd managed to build since that's some of the fun, but I can't imagine steamrolling me was much fun otherwise.

gmr_leon, to random
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

I should really try to get better at finding more people around here that I relate to to follow, or better hashtags.

The hashtags that I currently follow make me feel like I'm plugged into streaming and games industry adverts, unfortunately. 😞

gmr_leon, (edited ) to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

So, given the kinda joke about people hating phone calls, yet using voice chat in games, I can't help wondering what people's preferences may be on chatting in games.

When you play online games, which do you lean towards when it comes to text/voice chat, or other options I didn't fit here, contextual pinging (e.g. Apex Legends), emotes, or voice/chat commands (e.g. Team Fortress 2/AoE 2)?

Repost/boost as you will, curious about this!

#Gaming #VideoGames #AskGames #AskGaming

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

In case you missed it, running a poll to get a rough idea of how people prefer to communicate in online games.

#Gaming #VideoGames #MultiplayerGaming

gmr_leon, to random
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

Big businesses are perpetual milkshake ducks.

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

the surest sign someone has successfully stayed away from entertainment communities is when they describe a massive hit as a "hidden gem", e.g. read a comment calling Witcher 3 a hidden gem 😅

i sometimes wish i was better at being like that so i could talk about games more at ease

but i know just enough about how the sausage is made so i can't

#Gaming #VideoGames

gmr_leon, to gaming
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

Does Proton for games on Linux work without using Steam? 🤔

I know vaguely of stuff like Lutris, so I'm still wondering how gaming on Linux looks if you're not completely bought into Valve's pseudo-monopoly. That should be in line with Linux thinking, right?

If it does, hell yeah. Then the other trick might be controller stuff outside of Steam, but one step at a time.

#Gaming #AskGames #AskGaming #LinuxGaming

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

@averyminya ? I appreciate the advice, however I'm confused what may have suggested an inclination toward Epic

I lean towards smaller Valve/Steam competitors for commercial games when possible, like Itch or GOG. Primarily for their games being DRM free

ChrisFerguson, to pokemon
@ChrisFerguson@mastodon.social avatar

Random, uninformed thoughts on the Switch successor memory storage.

I think it would be cool if the handheld system had 256gb of storage. (Potentially pretty small for 4k games...)

But the DOCK had memory/memory expansion options too...

You could take select games with you on the go, have them all when you're home...and here's the kicker:

1/2

#Switch #Nintendo #Switch2 #gaming #NintendoSwitch

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

@ChrisFerguson i keep writing occasionally that arguably the smartest move to make with a Switch successor would be slyly reintroducing a revised Wii U.

So make an improved "dock" that can work like a console on its own & stream games to existing Switches and act as a dock to upgraded "Switch 2s" or whatever they call them. Best of both worlds, especially if they worked out backwards compatibility for existing Switch as well

gmr_leon,
@gmr_leon@mstdn.social avatar

@ChrisFerguson the idea behind that is for it to be an option rather than the primary method of play

It comes from both the Wii U and PlayStation Vita's remote play options that enabled local streaming which mitigates some of the issues with remote streaming. It would also help relieve handheld bottlenecking which has driven some devs to release their titles only as remote streaming versions

This approach means you wouldn't have to wonder when a company might drop streaming your games to you

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • ngwrru68w68
  • InstantRegret
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • tacticalgear
  • rosin
  • everett
  • Durango
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • cubers
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • ethstaker
  • mdbf
  • Leos
  • GTA5RPClips
  • osvaldo12
  • tester
  • modclub
  • khanakhh
  • cisconetworking
  • provamag3
  • anitta
  • normalnudes
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •