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Are videogames for children?

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Jewthulhu said:
The first one is my favorite game of all time, though mainly because of the atmosphere and story. Don't mind more of the same
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I'm a few hours in and im enjoying it. Partly walking sim and hack'n'slash is true,but its the atmosphere,the norse mythology,the way it describes schizofrenic illness that does it for me. And no fucking wokeness so far.
 
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ZMOT said:
humbebundle has a metroidvania bundle right now, I grabbed it just for ghost song and 9 years of shadow.
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Axiom Verge and Death's Gambit are pretty great too. Axiom Verge is metroid inspired sci-fi body horror with a banging soundtrack and mechanics based on glitching out elements of the game. It could do with a bit of modernising though. I don't know if I recommend the sequel, it made a lot of gameplay changes that don't exactly improve on the original design. Plus instead of some mop headed white guy you play an Indian cunt. Or maybe turbo cunt is a better description, seriously I can't think of a more unlikeable protagonist than the arrogant bitch you play in av2.

Death's Gambit is a castlevania leaning soulslike, and it's personally one of my favourites, I rate it higher than Blasphemous actually, although below the likes of Ender Lillies or The Last Faith. The story is bizarre, the gameplay is solid (and the combat has excellent rhythm to it, a criminally underappreciated feature of the best soulslikes) and the art is beautiful.

Since I already owned most of the games in that bundle, I went halves on it with my brother and just took Lunacid for myself, I'd seen it before on steam and been intrigued by its very positive rating, but never intrigued enough to pay $20. Having played it for two hours now, I'm glad I saved my money. The combat makes king's field look intricate, so I don't understand what the point of the game is, since combat is 80% of the gameplay.
 
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Can someone explain what the fuss is about Hellblade 2 to me? Is there any fire to go with the smoke, or is it just that it was a game promoted by a big company that didn't sell well?
 
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Happy Camper said:
Can someone explain what the fuss is about Hellblade 2 to me? Is there any fire to go with the smoke, or is it just that it was a game promoted by a big company that didn't sell well?
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from what I can gather:
- pointless sequel
- downgrade/worse than the prequel
- short af
- $50 bucks
- hyped as the next "microsoft blockbuster".

Wendell X said:
Since I already owned most of the games in that bundle, I went halves on it with my brother and just took Lunacid for myself, I'd seen it before on steam and been intrigued by its very positive rating, but never intrigued enough to pay $20. Having played it for two hours now, I'm glad I saved my money. The combat makes king's field look intricate, so I don't understand what the point of the game is, since combat is 80% of the gameplay.
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haven't played those to, grabbed it for 9 years of shadow and ghost song.

finished ghost song yesterday, and man it's really all over the place. I like the atmosphere and graphics, it starts out as pretty close metroid clone, but then goes off the rails with a bit too much "2deep4u" story (general indie trope by now and really makes me tap out of them since it's pretty much always the exact same style) and tedious bullshit that doesn't really increase fun. also not a fan of "missable" events unless you scour the whole map every time or check spots that magically open on it's own just because you cleared a flag somewhere else.
 
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Wendell X said:
Since I already owned most of the games in that bundle, I went halves on it with my brother and just took Lunacid for myself, I'd seen it before on steam and been intrigued by its very positive rating, but never intrigued enough to pay $20. Having played it for two hours now, I'm glad I saved my money. The combat makes king's field look intricate, so I don't understand what the point of the game is, since combat is 80% of the gameplay.
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Troonacid is a bad game and I genuinely believe that the only reason why people like it is because it has le nostalgia psX graffix, markets itself as a "kingsfield-like", and is made by the retard who made Spooky's House of Jumpscares. The style the game had is ruined by the out of place music and Twitter porn artist OC characters, combat is boring and tedious, and exploration is not fun. I don't know how you can fuck something up like this so badly.
 
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Is there anything out there like the DS game Infinite Space? Seems like there's not a lot of epic space opera games.
 
kokokrunch123 said:
anyone here 30+ years old?

are you still gaming? gaming less compared to before? or quit the hobby?
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I do game less and contemplated quitting the hobby in my mid 20's. I skiped the whole PS4/XONE era when I realised that I could fit a small gap with gaming, and that was before taking marriage into account.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Steam alerted me that Mullet Madjack has released. I can't drop $20 to know if it's good or not.
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So I picked this up as a boomer shooter fan. I didn't know anything about it going in but it may be my GOTY. "
The art is hand drawn so the execution's look great I love the pacing of the 10 seconds to live 10 floor per chapter. The new hazards are introduced pretty smart and you slowly adapt to it. The focus is flow which they nail imho .
Some bosses have been underwhelming. I am only on chapter 6 but I could see myself just hopping on and playing the endless mode similar to how I hop onto cyber grind every now and then in Ultrakill. If you can afford it I'd say grab it. If not grab post void to get the same rush at a cheaper cost of entry different vibe but similar gameplay.

kokokrunch123 said:
anyone here 30+ years old?

are you still gaming? gaming less compared to before? or quit the hobby?
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I game less but I'm still interested in the subject. I like following projects and grabbing games to support devs. I think the area has a lot of potential to do some great things and its awesome to see new games come out.
Though i'm older i'm lucky to have younger siblings who are still in the age of where they can focus more on games while still in school. It's a great conversation bridge.
As I get older I could see myself play less new games and replaying older ones but keeping up on the subject. It's a great platform for story telling and as tech progresses it will be interesting to see what comes out.
 
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WULULULULU said:
How the fuck do I even play games anymore? Particularly the online gaming aspect with friends?

Almost everyone I want to play with are:

- people who don't give a shit about the current climate of vidya (i.e the "we're having fun" morons who purchased the pozzed Microsoft version of minecraft)
- people who are content signing up new accounts just to play the next big thing (cattle who created RIOT/Hoyo accounts just to play Valorant/Genshin)
- people who keep chasing trends (*insert Content Warning/Helldivers 2 players who are unable to grasp the concept of old games*)

I'm getting almost no one to play and I'm just told "you have to change or otherwise no one will play with you".
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Is the issue that you don't want to play with people who play new games, or is it with people who play mainstream games?
I can't tell if you're a hipster or a fudd
 
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Happy Camper said:
Can someone explain what the fuss is about Hellblade 2 to me? Is there any fire to go with the smoke, or is it just that it was a game promoted by a big company that didn't sell well?
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Also Hellblade 1 was (imo) astroturfed to hell and back. It seemed like almost every review used some variant of the line "An honest and heartfelt look at mental illness".

WULULULULU said:
How the fuck do I even play games anymore? Particularly the online gaming aspect with friends?

Almost everyone I want to play with are:

- people who don't give a shit about the current climate of vidya (i.e the "we're having fun" morons who purchased the pozzed Microsoft version of minecraft)
- people who are content signing up new accounts just to play the next big thing (cattle who created RIOT/Hoyo accounts just to play Valorant/Genshin)
- people who keep chasing trends (*insert Content Warning/Helldivers 2 players who are unable to grasp the concept of old games*)

I'm getting almost no one to play and I'm just told "you have to change or otherwise no one will play with you".
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They aren't wrong. You're not wrong either.

Ever since the Xbox 360 trend chasing has been a thing. Halo, Gears of War, CoD, and games of that scale had players all through the consoles life, but the vast majority of multiplayer games were dead in two weeks.

If you're not willing to keep up with the latest meme game treadmill, and you're not willing to get into sweaty high tier games of DotA and CS:GO, then it might be time to give up on that side of gaming.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
If you're not willing to keep up with the latest meme game treadmill, and you're not willing to get into sweaty high tier games of DotA and CS:GO, then it might be time to give up on that side of gaming.
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I remember when some guys I know who were usually fairly "with it" in terms of knowing about how shit games were getting leapt on Helldivers 2 like a whore on a dick.

Only I want to say two people in the group noticed that they were acting like every other consoomer. Though the PSN thing went too far.

There is a term for this phenomenon: flavor of the month.
 
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