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[–] 69 points 11 months ago

except they’re on console

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (34 children)

    Mine is all farming/sim/tower defense. Because I no longer play (have the visual acuity for) fps I’ve heard I’m not a real gamer.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (15 children)

    Sounds like it’s RPG time. Baldurs Gate 3. The original dragon age. ME trilogy. Dishonored 1 & 2. Fallout 3 or 4. Divinity original sin. Greedfall.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (14 children)

    I have BG3 and I’ve played through a handful of times…I can’t bring myself to finish. I keep going back. I recently bought Divinity. I’ll add the rest to my list. =)

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    I can’t bring myself to finish.

    I have the same habit, but recently discovered it's apparently a neurodivergence symptom, heh.

    Co-op with friends made me finish BG3 though.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Maybe I should try the co-op one day then…good idea

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    It’s great! Combat goes faster with players making moves in parallel (where possible).

    Impulse offer: I’ve been pondering replaying BG3, or at least trying it out. If you want a random Lemmy stranger to help finish a save with, I’m down.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah! 1000%. That sounds like a blast. Now I have motivation to work on a computer that can handle it. A lot of my little sim games aren’t very taxing. BG3 makes it overheat.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    overheat

    You can undervolt and TDP limit CPUs and GPUs to get that!


    On GPUs, you can often get 90% of the FPS for like 60% of the power consumption, since AMD/Nvidia push clocks so hard. Download MSI afterburner, run its “OC curve” utility for an easy but optimal and safe undervolt, and then cap the max power at like 75% of whatever it normally is. Or cap the max clocks, which is what I usually do.


    CPU depends more on which one you have.

    But most games don’t need their max clocks. So one easy thing to do is download this little utility: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/windows-power-plan-settings-explorer-utility.416058/

    Unhide the “Processor Performance Boost Mode”, and set it to enabled or disabled (instead of the default aggressive).


    Let me emphasize that this is safe, and not an overclock.

    Basically all modern CPUs and GPUs overclock themselves, boosting higher and higher until they operate at like 80C+ steady state. It’s kinda stupid. Hence, all these tweaks do is get them to stop boosting so hard, so they run at efficient clocks that don’t overheat your machine.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Alright. So I’m going to give this a shot tomorrow when I get home, after reading it a couple more times and mentally preparing.

    Thing is with this computer is that I’ve had it since before Covid. I was already looking at parts anyway. It’s a hoopty.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Cool! reply/PM or whatever if you have questions, possibly multiple times since Lemmy sometimes misses notifications, heh.

    And I don’t mean to shoot down the possibility of new parts! This is just a good workaround for overheating, far beyond what FPS limiting will net you. And it’s honestly a good thing to do on any hardware you may have, as it saves power and extends its life.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah for sure. This is a new thing for me to learn. If it can extend the life of this computer I can use it for work/experiment with alternative operating systems xD. And be able to use it again for gaming? Win/win.

    *I do feel like I play BG3 wrong and that’s why I can’t finish it. I’ve never formed a single relationship with any of the party members XD

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Divinity shows you why Wizards of the Coast went with Larian. At the time I played it popped as a game that had a lot of developer love, after seeing a lot of decline within the industry.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    What's your top three tower defense games?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Currently enjoying emberward. I really liked dungeon defenders and I played hundreds of hours of that. Kingdom rush. There’s a more mobile-like game islet defender or something. Gemcraft? I didn’t like bloons or plants vs zombies… Oh well, those are the ones I liked and if you have any recommendations glad to hear em.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Gemcraft is pretty crazy. Once you learn that combining gems in different order change how they upgrade. Had to use a small program to optimize that. It is so much fun but forever since I played so... I would suck now.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Because I no longer play (have the visual acuity for) fps I’ve heard I’m not a real gamer.

    Bah! Real gamers play Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Idk why but pac man is the most anxiety inducing game I've ever played.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Is it because you're just a disembodied mouth, eating pills in the dark while being haunted by ghosts?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oh, x_x…well…that would be another reason. Sure. Or accidentally going left instead of right and losing the optimal route with the power-ups. Or my eyes played a trick and the ghost is gonna eat me and now I’m running and they’re all chasing me!

    Can I get one last ghost before the power-up runs out? Oh no I have one more corner because I messed up…why does the music sound like a heart attack?

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  • [+] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    Any favorites you want to recommend?

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Until Dawn catching strays

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    My eye immediately went to Until Dawn & Detroit: Become Human, and I was like "Wait! Both these are dope!"

    I really like Butterfly Effect decision games.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I didn't play Detroit for so long because I expected it to be like most other interactive movie type games where you maybe make 3 total decisions that actually have an effect on the whole story. Checked it out on PS+ and still felt that way up until I finished the first level and it shows the fucking massive decision tree of all the possible choices you could have made in that segment and was blown away. Hella them I didn't even notice were viable things I could have tried.

    This is what these kinds of games should be. It's fucking amazing. It actually gives replayability to something that, in the past, was more of a one and done deal.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Bruh, yes, I know exactly what you mean. I'm actually getting ready to replay D:BH again because the last time I played was about 1.5+ years ago, and I think I've finally forgotten all my decisions. My husband said I got one of the best endings he's ever seen someone get, and I really didn't want to be tempted to answer everything the same. There's SO MANY ways that game can go/end, and I want to explore them all!

    I made the mistake of playing Until Dawn first, then D:BH, and then I downloaded the Dark Pictures Anthology and played 2 out of the 4 of those. I'm sure those would have hit different had I played them first, but knowing that the ending is ultimately the same no matter which direction you go definitely ruins the replayability. All 4 run into the very issue you were worried about with Detroit.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Fifa 25, Fifa 24, Fifa 23, etc

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I know a guy who owns every single FIFA game form 96 on the PSX all the way to 23 on the PS5, gotta admit it's an impressive collection

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    That doesn't look like a gaming laptop, either. $20 says it has integrated graphics.

    Reminds me of the "gaming laptops" at Walmart. The other day I saw a RoG laptop being sold with an AMD 740M, a integrated GPU from 2023 with performance from 2010. They dressed it up all pretty with RGB and a 144hz display to make it look like it could actually run games, and then had the nerve to charge $699 for it.

    I hate shit like this so much cause people who don't know any better will buy this thing, get 15 FPS in modern titles and think that PC gaming sucks, when it's just their computer that sucks.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    The idea that this same person would actually play something with as much soul as Until Dawn is pretty unbelievable. Can you believe they have like, emotions and crap? Plus just so much talking, I mean come on. They don’t even have a BattlePass!

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (14 children)

    Back then I would play games for hours and hours to the point my parents would get angry at me. Now above my 18s I can not even play more than 50 minutes because for some reason everything quickly gets boring.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I used to draw a lot back then. My loss of interest for games gradually made me go back to drawing and I am fine with it, it is nearly a decade I have not drawn until I decided to work on something yesterday on a paper. Did my first dedicated drawing yesterday and I am planning to do more in the next weeks 🙂.

    I still play games sometimes though (warframe, minecraft, worldox) but again just for a few minutes and rarely an hour or more.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    What’s your relationship with social media, or cannabis? Do you scroll short form media? Do you post lots of comments on Lemmy/reddit?

    If none of those are an issue, then maybe you just got older.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Maybe it's just the type of games you play that you've lost interest in. Steam has lots of demos for games from just about every gaming genre, so maybe try out demos for highly rated games of genres you don't normally play. You may end up surprising yourself. Maybe you do like cosy games, or real time strategy, or management simulations, etc, but because you've never tried them, you never realized that you like them.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    How have I never heard of the Detroit game?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I mean I'm also guilty of playing like the same 5 games, haven't moved on since like 2023

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    The 12 subscriber youtuber library.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Someone being smart with their money by not wasting it on products they won't play

    G*mers:"The fuck kind of bullshit is this"

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I so much wait for the next game from Quantic Dream. Detroit is one of my all time favourites. There was no better visual novel yet.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Vermintide 2 is/was free on steam yesterday

    I claimed it myself and played through act 1

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Is it good? I am yet to try it

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty much what Kolanaki said. It's just you and some teammates carving your way through ratmen and undead hordes, but it is fun for that kind of "just want to get in and play some rounds" without having to deal with a ton of story or plot. Especially if you're looking for something medieval/fantasy themed.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Altho CoD and GTA are my main games I still play other things and I have like, 251 games on my Steam account, and countless others outside of it... Like, you do not need to restrict yourself to only yearly release triple A stuff... Those games get boring eventually.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    "EA completely blew this game release, I'm never buying their slop again"

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Look. He's all about his business like a suit and tie gamer.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Rogue-likes killed indie game development on the opposite side of this spectrum.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Because there's a boom of Roguelite games and assumedly they don't like it. For my part I love how many options and different spins on the genre/idea there are.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    And it isn't like the other genres are neglected by indie des. For me there is a constant stream of new and amazing indie games I can't keep up with.

    I recommend steam250.com, if someone is struggling to find them.

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