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What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it? in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I feel like that’s the case with a lot of multiplayer games. I get further into some of them like Arc Raiders and then I think to myself “oh yeah I’d only recommend this to someone who was willing to put in 50-100 hours to learn the game and has a lot of patience for cheating/meta/etc.” and so I don’t recommend them.

Whereas I actually think the opposite may be true of CS2, you shouldn’t recommend that because the first 100 hours are fun. Then comes the pain of knowing people aren’t better than you and are cheating.

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    • This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    Some people will do anything to win in c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    You’ve essentially described meme theory except your blaming the products of memes for the memes themselves. Trump isn’t the cancer, nor is musk or Putin or whoever. They all have supporters and a lot of them. Trumps approval rating is still near 45-50%. And the supporters aren’t something he grew or cultivated.

    Trump is the product of a meme. Conservatism isn’t the end point results of a meme, it’s an expression of an underlying cultural phenomenon where after much progress is achieved, people begin to miss the familiarity of the past and wish to stop making progress for a short time.

    And so the real thing being spread and what needs to die is the meme itself. And the only way you kill a meme is to change it into a better version of itself. Better meaning beneficial. Whereas what memes naturally do is become larger and more popular ideas until they are out competed by another meme.

    You can’t kill a meme by turning conservative people liberal. All you can do is make people better conservatives and help them criticize and improve their own memes. Same way with religion and it’s been happening for millennia for most of them.

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    Wasteland 2 is something I wish I didn't feel mid about (lemmy.world)
     

    Off the top I'll say that Wasteland 2 isn't a bad game, its actually quite good in a lot of ways. The ways in which it isn't though are what really end up hurting the game for me.

    My main gripe is that this has the Bethesda style of choice impact where NPCs are hardly bothered by your choices and the world around you only meaningfully changes with a small handful of your choices. And when it does change, the thought put into those changes isn't all that impressive or meaningful.

    The world mostly reacts to your changes by just changing NPC dialog and then there is a slideshow at the end. Thats it. So each time you leave a location you feel like your main contribution is just clearing it of enemies.

    The other side gripe I have about it is that the story and characters aren't of particular interest. It has a couple good storytelling moments in it (that I won't spoil here for anyone interested) but otherwise I just can't say it pulled me in. I was initially interested after hearing the 3rd game got good reviews and this series is somewhat similar to fallout but I can still see why Fallout maintains its charm all these years later and Wasteland does not. You see glimpses of greatness with certain voices or ideas or plotlines but you are ultimately just edged by these stories and the payoff isn't really there.

    This isn't just a space to complain though, I had a lot of fun with the combat and gore and other aspects of the game. They also feel light in a lot of ways but still are satisfying. I enjoyed my time here, looking forward to playing Wasteland 3.

    So did anyone else play this or are interested in it? I'm curious if anyone shares these thoughts. Its a game I definitely feel like classic RPG fans will enjoy more than I did.

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    Opinions on Shadow Warrior? (lemmy.world)
     

    So I just finished Shadow Warrior (2013) and I wasn’t blown away by it but I had a decent time. I always like hearing about experiences that people had with the game when it first came out and whether or not a modern perspective paints it differently.

    To summarize what I thought: The writing is humorous, but not outright funny to me. The graphics hold up very well and the gore is great. Combat is mostly pretty good. Some enemies are annoying or overly difficult on the hard difficulty but overall it’s pretty good.

    I did think it was modeled to be kind of akin to a Serious Sam type game and it lives up to that but similar to that game, many of the weapons/enemies/levels overstay their welcome a bit. Other than that I had a pretty good time with it, thought it was an 8/10 fun time.

    What’s everyone’s story with this game series? When did you first play it and what did you think about it?