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      15 days ago

      Also use Prism Launcher or PolyMC to play all the modpaci you can dream of.

      Also uzdoom/gzdoom and all the Doom II mods you can download

      • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        14 days ago

        Prism launcher -> new instance -> modrinth -> fabulously optimized

        To get a vanilla experience with all of the best performance mods preloaded

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        15 days ago

        quake also has endless content! i’ve been going through the hundred or so levels from the recent brutalism map jam, there is so much good level design with quake’s awesome gameplay

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        She did not say that, but I saw things being said like this during gamergate:

        I’m bet microtransactions are due to Anita, she probably said something like “difficult games are sexist, unlocks should be paid”, then developers followed suit.

        Others think horny gachaslop with decent-ish gameplay at first invalidates the argument, that microtransactions are bad.

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      14 days ago

      August will mark 10 years of playing Rimworld for me.

      Obv its not the only thing I play, but I come back to it every 3-4 months after little breaks. Was the same for Mount and Blade till the sequel came out. The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade it made it hard to keep interest. It’s been probably 2 years since I booted that up. Maybe I should give it another try.

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        14 days ago

        The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade

        How is the sequel a downgrade? (I don’t know basically anything except playing one of the games for half an hour-ish)

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        Downgrade? I’m curious what you didn’t like about the sequel. Was it the family/diplomacy/story being too in your face? I think that was my only real gripe, but not a big one because it was interesting and easily removed if I wanted with mods.

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          That was an aspect, but I think it was how much dumber the AI became. I remember the “conquer everything” objective being doable in the first base game, but your allies act so poorly in the sequel that its basically in doable.

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            Oh, aye, I can see that. I personally hated the whole, ‘let a noble go and he suddenly respawns with an army’ thing, so I just started executing everyone once I had a good army and the skills to maintain it myself. I didn’t have to worry about allies once everyone hated me.

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    14 days ago

    When companies stopped being able to actually make anything new, they then choose to find new ways to extract profit from the customer. Far cheaper than expending money on R&D, retooling, etc. They all decided to become landlords of the worst kind, squatting on their tech and extracting rent while ensuring the rest of us own nothing.

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    15 days ago

    At least we’ll always have the classics. Download, play, and seed emulated games folks.

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    14 days ago

    It is the grim dark far future of all gaming. Forget the promise of freedom to upgrade and superior graphical fidelity. There is no peace among the Discord servers, only an eternity of monetization, and micro transactions.

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      14 days ago

      There’s already more amazing games than you or I could possibly play in a lifetime. If they only make shitty games, I’ll just play old games. I’ve been gaming on a retro handheld and honestly there’s so many amazing games I missed.

      Indy devs are also killing it in the multiplayer space with silly and charming co-op experiences. I played a lot of Peak and Motor Town with friends lately and both are just so fun.

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    14 days ago

    There are tons of great games you can play with old hardware. Relax and start half life 2

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    14 days ago

    Where did it all go wrong?

    See that part where millionaries became billionaires while everyone else got, at best, just enough raise to be stagnated with inflation? Yeah, that’s a good starting point