Hey all! Another weekly thread is here.

This time I am also hoping for some feedback!

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  • ghostofjohnnycache@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I dug up my old 3DS in the past weeks, installed some custom firmware to play my backups of DS/3DS/GBA games. A bit of Zelda Minish Cap, some Metroid Fusion… But mostly I find myself playing various Pokemon ROM hacks lol.

    I’ve been getting into “Pokemon Elite Redux”, which is a difficulty/challenge game centered around each Pokemon having up to 4 abilities at the same time in battle. And there’s tons of new abilities that make each pokemon uniquely useful. It’s certainly challenging, even on the lowest difficulty. It’s happened to me several times that I have to get together a whole new team to beat a single trainer. But, there’s zero grinding involved, and there’s SO many quality-of-life changes that it’s super easy to get a whole new team squared up in just a few minutes. That makes it really easy to jump in for a few minutes when I can, without feeling like I’m wasting my time

  • nac82@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yall i was fucking with Baldur’s Gate 3 splitscreen with my wife and found out that using an Nvidia graphics card and 2 monitors, I can turn vertical split screen games to broadcast to 2 different monitors so it looks like 1 screen each.

    Fucking awesome.

    None of my friends were half as impressed as me and the wife were. I feel like a technical God recently (all because I figured out how to enable a setting and set an aspect ratio properly for 2 screens lol)

  • exscape@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Baldur’s Gate 3.
    I can probably count the number of games I’ve paid full price for in the past 15 years on one hand, and this is one of them. No regrets whatsoever.

    Looking back on Steam, last time was GTA V. Prior to that Skyrim, and prior to that Portal 2.

    • hoodatninja@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I swear 40-50% of all dialogue, interactions, etc. reflect the character I built. It is insane. They made D&D into a video game. They actually did it.

    • bijuice@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I didn’t pay full price for it and I’m being punished for it. The pirated copy I downloaded had a virus on it :(

      The game is brilliant though! Shoving people into pits is the best class hands down.

        • bijuice@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          I get what you mean but not everyone can afford $60 games. In some parts of the world that’s more than half a month’s salary.

            • bijuice@beehaw.org
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              1 year ago

              I live in one of those places and we don’t have regional pricing. When Steam starts offering competitive pricing in Africa I’ll start buying games at full price but for the moment I’ll stick to buying games on sale and piracy.

    • HidingCat@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Seen the hype, but man, I don’t feel like slogging through a 100 hour RPG at this point in my life.

      • exscape@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I play with a friend. If it works out anything like Divinity: Original Sin 2 we’ll be finished maybe around April or something.
        We usually play about 1 hour at a time, almost never more than 1.5 hour… and about 2-4 times a week. So it’ll take a long while, but it’s a lot of fun.

        • mifan@feddit.dkEnglish
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          1 year ago

          As a new dad I don’t have the time for games that I used to, but I’ve been playing BG2 for a few hours every week, and now BG3 has taken over, it’s actually a perfect game to play whenever you just have a short time on your hand.

          It’s one of those game experiences where I think of my character all the time when not playing. Can’t wait to get back, when the little one is sleeping again.

  • knowledgephoenix@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m playing Sekiro for the first time and am loving it! It’s my first FromSoftware game. Mechanically it’s quite similar to Jedi Survivor, the other game I’ve been playing lately, but is a lot less friendly and more straightforward (as far as plot and other stuff going on). However, it works really well and is very enjoyable to get good at.