yet another Elevator7009 alt, now to mod [email protected]

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friendly reminder you can ask at [email protected] (full disclosure, I mod it) for suggestions


I am so glad you liked my post :)

I am also a fan of the dual region thing, and the content.

I’m surprised they gave those moves to Pikachu, but I also should not be surprised. Series mascot. I am usually not a “oh it’s popular so it sucks” person, but the overexposure and favoritism of Pikachu in other Pokémon media sadly ruined some enjoyment of the otherwise cute critter for me ;-;



Still play(test)ing my in-progress ROM hack of Pokémon Soul Silver.



Trying to mod/ROM hack [email protected] Soul Silver, so that also necessitates playtesting that. Never actually fully finished playing the first time around.

You might want to edit the title to Recommendations instead of Recommendstions



There are definitely lots of things in life that I personally fail to see any value for myself in; but that I respect specifically because I know it brings lots of other people happiness.



I’m your reverse. Friends with some big Dragon Age fans, they wanted me to join, it worked for me too! The Dragon Age train crashed when I had to free up space on my PC for more important real life things sadly, but when I finish that I’d like to finish my playthrough and maybe replay with fight-skipping cheats, or hit up the rest of the series.


The not was absolutely intended as optional! I’m wondering if other people are seeing it as required judging by the count of responses talking about negative experiences I got…


They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?
Feel free to replace "friends" with "anyone you know in real life" or even online groups you trust or are close with. "They": > [WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/word-of-mouth-marketing.asp) and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me. Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for [email protected] (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don't run the place. **EDIT: The "not" in the title is optional; I'm asking about both successful and failed recommendations.**
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time to shill [email protected] which I mod

I would usually not be so promotional except Lemmy needs to grow and blah blah


I thought The Sims started out as an architecture/interior design game and the social/life simulation stuff we all know it for came later.

The game’s emphasis on architecture and interior design dates back to its roots. Will Wright, inspired by the loss of his home in a firestorm, initially conceived The Sims as an architecture game, with the focus on characters added later.

I’ve seen it said in several places; this was the most credible-looking spot I could find on the first page of my search.


Your way of playing Stellaris gives me similar vibes to this person on my original thread

I like to play crusader kings II from the point of view of God. Using console commands, sketchy cheat mod, and knowing the right game mechanics you can make characters do all types of crazy stuff. Using the “observe” console command let’s you play as a spectator, you can use the “play” command followed by a character ID and you will jump into playing as that character. I like to find a character, give them insane stats, and give them all of the best traits, make them immortal and then spectate for a few hundred years and see what my chosen one made the world into. I also like to try to determine before hand what I want them to do, like becoming emperor of brittania or whatever, and see how close I can get from just 1 or 2 interactions with them.



have a friend edit the wiki so no one else would be surprised

god bless the wiki editors


trains are cool but i get on one daily, conveyer belts are a fun factory fantasy i do not interact with daily, i see you


Are there any games you don’t play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?
Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522 > I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in *Hitman* were, and that they'd just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.
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Might want to try over on [email protected] (shilling my own community, I mod there). Unfortunately the games I know that might scratch the farming sim itch that you have not listed already are all singleplayer.


Friendly reminder for those looking here about [email protected]. (Stuck this question on the thread of links to video game suggestion threads started outside the community, so no need to repost at my community.) Wish I could answer your question but I always just happily played on whatever graphics my laptop would run and paid high-end graphics zero attention, so no idea. Fun question though!


Obligatory “more OC on the Fediverse is just what we need, thank you” comment, obligatory “have you posted to another relevant community, [email protected], they’d really appreciate this” comment.

Now that I got that out of the way, I admit I have not played the game but I do like this artwork! Nice job! I’ve always liked sketches.



American Truck Simulator. Several (virtual) moving violations later, using the Driving Academy to try to git gud.


Does it let me 2x the gameplay speed? I was emulating on PC and had that, and want to know if I’d be able to have the same feature emulating on my phone.


As a certified magic lover, I hope to see you succeed.


Hope Baba is Hint helps you. I did not get it with these hints, but maybe you will.


Still Antimatter Dimensions, though not paying too much attention to it. I pop in and out of Baba Is You after solving (or failing to solve) a few levels. Still not sure how to break Baba and Keke out of jail.




Still trucking on the [email protected] with Antimatter Dimensions, lovely unfolding mechanics, would probably appeal to completionists because getting achievements actually gets you in-game bonuses. Also have been playing the Zachtronics puzzle programming/electrical engineering game Shenzhen I/O that could make a person a bit more comfortable with in real life assembly languages. Can’t figure how to bust out of prison in Baba Is You.


I never played Roblox and tend to be fairly out of the loop, and even I have heard about Roblox in connection with child exploitation. Hope those kids eventually get justice and their predators prevented from harming them.


Is this a game where I could reasonably discover how to progress by myself, as an average adult human with no special knowledge of history or technological progression? Or will I need to resort to a wiki? I’m cool with either but curious


Also clicked this post to see if someone would bring up Vintage Story. (Other reason was to see if someone brought up Luanti/Minetest.)


Curious what the point of modern Minecraft is, and what part is appealing to modern people. I pop on sometimes purely because friends are playing, and it can be fun, and somehow I don’t think this is what you mean. Well, people do play for fun, but you are probably thinking of a more specific thing that makes it fun.


Clicked on this thread purely to see if someone would bring up Minetest/Luanti. Glad to hear it seems to be going well.


+1 for FOSS game. Is the little Linux penguin a racer in the game?


It is something I have always been undecided about. The whole spell creation thing sounds like something I’d love, but I’ve heard the game can be frustrating, and aside from [email protected] roguelikes are not my thing. I should probably see if it has a demo or watch some early gameplay…


To me, it’s a game. I get some people might not think so because the game is all menus and numbers, with minimal other graphics (not counting achievement backgrounds). But for me, it’s fun. A lot of people like these number go up games where the mechanics are about increasing the numbers fast without much other intermittent gameplay. [email protected]. It’s a whole genre. https://paperpilot.dev/garden/guide-to-incrementals/defining-the-genre/ might have some discussion on whether it’s a game or not, I forget, but it sure is a nice read about incrementals.

Also, there’s more, but it does take time to unfold.


I really miss the days guides were text with images instead of YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. Blah blah typical Lemmy anticorporate views, but more importantly, I’d rather just read and have something I can CTRL+F instead of having to sit through a video. At least transcripts help with trying to skip to the part I need. And at least people who don’t handle reading so well have a format someone is guaranteed to have made a tutorial in. But as a reader I am saddened by watch a video being what everyone suggests now for tutorials. Especially because nowadays, sometimes there is only a video, no book or article.



What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?
I hear a lot about frustrating, unskippable tutorials. What games do a good job at teaching you what you need to know?
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Catchiest video game song?
I thought of this post entirely because I have [the Pokémon Center theme from Pokémon HeartGold SoulSilver](https://youtu.be/6Rz3olNYFGc) stuck in my head, and it has wriggled in over and over for months despite me hearing and actively *playing* other music.
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What is your favorite indie game?
Given the big swathe of posts about bad behavior from big companies, I figure we could counterbalance that with some positivity about stuff the smaller guys made that often costs us less too.
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New community for video game suggestions/recommendations
[email protected] /c/[email protected] Meant to replace r/gamingsuggestions in spirit. Noticed [email protected] getting a decent amount of posts asking for gaming suggestions, figured having a dedicated community for them might be nice. (And if not, I can still collect and link to those posts for anyone wanting Lemmy-sourced game recommendations!)
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Video game genre communities on the Threadiverse
List more in the comments! I'll add them if they are a community for a video game genre, and have had at least one post in the last month. Crossposted to [email protected] [here](https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/36589987). - [email protected] (also has puzzle and interactive fiction) - [email protected] - [email protected] (replaces dead feddit.de community) - [email protected] - [email protected] (replaces dead feddit.de community) - [email protected] - [email protected] (for quick once-a-day web games like Wordle) - [email protected] and [email protected] - [email protected] (having federation troubles, but as someone with an incremental.social account I can guarantee we are active) - [email protected] and [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] and [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] I also found some genres with dead communities. Maybe someone would like to revive one, or make a new one (preferably on a smaller instance than lemmy.world)? - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected] (yes, !adventuregames has some, whether puzzles actually belong with adventure games is another conversation. I don't think so but I'm not an expert on either genre) - [email protected] and [email protected] - [email protected] On my search for communities to put here I found some genres seem to be wholly missing. Let me know if I missed something! - MMOs - open world/sandbox - RPGs that don't really fit in CRPG or JRPG - shooters (think FPS, hero shooters, literally any shooting game that does not fit in the shmup/shoot-em-up genre) - simulation in general - sports - stealth
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Tip of My Joystick: a new Lemmy community for finding a game whose name you can’t remember
Not my community, but I figured it might be of interest to gamers here. Post stolen right off of [email protected]. > This community is to find that game you can’t remember. Like it’s on the tip of your tongue. > > Do you remember something about a game, but can’t find the title? Do you want to finally know what it is? Post here and maybe someone can help. > > Come to find your game, or help others find theirs! > > [email protected]
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Are there any games you don’t play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?
I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in *Hitman* were, and that they'd just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.
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