lmorchard

joined 1 year ago
[–] lmorchard@links.decafbad.com 11 points 1 year ago

Hailing frequencies open!

[–] lmorchard@links.decafbad.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Personally, I feel like most games that have a grind are kryptonite to me. Like, unless I really, really, really like the game loop to an obsessive degree - which is rare - I quickly get to a point where I'm like "I get it, now show me something new for crying out loud".

This ropes in a vast number of games, alas. Occasionally, sure, I'll find a grindy game is suddenly palatable to my brain. Like, there was a month or two I went gonzo for Warframe and played the same 3 maps repeatedly. But then I swore off the game for a year. Same for Diablo and any number of gacha games.

Some of my favorites are indie games that have a good fun loop and progression that doesn't overstay its welcome.

A roguelike / roguelite like Hades drew me in for longer than expected, if only because I could shuffle up weapons and modifiers. Still kind of a repetition thing after awhile, but it had enough variety and novelty with each run to keep me engaged for good while.

[–] lmorchard@links.decafbad.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, you can always go start your own instance with blackjack and hookers - but then oh no you are the admin/mod in control then!

Yeah, it would be nice if Mastodon eventually handled rendering group threads a little better and meet something like Lemmy part way. I can imagine that different kinds of services using activitypub will end up looking strange through each others' lenses, but there could be some interesting crossovers

(Also I kinda forgot that my post from a mastodon instance would show up like a top-level post over here 😅)

[–] lmorchard@links.decafbad.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Control, the Hotel Ashtray maze:

spoiler


You put on headphones and some epic hard rock kicks in. (Old Gods of Asgard: "Take Control".) The hotel hallways open up and transform into a surreal maze of twisting, sliding paths as you run through and hit a series of intense fights.

I'd never done the maze before, so I totally wasn't expecting this: At the very end of it, basically unison with the in-game character Jesse, she & I both said "That was awesome"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woFJcdomTc4

[–] lmorchard@links.decafbad.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Robert Scoble took a shower in one and the Google Glass image has yet to recover

[–] lmorchard@links.decafbad.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like the Mass Effect series, but I kind of count Star Control II — the Ur-Quan Masters as the spiritual prequel to at least ME1.

Lots of similarities in wandering around the universe chatting with aliens and digging up the mysteries of the precursors while working to head off a galaxy-wide threat. You even get a special little lander vehicle to collect resources from exploring planets

Been playing Honkai: Star Rail and Tears of the Kingdom at the same time like a maniac. I'll probably burn out on both and wander off.

The fun part is Star Rail almost becomes an idle game, eventually, because you can just set up auto battles to grind resources and set it off to the side to do its thing. Is this real gaming? I dunno, but it has pretty graphics.