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I felt this way with Baldur's Gate 3.
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100% I first 🏴☠️my way through bg3, then was like “bruh I genuinely wanna get the achievements this is so good wtf” and ended up buyin*on steam, but even was still so over satisfied that I sprung for the deluxe upgrade
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My first thought was “I haven’t experienced this since Final Fantasy XII,” but you’re right.
Edit: wait, it says “story is great,” disregard my FFXII comment 😆
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Runs on Linux… my arm hurts
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The graphics aren't smeary... My arm fell off but it's still jorking it
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That’s dedication
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Indie game it's where it's at. these are just the boring standards these days
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congratulations you found indie games
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BG3
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And suddenly you notice you're back in 1995
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What game?
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These days, probably Expedition 33, but there lots of others every year. Probably moreso than 15 years ago by raw numbers.
People over focus on AAA budget games, but there are several indie and AA budget games that are comparable or even surpass production quality of AAA games 15 years ago.
AAA budget these days should really be called like S-tier budget. In 2010 and earlier, the top end of budgets were like $50-100 million ($70-140 million after inflation) including marketing. Budgets started ballooning after that and hese days, top end budgets are more like $500-700 million)
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Expedition 33 is great. Checks all the boxes from the meme, plus has a banger of a sound track!
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As you said, people shouldn't focus on AAA games as much as they do. Anyone who knows gaming in the modern day can fairly accurately predict that AAA games will be shit on launch, and will only sometimes improve to something playable eventually. Meanwhile, indie and AA games tend to be at least enjoyable at launch, and often don't have the bullshit gambling or microtransaction scams that AAA games have. Oh, and they also have soul, which a corporation shitting out a new game every year will never be able to replicate.
Honestly, the last AAA game that I enjoyed was Helldivers 2, and I'll still boo it for its warbond system, even though you can grind for the in-game currency.
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The Hollow Knights would be my first guess
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Outer Wilds
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Outer Wilds stresses me the hell out. I don't know why. Maybe it's the inevitable deaths that happen over and over again.
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Could be anything from Stardew Valley to Baldur's Gate 3.
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Loads of them if you stay away from multiplayer slop.
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Exactly. Micro transactions are rare to nill in single player and indie games. 98% of AAA can suck it.
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That's a lot to ask of one game these days. Last one that ticked those boxes for me was Pacific Drive.
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runescape
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Hades
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Also Hades 2
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Chess
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4/5 are irrelevant to most games I play tbh. Factorio story is simply automate the extermination of the bugs.
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Trainsaw. Always trainsaw
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Story Characters and Looks. I count three irrelevant metrics. What is the fourth? Have you not found Factorio yet or have you downloaded the pirated version with added microtransactions? 😄
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I meant 4 and 5, but yeah agree with looks as well actually. Really the most important is that the gameplay is fun, and I find microtransactions significantly reduce how fun a game is to me.
I often return to playing ESO and the ingame shop is the main cause of me quitting again. Never bought anything in it, repeatedly seeing "buy this for premium money!" and after a while I just want it to fuck off and uninstall again.
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I don't understand the pirated thing
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Plenty of those TBH. Only a few dick companies add micro transactions, easy to avoid.
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Add "completely free" to the list and you've got Enderal.
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Enderal is absolutely goated. Wish I had finished it but I think other stuff came up or I had a soft lock or something. Either way I'm sure it's patched and the 40ish hours I put it was 10/10.
Tempted to go back into it again
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Either way I'm sure it's patched
It's come a long way, but ultimately it's built using Skyrim's blocks, so stability is definitely not its strong point.
Advice is to save frequently - not just quicksave, but a hard save that won't get overridden. Soft locks do happen if just right thing fucks up, like a quest item clipping through the floor.
Also command console is your best friend.
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Full pitch in the linked comment.
Speaking of, @StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world, did you ever get to dive in?
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It says you need to own Skyrim to play it, not sure how that is “free”.
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Same way any other free game is free, even when they come with a financial requirement. Every single free game on Steam requires a computer - the game is still free even if the computer isn't.
If you pay for Skyrim, you pay for Skyrim... you can then get Enderal for free.
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It's a mod. That's how mods work.
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No Man's Sky and Satisfactory keep me coming back. Cozy and itch scratching without being harassed for the latest microtransaction.
That said, if a game does have microtransactions without jamming them at my eyeholes, and I'm not missing anything without them, also acceptable.
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Satisfactory has me fully in it's grasp right now lol. Current project is a giant vacuum tube to take me back and forth to where the coal miners are, because the steel ingot supply has become erratic.
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Armored Core 6
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This is me after modding out all the elements of Cyberpunk I hate.
Its weird, but Cyberpunk took such a while to grow on me because the gameplay near the start is super unfun because of how weak your starting weapons are and how spongy the enemies are.
Like if you play on the easier settings, the AI are just brain dead stupid, but at very hard, the enemies at first take forever to kill and its just a boring game of shooting, hiding behind cover and healing, waiting for your heals to recharge behind cover, and repeat.
The game basically only starts to truly be fun in my opinion in Act 2, which is kinda the majority of the game without any spoilers.
Atomfall was a bit of fun though. Clearly not a game of the year candidate but fun, no MTXs and the best difficulty settings I've ever seen. You get so many options to remove or add things that you find fun or don't find fun.
Like, I realized I wanted to collect all of the [thing I don't want to say for spoilers sake] so running out of breathe while running just became annoying because it was never a combat constraint in the first place, so it only served as a minor realism boost. Turned that off pretty quickly.
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Knowing my luck it would turn out to be a PvP game.
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Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader for me.
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I got sucked into the two Pathfinder games they made, I want to wait out Rogue Trader's last DLC before playing it
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Did they ever remove the rubber banding of the camera when you move? Only the Emperor of Man knows why they put that in the game. The camera was close to perfect in Wrath.
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First thing that comes to mind, last game I played: Hades 2.
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Absolum is fantastic too. After my first 3 or so runs i loved it, but thought that the game hasn't enough to offer to keep me playing. And i'm still playing, i almost 100% it, which isn't something i usually do a lot.
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Escape from duckov
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Just bought this. Really looking forward to diving in
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Game must be for DOS with all those green flags
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90s games.
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Ghost of yotei
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I really liked the first game, hoping this one doesn't take forever to come to Steam.
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CrossCode was this for me. An unexpected gem
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I don't think I ever played a game with micro transactions. Are you talking about mobile games?
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Dicey Dungeons are two I like
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i've been playing deltarune for a few weeks now and im amazed
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Ghost of Yotei
A couple of scenes made me cry. Difficulty can be set so you can really enjoy the game.
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Mandragora Whispers of the Witch Tree was surprisingly good.
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Any of Mimimi's games with the added bonus of no EULAs or DRM.
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Disco Elysium
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I just started playing wildmender from my backlog. Probably from a humble bumble.
Totally up my alley. Got my wife a copy and now we're playing it together.
Sandbox survival with a storyline and quests
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Basically, any indi game.
Bless your soul for including the meme template!
Beat me to it! thank you!
You might be interested to know this scene is a homage to the Looney Toons short, Feed the Kitty (apologies for the YT link)