• xttweaponttx
        1•1 month ago

        I skipped straight to fulgora first! Then vulcanus, then gleba. by far gleba was a rough factory style for me to adjust to… Then I tackled aquilo 😬 Good lord, this one is rough!

        Loving every minute, though. So satisfying to find better ways to build in the different environments!

      • @anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        When they say a month of free time, the really mean a month of neglecting the laundry, dishes, vacuuming, showering, and cooking at home. And probably also a month of being late to work too.

        • @rtxn@lemmy.world
          2•1 month ago

          I’ve had Friday evening sessions that were ended by the morning sun. I wasn’t kidding about the crack simile. Time is just a suggestion when you have an assembly line to complete.

    • @jef@lemm.eeEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      After playing with trains in factorio, then just staring at them go in pure ecstasy for 10s of minutes. I am now convinced I’m much further on the spectrum than I thought.

    • @steal_your_face@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      How are the micro transactions on warframe? Do they shove them down your throat or do you need to pay them to play? Was considered trying it out but free to play games tend to be shitty.

      • @rtxn@lemmy.world
        2•1 month ago

        Pretty good, and somehow getting better with time; especially considering how much you can get out of the game for completely free.

        The game’s main premium currency is platinum. There’s no way to get it through in-game activities. You can buy it directly, it is included in most cash-only purchases, or you can trade it freely with other players. Most of the trading is organized on the third-party market board warframe.market, and the in-game trading chat… exists, I guess.

        Most of the game’s items (weapons, warframes, companions, upgrades) can be farmed through regular gameplay from random drops, from specific missions or boss fights, crafted from gathered resources, or bought using in-game currencies. You can buy most of them for platinum, but don’t have to. The only payment-exclusive items are cosmetics (skins, helmets, color palettes), but not all of them, and inventory slots. There are also many late-game items that are impossible to buy and have to be earned. Some items are also sold in discounted packs. As of the latest major update (released literally a few hours ago), you get an additional discount for items of a pack that you already own.

        The worst limiting factor for a new player is warframe and weapon slots. Your account can only hold a limited number of certain items, and slots are almost exclusively purchased with platinum (a small number can be earned through Nightwave, a free battle pass-like system). A new account starts with 50 non-tradable platinum – my recommendation is to buy 2 weapon slot packs (12p for two slots, 24p total) and a warframe slot (20p for one).

      • moosetwinEnglish
        19•1 month ago

        unrelated but i just noticed that the playtime was 1234, that’s neat

      • @Laser@feddit.org
        3•1 month ago

        That’s more hours per week than I have to work.

        But you can always do more. I have a childhood friend who, when some leagues were released, averaged about 14 hours per day for Path of Exile for two weeks straight. Like 180 hours playtime in two weeks.

        Another friend of mine should be at about 8000 hours of Rocket League by now on his main account only. That’s over the game’s full lifespan though.

    • @SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      Definitely mine too. It doesn’t even run faster than 1x… which is sucky slow but my own fault for having too many livestock animals to support my ~60 pawns… (peaceful gets very out of control if you let it) but now I have an outpost mod and as soon as all my kids are adults, most of them are gone.

    • @ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2•1 month ago

      One day I’ll get around to playing Nomifactory CE. I’ve somehow played the base one twice over the past five years.

      I’ve been so alienated from friends playing the most popular game on the planet in multiplayer because I can’t play Vanilla for shit. Not since 1.2.5 probably.

      I’ll play no Minecraft for two years and then immediately nolife a modpack for two months.

      Good shit. The best value game I have ever bought, no question about it.

    • @cyphear@lemm.eeEnglish
      18•1 month ago

      Give Songs of Syx a try. One guy, who developed the game in a shed in Poland so he could get away from his family. You can try the “demo” which is the full game just one version behind. Once he gets tired of developing it he said he’ll make it open source. Think dwarf fortress but you’re capable of having a population of thousands. Oh, and nevermind the race riots or cannibalism.

  • @jimmux@programming.dev
    45•1 month ago

    I kind of miss when No Man’s Sky was an endless, empty expanse. That sense of loneliness and futility was an emotional experience that it doesn’t have now. It’s become a much better game, no doubt, but putting time and careful planning into that long crawl towards the galactic centre felt right.

  • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    40•1 month ago

    There was a shitty f2p MMO called GunZ online once upon a time. It was so badly programmed that glitches literally became the primary gameplay loop.

    I loved it. For those few that could get into it, it was a unique heaven of fps and fighting game that filled a void an over caffeinated teen with nothing but hyper focus and time didn’t know they had.

    Also just ridiculously horny people.

  • @RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
    26•1 month ago

    So I’m not autistic and these aren’t necessarily bad games, but for my partner this is definitely Dragon Age. She has put an insane number of hours into the first 3 games. She knew The Veilguard was going to be bad. She KNEW, she told me multiple times even the second before she told me she bought the game. She got 3/4 of the way through before having a crying, screaming meltdown over how bad it was.

    • @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
      1•1 month ago

      but she was okay with Inquisition? I don’t get that at all. Dragon Age Origins is one of my favorite games of all time and I’ve beat it several times. Inquisition is straight trash by comparison. I beat it once and was immensely disappointed. Because of that experience, I haven’t even considered trying Veilguard. I just know it can only be worse.

      • @RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
        1•1 month ago

        I don’t get that actually, and neither does she lol. We both like Inquisition. It was a step back towards Origins in gameplay and the story was fantastic.

        Even then, bad gameplay should be made up for (for her) by the story. Veilguard shits on everything David wrote and that’s what upsets her. It’s just flat out bad writing in every aspect.

    • @Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
      1•1 month ago

      It’s just disappointing to see how drastically the series has changed. It started as a top-down strategy RPG, and now it’s just a generic hack-n-slash game. Game publishers have shied away from games like the original Dragon Age, because they want to sell as many units as possible. And they think generic hack-n-slash games sell better. Games like Baldur’s Gate 3 have proved that there is still a large demand for more traditional RPGs, but the publishers simply don’t want to take the risk.

    • Brave Little Hitachi WandEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      As a kid I was so thirsty for RPGs without fully realising it that I made way too much of an attempt to like Quest.

    • @grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      4•1 month ago

      Having grown up on the MUDs and MMOs that release before WoW I think I was thankfully inoculated against its more gamified, addictive formula.

  • @SomGye
    20•1 month ago

    Me being in love with Hellgate: London, Fate (WildTangent), and Warframe be like

      • @SomGye
        6•1 month ago

        I still fire it up from time to time, runs great for me

          • @SomGye
            4•1 month ago

            I have the collectors edition on DVD, you put in a retail key and boom, installs super quick on modern machines

            • @Draces@lemmy.world
              2•1 month ago

              All I remember from that was the insanely cool art/concept and memory leaks. Did they fix the memory leaks or do we all just have enough RAM for it to not matter?

              • @SomGye
                2•1 month ago

                I never had the memory leak issue, but it can use a bit over 1 GB of RAM for me at peak, which nowadays isn’t that much.

    • @Fixxelious@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      Hellgate London was such fun, unique hybrid twist on ARPG and looter shooter, I was sad when I heard it was shutdown.

      I woulda played it more if I had known it was about to be shutdown. There were some crash bugs and sudden difficulty spikes that made me quit, thinking Id come back to it later. That later never happened.

      • @SomGye
        2•1 month ago

        Yeah it’s a shame the official multiplayer didn’t last long. There’s some fan projects with that but none of them scratched the same itch for me. There were a few patches for the game and they’re still available, but the difficulty spikes are still there, it gets grindy in the last couple sections of the game.