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    Welcome to Let's Talk About Games

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    Makan @lemmygrad.ml

    Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025 – Nintendo Switch

    cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7354020

    This is one Direct before the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct on April 2nd that's coming up soon

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    nettuno @lemmy.wtf

    Recommend a FPS game for linux?

    Could you guys recommend a FPS game similar to CS2 that runs on a modern linux? Decent graphics (essentially GPU support) is of course fundamental, with multiple scenarios and multiplayer? Thanks

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    ekZepp @lemmy.world

    The new game releases this week may look a little familiar, but all of them attempt to push their genres or series in new directions. We’ve got a dark game about a plague outbreak where you’re finally a certified doctor instead of someone taking up the job out of necessity; a 33-player action game with large-scale battles that resemble raid fights in an MMO; and a baseball game with — wait for it — a roguelike board game mode.

    Oh, and there’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows at the end of the week, with a story set in feudal Japan and a whole base-building system. But that will come after Pathologic 3, which starts the week off with another macabre story of death and decay. Then there’s 33 Immortals, a game where you join up with a whole legion of players trying to survive against hordes of monsters. MLB The Show 25 promises a bunch of new additions to the series, including that roguelike board game mode. And if sports aren’t for you, Reignbreaker is a game that mixes medieval weaponry with a

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    Morphit @feddit.uk

    Secret Level

    Has anyone watched the Secret Level shorts released so far?

    Unreal Tournament was a huge nostalgia hit for me and I think the episode was a great interpretation of it. I highly recommend for anyone who played.

    The Warhammer 40k episode was also great though I don't have the same kind of investment in the games or media there. The others seemed fairly good for what they are but there's only so much that can fit in a 5-15 minute piece.

    Amazon Prime Video link for anyone interested.

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    cyberic @discuss.tchncs.de

    Favorite Mystery/Puzzle games?

    I've been playing The Case of the Golden Idol this week and I love how it doesn't pull punches and how I actually have to figure things out without a multiple choice quiz.

    A rarely mentioned cute little puzzle game that you might like is called Carto.

    What are your favorite mystery/puzzle games that don't spoon-feed you?

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    ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @feddit.uk

    Last week, my favoured gaming news site, VGC, asked former US PlayStation boss Shawn Layden whether he thought the pursuit of more powerful consoles was still the way to go for the video games industry. His answer was not what I expected.

    “We’ve done these things this way for 30 years, every generation those costs went up and we realigned with it. We’ve reached the precipice now, where the centre can’t hold, we cannot continue to do things that we have done before … It’s time for a real hard reset on the business model, on what it is to be a video game,” he said. “We’re at the stage of hardware development that I call ‘only dogs can hear the difference’. We’re fighting over teraflops and that’s no place to be. We need to compete on content. Jacking up the specs of the box, I think we’ve reached the ceiling.”

    This surprised me because it seems very obvious, but it’s still not often said by games industry executives, who rely on the enticing promise of technological advancement

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    Blaze (he/him) @sopuli.xyz

    Is this community still active, or should it be closed? If it's not active anymore, any suggestions for alternatives?

    Asking as the last post here was 21 days ago.

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    GreatAlbatross @feddit.uk

    Thank Goodness You're Here

    thankgoodness.game Thank Goodness You're Here!

    An absurd comedy slapformer set in the bizarre Northern English town of Barnsworth. As a traveling salesman, take the time to see the sights and meet the locals, who are very eager to give you a series of increasingly odd jobs...

    Thank Goodness You're Here!

    We played through it this weekend. tl;dr: It's funny, about 3-4 hours (or maybe more), and worth the money.

    It is incredibly silly, and fantastic for it.
    imho, if perfectly captures stupid british humour.

    Our favourite moments involved vegan sausage rolls, mysterious sausage holes, and a very friendly mole.

    You will also probably be quoting the marrow song for a while.

    (And I will just clarify since I'm an admin: I paid for the game, and CoalSupper didn't put me up to this positive mention)

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    Blaze (he/him) @sopuli.xyz

    What have you played this week?

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    Hossenfeffer @feddit.uk

    Assassin's Creed

    I would gladly pay good money for re-released AC games without any of the modern day Abstergo stuff. Am I the only one? I mean, at the time it was interesting, but the modern day missions now just detract from immersion and are usually crap.

    Just me or anyone else?

    [Just started replaying Revelations!]

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    Coelacanth @feddit.nu

    When did the (first) golden age of PC gaming end?

    Let's see if this community still is active.

    I'm not sure if it's officially agreed upon, but I would say the release of Doom in '93 properly marked the beginning of a golden age of PC gaming. Modern homogenisation and monetisation hadn't set in yet and over the next decade or so the PC gaming landscape would be full of innovation and passion, with a sea of classics being released in that time frame... but when did it end? Was there a specific watershed game that signalled a shift in the landscape?

    This topic has been on my mind for a while, because I've pondered on whether there is an open niche for a community dedicated to games of this era. They're not quite at home in Retro Gaming subs, but still old enough now that they might warrant their own corner separate from main gaming spaces.

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    Rez @sh.itjust.works

    I don't use crossbows in video games

    In all the games I've played (one exception being Half-Life, but that's different) I really don't like using crossbows and avoid doing so at all costs. I don't really know why that is, but to me they don't seem to fit the setting of games like Elder Scrolls or Gothic. I love using regular bows, however. Maybe crossbows feel too modern for me? I don't really know anything about medieval weapons or when they were invented.

    What about you? How do you feel about crossbows in these types of games or do you have a similar weird thing you just don't like and refuse to do in video games?

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    AFallingAnvil @lemmy.ca

    The Great Indie Game Recommendation Farmers Market!

    Come one, come all! Got a game that's not AAA (or god forbid AAAA) but you loved anyhow? Welcome to show and tell. Talk about your favorite, why people should play it, and what you love most about it. And yes, I'm aware this may just be end up being 25 comments about stardew valley.

    I want to start by recommending Kingdom, a series with relatively simple (but elegant) graphics and side scrolling tower defence style gameplay. It doesn't sound like much but the presentation encourages this beautiful sense of exploration of mechanics. Amos Roddy did the music, which tells you just how much I love the soundtrack I didn't even have to look up his name. There are a few games, but I specifically recommend Kingdom: Two Crowns as it includes co-op and has some nice style options (European, Japanese, and more comprehensive Norse DLC that changes more than looks)

    If that's not your speed maybe you'd the better known Stanley Parable. I won't say much on it as it's a fantastically written experie

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    Blaze @reddthat.com

    Is this community still active?

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    Pluto [he/him, he/him] @hexbear.net

    Okay, now I want to play Fallout 76...

    cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2344166

    It's the Legendary Commie Bear!

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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    MacedWindow @lemmy.world

    Is it wrong to send Fawkes in your place? (Spoilers for Fallout 3)

    SPOILERS FOR FALLOUT 3 ENDING

    At the end of Fallout 3 you need to enter an irradiated chamber to fulfill your family dream of bringing pure water to the wasteland. Both of your parents die dreaming of accomplishing this mission. That is until the Broken Steel DLC released adding more options to the game.

    Fawkes is Super Mutant, a mutated human imune to radiation. You find him trapped in a cell, and can either release him, end him, or ignore him. If freed he will come to your rescue later in the game, helping you escape an evil faction. In the original ending he refuses to enter the end game irradiated chamber, saying he would be stealing your fate if he activated it on your behalf. In the update, he will say that as you changed his fate, he will change yours.

    My friends and I have debated for years whether the game was wrong not to have the option from the start, if Fawkes original refusal makes him a monster, if it really makes sense to follow your fate if it mea

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    MacedWindow @lemmy.world

    What game stories would hold up best if they were adapted to a novel?

    Some top ones for me would be Brother: aToTS, Blasphemous, Portal, and FF9.

    I think all of them would still be best in game form, especially Brother and Portal. A Blasphemous novel would be incredible though. I'd love to read detailed descriptions of the various enemies and bosses. You could also dive into a lot of the tragic miracles in more detail. Its the one I'd most want to read off my list.

    Final Fantasy 9 would also work very well as a novel. The game already has a ton of dialogue, and the journey the main characters take would work well as the backbone of the novel. I feel like I can see the outline in my head, and how the story beats could be divided into chapters. A longer novelized version of some of the late Kuja and Garland scenes would make for great emotional drama. The game doesn't feel rushed necessarily, but the game format does require you to keep it moving, even if it is a Jrpg.

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    SbisasCostlyTurnover @feddit.uk

    What We're Playing for April 8th 2024

    Morning all. It's Monday morning which can mean but one thing....What have you been playing this last week?

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    Ashtear @lemm.ee

    Reflections on Xenoblade Chronicles

    Xenoblade Chronicles has been one of the broadly popular JRPG series as of late, particularly within my own social circles. I have heard mostly good things about the games, and some vocal criticisms about the second game in particular. After finally picking up a Switch last year, I have now made my way through most of the series.

    Before trying Xenoblade myself, I had a mixed history with Xeno series creator Tetsuya Takahashi. He’s had quite a career, having worked on games in the Ys, Final Fantasy, SaGa, Mana, and Chrono series. Xenogears was his first project as a director, and I knew next to nothing about the game when I picked it up at release in 1998. It surprised me in a lot of ways, being my first real dip into the mecha genre, accompanied by a truly massive and thought-provoking script (both big changes from the SNES’s smaller scripts and censorship). My continuing experience with Xeno was less successful. Xenosaga’s move to a more cinematic style gave it a plodding pace, packe