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wizzim@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Dave the diver DLC is limited in time AND not free…Ouch ! I am glad I have lost interest in the game :)

I am playing 3 games in parallel:

Battlefield 4. Discovered only 2 months ago. The game is 10 years old and the server have, at best, only 2000 people in it😂. But the game is great and achievements hunting is fun, fast fast before the servers close !
Control. It feels like “x-files, the game”. It’s mysterious, confusing and after all enjoyable. The art direction and the fights are great.
Gris, my small game for the evening. Not really started but it’s the replacement for my previous small game The Gardens Between which was …ok. Enjoyable and short.

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CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Enjoy your coming Steam Deck! It’s incredible to have your PC library in your hands in a very comfortable device! Every now and then I fire up my old ROMs that I backed up back in the day, so I’ve been dabbling with X-Men Legends on GameCube.

+1 for Control. Played it a few years ago and had a wonderful time with it.

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PerfectDark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I found Dave the Diver to be…well a mixed bag. It was so pretty and fun in the first few hours - I live for summer and I’m 100% a beachgirl but then they just threw everything in - hospitality management, farm-y bits, fetch quests. The one section I found super fun (diving) got to be the one I spent the least amount of time in. And then they make what time you do spend down there a scramble to get the bits you need most.

Still, it’s a lovely game.

Between that and DREDGE (in my top 3 Steam Deck games ever) - because they’re both aquatic - DREDGE gets all my votes.

And OMG CONTROL!!! I adore it. The brutalist architecture is sublime, and so is the atmosphere. It really does feel like a beautiful mix of David Lynch, Stephen King and X-Files. I love Remedy, they’re a dev company who keeps on delivering in my eyes :)

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- wizzim@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes the first dives in Dave the Diver are wonderful with the beautiful pixel art.
  
  But I found this game deeply disturbing: you kill the most fish possible to make the most money possible, but not the dolphins because they are cute. I found this game is a perfect symbol of the overproductivism of our era, while the earth is dying. I know it’s just a game, but the fact the game creator are not even aware of the philosophy their game is carrying, left a bitter taste in my mouth.
  
  And yeah, the game is full of FOMO even in their dlcs, and the huge amount of collabs with other overly popular game make me think, in the end, it’s a pure marketing vessel. An it’s fake indie !
  
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  - PerfectDark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The irony is that I am a vegetarian who avoids hunting in games (RDR2 for example) but somehow Dave the Diver had me swimming around with a speargun like a mad girl.
    
    That fact still sits uneasily on my shoulders!
    
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- theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That is how I felt about Dave the Diver, was really enjoying the first part of the game and was excited to keep playing but they kept adding more and more shit on top that seemed unnecessary and it just made me lose interest entirely.
  
  It could have been great but turned out to be a bit Meh for me.
  
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