You gotta get on Alan Wake 2. I’ve been having a great time playing it. Play the first and Control before you do and you’ll see a lot of tie-ins which is pretty fun. One of the characters looks a lot like Max Payne too.
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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Im still on ddr3 and an amd fx. I can play every game except Alan wake 2.
I dont play most aaa slop though.
burrito@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
You gotta get on Alan Wake 2.
Bit cruel after they just said they can’t run it 😄
moopet@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I thought Control was excellent, but the original Alan Wake was a bad joke.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have played both previous alan wakes and control! Great games. I need to play quantum break next.
burrito@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Okay good! I played Control years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I picked it back up from the beginning a number of months back and got hooked. I had a price watch on Alan Wake 2 from a couple years ago and it finally hit my target so I got it. I figured I should play through the first Alan Wake so I played it and enjoyed it significantly more than I thought I would. Now I’m probably a quarter of the way through 2 and I’m really liking it a lot. I definitely want to check out Quantum Break also.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Don’t forget american nightmare. Really good!
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I play too much path of exile for that to be acceptable sadly
The sheer glut of load zones means even a spinning disk is unacceptable. I literally saved over an hour in time over a weekend back in the day going from ddr3 to 4, and three hours over a weekend going from a spinning disk to a solid state.
And the games only gotten larger in the last few years…
Ddr3 is great! Till you have to deal with a lot of load zones. ):
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There’s a lot of AAA that isn’t slop. That sounds like coping.
Would you be able to run something like Horizon Forbidden West at moderate settings and 60 fps?
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Don’t even know of that game.
I dont really stay up to date on super new games either tbh. I have a huge console collection so a lot of my gaming is spent there as well. Besides, I dont pay more than 20 dollars for games, so I dont buy new ones.
Also, since I refuse to run windows, quite a few scummy game companies are purposely locking out linux users with their trash anti cheat. So I wont play those games and have no want to.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I paid €16 for Horizon Zero Dawn 🤷♂️ One of the best single player games I’ve ever played. Runs on Linux. Played the whole game on Linux. Played in sessions of a few hours a time. I have 2 kids and played this game.
I think you are using a lot of assumptions here. But if you really don’t like that kind of game, fair enough.
I’m just saying, there are a lot of high value games which are not slop. All I’m saying.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Thats a good deal! It looked like it was $60 now…
Yeah makes sense. I just get an ick reaction to most of those super fantasy games, like the FF games which I avoided forever but did start playing FFXIV and I do enjoy it most of the time, its just so many names and places and game mechanics to remember. I also play probably 20+ different games a week, very rarely do i ever play 1 game at a time.
Also, to me any game around 2010 era is still brand new lol. 2017 may as well have been just released xD
Yep id agree youre right.
Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Honestly this. I really need people to start defining what they think a AAA game is, because I feel like my definition is different. In my mind, a AAA game is any game made by a large well-known company that either has a series/brandname for itself (i.e. Mario, Resident Evil, CoD) or one that has poured a shit ton of money into it (usually due to employee count). Usually a mainline game, not side or spin-off.
And so going off of that, I truly struggle to think of a AAA game I have played in the last 3 years that could truly be called slop. The only game in that timeline that makes me go “eh”, was FFXV, but I don’t think the game is pure slop, it’s just obviously incomplete without the DLC story. There are people still crying about this game and saying they miss the characters, and it’s more than a decade old now, so I feel it’s hard to call it slop.
Maybe it’s because I mostly enjoy single player games over multi and I play more Japanese than western games, but I don’t know why people buy the latest CoD or Madden and expect it to be significantly different from the last game. Like we know EA does microtransactions, stop buying their fucking games! Why do we expect 95% of SaaS games to be remotely good?
And not that I think indies suck, because I think they’re great too! But people make it sound like every indie game is going to change your life, when there are thousands of indies out there that are just okay. Hell, some big name “indies” aren’t even indies, they’re AA games like CO:E33. And some indies have unfortunately felt lackluster for me, like Cassette Beasts.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Gamers don’t do nuance. It’s either the greatest thing ever or it’s slop. Nothing in between. I hate this mentality.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agreed, although I have almost no experience with Japanese games like FF as I don’t vibe with those for some reason (but I love Japanese cinema). But other than that, I hear you. 👍
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Thinking the avg lemmy user plays games that are newer then 2008 is were you fucked up.
People that use this platform basically are glorified luddites when it comes to gaming unless you go to extremely specific gaming areas. Then it’s like 2018 instead of 2008.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t think that. I asked if they’d be able to play it. It’s an inquiry about their system more than what they like to play.
hasnep@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I was going to say I play Factorio which is fairly new until I looked up when it entered early access… :/