Growing up playing osu! forever scarred my taste in music. Now I have a $300 SDVX controller at home and I need help
Also honorable mention for the 500+ hrs I have in Skyrim (with additional difficulty mods), Slay the Spire, Binding of Issac, …
Which game is it?
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zlatiah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 1 year ago
What’s the deal with osu? I work in a computer shop and see that icon on customer machines all the time but never looked into it.
zlatiah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Get ready for Autistic infodump
Osu (stylized as osu!) is a rhythm game… Developed by an Australian group, wiki says it first released in 2007. Probably by far the most popular rhythm game out there, and probably the only one that can rival DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) and DDR-clones/lookalikes. And unlike DDR which requires a ridiculously expensive setup (a reliable DDR pad would cost close to $1k and is extremely loud) or being a regular at your local Japanese arcade to play, osu can be played by anyone with a PC, a mouse/trackpad, and a lot of hopes & dreams Osu was inspired by the Nintendo Ouendan series on the NDS; in that game you use the little pen provided by NDS to click circles/drag sliders/etc on the bottom screen; obviously works well with the NDS form factor. The osu team decided to translate this into PC gameplay where you need to control stuff with keyboard/mouse… and somehow it worked quite well! Since osu is completely free (I believe it is still very much free-to-play, no idea how they monetize), relatively accessible (see counter-example of DDR above), and is a legitimate & very serious rhythm game, I think it quickly gained a sizable and very passionate player base. And unlike lots of other rhythm games where the charts are curated by a company, osu’s charts are created by players & “peer-reviewed” by mods, so there are a LOT of charts, basically any anime/game-related song you could think of is in the game as an approved chart, which further helps grow the popularity. Needless to say it just kept growing from there… I think even back when it was the 2010s and I was playing the game actively, there were already a bunch of community groups, and ppl literally had names for different play styles. I think my style of primarily using mouse but mashing keyboard Z/X key for combos was called the Seiiryu (blue dragon) style or something… I forgot sorry As for the gameplay itself… Osu’s gameplay is actually quite unique in terms of rhythm games especially back then. Back then the gold standard of rhythm games I believe are DDR and IIDX, both of which are vertical fixed-screen drop-down notes where you have to time the fixed buttons to the notes. Osu on the other hand has dynamic notes where circles fly all over the screen. However, this also means that at higher level gameplay, osu relies less on your “sense of rhythm” and more on… precise mouse movements, almost like an FPS. I think nowadays games like maimai/WACCA/Chrono Circle might be similar to osu’s playstyle. They did add more game modes though; they have a taiko clone, a “catch the fruit” game which is even more unique than their base game, and a djmax/iidx clone. And… yeah. In short I think osu could be seen as the gateway drug into rhythm games due to it being free, having charts for just about any song you could think of, and having a passionate community. Now that you’ve sunk yourself in the rabbit hole, grab your wallet and pay for that $1000 DDR setup you have always wanted, $2000 maimai ADX controller setup, and mortgage on the suburban single-family home to play it in so you don’t get complaints from neighbors. You know you want it. Do it. DO IT (/s obviously) ___
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Outer Worlds. Not exactly a bad game but fell just a tad short of being F:NV spiritual successor.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You could tell what was constraining it was mostly budget. I have high hopes for the sequel.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 year ago
It’s an amazing game. The sprat rescue…
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Is this a personal spiritual successor, or is this there some thread connecting these two games that I’m missing?
They do both rule.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Both made by Obsidian
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 year ago
When I was in college it was WOW. I have soooo many hours in that game. But it also helped fix a lot of issues I had with social anxiety. I went from basically never interacting with people in that game to being elected to run a 60 person guild. I didn’t even campaign they just nominated me for it when the previous GM left. It did a lot to help me feel like I could be normal. Then I got a job and a GF and didn’t have time to play as much anymore.
These days it’s Warframe but I don’t have enough free time to really get into video games like I used to anymore.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just spent 20 hours on the demo for the new game roadcraft. I’m just pushing dirt around in a tractor like I’m playing with Tonka trucks back when I was 5. I haven’t really done anything interesting, just leveled dirt. Anyway, ill probably put in another 6 hours today after work.
YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spelunky 2
YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honorable mentions Noita and The Binding of Isaac
HandBash@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oxygen not included. I spent so much brain beating that game, then wanted to play more.
Mathazzar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I keep going back to ONI to try and get into its endgame. But I quickly start getting kicked around in a back alley by the temperature stuff. Like trying to figure out colony-wide temperature control.
HandBash@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Heat control is definitely the toughest boss of the game. Satisfying as fuck to be constantly pumping in cool O2 into the main colony block though once you get a handle on it. The steam turbine aqua tuner loop is key to fully nailing mid to late game temperature control, and needs to be implemented later on to actually get liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
You can easily go hundreds of cycles though without needing a steam turbine as long as you are properly planning your base. There are a lot of aspects though that need to be considered. Most of which boil down to (heh) just not building your temperature sensitive things next to hot or heat producing things.
One neat trick is to create a vacuum with liquid locks on either side so that heat is not conducted from one side to another. Another more basic trick is finding a cold biome or cool salt water geyser and pumping liquid through it then insulating the pipe ( p-water best because it’s high specific heat capacity and low freezing temperature) and then running it through your base with some radiant/normal piping at picked spots to release that coolness.
The two focuses you need before you get to creating coolness are to try not to let heat in from outside (don’t dig into hot biomes without insulated tile or liquid locks) and try not to unnecessarily generate heat on the inside of your colony block. You also want to try to just largerly separate where your plants are from where your cooking/machines are until you can actively control the heat generated.
Even without a steam turbine room you can just plop down an aqua tuner next to a pool of water outside your base and radiate that now cool water into the base for quite awhile before the system would break down.
Hope that helps!
pero@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Euro truck simulator 2. I have already spent ~200 hours in that game. Personally I like it because of the multiplayer mod and there you can see all kinds of drivers over there… Ngh
Anyways, I recently bought 4 map DLCs for the game, I’m sure that will make me sink less time in that pit (/s)
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Mathazzar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The factory must expand so the factory can expand so the factory can expand so the factory can expand so the factory…
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The factory must grow
raph55@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Good choice !
NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Factorio. Do i need to say more?
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why aren’t you tending to your factory?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My factory is paused. I found Derail Valley Simulator, and have been absolutely loving driving trains
Pichu0102@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Elite Dangerous, Rimworld
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Came here to also say Elite. They’re actually doing updates now, but I still would never recommend to anyone despite devoting so much time to it.
Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I have over 2,000 hours in terraria and way more in minecraft. Really anything with good building or creative features is going to hook me for quite a while.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 year ago
Modded minecraft isnt the worst ever
I started making games to make sure its not
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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.
Evrala@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts and Sword of the Stars 2.
part of Sword of the stars 2 is even now it sometimes gets so laggy that you can’t finish a game. You just at some point declare that you’ve snowballed enough and can’t be beat anymore.
Hundreds of hours.
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts is at least getting better now that the devs have abandoned it and modders are taking over.
mouldylemon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This one particular rp server on San Andreas Multiplayer
Geobloke@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fuck, there’s enough games that I got addicted to in this thread that I’m scared I’ve got the tism
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Popular games are popular because they appeal to a wide audience. Very few games would be able to survive solely on an autistic playerbase.
But also, you don’t have anything to be afraid of. You are who you are, a diagnosis wouldn’t change anything about you. It would only give you access to more tools to cope with things you’re bad at (assuming you don’t live anywhere where a diagnosis would be used against you).
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
JUST CUZ I GRINDED SMOKEYS FOR A CAT HEADBAND FOR 400 HOURS AND NEVER GOT ONE AND HAD TO BUY IT FOR MYSELF WITH MY DEAD BRANCH PROCEEDS IN RAGNAROK IN LIKE 2003 DOESNT MEAN I’M
oh
dastechniker@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Deep Rock Galactic is a very good game that doesn’t deserve this slander (except Season 3 which has given me actual nightmares)
JonsJava@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s wrong with Rust?
I mean, when you remove the toxicity, it’s a great single-player game.
Ignore the thousands of hours I have in the game.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 year ago
When I don’t know what to do or watch, i like to watch some rust videos. I love that game. The idea, the execution, the building, the insanity of it. The only downside is that i can’t stand the average rust player. Over all these years i played 12 hours of rust. It’s the only game i own that i play once a year and immediately uninstall after every session.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I once went on a role playing server and it had really nice people on there. Everything was civilized too, they had police officers walking around lol.
WolframViper@lemmy.org 1 year ago
People of Lemmy, would you say that Rust (programming language) is better or worse as a multi-player game than Rust (video game)?
JonsJava@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you hit a tree with a rock while naked I’6m the programming language?
Zenokh@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Eve online took a lot from me , but it gave back a lot more … i think everyone who plays it is on the spectrum, no other explanation tbh
jagged@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not a bad game but Rimworld is destroying my life right now.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Is it about rimming?
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 year 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.
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had to ban myself from that game as I’d fall off the face of the earth for weeks at a time
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 year ago
Laser@feddit.org 1 year 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.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
unrelated but i just noticed that the playtime was 1234, that’s neat
TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Space Station 13 on the BYOND client. Someone has a space station 14 play test available on steam right now and I’m desperately trying not to get into it
Downpour@programming.dev 1 year ago
Oh yeah, SS14 has finally made the game playable with high ping… anddddd has therefore I’ve put like 300 hours into it.
Its really one of the few games that seems to avoid a community of “meta-gaming” or “instrumental play” which sucks all the fun out of a lot of games with huge roleplay potential.
match@pawb.social 1 year ago
me with 100 hours in the HASTE broken worlds demo
PapaSkwat@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Quest 64 is my favorite “bad” game. It was a meme for like a week around here, I miss those days.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have the most hours in Warframe, but Factorio is on a different level. If you’re anywhere on the spectrum, it is pure crack cocaine. The only reason I haven’t bought the DLC is because I know it’ll consume a month of my free time.
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
How are the micro transactions on warframe? Do they shive 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 1 year ago
Pretty good, and somehow getting better with time.
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).
jef@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
Minnels@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A month? That is not enough :(
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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.
Draces@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ignore the expansion and just free base Space Exploration
BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can confirm. It’s the only game I play at this point.
Finally got to Fulgora. I want that mech suit.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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!
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m currently avoiding fixing Gleba, so I’m making an Epic Mech Suit.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Space Age is totally worth it though
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 year ago
Everything Hidetake Miyazaki makes. It’s basically the same game, but it’s spread across 7 games.
psmgx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CK2
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I will not stand for this Robot Unicorn Attack slander.
sits carefully
…that’s better.
Rooty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
🎵And live in harmony harmony oh Lord!🎵
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
That game and one scene from Scrubs revived Erasure briefly in the 2000s
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 year ago
…wait, do I need to get diagnosed?
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends if you have the executive function that permits such ambition.
If you don’t, yes. It you aren’t sure, try your best. It you do, I am pretty sure you won’t, and that should be your guiding star to go.
HorreC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m split between Factorio and Dwarf Fortress.
rivan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve 100% Jak and Daxter: the Precursor Legacy I could probably beat it by sound alone.