It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material.

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love this sort of thing! I experienced the reverse lately; I downloaded Diablo 4, closed the blinds, and got drawn into the intro cinematic. Genuinely awesome, moody, atmospheric. I was IN, so ready to play some dark and brooding spooky shit! The cinematic ends…

  DLC! BUY OUR COSMETICS! HERE’S A BAJILLION DIABLO CREDIT$$! totally killed the mood. Turns out the game is always-online, even when playing solo, and I was experiencing laggy movement so I just uninstalled. Left a huge bad taste in my mouth.

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  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Turns out the game is always-online

    Just like the game before it. Which also had tacky micro-transactions.

    I’ll let you guess what Diablo 5 will be like.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Diablo 3 isn’t always online. 🤨

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    • rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait, was it? :o I played that for a few hours and don’t remember experiencing any lag! It was a few years ago mind 😂

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  First, games will need to start including pack-in material again instead of just a download code and EULA.

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• Doorknob@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I particularly liked that the original Unreal came with a pack-in note apologising for the crappy netcode.

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• Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Horror? Doom is horror? Wtf?

  Dude, I go around killing demons as if they were made out of paper. How the fuck is that a horror game?

  The marine campaign from aliens vs predator is horror, well kinda. Doom is just an arena shooter.

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  • boblin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    This is about Doom 3, which was definitely more down the horror alley than the Doom installations after the reboot 2016.

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• Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Something pretty simple but that I think works very well, at the end credits, at the very end, when there's something in the lines of "...and a special thanks, To You".

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  • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I also thought that newer Halo games aren’t as good as the old ones, simply because in Halo 3 and Reach, the game said “Welcome!” in the beginning of the online matches. I was, like, thank you, happy to be here.

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    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gotta get that head pat.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Prepare to be jump scared every 30 seconds by a mob locker with 2-3 imps opening directly behind you.

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It was just stupid jump scares. It wasn’t even scary because you just knew it was coming on every hall.

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  • catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And darkness. Thanks for the most useless flashlight in history!

    And Doom 3 isn't even that fun gameplay-wise...

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The first mod the game ever had, to my knowledge, was the Duct Tape mod that put the flashlight on some of (but not all of) the guns because a common joke about the shitty flashlight mechanics was “there ain’t any duct tape on Mars? Cmon!” 🤣

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I call it Doom: Teleport, cuz that's all the enemies do is teleport behind you. Yawn

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is how I plaid Doom 3 and I fell off the chair a couple of times. It was an incredible experience.

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  • Doorknob@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same here, even at 15 FPS.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What did you play it on? I think I had a modded Radeon 9550 that turned it into a 9600.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Walked up on my step son playing with headphones on in the dark. He jumped.

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    • andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Excellent!

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• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Way to use Diablo’s font to siphon that sweet pseudo-nostalgia to draw in the new generation. 🤔

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  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nostalgia? Doom 3 came out three years after Diablo 2’s expansion.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  (Obligatory “I wish we still got pack-in material in the new games” “Oh, I wish we still got - you know - packaging these days”)

  I literally went to the comments to write that :D It really is such a shame.

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  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still think of the National Enquirer ripoff that was included in the Zak McKraken box. Young me didn’t realise it was a hint book masquerading as a faux-gossip rag.

    The trinkets and inclusions in big box games were cool, whether they were required (Lenslok, codewheels etc) or otherwise.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember Star Siege and MechWarrior 3 coming with a big novella book of some sort, accompanying the manual, and Sim City 3000 came with a wire bound TOME of a book lol. RTS games would often come with big foldout tech trees and stuff too.

      The original manual for The Sims was really fun to read too because it was full of humorous witticisms at every turn.

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• cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I loved playing games in the dark and having the sound loud ( before headphones era). My computer room was tiny and the door was directly behind the chair. it was in the basement and you had to walk through my dad’s workshop. I got a lot of jumpscares from people coming up behind me

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