Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?

Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

Diablo IV, for me. I love the Diablo series and just a bit ago, I sank 2 hours down to get my necromancer character up and set in Diablo II Resurrection. I have Diablo III and its expansion too, but they're online only and I almost can't be bothered to go through that. I've beaten it a long time ago.

And I really do want to get Diablo IV, but they've made that online-only as well. Like, I know I'm always online and everything but I do like to have that fallback where if I am without internet or I can't afford internet for a time, I can play or watch things to bide the time over. I can't do that with online-only games because it's like being gated away from something you bought.

So everytime I look at Diablo IV, I just get a little depressed at times. Blizzard should do what D2R did, have an online character and have an offline character.

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fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Clair obscur.

It looks so good, and the music is great, and story is apparently fantastic, but I just can not get the hang of the counter/block mechanic in combats, and without it the battles are pretty much impossible.

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- tatann@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I ended up using the auto-parry/block mod, but it means you’re practically invulnerable, you only need to do the jump and radiant attack counters
  
  www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/…/478
  
  There’s also a mod to increase the block/parry “period”
  
  www.nexusmods.com/clairobscurexpedition33/…/28
  
  I still hope there will be a mod to have the dodge/parry based on your stats (agility/luck), to feel like it’s a RPG and not a souls-like game
  
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- mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve came to depend less on the visual cues which are often deceptive and more on the audio ones or counting in my head for dodges/parries. Also invest heavily (basically all your points) into defense/vitality which makes Dodge/Parry misses much more forgiving. Eventually, even if you do a smattering of side quests you’ll get powerful enough to basically ignore the timing mechanics altogether.
  
  Also set it on story mode + auto QTEs. I did that on my first playthrough and had absolutely no regrets. The mechanics of the game are definitely secondary to the experience of the story.
  
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Rdr2. I’m not making a damn account just to play the game offline.

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- Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I would create ten different accounts to play a game that’s the quality of rdr2.
  
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justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Most anything PvP.

I just can’t do anything with games that don’t allow me to pause (or go idle) as I just have constant interruptions.

It doesn’t help that many PvP games also have sweaty tryhard metas that put you on a different level if you’re not reading up on forums or discussions.

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- Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ll straight up admit that I can’t compete in most pvp titles; and I don’t want to be a loot goblin for the high school kids who are going to 360 no-scope headshot me from across the map and then tea bag my corpse.
  
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remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m paying my EvE Online accounts for over 10 years now … I log in about 2 twice a year. Basically playing skill training online.

Maybe I’ll have time to continue playing when I retire …

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Strider@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Lots, as you said too. Blizzard lost its way a while ago, not giving them money.

Neither epic, ubi, ea. F all of them.

On the bright side there’s so much games coming out and so much backlog too, I don’t miss them.

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Wawe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Deadlock. As a parent and full time worker I don’t have time to commit to a new live service multiplayer. It would be amazing to be a teenager or student again and just grind that game as nolife.

Wow is kinda similar. Housing update seems like fun thing that they finally added but no way I have time to play wow.

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- FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Deadlock is no joke, the best game i have ever played. But i never played a maba before, so that part was completely new. Someone said that Deadlock might be the hardest game to learn, and they might be right. Deadlock is the only game that has ever made me nervous when i start playing. I’m glad i got into the game early, but even if you don’t want to learn, i think it’s worth downloading and walk around in the cursed apple or play some bot matches. The design and the feel of the game is one of a kind and it plays so smooth.
  
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  - Wawe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I played it when it was in closed beta. And as a fan of Overwatch and previous LoL player, Deadlock was super fun to play. But combination of high mechanical requirement and knowledge requirement it is hard to enjoy the game as casual peopler. Thank god now there is light version of Deadlock as Overwatch Stadium.
    
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DonAntonioMagino@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Minecraft. I love building things, and I especially love the idea of building things you can walk through in first person. I also loved the little of it I did play. Sadly, it makes me incredibly nauseous and gives me a headache after about half an hour of playing.

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- Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Have you messed with the settings? Turning off view bobbing might be the trick!
  
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  - DonAntonioMagino@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Did you have view bobbing in 2012? That’s probably about the last time I tried playing.
    
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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.

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- Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I could get info that game either. It looks amazing. I’m sure the experience is great, but it never really grabbed me.
  
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elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.

For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder

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- Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Might I recommend Median XL?
  
  An OG D2 mod, adds a load of content and changes things dramatically, vibrant MP scene, and even after having spent most of a decade playing D2 back in the day it’s changed enough to feel new and shiny again.
  
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- Abundance114@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  StarCraft 2 is the bomb, just download it and play the campaigns, it’s worth it. Probably the best RTS campaign IMO.
  
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Diablo III and IV don’t have a monopoly on the genre. There’s Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and the Borderlands games, all playable offline, even in multiplayer. They’re not exactly Diablo, but you’ll hardly get closer than Grim Dawn, and there’s no reason you need to be married to the Diablo IP anyway. That kind of brand stickiness is how you get taken advantage of.

Personally, when something like that doesn’t respect my values, I’m not even finding myself tempted by them these days. Oh, it’s always online? It’s dead to me. There’s a deluge of other stuff to play, including games that are similar but respect my values.

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- elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What did you think of Torchlight? I’m a bit surprised it didn’t make your list.
  
  …well, then again, I haven’t played anything you listed, so I can’t compare.
  
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    I’m a very recent fan of loot games, and I only briefly tried Torchlight 1 as more of an academic exercise to see how the genre evolved over time. There was some special sauce that I observed starting around Borderlands 3 or Pre-Sequel (that I suspect originated in Diablo 3) around class design that was still absent from Torchlight. Other than that, I didn’t form much of an opinion on it.
    
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- fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I've played a lot of ARPGs and every one of them has their different flavors. But, I'm a type that wants a specific flavor and trying other flavors just makes me feel like it's not good enough. It's kind of like it's a discount version of that flavor I like. I'm playing a game that's inspired by the game that defined the genre.
  
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  - wizblizz@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I feel that, Im a huge diablo fan but 4 was incredibly disappointing. FWIW i think path of exile gets the closest to the formula, I’ve also had a lot of fun with early access in poe2
    
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  - alianne@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m in a similar boat. I don’t know if you’ve heard the news, but it looks like some of the old D2 devs are now working on Darkhaven. It’s not out yet, but there’s hope!
    
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hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’d love to play games like Fortnight, PUBG, and League of Legends (I know, don’t judge me), but they don’t work on Linux, so they’re just a no-go for me. I used to play GTA V Online, but they added kernel anticheat to that too, and now I don’t play that anymore.

I have Windows, but I’m not booting into another partition just to play a game. I use it for compiling my software for Windows users, and that’s already too much of a pain in the ass. I cannot stand Windows. It’s a bloated mess, and I don’t understand how anyone gets any actual work done on it. Just navigating it feels like a chore.

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- mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  didn’t know they added kernel anticheat to gta online, thought they just disallowed linux players. i had 5k hours on it, didn’t really play anything else for almost 10 years. dropped it entirely that day because it’s not worth using a worse OS, and turns out single player is more fun anyway with mods. will also pirate gta 6 and play it without windblows, suck my shrimp rockstar.
  
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- msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I can’t even play Apex anymore because EA decided Linux players cheat, and therefore, must be categorically banned from playing. All they did was turn off that switch for Proton/WINE support.
  
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tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I really wish I could sit down and engage with the heavier stuff in my collection, but it comes to me with much difficulty.

Currently, as we speak, I’m playing SETI—kind of a slow-burn research builder where alien life gets discovered. It’s a lot of brain load though.

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However, I know that I’m in a precarious spot. With the brain damage I’ve already sustained, if I’m not pushing my brain as hard as I can, it’ll start falling apart.

Don’t have strokes, kids.

-# I wish I could understand Stellaris.

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- Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve had no strokes yet. My granddad had 4 in his 30, I still can’t explain Stellaris
  
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  - tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I did just win against the intro AI in SETI, but it was a challenge. I’m gonna have to internalize more of how this works.
    
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I was looking for something to play this morning, and I died up D4. I finished the story with a Druid, and hadn’t really been back. So I rolled a new Wizard, wondered around aimlessly for a few hours and quit. It just doesn’t have the pull that D2 had for me.

You’re not missing much.

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anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
BeamNG, but it’s Windoze only and I only have relatively older Macs.

I should get steam deck or cube maybe if it’s affordable.

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- bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Beam ng runs perfectly on my 15 year old fx cpu running mint! Shoved a rx6700 in it loll
  
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- Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I played it on steam deck about a year ago, and TBH it struggled. Though it’s probably been optimised better since, I think development is ongoing. Still the best driving game I’ve played.
  
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- QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  BRO. PLAY BEAM ANYWAY. IT’S AMAZING!
  
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johnnixon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Anything on PS5. I bought one thinking I’d catch up on whatever I’d missed since the PS1 days. Heard that that mushroom zombie game was good. Never started it. I just sit at the desk and play another round of CS2 deathmatch.

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- Aneb@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The Last of Us?
  
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  - johnnixon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Yes! At this point I wonder how much of the show has spoiled my eventual run through the game.
    
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I want to check out Black Myth: Wukong. But I ain’t paying for something with Denuvu and I can’t pirate something with denuvu either.

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- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I checked my library catalog and they just got that one of you have a recent console
  
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Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Outer Wilds.

I very much want to play this game. It’s everything I want from a detective puzzle game, but actually playing it gives me motion sickness.

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- mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  same here. i can play it 30 mins max and then i get very nauseated. and you can’t really get anything done in that time.
  
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- Famko@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve heard supposedly that sitting back further away from the monitor helps with motion sickness, so if you have some sort of TV screen that you could hook up the game to, that might work?
  
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- bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Same here. I get nauseous playing most first person games so I miss out on a lot. The only thing that sometimes helps is if the game lets you slow down the camera movement.
  
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Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Silksong.

Love the game, but playing a few times a week isn’t enough investment for me to build up the necessary skill to complete it. Got to a point now where I literally spend the entire gaming session refreshing my fingers from last week, and decided to take a break until I lose my kids or legs or go to prison or something.

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- Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Silksong was great, but it really has an issue with approachability.
  
  Most of the quality of my life upgrades come after challenges that prove you don’t need them. I didn’t really feel at home with what the game was asking of me until I fought the cogwork dancers. I totally understand why people bounce off the game when they encounter Last Judge.
  
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- msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Silksong is designed for those who are good at Hollow Knight, I think.
  
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justsquigglez@leminal.space ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There’s so many Nintendo games I wish I could play but I haven’t had a Nintendo console since the Wii U and I can’t really convince myself to buy a switch (1 or 2) especially now that the Steam Deck exists.

I’ll probably emulate at some point. But there’s so many games out there that I’m kinda just fine never touching Nintendo again. Especially with how they are as a company.

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- Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Most Switch games run well on the Steam Deck; I just wish someone would fix Starlink: Battle for Atlas emulation so that I can play as Fox, which I can’t on the Steam version.
  
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mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Split fiction. It looks solid and my friend and I need more games to play together that isn’t competitive pvp, but we both vote with our dollar and refuse to give EA any more money.

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- Yarny@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m actually torn on this philosophy.
  
  On one hand, yea you’re not giving EA money, which is a win. But on another, when you don’t buy a game like Split Fiction, they make less money on that product. Money is the only thing EA cares about, and they track how much a product makes. So, if a game like Split Fiction doesn’t make as much money, they probably would be less inclined to make it in the future. Then we get stuck with shit like Fifa/Apex, since you know people are going to spend money on that regardless.
  
  So in the end I still buy stuff like It Takes Two, because I support that work. That game was amazing. However, I tend to buy them on sale.
  
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  - mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There’s definitely an argument to be made for either your or my way. I feel if a lot more gamers were willing to vote with their dollar and be conscious about the ethics of the games/studios I might be more inclined to agree with you as it would have an actual impact. I realize I’m in the minority though based on how well FIFA does with each new version and so I know I’m not actually moving the dial at all. I decided for me I’ll keep the clear conscience and go play one of the other amazing games out there.
    
    I did send an email through a contact page to hazelight too to let them know EA specifically cost them a customer. Doubt that information made it anywhere, but at least I try.
    
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- emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Just get it from an alternative source and play it locally. That’s more fun anyway and far too few games still have split screen coop.
  
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- mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  🏴‍☠️ lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy
  
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TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Cyberpunk 77.

I don’t have a big enough SSD or SD card to put it on my Steam Deck haha.

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- Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s a shame, I really enjoyed it on my steam deck
  
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  - TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    My wife just surprised me with a 1TB microSD card, so in 3-5 business days it will be “one day” hahaha.
    
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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I was going to say diablo4 as well. Diablo1 and 2 were some of my favorite games in my youth, but I just don’t want to give blizzard any more money. Path of exile 1 and 2 are good for the same itch.

Also any console exclusives. Bloodborne? Would love to play. Not buying a console. New Zelda and Mario? Same.

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- pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You can play Bloodborne via an emulator.
  
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abumarkey@szmer.info ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Multiplayer games. I tried Counter Strike a few times, but I just can’t bring myself to like the tempo. I want to play in my pace.

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msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For me, PC Building Simulator 2 due to Epic Games hosting it instead of Steam.

Screw Sweeny’s ball-sucking requirements!

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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I ~~like~~ liked the look of Subnautica but because of my thalassophobia I can’t play it. Now I wouldn’t play it anyway after the bullshit that was reported last year.

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- elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.
  
  I didn’t think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.
  
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rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dead Space 1’s remake. I categorically refuse to buy anything from EA, and that’s their only game I’m even remotely interested in that isn’t available through alternative channels.

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AstroLightz@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mouse-heavy games like Cities: Skylines, Sims 3, and other management games. Due to a chronic injury, I’m force to mainly play with a controller, and trying to play these games with a controller would be abysmal.

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mohab@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Immersive Sims: BioShock. Dishonored, Deus Ex… etc. I can’t do FPS, it’s so unnatural for me not to be able to see my character. I struggle to establish spatial relationships with anything else inside the game world, and I don’t find aiming fun at all.

To a lesser extent, yet for similar reasons, fast-paced action FPS like Doom. Looks super fun, but I can’t get over my fundamental issues with the genre.

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Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ori and the Blind Forest, and other metroidvania/pseudo-soulslikes with pretty art and stories.

I just don’t have the patience to “git gud” anymore.

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Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A ton of PvP games that I can’t play because I’ll want to get good which means spending a ton of time then once I’m good I won’t want to play anything else. Counter strike, StarCraft.

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