• Activity
  • Votes
  • Comments
  • New
  • All activity
    • Showing only topics with the tag "gaming". Back to normal view

    7. Give me advice to check my completionist tendencies

      ~games Ask (advice)
      I find with a lot of video-games, particularly RPGs, I have trouble just doing a casual playthrough. I just can't really stop myself from chasing down every quest marker, so if anyone has advice...

      I find with a lot of video-games, particularly RPGs, I have trouble just doing a casual playthrough. I just can't really stop myself from chasing down every quest marker, so if anyone has advice about how I can keep my playstyle focused on stuff I actually enjoy, I'd love to hear it.

      I've found what ends up happening is I will play a game long after the point where the core gameplay loops are fun or challenging for me. This negatively impacts my impressions of games I play. It's like, chewing a stick of gum for way WAY too long. My jaw is sore, it tastes like cardboard. But I. Just. Keep. Going. I don't go into dumb collect-a-thons as much, so I'm not the worst at this, but I end up chasing every side-quest, every "do thing to befriend party member," and so on. Basically everything that counts as "content."

      To be clear, I definitely blame the game designers for this. They stretch 30 hour games to 60 with a bunch of filler. And with open-world systems, it's just really hard to tell what's important and what isn't which just triggers my FoMO about missing something cool or plot critical.I just want some strategies on how to work around the bullshit and not have to bother with padding content.

      12 votes

    32. Google Stadia - Launch day line-up (12 games) and planned releases by the end of the year (14 games)

      ~games Text 128 words
      Here's the official blog post: https://www.blog.google/products/stadia/lineup-games-coming-to-stadia/ But since they decided to list the games in the incredibly convenient format of... three...

      Here's the official blog post: https://www.blog.google/products/stadia/lineup-games-coming-to-stadia/

      But since they decided to list the games in the incredibly convenient format of... three slideshows, I'll re-type the important info here and save you that trouble.

      Launch titles:

      • Assassin's Creed Odyssey
      • Destiny 2: The Collection
      • GYLT
      • Just Dance 2020
      • Kine
      • Mortal Kombat 11
      • Red Dead Redemption 2
      • Rise of the Tomb Raider
      • Samurai Shodown
      • Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
      • Thumper
      • Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

      Planned releases in the rest of 2019:

      • Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle
      • Borderlands 3
      • Darksiders Genesis
      • Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
      • Farming Simulator 19
      • Final Fantasy XV
      • Football Manager 2020
      • Ghost Recon Breakpoint
      • Grid
      • Metro Exodus
      • NBA 2K20
      • Rage 2
      • Trials Rising
      • Wolfenstein: Youngblood
      8 votes

    34. Which games have great communities, and what do you like about them?

      ~games Ask (recommendations)
      As an outsider some gaming communities can appear incredibly toxic. I'm sure some of that is a deserved reputation, but I'm also aware that maybe there's a bit of generalisation going on, and that...

      As an outsider some gaming communities can appear incredibly toxic. I'm sure some of that is a deserved reputation, but I'm also aware that maybe there's a bit of generalisation going on, and that some communities are lovely but unrecognised.

      So I thought I'd ask Tildes: which gaming communities do you like? And why?

      (As always, feel free to interpret this question how you like. And, again, I suck at tagging so I'm grateful for any tagging edits. I do read those to try to learn.)

      13 votes