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4 votes
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Did Real Time Strategy games die? Why?
There were a few years when RTS was a popular genre with games like Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, and Starcraft being very popular examples. But these games have mostly...
There were a few years when RTS was a popular genre with games like Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, and Starcraft being very popular examples.
But these games have mostly died out, and I was wondering if maybe I'm just not aware of modern RTS variants, or if there are good reasons why these games died off.
Like, are Tower Defence games a form of RTS?
Are there any RTS games where teams play against each other, so 2v2 rather than 1v1?
17 votes -
What makes a good detective game?
7 votes -
Have MMO's lost the RPG?
7 votes -
Open source is democratizing video game development
9 votes -
'It gets better after 100 hours...'
7 votes -
Recommend chill/background games for my second monitor?
Sometimes I like to multitask while I'm having a chill. Basically I'm looking for a game that doesn't require my full attention so that I can play while I'm watching youtube or a stream. Lately...
Sometimes I like to multitask while I'm having a chill. Basically I'm looking for a game that doesn't require my full attention so that I can play while I'm watching youtube or a stream. Lately I've been playing Stellaris on easier difficulties to scratch this itch, but even on minimum time settings a Stellaris game takes multiple hours. Something with a 30-60 minute gameplay loop would be perfect.
Thanks for your suggestions!
14 votes -
What's a video game that you really want to exist?
What's something you can't believe wasn't made yet, or not enough?
27 votes -
Games as a service is incompatible with art
8 votes -
What are some good ultra-low-spec computer games?
So my TV is broken (so no Xbox) and my laptop is a potato. Well, not a total potato, it has an i54210 1.7ghz CPU with integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics. It's a Linux machine, but since Proton I...
So my TV is broken (so no Xbox) and my laptop is a potato. Well, not a total potato, it has an i54210 1.7ghz CPU with integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics. It's a Linux machine, but since Proton I fully expect to be able to play many low spec games.
I'm looking into some low spec games. I got Papers Please and liked it a lot. For something meatier I was thinking Baldurs Gate Enhanced, but I fear that I might have a hard time with the outdated mechanics. I had a hard with the original Fallout for that reason... I loved it back in the day, but it was just too clunky for my current tastes.
21 votes -
Crafting is (kinda) pointless
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Steam Deck: Acceleration – 5000 games and trending up
9 votes -
Why Nintendo doesn't make everything you want
5 votes -
Gross games about flesh and stuff
7 votes -
Apology for video games research
8 votes -
Netflix has some great games but nobody's playing them
8 votes -
How to combine video game genres
3 votes -
Are great games being ignored? An investigation
6 votes -
What's a game that you wish you could play again for the first time? Why?
Going off of my recent Outer Wilds thread (spoiler warning on that topic), what are some games that you wish you could play again for the first time? What about the game makes you feel that way?...
Going off of my recent Outer Wilds thread (spoiler warning on that topic), what are some games that you wish you could play again for the first time? What about the game makes you feel that way?
Feel free to talk about spoilers, but please flag them! The easiest way is to drop them in a details block. Markup below in case anyone needs to copy/paste:
<details> <summary>Spoilers</summary> Spoilers go here! </details>
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Pirates liberate games from Battle.net to send message to Activision Blizzard
20 votes -
Steam Deck hits over 4,000 titles marked either Verified or Playable
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What are some games that you recommend emulating today?
I should be getting a Steam Deck soon and plan to spend a lot of time diving into old console libraries. What are some games from previous generations that you recommend revisiting today? That is:...
I should be getting a Steam Deck soon and plan to spend a lot of time diving into old console libraries.
What are some games from previous generations that you recommend revisiting today? That is: games you feel have aged well and that aren’t readily available via a re-release or re-master elsewhere.
Any console and any recommendation is fair game, but I’m definitely interested in the kinds of recommendations that aren’t likely to show up in “The 25 Best Games for the [Console Name]”-type articles out there. I already know Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid are great for the PSOne, for example, but what about the thousands of other games for the system? Give me some deep cuts!
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What do y'all think of hidden trophies?
To me, they feel kind of OP to discover if you're not a very motivated person, but I suppose that's who they're for. I did one of those trophies for Sonic Generations when I stumbled upon it...
To me, they feel kind of OP to discover if you're not a very motivated person, but I suppose that's who they're for. I did one of those trophies for Sonic Generations when I stumbled upon it online and it was to no-hit the final boss on hard mode with no add-ons (in game stuff) and I can't help but feel that there's no way I would have known that's the trophy.
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Inside the fight to save video game history - Publishers and preservationists are fighting over how old video games can be saved from digital obsolescence
10 votes -
itch.io Bundle for Ukraine
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Three weeks of Steam Deck game compatibility data
I've been checking in each Friday since the release of the Steam Deck to see the number of games that have been added to the Deck's different compatibility categories. I felt like it was a bit...
I've been checking in each Friday since the release of the Steam Deck to see the number of games that have been added to the Deck's different compatibility categories. I felt like it was a bit past time to keep bumping the release thread, so I went with a new topic.
Here's where we're at currently:
2022-02-25 2022-03-04 2022-03-11 2022-03-18 Week 1 Change Week 2 Change Week 3 Change Deck Verified 433 535 721 798 +102 +186 +77 Deck Playable 398 471 580 678 +73 +109 +98 Deck Unsupported 389 711 775 837 +313 +64 +62 Steam Total Games N/A 67,165 67,399 67,627 N/A +234 +228 15 votes -
Keep your numbers off of me: Why tournaments support better communities than ladders
12 votes -
Games of war
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Valve has now properly started verifying games ahead of the Steam Deck launch
22 votes -
The unnerving rise of video games that spy on you
14 votes -
What is your favorite game you'll never finish?
Whether because they're too much for you emotionally, too difficult, or you'll never make the time to do so, what games do you absolutely adore but will likely never actually complete?
21 votes -
How do you approach games with moral choices?
I'm talking about games like the Fallouts, The Outer Worlds, some Telltale games, and many RPGs in which your decisions impact the outcomes of the NPCs and the world as a whole. Do you make...
I'm talking about games like the Fallouts, The Outer Worlds, some Telltale games, and many RPGs in which your decisions impact the outcomes of the NPCs and the world as a whole.
Do you make decisions based on what you think would be coherent with the character? Do you try to optimize your mechanical advantages? Are you consistent with your real world ethics, or do you like to pretend to be bad and put the world on fire? When available, do you focus on sex and/or romance? Or are you mostly concerned on what you think will make for a better story?
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New Frame Plus' favorite game animation of 2021
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What are some noteworthy games that are not available through the major platforms?
Define “major platforms” and “noteworthy” however you like, but I’m thinking of this as stuff you can’t find on Steam/Origin/GOG, etc. I’m interested in people surfacing things like small itch.io...
Define “major platforms” and “noteworthy” however you like, but I’m thinking of this as stuff you can’t find on Steam/Origin/GOG, etc.
I’m interested in people surfacing things like small itch.io projects or standalone downloads from the creator’s website or abandonware that’s never seen the light of day in digital distribution or cool romhacks — anything that’s worth a look but that someone would really have to go digging in order to find.
18 votes -
Why is retro gaming so expensive? | Xplay
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Gaming on Linux - LTT Daily Driver Challenge Finale
17 votes -
Fifty years of text games
11 votes -
Steam Winter Sale is live (Dec 22 - Jan 5)
22 votes -
My top games/cookies of 2021
10 votes -
How accessible were this year's games?
6 votes -
Let me tell you why only a dumbass would get into NFT games
15 votes -
Exposing fraud and deception in the retro video game market
13 votes -
What's next for GMTK?
14 votes -
The case against open-world games - Grand Theft Auto set the standard, and video games have been worse off ever since
8 votes -
How videogames make the ultimate sacrifice
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I'm looking for a (fairly) accurate "caveman" game
A cursory search found only comedic, light-hearted, fantastical options. I want something set in the late Pleistocene or early Holocene, roughly 50,000-8,000 years BCE. At least somewhat...
A cursory search found only comedic, light-hearted, fantastical options.
I want something set in the late Pleistocene or early Holocene, roughly 50,000-8,000 years BCE. At least somewhat (pre-)historically accurate (no dinosaurs or wizards, only 2001-esque aliens, at most), incorporating at least the basics of what we now know of that era.
Either a single character or a small group (I'm envisioning something like Skyrim, or a Baldur's Gate style, or some kind of community-planner, like RimWorld or Dwarf Fortress).
Alternately, if anyone still remembers the The Clan of the Cave Bear (novel or movie), I want that, in game form.
Bonus points if it runs on Linux w/o Wine.
Does anything like this exist, or should I just sit down and make it? Danke
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Texture Archaeology, Cobblestone, and the most overused texture from the 90s
5 votes -
The two types of gamers (honers vs. innovators)
8 votes -
Systemic problems that cause games to have low-quality writing
11 votes -
Exploring the weird world of Adult Video Games
14 votes