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5 votes
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Can you beat Pokemon Blue without getting hit? | VG Myths
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Magnus Carlsen, the world's best chess player for the last decade, is on the brink of reaching the top in another game – fantasy football
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What are your personal picks for "Games of the Decade"?
The 2010s are coming to a close soon, and I'm curious to know what your gaming highlights are from the past decade. To be clear: these are your personal standouts so don't feel beholden to...
The 2010s are coming to a close soon, and I'm curious to know what your gaming highlights are from the past decade.
To be clear: these are your personal standouts so don't feel beholden to popularity, critical opinion, review scores, or anything else like that. If a game was great for you and you deem it worthy of mentioning, then by all means go for it. I'm not interested in a list of the "most important" games of the decade but individual lists from individual people.
Please let us know why you loved the games that you're choosing, and what makes them worth mentioning as your personal picks for "Games of the Decade." Furthermore, choose as many or as few as you like. I'm also not even going to limit this to games released in the 2010s, as I know that many games released before then have gotten new life in this decade through patches, mods, randomizers, online communities, etc.
Basically, there are no rules for this list other than "tell me what games you loved these past ten years, and why."
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Tough love: On Dark Souls' difficulty
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AI Dungeon 2: a text adventure game that uses OpenAI's GPT-2 model to respond to any actions that you enter
21 votes -
Black Mesa (the fan-made recreation of Half-Life) has released a complete beta version
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PlayStation: The first twenty-five years - An oral history of Sony’s big gaming play, and how it changed the world
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Credits are not 'extra' - why game credits matter
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Games like Frostpunk and Papers, Please offer a unique opportunity to learn about oppressive regimes
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Fantastic collectible, trading, expandable and living card games that aren't Magic: The Gathering
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The Last of Us — The art of video game storytelling
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Can't seem to play the games I want to play, considering a forced-march approach
I was wondering if anybody had any tips for muscling through a game. I've got a few games I want to play or go back to, such as Stardew Valley (I completed it before the 1.3 update, wanna play...
I was wondering if anybody had any tips for muscling through a game. I've got a few games I want to play or go back to, such as Stardew Valley (I completed it before the 1.3 update, wanna play 1.4), and Factorio (I bought in a fit of passion, haven't gotten an hour in). There are others, but these are the two I find myself going "I'm going to play this!" and I just never get to, and it's not for time.
I like the concepts of these games, and I've got something like 135 hours on Stardew Valley, but seem to get bored after I've restarted it (I lost some key items and bugs caused me to never get them back, plus the mine completion bug fixed in 1.3). I started Slime Rancher after playing through it in early access, but can't seem to get back into it after it went gold a couple years ago.
I realize I'm sort of asking for a way to force myself to play games, but has anybody done this? I'm thinking for a given game I can set smaller goals to strive for, and work on doing that, but was wondering if anybody has any ideas.
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Riot Games announces Riot Forge, a publishing label that will work with smaller studios to create games using League of Legends IP
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GameRankings.com will shut down on December 9, replaced with a redirect to Metacritic
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DJMax Respect V will release a PC port in Steam Early Access on December 19, with 161 songs planned for release
6 votes -
The modders who spent fifteen years fixing Knights of the Old Republic 2
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Destiny 2: Season of Dawn
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Rune II developer Human Head Studios is being sued by publisher Ragnarok after it abandoned the game one day after its release in order to join Bethesda
7 votes -
The hidden secrets of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
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Alien Isolation Switch review: Image quality is better than PS4
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Dicebreaker website launches - a new site devoted to tabletop games from Gamer Network (owner of Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, RPS, etc.)
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Dead Cells "The Bad Seed" | DLC teaser, coming Q1 2020
5 votes -
Lost piece of gaming history uncovered
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Lorne Lanning discusses his journey to become a game creator, and how the mind-control mechanic solved Oddworld's narrative problems | War Stories
5 votes -
"Randomizers" are breathing new life into old games
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Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to settle gender discrimination suit, split between all female employees who worked there in the last five years
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Super Mario Maker 2 - A Legendary Update, coming Dec 5
11 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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A slower speed of light
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Artificial Loneliness - Appreciating the rare moments of emptiness inside the busy worlds of modern gaming
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Let's rename some gaming genres to make them more accurate
A recent discussion got me thinking about how a lot of the standard genre descriptions for games are either opaque to the unfamiliar or seemingly incongruous with what they are describing. Almost...
A recent discussion got me thinking about how a lot of the standard genre descriptions for games are either opaque to the unfamiliar or seemingly incongruous with what they are describing. Almost any game can be described as a "role playing" game because you "play" the "role" of a given character. Adventure games often aren't very "adventurous" and often just mean that characters talk to each other instead of shoot each other. In survival games you survive; in racing games you race; in casual games you... well, usually match 3 but not always? Also why are we so focused on camera for some games (e.g. first-person shooter) but not for others (e.g. third-person sports)?
So, let's throw away everything we know about genres and start fresh. No baggage from gaming history; no widely understood conventions; no games that reference other games (e.g. "Souls-like"). Your goal is to make gaming genres as clear and accurate as possible, at the expense of convenience, tradition, and, in some cases, good taste.
Turn "roguelike" into "procedural death labyrinth". Turn "battle royale" into "shrinking-zone dead-is-dead killfest". Feel free to propose not just genre redefinitions but whole a whole taxonomy if you feel it's warranted. After all, some genres need a hierarchy of identifiers.
Be as formal or loose as you want, and the main purpose of this is to have fun, though if some great new terms happen to fall out of it you won't hear me complaining.
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The trouble with the video game industry
17 votes -
Hit the High Notes 🎤🎶 singing game
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The making of Facing Worlds, Unreal Tournament's most popular map
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Impostor Factory trailer - The third game in the To The Moon series
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Codemasters has acquired Project CARS developer Slightly Mad Studios for $30 million
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Hytale november development update
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Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol retires saying artificial intelligence cannot be defeated
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The Stanley Parable narrator responds to your letters and emails - Ultra Deluxe remaster/expansion delayed to 2020
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No Man's Sky - Synthesis Update (releasing tomorrow)
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Pour one out for the Steam Controller, now on closeout sale for just $5 plus shipping
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The Stardew Valley 1.4 content update is now available on Steam and GOG
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Beat Saber developer Beat Games has been acquired by Facebook
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The Steam Autumn Sale is now live - runs until Dec 3 at 10 AM PST
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Humble seems to have accidentally revealed the games from its first "Humble Choice", which will replace Monthly on Dec 6
As previously discussed here, Humble Monthly is switching to a new model with no "mystery games" where you'll be able to choose which ones you want to keep from a set selection. It looks like the...
As previously discussed here, Humble Monthly is switching to a new model with no "mystery games" where you'll be able to choose which ones you want to keep from a set selection.
It looks like the games were inadvertently revealed already (image link), so the first month's options will probably be:
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Blasphemous
- Void Bastards
- Phantom Doctrine
- Dead In Vinland
- Horizon Chase Turbo
- Dark Future: Blood Red States
- Desert Child
- Aegis Defenders
- X-Morph: Defense
If that's an interesting set of games to you, you'll probably want to subscribe to Humble Monthly now to be grandfathered in on the "Classic" plan, which will let you keep all 10 games every month for $12/month (and you should be able to "pause" if you don't like a particular month). Otherwise, the plan options that will be available after Dec 6 are more expensive for fewer choices.
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Boneworks is a first-person shooter in virtual reality. Here's a look at a near-final version of the game before its upcoming release.
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Eurogamer is publishing a series of thirty individual "Games of the Decade" articles this week, reflecting on games significant to their writers
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Members of the Final Fantasy VII Remake development team discuss their thoughts and feelings about the highly-anticipated reimagining
11 votes