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15 votes
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How has playing a video game helped you in an unexpected way?
e.g. Playing Kerbal Space Program gave me enough understanding of orbital mechanics to appreciate what was going on in the space scenes of Seveneves.
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Why we need weird games
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Sekiro: Accessibility in games is about far more than 'difficulty'
11 votes -
Five damaging myths about video games – let’s shoot 'em up
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Should harder games have "easy modes"?
I presume a lot of you might have noticed the discourse surrounding Sekiro and the notion that games like Sekiro could benefit from having a complementary "easy mode". The discourse is hot, and...
I presume a lot of you might have noticed the discourse surrounding Sekiro and the notion that games like Sekiro could benefit from having a complementary "easy mode". The discourse is hot, and the takes are flying left and right but I'm curious to what the people of Tildes think about it.
25 votes -
How designers engineer luck into video games
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Steam announces plans to identify "off-topic review bombs", and remove them from games' review scores
13 votes -
Well played: Store credit
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Retrohistories: The first "game over"
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Open-Source, Free Games
For those of you who may be too poor to afford the latest AAA titles, or just don't want to support policies like micro-transactions and "If you're offended, just don't buy it", there are many...
For those of you who may be too poor to afford the latest AAA titles, or just don't want to support policies like micro-transactions and "If you're offended, just don't buy it", there are many open-source and/or free games that can tide you over. Some of my favorites are:
- FreeCiv: A civilization building game based on Sid Meier's Civilization 1 and 2
- OpenTTD: A transport network building game based off of Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe
- Dwarf Fortress: Not Open-Source - fortress colony management simulator with an additional RPG gamemode
Do you guys have any other free, possibly open-source games that you would recommend?
48 votes -
How Blade Runner reinvented adventure games
12 votes -
CAAApitalism: The successful failure of videogames
6 votes -
List of motion-control games for Nintendo Switch
Just as with the Wii, I think the motion controls are a big and fun feature of the Switch. I have already searched online, but could not find a list of games that have motion controls (and in what...
Just as with the Wii, I think the motion controls are a big and fun feature of the Switch.
I have already searched online, but could not find a list of games that have motion controls (and in what way). I did see some attempt to put it on Wikipedia, but it was removed due to being too specific to be on Wikipedia itself.
If anyone found anything or is willing to help out, we could collaboratively write one up. What the best place for it would be, I do not know yet, but WikiData pops to mind.
I see votes, but I see no comments ...no idea how to interpret that.
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Free-roam Friday - Let's discuss free-roaming and open-world games
Hello all, hope you're doing well. It's the weekend again, and that means that a lot of us have some free time on our hands. And some of my favorite things to do with my ever-shrinking free time...
Hello all, hope you're doing well. It's the weekend again, and that means that a lot of us have some free time on our hands. And some of my favorite things to do with my ever-shrinking free time is dive into a large game world and just explore. With that in mind, I thought we could start a little conversation about free-roaming video games, and open-world games in general.
Some thoughts to ponder:
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What are some of your favorite free-roaming titles?
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What keeps a free-roaming or open-world title from getting boring?
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What are some of the more unique ways to populate a large game world?
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*Is Just Cause 2 the best free-roaming game ever? The answer may surprise you!
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Games as a Service - What drives retention
9 votes -
What are some of your favorite co-op games?
What are some great PC games to play with a friend (who may be in the same room with you)?
15 votes -
Tabletop games dominated Kickstarter in 2018, while video games declined
5 votes -
Woolie Will Figure It Out Ep 1 - About abandoned games and the creative process
3 votes -
My favorite game animation of 2018
6 votes -
Steam Winter Sale is live until Jan 3, including voting for the Steam Awards and a daily "advent calendar" of Steam items
19 votes -
What is THAT level for you?
So you're thinking about starting up a game, remembering all the fun times and great experiences you've had with it, and then you realize that if you want to play that game, you have to go through...
So you're thinking about starting up a game, remembering all the fun times and great experiences you've had with it, and then you realize that if you want to play that game, you have to go through there again. A place so annoying, so difficult, or so boring that it saps your will to play it preemptively, or makes you drop it partway through. For me, I have this issue with the Dark Souls series. Tomb of the Giants for DS1 (Seriously, fuck the whole needing a lantern thing and fuck gravity), Lost Bastille for DS2 (I still struggle with the Ruin Sentinel 3v1), and Undead Settlement for DS3 (Seriosuly, fuck those bee shooting witches. And the swamp afterwards is a spit in the face after). Anyone else have their grievances with their games?
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What are some of the most interesting glitches in video games?
I've found a fair few glitches that I find really interesting, and I'd be pretty interested in seeing some more pixel vomit too. For the ones I'll be listing, they are in old games but are very...
I've found a fair few glitches that I find really interesting, and I'd be pretty interested in seeing some more pixel vomit too. For the ones I'll be listing, they are in old games but are very interesting.
Everyone's seen the MissingNo. glitch, but a far less famous (although in my opinion, more interesting) glitch is the Super Glitch. If you've got an emulator, I'd recommend doing a save state and messing around with it - it's results vary a lot.
A glitch available in quite a few games is arbitrary code execution. It's pretty interesting in general, as people can do loads of things, from loading up homebrew to replacing maps. Most of the time it is rather difficult or time consuming to do, but it's still fascinating to see.
This one technically isn't a glitch at all, but teleporting in SRS-based Tetris games is pretty cool. An actual glitch in Tetris (NES version) is pentrises don't clear all lines, which can make pretty interesting stuff happen.
EDIT: I nearly forgot about The Big Skip in Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga. I recommend watching a speedrun from AGDQ, it only goes over it very briefly in the tasvideos page.
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What were the best games you played this year?
What made them great? Who would you recommend them to? Don't feel like you have to limit yourself to 2018 releases either. I'm interested in whatever you played and enjoyed regardless of when it...
What made them great? Who would you recommend them to?
Don't feel like you have to limit yourself to 2018 releases either. I'm interested in whatever you played and enjoyed regardless of when it came out.
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Detroit, Westworld, and moving androids beyond human
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What do you think of games as a service?
Comment on both the concept (if it works, if it is pro-consumer) and the ever-increasing sizes of games. For example, Rainbow Six Siege has been receiving steady updates since its release. I find...
Comment on both the concept (if it works, if it is pro-consumer) and the ever-increasing sizes of games.
For example, Rainbow Six Siege has been receiving steady updates since its release. I find a lot of them fun, but where does it end? Grand Theft Auto V is another game that is quite bloated at this point. Thoughts?15 votes -
Steam Autumn Sale 2018
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It’s time to make video games safe for children
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What interesting, uncommon mechanic would you like to see more commonly in video games?
I was wondering about uncommon game mechanics recently and would like to get some inspiration for a possible next project. :) I personally enjoy games in which a story is generated organically...
I was wondering about uncommon game mechanics recently and would like to get some inspiration for a possible next project. :)
I personally enjoy games in which a story is generated organically based on the user's gameplay.
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What are some of your favorite "lost" games?
By "lost", I mean games that have been lost to time--games that you would not be able to play now, even if you wanted to. It could be because you cannot currently get a copy of the game (through...
By "lost", I mean games that have been lost to time--games that you would not be able to play now, even if you wanted to.
It could be because you cannot currently get a copy of the game (through legitimate means), or your own copy is not able to run since the tech has moved on. Perhaps the game's servers have been shut down or the multiplayer base has died out. Or, perhaps the game's development took it in a different direction and you're left hankering for an older build.
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Weekly discussion thread 2: Shadow of The Tomb Raider
Description: As Lara Croft races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, she must become the Tomb Raider she is destined to be. Links: Steam Xbox One
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Weekly game discussion 1: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Description: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 features thrilling grounded multiplayer combat, three full zombies adventures at launch, and a massive battle royale experience. Note: I couldn't find a...
Description:
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 features thrilling grounded multiplayer combat, three full zombies adventures at launch, and a massive battle royale experience.
Note: I couldn't find a proper description anywhere so I just grabbed the text from battle.net
Links:
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Similar to what you might see on ~tv for example, would anyone here be interested in a weekly or biweekly game discussion?
I was inspired to ask this because I see a lot of other groups like ~TV people have been doing periodic discussions, and I got to thinking it could work here too. Every now and then, we could hold...
I was inspired to ask this because I see a lot of other groups like ~TV people have been doing periodic discussions, and I got to thinking it could work here too. Every now and then, we could hold a discussion on either a video game or board game, for example. If I were to start this up would anyone be interested?
Edit: Oh, and any suggestions for if I do start it up? What games I could start with etc?
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Do you ever feel like glitches can actually make the games MORE entertaining?
A lot of the time people will by default mark a game being buggy as a negative, and on the one hand I do understand this. But, at the same time, some of my most memorable gaming moments will be...
A lot of the time people will by default mark a game being buggy as a negative, and on the one hand I do understand this. But, at the same time, some of my most memorable gaming moments will be stuff like walking entering the wasteland to find an old barrel just spinning violently on the floor. Now, obviously a GAME BREAKING bug will always destroy an experience, but if you look at a civilian floating up a wall in spider-man PS4 and you're too worried about your immersion to find humour in it, I'm sure you're very fun at parties.
25 votes -
The twelve best indie metroidvania games
19 votes -
How blind players succeed at sports video games they’ve never seen
11 votes -
There are too many video games. What now?
26 votes -
PlayStation Now adds downloading of PS4, PS2 games
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The joy of losing - learning to have fun playing games
8 votes -
Announcements and trailers from Sony's PlayStation Lineup Tour event in Japan today
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The sixteen surprising new games that made PAX West an absolute blast
11 votes -
Interested in Linux Gaming? I run a website just for that
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Nintendo and emulation
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Fun, Relaxing, Singleplayer Games
Hello, I am fairly new to the gaming world and I am looking for just some fun and relaxing games to play by myself. I play almost exclusively FPS and action games and I want to branch out....
Hello, I am fairly new to the gaming world and I am looking for just some fun and relaxing games to play by myself. I play almost exclusively FPS and action games and I want to branch out. Although, I found Civ V which is super addicting and I love it.
Anyways, thank you!
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What little-known online co-op games do you enjoy and why?
I'm a huge fan of co-op games and have played over 100 by now, sometimes I stumble on a little co-op game I had never heard of and give it a go, I'm curious to hear about them. I'm going to throw...
I'm a huge fan of co-op games and have played over 100 by now, sometimes I stumble on a little co-op game I had never heard of and give it a go, I'm curious to hear about them.
I'm going to throw in Clandestine, which is an asymmetric infiltration game where one player is a field operative in a 3rd person stealth shooter, and the other player is a hacker that has to control a little avatar on the network, manage CCTV cameras so the field operative isn't spotted, crack door key codes, direct the field operative to mission objectives, disable guards by overloading power and water utilities, and even call in for body cleanup and ammo/health drops.
I love the asymmetric cooperative nature of the game and Hacktag appears to be similar, though I've never tried it. I'm played through the whole campaign as a field operative and now I'm going through as the hacker and finding myself enjoying a whole new way to play the game, which has been challenging.
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Flaws of an undead genre - What's wrong with point and click adventures?
9 votes -
How music was made on Super Nintendo
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What have yo been playing recently?
Video games, board games, card games - whatever. I'm interested to know what you all have been playing recently. I've been playing a lot of D&D recently. My players have just delved deep under an...
Video games, board games, card games - whatever. I'm interested to know what you all have been playing recently.
I've been playing a lot of D&D recently. My players have just delved deep under an ancient keep to save an archaeologist from undead Tomb Spiders. I'm currently planning for this weeks game where they will hopefully encounter the giant spider brood mother.
On the video game front, I've been playing through Duke Nukem 3D. That's a game that's certainly made the test of time.
-LTADnD
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Exapunks
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What are your favorite low-end or old games?
What are you favorite games that could be played on a potato? I've got a windows tablet and wondering what people's favorite games are that I could try out
32 votes