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I think the place they are getting the bit about patience from is specifically dragon quest. Where the devs intentionally positioned it in opposition to other games of the time that required you to get good so to speak.

I read an interview a few years ago, I think with Yuji Horii about the design in dragon quest being set up specifically so that by sinking time in you would eventually overpower everything and progress, even if you never improved at the game mechanics. I couldn’t easily find it again when I looked to link it but maybe I will be able to later today.

I’ve played the rom multiworld randomizer and like it a lot! I guess my longshot hope, and I don’t know if it would be feasible even from the decomp, is a single-world entrance randomizer with similar items merged, and the ability to use OoT items in MM and vice versa.

Does anyone know if there is a an open project to make more closely integated combined randomizers for OoT and Majora’s Mask from the decompiled versions?

What is your top 10 that doesn’t have zelda then?

Harry potter and bethesda both have built in fanbases despite not being that relevant for the last decade-ish. I’m not very surprised they were able to make 7 and 8 on a top 50 list.

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just a popularity contest

Just what it says on the tin then?

I think they have to get to the point where they mightbplay a video game on their own before stardew valley would land for them. They weren’t particularly inspired by the trailers.

I dunno that nidhogg would be a good game for us together, but it looks up my alley to play solo sometime.

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I’ll look into My time at sand rock, stardew didn’t catch their interest when we were looking at trailers and such earlier tonight.

Love bg3, I think that could be in the cards maybe a game or two down the line!

Audiosurf is a blast from the past! That was one of the early games I played a lot of on steam, it might be a good low stakes option sometime.

I have a Wii U in storage at my parent’s house, I might see about us checking some games out when we visit for the holidays in a couple weeks. I don’t want to overwhelm them too much though.

I think this is gonna have the same problem as mario kart, so I probably need to wait until they have some more game experience. Last year when I had my last smash phase they enjoyed the music being on in the background though.

I love dos2 and bg3, if we can work up to those I would count that as a huge success

BG3 has been making me want to go back and play some of the earlier D&D crpgs, but it might be a miss for my partner at this point. Neverwinter Nights is based on 2nd edition right?

We have Jaws of the Lion.

Looking into secretariat for gloomhaven quickly, it looks really useful, I’ve been thinking about the gloomhaven video game as an option too. There are things I like about physical more, but I also think it’d be very convenient.

I super appreciate the implied offer, and hope that someone fills your spot. I am however on west coast time, and am kinda half evening shift schedule besides, so I wouldn’t be able to make that at all regularly…

Thank you though!

Trine 2 got recommended by someone else specifically among the Trine games, and I have that and Magicka in my steam library, unplayed. So I think those might get a shot at some point.

Vermintide 2 is great! I’ve played quite a bit of it, but I don’t think we’re quite ready for that yet.

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Thanks! I appreciate the rec even if I don’tthink it fits us right now!

Yeah, I’ve added like 10 games to my steam wishlist with the intent to run 'em by them tonight, might do a once over before though, as I don’t want to overwhelm them.

I didn’t know animal crossing had local coop, they mentioned being open to animal crossing specifically today, so maybe I’ll pick it up. I haven’t played an animal crossing game since the one on the DS, I could be down to be their player 2 on it.

That’s about what I would expect would happen with us too. Its already in my steam library tho, so we may try it.

Seen lovers in a dangerous spacetime a few times here now, will definitely run it past them. Pizza possum also looks like it could fit us super well!

Crokinole looks interesting, looks like a little bit of a rabbit hole I will have to check out a bit later.

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I don’t think they’d appreciate that, and if they found out I think it’d damage the possibility of gaming being a thing we do together at all.

I think stray is a great first pick for if I can get them interested in playing a game mostly on their own.

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We do play some board games. I think magic has the same problem as with mario kart, but with less pick up and play-ability. We liked playing gloomhaven ok, but I have to do the setup.

That kind of spliting gameplay could maybe work for us eventually, but I kind of doubt it at this point.

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I liked the portal games a lot, but they might be abit too spatial heavy for my partner, so I’m a little worried they’d disengage.

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I think there are a lot of jrpgs they’d enjoy, if they became interested in gaming on their own. As is if they aren’t in control they disengage pretty fast, and they aren’t interested enough yet to want to play a single player thing I don’t think.

I could probably sell them on lego lotr, adding this one to the list!

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I could see how this might fall into the same pitfalls as overcooked, but it looks fun. I’ll add this to the proposal list!

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This seems like a game I would enjoy on my own, but might be a bit to crunchy for my partner at this point.

I think this is one we’ll check out. I bounced off it a few years ago, but I think that was because I played it in a party where I was more interested in just hanging out and catching up with the other players.

I really like Secret of Mana. I think because I’ve already played through it would make it less of a good coop game for them, but if I can get them a little interested in playing on their own I think it would have potential as an early game for them.

I have Trine 2 in the depths of my unplayed steam library, so this is a great option!

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I think they struggled to even parse what was going on in overcooked, and need more experience playing games generally to be able to enjoy that kind of chaos because they just felt lost.

Alas, beating bots on Mario Kart means nothing to them.

That’s 2 fast recs for it takes two, so I think thats probably gonna be on the shortlist.

I think I have NSMBU on wii u in storage at my parent’s house. We’re visiting in for the holidays, so maybe we’ll hook up the wii u there and try that. I remember liking that game a lot.

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Thanks! I’ll have to remember that and check them out next time I re-dive into noita!

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Also, “as revolutionary as the last one” is probably not the standard we should hold all sequels to. Changing the fundamental design of a series is important to do periodically to keep it fresh, but well executed iteration is also really important. I definitely feel I’ve gotten my time outta totk, and I’m not done with it, tho I have gotten a little distracted by life, bg3, and picking ror2 back up.

Also for anyone looking at full price switch games as too expensive, you can pretty frequently find $100 eshop cards for $90, which you can use to buy a 2pack of game vouchers, and effectively get any switch game for $45, including totk.

That’s a bummer to hear, what stuck out to you as aging badly?

I feel like I remember it not seeming super replayable, because of the whole narrator doesn’t repeat lines schtick.

The only mod I used was noita together, and I thought that one was pretty rad.

If I recall correctly, fungal shift has a 75% chance of putting a material you have in a held flask on one side of the equation. Chaotic polymorphine isn’t on the inital materials table, but you can get it to shift by carrying it. It is on the results table, and that 75% chance can put the material in a held flask on the results side, just as easily transforming all water into chaotic polymorphine, instead of all chaotic polymorphine into water.

I haven’t played for a while, but fungal shift was one of my favorite parts of the game, and I would recklessly trip pretty much every chance I got.

This one is a real lost gem for me, I haven’t thought about that game for probably 15 years.

I feel like Bastion is probably appropriately rated, given that it is very popular, and I think made it onto atleast a few game of the year lists when it was released.

That’s why you need to trip on mushrooms until all polymorphine, chaotic or otherwise, is turned to something harmless. Then if I recall correctly there is really only one enemy that can polymorph you, and you can be pretty much guaranteed to be safe.