Hey. No.

You have the worst apologies for being a jerk. In fact you still haven’t.

This is a conversation about the genre. Where else to talk about the genre. It may not have been the conversation you wanted on it and didn’t like that I didn’t enjoy it your way and then made a bunch of incorrect statements on my point and then on putting words in my mouth.

Oh good though I swayed you into barely conceding and that you still think you can control other people into not having conversations you don’t like about a topic you like by being rude about them not enjoying it your way.

Sorry I’m not you.

So you came into a thread talking about the classification of a genre with admittedly the sole purpose of making condescending jabs at people who enjoy said genre,

I never claimed you were attacking anything but the genre

Seriously dude?

Also who cares about Lemmy downvotes. I saw someone downvote a question and upvote an absolutely false answer. People are called lemmings here. And you are most of the downvotes between you and me as I am yours for not adding to a conversation in good faith.

No you immediately took criticism of a genre as a personal attack because of your own issues. You take it as poor communication because of your own interpretation and the pushback I am giving for your misunderstanding of my point.

I have been consistent with saying it’s a short term fun game for me and that I find other games to be more rewarding.

Don’t blame others for being offended by other peoples opinions. I added to the conversation with an offer of classification of passive horde survivor and an explanation of how I got there.
I’m even having a pleasant conversation about that right next to yours where you have been antagonistic.

I don’t even expect anything from you other than to stop insisting I care if you have fun playing a game I only mildly enjoy.

No. Pretty much exactly not that and I see you also suffer the issue.

None of that is correct. And directly against what I just said.

And I contributed a name.

Nice, yeah I get it. I keep struggling to play my much slower games when it’s that late part of night and have decided to beat all my Roguelikes I have, but I can’t help but admit I’d rather be playing Katamari Damacy.
Now that’s how I destress. But that’s very passive.

Oh sure. It’s a pointed jab at asking if people have tried games I enjoy while being a little condescending of a genre I find to be best at filling short moments.

It just doesn’t match that comic cause that’s not demanding people stop enjoying something they like.

If people can’t separate criticism of a genre as not criticism of them I can’t help them either.

No I didn’t request anyone else to stop having fun I am just pointing out my interpretation of the games and the name I use for them.

Why does my opinion on it make you think that I am demanding you stop playing unless you care what others think about your own free time?
I just like it differently and am voicing that. Your take as an attack means you feel a need to defend it preemptively, and over assume I care about you playing it.

Oh for sure. I actually discovered vampire survivors after finding its mobile clones and liked them all but for 20 minutes at a time.

Once I tried to play the OG I just couldn’t help but think of it as a passive game though and it lost my interest for long term play sessions. I think it’s an import point that they are passive.

Boring after 20 minutes type games?

Its a passive horde survival game.

The game play is rotating the stick in a rough circle so you keep moving that you can do without even having to look at the screen while you hoover up tiny pellets that make you stronger to survive more blobs of color on the screen.
Have any of you ever tried risk of rain or heck even cuphead? You can have rapid gameplay and a point to it. This feels like the modern bathroom book as a game. Fun but just enough to be over when you have finished something more worth your time.

You say as dozens of foaming mouth lemmings pile on thinking themselves somehow as good for being this ingrained in their group think.

In other words, yeah, totally agree.

Did you get handed a list of words you are just supposed to use without definitions? It’s like the cargo cult of inflammatory comments. A simulacrum of a response.

In other word.
Lame.

Thanks for now. Bye.

What you trying to be on skynets good side or something?

This feels like ByteDance going out of their way to paint the outgoing president and party as truly awful and give the victory to Trump in a week

Make sure to read the Tips in Bones Cafe if you pick it up. It felt like a lot of things clicked after that and it made my murders a little cleaner for the health inspector!

No tips for Kingdom 2 Crowns, really just hope you enjoy it. I sunk so many hours into that with others.

I know, I was so disappointed. But hey there is not a shortage of other fun games to play!

Another Crabs Treasure.

Oof. Wanted to love it. Wanted it to be SpongeBob like but with dark souls but timing is weird. The game is buggy. Fights don’t feel satisfying and it’s somehow too fast and too slow but people keep telling me to just turn on God mode and it will be fun… But then it’s not a game it’s a power trip.

I would skip it. I think it got hyped up the way that Stray did without being a great game just a great concept to talk about.

Paper planet.

It’s a doodle game roguelite though I do wish it was still priced a bit lower. But hey if Peglin can be $13…

Bone’s Cafe is a slower non roguelite cafe game were you get to kill and cook your customers. It has been lots of fun.

Kingdom 2 Crowns is a great little game of frustration but it’s only 2 people but it’s pretty and the soundtrack slaps and it’s a fun settlement building and protection game.

Everyone is already recommending Hazelight Studio games but I will jump on that too cause they are amazing.

And just to shake things up:
The Lego games. They are classic and usually a good time. Campy humor. Murder your friends. And they are pretty cheap as the whole collections these days.

Edit: Oh and Ship of Fools was fun. Simple crowded bullet hell slapstick roguelite on a tiny ship with guns.

Nah I’m just ragging on the fact that Bethesda has released only like 2 new games in a decade and a half. And then updates of the old goodies like every year.

Its not about the developers it’s about how shitty Bethesda is.

That… Still doesn’t feel like a positive thing to mention.

Especially if we are going back only 14 years. So what did they work on, skyrim remasters or Fallout 4 remasters?

I mean I had actually had a conversation a long while ago when I originally fell in love with Annapurna games about my perceived dangers of it being run almost single handedly by a billionaire playing around with her Dad’s money that the level of control she had would make it risky to treat like a legitimate company but they really put the gold star stamp of approval on so many games they made and published.

Honestly this won’t really hurt the billionaire. She has the publishing contracts still and whatever partial finished games were already in development but I really do hope the best for the actual talent and employees.

I really want to see them help push into that more united gaming labor force that the Henry Stickman developers foundation (Outersloth), and other groups are doing to let them actually help games be unique and good.

Oh verlet seing is a super indie darling but it’s got a strong vaporware synth vibe so I was wondering if it felt similar. But that’s still a glowibg review.

Yeah never heard of it and seems like it fit the point of the post so I had to upvote it.

I would imagine that’s exactly the point.

So I have seen this came come across my radar several times and knowing that I am not actually a huge fan of this type of game but really enjoyed Verlet Swing do you think you would still recommend this game on fun and vibes alone?

Ahhh back when Nicalis ruled the world of indie games

Golf Club Nostalgia(917 Reviews)

This is a game that isn’t here for the game play. I think if you are paying at all attention to the boring dystopia, or climate collapse communities then this will hit in a way that is hard to define.

Its a golf game. Simple, could be played on a phone really, but you have to have the sound on for this one.
You are a member of the elite refugees who have fled to Mars and only return back to Earth to use the husk of a planet for a round of golf. And your companion is a lone radio broadcast from Mars of what they have left, which is stories and the rare music that was saved.

The combination of overwhelmingly good world building and consistent vibe even down to the level names and journal entries hits like a train and made me cry at least a couple times.
It made me feel nostalgiac for a world that has not yet come to pass and is a great on sale pick.

Tinykin
I know you said less than 1,000 reviews but this is at 1,500 so I think it just squeaks by.

This game for lack of a better description, adorable and over too soon.

Like a mashup of pikmim, Spyro 2, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater. It’s got lots of fun platforming and new puzzle mechanics in an ever adding open world that is a true joy to traverse and cute silly little side plots that make for rather grand set pieces when it all comes together. I got 100% in 12 hours but also collect-a-thons are my jam and I was plowing through the game with grin on my face for everything but the platinum time trials.

It’s fun. Way too hard sometimes but I think that might have been the point.

Down voting it but it’s a good recommendation for those that like puzzle platformers like Super meat boy or the best parts of hollow knight.

Then what? Implants from musk? Or all audio like podcasts for everything (which is also not better whatever the marketing says).

Had it on hard. Then the rebalance happened and it was worse. Then it really was a boring slog with not fun weapons.

Yeah. I saw a mod that added more weapons and stuff but I just don’t view it as worth it.

It absolutely was so repetitive and if you had a bad weapon or skill you just had to wait till you could replace it. No real synergy or play style options.

I stopped playing it cause I had unlocked everything and had pretty much beaten the game in 4 hours by narrowing the gameplay to one loop.

Binding of Isaac has been a staple for me but Hades was fun too. And Risk of Rain 2 if it had better controls would be incredible.

I really found the combat side of this game lacking and it feels like it’s been leaning on on the sim side of the gameplay after the previous update made fighting side worse.

I get this is really for furry people that want to feel like they lead a community but man I really just want gameplay.

It’s stuck between trying to be dark and difficult and being light and easy. And instead of sitting comfortably it feels like it’s being ripped apart.

It’s a chore to do that requires little direct thought or input in a complex world full of too much to do? Seems like it scratches a similar itch to the cosy gamers accept with more fun to the audience that doesn’t like pulling weeds

Well you need to grind a bit to unlock stuff and get the gold but you can get the option to reroll and then lancet and laurel are the main things to being practically unkillable with enough leveling.

But for early level seriously just upgrade whip and get the heart. You now heal and do near constant damage. And then get garlic and just work on maxing out any item one at a time. And you will keep going until the waves become bullshit. Keep doing until you literally grind ypur way to buying your way into the end game.

Yay needless grinding.

Man, I just don’t get that from vampire survivors. I loved Binding of Isaac and can’t stand vampire survivor or brotato as the endless waves just seem… Boring and then the builds seem obvious and usually pretty easy to force.

I just never get that pull to do one more round.

Like with pretty much all things for the last decade we hit stagnation and consistent money making with low effort.

So clearly now everyone else is wrong or why are they making so much money? If they throw out garbage that people pay for and then complain about them why should they take the criticism seriously… I’m fact it’s just bad people trying to ruin them because they are perfect and right.

Everyone is right all the time and everything is gold no matter how lazy. No one wants the discussion they want to be told they are right and then to move on to the next thing without stopping or asking questions.

If we can’t impact their bottom lines then nothing will ever change until it collapses.

Man, Outer Wilds was like that Bethesda magic concentrated to a fine point that stabbed right into my heart and I didn’t even want to pull it out.

Just absolutely the best of what passion can do with the mechanics and make something feel original and unique even if it has inspiration from stuff before it.

One of the best games of the decade.

Well crafted lovely little places to discover even if they have no impact on the grander story.

That’s it. Auto generated planets and straight forward hub locations makes for boring exploration but in the fallout games you could discover a school that was feeding their kids radioactive slime because they got paid too and it was just a side story. Skyrim games you could stumble upon a house that had been ravaged by accidental tunnels into a cave full of nightmares cracking open in the basement.

Things that you stumble upon naturally while exploring and feel crafted carefully to just be a fun side off thing but if they have to put up a neon sign and make you fast travel to a location to find their little joke of a raider camp then it doesn’t feel special. It’s just a bunch of disjointed maps stuck together through a menu.