bigboismith

joined 1 year ago
[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The thing is miss is immersion and progression. It feels like you get a 1000hp lambo five hours into the game, and the gameplay is just driving around a track interrupted by navigating clunky menus.

Some of my favorite indie games are "art of rally" and "revhead", the former having great driving but no progression and the latter having great progression and customisation, just very mediocre driving.

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Gran Turismo is Playstation exclusive and has only released two games the last decade. Quite sad since I have heard a lot of great things about it.

Haven't played the crew, but it seems to follow the same "drive a supercar around a track" that Forza has.

Not saying there are no racing games, but there is a lack of variety besides the four flavors of: Microsoft racing game, EA racing game, Ubisoft racing game or Codemasters (Recently acquired by ea) racing game. Compare this to the huge variety in strategy games or shooters.

The only thing keeping racing games relevant for me are the amazing indie games, but the lack of content hinders them more than other genres imo.

 

How come there are so few racing games coming out lately? Feels like it's just codemasters doing their thing, some struggling indie games and a truckload of shovelware. I'm not saying it's dead but wasn't racing games one of the primary genres?

Another thing that bugs me with the few games that come out is the lack of progression and immersion. NFS Unbound impressed me slightly with actually starting you out with a low spec car and having slow (by modern standards) progression. However halfway through when you have fast and "cool" cars you really felt the games mediocrity.

Dirt rally 1 and 2 has economy systems, but after a single championship you can basically buy whatever car you want. The rallies are immersive but everything between is just boring menues.

Why do you think the state of racing games is so poor? The industry being shit? Audiences not playing them anymore?

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

As long as he declares

"I am about to commit an official act as president" before he starts his rampage it's all good

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is still a lot to learn from running arch before you try gentoo

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Gentoo is basically arch but built around everything being compiled locally. There isn't to my knowledge any "Gentoo-install", but if you can manage to install arch manually it should be quite similar. Gentoo is a bit more complex than arch so if installing gentoo manually seems daunting I would recommend staying on arch.

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've tried it, but couldn't really get into it. Didn't feel like there was much deduction, but more just evidence collecting. However I didn't play for too long and I'm planning to try again. I assume it takes same time to get invested

 

It feels like new games are just more of the same, with no real meaning. However I recently started playing "Return of the Obra Dihn" and love open ended deduction in it. It feels like I'm actually figuring things out by myself without being handheld through it. Are there any other games that don't coddle the player that you guys recommend?

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One of my favorite games of all time. Great story and a fun and interesting world. Love the progression that isn't the normal "weak in the prolouge, strong the rest of the game", as you feel weak for most of the game, making it super satisfying when you can confidently beat harder enemies.

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I don't consider this a problem (yet). I don't think it should be banned until it becomes a problem here.

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Great game, if you think you'll like it you probably will

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

A coffee grinder. Freshly grinded beans taste so different from normal preground coffee.

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

So some context from the side of the government. Finland is currently in a debt crisis and is desperately trying to increase productivity in the short term. For disclosure I support the strikes, but this article is too one sided. There is actual nuance here and not just "evil right wing hates workers".

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Try to open the game manually. IIRC protontricks can be used to open the executable with the correct proton instance. Would probably be my go-to first ste4 to start tinkering

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