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[–] JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

For video games, Ostranauts. It's the perfect space survival sim IMO. You wake up on an industrial salvage station and get a ship. Then you fly to derelict ships and scrap them for money and parts. Build up your own ship and travel farther and farther out. It's jank as fuck to learn but once you get it down it's the type of game where you put on music then just go for hours and hours. It's early access and a lot is changing but the core gameplay loop is so addicting already.

For tabletop games, Infinity. It's the best miniatures skirmish game I've ever played. The rules are deep but tight. The number of minis you put on the table is just right to me. List building is the best of any game I ever played. The rules are free. The app is free. The miniatures are the best out of any wargame I've ever played. It's just a shame that people are so locked into Games Workshop that they don't see other games as an option. Like I had a couple friends get hardcore into it but never more than that. And at the height of it's popularity at our store we had one of the best players on the East coast play in a tournament. That was a sight to behold. Like I'm not a tourney player at all for any game. Watching the number 1 east coast player do his thing was the most inspired I ever was to become a tournament player.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ostranauts still needs time to cook but there's nothing quite like getting your first torch lit, nearly starving during the trip to Venus and then spending days stuck in a crash couch while your earther pilot supervises the burn that nearly kills you. Definitely room to grow.

[–] JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I agree that it still needs a cooking, but what's there is already so good. Salmon is great raw or cooked.

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago
[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Kunitsu-Gami. I tried the demo and spent 8 hours on it trying to get everything perfect, which made me realize I should just buy it. It was a total delight. I didn't expect it, never even heard of it honestly, but I can't stop recommending it.

[–] Surenho@lemmy.wtf 6 points 16 hours ago

I mostly play co-op games and I am tired of the "everything is dark, ugly, and evil, and chaos is rampant" with a souls-copy aesthetic. I crave colorful games and fun co-op mechanics.

Nine Parchments is casual, fun, and beautiful. The point IS that there is friendly fire because the challenge is to get the enemies without getting your friends. Played also by up to 4 people on a single screen.

Coridden is very home-made but has cool mechanics of turning into beasts or riding your friends when they turn into animals. Fun isometric rpg-ish game that can be played on a single screen.

Pizza possum. Steal the food and don't get caught. It's casual, chaotic and hilarious. Co-op as well.

Spiritfarer is a great game. Not sure if it's popular or not bc idk what's popular. No killing, very therapeutic if you've lost someone, is a journey about loving and letting go. Co-op allows you to play the cat.

And go play bombsquad with friends, it is the best and my go-to if I have videogame-comfortable guests at home :)

Love you all. Keep being nice people

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

An indie 3D platformer game from a couple years ago called Hell Pie. You're a low-level demon who gets an angel chained to him, and you can use it to do things like spin him to launch yourself and swing on stuff. If you like classic 3D platformers and toilet humor, it's really very good, and pretty novel.

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I just looked at pictures and I fell in love with that artstyle I'll add that too my list thx

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Nice! Don't expect anything super polished, like an old Ratchet and Clank, or anything, I think it was a small Unity or Unreal project, but I really enjoyed it.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Plasma - a wildly programmable physics game where you can build just about anything in a fairly accessible manner. The devs eventually just made it free because it wasn't getting much notice.

BPM: Bullets Per Minute - at some point everyone thinks 'what if you combined an FPS with a rhythm game so you had to shoot on the beat?' BPM is that, nailed. Others have tried but BPM got it right.

[–] Kaotik@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Crypt of the Necrodancer is probably my favorite weird rhythm game; I may have to give BPM a try, sounds right up my alley!

Plasma sounds rly interesting I'll check it out!

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have just no capacity to judge what's popular anymore, not sure i ever did.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

There isn't really a natural 'popular,' and almost never has been. It's mostly just what's marketed.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Laser tag.

It's really dropped off as a sport over the last thirty years. I think kids get the same rush from video games these days.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it was the cost. We would go do it but it was a bit pricier than seeing a movie or bowling or hanging at an arcade. Was great though. Super fun and great exercise. Our photon had coin operated guns above the arena so you could not just try and sit and snipe. I remember this guy who was so rediculously good at the game he beat my friends and I and his team was a bunch of kids.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago (6 children)

FTL with Multiverse Mod

Its essentially FTL 2.0

FTL is already underrated. And most people who do play just stops playing because it can get boring quickly. But Multiverse essentially bring more life to the game. Make the game like 50 times more fun.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

For me, FTL is one of those games that gets exponentially more fun the better you are at it. It can be difficult to get over that initial hump.

I want a game that has the primary gameplay loop of FTL, but with a choose your path role playing game like Fallout behind it instead of a roguelike.

As Yahtzee Croshaw says, it has the most Star Trek "Target their weapons systems! Damage control to the engine room! Transfer power to the shields!" effect, but I kinda wish you were more able to choose where you want to explore, have a little more agency in quests...

Most quests in FTL follow the format of:

A space thing is happening! Do you:

  • Send in a crewmate to help (50/50 chance of succeeding and getting a reward, or failing and taking damage/losing a crewmate)
  • With them luck and fly away (guaranteed nothing happens)
  • (blue text) use special equipment (guaranteed chance of a nice reward, if you have the equipment/resource/type of crew aboard)

So you don't have a lot of agency in the kinds of quests you want to explore. A lot of beginner quests happen to you a lot (how many times have we all done the giant alien spiders one) and in a lot of cases you don't have the blue text options available, so you get to choose "do nothing" or flip a coin. And then you have to face the ship at the end, which a lot of the builds that are kicking ass up to that point just can't face the end boss.

I want a longer term roleplaying game under these primary mechanics.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yes, this so much!

The installation guide is not good, and it's annoying on Fedora since it's blocked by SELinux, but it's worth it for the amazing experience. Such a good expansion for an amazing game.

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[–] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For tabletop, I loooooove Sentinels of the Multiverse, always hard to find other folks that play it though.

Video game: Remember Me

[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love Sentinels! A friend of mine and I actually found an apparent game-breaking combo a few years ago. We defeated one of the harder bosses in I think 2 or 3 turns? It really felt like we were doing something wrong but we couldn't find anything.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooh, which one? I remember some of the older foes in particular could be flakey like that

I don't remember much of the specifics, but I remember it was with Dr Medico's alternate. It was something about being healed by the rest of the team which turned into damage that was redirected (and enhanced) where we wanted. I remember being able to do ~50 damage in a single turn.

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Not sure if this fits (because it had its moment and its assets are likely popular) but Jump Ultimate Stars for sure.

It is basically the dream of any Otaku materialized and sadly Shounen Jump hasn't been able to top it yet, the more time it passes the more time I appreciate it 😁

For example I have played with Gon and Killua characters since 2009... But just until now I got to see the 2011 Hunter x Hunter adaptation and oh boy, knowing the characters just improve the experience!

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Super Puzzle Fighter II: Turbo. Easily the most fun and competent puzzle game I have ever played. It is especially great with 2 players.

[–] Englishgrinn@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So here's a dumb Puzzle Fighter story. When I was 18, many years ago now, my girlfriend at the time, my best friend and his girlfriend at the time went camping near a little lakeside resort town.

It was the last day of our trip, we'd been extremely frugal and so we all still had some spending money left. The girls wanted to go clothes shopping, my buddy and I weren't as interested in that but we're trying to be cool so we tagged along. Except, on a covered section of boardwalk we passed a 2-player Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo machine. The girls just left us behind, laughing that the boardwalk was a straight line and we could catch up.

3 hours later, we were both broke and my buddy had to borrow gas money from his girlfriend to get us home. The girls had ducked into a little café and also lost track of time. That was a 50 cent machine and we must have put over 50 bucks a piece into it. We just stood there, getting better and better in perfect lockstep, trading wins and getting more competitive for an entire afternoon, oblivious to the whole world.

That was a great trip. God, nostalgia like that makes me feel old.

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

I never got to experience it on an arcade cabinet. My first exposure to it was emulated on my original xbox. My friend and I played that game for many hours every weekend for months, and then some! I believe it was available on PSN for a while as well. Such a great game.

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