And the story is set in modern times but it sounds like an 80's arcade cabinet. Bwoop-bwoop pew pew!
Granted some people are so focused while gaming that they look like drowned salmon, but streamers have proven you can still be emotive and act whilst gaming lol.
Unless you're Bruce Wayne, in which case when asked you might say NA NA-NA NA-NA NA-NA NA....
I'll see myself out.
It has nothing to do with fun, they just want the carrot being dangled in front of their nose.
This might explain the marketing that seemed to start with mobile games and now infects AAA MP titles:
"PLAY NOW AND GET 34 GAZILLION WORTHLESS EMERALDRUBYGEMCOINS and a RARE DROP POPSICLE MAGIC DOMINO"
Like...a newcomer would have zero idea what the heck they're even talking about but somehow it seems to work, to entice players with worthless free...server database adjustments?
Hardly any focus is on the games being unique or exciting (Surprise, they aren't!) It's all about a reward-based impulse, like training a bunch of rodents to use a casino.
WW2 again, I don't mind learning the era but I've relearned the same thing over and over again
When your history class is written by the same folks responsible for the History Channel circa ~2002-2010.
Dang, I was really hoping this would be one of those stories that goes like:
"How long will that take?"
"It's a lot of data...like a month?" (But I actually wrote a Python script that compiles and formats it perfectly in like 5 minutes.)
"You're such a hard worker!"
I mean, a FOSS aligned company is profitable! 🔼
B-but it's also Purism with all those customer horror stories and sketchy behavior. 🔽
I'm confused, okay!? 🔃
StarFox 64 is so perfect in that arcade-game way, where you can technically finish it in a sitting but it's so cool to figure out different paths and stuff. :D
"Okay guys, let's ROCK N' ROLL!"
In case you haven't seen it, this video might make you very happy.
Oh sweet nobody's mentioned it yet! One of my personal favorite "book-feeling games" is an FPS series.
Linear, tightly focused, and feels like a novel because it's based on one:
Metro: 2033 and Metro: Last Light. (Haven't played Exodus yet)
You play a young fella named Artyom. Living in formerly-Russia's metro tunnels with other survivors after a nuclear apocalypse devastates the surface.
Your settlement comes under threat from seemingly psychic creatures called "the Dark Ones", and you're sent on a quest to go get help.
Across the way is a bit of a "coming of age" adventure. You run across really interesting and well-acted characters, sneak past hostile factions, contend with scary (and diversely behaviored) mutants, and risk dangerous excursions on the surface. This is a dark world where gasmask filters are precious and bullets are literally currency, but somehow it's still beautiful and fascinating.
(That intro guitar melody will stay with me forever.)
Like any good hero, Artyom finds himself in one bad situation after another, and along the way if you pick up on the hints, may even come to understand the world around him and the role he plays in it.
There's a morality system that's more subtle than "be boyscout or be a villain", and "ranger difficulty" is an amazing way to play because it makes gunfights feel tense and realistic.
You can only take a few hits in this mode, but unlike in most games, so can your enemies! It makes things feel much less "bullet spongey."
Everyone begged for an "open world" experience and we got Exodus which is supposed to be awesome, but something will always stay close to me about this post apocalypse story that takes you on a focused, well paced, and at times emotional ride to save a transformed world.
And that's just the first title mostly.
You won't be running between towns for hours or making rubber bands and glue into machineguns. You'll still feel like you're surviving, but know exactly where you're supposed to be going.
They go for super cheap on GoG and Steam all the time. Well worth the experience. :)
"Proper story's s'posed to start at the beginning..."
"Kid just rages for awhile."
That game is still fantastic.
That's really cool! I put my wife on Pop_OS recently and it's been a little bumpy, but she's also got a bit of a specialty laptop. Glad it's been smooth for you :).
I really like your aesthetic, btw, how the wallpaper fits with your launch bar. Really pleasant!
Wish I had some advice for you, but heck, thanks for starting the thread because (after sifting highly opinionated goofposts) I'm learning a lot too. :)
And in the end, ItDoesntEvenMat.tar
I've heard of Palantir, now Anduril... What's next, Saruman Ltd.? Uruk-Hai-corp? Poor Tolkien doesn't deserve his mythology being co-opted by war profiteers. :(