Anon loves The Lord of the Rings

[moonburster@lemmy.world]

Terraria! That game is great and aged like fine wine

[rampantparanoia2365@lemmy.world]

Oh, yes, I agree with that part. I just don't see the similarities to LotR.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

Really? I've seen Clair Obscura praised as a masterpiece.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

Yes, those calculators and printers have now been benchmarked.

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

Mass Effect.

[kertain@sh.itjust.works]

Agree such a great game made me cry

[diretech@sh.itjust.works]

I’ve spent way more time in MMOs than I’d care to admit, but if you think FF11 didn’t have a grind you can check the millions of old posts about it on Reddit for a reminder.

Look at the RPGs people love, none focus on the grind. It’s because grinding does not benefit gameplay and only drags out playtime.

[vivalapivo@lemmy.today]

A lot of good suggestions but my first thought was Final Fantasy X.

[communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz]

I think immortal gates of pyre is shaping up to be one!

[polarkraken@sh.itjust.works]

I like your taste. These are some bangers lol.

If you haven't, you should play Armored Core 6. It's a FROM game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways.

But it's also a mech game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways! Every button assaults your enemy, every motion feels fluid, fast, effortless - or huge, heavy, clunky - your mech is your mech, and many thoughtful builds can become OP. The customization is bananas. And yet - some fights will remain challenging.

With all sincerity, easy 10/10 game for me, I proceeded from NG -> NG+ -> NG++ directly, which is a first for me and I'm an oldish dude. AND I felt thoroughly rewarded by the end of NG++. It's a literal perfect game, just unreasonably fun and well-crafted.

[vga@sopuli.xyz]

Undertale and Deltarune.

Dwarf Fortress.

Ultima 1-7 and 8 partially.

[kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Having played other MMOs does not make you qualified to have an opinion on a game you've never played. FFXI does have a grind, but it is unlike any other MMO out there. The intensity of trying to time your weapon skills and magic to land at exactly the right time, the dance-like coordination with your teammates, the variety of enemy strengths and weaknesses, learning a basic programming language to write macros and having them work flawlessly in a pinch - everything about it is exciting and you have to be at the top of your game to succeed. Every single mob fight feels like a boss battle and every kill is a win. Top that with some of the best writing of any Final Fantasy game and it's a winning combination and technical marval that I cannot believe was achieved in 2003.

You may as well be saying that Dark Souls is nothing but a grind, but you're missing that the grind is the fun part.

[valmond@lemmy.world]

World of Warcraft was a LOTR moment for me, thousands of hours of different content in a fantastic world. The extensions killed it ofc.

[k0e3@lemmy.ca]

I don't really know Minecraft before the acquisition. Is it really that much different?

[aim_at_me@lemmy.nz]

Half Life?

[aim_at_me@lemmy.nz]

Yeah this is it for me. Half Life was such a technical marvel and a step change in story telling through gaming.

[spudsrus@aussie.zone]

Secret Friday updates used to drop with new features that weren't documented and just got to explore and find them.

I remember updating singleplayer to find cacti added and placing a bunch under a railway tunnel to stop mobs. (They updated the physics to break them when adjacent to another block patch or two later)

[buttnugget@lemmy.world]

Thanks for mentioning Alien: Isolation! It’s my favorite game. After many years, I’m finally attempting a silent Nightmare low% run! I’m almost done with M16. Cheers!

[buttnugget@lemmy.world]

Do people ever do total conversion modifications anymore? Are there any Stardew Valley mods that turn it into something totally different?

[k0e3@lemmy.ca]

Neato. Thank you!