Anon loves The Lord of the Rings

[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!

[aspharr@lemmy.world]

Just a side note I wouldn't necessarily put Witcher 1 on the same pedestal as witcher 2 and 3. You could enjoy it, thematically and story wise it's spot on Witcher, but it's pretty klunky mechanically speaking and really shows its age. 2 and 3 are Fantastic in every way though. I hear they're potentially remaking 1 and I'm all for it if it's in a style similar to 2 or 3.

[aspharr@lemmy.world]

Interesting take, what did 1 have that 2 didn't? As someone who enjoyed 1 a lot, I found 2 to be a much more fun experience. 1 felt klunky for me mechanically speaking and just didn't age well. Thematically and character wise I'd say they're of similar quality for sure.

[corn@lemmy.ml]

Nah, Witcher 2's combat was an improvement, but still bad enough I know multiple people who gave up due to seemingly impossible fights.

[aspharr@lemmy.world]

It's not a trilogy, but I gotta preach the good word of Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. If you enjoy 2D metroidvania style games it's top notch.

The game just drips in atmosphere. The environments are beautifully drawn and designed, characters and enemies are animated well and the music just wraps everything up in a nice bow. It's a melancholy game and it literally made me cry at points and I'm not the type to tear up often when playing games.

The game can be challenging at times, but I wouldn't say significantly so. I would say Hollow Knight is more challenging than this game especially with some of the end game content that that game has.

The game is worth full price, but it goes on sale pretty regularly and probably is right now with the summer sale on Steam.

There's also a sequel out now called Ender Magnolia. I haven't played it yet but I will eventually.

[aspharr@lemmy.world]

Talk about a game with an amazing redemption ark. I played it on release, realized how shallow it was and put it down after maybe 5 or 6 hours. Fast forward a year or so and I heard it had significant updates. I was amazed when I picked it back up.

I play it again every year or so and am always impressed that they keep adding things to this game. Such a rare occurrence that a game that flopped so hard could really turn it around.

It's not a 10/10, but to call it anything but a labor of love would be unfair to the developers at Hello Games, including Sean Murray. That man received a ton of shit on the release of the game but didn't take his money and run. Last I checked he's still there and that says something to the character of that group in my eyes.

[oyzmo@lemmy.world]

Enderal 🥰