Huh, never knew my approach to work had an actual name. That’s neat! Thanks for teaching me something new.

I mostly play according to the intended game design. The only exceptions that come to mind at the moment are:

• Open world games (GTA, Fallouts, Elder Scroll series etc) - I tend to act like a normal, civilian part of the world. I eat and drink, travel like a person rather than player (i.e. safely, without quick travel), avoid violence and do peaceful tasks when possible. I also go on trips and take screenshots of the scenery.
  Finally, if there’s an equipment system I limit myself to “reasonable” amount of baggage (both in terms of weight and volume).
• Mirror’s Edge and Portal - the only games I learned to the point of speedrunning. I’m nowhere near the level of being able to compete with professionals (nor am I interested in that) but I can get through both pretty quickly and without issues.

I try not to overthink it - if it’s a topic I’m interested in I just keep posting, even if I’m alone. There’s no point (in my mind) in worrying about people being put off of a community with a single poster since the only alternative is a completely dead one. It might be just me but I feel like the latter is less inviting - if only because you have no idea if anything you post will get a response. With a single poster you know there’s at least one person passionate enough about the topic to engage with you.

I feel you. I’ve been trying to kickstart a community for over a year now and the best I can hope for are a few votes. It can be pretty deflating after a while.

Thanks! I don’t really “play” ESO as much as I use it as a sightseeing simulator at the moment but yeah, both normal gameplay and just running around can be quite enjoyable. They did a great job with the world and quest design.

It’s a shame the community on Lemmy isn’t that busy, but I guess there’s not a lot of players here yet.

Well, it’s a self-perpetuating problem of small communities - no one engages with them so they look like ghost towns scaring people away. Someone has to be the one to get the ball rolling if they’re to thrive wink wink nudge nudge.

Game list:

• NHL99 - tried again but no luck
• Colin McRae Rally 04
• Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War

Last but not least, I’m once again plugging my Pixelfed account - I created it, might as well let people know it exists. I’ve added some more screenshots since last week, this time from The Elder Scrolls Online and Remember Me.
I’ll try to keep a decent variety of titles posted there - both to keep it interesting (I hope) and because that’s just how I play games most of the time. One thing I can promise though is that most, if not all, of the titles posted there will be worthy of the patient gamer community.

I don’t know about the newer ones but 4 and 0 were really fun experiences. I wish they were a bit longer to have more time to play with all the planes but other than that I have no real complaints.

I didn’t have much time to play this week so no as big wall of text this time. I did however find a moment to spend a little bit of time with both Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 and Ace Combat Zero.

Edit: I almost forgot! Following on my last weeks question, I went ahead and created a Pixelfed account. There isn’t much there yet (just my Umurangi Generation pics from few weeks ago) but I’ll be dropping some more posts about of my adventures soon.

Here is the official announcement since I have nothing better to do.

Less than you’d think, actually. Granted, I don’t really interact with controversial topics and I try to clarify my position if necessary but over all my experience on fediverse was rather positive in this regards. Even more heated replies from people turned into neutral or friendly conversations when I responded calmly instead of raging back.

If that doesn’t work and someone does misinterpret my words (purposelessly or otherwise) then that’s on them. There’s only so much one can do about these things it’s not really worth worrying about.

Don’t mind me, I just tend to be overly specific to avoid misunderstandings.

No, just Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC. PS4 and Xbox One are stuck with pre 2.0 version of the game (no major gameplay rework or DLC).

Yes and no. The game is great and improved A LOT (especially on the technical front) but the sheer amount of updates poured into NMS by Hello Games is on another level (and I write this as someone who didn’t really cared about NMS).

If you’re interested but wary about its state then it’s definitely worth it - it’s better and there’s more of it than on launch. If you expect a completely different game however, you might end up disappointed.

Well, guess I have something to do over the weekend.

I’ll be sure to write about it if either game decides to cooperate. I’m not giving up that easily!

Yeah, I thought about doing it the other way but forgot to actually change it. Next time! Probably. If I don’t forget.

I wondered about pixelfed but I’m not really familiar with Instagram or its derivatives and kind of assumed it was for a different kind of content (don’t ask me what, I have no idea what lead me to this view anyway). Guess I’ll look into it properly. Thanks!

I’ve got another wall of text this week, it just do be like that sometimes.

I was unable to get either NHL99 or 2001 to run so far. I’ll keep trying but it doesn’t look promising unfortunately. I also tried to run NBA Live 2001 but that ended up either black court or a straight up freeze during loading so… I feel like early 2000’s EA games don’t like me very much.

I’m still dabbing with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. I’m making slow but steady progress, playing mostly when I’m in the mood rather than blizting through the whole thing in one go.
I still have a bit of a problem with trying to string tricks (especially grinds) a bit too eagerly but other than that I’m doing fine. It’s going slightly better than my THPS2 playthrough from 2 or so years ago, if I remember correctly.

Championship Manager: Season 03/04 is also still on the menu. It’s not really a game intended for long sessions in my case so I mostly treat it as an emergency activity, played for a match or two when nothing else strikes my fancy.

I mentioned Restaurant Empire last week and that I was having a decently fun time - that’s still true. It’s not the best management game ever but it’s not bad. I have two issues with the game so far: default mouse sensitivity feels terribly (it feels like the cursor is magnetized to certain elements and moving on a tile system) and there’s only one female player character to choose from (not that it means anything but there’s 32 of them!).

My next choice for the week was Ace Combat Zero: Belkan War. I only played 4 before but I liked it quite a bit.
Unlike 4 however, I’m playing this one on a Steam Deck instead of a desktop PC. It plays great, as expected, but I do have so minor issues using the Deck for longer periods of time, especially during more challenging missions (mission structure thankfully helps with that).

Lastly, I came back to RimWorld for a bit. Similarily to The Division, it’s a title I come back to every few months or so, play until I’m bored and go back to whatever else I was doing. It’s pretty great, even in its non-DLC form.

On a slightly different note, does anyone know a site (preferably a fediverse one) that could serve as a gallery dump? I have some screenshots from various games I’ve been thinking about uploading but I’m not really sure which service would be good for that.

It has both modern and classic controls which can be toggled in settings I believe.

Hey @[email protected], I believe you were asking about this recently.

Looks good. My short stint with CS2 didn’t exactly left me wanting more and since CSGO is dead this could finally be a way for me to play some CS again. Thanks for sharing!