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I felt this way with Baldur's Gate 3.
100% I first 🏴☠️my way through bg3, then was like “bruh I genuinely wanna get the achievements this is so good wtf” and ended up buyin*on steam, but even was still so over satisfied that I sprung for the deluxe upgrade
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Runs on Linux… my arm hurts
The graphics aren't smeary... My arm fell off but it's still jorking it
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Indie game it's where it's at. these are just the boring standards these days
congratulations you found indie games
BG3
And suddenly you notice you're back in 1995
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What game?
These days, probably Expedition 33, but there lots of others every year. Probably moreso than 15 years ago by raw numbers.
People over focus on AAA budget games, but there are several indie and AA budget games that are comparable or even surpass production quality of AAA games 15 years ago.
AAA budget these days should really be called like S-tier budget. In 2010 and earlier, the top end of budgets were like $50-100 million ($70-140 million after inflation) including marketing. Budgets started ballooning after that and hese days, top end budgets are more like $500-700 million)
Expedition 33 is great. Checks all the boxes from the meme, plus has a banger of a sound track!
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As you said, people shouldn't focus on AAA games as much as they do. Anyone who knows gaming in the modern day can fairly accurately predict that AAA games will be shit on launch, and will only sometimes improve to something playable eventually. Meanwhile, indie and AA games tend to be at least enjoyable at launch, and often don't have the bullshit gambling or microtransaction scams that AAA games have. Oh, and they also have soul, which a corporation shitting out a new game every year will never be able to replicate.
Honestly, the last AAA game that I enjoyed was Helldivers 2, and I'll still boo it for its warbond system, even though you can grind for the in-game currency.
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The Hollow Knights would be my first guess
Could be anything from Stardew Valley to Baldur's Gate 3.
Loads of them if you stay away from multiplayer slop.
Exactly. Micro transactions are rare to nill in single player and indie games. 98% of AAA can suck it.
That's a lot to ask of one game these days. Last one that ticked those boxes for me was Pacific Drive.
runescape
4/5 are irrelevant to most games I play tbh. Factorio story is simply automate the extermination of the bugs.
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Plenty of those TBH. Only a few dick companies add micro transactions, easy to avoid.
Add "completely free" to the list and you've got Enderal.
Enderal is absolutely goated. Wish I had finished it but I think other stuff came up or I had a soft lock or something. Either way I'm sure it's patched and the 40ish hours I put it was 10/10.
Tempted to go back into it again
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Full pitch in the linked comment.
Speaking of, @StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world, did you ever get to dive in?
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No Man's Sky and Satisfactory keep me coming back. Cozy and itch scratching without being harassed for the latest microtransaction.
That said, if a game does have microtransactions without jamming them at my eyeholes, and I'm not missing anything without them, also acceptable.
This is me after modding out all the elements of Cyberpunk I hate.
Its weird, but Cyberpunk took such a while to grow on me because the gameplay near the start is super unfun because of how weak your starting weapons are and how spongy the enemies are.
Like if you play on the easier settings, the AI are just brain dead stupid, but at very hard, the enemies at first take forever to kill and its just a boring game of shooting, hiding behind cover and healing, waiting for your heals to recharge behind cover, and repeat.
The game basically only starts to truly be fun in my opinion in Act 2, which is kinda the majority of the game without any spoilers.
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I will never meet Hanako at Embers
Atomfall was a bit of fun though. Clearly not a game of the year candidate but fun, no MTXs and the best difficulty settings I've ever seen. You get so many options to remove or add things that you find fun or don't find fun.
Like, I realized I wanted to collect all of the [thing I don't want to say for spoilers sake] so running out of breathe while running just became annoying because it was never a combat constraint in the first place, so it only served as a minor realism boost. Turned that off pretty quickly.
Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader for me.
I got sucked into the two Pathfinder games they made, I want to wait out Rogue Trader's last DLC before playing it
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Knowing my luck it would turn out to be a PvP game.
90s games.
Game must be for DOS with all those green flags
i've been playing deltarune for a few weeks now and im amazed
CrossCode was this for me. An unexpected gem
First thing that comes to mind, last game I played: Hades 2.
I don't think I ever played a game with micro transactions. Are you talking about mobile games?
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Ghost of yotei
Mandragora Whispers of the Witch Tree was surprisingly good.
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