• Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml
    7·
    21 hours ago

    For me it’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I get this intense craving every few years. Will play religiously for a month or two and uninstall once I lose interest.

    • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Isn’t that an android game? Could never get past the first level or two deep, I miss on something

      • FunkFactory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        The game has a few subtle mechanics that are not so obvious but more or less essential for progressing deep.

        I haven’t played in a few years, >!but IIRC it’s extremely helpful to funnel aggro’d enemies through doors. Not only does it make it easier to fight only one at a time, but you get a surprise attack/crit on the turn the enemy enters the door frame and “discovers” the player.!<

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
    6·
    22 hours ago

    Nah, as much as Hollow Knight is a good game, it doesn’t have Minecraft levels of hold on humanity and never will. He will return in couple of months stronger than ever.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    I played a few hours of the original Hollow Knight, trying to get into it. I just…couldn’t.

    I played the shit out of both of the Ori games, though. God DAMN those games are beautiful.

    • BunScientist@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Just wondering, how far did you get? The begining is certainly the weakest part, Silksong does a better job on improving the general lack of movement and closedness of the map early on

      • 87Six@lemmy.zip
        3·
        1 day ago

        Not op but I had the same issue

        I think I played like 10 hours and nothing ever really clicked… I didn’t really know what I was doing, why, what was happening or really anything at all.

        And I’m no new guy in gaming. Been at it since like 2010.

        Idk why I didn’t enjoy Hollow Knight. It always seemed nice and still does.

        • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
          3·
          16 hours ago

          Thank God I’m not the only one. I was like “The hell am I doing? I feel like I’m just grinding to grind”. Nothing felt interesting about the story and navigating the map felt like a chore of backtracking/figuring out where the hell I should go next. The gameplay was fine otherwise, but I just expected more from a game that supposedly “Redefined Metroidvania games”.

          I feel like it would have been improved with a quest and quest marker system. Some people enjoy exploring every nook and cranny, but I ain’t got time for that shit.

          • Wiwiweb@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            13 hours ago

            Personally I like metroidvanias for the exploration. If a game tells me where to go (e.g. Metroid Prime 4) it feels like the game is playing for me, robbing me of the fun.

            You might like platformers more than metroidvanias specifically?

            • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
              1·
              3 hours ago

              I don’t mind exploration. The problem was there wasn’t a clear “where you should go next to progress the main story” in Hollow Knight, so I instead spent a bunch of time wandering aimlessly, hit a brick wall of progress, and got frustrated.

              I liked Ori because it gave you guidance for a general “area” you can go to progress the main story, but still gives you the ability to explore with side quests when you want to get off track a bit. I completed 80% of the collectables in Will of the Wisps and explored nearly the entire map.

        • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          21 hours ago

          I got to the mantis bosses and stalled. I came back when skong came out and found out they were an optional boss. Now I’ve finished 2 acts of the second game so I guess I’ve come a way. The second one is so much more in every way though and you probably don’t need to play the first before it but it helps.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 day ago

    This is literally me right now (the minecraft thing) but its been going for 2 month :/. They actually added so much content since I last played I still haven’t explored all of it yet.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      I’m having the same thing with Vintage Story, but that’s mostly because steel takes so long to make. My windmill is functioning now and counts as a room, which is good cause it’s tall enough that the temperature drops by 15° C from the ground to my work area.

  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
    57·
    2 days ago

    I loved the first Hollow Knight incredibly, and I really wanted to love the sequel Silksong just as much, but the problem, you see, is that I am Not Good.

    The first game had an OK difficulty and plenty of charms to help so I made it to the end, but all the first game DLC was so crazy hard I couldn’t even. And that made me sad.

    I hoped Silksong would be a return to a more accessible place, but while it started reasonable it quickly got to a difficulty where I couldn’t keep up, no matter how much I tried. Way more than the original game.

    So fuck you, Silksong. I love your world and I love your music and I love your vibe and I want to love you but I hate you.

    I’ve recently been playing a lot of Minecraft.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      Just get a mod that alters the difficulty, there’s no cheating in single player games. I played about a third of the game until I hit my skill ceiling. I could’ve insisted on practicing and getting better and endure another 6 hours of frustration and hand pain. I love overcoming challenges and the sense of achievement when obstacles are overcome. But I also have a job and a family life that also delivers both, in a non-optional way. At some point I just want to see what else is there in the game’s content, not to struggle against a wall for hours. Now I’m near the final act and can say, it would’ve take me tens of more hours to get here that way. I ain’t got that much free time in my hands that I want to invest on a video game.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      33·
      2 days ago

      I feel like Hollow Knight’s difficulty was in the boss fights, you’d traverse pretty easily, then get stuck listening to a fucking Dung Beetle yelling “HOOOOOOOOYYYYYY!” while getting you’re ass kicked for 45 minutes.

      In Silksong I’ve gotten my ass handed to me by improper platforming & random nobodies more times than I can count.

    • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      It is a game that you need to practice. I spent 96 hours to get 100% in 2.5 weeks. I crashed out on more than one occasion. It’s like practicing anything. I loved getting better at it, but I understand that it’s not for everyone.

      • Honytawk@feddit.nl
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Yeah, if I need to practice in order to enjoy it, I will just go play something else.

        “Able to play Silksong” is not a skill that is useful enough to invest practice time into it.

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        2 days ago

        The thing that makes me upset isn’t that it’s not for me.

        I accept that plenty of games aren’t for me, and that I shouldn’t play them. I’m never going to get into Dark Souls or Elden Ring, because they aren’t going to be my thing.

        The part that makes me upset is that Hollow Knight very much was for me, and was a game I enjoyed and have very fond memories of. I was very much looking forward to Silksong, but the difficulty is so much higher that I can no longer engage with this world I once loved.

        It feels in TV terms like watching Season 1 of a show and really getting into it, and then when Season 2 comes out, you excitedly start watching - episode 1, episode 2, but your TV somehow stops working every time you start the third episode. Or any episode after the third. Everyone is talking about how great the show is and you’ve seen clips and you want to experience it, but no matter how much you try, you can’t.

        If I hadn’t seen Season 1, I’d just give up after those two episodes like “That show’s obviously not working for me” - but I have seen Season 1. I’m invested, yet now I can’t see it through.

        That’s why I’m upset.

        • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          If you beat hollow knight, you can beat silksong! It’s about patience and practice. I was going in and greedily getting off many hits instead of learning each boss’s fight and tells. It’s like learning how to play a difficult song. You will mess up a lot. You will repeat sections over and over. It will be a little frustrating if you let it frustrate you.

          And you know what? It’s a video game. Download mods if you want to give yourself more hearts or have the bosses do less damage. We all have limited time to play games so have fun with it.

          • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
            3·
            1 day ago

            It’s about patience and practice.

            Lots of people don’t want that in a video game. Which is perfectly fine because no game is going to have universal appeal.

            • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              21 hours ago

              Yeah I found I became my own worst enemy in silksong, whenever you get a new movement ability it just opens up a ton of crazy stuff you can do and for a while I was just fighting the urge to go too fast (and doing it anyway)

            • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              Exactly. Everyone wants a different thing out of video games. Mods exist to tailor that experience if you’re willing to.

              Games are art, and the creators have a vision, but ultimately the players interpret the art all differently.

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          I’ve got a friend with a lot on his plate in the same boat, so he bought it on steam and used trainers/cheats to make himself invincible. Then it became a playable movie of sorts and he enjoyed the shit out of it. It’s a single player game, don’t let anyone judge you.

    • MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Main thing that annoyed me that it felt like every enemy in Silksong deals two damages, so I see I got 4 lifes and think its relaxed and suddenly I am dead :(

    • LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz
      15·
      2 days ago

      That’s fair. Silksong is harder and more importantly much meaner game than Hollow Knight. It is still a really good game, but it’s a bit of a love/hate relationship for me as well.

    • sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      My friend group considered picking it up but one guy said it’s probably best to give it some more time in the oven… have you played it? Thoughts?

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        21 hours ago

        The game has more breadth than I thought it would, and the systems it does have (exploration, fighting, construction, farming) have wayyy more depth than Minecraft’s it does not feel fair to compare. There’s definitely enjoyment to be had for a while playing if the occasional random lag spike or disconnect is not a deal breaker for you.

        But it’s not yet a Minecraft killer. Minecraft still has a much higher gameplay variation. In a couple years though I don’t think there will be much reason to play vanilla Minecraft except nostalgia.

      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        2 days ago

        Its still in early beta, I love it but I also have a higher tolerance for bugs and general unpolished nonsense than most especially for a game I have waited seven years to play.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 days ago

    I used to feel like this with Skyrim when the first snows of winter comes, but anniversary edition ruined a bunch of mods and now the cursor is a box and I don’t feel like playing vanilla or figuring out which mod is broken that I probably don’t want to play without anyways.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      My windmill is functioning. I put the helve hammer, quern and pulverizer into a room whose floor is 2 blocks thick, starting at a vertical level of 200. I’ve gone through 5 redwood trees, and am making refractory bricks to make steel. Also need to make a ton of plaster for the a lot of the windmill. That’s on my single player world. My brother and I have a multiplayer world where we are currently prospecting for iron.

      Oh I also have bees. So many bees on both worlds.