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I love playing games for in game currency to buy loot boxes, but they're always online and multiplayer. Is there a single player game like this that exists? (Not games like Diablo 3 that has "loot drops," or "treasure chests," but games that have "loot boxes.")

I can’t think of anywhere better to bring this up, but it’s driving me crazy and I need to seek others’ opinions.

In the last three FPS I’ve played regularly- Serious Sam 4, Battlefront 2, and Quake 2- taking fire will always trigger what I can only describe as “involuntary evasive maneuvers”. Basically, my character will automatically duck whenever in vicinity of an enemy. This prevents me from sprinting to cover, slows my movement to a crawl, and makes me an easier target to hit.

My first thought was that I’m just manhandling the controller in the heat of battle, but no. This will happen even if I’m not pressing any button at all. It’s not the controller itself, as I’ve tried several and I experience this issue on both Xbox and Switch. A piece of evidence I’ve noticed that this may be a programmed feature is my character’s tendency to duck without my input if there is just an enemy nearby, one who hasn’t even appeared on screen yet.

I have scoured google and reddit to learn if others have this experience, but have come up empty handed. This is absolutely infuriating to play around, and I have trouble believing no one else has complained about it, unless I truly am crazy and am the only person it happens to.

Any ideas? You may blame me for it, which I understand, I blamed myself too initially, but I’m now 99 percent sure this has nothing to do with how I handle the controller. I have played a lot of video games for close to three decades and have only experienced involuntary evasive maneuvers over the past few months.

i think im good. i have amassed a decent digital library

i don't have much of any real backlog

but i do replay games often enough. and i have a lot i can replay to tide me over

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i don't have any working controllers for PS1,2,3,4... but at least for PS1 and 2, i can extract my own ISO if i wanna replay any of my games there

ps3 will be unfortunate, but for ps4, i don't really have much games on it anyway

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how bout you? have enough games to replay?

or you one of those that have way too many on backlog and will just work on it?

For me it was a pretty abusive childhood so I found escape and comfort in them. The stories were grand and I found a way to challenge myself. It was a better teacher than I had as parents.

I like pc games like the old CSI games. The list is here.

Do you have any recommendation based on that?

So I just felt like playing my favorite game, after a long time SINCE THOSE FUCKERS AT ACTIVISION REMOVED IT!! (rebirth island) I was met with \"update requires a restart\", and like a million advertisements for bullshit passes and shit. After all that shit was over, there comes the dogshit fucking menu.. Where do I even start, It's laggy(a menu shouldn't sutter on every fucking button), ugly, full of unnecessary shit, hard to navigate and I have to wait like half a hour for the shaders to load.

I know that Sins 2 is on Epic but you can now wishlist it on Steam so waiting on that. I have played the Sins series before but not Homeworld.

Wondering if I should get both.

I enjoyed sins for the somewhat 4x it offered but focused heavily more on straightforward combat.

I hear that Homeworld is more complicated? or was that Stellaris?

So, in the recent days I have been... to put it mildly, softly addicted to Manor Lords.
It is so fun, it feels oddly satisfying to see your city grow, the buildings improve, the economy stabilising especially if you set up a trading post and start exporting and importing goods, etc.
The combat is also surprisingly enjoyable, not because it is that complicated, but more because it is a people an army that you create.

What I would LOVE to see however, and this is me being an ungrateful bastard as I know that Manor lords is the passion project of one man (initially with help added along the way, now apparently a quite impressive team)

A game like Manor lords, but with a fantasy spin.
A game like it, where you get to pick like... different races (with different bonuses and negatives, different building styles, preferences for environment, and so on)
With magical elements added to it, as well as having to deal with potentially racial imbalances, immigrants from other races and the conflicts that come from there and so on.

I know there are a few games like this already, but most of what I can find, are like Songs of Syx for example.
Minimalist graphics, way heavier on the micro as well as macro and so on.

I just think that Manor lords hit that perfect medium of complicated as well as visually (and audible) satisfying...
But at the same time, I wish there could be a bit more customisation and well, fantasy to it.

Alex Hernandez poured his soul into Lincoln Clay. Edit: Idk what kind of fog my brain was in when I posted this lol. I didn’t mean the gameplay, Mafia 3 shooting and brutal takedowns are great! I meant the repetitive missions.

For those questions that don't feel worthy of a whole new post.

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Attempting to play through and these fucking invisible science mechs with the teleports and the laser whips are making me rage like nothing else fromsoft has ever made before I'm straight up about to quit. It keeps telling me to focus on the scumbags on the walls but it's impossible to target them without being pointblank and when you get that close everyone just obliterates you. What do they even expect you to do when you can't aim at your enemy these voice lines telling me to do things I cant are really driving me up the wall

I probably spent thousands upon thousands of hours playing the halo series. I’m actually pretty terrible at rust for someone who has more than 3k hours tied to it, but I find the chaotic element of it to be somewhat addicting. I’ve actually hidden the game on my steam library more then a few times swearing to myself I’ll never pick it up again, but I need that sense of conflict, because it’s easy to get bored of games where victory is inevitable.

I played halo for the longest time and eventually destiny, because exoskeletons and galaxy ending space rings are awesome.

What game/series have you spent way too much time on? And what kept you from leaving?

This something that seemingly happened a few times back in the day. New game releases using exact character models or set pieces as a previous game. A few examples: Majoras Mask to Ocarina of Time, Kotor 2 to Kotor, Fallout New Vegas to Fallout 3. Any other examples?

When I was a child (circa 2000 or possibly even 97/98) I remember renting a a video game for the playstation 1. The game was a fighting game, but that's not what I'm looking for. The fighting game, has an RPG bundled with it? Or perhaps in a different menu? But it was a full fledged RPG, and above everything, what I remember from it, was that it was multiplayer. 2 controllers/players could play at the same time and I used to play it with my sister. I've never been able to recall the name of the fighting game or the RPG bundled with it, and it's honestly made me feel like I'm crazy at this point.. or maybe it was a hacked game? Thanks for any info ahead of time! I'll try to reply with any extra information if anyone needs it.

Edit: Not Tobal no.1, not Ehrgeiz, Fighting force cover art looked very familiar but no. I'm starting to lean towards believing it was either pre PS1, or it was some type of demo for a game. It just felt like a full fledged game. It had the tropes of slimes and slime monsters like Dragon Quest, it was pixeled so nothing in 3D. It's just so odd cause I remember it being able to be multiplayer and each person controlled 1 character. So if you played solo, your party consisted of only 1 characters (yours) but when you added a second controller, you would get another person added to your party, controlled by the other controller

Edit 2: The RPG aside from being pixel was also in black and white. Think really old like Gameboy style pixel where the render distance wasn't too huge and every time you would go towards 1 side of the screen, it would load in chunks.

Edit 3: Sorry earlier I wrote monster quest, when I meant to say DRAGON QUEST.

Final Edit: Okay guys, I actually think the reason my brain was having a hard time remembering, is because I didn't realize Dragon Quest, was originally branded as Dragon Warrior in NA when it transported over from Japan. I think my memories were getting it confused, because I remember the game being in black and white, but upon looking at Dragon Warrior screen shots, it looks exactly like the game I'm mentioning. Maybe it's possible that it was a hacked game and someone didn't do a good job at porting it correctly, but I think I'm thinking Dragon Warrior. I appreciate you all in this community for helping me out!

Video games have come a long way and the newest games with the best most realistic look graphics are becoming almost indestinguishable from real life. Obviously fantasy or sci-fi isn't very realistic but, what games do you think have the very best graphics regardless of realism?

hey guys so my friend group each play on a platform, one is on ps4, one on ps5, one on series x and I'm on pc. Warzone and mw3 has made me lose interest in all PVP games i no longer enjoy playing against sweats every single game or hackers. PvP just isnt it anymore. any cross-play games that are PvE or just fun and challenging to play? gaming is supposed to be fun not tiring. plus fuck microtransactions and bundles and all of that they suck

I can say i became a somewhat history nerd because i played the hell out of Age of Empires 2 when it came out and also the Civilization games.

But also thanks to sandox games like Minecraft I also got into the hobby of making terrain and buildings out of cheap materials like cardboard and styrofoam for my tabletop and wargames.

I also know a person that got into playing electric guitar thanks to Guitar Hero back in the day.

What is your case? Or do you think any game may spark some new interest or hobby?

Mine was Kingdom come deliverance.

A small part of me thinks Sony did what they did on purpose to get even more attention to the game, and if that was in fact their plan, it worked!

I've not played the game yet, as I'm in the middle too many other games to justify buying and starting another one. So if you're not playing HD2, what are you playing?

For me the endings that really got me would be Outer Wilds and The Last Of Us. So many non-gamers think of video games as low art, but games can be such an emotionally powerful medium.

Was listening to some game music and I realized most of the game soundtracks I listen to are from the PS1 or PS2 era. The only modern soundtrack I've really given a good listen to is FF7 Rebirth tbh.

What are some of your most fav. soundtracks from the current gaming gen?