• Ilflish@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Feels correct to suggest platformers as a human game. Human wowed by jumping between two platforms while the elves are like “you can do that on between trees in real life” dwarves “you ever jumped a fissure?”

        • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Chikyuu Boueigun, or Earth Defense Force, is a series of low-budget horde shooters developed by Sandlot and published by D3 Publisher. In each game, the earth has been invaded by aliens, who deploy such B-movie tropes as giant insects, flying saucers, huge combat robots, giant green men, and godzillas against humanity. In most games, you play a normal infantryman. In 4.1 and 5, you can choose between normal infantryman, a slow-but-strong power-armour soldier, a fast-but-fragile jetpack girl, or the guy who calls in airstrikes. In any case, you acquire new and stronger weapons in a sort of “gacha” system; slain enemies occasionally drop crates that contain one random weapon, and you won’t find out what it is until the mission ends. There’s a lot of weapon variety, and you choose 2 weapons to bring with you into each mission, so there’s some good fun to be had exploring for synergistic loadouts.

          The story is absurd, hammy B-movie fare, written and dubbed with a lot of heart. Most of the games are 4-player coop. It’s one of my favourite serieses of all time. I’d recommend starting at 5, because it’s available on Steam, it has the most QoL (it’s one of those series where each new game feels like the previous game, just… more and better) and they reboot the chronology every odd game anyway so you’re not missing out on anything much. And also because it has aliens who look exactly like humans! 🐸

            • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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              9 months ago

              I played it too as a kid. Yep! Totally unrelated, just convergent evolution. The Japanese armed forces are called the JSDF; Japan’s Self-Defense Force (because after WWII, part of their surrender included agreeing to disband their army, so they instead created a Self-Defense Force that’s deeefinitely not an army). So clearly, the guys who protect the whole Earth are the Earth Defense Force!

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        …Hades isn’t a gatcha or “collectathon” though.

    • sus@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Not too familiar with jrpgs, my best suggestion is that you’d probably have to combine Tactics Ogre (for the hour long fights) with something else

      Basebuilding strategy fps with tensile strength of…

      minus the FPS, this is just dwarf fortress

      dwarven rhythm games have supply line minigames

      I’m pretty sure this is a reference to a specific game but can’t remember much about it

      Mortals cannot comprehend dwarven grand strategy games

      definitely the campaign for north africa (or any other game by Simulations Publications)

      halfling games: I’ve got nothing

      goblin games: the gacha screams “any online card game”, and the moba should be easy to find too. Left as an exercise to the reader.

      orc game: I’m thinking this is about 10% of the games on newgrounds. You’ll find these amongst general flash game collections for sure

  • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Celestial video games: Beautifully polished, graphically perfect games that define visual benchmarks for years to come. No interesting content under the surface.

    Devil video games: Competitive deck builders that are always receiving nerds and buffs that seem to only harm you, where everyone always seems a little better than you.

    Demon video games: Horribly un-optimised sandbox creation games that people only use to cause massive destruction.

    Fey video games: Absurd dating sims that exclusively feels like the creator simultaneously has never spoken to anyone romantically in their lives and also fucks.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Dragons have neverending arguments about idle games which seem painfully generic and interchangeable to anything on two legs. Swarm Simulator Simulator, Multiversal Paperclips, Urban Dead, that sort of thing. In reality the games are just an occasional distraction, and what they’re really addicted to are those years-long threads of snippy factional elitism about the games. Dragons routinely get banned from MOBA forums for being the absolute worst accounts that technically never break the rules. They bicker about the meta like they’re experts hiding behind toons. They have literally never played the game.

    Liches are the ones getting wound-up by dragons in all those forums. Unironic edgelords with giant signatures and arcane medals below their ooh-so-spooky avatars. Any account created a month before the game launched, chewing out some friendly newbie for not knowing something the developer mentioned once on IRC, then getting tilted when a lizard-themed sockpuppet incorrectly nitpicks their grammar? Lich. They are of course the most toxic players in any game they hyperfixate on, because they’ll never, ever get banned. Through unnatural rituals like privately befriending the programmers, they are beyond consequence. They can still be spotted on chan boards saying shit that no mortal moderator could excuse. Ironically none of them play Urban Dead because they consider the revival mechanics insensitive.

    Fairies are the squeaky shit-talkers in hypercompetitive shooter lobbies. They are genuinely terrifying where twitch reactions matter. Fairies can rinse through Nuketown with twin shotguns while playing on DK Bongos. Their contentious relationship with humanity arises primarily from not respecting any strategy besides “Rush B.”

    Dark Elves fucking love Among Us. Any backstabbing accusatory “social deduction” game is right up their alley. Dark Elves have GMod Murder variants where there is only one innocent and you win by killing them last.

    Tabaxi committed like half the funding for Star Citizen. Any game with exploration and arbitrage makes their pupils go wide.

    Warforged adore racing games because they don’t understand there’s a little man inside the car.

    Vampire visual novels are the trashiest purple fanfiction on the internet. Vampires support an industry you’d swear was taking the piss, but they can literally smell insincerity. Some extremely old money goes to teenagers and spinsters with incomprehensibly naive views of romance. Somehow they build the most meticulously-crafted storylines imaginable. Popular streamers occasionally play these as a joke, and the utterly gripping emotional intensity can turn them into “RenPyFields.”

    Half-elves are too busy stanning HoloLive to play games.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    I’m very into base building games in general.

    I think it started with Command and Conquer, and blossomed from there.

    I’m currently playing valheim and having no fucking clue what I’m doing, but I’m enjoying myself.

    My colonists on mars, Rim world, settlers in fo4, and the DRG dwarves will have to wait.

    And I want to try out Ixion? but my laptop sucks so I’ll have to wait until I get a desktop or something.

    • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      It’s my main genre.

      Rimworld

      Against the Storm

      Timberborn

      For non traditional,

      Valheim like you said

      Satisfactory

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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        9 months ago

        Tried timberborn and against the storm, they’re good but not for me.

        Satisfactory is a good one but my laptop overheats even when I have it on a fan so I gave up on it.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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            9 months ago

            And to think it got several performance updates back when Josh was making all kinds zany shit, like the conveyor belt-nado, right beside the conveyor mesh (look up Let’s Game it Out on YT, even if you don’t care about the game, it’s fucking worth it)

            • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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              9 months ago

              I remember the Beltnado!

              What ultimately made me try the game was the tube launcher thing you can put in a circle, surrounding it with other tubes, to speed yourself up to some insane amount and at the last layer it straightens and points upward to launch you some crazy distance across the world.

              Maybe someday I can make a nice laid out base, but I’m a big fan of spaghetti.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I like team-building isometric RPGs with turn-based combat (I miss you so much Fallout 1 and 2!)

    What does that make me?