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Video Game Suggestions
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A place to find suggestions for video games! For example, you might create a post looking for recommendations for a game to play with a friend, or a game that is easy to play if you just broke your dominant hand. Or you might post a list of games that let you use a whip as a weapon. A lot of rules for conduct here are pretty obvious (don't be a jerk, stay on-topic) so I'll bold the weird ones.
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- Please stay on-topic: post requests for games that match some criteria you specify, lists of games with a certain element, or something otherwise relevant to helping people find games that match certain criteria.
- If you're looking to find the name of a particular game or video game series you forgot, you should go to !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com. This community is for fielding suggestions for games, not for finding one specific video game.
- If you're making a post that is suggesting games, it should be a list of games. This is partially to help prevent the community from being overrun by people just suggesting their favorite game, and devs suggesting you play their latest game. This is about posts, not comments. It's okay to comment on a post asking for gaming suggestions with just one game.
- Don’t be a jerk. This covers bigotry and discrimination, which includes but is not limited to homophobia, racism, sexism, etc.
- Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
- When advertising something you have worked on, please use common sense for what is spammy. Self-promotion isn't totally banned: if someone asked for an RPG where you can play a lich, and the game you worked on is an RPG where you can play a lich, you can definitely answer with your RPG. I reserve the right to change this rule to be more specific about what exactly counts as spammy and what does not, but I feel I’ll know it when I see it and trust most posters to operate in good faith.
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Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game!
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Spoilers for SomeGame
Something that happened at the end of the game!
Something else that happened at the end of the game!
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I'm pretty sure the first EverQuest is still online and playable. No idea what state it's in or if that would scratch your itch or not.
It's OK, it's been SUPER modernized. The controls still work, but that old feel is missing.
If you want EQ without most of the modern comforts, you might consider trying one of the fan-run emulated servers like Project 1999.
But it still isn't quite the same. And to me, it can't be, because I think that part of the magic was how new and different a lot of it was for a lot of the players (It wasn't the first MMO, but it was a lot of people's first MMO).
Then I have just the thing for you, it's called Project 1999, it's a snapshot of EQ up to the Velious expansion. It takes a bit of work to get installed but between that and many, many variation servers they are the perfect thing to fulfill that throwback MMO itch.
Well, I just found what to do with my free time in the next couple days! Thanks AngryishHumanoid!
If this is rude, I apologize but I like to take any excuse to post LRR. And this feels extremely relevant to your situation: https://youtu.be/F6JgKQFeBxs
It's not rude, on the other hand, I played these games then... I enjoyed these games then... I do not enjoy them now...
The only MMO I can still enjoy is Neocron. There's an element to actually needing to obtain mastery that doesn't involve button mashing that I miss from my games. Actual targeting, puzzles and dungeons where having an understanding of the lore is beneficial... that kind of thing.
I appreciate that you can pick out direct mechanical and design elements you miss. I think a lot of us, myself included, want games to be "like they were before" and fall into the trap of just wishing we had the energy and time to immerse ourselves like we did when we were 9, or 14, or 22. No graphical style or design philosophy can turn back the hands of the clock...
That being said, I wish you all the best in recapturing your passion. Enjoying things is the key to happiness.
That's a bummer.
I lost touch with it with Luclin myself. They lost the spirit of the game in my opinion. The new models, the market place, the moon, not a fan.