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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 130 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Stealth games in 1981: "You have to escape from the literal fucking Nazis, who are seeking to genocide most of Europe."

Stealth games in 2019: "You are a goose"

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just got that game a few weeks ago after having somehow completely missed it. I've never laughed harder being an absolute cunt to the whole town.

[–] melisdrawing@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I love how much I relate to this comment. That game is so silly and delightful.

[–] OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Godric@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Untitled Goose Game, currently half off on steam.

"It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose."

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Rake in the lake!

[–] Roastchicken@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Sold. Guess I'm getting the goose game.

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[–] MudMan@kbin.social 62 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Alternately, videogames now: I have a farm and it's the nicest farm of them all, and all the chickens have names and are demonstrably happy. Also I moonlight as an interior decorator for all my friends with whom I have deep personal relationships.

Just saying, we may be playing different types of games here.

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago (11 children)

The last game I played had me building a self-sufficient factory so large that I had to heavily dip into the logistics tech tree to navigate it.

The constant pollution does sort of upset the neighbors.

[–] rephlekt2718@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Factorio, but I also play Satisfactory from time to time.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also alternative: you must build the factory. The factory/factory/Dyson Sphere must grow. Watch out for hostiles.

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Or I am a truck driver making delivery across the country, and attending to my island.

We definitely playing different games.

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[–] TheMusicalFruit@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nintendo is still making run, jump, eat this flower, collect the coins games and they’re still excellent.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And they play absolutely fantastic on the PC. Their own hardware - not so much.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo simps downvoting this comment as if a PC release for Nintendo games wouldn't just completely slam any Nintendo console release.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

It's honestly amazing how much better it plays. Zelda TOTK drops to 5-10 fps every time you used the special powers. Meanwhile even legacy systems can hold at 30 or 60 if you mod.

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[–] AliasWyvernspur@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The "Video Games Now" part basically describes Castlevania II.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

What a horrible night to have a curse.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

And Max Payne. That shit was dark.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

There was sex and violence in 1980s games too!

Wasteland from 1988

"In 2087, generations after the devastation of a global nuclear war in 1998, a remnant force of the United States Army called the Desert Rangers operates in the Southwestern United States, acting as peacekeepers to protect fellow survivors and their descendants. A team of Desert Rangers is assigned to investigate a series of disturbances in nearby areas. Throughout the game, the rangers explore the remaining enclaves of human civilization, including a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas."

Splatterhouse from 1988

"Splatterhouse is an arcade-style sidescrolling beat 'em up with platform elements[2] in which the player controls Rick, a parapsychology college major who is trapped inside West Mansion. After his resurrection by the Terror Mask, Rick makes his way through the mansion, fighting off hordes of creatures in a vain attempt to save his girlfriend Jennifer from a grisly fate."

Leisure Suit Larry from 1987

"The games follow Larry Laffer, a balding, double entendre-speaking, leisure suit-wearing man in his 40s. The stories generally revolve around his attempting, usually unsuccessfully, to seduce attractive young women."

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

1982: You are General Custer and trying to rape an American Indian woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custer's_Revenge

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The last game I played gave me the option to remove the vocal chords of tens of thousands of people because they annoyed someone I'd just met. That was not a "bad guy" choice.

Made me laugh quite a lot.

[–] Predalien@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (9 children)
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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Missile Command is one of the darkest games out there.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Bethesda games: you are a prisoner about yo be executed

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Souls-likes: you wake up in a jail cell

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 4 points 10 months ago

"Ah! Dead body!"

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I guess if the only game in the 80's you played was Mario Bros and not Pacman...

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

I personally don't mind games being like they are now so long as the story and gameplay together make the game enjoyable. It's why I, for the most part, avoid online games.

Also, I don't know about the antihero part, but the downtrodden hero trying to survive in a dystopian world immediately made me think of Brok The Investigator.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

you're a downtrodden anti-hero trying to survive in a dystopian world...

Is my alarm clock the game?

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[–] sour@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

fire in the hole

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Play it out. Mario is a game where a plumber from New York visits a land of mushroom people who's princess is kidnapped by a dragon turtle, and he must eat mushrooms to get stronger and eat flowers to spit fireballs. In the most recent iteration, there are piranha plants that jump out of giant pipes, walk around, and do a whole song and dance number for you.

Clearly, there were a lot of drugs involved in its development.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

You have crashed your spaceship in a drunken stupor. You should do genocide about it until you can build a new one.

[–] drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

Honestly, Mario Wonder was one of my favorite games lately.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Mark my words, Ashen-one. You shall remain among the accursed

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also video games now: You're a robot and all you know is blood is fuel and hell is full, therefore you need to kill everything you see that can bleed

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (10 children)

This is one of the reasons why I'm mostly a retro gamer.

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[–] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Disco Elysium vibes

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No Harry here, name's Raphael I don't care about apricots.

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[–] ProtonEvoker@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You just described the original Jak trilogy.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Being back arbitrary points. Well, I guess they have S-class rankings.

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