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I just find this funny. I was excited for DD2, but seeing the price, and the reviews, and the microtransactions, and the performance, and how they totally fucked it...I guess I'll just buy Peggle Deluxe for 1/70th of the price instead.

Who is your favorite Peggle character?

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

Denuvo killed any chance of me paying DD2. It's already insulting that a $70 singleplayer game is full of microtransactions on day 1, but don't spy on me unless I'm playing against other people and it's for the sole purpose of keeping it fair. Just on principle I'm pirating it the day it's cracked.

[–] Mickmacduffin@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Buy 70 copies of peggle for $70

[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Buying new games is just bad practice nowadays imo. Premium prices for non-premium products packed with bullshit like denuvo. I'm sure Dragon's Dogma 2 is an amazing game, but it's likely not so amazing that one wouldn't be better off waiting a year or two.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

It'll be great when I get the Complete Directors Cut Game Of The Decade edition with all of the DLC and pre order bonuses included for 19.99 in 2 years.

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

The era of capcom is over. The era of crapcom begins again

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Who is your favorite Peggle character?

Not Peggle, but that little Peglin goblin looks p cute

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I love Capcom and DD2. I think the MTS complaints was overblown, just people (who are mostly Dragons Dogma bandwagoners) piling on a rocky game launch for clicks. DD:A and DMC5 also had similar MTS - somehow Capcom games always have such mandates. But in terms of Itsuno games like DDA, DD2, DMC4SE, DMC5, the MTS items can always be easily obtained in-game and the drop rates are not altered to encourage people to buy MTS. You just have to play game for a bit before you can change your appearance, similar to early Dark Souls (1,2,3) games. Having MTS items also legitimately ruined the progression curve, you wouldn't know what to do with so many rift crystals. Also only losers use wakestone to revive, you are supposed to learn from the encounter and approach it differently for different result. It is part of the game, and the game difficulty is fair. Everytime I die it is funny, and I never encountered a wall so frustrating I even consider using a wakestone.

The performance issues on the other hand, what were they thinking. I don't have the beefiest PC and my fps kinda struggling, especially in the cities. It is also CPU issues, not GPU, so it's not like I can play 480p and have smooth gameplay, it is so frustrating. I would probably drop the game and wait a couple months until hopefully they patch the performance issues.

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago
[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

$70 it's a high price for a Tamagochi

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also it looks like Peggle Nights is the better buy. More Pegging for the same price.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why not both? All the pegging. Just so much goddamn pegging.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no! It's too late, I already bought the standalone. I GOOFED!

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Get a refund and then buy the package.

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

dragons sugma

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Buy Pacific Drive for $30. It's like STALKER but there's no mutants and you have a station wagon that is sort of alive.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I will add this to my next "check this out when it's half off" list, looks cool

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's dadcore af. You can literally spend hours just tinkering in the garage.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How does that part of the game compare to Jalopy? (assuming you've played that)

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I haven't but the tinkering isn't super deep. The hours is mostly figuring out upgrades, outfitting, prepping for journeys and such. You can switch out panels, doors, tires, engine, and accessories (like extra battery/gas tank, resource scanner, etc.) Beyond that there's paint and decals you can apply by the panel. Here's mine right now.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's probably comparable in complexity - Jalopy is all about keeping a Trabant running, and this is a dad game of a specifically sci-fi bent.

I enjoyed Hardspace: Shipbreaker a lot, so I figure I'll love this one when I eventually get to it lol

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

It's got some sick fucking tunes and gay scientists on the radio (ARDA's putting radio waves in the LIM technology that's turnin the friggin scientists gay alex-aware )

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

~~Buy~~ Download Pacific Drive for ~~$30~~ free!

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But you wouldn't download a car porky-scared

[–] Ithorian@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

Economy in shambles

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

The owl wearing a turban. The unicorn is pretty chill too.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

I love pegging

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago
[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

I can't vouch for it, because I'm waiting for it to leave early access, but as a fellow Peggle fan I thought I should make you aware of the game "Peglin". It appears to be an indie peggle with some roguelite stuff going on.

[–] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

The zombie girl

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could also get supertuxkart. It's been 100% off for a while now, and it's moderately enjoyable.

A lot of open source games are actually pretty good, like mindustry or the battle for wesnoth. 2048 is FOSS too!

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just find it funny that 20 years later when the topic of open source games comes up we still mostly have the same few examples

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, they have a good deal of popularity, and when a project is popular people will work on it.A cycle of dominance. There are many more than those, though, and a lot of them are fun: https://itch.io/games/tag-open-source

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Peggle. Don’t get DD2 before denuvo is removed.

Fuck denuvo.

[–] charly4994@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Who is your favorite Peggle character?

Bjorn, but the nightmare quiz loving version DougDoug made. doug-chug

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

anyone who doesn't buy from keysites is a fucking bot

[–] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Keysites cost developers money, so they're only good against devs you hate. Outright piracy is a better option if it's an indie dev

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

oh no not me costing the devs money. pirate everything you can and those games you can't pirate buy from keysites