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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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    • 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.
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  3. Please don’t directly link to pirated content.
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What's Your Hidden Gem FPS of Choice? (inv.nadeko.net)
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Exactly as the title asks. I'll start, though. The link I placed in the URL section should potentially help with explaining it better than I can. For those unaware

If for some reason you don't get that, I can provide it here: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=YqBX87fq_RU

For the above, this is a video by CoculesNation, of which I believe I've gone ahead and edited (I forgot if I did that one or not).

The hidden gem FPS I'd recommend big time is the AFPS known as Xonotic. If you're part of the Linux gaming community, you've likely heard about it. For those completely out of the loop, I'll catch you up to speed here.

Xonotic is a Free Software (as in FSF approved) AFPS (Arena FPS) made in the Doom 1 derivative engine called DarkPlaces. It's the same engine used in Nexuiz Classic (which Xonotic is a fork of), and Rexuiz (a continuation of Nexuiz Classic, also a form of Rexuiz).

The licenses for these games are GPL-2.0 or later, per the compatibility with the id Tech 1 engine... also GPL-2.0+ licensed.

In terms of gameplay here, think Quake-style movement with Unreal Tournament customization. The movement is extremely fast Quake-style stuff with even CPMA (air turning), weapon combos that are satisfying, and for some reason, even designed with defrag in mind (as there's an active community of pro defrag players in Xonotic). I focus on instagib, though, as that's my current focus.

If y'all have any other ideas, feel free to express them here. I'd be happy to look into them as well, and see if they're worth playing for either myself or Neigsendoig.

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Selaco: I don't own this game yet, but it's on my wishlist and seems to have earned its spot. Beyond being a very fun and competent shooter, it seems to have that "Creative touch" where the devs are doing things like strong level variety, and attaching a nice mix of story.

HROT: Weird Czechloslovakia-styled game with a lot of levels, some good challenge, classic Doom/Quake-style exploration, no story.

Also kinda fun: Zortch. Pretty simple game that's often generous with ammo, but overall a lot of fun.

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

None of them I've heard about yet. I could potentially take a look later and see if they look fun.