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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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Buy 70 copies of peggle for $70

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Who is your favorite Peggle character?

Not Peggle, but that little Peglin goblin looks p cute

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

$70 it's a high price for a Tamagochi

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

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] edge@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

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

Get a refund and then buy the package.

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

[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

dragons sugma

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

But you wouldn't download a car porky-scared

[-] Ithorian@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago
[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Economy in shambles

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I love pegging

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] macabrett@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

The zombie girl

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

Fuck denuvo.

[-] charly4994@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who is your favorite Peggle character?

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

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] axont@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

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