As someone whose favorite Pokémon are usually unevolved forms (or just flat out a Pokémon that doesn’t evolve), I agree with you anyways. Eevee’s whole thing is being able to evolve, so that especially stings.

Although if their game design decision was always going to prioritize Pikachu and Eevee and not let them evolve, I do still find this much funnier and more charming than a simple “can’t do that.” I am at least happy Eevee got to share “the Pokémon the game arbitrarily chooses for you as most important” status since I’m used to that always always being Pikachu.

Windows 11 -> Linux just for gaming and I am satisfied!

However, I also do not play things with big graphics requirements, kernel-level anticheat, and I do not have any fancy GPUs like Nvidia that make things incompatible. I transitioned on a laptop. So YMMV.

were the big yellow skips (don’t know what Americans call them)

American here! I was reading your first comment, and I was mildly curious what a “skip” is. I guessed “school bus” and oh wow was I wrong. But hey, still a (probably?) public-funded vehicle that’s bigger than a normal car and thus something my 5-year old self thought would be fun to drive.

Differences in uses of the English language in primarily English-speaking countries always fun, I 100% agree with your point about clarifying. Thanks for explaining nicely to the person above :) I’ve seen a glut of people just being nasty on Lemmy recently so I’m especially happy to see people interacting civilly when some would have gone on an insult spree.

Thanks!

And I’m sorry about that, the people downvoting an on-topic game. I feel it’s pretty obvious when someone is posting because “well I like tycoon games and this matches” and trying to stir shit and be political. But I figure drive-by voters from New or whatever would not know either of us only have the motive of “post tycoon games to Lemmy” and not “we like unrestricted gun access and want you to share our views”.

This is like the second post I have made in short succession where I have mass downvotes for something completely on-topic to a community without having misinformation or tearing people down and I do not know why, is it because guns are a hot-button issue in the United States of America? ;-;

It’s really frustrating for me because I don’t care about internet points but I do care that I’ve done something to invite mass disapproval without understanding why people are disapproving in the first place. Especially when they just downvote and say absolutely nothing as to why they disapprove. The knowledge gap, knowing you have done something either actually wrong or just unpopular but not what it is so you can decide whether you want to change your behavior to avoid disapproval (like if I did something that is hurtful, so I am getting disapproved of, I need to change; if I just posted an unpopular but civil and non-hateful opinion and people downvote simply to express disagreement I will probably be made even more stubborn in my opinion and refuse to change but I might think twice about being public about it because social disapproval, even from strangers on the internet, feels bad), is very very frustrating.

Then again maybe it is better nobody explained because I see “lol fucking [insult]” here way more often than an actual explanation of why someone disagrees or why a certain non-hateful take that was expressed in a non-inflammatory way without insults is bad, and one thing that really upsets me, even when not targeted at me, is unnecessary hostility.

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I admit I clicked hoping for an automation game. There’s definitely a factory portion where you place down machines to make the guns, an indoor factory, which is something I was looking for awhile back. Not sure how much of the game is the factory portion, so I’ll wait and see before I post it to !automationgames@lemmy.zip.

The first thing that stands out to me with the graphics is that the text somehow doesn’t feel very good visually. The rest passes well enough. It’s an Early Access release that came out April 4, no demo, so I’ll be watching closely.

Some 2D artwork on our game is based on AI generation.

Oooof. Really do not appreciate that, so this probably will not be such a high priority for me to check out then. I’ve dismissed games that appeal more to me for using AI, so I wonder why I’m not immediately mentally binning this one.

Time Management tag

I haven’t seen that phrase to describe a game’s genre in awhile! I loved time management games growing up, should probably poke around in that tag on Steam for a bit.

Graphics… do not really look all that cohesive, which is a shame because I like the premise of running a bookshop, and because the NPC image is in a style I like.

Some games have more replayability value than others or a bigger modding community for sure, but you also have to consider personal preferences. For the person who loves action RPGs, open worlds, and doesn’t really like farming simulations, Skyrim is the better investment. For the person who likes cozy games and pixel graphics but is not too big on medievalish fantasy, Stardew is the better investment. For what it is worth I like both, but currently have far more hours logged in Stardew.

Also, the meme might technically imply that Stardew > Skyrim given the kid is buying Stardew and not Skyrim, but it never explicitly compares Stardew to any other game, let alone puts a different game down.

Honestly did not realize this post was popular enough to hit front page so thanks for letting us know!

I am not sure where the user above asserts their importance. I think they made the same assumption as me that this post just wasn’t popular enough to hit the front page and thus that you must have purposely sought out the community, until you told us otherwise.

There’s a wonderful contrarian-but-is-it-really-considering-it’s-making-the-lawful-choice delight in trying to follow the rules in a game about breaking rules.

No-commentary video of someone just driving in GTA trying to follow the rules of the road. I’m usually really not a video person, but just watching this feels nice somehow.

puts you in the role typically taken up by NPCs in other… RPGs

Games with this concept instantly grab my attention.

How much virus exposure will you risk for a shortcut through the main quest?

Now I am curious if by this they mean “whatever the usual protagonist of the RPG is doing,” and if so whether the game makes it explicit to you, directly coming out and saying “this is the hero of the story, and here’s their main quest path!” or if you infer it. Both could be enjoyable.

Although unfortunately the post-apocalypse thing makes this a hard no for me ;-;

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For my previous posts, like this one on Gunfire Reborn, I went to the “Create a post” form and used the “upload picture” button on the toolbar of the main body text field.

Works perfectly. Cannot figure out why I had trouble getting several images in one post, even though I’ve used this exact tool in the past before. Thanks for helping!

Premise of that game is making me ask: have you played Ghost Trick before?

Wow, nice writeup!

I’ll admit I’m disappointed that jazz music is not prominent enough in the game to get mentioned. I clicked on this post because of the jazz in jazzstronauts.

How did you get all the images at once, upload beforehand (whether to Lemmy or somewhere else offsite) and that is how you have a link? Repeated editing so Lemmy accepts each new image upload?

I gave Mindustry a shot and faded out at the tower defense bit of the tutorial. I do like !automationgames@lemmy.zip even though tower defense is not my thing, so I’m wondering: how do you manage to forget enemies and just make it a logistics game?

This is such a cool idea. Nudging a few things around and trying to see what ripple effects they have…

I always like to see people who go all in on the roleplaying in RPGs.

I do wish people would leave mods that aren’t for them alone. There are a bunch of mods extremely not to my taste that I just scroll past instead of intentionally clicking to tell the mod author just how much it is not to my taste and that they should not have made it because I am uninterested in the content.

There are a few mobile or web idle/incremental games I have used as a substitute for a Pomodoro timer. Oh, I am really into the game and it only progresses if this is the focused tab? I really want to make progress, but I am in a period of the game where active play isn’t that rewarded, and just watching the screen while I wait to earn the upgrade is pretty boring? How about we just leave my phone with that as the active tab, and I check back when the upgrade should be earned? Keeps me off my phone and doing the actual things I should be doing instead. Somehow, “abusing” games like this works better for me than the Forest app which has the explicit intention of making sure you do not touch your screen for a set length of time and instead do something else off your phone.

I also “abuse” Pokémon Masters EX in a similar fashion. You’re expected to level up with some combination of putting them through battles that cost stamina to play through, and some pretty easy-to-obtain level-up items. And although there is an Auto option I have a feeling you are intended to manually do the battles in-game. Instead, I start story mode battles which cost no stamina to play through, that still reward me with XP no matter how many times I repeat it, and have the game fight the battle for me with the Auto setting. I check back when the battle is done and restart it. I have essentially turned this into an idle/incremental game, albeit one with a pretty short time between waiting and checking back in on the game. Free level-ups! Even though it does take much longer than the intended way, which is why I suspect nobody tried to prevent this method from working. I like doing this for some reason, and it’s probably the main reason I still keep this game downloaded despite my usual allergy to gacha games.