• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
    39·
    10 months ago

    I’m tempted to put Eve Online into the “Elf Video Game” category, because the UI could, to quote Yahtzee, “only be more unintuitive if it was at the bottom of a fucking well.” It doesn’t really meet the other categories there. It kinda hits “Halfling Video Games,” with the sheer politics involved in that game.

    Factorio is solidly a “Dwarven Video Game.”

  • Jomega@lemmy.world
    26·
    10 months ago

    Tabaxi video games: Open world survival crafting rpg with a million different game mechanics. Bugs out the ass because the developers kept getting distracted by a piece of string or some other random bullshit. Ends on a cliffhanger because they ran out of time to finish the story. Robust modding community by necessity.

  • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
    23·
    10 months ago

    Dragon games are oldschool play-by-mail grand strategy that no one alive has actually claimed to play but the crustiest of oldbeards recall their uncle playing at some point.

    • sus@programming.dev
      3·
      10 months ago

      Not too familiar with jrpgs, my best suggestion is that you’d probably have to combine Tactics Ogre (for the hour long fights) with something else

      Basebuilding strategy fps with tensile strength of…

      minus the FPS, this is just dwarf fortress

      dwarven rhythm games have supply line minigames

      I’m pretty sure this is a reference to a specific game but can’t remember much about it

      Mortals cannot comprehend dwarven grand strategy games

      definitely the campaign for north africa (or any other game by Simulations Publications)

      halfling games: I’ve got nothing

      goblin games: the gacha screams “any online card game”, and the moba should be easy to find too. Left as an exercise to the reader.

      orc game: I’m thinking this is about 10% of the games on newgrounds. You’ll find these amongst general flash game collections for sure

    • zeekaran@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      87·
      10 months ago

      The first sentence for goblin games is Hades. The second is EDF.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        191·
        10 months ago

        …Hades isn’t a gatcha or “collectathon” though.

        • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          Chikyuu Boueigun, or Earth Defense Force, is a series of low-budget horde shooters developed by Sandlot and published by D3 Publisher. In each game, the earth has been invaded by aliens, who deploy such B-movie tropes as giant insects, flying saucers, huge combat robots, giant green men, and godzillas against humanity. In most games, you play a normal infantryman. In 4.1 and 5, you can choose between normal infantryman, a slow-but-strong power-armour soldier, a fast-but-fragile jetpack girl, or the guy who calls in airstrikes. In any case, you acquire new and stronger weapons in a sort of “gacha” system; slain enemies occasionally drop crates that contain one random weapon, and you won’t find out what it is until the mission ends. There’s a lot of weapon variety, and you choose 2 weapons to bring with you into each mission, so there’s some good fun to be had exploring for synergistic loadouts.

          The story is absurd, hammy B-movie fare, written and dubbed with a lot of heart. Most of the games are 4-player coop. It’s one of my favourite serieses of all time. I’d recommend starting at 5, because it’s available on Steam, it has the most QoL (it’s one of those series where each new game feels like the previous game, just… more and better) and they reboot the chronology every odd game anyway so you’re not missing out on anything much. And also because it has aliens who look exactly like humans! 🐸

            • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              3·
              10 months ago

              I played it too as a kid. Yep! Totally unrelated, just convergent evolution. The Japanese armed forces are called the JSDF; Japan’s Self-Defense Force (because after WWII, part of their surrender included agreeing to disband their army, so they instead created a Self-Defense Force that’s deeefinitely not an army). So clearly, the guys who protect the whole Earth are the Earth Defense Force!

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
    17·
    10 months ago

    I’m very into base building games in general.

    I think it started with Command and Conquer, and blossomed from there.

    I’m currently playing valheim and having no fucking clue what I’m doing, but I’m enjoying myself.

    My colonists on mars, Rim world, settlers in fo4, and the DRG dwarves will have to wait.

    And I want to try out Ixion? but my laptop sucks so I’ll have to wait until I get a desktop or something.

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
        6·
        10 months ago

        Tried timberborn and against the storm, they’re good but not for me.

        Satisfactory is a good one but my laptop overheats even when I have it on a fan so I gave up on it.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
            4·
            10 months ago

            And to think it got several performance updates back when Josh was making all kinds zany shit, like the conveyor belt-nado, right beside the conveyor mesh (look up Let’s Game it Out on YT, even if you don’t care about the game, it’s fucking worth it)

            • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
              2·
              10 months ago

              I remember the Beltnado!

              What ultimately made me try the game was the tube launcher thing you can put in a circle, surrounding it with other tubes, to speed yourself up to some insane amount and at the last layer it straightens and points upward to launch you some crazy distance across the world.

              Maybe someday I can make a nice laid out base, but I’m a big fan of spaghetti.

  • Aielman15@lemmy.world
    17·
    10 months ago

    I used to play many orc flash games in the past. I still do when I want to relieve the past.

    Never thought I’d play side by side with an orc.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    16·
    10 months ago

    Nah, the Orc game would be cozy games because it’s about taking a break from the usual fair for your society.

    Korog be coming home from a day crushing human skulls to play a game about owning a small farm and suddenly having a box of corgi puppies left on your doorstep to take care of, sold with a weighted blanket to burrito yourself in while playing for the best immersed experience.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    14·
    10 months ago

    I like team-building isometric RPGs with turn-based combat (I miss you so much Fallout 1 and 2!)

    What does that make me?