so much to organize, damn you humble bundle

    • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      25 days ago

      I avoid early access in general, so I’ve only ended up with a handful from game bundles.

    • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      25 days ago

      Sekiro, Code Vein, The Surge, and Steel Rising.

      Honestly the first three are candidates for the “Dropped” category, I’ve started and given up on them before. I want to give them each one more chance at some point.

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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        25 days ago

        Would be a shame to drop Sekiro. Definitely one of the hardest souls games but very redeeming once you get the hang of it.

        Code Vein is very rough around the edges but has a cool art style and interesting boss designs. Also has a banger soundtrack by Go Shiina, best known for Demon Slayer. Some of the boss themes go really hard. Pretty good in coop but probably wouldn’t have finished it alone.

        Did not enjoy The Surge and did not play Steel Rising.

        • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          25 days ago

          My problem with most Souls-likes is the slow/clunky (for lack of a better word) combat. I’ve bounced off Code Vein, The Surge, and Elden Ring (which was a refund instead of a backlog) over this. I want to try them again with an open mind at some point though, just with adjusted expectations.

          Sekiro on the other hand I really liked the combat of, the reason it got backlogged is because I got tired of fighting through all the grunt enemies between deaths to bosses/mini-bosses. I like difficult bosses if I can immediately try again upon death (a la Furi), but it felt like Sekiro was wasting my time in comparison because I had to GET to the boss again for each attempt. The grunts didn’t pose enough of a challenge to be interesting, just enough to slow me down.

          I’m not sure if that’s a common thing throughout the game, or if it was just in the areas leading up to the point where I stopped, but I am definitely planning on giving it another shot either way. It’s been a few years since I last played it.

          • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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            25 days ago

            Most Souls-likes are slow and methodical, if that’s not your thing you probably won’t have fun with any of these except Sekiro. I would not call the official ones (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, …) clunky but many of the “copies” certainly can be.

            but it felt like Sekiro was wasting my time in comparison because I had to GET to the boss again for each attempt. The grunts didn’t pose enough of a challenge to be interesting, just enough to slow me down.

            You can rush past most enemies on your way to the boss and the difficult ones usually have a respawn point close but this is a problem with many From games. I bounced off Dark Souls 1 and Sekiro for similar reasons the first time I played them.

            If you enjoy the boss fights you might enjoy Kannagi Usagi? It’s essentially a carbon copy of the Sekiro bosses in a boss rush mode and with an anime skin. I have seen even the biggest Sekiro haters enjoy that one. Also, it’s free and short. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2551500/__KANNAGI_USAGI/

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I am somewhat bad about organizing on Steam. All I have for categories are pretty much games I got for free, paid for indie titles, paid for non-indie titles, and emulators. Would be better if I better organized them, but I wouldn’t know where to start and would most likely procrastinate on it indefinitely because of the number of things I have in library.

  • Oikio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I was playing this game too much, with complex system which never actually encouraged me to play any of the games I have categorized (and I had similar system as OP). Please dear fellow gamers - don’t fall into same trap =)

    Now I have only 4:

    • WTP - want to play games, be them new or on repeat.
    • VR - same as WTP, but for VR.
    • Done - for games which are finished, but I have a feeling that I would like to recall them several years later.
    • Done-done - for games which I’m not going to ever play again. Either bad games, or which have fully fulfilled their purpose and there is nothing to do anymore.

    I use recent sorting, which help a lot to mitigate any kind of lock on what to play today. It’s more like recommendation

    I am trying to free myself from finishing games 100% and avoid all side/boring activities, also now I’m free to pick whichever game I want, instead of planned (like work) consumption with previous system.

    It has really brighten my playtime, now it feels more like joy than before.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    25 days ago

    I think I must use them wrong.

    My categories are mostly used to organise by where they’re installed - so Desktop, Laptop, Steam Deck Internal, Steam Deck SD Card 1, SD Card 2 etc. If I want to play that game, where’s it already installed?

    The only category that relates to the games content is “wheel games” which is driving games that work well with wheel/pedals/gearstick.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I think that’s part of why you have a backlog.

    In all seriousness though, I have a couple lists for like “Workshop” and “Souls like,” otherwise it’s just sorted by what’s installed and most recent.

    I do have a favorites list though.

  • Shape4985@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    I dont have this many lists. I keep mine as finished, currently playing, broken and then some dynamic lists based on category such as rougelike, horror etc