What are some open world games you’ve previously enjoyed and what did you enjoy about them? Additionally what are some open world games you dropped/didn’t enioy?

That’s probably going to allow people to give you better recommendations for yay/nay.

That reminded me that at some point I ended up with a FF13 guide and, despite not living the game, really enjoying it.

I purchased an FFX guide when I was very young but unfortunately I remember it having coffee stains all throughout.

Definitely a grumpy old man but that doesn’t mean you aren’t right.

Try telling people the same thing about how corporate consolidation is bad and is going to lead to long-term anti-consumer damage and they respond the same way largely.

The good news is the Lemmy community seems, as a whole, to have its head on its shoulders better about things like this.

I assume it’s some combination of an older userbase, more tech literate, and people directly experiencing enshitification as the fundamental reason a large segment of the community migrated here.

The only additive feature that would make it my forever client is customizable multi-communities.

Let me choose to add games@lemmy.world, gaming@lemmy.ml, pcgaming@lemmy.world, etc into a single multicom (that I can name) and display posts from all of them when I click on it.

It would be quite literally perfect for all of my browsing needs if it implemented this feature.

Exactly.

The issue here, which you and I probably agree on, is you just need a license standard with an enforcement (regulation through legislation) mechanism.

Then it just comes down to “which service stack best delivers on this requirement” which likely wouldn’t be in a Blockchain implementation’s favor.

Beyond technological throughput constraints, I just genuinely don’t want the real life commodificaiton of in-game resources.

I don’t want a market existing around selling my virtual jacket in game, I don’t want loan-terms from fake in-game banks backed by a real-life commodity determining the investment in my guild, I don’t want to think about the macroeconomic impact of an expansion releasing and how that affects the value of my character.

If a crypto-game actually delivered on the above I bet it would have a playerbase (people who think Eve is too casual), but they’re overwhelmingly crowd-funding/vc-funding cash grabs whose cypto-technological utility is usually less functional than that of the steam marketplace.

I recognize I’m someone who will never want to play a game that couples its virtual economy to the real-economy (and I think the overwhelming majority of players feel the same way).

This is largely a reddit-discourse problem that evolved over time as the site devolved into witty one-liners and adversarial comments for engagement.

I’m hoping people push back hard against this across various fediverse instances because it just makes the internet a worse place and discourages contributions from would-be posters/commenters.

People should feel excited to post without feeling the need to look over their post/comment 100 times to pre-emptively guess what all attack angles someone is going to respond to in a post as harmless about liking the way roses smell.

This is where apps need to pick up the “slack” imo. Let me make something like a multi-community where to me, the user, I’m just clicking on games but in the background it’s amalgamating c/gaming@lemmy.ml, , c/games@lemmy.world c/pcgaming@lemmy.wold, etc.

Let me configure which communities populate this collection of communities and in a perfect world present to me, the app user, a combined-looking post for links that are the same across instances.

Example, if c/games and c/pcgaming have a link post pointing to the same link, don’t duplicate the threads in my collection of communities aggregate, just show comments from each thread under a single post on my end.

In no particular order:

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (English patch)

Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinite (English Patch)

Lord of Apocalypse (English patch)

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker

Metal Gear Portable Ops+

Locoroco 1/2

Patapon 1/2

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions

Motorstorm Arctic Edge

Many people genuinely give up at the “pick an instance” stage.

Part of it is a slight failing for not blasting “if you join any of these instances you can respond to posts on any of these imstances’ communities” but also the level of tech literacy has fallen off of a cliff post-smartphone world.

Bolstering technology literacy (I’m talking simple things like: what is a file browser, where do things you download go by default, what are some common file types for music/videos/applications) need to be added to public education because there’s clearly a decline happening here that will have downstream ramifications.

… welp there’s another strike against me.

The PS3 is retro get off my lawn or something

Your best bet is some combination of Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, and eBay.

The first two will be heavily dependent on if those are popular in your area, but FB marketplace has been great for me in scoring retro game/system bundles in the past as some people are simply looking to get rid of stuff without much thought put behind it.

Craigslist is uhh, acceptable? I’ve mostly phased it out as most people looking to simply get rid of something (and not spending hours pricing things out) have left for more casual places like marketplace.

Ebay is likely going to be the closest to actual market rate and without knowing what the collector scene currently sees as reasonable for this particular model I have no idea if it’s become some token collectors item or not.

Hope this helps

Bad news, I had someone refer to the PS3 as retro the other day and I couldn’t come up with many reasons why that statement was wrong.