You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update
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Apparently, the new (final?) Terraria content update, Journey's End, has a shitload of new items, bosses, biomes, and other additions, as well as a bunch of rebalancing and quality of life improvements. Buying this game on discount nearly a decade ago has to be the best value I've ever got for any game purchase, as I've
wastedplayed hundreds of hours before this update and will probably start back up again.Anyway, if you like Terraria, post about it here, and if you haven't played it I would highly recommend it. It's kind of like Minecraft with an actual game (a Metroid-vania type platformer) attached.
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@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
Minecraft with an actual game attached.
Shots fired.
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@error the funny thing is that at the release of Terraria, most gamers wouldn't call it an actual game either.
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@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@error the funny thing is that at the release of Terraria, most gamers wouldn't call it an actual game either.
Apparently, with this classification system, most games I like are non-games.
I prefer sandboxes and open-world sims, with no particular goal (though I'm also fond of roguelikes and soulslikes).
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Who cares about petting dogs, can you pet the steampunk chick now?
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Yeah, got Terraria for $1.99 years ago during a sale. Have almost 500 hours played now, best dollar to entertainment ratio of anything I own.
Whenever I think of a game cough no mans sky cough that was not worth the price of admission I think of the steal I got on Terraria and just move on.
The new master mode is challenging so far, getting ready for the wall of flesh and I am going to have to do some serious clearing before I feel confident I can take it down with its increased health.
There are also some great mods for Terraria, highly recommend both Calamity and Thorium (currently 1.3.5, but they will be on 1.4 soon I am sure)
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@error said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@error the funny thing is that at the release of Terraria, most gamers wouldn't call it an actual game either.
Apparently, with this classification system, most games I like are non-games.
I don't make the rules. Not 3D -> not worth playing, they used to say. And they were right in a vast majority of cases. Remember that Terraria was first released before the entire indie games revolution.and soulslikes).
Note that Dark Souls and other From Software games are AAA titles that are accepted by the snobbish teenagers of the PS3/X360 era as proper games.
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@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
Note that Dark Souls and other From Software games are AAA titles that are accepted by the snobbish teenagers of the PS3/X360 era as proper games.
Which is why that aside was prefixed with "though," as in, "many of the games I like aren't considered games, although some are."
I could list the ones I like but that would be a long list! So it's highly abridged. (Duplicates are intentional. Genre mashups are great.)
Roguelikes:
Don't Starve
Rogue Legacy
Nethack
FTL
Various retro randomizers!Soulslikes:
Dark/Demon Souls
Bloodborne
Salt and SanctuaryMetroidvanias:
Metroid/Castlevania
Rogue Legacy
Bloodstained
Salt and Sanctuary
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@error interestingly, none of these games were released between 2000 and 2011 (except Dark/Demon Souls, but I covered those above). Seems like you just don't like the games from between 2000 and 2011.
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Gods Will Be Watching is another oddball indie game I (vicariously) enjoyed. You definitely need masochistic tendencies for that one, because the RNG can just fuck you over.
What's really interesting is the plot, where we learn
that every player death was canonical, and the protagonist is in some sort of Groundhog Day time loop, except instead of one day he relives the ENTIRE GAME each time he dies.
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@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
if you like Terraria, post about it here
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@Zecc said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
if you like Terraria, post about it here
You seem like someone who would enjoy Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
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@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@error interestingly, none of these games were released between 2000 and 2011 (except Dark/Demon Souls, but I covered those above). Seems like you just don't like the games from between 2000 and 2011.
Some of those are series; there were a bunch of Castlevanias released in the 2000s, for example, and they include my two personal favorites.
ObTopic: I played Terraria for a while a couple years ago, but burned out around the Wall of Flesh and could never get back into it.
My best time/money single game is probably one of the Civilizations. Quite possibly the first one.
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@Parody said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@error interestingly, none of these games were released between 2000 and 2011 (except Dark/Demon Souls, but I covered those above). Seems like you just don't like the games from between 2000 and 2011.
Some of those are series; there were a bunch of Castlevanias released in the 2000s, for example, and they include my two personal favorites.
Let me guess - you didn't touch the NES/SNES era Castlevanias until after completing the later titles, or maybe you still haven't?
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@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Parody said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@error interestingly, none of these games were released between 2000 and 2011 (except Dark/Demon Souls, but I covered those above). Seems like you just don't like the games from between 2000 and 2011.
Some of those are series; there were a bunch of Castlevanias released in the 2000s, for example, and they include my two personal favorites.
Let me guess - you didn't touch the NES/SNES era Castlevanias until after completing the later titles, or maybe you still haven't?
I got Castlevania and Simon's Quest when they were released. We rented Castlevania III a couple times but I never picked it up before trading in my NES and games for a Gameboy and games. I borrowed the first Gameboy Castlevania game from a friend once, but never played any of the other ones. The next system I had was the GBA, and I still own the three GBA and three DS ones. Never had a SNES; later in life I got a Genesis but never had any of the Castlevania games for it. Not too long ago I played Symphony of the Night via Emulation, and I haven't played any of the 3D ones.
On the Metroid side of the pairing, I had Metroid (NES) and Metroid II (GB) on release, didn't play Super Metroid until emulation, and picked up Fusion and Zero Mission for the GBA. I had Metroid Prime on the Gamecube but never finished it; haven't played any of the later Primes or the DS variants.
Edit: I forgot to say that my favorite Castlevania is Portrait of Ruin and the best I've played is Aria of Sorrow. For Metroid my favorite is the NES one and best I've played is Super Metroid.
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@error said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@error the funny thing is that at the release of Terraria, most gamers wouldn't call it an actual game either.
Apparently, with this classification system, most games I like are non-games.
I prefer sandboxes and open-world sims, with no particular goal (though I'm also fond of roguelikes and soulslikes).
That's kind of similar to what I like, although I haven't got into Souls like games that much. But I do enjoy games with optional progression like Terraria, or where you can screw around a lot before/instead of/in between doing the story missions like the GTA games. And also roguelike/rogue-lite games like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky
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@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
Remember that Terraria was first released before the entire indie games revolution.
Maybe. Terraria came out around 2011 IIRC, and I think indie games were on the rise then. The original Isaac and classic Spelunky were around at least
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@Zecc said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
if you like Terraria, post about it here
That's ne-- Waitaminute
Is that the mobile version?
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@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
Remember that Terraria was first released before the entire indie games revolution.
Maybe. Terraria came out around 2011 IIRC, and I think indie games were on the rise then. The original Isaac and classic Spelunky were around at least
I would consider
an indie, and it was released in 2008
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@cabrito Very good point, I hadn't even remembered that one. There was also Super Meat Boy that I had forgotten, I think around the same time
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@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
Remember that Terraria was first released before the entire indie games revolution.
Maybe. Terraria came out around 2011 IIRC, and I think indie games were on the rise then. The original Isaac and classic Spelunky were around at least
It's a little weird to think about, isn't it? Do you go back as far as Flash and other games in browsers, or perhaps the first hits on Apple's App Store? How about the ones that made waves on Facebook? Even Doom was Shareware originally, and Myst was a Hypercard stack mostly made by two brothers before getting packaged with Macs and becoming the highest-selling game of all time (at the time).
I remember a lot but it just makes me think of how much I don't know about the when, where, and how of the evolution of electronic game development. :(
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@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
That's ne-- Waitaminute
Is that the mobile version?Yes. It's what I had at the time.
The latest updates make the game crash constantly :( (I blame the PoS tablet more than the game)
I have some 500 hours sunk into the PC version, but I haven't played for a couple of years.
I've never gotten far enough to get logic blocks, and that's a shame.
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@cabrito said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@hungrier said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
Remember that Terraria was first released before the entire indie games revolution.
Maybe. Terraria came out around 2011 IIRC, and I think indie games were on the rise then. The original Isaac and classic Spelunky were around at least
I would consider
an indie, and it was released in 2008
And it had next to zero sales until it appeared in Humble Indie Bundle 3 years later. And it's only around 2012 that people really started buying indie games for reasons other than charity.
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@error said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
You seem like someone who would enjoy Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy.
I don't know who Bennett Foddy is, but I prefer to play computer games alone.
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@Gąska said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
And it had next to zero sales until it appeared in Humble Indie Bundle 3 years later.
I apparently bought it in 2010 and not in a bundle, so I guess I was part of the "next to" zero...
Though I do remember at the time that this whole "indie" thing was highly unusual. I don't remember where I heard about it (I think I played a demo first) but I know I was partly enticed by the originality in the development process. So all in all, I probably wasn't too far from your "charity" point.
It was indeed great fun even though it was a bit too short for maximum enjoyment. Now I want to see if it survived the transfer across several computers and can be played again.
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@remi My memory's hazy, but wasn't World of Goo famous for something related to how it was distributed?
Perusing the wikipedia page, it might have been because of the lack of DRM.
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@Zecc That could have been the unusual thing that attracted me, and maybe even the reason I heard about it. Though I think I was also attracted by something about it using a real physics engine or something similar (which at the time wasn't commonplace either), but there is no mention of that on the Wiki page so I may be mistaken.
But really, I frankly don't remember what drove a semi-impulse buy decision 10 years ago!
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@Zecc said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
My memory's hazy, but wasn't World of Goo famous for something related to how it was distributed?
Perusing the wikipedia page, it might have been because of the lack of DRM.
IIRC, they also found ~90% of games reporting in to the leaderboard in the early days were pirated.
@remi said in You can pet dogs in the new Terraria update:
But really, I frankly don't remember what drove a semi-impulse buy decision 10 years ago!
I got it in Humble Indie Bundle 2; I think I wanted Braid and they threw in the games from the first Humble Indie Bundle. I know I played through it, but that's not reflected in my Steam play time.
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