It's been a pretty popular way of releasing not-AAA games in recent years. Developers let players buy their game before it is done and give them access to an in-development version of it. This of...
Recently I have a blast playing games that have an average rating on metacritic or are generally considered "OK games" Atlas Fallen just being an example, I also had fun with Forspoken Why? I...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1c5o6un/atlas_fallen_and_the_beauty_of_ok_games/
Hello, fellow gamers! 👋 I am doing research at the University of Amsterdam that dives deep into how our interactions with and perceptions of our avatars influence our gaming experience. I th...
Hi everyone, I am a PhD student and am conducting a study to investigate players across various expertise levels to gather insights into their preferences, needs of, and practices of use of com...
As I scrolled through other posts, I couldn’t help but think about how we often see narrative games as the opposite of addictive ones. Narrative games are usually praised for their artistic val...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1c2wc14/narrative_games_vs_addictive/
Now that basically every game company hires a behavioral psychologist it's sometimes difficult to distinguish addictive video game systems from happenstance vs intentional designs. Now the ques...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1c2pss2/gaming_loops_and_self_control/
I love strategy games like Frostpunk, This war of mine and Darkest dungeon. I also love a good old Civ-game. But I find myself restarting theses games a lot and a lot of the times I never finish ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1c22esf/learning_by_doing_in_strategy_games/
Ever since I finished Baldur's Gate 3, I keep wondering about the future of gaming. I don't know what's the most compelling characteristic for the majority, that makes them enjoy videogames, but ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1c1ay2k/regarding_the_trajectory_of_future_storybased/
One of the things I always found odd about RE4 is that despite leaning heavily into a more action-styled game and introducing a dedicated shop for purchasing weapons, it never actually lets you b...
(I posted this in r/VideoGames meaning to post it here. I left it there for conversations sake.) I‘d recently been thinking how ODD it was that out of nowhere Ubisoft of all companies would ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1c083li/is_star_wars_outlaws_beyond_good_and_evil_2_in/
I think that RPG Maker games and JRPGs are basically the same genre. I think about it more in a mechanical sense than a style sense. Is there a word for this subgenre? I really don't want to ca...
One of my issues with the remake is that it goes for a more traditional third person shooter feel by making Leon more maneuverable. This kills what made RE4 so special and what made it stand out ...
This is my opinion. If there are people who plays and knows a lot more about about rpg games. I would love to know more and get into them. It's preety hard to balance games with rpg elements. A...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1bwgcoa/rpg_elements_and_rpg_games_are_flawed/
I was a (pretty critical) fan of the original Dragons Dogma. Dragons Dogma 2 is every bit a sequel to the original especially in how frustratingly close to "great" it gets. For every high there a...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1bw66it/lets_talk_about_that_ballsy_dragons_dogma_2/
I really don't understand this. I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole over the past few days trying to get what people don't like about it, and the reasons I've got don't make sense. Please fil...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1bvwt3y/the_hate_for_first_person_platforming/
Often with competitive FPS, developers opt for somewhat grounded and lower powered player characters. You often have to stay still in order to shoot accurately, and you don’t have many strong m...
Not trying to make any kind of hot take here, but I'm trying to think back to find exactly when it was decided on that a game had to have more than a wallpaper story at most. Around 2000? Earlier...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1btfd0r/when_exactly_did_story_become_a_critical/
Just wanted to say this and want to hear everybodys opinion. For me, April Fools is the worst day you can check the internet. Everyone thinks they are funny, when they post fake (game) news. ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1bt59y3/the_worst_day_for_gamers_april_fools/
So I recently played through the demo of Stellar Blade… and I don’t really know how to describe the experience as anything but off putting. My dad recently played the demo, and as someone w...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1bs68g9/stellar_blade_discussion_do_hyper_sexualized/
Let me start off by saying this is a thread about all the actual issues with Dragon's Dogma that are not related to microtransactions and performance issue. This is a discussion about the issues ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1brszbz/dragons_dogma_2_is_a_9_or_1010_game_trapped_in/
I've noticed a trend in stealth games over the last 10-15 years where the usual light based stealth, perfected in stuff like Splinter Cell and Thief, is now mostly replaced by cover based stealth...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1brcdmj/light_based_vs_cover_based_stealth/
Hi, I wanted to hear some people to weigh in on a conversation I had with a friend. It was just a little fun unserious but very opinionated argument we had. We’re both Miyazaki fanboys but al...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1brc3g5/is_miyazaki_formulaic/
I recently got my hands on cocoon. As always I do my research before getting a game, even a cheap one on sale. Unfortunately certain games the common mantra is "go in blind, you'll love it." I'm ...
I've beaten both games but it feels like chore to replay just thinking about it. Because while the main campaign is great and also the game itself is incredibly well made(Gameplay, story, graphic...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1br8ic8/new_god_of_war_reboot_games_are_hard_to_replay/
The most obvious example is WW2 games. A lot of the time, they focus mostly or entirely on 1944-1945, the last years of the war, generally starting around D-Day. While there are games which are s...
Hey, all! In this thread, the rules are more relaxed. The idea is that this megathread will provide a space for otherwise rule-breaking content, as well as allowing for a slightly more conversa...
https://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1b59yrj/rtruegaming_casual_talk/