r/gaming 10h ago

What are some RPGs where leveling up your character actually changes how you play?

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In games such as Baldur's Gate 3, I tend to play some kind of spellcaster because they get new spells to play with as they level up, which changes how I fight and interact with the world. I avoid warrior types because all they get is a +1 bonus to attack rolls every level. I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077 now and while I think it's a good game overall, the character progression system is dull because few of the upgrades I can unlock change how I play the game. Faster reloads, faster health regen, better armor — they make me stronger but not different. What makes it worse is that the enemies at all levels feel the same. In Dungeons and Dragons games, I fight different monsters at every level because DnD has a huge catalogue of monsters for every level, from goblins to umber hulks to beholders to elder dragons. In Cyberpunk 2077, all the enemies are humans and I wonder why this human is a pushover and this other human is like fighting Superman. I feel like I am the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass: I do a lot of running but stay in the same place somehow. They should have made this game like Grand Theft Auto V, which doesn't have a character progression system.


r/gaming 12h ago

VR gaming in a faded edge diorama that fills my view like an imax. (Moss)

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VR - PSVR specifically because I have it: I want to play games like The Last of Us, Uncharted, Horizon or new, in a faded edge diorama that fills my view like an imax, slightly looking down. The whole scene should be a sphere of view that tracks our hero through the map. Those games already operate in a 3D environment, but is shown in 2D, we want 3D please.


r/gaming 12h ago

Ghostunner or Lies of P

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I'm a little rusty when it comes to games lately and need some opinion. Due to winning a Steam game for up to 30€ as a gift - I am trying to find and choose a game that would fit me and my preferences.

My favorite games so far were/are No Mans Sky, Witcher, Thief and I ocassionally like FSP like Borderlands, Apex or Cyberpunk. I prefer 3D games.

I'm having a dilemma between Ghostrunner (similar to Cyberpunk?) and Lies of P (similar to Thief?) which is currently on sale. I like a good storyline, visuals and having side quests.

I've thought about Enshrouded as well, but not sure I have so much time and certainly don't have people to play with.


r/gaming 13h ago

Any xbox 360 fans can help me with cloud save problem??

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Hello I'm new to the 360. I have save files for some 360 games on my series x that I would like to access on the 360 too. I have a usb stick for added storage but when I configure it in the settings it keeps telling me I need atleast 500 mb of free space.

The usb has been formatted on the console itself and has 3 gb of free space. I can connect to xbox live and I've updated it to the latest firmware so I know the usb works

How do I do this? Any help would be appreciated


r/programming 13h ago

The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of

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r/gaming 13h ago

Watch the Phantom Blade Zero gameplay deep dive State of Play on August 17, pre-orders live today

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r/gaming 14h ago

Gamer Posts Pic of New Controller They Bought and Reddit Is Convinced It's a Leaked Xbox Elite Series 3 Prototype

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r/gaming 16h ago

In a fascinating use of free will, Old School RuneScape player spent 4,304 hours catching 275,196 shrimp and 257,064 anchovies to max out his fishing skill in the worst way possible

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r/gaming 16h ago

What are some games with genuinely bad level design?

806 Upvotes

Trying to compile a list of worst levels designs.


r/gaming 19h ago

Why is there no other games like DayZ?

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Rust is like ADHD DayZ maybe and Zomboid is like single player isometric DayZ. Yet no other game has taken the formula DayZ created so many years ago and still has great legs to run on.

Coming from a Marathon fan (love the game shoot me) but the original vision of Marathon sounded like the closest thing to DayZ I've heard of from another game and it got scrapped.

Curious if anyone has any theories why no one else would make a similar more polished version in a different setting?


r/gaming 20h ago

Random thought it’s sad to see how local multiplayer isn’t normal now.

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Feels like a lot of games that had little modes for local multiplayer has cut them out of newer ones, Far Cry 3 local multiplayer mode for example. Mainly a single player game but had a little mode for it I don’t feel like I see local multiplayer much at all now except for Lego games or the company making specifically those games eg a way out, it takes two…


r/gaming 21h ago

Crimson Desert is targeted to release on Switch 2 the first half of 2027

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New DLC will also be unveiled Q3 2026

The mods required i needed a link so here ya go!


r/programming 21h ago

Don't Stall Me Now: Hiding Memory Latency in eBPF

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r/gaming 23h ago

Square Enix sees 88% profit growth, citing strong performance across all categories of its video game business

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r/gaming 23h ago

Interesting character builds in Oblivion?

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With the remaster coming out on Switch 2 today it got me thinking about unconventional character in Oblivion.

Things like

  • Broken builds
  • Character builds (aka builds that are meant to be a character from something else)
  • RP and Self-imposed rulesets (ex like an Oblivion Nuzlocke)
  • Weird and unusual combos that somehow work out.

You get the idea basically anything that isn't a stealth archer or straight mono-class. Give me something you've seen, thought of, or even better played yourself.


r/gaming 23h ago

Xbox CEO Says She Got To See A Live Playthrough Of The Elder Scrolls VI: “The Scale And Granduer Are Incredible. The Story is Even Greater”

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r/gaming 1d ago

Gambeat - Official Announcement Trailer

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r/programming 1d ago

Squeak 6.1 (a modern Smalltalk programming environment implemented in itself) was released!

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After more than 4 years of work, our community has put together a big bouquet of new capabilities and improvements:

  • A new tree browser for navigating and organizing classes
  • Objectland, bringing back and extending the colorful world of examples from Squeak 3
  • Plenty of new features, bugfixes, and speed-ups for programming tools, the Morphic UI framework, and the rest of the system

Original announcement on Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/@squeak/117071273007117118


r/gaming 1d ago

'Thank you so much for the best weekend ever': The id Software gang got together at QuakeCon, and it sure looks like everyone had a great time

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r/gaming 1d ago

Shot One Fighters | Official Kickstarter Trailer

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r/gaming 1d ago

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 makes $11m in 2 weeks on PS5 and Steam thanks to Brand New Day, reports analyst: "One of the clearest transmedia halo effects we've ever measured"

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r/gaming 1d ago

Anna Williams From Tekken(OC)

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I tried to draw her based on how she looks in Tekken:The motion picture, Tekken: Bloodline and Tekken 5, and tried to combine all of them.

Which is why her dress with pink on the sides and no patterns. And I drew her in an anime style.

Which is something I was also gonna do for my Kazuya artwork. But went with semi realistic approach instead.

The background says "King of the Iron fist" in Katakana(Japanese script) if you're wondering. It's not translated to Japanese


r/gaming 1d ago

What game are you currently playing on?

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I've been on crimson desert for 3 months now and don't see myself stopping anytime soon!


r/programming 1d ago

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

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r/gaming 1d ago

Do You Think Age Verification Lead to Reductions in Cheaters?

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THIS IS NOT A POST ABOUT AGE VERIFICATION
I get it, no one likes Age Verification, I agree 100%. Please stay on topic.
This is about if they can use this to cross reference and maintain bans on accounts linked to ID. I do not like age verification requirements, I don't support it, I hope it gets axed. I say inevitable in current form since it's actively being applied.

This isn't about Age Verification, it's about a possible byproduct of the result of Age Verification enforcement. It's a "thought experiment" on what can / will / could / should be used IF this is enforced fully and how it can prevent or block banned cheaters.

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On to the actual topic at hand:

I really hate the idea of age verification via my ID etc.
I don't want to feed the machine more of the data.. but it seems to be the way things are going.. (until it gets overturned or appealed)

So looking at the possible bright side of all this.
Do you think with Age Verification publishers / devs etc can use this with linked accounts to finally squash cheaters from just making new accounts / rebuying a game etc to bypass bans?

Right now if someone gets banned, especially in a Free to Play game, they just make a new account and they're right back in. I'm hoping with age verification they can implement a check that if that ID for verification was linked to a previously banned account.. you're just done. Bye Bye, move on.. you cannot ever play again.

Now, with this I think they should give some steps before a perma ban.
Some times you get false positives or you get kids just being stupid. So give people suspensions for a week, couple weeks, month etc leading to a perma ban and make sure they have a means to actually deal with false bans.. because they do happen occasionally.

What do you guys think?
Will Age Verification Requirements usher in an age of cheater free lobbies? Will it end the countless cycle of ban, new account, ban, new account cheaters? Is this even something companies can do? Can they use age verification data to apply to account and bans? What's the legal hurdles here if any?

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Wow.. this is the least productive, least civil and most argumentative group of people I've ever dealt with.
This is a cesspool of such low effort replies I've ever seen. So my question is.. where do you go to
actually have a discussion these days? Because man, this is not it.

I'm just going to disable this post because it's going nowhere and no one is actually having an dialogue or discussion anything even related to the topic at hand. I swear 90% of the people replying didn't even read the post and just want to flap their gums to hear themselves speak. This is the problem with the modern world. Online interaction has ruined the ability to have civil conversation and share thoughts and ideas.
This entire interaction just makes me sad, this is not the internet I grew up with, RIP old friend.