Mega Man 4 is my favorite NES game. I also love Mega Man 2 and 6. 5 is fun. 3 is overrated. 1 is okay. I’ll write you a paragraph on each game if you’d like. Try The Sequel Wars!

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  • PastaRhythm@lemmy.worldtoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•What are your favourite offline, low power-usage games?
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    1 year ago

    Agreed, there’s so much I prefer about HoT over VS.

    But in a quick defense of VS, I don’t think the player is really supposed to beat Death at first. He’s supposed to be the end of your run. You can defeat him, but I think you have to grind out a bunch of upgrades to be able to do it. The end-of-run Lords in HoT are meant to be normal bosses that you defeat. That part is less of a balance issue and more of a different design philosophy. Death is supposed to be insanely hard, the Lords in HoT are meant to be fair.

    The difference is that the first time I made it to the 30 minute mark in HoT (which took comparatively much less time…maybe because I’m just more familiar with the style of game?)

    I’ve never made it to the end of a run in VS, but I got there decently quickly in HoT. If there’s one complaint I can make about the game, it’s that it’s a smidge too easy.

  • PastaRhythm@lemmy.worldtoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•What are your favourite offline, low power-usage games?
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    1 year ago

    I went camping a bit ago and loaded my Steam Deck with a bunch of games. The only game I ended up playing was Mega Man: The Sequel Wars. It’s a Genesis/Mega Drive remake of my favorite NES game Mega Man 4, with many more features. It was crazy fun, and my Steam Deck lasted the whole trip on one charge. If you don’t want a hard game, you can set it to Easy difficulty, turn on Infinite Lives, or activate any of the other cheats it provides.

    Now that my Sequel Wars shill is out of the way, here are bunch of other battery efficient games:

    • Emulating retro consoles, but it seems like you have that covered.
    • Any Shantae game. Light-hearted, casual, well designed 2D platformers.
    • Halls of Torment. Similar to Vampire Survivors, and I personally like it more. Worth it for the classic-PC-game art style alone.
    • Boneraiser Minions: Also like Vampire Survivors, but instead of trying to see how many projectiles you can fire per second, you’re raising a small undead army to fight for you while you focus on dodging. Very fun.
    • Ace Attorney. The first trilogy is entirely 2D and is basically a visual novel with puzzle elements. What some people do for visual novels on Steam Deck is limit the framerate to something miniscule like 15 fps. The battery lasts for an eternity.
    • I know you said you don’t want to play Hollow Knight, but I’m physically incapable of doing a Steam Deck recommendations list without saying Hollow Knight.
  • PastaRhythm@lemmy.worldtoSteam Deck@sopuli.xyz•What are your favourite offline, low power-usage games?
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    1 year ago

    Coming from a weirdo who didn’t like Vampire Survivors but couldn’t get enough of Halls of Torment:

    You can aim and fire manually, with toggles for auto aim and fire if you wish. Every character starts with a unique weapon that fires in the direction they aim. When you level up, you select from one of four randomly chosen stat buffs. There’s some RNG involved here, but it’s much more restrained than in VS. No matter what you get, you’re always getting a good build. You can get new weapons and equipment by defeating bosses, and these are extremely helpful (without feeling like your build depends on getting the right abilities.) I didn’t like Vampire Survivors because it felt too uninteractive and luck-dependant, which I know is not the case and I’m just bad at the game, but it just wasn’t fun for me. In Halls of Torment, every character is good, most builds are good, and no matter what RNG I get I feel like I’m on a good run. I feel like I’m immediately rewarded for my skill, whereas VS makes me feel like my skill is far less important than my upgrades and RNG. (Again, I know VS takes skill, it’s just how it made me feel personally. I’m not saying VS is bad, it just didn’t mesh with me.)