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- Digimon World - New General Megathread for the 28th-29th of September 2024
Digimon World (デジモンワールド Dejimon Wārudo?) is a role-playing, adventure, and digital pet video game developed by Bandai released at January 28, 1999 in Japan, North America at May 23, 2000, and PAL at July 6, 2001 for the PlayStation. It is the first game in the Digimon World series. The storyline focuses on a human brought to File City on File Island by Jijimon to save the island. Digimon have been losing their memories and becoming feral and the city has fallen into disarray. The goal of Mameo is to save the island by helping Digimon recover their memory and return to the city.
As it came before the anime in Japan, it is very strictly based on the Virtual Pets. The game play revolves around raising a single Digimon from its Digitama form, hatching into a Fresh, up through In-Training, Rookie, Champion, and with work, Ultimate. A Digimon partner will die with age, and return to an egg eventually, so the player has to raise it again.
Fans of the anime will be familiar with the sixth stage, Mega; however this game was made only shortly after the Pendulum series of pets, which introduced Mega level.
To raise a Digimon partner, the player must train it, feed it, let it rest, and take it to the bathroom.
The other main aspect of gameplay is battle. The player's partner Digimon fight the Digimon that have become aggressive due to a crisis on File Island. Partner Digimon begin the game with a few basic skills but acquire more as they progress in levels through the game.
The PAL region's variant cover art features the seven initial Partner Digimon from Digimon Adventure. The group includes Tentomon which isn't obtainable but does however appear in Beetle Land and Gomamon, who is otherwise completely absent from this game
Gameplay
Digimon World's game play utilizes two major aspects: Raising and battling. The element of monster raising consists of feeding your Digimon, allowing it to rest, and leading it to the bathroom. As a Digimon grows and trains, it can digivolve into a stronger form; there are 5 stages of digivolution in total including the desirable Ultimate form. Raising a Digimon carefully and properly helps progress through the game, and improper treatment can lead to dire consequences. The second element of the game, battling, composes the other major aspect of the game. Digimon World's battle system heavily relies on options that a player can command, such as "Your Call" and "Retreat".[3] As a player ventures in the wild, Digimon may engage in battle when touching each others paths. Battles are usually inevitable while adventuring, and they are a reliable source of techniques that a Digimon can learn and money. Training a partner Digimon enhances its parameters, enabling it to fight with better ease and digivolve to powerful forms. Digimon World also provides various mini-games for the player, including fishing, arena tournaments, and curling. Sub-quests are also available, mainly for new recruiting Digimon and other hidden surprises.
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- Sunday Night is Gaming Night: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread
I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing weekend. I finished Borderlands 3, and i have to say that I found it mostly tolerable, which is a massive step up from BL2 (which i hated). I have also been playing minecraft for the first time since before COVID
- Hexbear Plays Dwarf Fortress: Year 6 (105-106)
Apologies for the length, I was just really enjoying the opportunity to write some slopping wet prose. I'll organize the journal entries by month and link them here.
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State of the fortress in brief
Everything’s going pretty much fine in the fortress. I reorganized the military and have the squads patrolling between the two cavern entrances in shifts. At any point the bridges could be raised, but I left them open to encourage fun.
One thing that I didn’t mention in the journal is that there are some warm walls in the lower caverns, which should indicate there’s a source of magma for future efficient industry and mischief.
There were only two dwarf deaths that I can recall, as well as a birth or two. There was one moderate wave of migrants. I mostly let the upper fortress run itself, save for a little shuffling and building of guildhalls. The Countess either has all her needs met or only needs a little more in her bedroom. I had thought about reorganizing some of the offices, but I didn’t really get around to that.
A number of rose gold coins have been minted. A small amount of bismuth bronze was made, I used some to decorate The Rose Chamber, which I intend to serve as a reliquary and landmark. It would also serve as a very fine temple complex for the local Stigilite sect, but it didn’t seem quite right for the roleplay and I didn’t want dwarves to be pulled up and down the fortress to visit it too much.
So far the military has been able to tackle pretty much everything the caves have thrown up and probably won’t struggle against anything that isn’t made of very hard materials or producing toxic gas. The elves might get pissed if tree-cutting picks back up, probably not a huge concern unless someone wants to maintain peace for whatever reason.
Suggestions for future players are to keep digging down, gain access to magma, and set up new industries like glass (if sand can be procured) or dyeworks.
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LikutRegolith Togalkulet, Militia Commander---
- Welcome to Hexcraft! A Virtual Tour
hello everyone and welcome to the virtual tour! i'd just like to show everyone what we've been doing on the server and what's to come
let's start off with the developing town of Serygrad/Chapograd/Whatever the fuck they are going to call it! this community is being built literally from the ground up by none other than master architect and engineer @Seryph@lemmygrad.ml @LittleSery !
it currently has half a train station, a full library, a functioning depot and two gay parrots! i cannot wait to see how this place turns out !
this is the first of our trains. this one connects Serygrad to the town of Shadehaven. let's take a ride. ALL ABOARD! !
enjoy the first-class amenities in our one-car train and relax as the centrally planned rail system efficiently takes us to our destination !
along the line, we have a cute little picture to mark the city limits. hi Lenin! !
welcome to Shadehaven Station! !
enjoy the gothic ambience of our first-ever train station !
right outside the station, the cherry trees accentuate the gothic vibes of the city. it's truly beautiful at night if you get past the gangs of roving phantoms trying to murder you !
this is Shadehaven! it was originally built from the bones of a village into the sprawling behemoth it currently is (#5 if you want to be exact), !
entirely because of the efforts of the dedicated community. everyone on here is a legend and i appreciate them immensely !
the users on this server are so talented, bringing technological advancements that blend the virtual and real world. hi @ashinadash@hexbear.net! !
it's seriously so impressive. is there any limit to what we can't d- oh. fuck off. !
anyway. this is our town square! i love coming back to town because it's such a relaxing atmosphere !
can you believe this started out with like 3 villagers and a witch? !
the natural build gave us a leg up and the infrastructure they left us has been built upon and improved immensely !
we even have a castle! obviously the crown jewel of our town, it is a majestic beacon of progress !
oh. @PurrLure@hexbear.net please explain this. !
inside you can hear the groans of a villager and some kind of animal. this fucking sucks. !
why are you here, you dweeb? just leave. fuck off !
maybe it's not all bad. you know what they say, behind every closed door is !
and that concludes our tour! time to rest outside my cabin. i'm just gonna sit here and ignore the fact that all of that bullshit is literally down the street from me !
- Hexcraft, the Most Communist Minecraft Server, is Live!
the server is intended for hexbear and lemmygrad users. to get on the allow-list and get the ip, just dm me. i do a quick vetting of acct so if ur acct is new or ur a lurker you’ll have to wait while i figure some stuff out (ill update this post when we’re accepting new users and lurkers)
the modpack were using is here
thank you to the owner of the server for being so generous and hosting us! and thank you to the two users who worked on the modpack!
happy minecrafting gaymers!!
- Hexbear Magic The Gathering server is open for business!
Feel free to join up. We play with digital tools which mean you don't need to own any cards in real life to play. Link is open for next 7 days, if you see this post after then, send me a DM for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/7uwdVZCp
- The Hexbear Federation of Star Systems is now open!
For those of you who don't care, I promise this is the last post about this. All further discussion can be relegated to the matrix space.
Matrix Space: https://matrix.to/#/!tyfTFjggYNboCPZPKo:envs.net?via=envs.net
The main base isn't anything special, at least for now, but it's enough to protect from the main planet's frequent boiling storms. If any comrades need to be picked up, you can use the S.O.S. channel in the matrix space. All four stars are yellow, so no special hyperdrives are required to traverse the whole federation.
Portal Coords:
Hexadecimal Transcription: 4 0 6 E F E F B 4 9 1 3
Atlas Transcription: Tepaavpe Dipedigu Teudzago
Feel free to join us! No other planets except the main one in System Alpha have been discovered, so feel free to name them how you wish, and build small outposts, huge bases, or anything in between! I can't wait to meet all of you in our marxist-leninist space commune!
edit: thank you for the pin! !heart-sickle
- It's been a long, hard road, but after a year's work, I've finished the demo of Guardian Cry, a 16-bit Zelda clone. Check it out!
EDIT: Holy shit thanks so much whoever made the $19.17 donation
- FF7 Rebirth Sales Fell Below Expectations | Castle Super Beast 287 Clip
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- No, Actually, You *Do* Have to Be Transgender in Dragon Age. Put on the Sockshard-drive.net No, Actually, You *Do* Have to Be Transgender in Dragon Age. Put on the Socks
The year is 2024. Humanity has fallen. A semi-niche fantasy RPG with dragons and magic includes minority groups I personally dislike. Clearly, the world has…
- Here is a 90 minute long review of Grim Fandango by Dungeon Chill
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It's time to watch another long retro video game video essay, hexbear
- Selling Miniature Items In Dark and Darker
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"This never happens to the big stuff guy" !kitty-birthday-sad
- Monster Hunter Wilds Armor Sets Will No Longer Be Gender Exclusive|Game8game8.co Monster Hunter Wilds Armor Sets Will No Longer Be Gender Exclusive|Game8
2024.08.30 Monster Hunter Wilds will now allow players to wear armor sets regardless of their character’s gender! Read on to learn more about how fans reacted to the news and how this revolutionizes ‘fashion hunting.’
!lets-fucking-go FUCKING FINALLY
- Hall of Torment - the best Survivors-like game - just launched into 1.0store.steampowered.com Save 25% on Halls of Torment on Steam
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
As a huge fan of Vampire Survivors and having played a LOT of the copycat games that spawned in its wake, I'm confident in saying that Halls of Torment is the best of the lot by far and even better than VS. Sick ass retro Diablo-like aesthetic that absolutely DRIPS with atmosphere and texture and personality, quest-based meta progression that's way more interesting than just "spend 1000 gold for +5% permanent damage!", 500+ challenges/achievements to complete, characters that are actually distinct and require very different playstyles, there's GEAR you can collect and equip like an ARPG, and one of the characters has a !doggo-matapacos who goes around biting the dicks off of demons.
If you have any interest in the Survivors genre or roguelikes in general I'd strongly recommend at least playing the demo or dropping $5 on the full game (god I love that VS set the trend of making these games dirt ass cheap). I started playing back when it first launched in EA and was immediately hooked and its only gotten way better since.
- Vintage story server
Hello I am currently hosting a vintage story server for me and some friends. It is up 24/7 as long as I have power. It's a really fun game.
If you want the password and ip just dm me on matrix or on here. Didn't realize lemmy supports dm's
Thank you
- I'm Mixed On Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster (Preview Impressions)
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- Circle of Fifths for the board game Spirit Island
So I've gotten really into this board game and after many plays with varying difficulty and number of people I'm settling on this as my circle of fifths for the game. Also I've decided people should make circles of fifths for things rather than tierlists.
Lmk if you agree.
- Survival Horror Camera Mods - How Perspective Changes The Game | Boulder Punch | [21:19]
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- Why do D&D books have to be so expensive?
I just wanna start DMing a game and I need to buy $150 in books to do so? The fuck.
Edit: Lots of people telling me to play other systems. Here’s what’s up:
- I want to play a 1-on-1 game with my wife
- I’ve never DMed before
- She’s never played a TTRPG, so this would be her introduction
- She’s been reading a lot of fae-related fantasy, which has me thinking she may want to play roleplay heavy with some fae storylines present
- Ideally the system wouldn’t be too crunchy or combat focused
Edit 2: I’ve spoken with her and she actually wants a more modern setting
- Woke Content Detector: NOT RECOMMENDED
Pro-DEI: WOMAN (BLACK). Femoid Empowerment: Female teaches you (a man.) SJW: Business Casual.
- A reminder that this game exists and is a very fun ride. Hypnospace Outlaw trailer.
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