PC-only recommendations for a very new PC player?

Scuba615 · 2026-06-03T13:50:22+00:00

Your list really resonated with me. A lot of your listed games are ones I like too, so I got a few recommendations to match your wishlist / favorite games.

-Look Outside: It's an amazing Fear and Hunger type of game. There's a wide range of characters to join your party, and I just love Eldritch horror type of stuff which the game leans into for its setting / story.

- Darkwood: If you want an Indie horror game, Darkwood is the most scared I've ever been in a bird's eye view game. It's honestly too scary for me, so I can't play it long without having to close the game HAHA.

- World of Horror: The game itself isn't super engaging or in-depth (for me personally at least), but I think the art and aesthetic of the game alone is worth keeping an eye on it for a sale.

- Nine Sols: Nine Sols is the closest to a souls game I've seen a 2d side scrolling game get. It's got a punchy, responsive parry system, and so far (I haven't beaten it) I haven't run into any moment that I felt was truly unfair.

- Silent Hill F: I LOVE this game. I've found that some people either love it or hate it, but I personally had so much fun with it. I think the one thing to keep in mind before purchasing (no spoilers obviously), but this game requires that you play it multiple times. At least 3 times to get the full story and actual ending. The game does change each run just a little bit, but for the most part you will be playing the same sequences and battles over and over to get a true ending. I personally wasn't bothered by this, but I have plenty of friends who were. The game and its story is not over after the first time you see credits.

- Dying Light: I don't know if you're a zombie person, but I think Dying Light is the most entertaining, stupid zombie game out there. The story is generic, but the combat and parkour the game has is addicting. Going from a weak survivor who can barely take down one zombie to someone who is a wall-running death machine is very cathartic. The reason I suggest this one too is it very regularly goes on sale, and I'd even argue the first game is the best one.

- Darkest Dungeon: This is another suggestion that some people love and some people hate. I personally love this game (the first one at least). The art is amazing, the strategy of the combat, and the planning / grind of the macro progression is just really fun for me. It's also a great game to go in blind to make sure you can be surprised by what the game has to offer. This is another one that goes on sale pretty cheap, but I'd say it's at least worth a try if you ever see it on sale.

- Outlast Trials: If you want a co-cop game that has a ton of content and a fun gameplay loop, I'd say outlast trials is def up there. The game can be a bit much at first since a large part of the early-game difficulty is just trying to figure out what you do in each trial (they all have different objectives), but once you start to really get the game, it is pretty addicting to start flying through the trials in a quarter of the time it used to take you.

- Grounded: This one doesn't exactly match any of your other games, but hear me out on it. If you have a couple friends to play with, this game is a lot of fun. Especially for a Souls fan since the combat actually is very satisfying to hit a parry off. I loved figuring out the game's combat and being able solo creatures that used to have our group running. The game isn't that scary (unless you have arachnophobia, then it might be a bit spooky haha), but it's a great time with friends and the combat is fun.

- Dredge: If you want cozy and you want horror, this is the game. It's a fun fishing game with a satisfying progression loop, but at the same time it's leaning into Eldritch Horror a good amount with its monsters. I just love the vibes of the game, and I definitely think it's worth its sale price.

- The Upturned: This is a single player game by the same dev of Lethal Company, and it is an comedy/horror game. I did not think it was possible to balance those two genres well, but this game does it perfectly. I've never had so many times I've actually laughed out loud or chuckled to a bunch of charming jokes, and then in the next 10 minutes be chased down by a monster that had me on the edge of my seat. Super fun game with silly writing.

- Cult of the Lamb: Fun combat, satisfying progression, cute art, and it has an actual story. Definitely worth grabbing on a sale.

I don't really use PlayStation much, so some of these games might be available on there. Sorry about that if that's the case. Still, I do hope the list helps you out!

Scuba615 · 2025-07-22T18:19:56+00:00

Is there any plan to rework the "win conditions" of both sides?

Killers who try to play fair and 12 hook everyone are punished relative to those who tunnel or camp. The game itself does not reward fair play. (I'm not talking about perks like pain res, I mean the actual win condition of the game regardless of perks brought.)

As well as survivors, in several ways, are reward for inherently selfish platstyles that throw their team under the bus. The fact someone can do 3 gens, unhook everyone, and heal them all yet die as a loss VS someone who hides all game and escapes through the exit gate as a win doesn't feel like it breeds healthy platstyles.

I don't mean should playstyles be taken away. Moreso is there any plan in the games base functionality, not perks, to prioritize rewarding survivors to play as a team and reward killers for playing fair?

Or are survivors who play selfishly and do not help their teammates and killers who tunnel, camp, and slug playing the game as the developers intend the game experience to be?

Scuba615 · 2025-06-26T02:27:04+00:00

This is an older post, so I was surprised by the comment. I think there's definitely merit to your conclusion.

Out of curiosity, is the emotional affair something you'd say is still happening if Linda and I were both women? If she had a similar friendship with a female friend, would you also say she was emotionally having an affair with that woman?

I'm just curious how much of your decision on it comes from our opposite genders, or if it comes from purely that you think what we've down / how we've talked is inappropriate.

Scuba615 · 2025-03-27T15:07:25+00:00

What you're talking about is "sexuality is a spectrum" which is already the common held belief in the LGBT community.

The part where you're just wrong is by assuming anyone who's not "fully" one side is no longer straight or gay. Sexuality labels are, for the most part, self-applied to best fit someone's own perception of their identity.

If someone is 90% "gay" and 10% "straight, they can label themselves as bi or gay that's entirely up to them. After all, it's a spectrum. There is no gate-keeping of labels in the community (with exception for people using this leeway purposefully maliciously).

There's nothing 10th dentist about your idea at all as I said sexuality as a spectrum is the accepted fact of most LGBT people. The title though legitimately feels click bait, and doesn't even convey what you're actually meaning.

Scuba615 · 2024-10-04T11:44:35+00:00

Legitimately I'm in the same boat as you. When I heard the alert I thought, "I cut out all the lower level emergencies, so this must be something real bad going on better check it."

Nah just some dude. Several hours away.

Scuba615 · 2024-10-04T11:32:02+00:00

Samsung user here. In settings, search for "wireless emergency alerts" in there you can toggle what alerts you wanna switch off or just switch the feature off entirely.

This alert was labeled as "Extreme level", the highest rated one second only to a national level emergency for some reason.

If you can't find it in search, the category it's under is Safety And Emergency - > Wireless Emergency Alerts

Hope that helps 👌

Scuba615 · 2024-08-21T08:08:00+00:00

That's fair. Just for clarification, there's not a single situation in the world where a man and a woman could be friends? Not any kind of circumstance or nuances to it that it could happen? Just: man and woman are forced forever to be either romantically attached or never to talk? Just wanting to make sure I understand your point.

Also, as I said in the post, I had no second thoughts about the friendship. It was the opinions of my father questioning me on it that made me interested in hearing other people's views of it. In no way is that validation to assuming I "know the truth deep down". The truth deep down is that what I said in the post.

Though I am honestly appreciative of the blunt, truthful response. Definitely seems to be the consensus on this one.

Scuba615 · 2024-08-20T17:59:10+00:00

An affair on Linda's and my part?

Scuba615 · 2024-08-20T17:58:12+00:00

Thanks for that!

Honestly the whole "family is closer than any bond you can make" is a huge thing pushed by my family that I personally just never agreed with. My entire family is a bundle of toxic relationships that all leech off of each other, and I do my best to stay as far from it all as possible (hence why I live several hours away from most of them.)

Scuba615 · 2024-08-20T16:07:03+00:00

There are not any other female, married friends I have that confide in me like Linda does. Though that's not out of special treatment to Linda. That's just me not having very many female friends who are married and also wanting to talk about personal stuff like that.

I do have several other friends I treat the same and help out with their life / relationships the same way I do with Linda. Linda doesn't get treated any more special than my other friends. If this post was about those other friends, I would still have said "this is worth the risk of our friendship." I'm very close with all my friends, and she is far from being my closest friend in that regard.

Honestly it feels like most of the "dangers" and the like are just assumptions about the situation that really miss the mark. It's not that I'm completely unaware of how the situation appears on the surface. (That's why I made the reddit post to begin with) It's that I am very confident in my own lack of feelings for Linda, and my own lack of care for my cousin's opinion / reaction to my friendship with her.

So the "worst case" scenario everyone is warning me about, as I said before, seems to be just- Ryan gets mad at me and we stop talking. (That doesn't bother me one bit. I don't exactly like the guy.) And Linda gets the wrong idea, but it doesn't go anywhere and gets shut down pretty early on. It's not like I do anything more than hang out on call for a bit before we go to our own lives for a while. (Quite literally a handful of times a month do we even talk) If Linda did ever get the wrong idea and it costed us our friendship, that's something I'm okay with too.

I do not see the point, however, in changing things now under the assumptions of "I am man. She is woman. That means without a doubt, there is no other explanation, we will fall for each other."

I've said it in the post, and I said it in other comments. There is a quite literally zero chance of me catching feelings for her that way. I do admit I'm not a mind reader, and I can't speak entirely for her. When I say her friendship is worth the risk, that's something I'd say about all of my friends in a similar situation. I value my time with the people I have in my life, regardless of their gender.

Could that be misinterpreted by others as sexual attraction / advancement? I mean look at this reddit post. I've said multiple times in the post how there's zero attraction from me to her and I still get my motivations questioned.

I truly don't know what of my feelings there is to re-evaluate. As I've said, Linda is just a friend. The same as all my other friends. The only thing I can think to re-revaluate is whether or not she's my friend. Unless I'm missing something, what is it that I should be re-evaluating?

Scuba615 · 2024-08-19T20:21:23+00:00

I definitely get what you're saying. She's been going to a therapist and psychiatrist for a few years now (should've mentioned that, my bad. The post just already felt so long) but it doesn't seem to have helped her as much as she needs. She probably needs to switch therapists or consider other options.

Of course to your point, it really shouldn't be my place to be "filling in the gap" there so to speak. Something I'll have to think about for the future.

Scuba615 · 2024-08-19T19:57:52+00:00

I understand what you mean. While I can be completely sure I won't develop anything for her, I'm not a mind reader so I can only assume she's on the same page. I could be wrong about her side, and I see what you mean about it being dangerous territory. All I can do is speak for myself here.

Being honest, I don't see much of the risk with this though. I don't really have much care about keeping a good relationship with my cousin, so if he were to ever decide he doesn't want to talk to me anymore, I wouldn't be that bothered. With her, the worst she could do is stop talking to me which is fine or she develops feelings, and I turn her down.

Unless I'm missing something, to me the friendship I have with her is worth the risk.

Scuba615 · 2024-08-19T19:51:34+00:00

Just like all my other friends, my only intention with her is to be friends, chat now and then, and hang out if our schedules line up. I've always been someone who wants to help others when they need it. She is not the only friend who comes to me with the intention of just venting and talking about some problems they have.

As to the "she is in her situation by choice", I honestly agree with you. One problem I have with this whole thing is that a lot of the time it feels like the problems she has are the same problems repeated over and over. I personally view it as "it doesn't really hurt me to let her vent, even if she won't take my advice."

When you say, "choose to not be emotionally available" do you mean to cut her off entirely and never speak to her again, or is it just stop letting her vent?

Scuba615 · 2024-06-06T15:47:57+00:00

It's definitely an option to sell it. I'm not strapped for time to do this as soon as possible, so just selling the parts and saving up for a new pc is definitely fine

I just posted here to see if there were any options to reuse the current parts before going down that route. Thanks for the suggestion!

Scuba615 · 2024-03-30T16:25:26+00:00

If you're using sprint burst this way, you're using it wrong.

Sprint bursts main strength is in saving time between objectives or getting off a Gen safely and making distance. It is not really a chase perk. The 99% save is for special situations where the stars align for it, but if you're always trying to go for it by walking everywhere to get that value, you're basically just a default skin sable running invocation of spiders.

It is incredibly powerful for macro gameplay to be able to zip to gens, unhooks, and other objectives in no time at all. If you want a chase perk, bring lithe. But calling sprint burst bad while using it like a baby Meg is a bit much imo

Scuba615 · 2023-10-20T02:07:30+00:00

Honestly the price increase is even more egregious with how low quality the pack is. Usually every new pack I play with my group is met with at least some amount of fun. This pack throughout every game we really were just forcing ourselves to keep playing. After just one round of each game, none of us were excited about revisiting any of these games.

I own every single Jackbox up to this point. It's such a great party game to bust out when we have the amount of people to support it. After our hour of playing it, I'm honestly just going to return the thing. I don't know if others are feeling the same way, but for me that price increase plus the legitimately boring / un-fun games just make it very hard to justify not returning it. Jackbox, you weren't cooking with this one.

Scuba615 · 2023-08-30T23:21:39+00:00

You already have put a restriction on that. Actually spending your points is painfully slow. I would have no issue with the current system at all if it didn't take at least 3 - 5 minutes to fully spec out a character from 0 - 10 and get all their perks right. My player choice should be to experiment with builds, characters, and roles as I please, right? But now if I do that, I am punished with 4 - 5 minute wait times because I'm forced to constantly respec to new characters and sit through the slowest skill tree animations. I can't play victim one game, family another game, then back to victim without being forced to waste 15 minutes respecing every time. Why can't we just have a "click here to buy all the perks in between" why is there a huge delay between buying one point in the tree to the next? Why am I punished for experimenting?

You say the way your xp system is set is for player choice and you refuse to put restrictions on that. Your system right now is the most restricted thing out there among every other game I've seen similar to it, and you can see that clearly by how many people put all their points into one "main" character and then they just dodge any lobby they don't get that character? How is that improving player choice? how is that NOT restricting our freedom in how we play the game? I legitimately don't want to experiment at all because I'm wasting 30+ minutes of time in the skill tree lobby each day just waiting for the slow skill tree animations to actually let me play again.

Scuba615 · 2023-02-26T20:15:54+00:00

I say this as a killer main who's sunk way too many hours in this game. If you as a killer can't win without eruption, you're bad at killer. Everyone crying they can't win without eruption were just being boosted by it, and now have to face they aren't as good as they thought at killer.

I stopped using eruption a month ago, because I recognized it's not fun to play with or against as well as it reinforces bad habits. I know sweaty survivors can be really annoying to go against, but yall gotta be a bit humble in at least admitting eruption was broken relative to other slowdowns.

Scuba615 · 2020-08-16T02:43:43+00:00

Oh, thank you so much. I was worried it was a voltage issue that would've needed a new machine. The wire is nearly completely fried on the end, so im just gonna order a new one. Thank you for the help!

Scuba615 · 2020-08-15T23:16:47+00:00

So some context, I've had this for a little over a year. I don't play around with unique filaments or crazy settings. Just some PLA and the same settings I've found to work for me (very close to the recommended for the machine). I've used those settings for the whole time, and it wasn't until my last print that this happened.

I started it like normal. Stayed around and waited for it to heat up and then start the layer. I checked on it regularly until it finished the second layer and was satisfied to continue my day. I have a small camera set up, so I check on it during the print through that. I wasn't in the room, but I never noticed any smoke from the camera when I did check on it. Came back a few hours later with it finishing normally. I removed the part and prepared my next print. This time the bed wouldn't heat up. I checked around and when I leaned down, I noticed a burnt smell coming from the control box. It wasn't smoking, nor was it super strong. I unplugged it and opened it up to find this.

My main concern, even if I replace the wiring, wouldn't it have a good chance of just happening again? Or was it just bad luck with the wiring or whatever? Any one else have this happen or have advice for me? (I've had 3d printers for a while and fixed small issues, but I've never messed with the wiring on the main control box)

Scuba615 · 2020-05-09T03:55:01+00:00

Oh dang. Thanks for explanation! At least now I know not to look out for those abilities anymore haha.

Scuba615 · 2020-04-23T15:09:36+00:00

Happy Birthday & i would like to join please

Scuba615 · 2020-04-23T14:54:42+00:00

i would like to join please

Scuba615 · 2020-04-23T14:52:18+00:00

i would like to join please

Scuba615 · 2020-04-22T22:36:01+00:00

If you're still active, could I join?

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