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I recently played Alien Isolation, and I noticed all of the “hacking” she does on doors and computers are different types of games, like press the button at the right time, or match the images within a timer, etc.

A lot of games have these mini-games, and I was wondering which you think are the best? Or at least, didn’t get old fast?

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMO pay-to-win mechanics work really well for a game-within-a-game since rather than exploiting the player for money, they are exploiting the player character for effort, which can lead you to go on more epic quests

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personally I found it really annoying that halfway through the game when I decided to give gwent a go, i got absolutely trashed and was basically tole to go back to the beginning of the game and redo a bunch of areas I'd already spent too much time in.

Not to mention none of the gwent quests were epic in the slightest. They were literally "play these people, if you win you get a card".

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I spent more time playing gwent then playing the Witcher.