Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What have you gotten in terms of games recently for 2023 so far, if anything?
Anyway, make sure to also answer the questions in the title.
Thanks!
Still with Genshin. Bit of a content drought lately, didn’t much care for the latest event. That said, it’s still one of my all-time favourites.
For PC, I’ve recently started playing Frostpunk. Really fun. From what I’ve heard of the Last Autumn, there’s a decent bit of class struggle there, but I haven’t gotten to it yet. (It’s also a bit unclear if it’s inter-worker bickering.)
And I’ve stuck with EU4 - in the middle of a Choson One run, just got declared on by a Russia-Ottoblob alliance.
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Deep Rock Galactic is a pretty fucken cool game if you ask me
Happy cake day comrade!
thanks!
Started up No Man’s Sky for the first time basically since it first launched and am having fun so far!
Okay.
Stilllllll playing TotK but really looking forward to Pikmin 4. I would be playing 1+2 on the switch (super excited to have a bunch of newbies introduced to the series) but i just finished a replay of both not too long ago and I also tend to prefer of games on of hardware when I can. Speaking of, I just got Pokemon Snap in the mail for N64 and I’ve just started playing that in addition to New Pokemon Snap to give me a chill break from Hyrule every now and again
Sounds good!
@Makan Zelda tears of the kingdom
NOICE
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I solely play DBD because it’s the only game I can bear playing which runs on my PC. I work as a video game tester and had been doing so for years so I have access to free games from my company and companies I worked for through friends who still work there but my PC cannot run them and most of their games aren’t of interest to me (although many are very popular). I really want the new bethesda game because I enjoy the brain relaxation of going through the worlds they make which are vast and low brain activity inducing. I would love to play Remnant 2 because 1 is one of the best or the best game I’ve ever played but my PC… :(
@SillyJester @Makan i have the impression that if I was a video game tester I’d end up hating playing videogames
It’s true. You will. I’m miserable a lot of the time and resort to looking up users complaining to see if they report anything we don’t know of just to get a break from playing. Testing is nothing like playing. It’s snashing your head against a wall. 😅
Not for me. I was too poor to play most of the time way before I started. I just have extensive background in gaming and the right personality and predispositions for it. I couldn’t finish my university degree due to ADHD and being from too poor of a background to afford not working so I had to pursue a career where they’d appreciate my other skills. I was told as a child by an adult tester how it is so I knew ahead of time of it being bad, I just had no choice. I’d love to do stuff like game balancing but it’s very hard to get into and there’s no clear path in.
Are you eventually going to get a new PC?
I would instead get a Steam Deck and leave it at that; they can play any PC game superbly well and for less money than a new PC.
I tried building a new one but had issues. I shared a post on my prior account on . world which I’ve deleted since. I might repost later.
Understood
I’m playing Elden Ring, it’s my first souls like game and I really like it. I’m about 70% through the game. Sometimes I play Rocket League. I also started Dead Space (2008) recently, that’s also fun.
I’m also playing Elden Ring.
playing Will You Snail?, I’m bad at platformers (already died like 2500 times) but that won’t stop me from playing them
I love platformers.
Ever since playing Super Mario 64.
Started playing Deep Rock Galactic with the missus and we’re really enjoying it! I’m also obsessed with the new Dead Cells DLC and Doom mods/wads. I especially like Project Brutality with custom WADs, Bloom, Ashes and Aliens TC. It’s mental the time and effort people put into free mods for games and passion projects
I need a good multiplayer game to play.
And I hear Deep Rock Galactic is great.
Would you recommend it?
Definitely! If you have some people to play with (or even just one person), it’s a right blast. I haven’t really tried the matchmaking, but I don’t imagine that to be too fun though. Part of the fun for me and my SO is taking our time to really explore the caves and take our time.
I solely did matchmaking and it was mad fun. I don’t recommend solo at all. The game feels wrong solo. Rock and stone.
I’m currently playing Days Gone and I’m enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would.
My favourite genre is whatever the SoulsBorneSekiroRing games are. I also like Action games like Devil May Cry, Nioh, Ninja Gaiden, and Bayonetta, as well as RPGs like Dragon’s Dogma and The Witcher 3.
I also love story-driven games like The Last of Us (especially part 2, fuck the haters), God of War, Uncharted etc.
I enjoyed Days Gone too, I fully completed it.
Still playing Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Elden Ring.
How’s Pathfinder? If I understand correctly it is made by Owlcat?
I absolutely hated WotR and loved Kingmaker. Apparently people usually feel the opposite way. The first one is great if you want any moral ambiguity. The second one has morals on the level of small children’s books. A huge drop in quality. I preordered because I trusted them after the first one and the game was an awful buggy mess on release and long after.
I loved both .
Is it that odd to like the first one and not the second? I played the entirety of the second one waiting for some interesting choices, the few interactions I enjoyed were with the evil-aligned companions (which is not really enough to warrant a full playthrough). The whole premise of the adventure path is underwhelming, really. Instead of doing something interesting like dethroning the monarchy, you get to fight demons for a feckless leader.
Some of the mechanics were improved, and I did like the mythic paths, but it felt like there was only one interesting chapter (the one where you travel to the demon city), even if it was annoying to navigate.
I don’t think it’s odd since I agree but the most common sentiment I’ve seen online was the opposite hence my precaution. I also wish they made a oriented game instead of pseudo multiple paths which play near identically with no choices to make you stop and think. I also hated how the mythic system worked. It was very random and if you don’t fart at the exact needed time during moon fading behind clouds on the day of a commonly spread diarrhea you won’t be able to get a certain ending or access a path if you don’t blink twice while walking over a teal carpet. (Bit dramatized but the requirements don’t make sense.)
That’s true, I guess I’ve just played enough similar games where I could say “oh, this feels like an important choice, I better do it.” And then my character became a lich.
But I can definitely see where you’re coming from for a certain other path where there are quite a lot of hoops to go through.
And I think the game is supposed to have replayability though those paths… but then they put all the content with the paths they think players will be drawn to. Not necessarily the most fun to play. Like, I picked Lich to resurrect certain dead characters, but there’s no interaction with them beyond “go home” and “come with me”.
Talking about the second game makes me want to replay Kingmaker. I actually liked the party members in that game.
It is made by Owlcat.
How is it?
I am not the right person to ask about these kinds of games because I don’t enjoy strategy-based combat. I put about 20 hours in the game and I liked the narrative but I wish it had much more focus. If you like games like Divinity and Pillars of Eternity you will like this too.
Thanks!
