Ratchet and Clank Up your Arsenal. I recently beat a rift apart and loved it and I've never beat up your arsenal but started it a dozen times as a kid
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Does it count if I have been patiently waiting for Shadow of the Erdtree since they announced it? π€
I want to play games that are already in my library, but I have never played:
- Finish RDR2
- a short hike - everyone says it is great
- To the Moon - a story driven adventure RPG
- Yooka Laylee - a worse banjo kazooie, but it seems like a nice relaxing game
A short hike is so good! And it's not a very long game, so it's a small commitment but so worth it
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Factorio. This game will probably be on my list every year because it's so good. I'm currently going for all achievements, but after that I want to try to make a Bob's+Angel's megabase, or start the K2 and/or Space Exploration mods. And then the DLC should be coming out this year, with a slew of new stuff to play with and legions of QoL features for all players regardless of if they have the DLC.
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PokΓ©mon Legends Arceus. I bought the game but I wanted to finish Scarlet first. Now I've finished Scarlet (although I might want to go back to it for the postgame). I've already started Arceus, but I've barely made it out of the Tutorial.
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Cities Skylines II. I already have 28 hours in it, but the planned roadmap for the game this year is quite exciting.
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The Legend of Zelda, Link's Awakening (GB emulator). I wanted to game on my new daily driver, Ubuntu, and didn't want to reinstall all my Steam games because I'm dual booting Windows, so I decided to go into emulation and try the Zelda franchise. So far I've beaten level 1 and am having fun.
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Cassette Beasts. Pokemon-like but with more ambition and innovation put into it. On my wishlist.
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Palworld. Same as above, but also has elements of Factorio in it.
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Dyson Sphere Program. Bought the game on sale. Never played it. Will get to it eventually. (I said that last year as well)
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Kerbal Space Program. Same as above.
Going to try to do more patient gaming this year after last year a certain popular RPG grabbed me for hundreds of hours. I've got Atelier Ayesha on deck and thinking about Tokyo Xanadu.
Also considering:
- Horizon Zero Dawn: the Frozen Wilds
- Live a Live
- Midnight Suns
- Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
Plus a VN, I think. Either Phoenix Wright: Spirit of Justice or Higurashi (which I started but hasn't grabbed me yet). And here's hoping OP that you starting Final Fantasy Tactics manifests a remaster finally.
WarTales is on sale through May on GOG last I checked so I might pick it up. Iβm currently midway through Shadow of War and Fallout IV, but I feel like Iβve hit a wall with motivation to play FO4 at least. Oh and trying to finish my Oblivion playthrough. Maybe one day.
As a guy with a lot of real life commitements, I'm hoping I'll get through:
- Death Stranding
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Half Life: Alyx
- Titanfall 2
... and some recent shorter indies. But if I even finish one of the abovementioned games, I'll be happy.
I would recommend starting with Titanfall 2. The story is linear and doesn't take a super long time to complete but you get a strong consistent feeling of progression that's quite rewarding
I've started Death Stranding a few days ago. I played ~ 10 hours and it's pretty fun.
Haven't played Alyx but thought all of the others were excellent. Should be able to get through Titanfall 2, it's pretty short!
So I've heard! Waiting for that kind of Sunday, so I can sit down and do a focused play through. How long do you reckon it is?
howlongtobeat.com says 6 hours for the main story, which sounds about right to me. Maybe on the low end.
Nothing directly. I've seen my backlog of 70 or so games, and now my goal for 2024 is to just let go of the feeling that I need to complete games, and just play what I want, when I feel like it.
That being said, I'm trying out Cassette Beasts! Pretty fun so far, though I'm only around an hour in.
Also not a patient gamer for this one, but it's free so I hope it counts: Fallout: London is a release I'm looking forward to.
I'd be glad to finish something (anything) from the list:
- Black Mesa
- Pillars of Eternity
- Witcher 2 (replay before 3)
- Witcher 3
- Wasteland 2
- Bioshock
And about 100 more :-D
Because Cities Skylines 2 is such a letdown I've been trying Timberborn and wanna start Songs of Syx. City builders are my staple but it's been years since I've caught the same high as when I played Sim City 4. CS1 was great but SC4 is still the best city builder game ever made IMO.
Tekken 8. I love fighting games too. Street Fighter 6 is great but I fell off that game hard. Capcom is way to slow to do anything with the game. It's really easy to get bored with it.
After that I really wanna go back and finish BG3. I spent a lot of time in act 1 and barely touched it after that. I don't know why I dropped it. I was having a blast. I guess that's ADHD or something.
Have you tried Open TTD? It's retro AF, and the UI is from 1872, but it's multiplayer and free.
Yeah, I put many hours into it. It's a blast.
For Final Fantasy Tactics, if you're playing the PSP release, install CFW on your PSP (check reddit for a comprehensive guide on that) and then make sure to look up the patches for the game.
The PSP port made the questionable choice of stretching graphics from the original 4:3 aspect ratio into the PSP's 16:9 screen ratio, and it looks rough. Also, there's some sort of coding issue that makes most moves with particle effects slow the frame rate to a crawl.
There's patches available to fix both of those issues, with no bugs or tradeoffs.
Actually, since I heard about four, I also want to play The Witcher 2.
I loved one and three, but something about two just was so plotting that I couldn't get into it and stopped playing twice after just a few hours.
I really cannot explain it since I got so into the first and third, but I will probably try to play the second one now so that I have the trilogy under my belt.
I think I. Got killed super easily in the beginning of the second one and I had no idea where I was going?
I do remember that the combat was super cool.
Most of Chapter 1 (not the prologue) is just not great. The rest of the game more than makes up for it.
Iβm finally getting around to Mass Effect. So far Iβm really enjoying it. The first time you get to explore what I assume is the main hub, itβs pretty cool.
I also enjoyed The Witcher 1 a few years ago, but was thoroughly disappointed with 2.
Last year I played Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 and enjoyed both, though I prefer 1.
There's no way I'm finishing them all in 1yr, but these are currently on the list (PC/Steam Deck):
- Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
- Subnautica
- American Truck Simulator
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Stardew Valley
- The Witcher 3
- Slay the Spire
- Terraria
I'm about to finish F:NV soon. Took me a while and was a great experience so far. Except for Old World Blues DLC which I really disliked and Honest Hearts (the Zion one) which kept crashing constantly for me so I had to skip it. Otherwise really good and really better than bethesdas F3, true to what everyone said.
I got NV modded up through the Viva New Vegas guide, so hopefully that fixes the crashes for me. Figuring out how to mod it on linux was surprisingly easy too, thanks to the MO2 linux installer on github.
Be careful with Subnautica. I lost 75 hours of my life in the blink of an eye to that game. It's easily one of the best survival horror adventure games ever made.
Terraria is also up there. Once you play it you never really need to try another side scrolling 2D Minecraft like game again.
I don't really plan things out like that, but here are a few I've been putting off for one reason or another:
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Mass Effect Legendary
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- Witcher 3
I also have a lot of IRL obligations, so I usually end up playing shorter indie games instead. I love those games, but I also enjoy longer stories, but they're a bit harder to get into.
I'll probably also play some classic Nintendo Switch games, like Kirby and Mario (haven't played any this gen aside from Mario Kart 8).
Even speaking as a big fan of Xenoblade, it is a typical JRPG with an extremely expansive story. I hope you like it and then play the second part which is my personal favorite.
I've already started it (got to the invasion part), and I can already tell it's going to have a great story. Just need to make the time to finish it.
And yeah, I hear the rest of the series is great, so I'll be playing in order.
Factorio, Mindustry
At this point:
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Spelunky (play more, not start playing)
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Dwarf Fortress (play more, not start playing)
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Enderal (and maybe beat it this time)
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Minecraft (my kids are waiting for me to set up a family & friends server)
Half the stuff I've posted on [email protected] since summer but haven't got round to playing yet! I'm actually very keen for Cursed to Golf, I think it was an Epic xmas freebie and I just love the concept of a roguelike golf game.
I wanna platinum Monster Hunter World which might just take all of 2024 aloneβ¦
Takeshi's Challenge made it to smartphones. Maybe it's time for me to try it finally after 38 years.
Of the ones I have:
- GTA V campaign. It's low on my priority list despite being the first one written here.
- King's Bounty series (new ones). Finished The Legend and am halfway through Armored Princess. Not sure when I'll finish it though.
- XCOM series (new one). Starting a 2nd wave marathon. Not sure I'll reach Chimera Squad.
- Halo collection. Wanna go through the entire Master Chief campaign in one go. Maybe in summer.
Other random stuff depending on the craving.
- Jeanne D'Arc apparently it is one of the PSP's best titles.
Can confirm. It was the main disc I kept in my PSP most of the time. It's great if you like Final Fantasy Tactics type games
A friend of mine mentioned he started Persona 3 Reload (which I didn't even know was a thing until then) so the other day I started P3P on the vita again as I never made it very far before. I was burnt out on the concept after going straight in from a P4G 125 hour game, so this time I'm looking forward to it!
I also have Driver San Francisco that I want to play through again as that game is pretty fucking awesome.
I'm going to give the first Watchdogs game a try.
I may go back and look into some other PSP and Vita games I never played or finished as well. Picking up the vita again after a long time is such a breath of fresh air. It feels so much better in my hands than the heavy and unwieldy steamdeck that I'm reinvigorated to go back to it. After playing an hour of P3 at work today I also still had 90 percent battery on it. I love this little thing!
You mentioning FF: Tactics as well, I was thinking about going back to a Disgaea title but I may try tactics again!
I've just picked up Resident Evil 2 Remake for cheap, that'll be the first one. Then I think Last of Us, not played those yet.
Star Wars: Outlaws. Looks really promising.
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. I played through the base game twice, so I'll need a bit more distance between the playthroughs.
Starfield, but only if there are significant updates, upgrades and expansions. I finished it twice back to back, so currently I'm a little tired of the game.
Any other single-player (action) RPG, that I stumble upon.
Is Starfield really as dull in some sections as some people make it out to be?
I'm hoping a DLC or update helps
Yeah it's pretty crap right now unfortunately. I'll be waiting at least 3 more years before I give it another try
Not at all IMO. I love Starfield and few of the reasons people give for it being bad are objective or even true. It is a great game but people misunderstand it and get mad about it not being what they want. And so much of the hate is just pure stupidity and ignorance. People not understanding basic concepts and how things work.
It depends. I've put over 200 hours into Starfield and didn't experience any dull or boring parts. But I noticed them.
It's an old-school game with decades old mechanics, which happened to push all the right buttons with me. But others find it's boring.
What mechanics do you mean?
Yes, it is, I'm sorry to say. At least for now.
I have a few dozen hours in Starfield, and while I wouldn't call it extremely dull, it's not not dull on a regular basis. The game has an uncanny talent for reducing space travel, planetary exploration, and crafting down to a series of nearly-identical nested menus. Crafting and world interaction feel like a step down from Fallout 4 in some ways, particularly how most of the junk is just useful for decoration.
It excels at giving you less when you're expecting more, which makes it easy to overlook what it does well. There's still a lot of fun to be had in it; it feels tighter and more polished than Bethesda games generally do, and it's not a bad alternate take on NMS, which also isn't exactly a 100% compelling experience even after the work it received. (I had fun in Starfield way faster than I did in NMS, for what that's worth.)
I don't regret my time in it at all, but it's kind of perfect patientgamers material. Not playing right away keeps you from burning out on it before it figures out what it wants to be.
Do you think updates could fix it though or do you think it's deeply embedded in the game and would either take a substantial amount of work or reworking chunks of the game to do?
I guess what I'm asking is how long do you feel it will be until we see noticeable improvements?
Your guess is as good as mine, honestly. Waiting for an expansion to come out and then checking in makes sense, IMO.
A lot could be improved, either by modding by Bethesda. Fallout 76, whatever else one could say about it, is in a vastly better place than it was at launch, so there's recent precedent.
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