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Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!
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This is my conundrum.
I would like to play Age of Water for Xbox Series X.
...at the same time;
I would like to not be disappointed.
hAlp?
Centipede: Recharged for the Atari VCS.
Has anyone played Atari today?
Sea of Stars. Beautiful hommage to the classics.
Deltarune Chapter 2
Just finished Drakengard 3 and feeling empty - both because the final boss fight took me 4 days to beat and because, despite many issues I have with the game, ending still managed to hit pretty hard. I love this shitty game.
Been playing Helldivers 2, really fun game!
Question about it: It offers a curved HUD option in the settings, which is really neat in the YT vids I’ve seen, especially since I have a curved monitor. I’d love to enable this, but it doesn’t work at all for me. Does it for anyone else?
The Finals is probably one of the better shooters to come out in a minute, especially if you like lots of gatgets and tools. My only real complaint is that devs are reactive to game balance and don't seem to think about how the game will ultimately be played.
Just finished breath of the wild and hitman absolution. Went back to journey to the savage planet for the first time in ages. I also played some Mario tennis on citra.
I'm bouncing between witcher 3, desperados 3, below and noita.
Less "playing" and more "bug testing". In the final stages of developing an aircraft for XPlane 11/12 and have been putting in a lot of hours in flight looking for graphical glitches, system bugs, etc...
Helldivers 2
Just got Snufkin: Melody of the Moomin Valley
Originally for my wife, but she got annoyed by the movement too fast. My favourite review of the game so far:
"In this game you will play as the world famous criminal and ecoterrorist Snufkin.
Snufkin is unemployed but charismatic traveller-musician helping various interesting creatures of Moominvalley, all while sabotaging typical autocratic right-winger Hemulen's plans on making up mundane rules and destroying everything good and beautiful.
Cops in the game are represented evil and stupid, as they are in real life, so I would recommend the game for the whole family as educational game.
On the serious note: Gameplay is fine for this type of game. The core is in the atmosphere, dialogue and sound design which all are great. So far the experience has been smooth, fun and relaxing. Would recommend, but adults should not expect much challenge here."
Starfield
GRID (2019), there seems to be a lack of decent arcade track racers nowadays but this is a good one.
Maybe some Sacred Gold or Kirby: Forgotten land. Away from my gaming pc so old laptop and switch will have to do.
im more of a casual gamer but: please try cats are liquid
a better place comes first in the story, and then a light in the shadows
Playing 5 games right now....
Mega Man (original NES version) - fast paced and better than I expected platformer
Lonely Mountains Downhill - calming and chill mountain biking game
Voices of the Void - silly and mildly aggravating at times but fun once you get into it simulator game
Sam & Max Hit the Road - funny point-and-click adventure game with puzzles that are fair and logical
Skies Of Arcadia - classic turn based RPG with an entertaining story can't believe I never played it years ago
My game tips for each game
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SoA is excellent but the random battles are too much. I've played it so many times over the years but never actually completed it!
Yes the random battles in SoA do get kinda repetitive especially since many of them seem so easy and the game has you going back and forth on the world map with the same enemies that don't level scale at all with the characters.
The Talos Principle, Road to Gehenna DLC. Such beautiful and hard game
I've finally got and sat down to play Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.
And I had not played since around release when I beat the game. I will say this: If this game had come out in this state - including the content from the xpack - I would have loved it. It's still buggy and janky, but little enough to be funny instead of grating. All the new interactions they added like romances visiting you is amazing and adds a lot of details and atmosphere, and the new story being far more on-rails helps so much in establishing and keeping tension.
My one big criticism I'd still have is for how much the game sometimes struggles against it's underlying design. The whole map being a city feels weird, because like the countryside in Witcher III, vast areas of it feel dead and empty. Luckily with the xpack being centered on the very dense and compact Dogtown, that is largely solved for the new content.
8/10, would recommend if you enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077.
Having played through the PL story, I didn't like the overhauled skill system as much as I'd hoped, but I still want to go back through the main story again. There are still some old sidequests I never got around to as well.
I've been glued to BeamNG.drive, ever since I finally broke down and decided "it's not gonna get much cheaper than this" during the Steam sale.
It's exactly, precisely what I thought it would be. Half completely freeform "let's crash cars and watch them crumple in slow motion" and half "let's do these scenarios." Flip back and forth between the two, and it's suddenly "oh, SHIT, how did three hours go by already???"
I'll get around to poking my nose into the modding scene, soon enough, too. I haven't even touched that side of it, yet.
Also, the game apparently has VR support, which I didn't realize until I bought it. I haven't bothered trying that out, since I also don't have my driving wheel set up, at the moment. Driving games with a controller are basically the only category of VR content that can give me the ol' lunch-launch-itis.
Getting back into Zelda TotK. Mapping out the depths...
Baldur's Gate 3 on the desktop because it's so good and Bayonetta on my Steamdeck because I got it dirt cheap from humble bundle and it plays great there :)
Xenonauts 2 alpha 3 released. Playing that.
And Factorio, but's that's like answering "what are you doing this weekend" with "I'm going to do X... And I'm going to be breathing."
Man, I have been so into EVE Online lately. I don’t know what it is, but it’s got its hold on me. Slow, incremental improvements that pay off later, with inventory/time management and a solid corp (EUNI) just ticks all my MMO boxes.
Just beat the Telltale Expanse game (plus DLC). Just goooooood fun.
Beyond that, trying to wrap up Grounded.
I saw so many Meh reviews of The Expanse. Glad to hear someone who enjoyed it! I'm a HUUGE fan of the books and TV show and would love to play the game at some point!
It’s not the best game ever, but I do love me some expanse, so I had to play it. It’s a prequel to the show/books.
Having some fun in palworld with a friend, but I'm obssessed with Immortal Life now, a farming game with a wuxia theme where you can use chinese magic to help you water crops and stuff, very cute and a nice QoL for these games.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I've been meaning to get to it for a while. Still early on in the game when it's still introducing new mechanics, but I'm enjoying it so far. I was kind of skeptical if I'd enjoy a turn-based RPG Yakuza game as much as I'd enjoyed the previous ones, but the combat is winning me over. Being able to summon a flock of pigeons to peck enemies unconsciously certainly helped.
I'm 20+ hrs into it. The silliness just keeps ramping up, especially now that I'm collecting "Pound Mates".
Been trying to get into final fantasy XIV because of a friend. Kind of fun and I like that I can customize the HUD and the control scheme between the in-game systems and the steam deck controls. I feel like I've tried MMOs in the past and didn't enjoy them, but this one seems all right.
I still contend that the climax of Shadowbringers is one of my favourite and most meaningful gaming experiences. Enjoy the ride!
I wish I could forget it and experience it for the first time again.
Completely agree. I absolutely loved Shadowbringers. IMO it’s the best story SE has put out in years.
Kenshi
got some free time so i made my mission to beat all zachtronics games. right now i'm playing EXAPUNKS. finishing the levels are doable although requires a bit of trial and error, but getting good scores let alone perfect ones is a nightmare. highly recommend it to anyone that wants a great challenging puzzle game.
I'm going on a long plane ride, so I have my phone loaded with Zelda Link Between Worlds and some Mario 3d Land for 3DS. I have Titan Quest and Baldurs Gate 2 on my Chromebook. I'm probably going to be tending to kids the entire flight, realistically.
I just started up Spiderman Remastered. I hate the militarized police propaganda, but as an action game, zipping around on webs and aerial combat is entertaining.
I just got my first gaming laptop, so I've been going ham on Planet Coaster when I have time. Such a fun game and I am loving every single second - it's like a grown-up RCT3, but 10x better.
I've been working my way through the Career section and I hope to finish it!
Since release I've been playing BG3 every week with a friend and we finally beat the game on Saturday. Great game, but man we've been playing it for a long time.
Picked up Viewfinder yesterday. Fun little indie puzzler. Very cool concept, don't know how much I care about the plot or anything but it's got some of the same trippy fun as Superliminal.
Oh, and I played a couple hours of Against the Storm and have been hesitant to pick it up again because I'm pretty sure it's going to be problematic for my already busy schedule.
Dawncaster on mobile. An expansion comes out tomorrow and it's the first mobile dlc I'm legitimately excited to throw money at. Excellent developers with an excellent game. Think Slay the Spire, but designed for mobile.
Caves of Qud on Steam Deck. It's been a few years since I last played and it's very different from what I remember. Combo that with using a controller for the first time and it's been an enjoyable but challenging experience.
Hell Let Loose on PC. This may be my favorite multiplayer shooter of all time. I was a competitive counterstrike player back in 1.6 (Cal-M), so unseating those memories is an incredible achievement. It's just so good.
The learning curve is steep and there's plenty of room for frustration, but once you're over that hump it's legitimately a terrific experience.