What is Hexbear playing during the Holidays
What is Hexbear playing during the Holidays
My corporate overlords decided I get some vacation during this time of year, it being the holidays and all that. With some free days on my hands I'm planning to mess around with a couple games.
First up is Millennia a 4X game kinda like Civ. The twist is there are different ages that go off the rails from real history—so you can get a steampunk age or one where aliens invade and stuff like that. I barely touched it when it came out but now, after 7 updates, I figure I will give it a proper try.
Then theres Songs of Conquest, an indie game with amazing pixel art that’s sorta like the old Heroes of Might and Magic games- I might play this with a friend early next year as well.
EDIT: OK im feeling a bit tired so Im just gonna play my current Crusader Kings 3 save till I go 2 bed. Happy Holidays everyone
What are the fine folks on Hexbear playing 
I picked up Frostpunk 2 and its cool. I just rounded up a faction of fascists and deported them to go work in a coal mine outpost.
FUCK. You make me feel like I need to go and play it right now but I already have so many games
Inkulinati! I'm going to pick up other stuff from sales (probably) but I got Inkulinati and Tactical Breach Wizards.
My partner and I picked up Mouthwashing and played through it over two days. Absolutely loved it, would heavily recommend. Great indie shorter game with excellent visuals, a great story, and phenomenal sound design.
We’re currently progressing through all of the storylines in Class of ‘09: The Re-Up. Edgy early 00s /b/ style humor. Very funny. Might not be for everyone—look up “class of 09 the anime” on the Tube and if you like that, you’ll like the games.
When we’re not playing together, I’m going through the Elden Ring expansion. It is extremely hard but I love it. I was able to beat the first boss on my first try, and the fight was INCREDIBLY well-designed. Loved the monster, loved the music, loved the style… so good. Heart rate when I beat it was 170.
im a certified SEGA gamer, going through Persona 3R and the entire Yakuza series.
I just picked up a little indie game called Dungeons of Hinterburg. So far, it's pretty neat! Got some of that Persona/Stardew social stuff along with 3D zelda (pre-BOTW) dungeons and puzzles. The combat isn't great, but the vibes of the game are interesting and I'm having a really good time with it. The story seems like it might go some interesting places with this town getting exploited by a tourism industry.
Binding BLAAAAAADE (Roy's Departure starts playing).
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
dwarf fortress, at work, on the company's dime 😎 make me come in on a holiday, I'm gonna milk it for all its worth!
Picked it back up, putting a few minutes into a new fortress every time my baby goes down for a ☼nap☼ over here
Playing a cozy old self modded v44.12
Surprising myself with how much menu diving is muscle memory
i was four years clean of world of warcraft...
i have spent the holidays playing world of warcraft
Do you not get tired of playing the same game for years or do you really not have a choice like in other addictions?
I played it until Wrath came out and then stopped. I tried playing it again a couple years ago and it just seemed so damn boring to go through all of it again. I also have a friend that has never stopped playing, I don't know how you can do it.
eh, they update things often enough that it doesn't get stale to me and i was never actually much good anyway, so its not like i see endgame content enough to get tired of it. tbh i'm a little disquieted by how much things have changed in the past 2/3 expansions that i missed, but i get that thats just me being a boomer.
having played wow (sometimes obsessively) for 15 fucking years from launch when i was 6 years old, azeroth just feels like home to me. its a comfort and anxiety thing i guess. i hear the stormwind or teldrassil ambient music and i could fucking cry. i have no idea whether its a healthy coping mechanism, but being able to go to azeroth (nice, i know whats going on, people like me) after a day of real life (terrifying and depressing) is what got me through school and my home situation. a video game thats designed so that people can comfortably spend 12 hours a day in it doesn't necessarily have to be good, it just has to be better than the alternative of dealing with real life. very comfort blanket vibes ig, and i probably should have outgrown it. after covid isolation i thought i had outgrown it but evidently not
Did you have fun?
unironically yes. its comforting to be able to log on to a world i understand after each day of staying with family and having to endure the loud, non-optional festive bullshit. i just also know that i probably shouldn't be giving activision money and i should go outside or something instead of being a terminal G*mer again
I'm 4 years in my relapse of Wow, exclusively classic with a bunch of nice folks, kinda wholesome too because we used to have a trans guild lead and everyone was fine with it.
I have up and downs with how much time I spend on it on a weekly basis.
Fractal Block world is sick as hell
fractal based world geometry with the main mechanic being growing or shrinking by a factor of 16x
you start in the tutorial rooms and then shortly after it has you grow a couple times and it turns out the whole tutorial area was a few tiny boxes in this other tutorial room.
Then you realize the corner of your screen says level 28 now when it used to say level 30, which means the box you're in NOW is ALSO a tiny little room inside another tiny little room on an insignificant speck inside an insignificant speck on the edge of a mote of dust in the middle of nothing, and you can keep going deeper yet! (or you can also get BIGGER and see what's that way (its wild))
Most areas are recursive and interlinked between eachother in a fascinating way that feels like getting sucked down into infinity (there are also amazing areas like the Menger Sponge fractal you can just explore around and have fun!
I recommend everyone who sees this post buy it and play it if you have the means, it could run on a potato and is currently on sale for like 4 bucks on steam
amazing, fascinating game that I can't get enough of conceptually.
Its rough around the edges combat wise, so I recommend you just play on tranquility mode so you don't have to fight or grind mazes to level up(unless you like that kind of thing like I do in which case watch out this could eat your life lol), you can just explore this amazing and bizarre world
give it a look
I won a run of modded FTL earlier today
Building a new PC with the help of my friend tomorrow after work. Gonna play the Half Sword playtest and probably torrent cyberpunk first lol
i just finished sekiro. isshin fight.... wow!!
Hesitation is defeat.
Isshin and Gael are the two most
bossfights in all of gaming
Baldurs gate 3, just got to a choice to join the mind flayers and I'm really torn as to what to do. Also walkabout mini golf and jaws pinball in VR
Armored Core VI is so fucking good
This and Sekiro has me convinced Fromsoft needs to stop making Soulslikes and needs to branch out like this instead
I too am playing binging ac6 atm, it really captures fast anime mech fighting in video game form perfectly and as always the art direction is flawless.
Post meg
Nine Sols
i've decided to pick up warframe again after ages of not playing it. i'm starting over completely with a new account and everything since i never got very far in the first place from when i first started playing
i'm actually finding myself enjoying this a bit this time
Getting some hours in Victoria 3.
Also War Thunder. The grind never stops
Oh how is Vicky 3 going for you ? I wanted to try and start another game of it during the holidays again (I thought I knew how to play Vicky but since they introduced Mapi Im pretty bad at it)
I'm slowly getting enough hours in to have failed my way to understanding how to play the game
Then theres Songs of Conquest, an indie game with amazing pixel art that’s sorta like the old Heroes of Might and Magic games- I might play this with a friend early next year as well.
Huh i played this but while game itself is actually quite good, i think the pixel art is horrible, both shapes and colours are blurry and i can't even understand what i see for quite a lot of times. I seen a lot of bad pixel art (and some good) in last few years but this one is one of the worst ones.
I could probably link a dozen games with (in my opinion worse pixel art). I myself like it quite a bit and have 0 problem discerning what Im seeing, but thats the thing with art—highly subjective.
Cassette Beasts. It's so good.
Picked up the Age of Wonders 4 expansion, so tomorrow when I'm back home, that and continuing my current game of Balders gate.
OH nice. I really need to put some more time into AoW 4 I played it back during release for like 30h but havent really touched it since then. I did really like what I played during my time though.
Palworld. The ball sheep yearn for the mines.
Im curious bout this game. Can you play it offline and in singleplayer ?
I can on my pirated version at least
Yeah, multiplayer is optional
Loaded up my Valheim world the other night so I could decorate my longhouse with wreaths and yule trees but I still had all the yule stuff I put down last time I played so I just did other stuff
Been doing a lot of Valheim too, started a big mod world and am having a blast with some of the procedurally generated quests from the mods. Valheim is one of those games that has a lot of good bones, but IMO fails to reinforce its best gameplay loops and falls into a trap of escalating difficulty in kinda dumb ways.
The spawn got Planet Zoo for Jesus' Birthday, so that'll be on heavy rotation. I downloaded Dave the Diver and the new Indiana Jones games but haven't gotten to them yet.
I'm on a Famicom kick and I'm playing the first DBZ game attack of the Saiyans.
I gotta spend some time painting some Warhammer and Battletech guys. I'm hoping to finish 1000x Resist and just impulse bought Metaphor ReFantanzio
I gotta spend some time painting some Warhammer and Battletech guys.
Hell yeah, I did some painting this morning. Check out this sick ass bird elf (extremely WIP)
Looks great - I bet it'll be gorgeous once you're finished!
i got into painting warhammer minis a few months ago though i've slowed down a bit since then. i gotta get back to it because i've already gotten myself a big pile of shame
I started with "oh, I'll just make a Kill Team set and see how that goes" a few months ago, too, and now I've just impulse bought a Combat Patrol set, which is just a "quick start your hobby backlog" pack lol.
Super slow progress all around since I'm a parent. I need to post some of my WIPs on c/hobby
I've also been digging through some of my old board games and have been thinking about painting the little figures from Shadows Over Camelot. I probably will want a break from science fiction characters eventually!
1000x Resist is on my to-do list since everyone seems very positive on it - I mostly play strategy games but also like narrative stuff once in a while.
I want to play Metaphor ReFantanzio but I feel like there is a enhanced editon or something coming one day for it (like with the persona games)
1000x Resist is on my to-do list since everyone seems very positive on it - I mostly play strategy games but also like narrative stuff once in a while.
There's definitely some Hong Kong protest
, but the game seems pretty interesting so far. The main focus gameplay wise is walking around and talking to people. If you're into science fiction and/or anime, you'll probably have enough fun.I want to play Metaphor ReFantanzio but I feel like there is a enhanced editon or something coming one day for it (like with the persona games)
I heard rumors that Atlus is going to do that annoying FES/Golden/Royale/Vengeance thing as a purchasable DLC/expansion going forward. Not 100% sure how true this is, but I'm probably going to play this game once now and play again sometime after the extra stuff comes out - if it's another full purchase, I'll just wait until that bit is super cheap lol
Oldschool Runescape. Still doing Leagues V in my slow fashion. About to unlock my third area and seventh relic.
I picked up the original Half Life and it's been a lot of fun. Black Mesa's graphics look absolutely incredible but it's clear to me that more playtesting went into the original and that makes the game both easier and more fun.
Going through the Boonta Vista catalogue to listen to all the Clipping Reports. Oh, like games
Darktide and barotrauma because I like having a grim claustrophobic scary time
You have a Kenshi PFP and you play barotrauma? Can we be friends?
Helll yeah, this is how I met my arma comrades too. Got Steam?
I found out last night that Visual Pinball X actually runs on Linux now so I stayed up late trying it out. The setup is still pretty confusing but I was able to get some tables running at least!
Halls of Torment. I want to play some coop games with some friends but everyone's busy with "family stuff", ugh, imagine spending time with your family during the holidays instead of playing games.
I started that SM64DS ROMhack 'The Koopa Who Stole Christmas' and the first two stages are nice but the 2 after it are really clunky, especially with the inferior DS controls. Might go back to it, but will probably drop it.
Gunna' finish 100%ing Captain Toad tonight.
Captain Toad seemed super cute. Im not really much of a puzzle gamer though
I'm neutral to puzzle games I guess. Captain Toad is possibly my favourite puzzle game outside Portal so far. Really like how breezy and non-frustrating it is to play for 99% of it.
I just finished my second playthrough of Prodeus. I still really like it but wish we'd get the rest of the campaigns. The game in it's current state ends on a cliff hanger. There was talk about 2 years ago about possible DLC but radio silence since.
I picked up Dusk, Cultic, and Sprawl from the Steam sale and played a bit of each. I did grab Amid Evil and Selaco but refunded those since they weren't really jiving with me. I'm waiting on a refund of Incision too since I tried playing on easiest difficulty and still had my ass handed to me. The game is super imbalanced.
Dusk, everyone probably already knows. It's has super fast strafey quake/doom movement. gunplay is decent too. The levels feel very Quake-like from what little of Quake I've played.
I'm not sure about Cultic quite yet but what I do like so far is the art style. It's fantastic. Think of those 16 bit pixel art gifs you see on like reddit that manages to create depth with very little colors but make that a 3D game instead. I was actually blown away a bit by the intro cutscene. It's really cool. The game is mostly just boomer shooter like you'd expect. I think it feels a bit like Forgive Me Father 2 from what I recalled. Others have said it's like Blood but I haven't played that.
Sprawl is scratching a bit of my itch from Turbo Overkill. It's more of a movement shooter but with old school graphics, rather than a straight up boomer shooter. It has a wall running mechanic and a slow mo mechanic which makes for some very stylized combat.
Boomer shooters are hit and miss for me but I adored Dusk. From the horror setting to the gameplay it was super enjoyable to me. I didnt really click with the others I have tried so far which to be fair was only Amid Evil so far.
i'm still playing god of war ragnarok... finally beat the main game and now i'm doing valhalla which feels disappointingly easy
Started the mega man X series. Heard it’s pretty good until 5 but it drops off after.