Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread
Hello everyone. Sorry I didn't post this last week. I was overwhelmed by events and forgot. Anyway, I've been playing lots of balatro and Nightreign for the past 2 weeks. I hope everyone has had a relaxing weekend
I started MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries a while ago. Im not a big MechWarrior guy, but this is legit a fun game. You build up your little merc outfit, starting with a bunch of scrappy 20 to 40 ton mechs, and gradually replace them with 100 ton death machines.
If I had to compare it to something, it's a bit like Mount and Blade in space, with giant mechs duking it out. Lots of tinkering with the mechs loadout and reparing them after battles and keeping an eye on your pilots and cashflow for your merc unit.
Oh, and it has co-op, which is a big reason I ended up playing it more than I planned to. I’m currently over 20 hours in, and I’m definitely going to keep playing it with my buddy as we collect bigger and badder mechs and take jobs from anyone offering a good payday.
Also has a great modding scene with some really huge ones that add a lot of stuff and content.
I got back into KSP which is why I've barely posted for the last like two weeks
so much fun!
I'm doing a huge mod list with a wormhole to a distant system and lots of advanced engines and stuff
I'm still grinding through Cyberpunk out of sheer sunk cost fallacy. I'm currently 14 hours in.
It's not a good open world game since the open world is not very engaging. It's not a good RPG game since most of the choices don't feel meaningful. It's not a good FPS game since the enemies are bullet sponges.
They should have called this game Yapping Simulator 2077. And the yapping isn't even that good
huh, I found Night City to be among the best representation of an actual lived in city.
Also skip most of the gunplay and spec into cyberwizard to blow people up with your mind
It looks good but every part of the city looks identical. I understand that cyberpunk as a genre is a critique of capitalism and the city is supposed to be a claustrophobic hellscape. But this doesn't make for very rewarding exploration in a videogame. At least in my experience so far.
I recently played The Ascent which is another cyberpunk game, they handled this much better. Every part of the city is visually distinct and has its own personality.
But I'm gonna continue playing Cyberpunk, I still feel like I have just scratched the surface, maybe I will change my mind.
i've bounced off it a couple times, i feel like the writing is just not that good which is unforgivable in an RPG
Everyone sound like try-hard pricks in it, especially the player character. It's so grating.
yeah.. that game was really disappointing for me.. i'm not sure what exactly i expected, but it wasn't the game they made
I’m bored with modern games, so I went back to playing Dark Souls Remastered with a tank sorcerer build.
I got Kerbal Space Program. I still really suck at maneuvers and Mun is yet out of reach, but I've figured out how to get a dude into orbit (and sometimes even get him back home!)
One of my favorite games of all time. If you have generic questions feel free to ask and if you want more structured tutorials I can point you that way too. Good luck on your journey to the Mun!
I've been working my way through Hades 2, the new extra difficult bosses are indeed extra difficult with any of them able to clip a death defiance off me. The final bosses in particular are extra rough and I'll have to learn how to fight them a bit better. The new aspects have been pretty fun to play with as well.
Slowly making progress on horizon forbidden west as well. It's not mind blowing but it certainly is one of those explore big map and get more powerful type games. The plot is quite fun as far as sci Fi future stories go and I find myself always enjoying the story beats when they happen.
I'm rocking Morrowind on the steam deck with openmw. Up scaled textures, AI voice acting and audiobooks, and I finally got custom shaders working on flatpak so I have volumetric clouds & mist.
Morrowind is the best Elder Scrolls game. Good choice,
The System Shock 2 remaster: Lots of fun so far! Def scratches that BioShock itch after so long
Playing some Tomb Raider on the TR1X open source port, Final Fantasy VII (2013 steam) and Resident Evil 1 (GOG)
I have been playing Lies of P and I've started the DLC before beating the main game cuz I read that the dialogue changes in the rest of the main game if you do.
I'm finding it very obnoxious because every enemy has 12 hit combos and just never stops attacking.
Makes me feel like dodging is not viable and you're supposed to play entirely like Sekiro and master perfect parrying or else you're screwed.
You absolutely have to parry yeah. Dodging becomes completely unviable as you go further in the game. You can also lower the difficulty to simply be able to take more hits so the combos don't immediately kill you. Which you may want to do unless you have the time to learn the precisely parry timing for each boss. I mostly played the dlc on the middle difficulty.
Only one joker to go on Balatro to get every joker on Gold Stake. Then two challenges to complete every achievement.
Been playing 9 Kings. The devs have been listening to a lot of feedback and making updates. The latest change to skill trees has been kinda "meh" compared to the old system. There's also a lot of units that could use rebalancing. Some are auto-picks, others are a waste of space.
Next week I'm going to the game club to show people how to paint and convert models. Not sure what projects of my own I want to bring. I've been stripping the paint off a bunch of stuff (mostly Mage Knight models and some unlucky person's 40k stuff they left in the lost and found for like 6 months years ago when I was in uni).
Been doing balatro and umamusume, loving rogue like summertime.
However death stranding 2 arrives today so likely I'll be starting that this week
Oha Balatro and Umamusume. Dont think I could make time for death stranding with those 2 games being near by ^^
Once I enter Kojima's magical realm I'm pretty sure I'll make time for it
Rimworld Odyssey DLC baybee
I wanna return to Rimworld soon. I kinda bounced of Rimworld ...which is funny cause I vibed with the steamversion of Dwarf Fortress.
I got the new rimworld dlc on Friday, so I been playing that a lot this weekend. Its pretty cool playing a high-tech nomad. You have limited time in each tile before the mechanoids find you n assault your base, so you gotta just stash as much shit as you possibly can into your gravship and leave before they come. Its such a fun way to play the game, slowly building up your ship and leaving to new areas of the map, or raiding orbital stations or mining out an astroid.
Your eventually supposed to take out the mechanoid cluster that's hunting you but I haven't gotten that far yet
That sounds really fun. Enjoy
So many great games these year I feel a bit overwhelmed. Been mostly playing Dune Awakening, but also picked up Nightreign with a friend of mine, and almost finished my first run of The Alters.
Im starting to lose interest in tf2 (probably burn out)
I’m thinking of going back to euro truck simulator 2 (yeah ik, Europe) but it’s just a cozy game that I can’t put my finger onto as to why
Every time I think "Wow I haven't played TF2 in a while!" I reinstall TF2 and then remember why I don't play TF2 anymore. People really don't want to play what's best for the team and it's really frustrating. Especially since I mostly play Pyro, Scout, Engineer, and Medic. I can't be all four at once. God forbid one of the half dozen Spies or 87 Snipers play something else.
The amount of times I encounter a medic taunting instead of healing is genuinely infuriating
It also seems like these medics don’t know what ubering is, as they just heal while the charge just sits at 100%
I’ll never understand people who main spy tbh
(Oh, and valve muting free to plays, like being unable to call medic or call out a spy or even chat was absolute bullshit. I hear they relaxed this restriction, but it should be completely fully relaxed, as some people still can’t talk)
Playin Deus Ex. I guess it's cause American politics have not changed significantly since it released but it still feels very topical. One of the baddies is the director of FEMA. The UN soldiers are openly disdainful of nonlethal methods. A prison guard will try to sell you ammo as you escape. It's a very funny game.
I got back into Warframe and I don't know why
The grind calls to you, you must collect all the things.
Number go up brrrr
it's so good and I can't really recommend it to anyone, weird feeling
Replaying hollow knight. I only have the flower quest, the pantheons and a few charms left. I like the game but idk why they made the double jump so terrible on purpose
I saw an interesting teaser trailer for a Frostpunkesque city builder (Dark Switch) so I played some indie city builders since then.
Foundation - I played this way back when and came back to it again and it is not quite my jam since it's wants to be more flowy and organic but then has these clear gates that just create friction. At least for me it just still doesn't quite click.
Laysara: Summit Kingdom - This one is actually really good imo especially for newcomers to the genre it has a really good tutorial it feels like just the right amount of complexity and just feels really good a bit too easy for my taste but honestly this one is sort of a recommend for newcomers.
Ancient Cities - I probably spent the most time on this and it is both good and bad the game almost always feels like it's just a few updates away from being good and a lot of the ideas are great it has some real potential to be a great neolithic city builder.
Open Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 - Man this game is just so damn good there is just something about how it sounds how it looks that is just mesmerizing. You can't tell me that this isn't peak charm.
I genuinely think there's a case to be made that RCT1+2 are some of the best games ever made. They're absolutely two of my top favourites of all time.
Grabbed Mycopunk on a whim and holy shit what a game. Scratches the itch left behind from when I quit destiny a while back. Game has so much personality, movement is insanely good, and the higher difficulties can get nuts.
Aside from that, working on my Kurohyou 2 platinum. Very last game in the franchise to finish up aside from Kenzan, which I'm waiting for the fan translation for.
Oh Mycopunk looked interesting. Being holding off since its early access but now im at least intrigued
For early access it's pretty much feature complete. Some janky physics here and there but the game has a lot going for it already, I guess they held a long beta period earlier this year and acted fast on the feedback from it.
For the price I'd say it's definitely worth it, so far loving damn near everything about it
playing some Marvel's Spider Man. Pretty fun action game but Spider-Man is too much of a cop.
Shockingly, I'm actually playing some games this week!
I finished Case of the Golden Idol and started on the DLC. Highly recommend to anyone who likes detective/logic puzzle games—just check out the demo now, and wait till it goes on sale again in a month or two (GOG has a better deal for the bundle with all the DLC). The pixel art is really charming, and it's so satisfying when you crack some of the tougher levels. Bit of advice: taking notes outside of the game will help you a lot when things get more complicated, and it can often be useful to refer to notes you took in earlier levels. Will definitely check out Return of the Obra Dinn when I'm done with the two DLCs.
Continuing with the detective theme, I also resumed my playthrough the first Gyakuten Saiban (Ace Attorney) game on DS in Japanese. I played through the intro case a while back, but since I've gotten back into studying Japanese again recently I wanted to take another crack at it. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I'm understanding—sure, there's plenty of words I don't know, but I can usually figure things out from context. To be fair, I played through the first two or three cases in English even further back, so I'm operating with extra context. We'll see how I do when I get into uncharted territory.
the two friends i actually have wanted to play overwatch 2 the other night.. i hadn't played overwatch in years so I installed it and it sucked me right back in.. but then the 10 - 15 minute wait for new matches got me to uninstall it last night
also fuck any game where you have to give them a phone number to sign in.. im never doing that shit again
anyway, started playing Lost Judgement, which I bought eons ago and never even installed
got a few smaller games from the steam sale based on recommendations here, so far tried ‘yoku’s island express’ and ‘please, touch this artwork’
also went back to my vampire alt character in ESO because the new multi-classing feature they introduced gives me access to some complementary skill lines from other classes like siphoning or daedric summoning, I can build around health sustain and ultimate generation (to turn into vamp lord more often)
It’s cozy DS1 run time, I got the non-remaster version set up on my steam deck with DSFix installed, locked to 30fps. Gonna be a SL1 run with the default pyromancer equipment, I’ve never used the hand axe before so it should be a good nostalgic time.
I started Dragon Quest 1 on the NES the other day, it's the first Dragon Quest I've played. I picked it because I was curious about it since it's a game that had such a massive impact on console RPGs, and also because redditors said it was a bad choice to start with it and I will always do the opposite of what redditor gamers say. It's pretty cool, doesn't feel too crusty for being such an old game. Pretty basic but that's what I was expecting and not bad. I was surprised the game has a built in turbo, why isn't every game doing that?? Fucked up that modern RPGs are making me mash A through text boxes when this game from 1986 doesn't.
I'm also playing around in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 a little bit because they butchered it in the 3 + 4 remake and it annoyed me enough to go download the original and set it up lol. I'm not gonna do another full playthrough but it's nice to scratch the itch a little.
I think playing the first three Dragon Quest games in order is the way to go because of how the mechanics play out. In DQ1, you control a single character and often fight enemies 1v1. In 2, you have a caster, warrior, and a hybrid who fight multiple enemies. In 3, you get to build your party from a multitude of classes and characters.
There's some other tropes and things introduced across the first three games gradually as well. Stuff like cursed items, metal slimes, and so on. It's been a long ass time since I played 1 & 2. Been thinking about picking up the DQ3 Remaster (which is like the second or third time it's been remastered lol).
Yeah I think playing 1 through 3 is my plan. I've seen a little bit of footage of the DQ3 Remaster, it looks pretty nice! I haven't really liked the visual style of the HD-2D games but I like the look of DQ3 for some reason. I think it's that the way they handle the lighting and shaders looks more appealing to me. I know DQ1 and 2 are getting the same treatment soon as well so that's pretty cool.
I've picked up Dave the diver as my solo game and my group just switched to Len's Island.
I'm enjoying both, pretty casual games but still engaging at the moment.
Palworld or grim Dawn those are kind of my go tos
Finished GTAV yesterday. It was OK I guess. I haven't played a GTA game since like 2009 probably. Since it's a big-budget game it of course has anything it could do shaved down to being as big and bland as possible but the graphical fidelity, detail of the city, and stuff were pretty atmospheric and nice. It's superficially really convincing, especially if you're cruising through the city but actually going around you start seeing people acting weird and it's all superficial. YOu'd think they'd emphasize the immersive-sim qualities they've been cultivating with the world/people/car simulations and the increasing number of tools you have but all you can do, really, is just blow up cars, cause traffic accidents, get the police after you. There's stuff you can do with this but it's not as much as it could be. It has the multi-part heist missions which again almost approach being a sizeable game mechanic but stops short for whatever reasons. You have some options how you do them and who you have on the crew, some of which you can find in the overworld as you play, but they're still kinda' linear and the game does that dynamic-difficulty thing where it's clearly just trying to string you along action set pieces without you dying too much or having to make hard decisions. And considering how much of the game is either driving or shooting, it's way too easy to get good cars and good weapons early on to make the missions even easier. They should have dragged the poor part out more. I guess the other thing it's going for is like being an RPG-ish life-sim where you're encouraged to just do sidequests as a character you've molded which I could see getting into, maybe with self-imposed challenges like breaking as few laws as possible, but since the game's mechanically so boring to play doesn't interest me as much as it could. Also, the satire just isn't good. It almost always both-sides issues. It's just offensive at times, I don't mind the jokey offensive brand names and stuff since they're just puns but the radio ads and stuff aren't clever. And the 3 characters are whatever, I don't like or find them as interesting as past GTA games. Michael especially is fucking awful to deal with, just a void of anything interesting. Trevor is kinda' charming since he clearly turns on his charisma to manipulate people and is like a mentally unstable hipster with various psychoses driving his weirdness. Franklin's sympathetic but is basically the same character at the start and the end, where events happen around him since the story is really Trevor and Michael's and Franklin's just there as like a CJ call-back and partially-tokenized black representative.
Returning to LSD: Dream Emulator and progressing in that too. Gunna' finish that and then I think I'm gunna' finally return to Elden Ring and finish that. And then move on to some new stuff finally. Maybe finish reading the Rewrite visual novel.
I finished Omori recently and I've been screwed up mentally ever since. Today I'm probably going to start Blasphemous. I'm looking for recommendations to games similar to Omori or Silent Hill 2 (I should avoid women named Mary for their protection) where the principal horror is that of losing your grip on reality; also games where it forces you to inhabit the psyche of the characters and plays with your emotions.
I've been obsessively playing the original Master of Orion for weeks now.
I started the series with the second one in the late 90's and looking at screen shots of the game had always made it seem a bit incomprehensible to me. Over the years I'd tried to find a cracked copy of MOO and get in to it but I could just never seem to get "stuck in" properly.
Fired up a copy a month ago or so. Found the ship building a hugely difficult hurdle to get over. Stumbled into some ancient "Let's Play"s for Huge/Impossible/Five Races that went into some of the mechanics of the game. Got a handle on things and really started playing properly.
Did some skimming through the internet about MOO race strategies, most of which boiled down to "good race to play/bad race to play" or "broken and overpowered / poorly balanced".
Things I've learned by actually playing obsessively (on two computers in two locations because I work a job without supervision):
If you enjoy Master of Orion maybe check out Remnants of the Precursors its a 4X strategy game
Created by Ray Fowler, it's an open-source modernization of the original 1993 Master of Orion. (Yes its totally free and open source)
Really cool game (some would call us heretics but I heard its better than the original to some)
oohhh.. interesting....
The artwork from screen shots looks absolutely amazing.
I have been playing 7 Days to Die again after a very long break. They recently put out a free "version 2" which changes some of the mechanics with biomes. I have been digging it.
Mostly Warframe, also picked up Noita and Total War Three Kingdoms though so got a few hours in each. Noita is... very difficult to figure out. I think I just need to explore more, but I also installed the Spell Lab mod for some help in figuring out the basics and tbh I don't think it helped much lol