The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
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!
Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.
Gave Valheim another shot.
The last couple times I've tried it I struggled picking up momentum and progressing in the game, as the initial tutorial seems to be missing a few key steps so I end up spinning my wheels not knowing what to do next.
This time I had Christmas break time to fuck around and find out. Pushed through the initial hurdles and actually made decent progress, including soloing the first boss. It's a solid game so far, but it could communicate its expectations a bit more clearly.
I picked up Monster Hunter World again last night after playing some Dark Souls Remastered and itching for more of that style combat. I forgot how much better it was than Rise, and I never got around to playing Iceborne. Having a lot of fun with the new stuff, and I think it'll be my default game this week.
I’ve picked up BG3 and I’m making bad decisions.
I gave Shadowheart a big green beret hat and now she does slam poetry.
I also tried CoD but it got boring pretty quickly.
Baldur's Gate 3. Kids got it for me for Christmas, thoroughly enjoying every bit of it so far
Baldur's Gate 3.
Just picked it up, never played other cRPGs or D&D but I'm really enjoying it! Not doing a lot of quests yet but just exploring. Combat is quite difficult to understand sometimes because it has so many rules I'm not used too, but I'd like to think I'm learning slowly.
The rest and spell slot mechanic is also quite interesting, as it forces me to not pick too many fights before taking a long rest. This is totally new to me 😅
For anyone interesting I'm playing as a human conjuration wizard and my party is Astarion (arcane trickster), Shadowheart and Lae'zel (battle master).
I finally managed to get Spider-Man 2 so I'm thoroughly enjoying that!
After many many recommendations on here I'm playing Slay the Spire mostly, with some Valorant thrown in when I'm playing with my kids.
I just finished Scorn, it was very interesting.
I feel like the combat wasn't necessary since the puzzles and exploration felt like the main focus of the game, but at the same time, I don't know how they could have made the environment feel dangerous without the threat of death. There was a puzzle later in the game that did require you to injure yourself, but I don't think that would have worked as a replacement for combat in the rest of the game, and being present throughout the game would lessen the impact of it in the short moment where it is actually necessary. Also, the guns were very neat looking, so that is an additional upside to having combat.
Even though this sounds like a lot of complaining, I don't think I could come up with any other criticisms, as pretty much everything else about the game felt perfect. I don't think it is the sort of thing I will play again, but it will be something I will think back on more than most other games.
Playing sus amogus Vampire Survivor DLC
Fallout new vegas. It's suprisingly good. Tho, it is a Vlašič, after all.
I'm playing Barotrauma and Lethal Company lately. Both very fun coop games. We need more coop games, I don't know why devs don't make them as much anymore
Still playing Zelda: TOTK. Loving it but the game is so massive and I don't get much spare time to play, so I may have to pass the save file on to my future children to complete.
Just got to Act III in Baldur’s Gate 3, and god damnit is it good. I played and loved the original 2 games when they came out, but I didn’t have the time to devote time to it when it came out on consoles in the summer. Glad I waited, and even more pleased that it lived up to the hype (and then some)!
I also started the Valhalla DLC for God of War Ragnarok, and it’s OUTSTANDING. it’s a great palette cleanser in between BG3 or if I just want a short play session since the runs are only 20 minutes or so. The Roguelite formula is perfect for GoW, and I’m really hoping more AAA games try something similar to extend their lifespan. I highly recommend checking it out.
Yakuza 2 on Steam Deck, after completing (not 100%) Y0 and Y1. Planning to keep playing them in order, until Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth comes out.
I'm new to the series, and loving it. Can't wait to get back home (traveling now) and move from Deck to my PC, high resolution and maxed quality.
Still trying to catch up on the last couple of years of WARFRAME, having an absolute blast 🪷
WoW classic season of discovery. Enjoying my time at level 25 doing world PVP and making gold on the auction house!
I ran out of new games to play so I'm back to my default of Dark Souls. Replaying DS2: SOTFS at the moment with a Dex/Faith character.
No matter how many times I replay the games, I can never not go in on dex stats haha
Yume Nikki. The RPG Maker version. On my phone with EasyRPG Player. It's about time I picked it up.
Won a giveaway for Returnal so I'll be playing that this week.
Other than that I've been giving Fallout 4 mods a go since the Fallout London release date was revealed. So far I've played Bleachers which I couldn't stand, an Enclave one that's surprisingly good and Sim Settlements which is jaw dropping tbh.
I've spent close to 20 hours in Jedi: Survivor. It runs surprisingly well on medium with my 1060 6GB, getting 30-40 fps except when in the desert. The game itself is really fun, an improvement on basically every aspect of the first one.
I never got anywhere near finishing Nier Automata so I’m doing that. A little Dave the Diver on the side.
Just finished Unpacking. :) Sweet little game.
Finished a durge run on BG3 honor mode last week so I'm quite burned out playing single player games ATM. So just bouncing around the Finals and Overwatch 2. Actually my old COVID gaming group got together to play Warzone since they reverted the movement back to the old MW19 I just might buy MW3 just to save my sanity of leveling the guns. I think that's the main purpose of the MP versions of COD, just a guns leveling pass for the yearly weapons drop.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. I've played it at least 100 hours and still have no idea how anyone survives a scenario besides the default shelter one, took me a long time to even figure that one out.
got a handful of games in the steam sale, and I'm currently about halfway through bugsnax - it's really enjoyable so far. planning to start either hypnospace outlaw or the new ultrakill update after.
Bouncing between Obduction and Eidolon.
Just finished playing Hogwarts Legacy. The last main quest was a bit of a stretch imo. I mean "The House Cup" where you have to reach level 34 before you are able to enter it. I was getting a bit frustrated I had to grind for that... Now I can take something else from my queue. Maybe Firewatch, or Thief.
Pretty much just been playing Risk of Rain Returns. Fun game but gets pretty hard.
The wife got me bg3 for Christmas, I'm very much enjoying it on my deck. Working through path of exile acts again, currently middle of act 7, decided to take a break for some don't starve together which the d&d group plays when someone doesn't show up, with happened a lot this holiday season.
Finished up the God of War Valhalla DLC (which was awesome), and now I'm playing through Little Nightmares 2. Almost done with it. Short but really good!
Currently playing Until Dawn. Really interesting seeing your choices play out.
Finally starting my horizon playthrough on PC. Such a gorgeous game so far!
Just started playing the finals to get me off of overwatch finally.
Conan Exiles and Baldur’s Gate 3, depending on my mood.
I was planning on trying the latest WoW expansion, now that Bobby is gone, but funny enough I just don't have the urge to give it a shot.
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I bought Greedfall on a sale just before BG3 launch. Went through BG3 and Phantom Liberty, now I finally have some time to catch up and I'm having fun. Love the setting, the plot is interesting, the NPCs are okay. Sure, it's not on the same level as those two but it is to be expected given the studio size. Overall it's a solid game, worth checking out, especially if you get it on a sale.
The gifted game 20 minutes till dawn that epic gave is quite fun, but less crazy than the original vampire survivors, I like the characters at least and that they put an auto-aim option.
Squad
I play for a few hours most nights but I will say that the devs come across as so inept it is equally fun & frustrating. When the teamwork just naturally works there is nothing that can beat it but the amount of bugs and performance issues majorly let it done.
Dirt Rally 1 (steamdeck) Ultrakill, SC Broodwar (pc)
Dirt rally is finally clicking. What a great feeling.
Ultrakill is a great fps. I'll probably see that one through to the end.
Playing Broodwar with my brother and our childhood friend. Good times.
My main game is Elite Dangerous but I am currently taking a breather playing Dave the Diver. It's a very laid back but catchy little game!
Up to 50 hours in it. Feels like a chore sometimes, when the runs don't end with a bang, but with a slow steady growth or last spurt of opening a cache, they could improve the audio or visuals there.
The progression is unnecessarily slow, would have been ok with a 40 hour experience instead of a 100 hour one.