Talk about games, any game.
Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What are you anticipating for the TGA this year?
and
What are you anticipating for 2025?
Okay, cheers I’m sure a lot of you have had a hard week, but take heart, and just enjoy yourselves here!
Replaying Sniper Elite 5 (again)
About to start Dishonored (again) after getting a free copy from AmazonPlayed Dishonored 2 before going back to the first one again?
Back on my Elite: Dangerous bullshit again with the latest update. Power play overhaul adds some new stuff to do and a reason to do it, while removing a lot of the downsides.
Damn, I have yet to play a good space game…
Looks scornfully at Starfield.
While I enjoy it and have several thousand hours logged at this point, I hesitate to actively recommend it. I feel like it’s on an upswing, but it’s still flawed. A lot of mechanics are opaque, the learning curve is a sheer cliff face, and there’s about a decade of cruft, bugs, workarounds and technical debt. That said, most of the updates since Odyssey have been a net improvement IMO, and the community is, for the most part, actually really welcoming and supportive.
Ah, fair enough.
I’ll keep this all in mind.
I played Elite Dangerous a lot. Its tough to get into but i feel like the economy is much better now. Like when i first started making money was a pain but now they’ve added a few new ways to do it that arent as grindy. I do exploration mostly so its a space flight simulator where i just go land on random planeta and moons and visit pretty places to see the views. Never done combat much so i cant comment on it but it does exist and has a big following.
There’s a new one, right? Or am I thinking of the old game from the late 1990s to early 2000s?
Elite Dangerous is newer its like a full simulation of the milky way and has a big background simulation its an MMO kinda but i play in single player mode lol.
I should also play No Man’s Sky but I don’t know if it’s truly just a “cozy” space sim where you can just do stuff without objective.
There’s a new expansion pack for factorio. Factorio is not for everyone, but whoever gets it gets a cheap per hour entertainment.
Sounds 'ight.
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Okay, that’s all, cheers.
See the above OP. Read it. Memorize it. Love it.
…Err, answer it?
Spoiler that shit. It’s long.
Oof
Gamers rise up
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Been playing Deadlock as my main game since I started back in August and been enjoying it. Looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds in February. Really enjoyed the beta but worried about performance in the full game, cuz it wasn’t great in the beta.
Monster Hunter Wilds is probably set to be my first foray into the series.
It’s a good time to jump in cuz they’re definitely trying to make it easier for beginners to start. I myself started with Rise but I’m interested in playing a main line game with more grounded mechanics.
That’s good. To be honest, I like beginner-friendly games. I don’t really like “git gud”-type games.
Wilds looks like fun but I’m skipping it because Capcom decided to shit it up with Denuvo
I’m finishing Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow probably either tonight or tomorrow, another really fun game! I don’t know if I like it more or less than Symphony of the Night yet. I think it did some stuff better, like I think the soul system is a lot more enjoyable than having to hunt around the castle for sub-weapons if you want a specific one. I like that there’s more types of weapons too, but I ended up just using the normal swords the whole time because I liked being able to cancel the attack by landing too much lol.
I’m not sure what’s next yet! I really wanted to play Dark Souls II, but I’d like to play the vanilla version, and I don’t have $40 to spend on a game right now. I’d usually just pirate it, but I want to be able to play online too so I guess I have to be patient. Hopefully it goes on sale sometime soon. Otherwise I don’t have anything specific in mind. Maybe I can finally get around to Final Fantasy VI? I’ve been wanting to give Metal Gear Solid 2 another try as well now that I can emulate the PS3 version.
Damn, I want to play the original Kojima games.
I had to look it up, I’m surprised that vanilla DS2 PC servers are back online, considering they shut down the console servers, and also considering that DS1 Prepare to Die Edition never had their online restored.
Yep it still averages like 200 players online. Probably not even worth it to be honest, but I don’t know, I really enjoy the online in these games so I’d like to try at least. I’m a little worried I won’t run in to anybody, but when I played Demon’s Souls PS3 there was usually only like 10-20 people online through RPCN and I still managed to get invaded and invade, never co-op though sadly.
I downloaded and played some DS2 online last night, got a little PvP action but I didn’t see any summon signs. I left one down for a few different bosses but didn’t have any luck getting summoned sadly
oh cool! thanks for letting me know. too bad you weren’t able to find anyone to summon you, but good to know there’s still some pvp’ers at least. i might just end up pirating it after all, and if the game goes on sale i can just start another character if i really want to.
Hades 2 has made me realize that I’m not good at Rogue-lite games. I finished the original Far Cry (meh). I intend to play far cry 4 and maybe 5.
I unironically loved Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4.
Ghost of Tsushima on steam deck, baldurs gate 3 on the big rig. Balatro on the phone. All three games are so very fun.
Baldur’s Gate 3 on Steam Deck is great, imho
Oh, and Balatro on mobile is great too, of course.
Enlisted. USSR main grindset
Enlisted? What’s that?
Free to play tactical FPS where you control a squad instead of a person. When one character you control dies, you switch to another member of your squad. This allows for big battles. You can drive tanks, planes, etc. too, if I’m not mistaken.
Sounds like my jam.
I haven’t played it, but I have some friends who do and they say it’s super fun.
Might put it on my list then.
multiplayer game, first-person-shooter, you control one specialized squad (mostly infantry squads), and you try along with other squads of your faction to complete game objectives (capture/defense/destruction) against the enemy faction.
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Okay, last one.
Cheers!
See the OP and answer it, if you want.
Thanks for participating all those that were in the last thread of its kind.
I’m just pinging everyone from there as I usually do.
I was playing gta iv before my hand got injuried
OOF
How much and how soon will it recover?
I don’t know how long it seems to be healing on it’s own. I also have a sprained foot and conjectvitus in my eyes I never get a damn break !
Damn, that fucking sucks. I have an astygmatism in my eye that’s very bad and never stops bothering me.
I wanted to play the new Dragon Age game so I’m trying to blitz through Inquisition before I start it. Origins is one of my favorite RPGs and DA2 wasn’t as good but I still liked it, but I’m not totally sure how I feel about Inquisition. I think if I had played it back when it released and had time to explore everything I would have liked it a lot more but as it stands now I’m just trying to rush through it lol
I suspect that Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be like DA2 and Inquisition in terms of quality, though I really liked Inquisition.
I think Inquisition is pretty good. People have criticized it over the years for various things but as someone who’s played RPGs and MMORPGs in the past it scratched a lot of things for me. It’s the type of game that is really worth the money. You can easily lose a hundred to two hundred hours in a complete play-through if you take your time and do all the expansion and side content and with multiple romance options and certain branching parts of the story it takes multiple play-throughs to see absolutely everything.
I do recommend trying to take your time if you can or go back later. The story and scenery are pretty interesting both.
Inquisition is the only one I played and given my love of that genre of games I feel obligated to give it a second shot, it’s been years since I last played it and I didn’t really like the beginning of it and kinda gave up
Just got done with the story of Arkham Asylum. Working on the challenges now! Though, I see I’m not as good at combat as I thought lol. At least the stealth challenges were a cakewalk!
Probably going to start up Arkham City once I’m done and keep this ball rolling.
Hell yea! Can’t wait until you get to Arkham Knight. I did a full Arkham (minus Arkham Origins, the red-headed stepchild of the series) a month ago just in time to finish around Halloween, and it was even better than I remembered, it’s extremely rewarding to play on the hardest difficulty, if you’ve beaten it before try the New Game + with Knightmare difficulty, it’s honestly not as hard as it sounds and makes you feel so much more badass throwing enemies and doing Never Shot Never Seen Stealth segments
Yeah, awesome
I’m playing Final Fantasy 15 A New Empire. It’s a shitty kingdom-building mobile game with guilds and sieges and endless timers. It’s got nothing to do with FFXV, but in my headcanon this is what Noctis was doing during the timeskip.
If anyone knows where to download either King’s Knight or War for Eos, then I’m all ears! I want to play everything related to FFXV out there.
Awesome! What do you think of Final Fantasy XVI?
And do you play the MMO Final Fantasy XIV?
I haven’t played either of them. Funny thing is, I didn’t even know 15 existed until I heard news about 16. So apparently not many people like the game as much as I do.
Ah, so you haven’t played any of the two.
Well, Final Fantasy XIV has the best story, apparently (well, for an MMO, anyway). And people liked Final Fantasy XVI, but thought it felt too much like Game of Thrones (which is a show I don’t like anyway, but love A Song of Ice and Fire, the book series that it’s based off of).
There’s also Final Fantasy VII Remake as well, which people apparently like, at least the first part. Not sure how the second one was received, but honestly? Gamers like to complain. And Final Fantasy fans apparently like to complain especially.
Very true. I’ve seen a lot complaints about how the remake has changed the story but I think if was kept the same, we’d be hearing complaints about how it’s a soulless repeat instead. Personally, I think it’s an interesting subversion of expectations and I like how Sephiroth makes more use of his dick ghosts (which WERE in the original too). I’m looking forward to the new ending and I hope it’s as memorable as crisis core.
Hell yeah! You’ve played it then?
I’ve watched a full playthrough of the first part. I have the game and could play it myself too right now but I don’t feel like it. I’m more interested in ffxv slop at the moment
Slop can be good, tbh.
Enjoy!
School has taken up most of my “gaming time” so I haven’t done much of it. The most recent game I have played is Fields Of Mistria which is like Stardew Valley but with a 90s anime aesthetic and magic. It’s in early access on steam and it’s really fun. I also of course have been playing Stardew valley, especially since the new update recently came out for switch, and Mario Kart 8DX. Once the semester is over I will play Disco Elysium and some other games I have yet to start. I don’t really have a favourite genre except I seem to gravitate towards fantasy and life type games I guess. Chill games with things to do, expect Mario kart is anything but chill. I also like Zelda.
There is only one game I am looking forward to but there has been no clear release date: Haunted Chocolatier, which is made by the same guy who created Stardew, ConcernedApe.
I hope one day I can get a steam deck so I can play all my games away from my computer. I actually prefer handheld and I think I’d play more game if I had the means.
Tbh, I won’t have much gaming time left with my new upcoming job with FedEx. And yeah, I’m also gravitating toward “cozy games,” which is what you seem to describe. Take care. Also, damn, I want Haunted Chocolatier. Fields of Mistria is another good “cozy game.” And play the new Zelda game; it’s the best one in a while, better than Tears of the Kingdom (which isn’t saying much).
