• strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    7·
    2 days ago

    Cyberpunk,

    Finally picked it up on this sale with Phantom Liberty.

    Played about an hour so far, seems OK, have to get my Steam Controller setup properly for it still.

  • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 days ago

    Dont know yet, but a very stressful period is done at the end of this week and i have some vacation after so from next week i will find an old gem and play the heck out of it

  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I’ve finally been playing through Mad Professor Mariarti on the Amiga. I saw it played many times as a child but now I’m finally playing it myself - and beating it!

  • tomatoely@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 days ago

    Fallout New Vegas! I’m really enjoying all the characters that I have met so far, but I’m starting to realize that villifying factions right from the start isn’t the best idea when trying to get to new places

    • KammicRelief@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yo, I started FNV for my first time this week! A friend of mine is always raving about it, so he sent me instructions to get it all modded out (Viva New Vegas modlist), so I did that and I’m off to the races. So far so good… it was a bit of a grind to get past the first couple of quests (I kept getting my ass handed to me), but now that I’ve killed some convicts and stolen their stuff, I’m in much better shape. Also I figured out I can sleep in beds that aren’t red.

      I also heard that about not getting involved with factions yet…

    • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      I experienced the whole original trilogy last year with a friend on coop. I get it now. Why so many people love Halo.

      Btw, Halo 2 and 3 are much better than the first one. If you already liked that, you’re in for a treat.

      • MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I played a bit of Infinite coop - that game is super faithful, by way - and that was a lot of fun. Playing this in 2001 with a friend must have been fantastic fun.

      • MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        Incredible, I’m sure. Especially for people who weren’t playing on PC before - it generally stands up to Half-Life in a lot of ways, including the enemy movement and maybe even AI, but the cutscenes have that more traditional cinematic look. I love the constant immersion of Half-Life, but this feels like watching an awesome sci-fi action movie, like Aliens. There’s enough survival horror and cosmic horror vibes as well to keep you going.

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Consoles really didn’t have many good FPS until then. I’d say the Timesplitters series was a standout, as was Medal of Honor: Frontline.

          Both of those felt kind of on rails compared to Halo though. Wide open areas, three way battles, vehicles…

          • MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Yeah, the vehicles and battlefield chaos are really well executed. It feels genuinely grandiose today, so it must have been mind blowing at the time. I can also tell the campaign is meant to teach you how to play multiplayer, which other games would go on to do in the years to come.

            There’s a lot of Battlefield 3 in there. Or the other way around, more appropriately.

    • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
      3·
      4 days ago

      I wasn’t very patient with that one at the time, somehow managed to get it running on my PC though and had my mind blown. Such a good game, basically everything is fantastic apart from that library level.

      • MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        You know, having just played the Library level, I get the feeling that it was thematically necessary to drive home the scale of the cosmic horror you’re facing. It needs to be exhausting, overwhelming, unending…

        I tried it on PC in 2004 and all I got was a slide show.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    23·
    4 days ago

    Playing through Hades 1. I never got out of Hades until this time around, and I’m having fun grinding to complete some of the fated choices and lounge renovations.

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        4·
        4 days ago

        That’s been my experience, too! I was a little worried, after I got out the first time, that I would have no more reason to keep playing, but they did a good job giving the player something(s) to keep working towards.

  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    3 days ago

    I’m playing Minecraft on the Wii U with my daughter… and since the eShop closed a while ago, I didn’t have any issues unlocking all skins and DLCs by…. Alternative means 😅

    I like the style of the Mass Effect texture pack, and it’s fun exploring the included map.

      • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        4 days ago

        How did you like it? I’m like 10 hours in and so far it seems ok, but I’m not seeing the super amazing game that my friends raved about. For instance last night while playing I thought about how Bioshock was much more immersive and gripping, and it came out the same year.

        • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
          4·
          3 days ago

          The first game is a bit different from the rest and it’s greatest strength is the world building of the universe, where it is the strongest title of the trilogy. People mostly like the mass effect series for the companions though, and they are at their best in the second game.

          The first game suffers a bit from being an awkward hybrid between an infinity engine game and a more action-oriented game. It was a rough time for RPGs in general in that respect. ME2 and 3 lean more in to the action game play for better and worse (mostly better).

          Unless you are in hurry to get on to the next game, I’d encourage you to do some of the optional and very easy to miss sidequests that you can get from exploring planets. Its worth checking the wiki for these if you don’t feel like doing enough exploring to stumble across them organically, I can in particular recommend the Cerberus quest chain and Talis geth quest chain.

        • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
          61·
          3 days ago

          Mass Effect 1 is really like the first season of a TV show. The series was still finding its footing, but the story and characters make up for the grindy bits

        • Sai Somsphet@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          I liked how the combat system evolved and became more immersive instead of a third person rts. The story was interesting, with your choices following you through the games. I did a renegade run and still ended up with paragon points. Also, don’t explore and find everything unless you are dedicated to 100percent run.

          Super amazing? No. But fun and a good story with fun characters. Talking to them for side missions actually makes bonding with them worth the time and effort. If you have all three games you might as well play the series as intended 1-3.bur if you only have one or two, the game falls flat. They need each other to make sense, have fun, and become one giant decent game.

          So i say again, have fun. If you are getting frustrated, back off, relax, play some BioShock, then you get back up and eat that horse. It’s more important to enjoy the game then it is to finish it within a set time.

  • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
    23·
    4 days ago

    Half Life: Opposing Force

    Never played it before and the movement feels a lot faster than modern games. Its a good and fun game.

    • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      4 days ago

      Yeah growing up with that and quake 2 modern games always feels like im running in quicksand or my controls are broken.

      • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        This is why I cannot abide the Halo series. I came to them having been raised on Quake, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life. Halo was like moving through molasses.

        • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Yeah I was excited for halo when it was previewed as a PC game first then MS took it for Xbox never got into it

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
            5·
            3 days ago

            Xonotic is from a different reality were competitive movement shooters never died! It is the active fork of what used to be called Nexuiz.

            Xonotic runs on the darkplaces engine, it isn’t just stylistically of the arena shooter era it is directly descended from quake and the lot.

            Playerbase is small but consistent, Xonotic is very easy to download game (it is on several linux repos for one) so there are always new people wandering in and a solid community of veterans.

            https://xonotic.org/

            High level competitive gameplay is absolutely wild!

            https://youtu.be/pe5y-Kj6Ab4

            Xonotic “defrag” is a community of people who just strafe jump race, Xonotic is very popular for that given the buttery dream-like highspeed movement.

            https://youtu.be/PTp7DhsMpow

            (beginner tip the blaster is your best friend, you always spawn with it and it massively elevates movement in Xonotic)

            • lordnikon@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Very cool takes for the info. Yeah still to this day I use right click for jump in all my games from playing quake 2. It seems weird on modern shooters but old habits die hard. The new update to quake 2 has really injected new life into quake 2 ctf.

    • minyakcurry@monyet.cc
      4·
      4 days ago

      Same, bought space age but loading up a new save file just makes my heart ache for my immaculate bus and signal setups