Still gonna keep this goings; people from before will be pinged.
Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What did you like most from the recent TGA 2024, assuming you watched it or know of the announcements?
and
What did you enjoy most from the year 2024 in terms of gaming?
Well, a lot of bad news has happened politically IRL, but let’s make this thread a good one, and enjoy ourselves here!
I am playing enlisted (ww2 multi-player first person shooter) and WOWS (naval warfare simulator) as a way to disconnect my brain.
Also emush from eternal twin group project which is a recreation of a real time (multiple days) cooperative game kind of merging alien and the thing movies. The game predates among us but is kinda similar.
Quite fun due to the mistery and cooperation element, not gonna lie, but on long runs you are just fighting the environment by repairing the ship which is breaking down basically every other cycle (3h per cycle, on cycle changes stuff happens)
oh nice
I mean, WOWS is my true “disconnect brain return to monkee”, point and click adventure.
Enlisted does require some thinking on where to attack from and trying to predict where enemies and their defenses will be, but the actual combat engagements is all muscle memory by now becaude I have played that shooter very often.
Been playing a lot of GTA V and grinding online, I still have to grind on lobbies with nobody else in there tho bc most players are assholes that ruin your missions
Just played The Quarry, and it was a blast. Can highly recommend if you enjoy choices based story games. My favorite genres are story games, turn based tactical, and roguelikes. I find I don’t have a huge amount of time to play, so I like games that aren’t too complex and that you can pick up and play without having to remember how the game works.
Didn’t follow TGAs this year. For 2024 games, I really enjoyed Selaco, Spiritfall, Portal Revolution, and Arco.
sounds gud
Got back into playing pokken (am getting consistent wins against hard AI now yay)
Pokken? What’s that?
it’s a pokemon fighting game for the switch (and the wii u i guess)
Oh, Pokken Tournament!
I only played around 5 minutes of the My Sims Kingdom that came out on the Switch. I am in my finals week so I haven’t been able to play anything, but after the 19th I’m free (until January)! My favourite genre seems to be cozy games, so that’s interesting, although I also like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Legend of Zelda, so I don’t know what to say about that.
I don’t pay attention to the game awards, I think CaseOh won something. I liked playing my switch games and some on steam this year, not much gaming from me unfortunately. I imagine next year will be even less games because it’s my final year of undergrad which means I have to lock in.
Never heard of CaseOh before the event
I’ve only ever seen clips of him on TikTok but he’s hilarious and hot, double whammy! An award well deserved
Oh damn, I could use some comedy. Guess I’ll check them out.
Replayed two flash games from my childhood that held up incredibly well. First was Battle of Britain 303 Squadron, and the second 1066. Would recommend if you have 15 minutes to spare!
Damn, flash games. They still around? What about Tetris on the Internet or as a flash game?
I was watching a video saying that they were held in “flash base,” as an archive.
@Makan I’ve played a bit of Mirthwood an indie game that’s kind of a mashup between stardew valley and the sims
Then went to check out Path of Exiles 2 which I’m enjoying so far.
Oh, I’ve heard great things about Mirthwood, tbh
caves of qud 1.0 out now babeyy!!! also been playing gyruss for the arcade and panel de pon/puzzle league/tetris attack.
fav video genres are roguelikes, puzzle games, and arcade games like shmups.
there was a game awards…?
ring racers is THE game of 2024 in my heart and soul and spirit and its factual go play ring racers
fuck yes, ring racers
Caves of Qud is finally out! WOW!
I’ve been playing some Pokémon. I’m mostly finished w/ Fire Red, just need to rematch the Elite 4, and I’m mostly done with Let’s Go Pikachu too, which I started playing because a friend is also playing right now. And although it is extremely easy difficulty wise, I’m doing a living dex since catching Pokémon in this game is, at least, fun.
I’m getting the urge to go back to Baldur’s Gate 3, Breath of the Wild and Disco Elysium, all which I haven’t finished yet, unfortunately.
About TGA, I wasn’t expecting another FromSoftware game, and it being an Elden Ring alternate reality 3-player roguelike? SIGN ME IN, the trailer was cool, I want to see where this goes. Other than that, the only other games that caught my attention where the football game which looked so fucking cool, and this comes from someone that absolutely hate sports games, specially Fifa; The Long Dark looked super cool too and the new Ninja Gaiden looked amazing. I’m also interested in Onimusha after the trailer on TGA, so I’ll take a look into the games some time.
Ah, I can see that you have Kras Mazov as your username, but you haven’t finished Disco Elysium.
Shows the effect the game had on you just like it did to all of us…
This was probably the best TGA ever. Even the skits were funny. Definitely intrigued by the idea of an Elden Ring spin-off but the football game from the Sifu devs looked really cool too.
Yeah, definitely the best TGA ever. And I’m actually interested in the Elden Ring spin-off. I actually want it, warts and all. I know it’s a GaaS-type deal. But I don’t care, provided it’s done well for a good enough time, at least…
I was soooo excited for Veilguard. Guess which game I kinda hate? 😅
I will never forget the intense and deep disappointment I felt after playing DA2. I hear Inquisition was better, but the entire series was dead to me from that point forward and I lost faith in direction of the series from that point.
I’m not the “stop having fun” type, but it’s a bummer to hear that they never managed to bring it back to the great to the same spot that made the first game so phenomenal.
I know what you mean. I really enjoyed Inquisition, I still play it today. It’s not perfect but it’s great. Veilguard just feels like a bad cartoon. Example: I’m playing as a Shadow Dragon and everyone keeps explaining to me what the Shadow Dragons do. Ok, yep, read the codex, read my own intro, I got it.
It was originally supposed to be a heavily monetized live service game and they had to pivot really late in development because of backlash during playtesting. A lot of the weirdness you see like that is because they were reworking what basically amounted to a bad mmo. I hear the last few hours of the story are pretty good though.
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Damn.
I want to desperately enjoy The Veilguard and I still plan to buy it. I loved Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age Inquisition growing up.
Too bad only three decisions carry over from the third game…
Still on factorio. About 120 hours into the save. Pausing now to study programming a bit, but will play less hard, for the upcoming months, likely.
Damn, I need a game I can just grind.
Just about to finish Oracle of Seasons after Oracle of Ages. It is an EASY game I have to say, specially after playing Ages which has some weird puzzles
I have yet to play either.
My favorite announcement was Okami.
The 2024 game I enjoyed most was Paper Mario.
You mean the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake?
Also, yeah, finally, Okami II.
Yes, the TTYD remake.
kewl
Replayed Assassin’s Creed Syndicate(relevant), goated game and last good AC in my opinion.
Next whatever is on sale on Steam.
Favorite genres are horror(any kind), action/adventure and SCI-FI.
I didn’t see it tbh and except SH 2 remake, there’s nothing special in particular this year.
The last good Assassin’s Creed game for me was Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. I love nautical games. What else can I say?
I have yet to play Silent Hill 2 Remake. I hear it was great, but yeah, the only real one this year. There’s also Evil West but that’s not really horror. Well, more macabre than horror.
Black Flag ruled, definitely one of my favorites, Unity was… eh. Syndicate is best for me because Victorian Era and has my favorite Assassin and gear.
Yeah it was, Konami somehow exceeded expectations, I didn’t play it, but from what I checked, it seems that it’s shooter rather than horror.
True, but Syndicate also kinda downplayed Marx’s radicalism.
Yeah unfortunately.
