Gaming thread! What have you been playing recently?
Tears of the Kingdom? Diablo IV? Duke Nukem?
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I’m currently building a massive irrigation system in Timberborn and also running through BOTW again before unwrapping TOTK.
I’m pleased that there’s not so much TOTK stuff floating about here as there was on the other place, I want to go in as innocent as a newborn lamb.
The thing about getting into game dev as a hobby is that basically now you have no time to actually play other games! 😭
When I do get time, Deep Rock Galactic is a fave for those days when you just want to shoot something in the face but you don’t want to do it surrounded by aggressively sexist 12 year old boys. A new season just dropped this week, which makes it sound like a typical money-hungry microtransactional mess but I swear it’s not like that at all, the devs are great people and everyone should give this one a go. ROCK AND STONE!
More chill days I like to investigate the unending backlog of cozy indie games from Epic (never touched them until I got a Steam Deck but it’s been great for those). Or revisit Mini Metro which on the surface is a simple af puzzle game but it’s surprisingly immersive and deep.
Of course it’s Steam Next Fest atm, I’ve only tried a couple of demos so far (Station to Station and Laysara: Summit Kingdom) but was thoroughly underwhelmed by both of them. On the other hand my husband tried the demo of Memori and got super into it, he says anyone who liked Celeste should give it a try.
Also last mention goes to Outer Wilds, I’m not “playing” it as such because it’s pretty one-and-done, but it’s impossible not to recommend it whenever even a slightly appropriate opportunity allows. One of the most amazingly crafted and emotionally impactful games I’ve played in my 30-odd years of gaming and if you’ve never tried it, please just trust me and go in blind it is so worth it.
Mini Metro
Just purchased (on phone) - thanks for the tip!
One of us! It’s honestly an absolute masterclass in how you can make a simple concept so surprisingly deep.
Downside is they released Mini Motorways a while ago and I’m sure it’s amazing but Mini Metro was so good that I’ve still not got bored of it and moved onto the sequel and I feel bad 😆
Motor ways and metro are entirely different, yet very similar. I would recommend giving motorways a shot, I think you’ll find the differences enough that it’ll feel like an entirely different game, with the same amount of satisfaction. I kinda flip a coin to see which one I’ll be playing.
I always come back to two games. Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Minecraft. But I really miss Minecraft from the alpha and beta days when it was simple. D:OS2 is possibly the best story driven, turn based RGP I’ve ever played - any recs for something similar? Over winter I tried to get into Hogwarts Legacy but I couldn’t find the motivation to progress despite growing up with and loving HP. On mobile I play Sky: Children of the Light pretty much daily and have done for almost 3 years now. Looking forward to PC release for that which was announced not long ago.
!oldschoolminecraft@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) have set up a community Minecraft server to try and recapture the old days! No idea how active it is but might be worth a look :)
I didn’t know you could still play the oldschool game 👀 I will have to look into this, thank you!
If you like story-driven RPG, I highly recommend you Disco Elysium. It’s basically Divinity: Original Sin without the combat system and the fantasy setting (and with even better writing).
Thank you, I’ll check it out! I appreciate that there is no traditional combat, that stresses me out.
Disco Elysium and return of the obra-dinn are games that give me hope for the future of video games being something besides rogue lite deck building gacha crate games.
Right now I have Final Fantasy XIV running in the background, I’m waiting for some ore to respawn at roughly 10:42 our time. Gathering’s a nice laid back experience.
After I’m done with this I’m probably gonna boot up Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town and do some gathering in that too. :)
Hello fellow XIVer!
Hell Let Loose WW2 shooter. It has a great in-game community, and they just released the British faction too (which is a bit rough around the edges right now, admittedly).
Don’t get as much time as I would like (who does?) But mostly Dwarf Fortress having finished a portal play through.
I’m looking at Deep Rock Galactic to play with my boys as I’ve got them to promise we will only play together! We all played Valorant for a bit but they can put about 10 times the hours in that I can so they outstripped me long ago!
I’m mostly switching between the System Shock Remake (one of my Kickstarters finally coming through…) and Aliens: Dark Descent – which is far better than I was expecting. The only real sticking points so far is the squad acting as ‘one’ (it’s a pro and a con), and the sheer RNG of alien movements – hit the RNG just right and you’ll go from a Hunt event, straight into a difficulty increase, straight into a Boss encounter…!
I was very lucky to be gifted Tears of The Kingdom on release, been playing that for the past month, amazing game.
Currently going through Prey which I’m really enjoying so far. Also making incremental progress on Elden Ring, currently stuck on Rykard.
Prey is a fantastic game – and unfortunately the last Arkane game I ‘clicked’ with, and a good part of that is likely due to Prey being a spirtual successor to System Shock 2, and Dishonored being the successor to Thief. The roguelite DLC for Prey isn’t bad either! I really wanted Harvey Smith to work on a successor to Deus Ex, but, oh well…
Probably a silly question but are you using the thing on the floor as you run into the fight arena?
The serpent hunter thing? Yeah, I actually just beat him with it (got lucky and managed to stun him out of the skull attack).
Slowly going through Stray and Disco Elysium. I have like 30 minutes a week to spend on gaming 😥
I have like 30 minutes a week to spend on gaming
Me too. Small children or something else keeping you busy?
Same situation. Stray great game for picking up and putting down on the deck
The forever constant is Rocket League, but I’ve started Witcher 3 back up on my switch.
Tried to pick up a discounted copy off steam for cloud save … but learned that feature is broken. So I refunded and picked it up on GOG… and learned it’s also broken.
Really brought me back to when I played PC games more and how absolutely infuriating it is when something doesn’t work and you try to troubleshoot it. Nowadays there are countless sites where people respond with, “it works on my machine” as a solution. What an age we live in.
“it works on my machine” as a solution. What an age we live in.
What a reply. Like telling a blind person that you can see just fine.
I’ve been getting back into World of Warcraft the past few weeks. Really enjoying playing solo and just levelling alts instead of the almost second job level of commitment that I used to have when raiding years ago.
Been eyeing that Battlebits Remastered on steam as well - might pick that up as it looks chaotic fun.
Classic/vanilla or retail? I had a huge nostalgic craving for vanilla and jumped back in on a moment of madness and am loving it as a casual
Currently playing Breath of the Wild and trying to complete it so I can start playing TOTK.
Been playing TOTK (surprise, surprise), and after my exams are done I’m gonna get stuck into Persona 4 Golden.
Enjoying Diablo 4 at the moment. If I’m not on that, I play a fair bit of Hell Let Loose.
