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[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Finally got RDR2 and holy shit this game is amazing

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Previously not much of a gamer, I saw all the Starfield hype around release and decided to get an Xbox to play it. Didn't like it initially, started to enjoy it around 5 hours in, have come full circle and am getting bored now (level 35) with all the repetitive stuff.

Starfield did show me that maybe i enjoy a wider range of video games, so now I'm starting on Fallout 4, and so far I LOVE it. I've pretty much only done one mission and spent a looooooong time building my first base.

I really love open world/exploration games, especially where there is crafting, hoarding, and killing bad guys in comical ways. Just Cause was amazing for that, I liked tethering people to trains because I'm secretly a maniac.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don’t want to come off as to PCMR, but truly Bethesda developed games need to be played on PC to get the most out of them. The mods tremendously elevate the experience. Everything from bug fixes and optimizations (that Bethesda should have done) to full on overhauls and DLC sized expansions, and everything in between.

I think I average about 200 mods simultaneously on Fallout 4 playthroughs.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

xbox has mods for fallout 4 and skyrim, and when starfield gets its mod thing going itll have it for that too

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I just saw that on the menu. Excited to explore it!

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

have you not played bethesda games before starfield?

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago
[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

oh man, you gotta try skyrim when you can. there's no base building, but it's the pinnacle of exploration open world games. 12 years later and I'm still finding new shit

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

That sounds alluring!

[-] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

Like others said, Skyrim is awesome. Earlier Elder Scrolls are awesome too, little more hard boiled. Fallout New Vegas is a masterpiece, highly recommend.

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[-] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 8 points 9 months ago

Tried Cult of the Lamb a mix of based management and rogue like. The game is good the lore is a bit to sour to my taste. The more I play the more the based management part of the game shadow the rhythm of the rogue like, sadly.

At the end, I like the idea but prefer to play both type of game separately.

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

I played it on release and found it underwhelming. The combat was a little shallow and the cult mechanics too easy.

I may give it another spin once this next dlc comes out tho

[-] Hello_there@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Holocure is a surprisingly good survivors-like and it works perfectly on steam deck with no changes. Just don't change resolution on PC to something sd can't handle.

[-] Starayo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I'm not even particularly into hololive besides very occasionally watching some highlight videos. The game is amazing. And free. I played the absolute hell out of it after giving it a shot, just like I did with vampire survivors.

[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

I finished Chants of Sennaar a couple nights ago, it was a lot of fun. Language-based puzzle game inspired by the Tower of Babel. It's very pretty to look at, and a lot of the puzzles were really clever. My only real complaint is that I was really expecting the final level to be much more difficult, requiring me to do a lot of synthesizing of ideas from previous levels, but instead the final puzzles were pretty easy and linear. I'd still recommend it though, the first 80% of the game is great, and if you get that far, you'll probably have the momentum to finish, the end doesn't take that long.

[-] Okami_No_Rei@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

In a bit of a gaming rut right now. Spinning my wheels on a bunch of different games. Haven't had one hook its claws back into me yet.

I've been mostly grinding out Cookie Clicker and Slay the Spire this week.

Nice games to play side by side while I binge blind Let's Plays of Hollow Knight, Outer Wilds, and Return of the Obra Dinn so I can vicariously chase the fleeting joy and wonder I got from playing those games the first time around.

Finished most of the tasks to do in The Longing and now just waiting for the clock to tick down.

Sat down one evening with my old save file and pushed through to finish the Tears of the Kingdom main quest. For all its faults, it had a really strong ending. I cried. Very conflicted on the game, but I don't have anything to say that hasn't already been said ad nauseum.

Played a bit of Dark Souls, a bit of Sekiro, a bit of Kingdoms of Amalur, a bit of Subnautica: Below Zero, and a bit of Siralim. Not sure what I'll settle on yet for next week, but I'm feeling strongest on Siralim right now.

[-] Donut@leminal.space 2 points 9 months ago

Have you played Inscryption? Going in blind might appease you

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[-] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 points 9 months ago

I’m playing Lies of P and it’s amazing. It’s been a long time since a game was able to draw me in like this.

[-] Purple_drink@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

After finishing Dave the Diver I've been playing sifu and outer wilds. Interesting mix of games. Sifu is pretty tough so far. Outer wilds I think I just need to invest more time before I'm really hooked

[-] winety@communick.news 4 points 9 months ago

I started playing Enderal, a total conversion of Skyrim. I like the deeper RPG mechanics, which the mod adds, although I'm a bit nervous about choosing something wrong and fucking up my character.

The game is set in a different world than Elder Scrolls. I'm not sure I like it as much, but that might be because of the different music.

[-] echoplex21@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Bioshock Remastered has been great to revisit again. I remember how mind blown I was when I was a kid playing the demo for it on my 360.

[-] Raxun@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I've been playing Cassette Beasts and it is phenomenal! From outside the game it just seems like a Pokemon/Digimon clone but there's so much more depth to the combat. The art is amazing, the characters are all written very well with a lot of depth and feel real. The music is amazing. My only complaint is that when the game is starting up if I tab off into another window sometimes it crashes. I started up Hallow Knight again after putting it down close to 5 years ago and I'm slightly less lost than I was before.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Got a new gaming notebook. Still trying it out, but I already bought Cyberpunk 2077, but only loaded for ~30 minutes for now. But I guess, that'll be what I will play the coming weeks.

[-] Boingboing@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Still Heroes of the storm every day. And going through the master chief collection. Enjoyed Halo Reach. Halo Combat Evolved was fun game play with a well paced story. Halo 2 is just a slog. Such long levels. Much of it just the same section repeated because padding. Story all over the place and jumping around between characters so no real sense of cohesion. Just need to slog through it so I can start on Halo 3. Oh. I have never played Halo before so this is all new to me.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just played through the original Homefront.

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 3 points 9 months ago

finished Omori.

Im glad I stuck around, kind of got a bit of RPG fatigue at the Sweetheart section. The gameplay was fine, i just kind of didnt have anymore RPG juice left in me and the RPG kept coming. Everything after Deeper Well was well worth the persistance though, and hoo boy the ending sequence came at me personally with a knife. Good game.

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[-] F4stL4ne@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago
[-] Vyllenor 3 points 9 months ago

Can't wait to try crackling lance of disintegration with battlemage, rebuke of the vaal and beacon of madness

And also try to figure out a way to use flameblast of contaction

[-] Duenan@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Playing Dave the Diver at the moment.

Disappointed that it went on sale hours after I bought it but even at full price it’s worth the price of admission.

[-] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Every few months I get the itch to dive into an MMO. I drift around among many of the free to play offerings depending on what sort of world I want to inhabit. As is tradition for me this time of year, I've been rewatching the LOTR trilogy, and thus I've decided to hop back into Lord of the Rings Online.

I haven't played in years, but dusted off my level 10 champion and set about getting reacquainted with things. Thus far I'm having a really good time. There's something quaintly nostalgic about this kind of tab target MMO. The whole thing is very cozy to me. Maybe that's just my love of the setting and the opening areas being consciously pastoral, but I find it very easy to just zone out and churn through content in this game.

I don't know how long I'll stick with it, as MMOs tend to demand more investment than I'm willing to give single games, but as of right now I'm having a wonderful time.

[-] SynopticVision@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

After many years, knowing all too well that it's the kind of game that would have driven me crazy, I started Factorio. I am indeed struggling not to have it swallow my life whole.

[-] Nerdybynature@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I’m replaying Omori since I was on laptop/switch friendly games for the past two weeks visiting family, but I didn’t water the flowers my first playthrough so I’m here for the good good ending.

[-] caut_R@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Football, Tactics & Glory. It‘s alright, I already got it so might as well play it, but it‘s only a football manager in a very loose sense. It‘s actually only football in a very loose sense.

[-] lethargic_lemming@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Couldn't sleep in the wee hours of the night, so I went "f*ck it" and downloaded Tetris on my phone. I really only like playing marathon mode, but I found myself enjoying the stages in the game as well.

Certain actions like rotating and hard drop or soft dropping pieces translate surprisingly well into swipe amd drag motions on the app.

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[-] Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 9 months ago

Finally got No Man's Sky on sale. It's even better than I thought it would be. 7 years later and the game is super fun and has a ton of things to do. I hear they're still updating it so I can't wait for what comes next.

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[-] KMRamos@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I played 72 hours of Stardew Valley 3 years ago and I got back to realize...that I know nothing!

What is this chest? What is this thing standing beside my scarecrow?! What are all these machines doing?!? What am I planting?!?! Who is my boyfriend?!?!? Why is he my boyfriend?!?!? In short, a lot of things happened and I have amnesia now. And I thought that only happened in Rune Factory.

Anyways, I'm playing it again. But now, dived face-first into modding it. And lo and behold! 133+ hours in, and I'm still not in the second season of the game cause I spent most of my time getting mods and testing them ~~Skyrim modding session flashbacks~~ All my men are yandere now and that wizard is now a hot ikemen(who I can marry in the future). I can't wait to play!

[-] Pazintach@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Back to Grim Dawn after its 1.2 update. I'm glad they integrated most of Grim Internals' functions. I appreciate games like these that really listen to their players.

[-] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Baldur's Gate consumed a bunch of my time, but I've had on hold for a bit. Got obsessed with Armored Core 6 which has been a ton of fun. Bit biased though, played AC series growing up, big Fromsoft fan in general.

Most recently been hitting that Mario World Wonder on switch for quick casual time kill, then Predecessor on PC for scratching competitive PVP itch. Got so tense playing it the other day I managed to tweak a muscle somehow 😂

[-] Stamets@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Warhammer 40k Darktide. Love my lil sexy Zealot. Always looking for new people to play with by the way...

[-] huggingstars@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Been playing the original ni no kuni as part of my Ghibli playlist.

The game shows its age right from the get go, though it's still adorable and fairly charming. 5 hrs in and my only complaint is that jumping is somehow an unlockable, but yeah guess it's just me.

Steam input support is a pleasant surprise. And I ran into a steam bug because of that(¯\_(ツ)_/¯).

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[-] Ghostlight@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

CK3 with mods. I'm considering buying the tours & tournaments dlc

[-] JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Talos Principle. The VR version of the first game, haven’t gotten around to the second game yet. I love the puzzles (when I don’t struggle with timing running past mines), and it’s hilarious that the philosophical test to make a Milton admin profile showed me how utterly unprepared I am for philosophical debate, and how weirdly contradictory my viewpoints might be. Mind you, the only philosophy class I’ve taken in my life was an ethics class.

TL;DR Talos Principle is amazing so far, even though it makes me want to slink off back to college and sheepishly register for a philosophy class.

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