Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!
Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.
On my 2nd New Playthrough of Elden Ring. I was a STR/FTH build in my first playthrough, so I decided to use the build opposite to that, DEX/INT. I love the Moonveil and the Dark Moon Greatsword, but the Godslaying Greatsword has a good place in my heart. That, and funny dragon lightning. I’m going back to STR/FTH on NG+.
On a side note, beating Malenia for the 2nd time is satisfying as hell
Titanfall 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 for the past few weeks.
also DCS if that counts as a game
Back to playing the Sims 4, and watching Detroit: Become Human playthrough online. I want to play it but not sure about what platform
Been an interesting week.
Deleted Cod Cold War - I was addicted and it stopped me playing other stuff.
Wanted to get started on Ghost of Tsushima- but I just can’t get into it
Went back the AC odyssey and grabbed DLC.
Also snagged and got burned by Endless Dungeon, which is bug ridden and incomplete.
I’m trying to play Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead again and I’ve been eyeing the Quake remasters. My SO is playing Death Stranding from the start again because their Epic cloud savegame didn’t take before formatting. Also, we are addicted to Boomerang Fu.
Mostly Slime Rancher 2 and Elder Scrolls Online lately.
I loved Slime Rancher 2, and played the heck out of it at launch, but am trying not to play any more until full release. It feels like I ate some of the cookie dough early and now I can hardly wait for the cookies to be done, though. I can’t wait to see what they add to it in the future!
Yeah, I ended up going back and playing more SR1 for similar reasons - but so far SR2 is looking great!
I’m playing Costume Quest. Fun little game that I had forever on Steam.
Lies of P has been fun
Beat it Monday night. Immediately started ng+. I’m a slow learner, and I’m just now dialed in with the flow of combat, which is good, because ng+ is no joke.
Spiderman 2 and Mario Bros Wonder.
Mainly Spiderman, but play the other when my daughter is playing her SM2 game.
A mix of Factorio and Wylde flowers.
Getting back into Last Epoch again. Really excited to finally have a launch date for 1.0 in February 2024.
Starfield, The Crew Motorfest, and Empyrion.
I finally started advancing on the main story in starfield and the faction quests and the game really picked up, got hooked for sure. I think it passed fallout 4 on my list
Baldur’s Gate 3. I had never played any of the series but the reviews were good so I took a chance. It probably is the closest we’ll get to an actual dnd experience in a single player game (well, except for scheduling conflicts lol). I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far and am trying to not let it take over my life
I finished the game once, have 2 co-op games running with friends, and just started a modded playthrough where the whole party is Artificers. I highly recommend giving some of the mods a try once you’ve played through vanilla. They’re super easy to install and add so much fun an variety.
Ngl, i used mods in Morrowind back in the day, and tried them with Skyrim, but today there is such a glut of quality games that i have a backlog of things i still want to play but haven’t had time for yet. I get 1-2hrs each night that i can use to play games. At this rate i won’t be playing Skyrim in Space™ until June next year, and i still want to go back and do a new playthrough with the Phantom Liberty dlc. That’s just the AAA games, there’s several from smaller studios on my list. Plus I GM a SW5e campaign every winter with some friends… man I’d love to quit my job so that I could game.
First world problems, amiright?
I picked up Baldur’s Gate 1+2 remastered as a combo on a Steam summer sale for like $20 last year, and I gotta say BG2’s story was a real high. Probably one of the best I’ve experienced in video games.
You really have to micromanage the combat though, so if you don’t like pausing and thinking about every single move your party needs to make, it might not be for you. I also played it before BG3, so I can’t really speak to how it’ll feel going backwards. But BG2 was really worth it for me.
I think a lot of those CRPGs were built under the premise that your companions were meant to die as expendable fodder for the player character. I know old school Fallout was built like that. It’s a real challenge keeping everyone alive till the end of 1 and 2.
I actually played Fallout 2 over the pandemic lockdowns, and I gotta say I found BG2 less difficult. I don’t think I’ve ever spent as much time dying in a game as I did in FO2.
It’s been years since I’ve played it… but IMO going backwards would be rough.
The toughest part for me is that the game is based on 2e, an edition of DnD I had no experience with. It was rough lol
Ooof, even Order of the Stick is based on 3.5e. The only thing i know about 1st, 2nd, and 4th editions is what Matt Coleville has talked about in his running the game series (minions and the bloodied condition ftw btw)
Darkest Dungeon with a buncha mods, shoutout to all the patient gamers out there
Replaying AC Odyssey as Alexios. It’s weird to see angry Kassandra.
So far I’ve been disappointed in dialogue and interactions with NPCs, even in the main story, where I expected things to change between the two characters, but the dialogue has been mostly all the same.
But hey, I get really fun, ancient Greece ship combat. 10/10 recommend the game just for that.
Edit: Also playing through Hades for the first time since purchasing it. I love how Supergiant put their own spin on all the Gods and Demi-Gods while keeping them mostly true to their depictions in Greek myth.
I just finished Assassins Creed Odyssey after 150 hours and 100% completion (aside from the riddles) and goddamn what a journey it was. Really looking forward to Mirage but I still have to play Valhalla
