This is a topic I enjoyed seeing over at the other place, so I thought I’d try to get it going here if people are interested.
At the moment, I’m actually only playing two games. I play Trackmania 2020 every day, the game is great because it is populated with content from the community to a very large extent. Every day, a new map is added to the game, on which a tournament is officially played every day. Furthermore, there are so many tracks built by other players that you will probably never have played all the maps.
And then I still play WoW Classic and WotLK - the game has actually been following me since 2004 and has not let me go since then…
Shoutouts to TM2020. I somehow missed that games release until it came around to Steam not that long ago. I loved me some TMNF and TM2 so its been a real joy to dive back in.
I’ve been playing my way through and enjoying Pokemon Unbound, one of the most amazing Pokemon rom hacks to have been created. It’s a rom hack with a custom region, custom story, and amazing customization in settings. It even manages to have a difficult mode that is challenging without being grindy bullshit.
I’m doing a “soft nuzlocke” of the game, where I can only capture one Pokemon a route, and my Pokemon don’t die- instead, when I wipe, the entire run ends. It’s a lot more forgiving and fun way to play Pokemon while making it a little bit more challenging. Would recommend trying any Pokemon game this way, and would especially recommend Pokemon Unbound whether you’re a casual or experienced Pokemon player.
I recently played CloudPunk. The voxel art feels weird at first but you get used to it. It’s a fantastic game and the story is good. 5/5.
Diablo IV couch coop is awesome.
The story is fun, over the top, dramatic, brutal. We played through it and I only wish it wasn’t always online. So many moment were ruined by lag. Season 1 is about to be released but the game still lags like it’s on dial-up.Playing Halls of Torment. Super fun indie roguelite monster slashing game for 5 euros/dollars. It’s a bit like vampire survivor but with many cool differences.
Have more fun with it than with Diablo 4.
Have more fun with it than with Diablo 4.
Got this recommended yesterday by someone who said something similar. Didn’t play much yet, but I really like that the minibosses have some really interesting attack patterns.
utterly awesome alpha game
I really like this one! Just waiting for them to put more in it, because I beat it with each class as of the last time I played.
Lots of Warframe. I still have lots to collect and 8 more MR to MR30 so I’ll probably be at it for a while.
Hardspace Shipbreaker. I play open shift mode because I’m old and slow and have nothing to prove. I love the music and just taking my time and getting into the flow zone with it. There’s a half-decent story about worker exploitation, etc., going on with it but I pay little attention to the story in games. I’m here to play not watch a streaming series. Fortunately you can do other stuff during a lot of it, though they do have some unskippable cut scenes, which I am never a fan of.
Haven’t played recently but it’s a great game. In also play in open shift mode, it’s nice to just chill out and disassemble some spaceships
I play a lot of WoW private servers. I’m currently on the wow hc private server. It’s a small server but seems stable and friendly people. When I have free time on my phone I’ve been running through pokemon unbound on my GBA emulator. It’s a romhack for fire red I think. Interesting story. Like the old-school 2d graphics and original story.
Been a while since I was on a private server, might check it out!
I’ve been playing the GBA Collection on Nintendo switch. I had emulators but this is finally a legal way to play fire emblem, Metroid and Mario kart super circuit on the switch without hassle.
It’s basically the best thing that could happen ever. Now if I can just figure out how to enable the multiplayer it would be a blast
Slay the Spire - damn fucking addicting game, sometimes infuriating and sometimes a dopamine rush, it’s just feels so good when you play your cards right
CrossCode - I’m still at the beginning (just got my first party member) and I fell in love with it almost instantly. The dialogue is funny and the combat is chef’s kiss. Shout out to Lea’s legendary face reactions
I picked back up Team Fortress 2 a few weeks ago, and have been playing it often since. An update for the game came out a bit ago which pumped up the playercount, and it’s been a lot of fun playing on the new maps added (pd_selbyen seal my beloved). I may not really like how Valve is pumping the game for mtx while barely maintaining it, but I can enjoy what we do get. Still playing Pyro, Spy, Medic mostly, trying to learn how to play Demoman again.
Been playing BattleBit Remastered with some friends on and off too. I’m definitely not as good at this one, but I’m having fun with the massive 127v127 mode. Went on a massive killstreak with an RPG, with my friend constantly dropping ammo boxes so I could get more rockets.
I’m playing Days Gone on PS5. I’ve unlocked the second part of the world and by now I’m really hooked. It took some time but I’m starting to get a hang of it.
The world is actually quite immersive because of all the mechanics it has. You scavenge, you clear areas, you engage with random encounters, you progress in the story, you fix your bike and refuel it. It’s a bit like Death Stranding in a way.
And unlike Ubisoft formula, this one is genuinely different. It feels like an alternate reality of Ubisoft’s approach (I say Ubisoft but Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon and maybe even Spider-Man follow similar formula). Nests, camps and nero points all feel very different from yet another outpost with alarms and a leader, and enemy variety is pretty decent. So far it’s quite fresh.
Story and dialogues are a bit meh, it sounds like the protagonist is muttering post sex lol, but once you go along with it and believe the narrative, it’s pretty alright and consistent.
The graphics are really good, I mean I can’t believe PS4 was able to handle this game, the clutter and draw distances are really impressive. One thing I really hate is the loading times the game has, I wish they could release a native port to fix that or it had activity cards at the very least.
Overall I’m really enjoying it.
Had an itch for an open world game and ended up buying Hogwarts Legacy on sale on PC.
Pretty good, well made, decently well polished, great voice acting, has quite a bit of fun stuff if you were ever a HP fan as a kid, combat’s fun, story’s decent enough, but it really isn’t an RPG, it’s more of an open world action game and the quest pacing is odd. Also doesn’t run well on my aged 7700k/gtx 1080 rig, but I have a new one that I’m putting together by the end of the week, so I put a pause on the game for now.
Just feels like I’m overpowered for everything even on Hard past the first couple hours and the main quest level requirement is always like 10 levels below my level. Also the in game “gps/showing a path where to go on the map” feature straight up sucks in this one.
The dialog system is a bit of a dud, so don’t expect any flexibility in playing a deceptive Slytherin bad guy with ambiguous morals or passing charisma checks, it’s all very 2 dimensional., But even with all these flaws, it’s a solid one of these and it’s fun to fly around Hogwarts on a broom and find what will eventually be Hagrid’s hut.
I’m probably halfway in with 20ish hours in and so far it’s like a 7/10.
I immediately turned off the minimap when first starting playing HL, to kind of force myself to learn the layout of the school, and it really paid off. I wanted to take my time with that game so it was a great feeling to find all the different ways to get somewhere. They really did justice to it
Just finished up Tunic and Pictooi this weekend. Next up is going the be Advance Wars Reboot, I think.
With the usual smattering of Vampire Survivors and Brotato when I just have a little time available. Thanks Steam Deck for making the possible!
Bought Star Citizen and my god is it really good. Initially I assumed it wouldn’t due to everything I read but man those articles are usually out the date. The recent update added a lot and seemed to have fixed a lot. There are still quite a few bugs, but most you run into will not prevent you from playing the game.