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!
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I’ve been cleaning some achievements for Stardew valley and it’s really good. I also restarted Metroid dread for a hard mode playthrough. Oh, if you like Metroid I just found a romhack called Super Metroid Arcade and it’s really fun, you might want to play the original game first though.
Halls of Torment: I’ve been playing it religiously for the last two weeks now. And I only have two Steam achievements left to collect. It’s Vampire Suvivors but Diablo. A simple concept, but it really works. The game has great atmosphere, and it really is a steal for the price. I just wish there were less frame drops, when my screen gets too busy at the end of a level. But it’s really the only complaint I have for the game.
It’s gone largely unnoticed on Lemmy (at least it hasn’t come up on my feed) but I’ve been playing The Finals since it launched during TGA. I don’t normally play F2P games but The Finals is made by ex-DICE employees so I had to try it out. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say it’s the most fun I’ve had in an online shooter in almost a decade. It has pretty much killed my Satisfactory factory (because no longer remember what I was doing there) my Remnant 2 playthrough and my plans to return to Destiny before The final shape. And I don’t care about any of those other games because there’s something so addictively fun about the core gameplay of The Finals that I just can’t put it down. I’m probably going to spend the next week(s) also playing this game.
Overall, despite it being F2P game and having the obvious negatives of a F2P game I still strongly recommend The Finals. If this was a full priced title I’d buy it full price.
I loved the Finals when it was in beta. It legitimately was the most fun I had in a multiplayer game since Titanfall 2 and Lawbreakers. It just had that raw chaos feeling that I was craving.
Then I heard the announcers were AI voices, and that was disheartening. Then I heard that they slowed the movement down for the release to a point that it felt really sluggish so I just haven’t been motivated to try it post-release.
The movement thing is as close to a fake outrage as you can get. The developers have not slowed the game down. The thing that’s having the biggest impact on the game feeling slow is the default FOV that has been set to 70. If you played on 90 FOV (or higher) and then play on 70 FOV the game is going to feel extremely slow, but it’s a visual difference not a gameplay difference. The game feels exactly the same as it did in open beta.
I tried The Finals a couple days ago and was not enthused about a few aspects of the game: characters are bullet sponges and also take way too many melees to kill, and it’s still early in its development so my friends and I encountered several game breaking bugs like clipping through the floor and my friend got stuck facing a certain direction and had to DC to fix it (he even tried switching controllers to confirm it was the game’s fault). Fortunately glitches can be fixed and my other gripes can get fixed with balance changes. Also it is super annoying that when switching weapons/tools you have to press a button to confirm the switch which feels quite clunky. Overall, the game shows some promise.
I haven’t noticed any clipping through the floor bugs but I know on PC there’s a weird mouse bug where your mouse input freezes and you can’t use the mouse, but it passes after a few seconds so it’s not to the extent of having to DC to fix it. There’s also no extra confirmation input needed on PC which means using weapons or tools is definitely smoother on PC.
As for the bullet sponge characters. I personally prefer more bullet sponge characters and think most other shooters require way too few hits to kill which more often than not boils the fights down to who shot first. More shots to kill lets players utilize movement or other gadgets to their advantage, which IMO makes for much more interesting gameplay. It’s also much easier to track targets on PC (though, I don’t know how strong the aim assist is on consoles) and the ability to turn faster might make the combat more enjoyable on PC compared to consoles. I don’t think the theoretical time to kill (TTK) is that much higher than other games (Except COD because COD has stupid-low TTK), if you get the drop on someone they get deleted pretty fast.
I think the game has a pretty good balance on how much effort it takes to kill others because it suits with the rest of the gameplay loop. For instance lower TTK would also have to mean lower cashout steal times and lower respawn times and the fact that one player can wipe an entire team with one mag (which is what you can’t do right now unless you use the flamethrower) and then you also have to make throwables faster to use because what’s the point of a throwable if guns can just delete people? There are so many other aspects of the gameplay that depend on the characters being a bit bullet spongy.
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Monsters of the week, more escape then anything else I’ve played for a long time!
Path of exile: Affliction. It’s fun.
I’m with you there. This league’s been really great so far. I’m looking forward to seeing how others use the new gem variants.
Very very slowly playing through Sea of Stars still. I’ve just gotten to the second island and the combat has hit a decent difficulty spike, which is fun.
Also been trying (and mostly failing) to play Mass Effect Legendary. Been about 7 years since I beat them last, and I love the trilogy and really want to revisit it. The music in Mass effect 1 is just so good.
Ooo, I played the Sea of Stars demo! That game looks pretty neat :3 I think it felt like it had way more to it, a sort of deeper love and care for the game than I’d expected. Good mention .
Good luck with MELE! Am kinda curious what’s failing? Software/hardware/difficulty?
I have two kids is the failing hahaha
That’ll do it 😅
Shadow Warrior (reboot) because its stupid and easy and I’m too dead inside to attempt elden ring or baulders gate right now.
I’ve just started another playthrough of Mass Effect: Andromeda! Took ages to get the mod manager and EA’s app thing and Linux/Wine/??? all cooperating (or at least not fighting me effectively enough that I can’t play the game :P ) but off I’ve gone!
Hmmmm, what else lately. Battlefield V, apparently. Bit of PlanetSide 2. Started SIC-1 (the single instruction set computer programming game) but haven’t really been in a mood for it. Tried Stellaris again to see if Swayland changed the microstutters. It did not. Game looks horrifically complex now too, so meh. Tried again to find a new build that interested me in Path of Exile but no :-\ Uhhhhmmmm, touched Endless Space 2 a little, played some Helium Rain (which is free now! Very neat little space freelancer-to-empire kinda thing, like an itty bitty baby version of an X game). Almost went back to Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous which I love but an out-of-game sad and increasing memory-distance from my playthrough are making it harder to go back.
Oh, also logging into STO for the winter event and complaining about the Winter Wonderland. You’d think that being an ice princess I’d love the winter event but it’s awful. You know a winter event is bad when I strongly prefer the summer event! Totally backward, makes no sense! Rar rar rar, et cetera!
Anyway, this has been my latelish-gamesy ramble. I hope somecritter has enjoyed or at least I won’t get downvoted into Oblivion. Though at least if I do I can maybe meet some cool Daedra :3 (This post is being written directly after “waking up” (assuming I have, in fact, done so) and as such the thoughts represented within may or may not be my own, rational, intelligible, or representative of any official royal policy or belief)
Mixture is things.
Grounded, An Ankou, Nordic Ashes, Orbital Bullet, Wizard of Legend…
So roguelikes and a fun survival.
Just so much of the OSRS league, it’s honestly like crack.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate! I just recently got Citra emulator running on my steam deck and it runs great. Plus, Citra can emulate local multiplayer over the internet, so I’m playing with my old buddy who moved to california. Just like we did back in our highschool days.
Red Dead Redemption 2. Finally!
Coming off the heels of NG++ on Lies of P, it’s rather hard to get into. Hoping it becomes more engaging over time.
Still playing Street Fighter 6 pretty much every day. Still absolutely loving it.
Spider-Man Remastered, going through on Ng+ and ultimate difficulty to 100%, having just 100% Miles Morales. Those games have really clicked with me and makes me want to play the Arkham games again.
The Finals, have really enjoyed the betas and the full release being shadow dropped was a nice surprise. Definitely going to have more time when Spider-Man is done.
Next on the list to play is Sea of Stars, and Granblue Vs Rising.
The Ascent with my wife in local co-op, really nice one as she’s not really intro video games, but killing everything on screen and having to coordinate ourselves seems to be enjoyable.
As it’s almost Christmas, watching Harry Potter and playing Hogwarts Legacy creates quite the atmosphere for holidays.
