A new week and a new thread.
What are you all playing!
Still playing a lot of Hunt: Showdown after 1k+ hours. Fantastic game.
Also just started Jagged Alliance 3. Loved JA 1 & 2, when I was younger. JA3 finally looks to be a good successor. I am still in the first few tutorial sectors and the game is already pretty harsh. A good start.
X4 foundations with the boron dlc. I start and stop this one a lot. I’ve played hundreds of hours in this game and still feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.
Battlebit Remastered and MWII when my friends have been online
I really want to keep playing Satisfactory, we had just automated computers and aluminum, so I’d really like to build a huge train system and push into the endgame.
Lately, it’s been MechWarrior Online. It scratches the “Blow up stompy robots” itch.
If you want to blow up Dinosaurs in big stompy robots, then Exoprimal might scratch a similar itch.
Counting down the days until Armored Core 6…
Just started playing Grim Dawn again while waiting for Baldur’s Gate 3.
I’m playing Dave the diver. It keeps me surprised, constantly adding new sections, while keeping the cor game loop fun. I suck at navigating though so I frequently get lost.
Yeah, Dave ate my entire weekend. Some issues, but great game overall.
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I’ve been playing Doom 2 and getting into Doom mods. I saw a video about the Ashes 2063 mod and decided to try it out. It’s a post-apocalyptic mod inspired by series like Fallout, Stalker, and Metro. I’ve seen a lot of mixed reactions about it online, but I’m really enjoying it so far, especially the second episode. It’s almost like a Bethesda-style Fallout game built in Doom with little side quests and hub areas to explore in between the shooting. I keep having to remind myself that it’s a free Doom mod and not an indie throwback shooter built from the ground up.
Two Point Hospital on the PS5. Finding some of the levels harder on console than on PC for some reason, maybe I am expanding too quickly
Diablo 4 with my wife, and replaying GTA V. Both have been a lot of fun.
How’s diablo 4 for a (I’m guessing) casual player? Was looking to pick it up but haven’t heard that much positive about it.
I thought the game was spectacularly bad, but I seem to be in the minority. Makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills! It’s a very pretty game with super shallow mechanics and it’s designed for maximum grind. I can handle grind in an ARPG since it’s kinda their thing, but you gotta have some good mechanics to go with it or it’s just an idle/incremental game with prettier graphics.
If it’s designed for maximum grind I’m not too sure I’ll like it. My tolerance towards grinding isn’t the best.
I enjoyed the campaign of Diablo 4, but as you mentioned the game has a serious lack of depth.
It became especially obvious to me once I hit the endgame and realized there just wasn’t that much to do.
In Path of Exile especially there is so much depth and content around the endgame that it feels like there’s almost too much to do.
I don’t think Diablo 4 is bad, but I do think it’s far too casual. The combat is satisfying and the graphics are great. But the skill tree and RPG systems are massively lacking.
I, too, enjoyed the campaign. But the campaign alone wasn’t worth $70 and once the campaign ended, the game just turned into a boring grindfest.
I don’t even feel like casual is the right word because you can have a deep, interesting game without a game feeling like it requires a huge time and energy investment. Something like Last Epoch manages to have depth while still being approachable to casual players.
Diablo just seems… I don’t know, hollow. It looks great on paper but falls apart in practice.
I really love how Last Epoch approaches skills. Feels like the near perfect balance between casual and complex.
I wish the game felt a little bit more polished and refined overall, but they have a very strong foundation to work from.
I bought LE ages ago and the progress they’ve made makes me confident the game will continue to improve in good ways. The designers really seems to understand the genre and what players want. The way they are handling “the trade issue” is a perfect example of that.
The biggest issue right now is a lack of endgame systems. Once they get that fleshed out a little more, they’re going to be sitting pretty.
I’ll steup the morrowind total conversion “starwind” which seems like a really good star wars game set in the old republic era.
Unless a friend of mine buys baldurs gate 3. In zhat case it’ll be baldurs gate 3. I hope it lives up to divinity original sin 2.
Phoenix Wright trilogy
Road 96! Also revisiting Hyperlight Drifter
Man I was really hoping that was a lost sequel to Interstate ‘76/‘82.
Started and completed ‘Viewfinder’ over the last few days. It’s a little puzzle game where you have to play around with a camera and toy with angles to solve puzzles. Little Portal, little Witness, and a lot of fun.
I’ve been hitting the Switch Online emus pretty hard lately. Namely Gameboy/Link’s Awakening. Then I was looking through old games I haven’t played in forever and got hooked on Super Monkey Ball banana blitz! And Minecraft is always in the rotation too
