I haven’t made a new thread weekly exactly, but with the amount of activity it might need to be fortnightly, here’s another recommendations thread.
Let everyone know below a game (6+ months old), that you have played recently, are currently playing or intend to play soon.
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Enjoy. Two of the most beautiful games to exist, although weird Owl obsession from creator.
I’m still playing Elder Scrolls Online, which means I am not playing much atm while I upskill in Linux/docker etc.
I just hop on, do my 15 minutes of daily writs between two characters with addons and hop off.
Tried it out a long time ago. Leveled up a bit but realised I could spam one dungeon over and over and level real fast… and after that I felt lost and eventually quit. How is the controller support?
How is the community over there? I played a lot of WoW during Wotlk (very cliche, I know), but not so many MMOs in the past years.
Outside of free weekends or perhaps peaktime weekends in general, it is probably the nicest community I’ve ever played with.
Very nice community. I try to contribute to that in and outside my guilds.
That’s nice, I might give it a try at some point in the future.
ESO is free on EGS now, think it’s going to end in under 18 hours, so grab it when you still can if you’re interested.
Thanks for pointing this out!
I’m about 4600 hours into ESO, but I’ve been paying for the subscription for half of that time. I only raid. Very challenging at the high levels, which I really enjoy.
I just hop on for my scheduled raids and log off. I don’t do any kind of grinding.
I’ve never bought ESO subscription, I have 200 inventory / 240 bank on my main character and manage my items with addons, I own the 6 previous expansions with the $20 bundle and intend to play what I own before wanting DLC I don’t have.
I trade Gold for other DLC I want.
That’s fair. I just have hundreds of thousands of crafting items so the craft bag is a big one for me. I also actually go through every single DLC. I’m almost done getting every single trifecta in the game (arenas, dungeons, and trials).
I could probably make do with how you go about it, but since this is basically the only form of entertainment I pay for, I feel like it’s justified. My lifestyle is otherwise incredibly frugal.
I plan to finally play Hotel Dusk for DS. I just need to finally hack my 3DS. I have a cartridge, but it’s in another
castlehouse.I haven’t thought about Hotel Dusk in a long time. I might have to finally fix my DS and revisit.
Be sure to play the sequel if you like it, I played it many years ago and I’m planning on re visit it as I almost forgot all the main plot lol (the only good thing about having a crappy memory I guess).
I plan to, it’s funny how the first game is quite common knowledge, but I only learned about a sequel in some “10 games you didn’t know have sequels” or such article.
Haha yeah, pretty much, I think first one is more memorable as well, is that case where the sequels just can’t beat the first entry.
If you haven’t gotten around to modding your 3DS yet, I recently did and it turned out awesome and a lot easier than I had anticipated. There’s a super comprehensive and detailed guide I used if you’re interested.
I have, just recently. That’s why I’ve finally been trying so many games - https://lemmy.world/post/3035900
Yoo, that’s awesome. Enjoy!
I’m going to play Sleeping Dogs next. Bought it during steam sales for like $2. I heard it’s pretty good. I remember liking its predecessor, True Crime.
It’s really good and fun, and also as someone who grew up with HK movies and drama, captures that flavour very well!
Best GTA-like I’ve played. Completely ignored the driving part and focused on the beat-em up part. I wish Yakuza was a fraction as good in the fighting department, because otherwise I feel like it would be a perfect fix for me.
So wish there was a sequel! T_TI loved SD when it came out, think I have played it through 3 times now. I have all of Yakuza but just can’t get into it to the same extent, only managed to finish Zero so far.
Heroes of the Storm! Pick one out of over 80 heroes to fulfill your role in a team of 5 and try to destroy the other team‘s core.
Blizzard‘s take on the MOBA genre is something I come back to from time to time.
The character and map design is awesome and one match allows you to level up your character to counter enemy strategies and be become the kind of healer/tank/mage/dps/supporter your team needs.
It‘s awesome. And free.
How’s the learning curve for someone who is somewhat familiar with MOBAs, but has never played HotS before?
The game offers a short tutorial and an AI mode. There you can get familiar with the first heroes that are available to you and the maps. Find a character you like and mess around with his abilities and skill trees. You have all the time in the world.
It‘s considered a beginner friendly MOBA. You have your standard attack, 2-4 special abilities and an heroic attack at level 10 (20 is the max level).
As soon as you feel ready to play competitively, there are several game modes available for you.
Since it’s free just give it a try. Becoming good in this game is part of the journey!
Just finished Psychonauts 2 (haven’t played the first game) - it’s a solid 3D platformer with great art direction that trends on the easier side, though I appreciated having something that was somewhat relaxing to play for a change. I would highly recommend.
Picked this up in the most recent steam sale… it’s installed on my desktop and steam deck, still haven’t booted it up.
Thanks for bringing it back to the surface. May have to start tomorrow.
The first one was even better I feel!
I recently finished Yakuza 2 and NieR: Replicant, so I’m starting some new games:
- Blasphemous - weird setting, so I’m interested to see how it progresses; I had a hankering to play an indoe game, so that’s scratching the itch ATM
- Mass Effect Legendary - first time, but unfortunately I’m not super invested yet so I’m taking it slow
And some games I’ve taken a break from but will pick up again soon:
- Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - got a bit tired of the gameplay loop
- Ys - Memories of Celceta (near the end) and Oath of Felghana (probably 2/3); stalled for whatever reason
And some games I’m interested in starting soonish:
- CrossCode - I have that Ys gameplay hankering, but I don’t want to start another just after finishing the above
- NieR: Automata - really enjoyed Replicant, but I want to give myself some time so the world feels fresh
- a bunch of indie games
I really loved Blasphemous. Great setting, and hard enough to be very challenging until you get into it.
Blasphemous is a disgusting game, I bet you’re going to love it. There’s a sequel out now. It might be time for me to fire up the original again.
want to try some old school racing/management?
Try Gallop Racer (PSX). Pretty much Horse Racing Simulator. You play as a jockey/owner. You buy horses, race the horses (manually, no auto), and breed horses. Endgame is to win the prestigious horse races and get something similar to Triple Crown.
The racing part is simple to learn, hard to master, but fun overall.
My favourite part is getting the trophies by winning these specific combination of races (e.g. 10 G1 races, World Turf Cup + World Mile Cup+ World Dirt Cup, etc.). Or beating these particulary hard races with in-game “famous” horses.
There’s also a mini jockey competition called WSJ when you become top 10 by November of the year which you play 4 races with random horses and win by points.
I’vebeen playing Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 while I wait for Baldurs Gate 3 and how did I sleep on these?? They’re great
Solasta. It gives me that D&D joy, and it’s so much fun to make and playtest characters. Runs great on steam deck, too.
Caesar III is a 1998 Windows city building game, so it’s like SimCity, but more fast paced, focused on efficiency, and set in Ancient Rome. You can get it from Steam or GOG. But the game is old, and clearly aged software and gameplay wise.
Then someone created a reimplementation named Julius project, adding some QoL improvement and compatibility with other OSes. And then someone else forked the project and added gameplay changes as well, incorporating features from later games.
Now I can play it in my Android phone in my bed.
On my android? Holy shit brb.
Last time I played a caeser game it was C1 and I was a kid who had no idea which sound card setting to use and would choose different settings every time I booted the game. Sometimes it worked. I had no idea how to play but I loved it.
+1 for the wiki link to check it out.
Katamari reroll, which is just katamari damacy again… which is just so much fun and relaxing and the songs are funny. Go play it again, it’s great.
I am very excited about my upcoming holiday. I will finalmy be able to play Metroid Dread in peace. Ever since I played Hollow Knight I’ve been dying to get into a similar game.
If you want a great Metroidvania, check out axiom verge. It’s got really cool mechanics and world design.
For more action oriented, I could play dead cells for the rest of my life.
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I started playing Two Point Campus since they’re removing it from Game Pass in a few days. I don’t think I’m going to come close to finishing it so I’ll be picking that up probably sooner than later. It might not be the most challenging tycoon type thing out there, but the gameplay loop is pretty satisfying and the design aspect is just enough to keep me hooked.
Same. I’m trying to 3 star every campus but it just keeps going…
