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.
I’m playing Vampire Survivors. Saw it mentioned here in a thread the other day. Really fun game for €5!
Have you seen HoloCure? Same basis, but with cute anime girls, completely free (because it’s a fan-made project) and arguably more addicting?
I have to check this out lmao
I’m just hooked on dead cells with a smattering of rocket league.
Did start Hyper Light Drifter and looking forward to getting more into it
Tried Atomic Heart for an hour or two and I think I’m done with it. I found the loot collecting tedious, the upgrades felt excessive and padded, the characters overbearing, and combat was just okay. I think this could’ve been massively improved by cutting 30-50% of the play length by streamlining loot and progression and cutting weaker content. But I’m almost always the one saying games are too long and could be dramatically improved by cutting.
Finished another storyline in Octopath Traveler (1). I’ve finished 4 of the 8 main stories now. I still enjoy it, but just a little bit at a time.
Put a bit of time into Jedi Fallen Order. I’ve enjoyed it a lot more after dropping difficulty to baby mode and just blasting through story. Something about the movement or progression or exploration feels tiring to me. Especially backtracking through worlds I’ve already visited once or twice. I’m maybe halfway through and debating just watching a YouTube video for the remainder of the story…
Still making progress in Tears of the Kingdom. Maybe 25-30 hours in. I’ve started using the official guide’s “companion” for sections I’ve personally completed already. I really like how they wrote it as spoiler free as possible, with suggestions of landmarks or quests to get to that make sense for each section you’ve done. I had completely missed a couple armor sets that will be very handy!
Baldur’s Gate 3 is so good, and this is coming from someone who struggled to get into isometric CRPGs in the past (really wanted to get into Divinity: Original Sin 2, but couldn’t make it stick; I’ll probably have to revisit that after loving this so much). Definitely give this one a go!
This is exactly my experience. Always liked CRPGs, but I’ve literally never finished any of the classics, or any traditional CRPG for that matter (closest would be Disco Elysium or Dragon Age: Inquisition for me). But BG3 is really hitting for me. I absolutely love it, and I want to give more of these a try once I finish it.
I’ve started playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 at least a dozen times and just couldn’t get into it enough to keep going. To me it feels like it would be best played as multi-player experience, and frankly I just don’t have any gamer friends willing to play it with me. I just bought BG3 because of this post, so really hoping I don’t run into this same dilemma.
I tried Divinity OS 2 split screen with a buddy, the game requires too much saving and reloading to have an enjoyable time in multiplayer mode tbh.
Right? BG3 seems like it’s going to be a gateway game into more CRPGs for me. I think I’ll try my best to enjoy Divinity OS 2 afterwards as well, but I think my problem with that game is more about the unbalanced, nonexistent class structure and random difficulty spikes rather than the genre, which BG3 fixed by using tried and true D&D rules. But maybe I’ll see it from a different angle and appreciate it more.
Path of Exile, I don’t know why but I’m playing more now that the season ends in 10 days rather than when it launched. First time playing SSF, and I will do it in next season too.
DOOM (1993): I like it. First time playing it, just finished “knee-deep in the dead” and started the next chapter!
Shadow of the tomb raider: gameplay is fun but the story isn’t as fun as the previous games. Something just feels off to me.
I also just bought most of the resident evil games in the new humble bundle, have only played a little of 1 remaster, a year ago, and 5, about 10 years ago. I like weird scifi horror and this seems like just that, so hope I’ll like it, when I finally get around to playing them!
Can never beat Doom. If you’re PC you should consider the mod Brutal Doom, updates the engine and is relatively easy to do.
Oh, why is that? I’m playing it on the steamdeck, so I’ll check it out!
One of my most memorable LAN parties I’ve ever held was using “Megaman 8bit death match” Doom mod
Even if you don’t have friends, exploring all the insane and unique powers is a fantastic time.
Plus, every time that I play, there are at least a few folks playing in the open multi-player servers
It’s a mood that adds mouselook. I don’t know about steam deck but it’s literally 3 downloads (gzDoom, Brutal Doom and Extermination Day) and a whole new campaign with new weapons. Really excellent.
I’m firing up EFT for the first time. Hopefully my rig can handle it.
Just started DaemonXMachina after about a year. It’s not bad - nice anime-esque mech shooter game, very Gundam.
I spent way too much time yesterday playing Blackice. It’s a FPS game in a tron-like world. Graphics are in line with the colors and blocky edges. It’s not a super deep game, but it’s really cool when all the colors are splashing around and monster/programs are everywhere. It’s an indie built by I think just 2 guys. Plenty to explore, unique items and modifiers.
I’ve owen it for a bit, but noticed there were a few updates so I installed it again.
Also, Division 2 and Battlebit. There’s a trend.
I picked up my Elden Ring save again and finally got the courage to tackle General Rhadan yesterday and sucessfully beat him. Now I got a few quests to fulfil ans find the second medallion half to get to the lift.
Other than that I’m playing Sniper Elite V4 for the first time, which is fun to play for a few hours a day.
Just waiting for Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew to release next week :)
Jagged Alliance 3 on hard. It’s been pretty fun streaming it, a few choices but really I just enjoy making the map turn blue.
A few nice callbacks to JA2, decent voice acting. Running cheapest mercs I can get away with because the diamond mines keep running dry and I’m barely breaking even most of the time.
It’s a fitting successor to JA2 and I hope there are expansions in future.
Haven’t really had much time to play, but I’ve been playing a little bit of Black Mesa here and there when I do. It’s a remake of HL1 in the HL2 engine. Would recommend.
Excellent game. Such an improvement on a classic.
I’m still heads down into BG3… I don’t see myself coming back up for air anytime soon.
Just finished Dishonored 2. Yeah, I know I’m late to that party. It was on sale so I thought I’d give it a try. It was OK. Seemed a bit derivative, perhaps a bit too similar to the Bioshock games. It was also tougher than I was expecting; particularly once I started trying to be stealthier and to get the no-kills checkmark at the end of each level. Needed lots of save-scumming and still didn’t manage to no-kill all the levels in which I made an attempt at that. Ending was a bit meh, despite having low chaos at the end. Got my money’s worth though, so I can’t complain too much.
Started Guardians of the Galaxy a couple of days ago. Story is not great but good. Characters and the dialogs of them each other is actually pretty fun. Gameplay wise it’s not special but manages to keep me playing. The system used for commanding your team is fun to use, additional move sets feels like you’re in the Marvel universe.
Enjoying it so far.