Pinging those that were here before.
Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What are you most looking forward to in the rest of 2025 in terms of gaming?
and
Are you excited for the Nintendo Switch 2? Why or why not?
Revisited Planet Crafter recently, love it. However, once I take a break from it, I can’t really get back in, because I have to acclimate to that style of uh, camera control? I really easily get dizzy/disoriented with similar 1st person POV games, not sure why but having your character model on screen has always reduced or eliminated that effect on me. I guess that’s my one gripe, I really wish Planet Crafter (or even Subnautica, another big fav of mine but can’t replay it much for same disorientation reasons) had a third-person player model, even as an option.
Anyway, been on a break from video games since then, aside from occasional “social hours” dota. Looking forward to any more news from The Bustling World, hopefully we’ll be able to play it this year? fingers crossed
edit: don’t really pay attention to console games unless interested enough to look into emulators, hehe. sorry switch
Never heard of this game.
Tbh, I think Switch 2 will definitely be an emulation powerhouse.
I’m playing Advance Wars and I also started Disco Elysium. Damn, if I wasn’t doing my thesis I’d play that all day long. I had finished the Zelda Oracle games and they were alright, Oracle of Seasons was definitely a lot easier than Ages
Yeah, the Oracle games are more famous than good.
A couple weeks ago I was having a hard time finding things to play. I went back to Kenshi and Rimworld for a bit but they weren’t really doing it for me.
Then I got an emulator working for Breath of the Wild. Its pretty awesome. Its the spiritual successor to Daggerfall in that it has awesome climbing mechanics. I am really impressed by the openness of the world and the puzzles are really well designed so that sometimes I am not sure if I am solving it the way they intended or making up a work around. There were a couple spots where I had to spoof the motion controls through my mouse which was not great but otherwise everything has been working really smoothly. So now I’m looking at more wiiu games to emulate and I’ve got Skyward sword waiting for me.
I dont really care about switch 2. I haven’t had a console since the wii but I do look forward to the next installments of the Zelda franchise. PCs may be superior to consoles but I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for exclusive IP like Zelda, Metroid, and Sonic. (Mario is ok but he gets involved in too many dubious pursuits)
Daggerfall, my beloved…
I just picked up Heart of the Machine. It’s a turn-based RPG/4X/city builder (which apparently also includes multiversal time travel) in early access. You play as a rogue AI trying to survive in a dystopian cyberpunk city. If that sounds insanely ambitious, that’s because it is, especially for a solo dev. I played the (surprisingly full featured) demo and got immediately hooked. The different systems seem to tie together surprisingly well; the RPG elements provide a bit of drive to engage with the strategy side, and choices influence how you build out your tech tree. Probably not for everyone but the demo is free and worth checking out if it sounds interesting to you.
Never heard of this one… Interesting!
He estado jugando últimamente a la franquicia Saints Row.
Interesante.
Squad 44, Project Zomboid (b42) and Motor Town: Behind The Wheel, which is a MMO south korean logisitics/car game, really cool.
Haven’t been playing a whole lot of games lately because sick, but been slowly getting through Yars Rising because it happens to fall exactly within my interests, I feel like the exact target for it lol
It’s a Metroidvania from WayForward whose platforming and shooting is like Mega Man, with loads of hacking minigames that are literally Yars’ Revenge (you know, the old Atari game), playing as a cute girl with funny friends in this Japanese-inspired cyberpunk city full of Atari references (the idea is hilarious I love it) as you investigate a tech company’s shady secret
The soundtrack is a 10/10 and the girl you play as is currently one of my top fictional crushes lol, she talks too much and I never want her to shut up ❤️
It’s such a weird combination of stuff though, and it didn’t exactly get much marketing and was probably relatively low budget, so I get why it’s so overlooked currently despite being a WayForward game, especially with the genre getting so many games lately (probably not helped by Ubisoft putting out a huge budget Prince of Persia one a month earlier)
Also, I’m glad the Switch 2 is finally announced, even Nintendo games often run like total ass on the current one, hopefully this one’s size and being more round will make it at least slightly more comfortable, and hoping Switch 1 games will run more stable on it (even if target resolution/framerate stay the same without patches, I’d like games to at least keep a consistent 30)
Glad we’re finally getting a new Mario Kart too for the first time in 11 years lmao
No gaming for me because school has started and this semester has been nightmarish lol. I did buy a steam deck for myself tho so thats nice.
Edit: I do not feel super strongly about the Switch 2.
Steam Deck is a good purchase and hopefully you’ll have the time to use it eventually.
Still just playing Deadlock since I got into the alpha back in August. Haven’t been into a game for this long in a while.
Really looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds later on this month.
Tbh, there are too many games, it feels like, at times.
Just one game or two is enough; you’re good here, I think.
@Makan i’m playing Legend of Zelda: minish cap for the GBA on an Anbernic RG35XXSP
I just finished that yesterday for the first time!
Oooo, Minish Cap! Grew up with that game.
started playing this game called “Skyrim”… seems neat but the fantasy/racial undertones are kind of odd.
Oblivion is much better and Morrowind is better than Oblivion.
But, err yeah, the, uhh, racial politics is… Yeah.
Playing signalis. Setting is interesting and some of the puzzles are good but I’m not a fan of all the backtracking. I will finish it though.
Played balatro before that, basically got around 60 hours out of it before I felt really fed up with playing it. Which is not bad.
I’m enjoying playing more controller friendly games on steam deck over the competitive kind of games I pumped so many hours into before. I think after signalis I will play through the rest of hollow knight.
I don’t mind backtracking here and there, but I guess the game does too much of it.
My PC died a couple of weeks ago, taking the video card with it, and I’ve had a lot of real life drama to deal with as well. So I haven’t been playing that much. Mostly moving parts between my computers in order to create something useable.
But I spent a good chunk of time looking for bargains and I somehow wound up with a decent price on a 7900XTX, and a 9800X3D, so my computer is absolutely godlike now. I’ve mostly been playing bits and pieces of games that formerly ran like crap, as my PC now handles anything I throw at it with ease. Victoria 3, Oxygen Not Included, Frostpunk 2, and Starfield come to mind. They all run well now, and I struggled with them before.
Genre wise, I mostly play strategy games these days. But I keep meaning to brush the dust off my consoles and finally finish Tears of the Kingdom and the Ghost of Tsushima DLC. My console backlog is massive.
For 2025, I think I’m mostly looking forward to Switch 2 right now. I’m a Nintendo gal through and through. But I’m also stoked about Ghost of Yotei and The Alters.
Same with you on Nintendo. Honestly, the PS5 has some interesting titles coming up.
My PS5 has been accumulating a whole lot of dust. I use it to watch UHD Blu-Rays and that’s really about it. What games have your interest? Ghost of Yotei and the new Naughty Dog game are all I can think of right now.
Currently I’m playing Silent Hill 2 Remake (great game) and, surprisingly enough, Dynasty Warriors Origins (an ever funner and better game than the aforementioned horror title).
Those are the main two.
Oh yeah, and Elden Ring, but that’s on PC.
But so far, I’ve made good use of my PS5 with the first video games mentioned taking up my time.
I bought SH2, and played it for about an hour. The temporal ghosting drove me absolutely mad, was making me queasy, and I put it down, hoping that they would patch it at some point and fix their graphics. I’m not really holding my breath on that one. If it ever drops to like $10 on PC I might buy it there so I can turn off all of that crap.
Dynasty Warriors has never really been my cup of tea. I buy one every couple of generations, but I never get into it.
Yeah, Dynasty Warriors is a hard and niche series to get into, I grant you that.
Playing sifu rn, love the combat system.
Finished firewatch before it.
Favorite genres would be story telling games and rougelike/lite.
Not looking forward to any games. I don’t follow game releases and just get games as I finish games in my library and search for other similar games, very rarelly do I buy a game that’s isn’t already a couple years old.
Not excited for the nintendo switch 2, I never owned any consoles in my life until last year my used ps4. Like it to turn on and play some bloodborne sometimes but I like my devices to be multipurpose so am much more interested in gaming handhelds like the steamdeck or just pc gaming in general.
Fair, fair.
I just played Neva and LUNA The Shadow Dust, both were really enjoyable. In general I enjoy either games with really good stories where choices matter or roguelikes that have good action. I find nowadays I don’t have as much time and energy to play games, so I tend to look for stuff with easy to pick up mechanics and that I can pick up and play without having to build up too much context.
Haven’t really been keeping up with what big games are coming out this year, so not really looking for anything specific.I find I tend to often be most pleasantly surprised by small indie games that I discover.
Not really excited for Switch 2 here, I basically haven’t touched my Switch since I got the Steam Deck. The only game I’d probably really want to play on it would be the new Mario Kart.
Yeah, I agree.
Honestly, the Steam Deck mostly makes the Switch obsolete, but I guess it depends on if you like Nintendo’s exclusives, which are generally pretty good.
Still, it seems that those exclusives are all that Nintendo has going for them at this point.
Exactly, and Nintendo just tend to put out like same 5 games over and over. While the details are new, it’s more or less the same game you’ve already played many times.
Same IPs, and only Splatoon is the newest IP from them.
On another note, they are taking their sweet-ass time releasing their next system.
I’m curious what they come up with, one thing with Nintendo is that they do tend to be creative with their hardware.
One thing is for sure:
Nintendo is very efficient with their hardware and software.
They make every gigabyte of information count on their devices.
Meanwhile, Bethesda’s Skyrim can’t compress files for shit.
Yeah they do manage to squeeze a lot out of their hardware. I also like how they don’t focus on raw power for their consoles, but rather try to make the actual gameplay good.
Frankly, if the gameplay isn’t good, then I may not stick with a game all that much; I love storytelling and presentation, but I need it to be more than jut a “cinematic movie” where you just press buttons to progress and that’s it.
