Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?
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I want to get into drawf fortress but struggle with actually sitting down to learn it.
Good look with your exam.
Anything in particular you struggle with or is it just everything at once?
Haven’t touched it in years but I just couldn’t sit and focus to learn how to play properly
Purchased both fallout 4 and Subnautica. Gotta say that Subnautica is a freaking gem.
I want to play subnautica with a heart monitor just to see how bad my thalassophobia is lol
Lol that would make some good content.
Full noise canceling headphones + complete absence of light (block windows and door with black trashbags) + thalasssophobia.
Subnautica is a really fun game, atmosphere wise. Even if I don’t really vibe with the whole “corporate space” stuff it has in the background. Good luck with survival!
Im pretty sure its making fun of that setting. Like when you first pick up Diamonds, there is a recording that says that everything you pick up is owned by the company so you would be indebted if you lose the stuff lol.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. There’s other stuff, like logs from other ships bemoaning having to respond to the distress beacon, because of how notoriously shoddy company ships are
Subnautica is a fantastic game that either helped me discover I had thalassophobia or gave it to me. My playtime probably got inflated by ten hours as I spent so much time sprucing up my base instead of progressing to the end of the story.
It balances the curated story elements so well with the open world survivalbox type gameplay. Not many games hit that balance so well.
Ive easily spent 4 hours sprucing up my base lol, my progression has been weird since i found the delani base very late and i just unlocked the core building for a base, i only had scanner rooms for like the first 12 hours lmao. I literally found the alien bases before the delani base, only through an alien portal did i find the island with the delani clues.
My base went from a single scanner room + vehicle bay with only solar energyr, to a full fledged 5-6 rooms base with alien containments+nuclear reactor+water filtration+ storage rooms+ bedrooms after i found the delani bases lol
Last week was Bioshock.
This week Bioshock 2!
I’m taking it very slow.
Originals or remasters? The “improved” lightning in the remasters kind of ruined the atmosphere imo. Love those games though. Both are leagues better than Infinite.
Remastered on PS4. Yeah I’m not going to
betterbother with infinite!
BioShock Infinite next?
No I didn’t really like it when I played it before. It really broke with the art style of the first two and the characters were kind of annoying.
OOF
You liked it? I’m going to move on to the Dishonoured series next.
I like Dishonoured even more! Both 1 and 2.
The DLCs are all great too!
Prey is another banger. There’s something about this style of FPS that grabs me. Puzzles and using the correct tools for the situation, instead of just chaos and stress like with Doom etc. The new monthly games for the Playstation has a game that claims to be inspired by Bioshock, "Immortals of Aveum ", I watched the trailer and it just looked nice but like just pure constant action, doesn’t really appeal.
Prey is absolutely great, but I have yet to try it; I only have hearsay to assess it at this point.
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Question(s) of the week:
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating?
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Mostly the new Space Marine game, I guess. A few other games I’m following don’t have release dates yet.
Same with me here.
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Got back into SMT: Nocturne this week and the Fallout hype is dragging me back to the Commonwealth so that’s what I’ve been playing recently aside from my regular daily rotation of Genshin, Star Rail, and Nikke, lol.
I’m really excited for Frostpunk 2, I’ve been anticipating that since like 2021. The gameplay seems to be more like Cities: Skylines this time around, with some other elements mixed in. I so can’t wait.
Yeah, I’m also enthusiastic for Frostpunk 2, though I’ve never played the first one.
You definitely should, it’s hard as hell in the beginning but does get easier
Currently waiting for Stellaris DLC, Machine Age. Looks quite epic and is biggest DLC since Nemezis.
My brother plays that one, little one, anyway.
I just finished purrgatory yesterday! It’s a really cute visual novel about befriending weirdos and going to heaven. Getting the best ending took me the entire afternoon but it was worth it. Highly recommend if it looks interesting to you (it’s free and playable in your browser (but maybe not on mobile))
“befriending weirdos”
Sounds like a game about me. And I go to heaven? This is… paradise.
More like purgatory lol but def check it out! It’s really sweet
Sure sure
Dang, Jerboa does not handle cross-post well. Anyways.
I’ve been playing the hell outta Minecraft with a few friends, just started our own server and I’ve been using purpur with a few plugins to make it more fun.
Honestly I don’t even know my favorite genre anymore. Either hack and slash or fps but I haven’t played either in a while.
Not necessarily a game but a mod pack. Skyrim ultima looks so fun and 1.0 came out this year. I just need a PC that can handle it
Skyrim Ultima, eh? Guess I’ll check it out!
I’ve been playing Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey and Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer lately. I’ve got a long commute to work, so the DS has become my best friend when I don’t feel like reading. I also started another playthrough of Diddy Kong Racing, initially just to test homebrew N64 emulation on my Switch. It actually runs well! It also plays mostly nicely with widescreen hacks, only downside is I have to run the game at base N64 resolution to avoid slowdown.
My favorite genre is probably RPGs? But I tend to get really into one or two genres at a time and then switch to something else after a bit. Recently it’s been roguelikes and, briefly, pinball. Before that I was playing a lot of bullet hell games. I think more and more I’m just interested in games that I don’t have to commit to for more than one play session.
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?
I don’t know if this counts but I’m very excited for the Majora’s Mask PC port to release! I’ve been checking their Discord server every day hoping to see news. Otherwise, Demonschool seems pretty interesting, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance I suppose? I thought the original release of that was only alright, but hopefully the new route will be something I’m into.
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Shin Megami Tensei V is supposed to be insanely good, from what I heard, so definitely get to the DLC.
SMT V was pretty good, yeah. I thought it was kind of weak compared to Nocturne and IV, but the game was still a lot of fun, so I’m sure the DLC will be a fun way to revisit it
A couple of recent games I really enjoyed are Spiritfall and Viewfinder. Spiritfall is like dead cells meets super smash bros, and Viewfinder is similar to Portal in feel. Haven’t really been keeping up with new games coming out, mostly focusing on my backlog. :)
Just looked up Spiritfall and it looks like a blast
Hands down one of the best games I’ve played this year.
Same.
Play recently? Slay the Spire. That game’s actually really popular in the PRC so I did a run in simplified Chinese to test my knowledge of the game.
Favorite genre? Action Adventure. Stuff like Zelda
Anticipated games in 2024? Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
So basically Zelda-likes, right?
Yeah. Obviously including Zelda itself.
Zelda’s great.
Do you like 2d zelda as well and 2d zelda-likes like Binding of isaac?
I love 2D Zelda. Yet to play Issac but I want to.
Playing GTA IV as my main title at the moment. Really appreciate how down to earth it is in comparison to the next game.
Other than that I’m also playing Orna on my phone when I’m out for a walk. GPS game based on classic RPG mechanics of grinding out monsters n’ shit. Petty good time.
Im playing the CK3 mod, After The End right now alongside keeping up with Guilty Gear Strive.
Which CK3 mod?
The name of the mod is After The End
Aha
What video games have you played recently?
Last time I think I said I was playing Lies of P, Elden Ring, Sekiro, Hollow Knight and Dark Souls III. Out of these I have finished Lies of P and started NG+, my plan is to get all achievements, but I haven’t played in a week, I hope to get back to it soon. For the others same thing, but more like 2 weeks without playing.
Other than that I got the platinum in Die in the Dungeon: Origins. Also, I started a new Bloodborne run and it’s the second time I actually play for real, I basically finished everything in the main game but the final boss. Right now I’m doing the DLC for the first time since on my first run, 4 years ago, I didn’t do it because I heard it was hard and waited until the end to do it, found out the worst way that killing the last boss throws you into NG+ automatically like DS1.
I’m also giving Chalice Dungeons a proper chance this time, since on my first playthrough I didn’t care about them. I gotta say, they are fun, albeit a bit repetitive, and the worst part is how separate it is from the rest of the game. The way Elden Ring tackled this is infinitely better by having it integrated into the world, it feels like just a detour for exploration instead of a chore like in BB.
Unfortunately I’m dumb and thought there was 6 depths instead of 5 and ended overleveling because of that, doesn’t help that the dungeons give you a shit ton of echoes, making you think that you need to keep leveling up. Right now I’m Blood Level 112 still on NG and while Dungeons get tough sometimes, the DLC is challenging, but the bosses are too easy at this level, I just beat Lady Maria first try and felt disappointed because of it. :(
I’ll have to play again to get the last ending for the platinum, so I’ll probably just stop leveling up and do NG+ on this level and see how hard the DLC is supposed to be since I should be around a good level already for doing it there.
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?
Cuban indie game, Saviorless, that launched recently looks interesting, I want to give it a try sometime in the future. Other than that, Hades II, No Rest for the Wicked and Elden Ring’s DLC.
That’s a lot of Souls-like games!
Saviorless seems interesting.
I’ve been giving Endless Space 2 another try. Did a Horatio win, now I’m doing a Riftborn playthrough. I feel this game is a bit barebones. I want to like it, but after 1 or 2 playthroughs, I feel bored and need to move on. The orchestral music is great though.
I was thinking of trying Stellaris again, haven’t touched it in years. The 2.0 update was a deal breaker for me.
ah fair
Stellaris is the one Paradox game I actually keep coming back to, as a fan of SF I appreciate that it just hits on nearly every SF trope out there. I thought about trying Endless Space 2 again with the Awakening rework, but I think I would honestly just rather play stellaris.
I still very rarely finish stellaris games though, as much as I like the early game the late-mid to late game just really drags.
