cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4323676
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?
I found a game called Starsector that I want to get in to. It's like an indie space exploration game.
I really wanted to like Broken Roads. On paper it looks fantastic: classic Fallout-style CRPG set in the Australian outback and centering heavily on moral philosophy. Somehow they managed to make it so incredibly boring, though. Couldn't even get through it. Loved the visual style, but the quests were so buggy and combat was amazingly dull. Bummer.
The most australian game ever made. some of the dialog choices did make me chuckle. there was one where it was like
- Yeah, no (no)
- No, yeah, (yes)
I also dropped it after about an hour.
Yeah, the writing actually wasn't bad, and again I really liked the art style. That just wasn't enough to make up for everything else. Unfortunate, because it really did have some charm. All the buff items being different beer brands and the level up noise being a can of beer cracking also made me chuckle, but it's like they were trying to make questing and combat dull. Every quest was a string of fetch tasks with no rhyme or reason and no guidance. "Find me 10 radio parts." "OK good job. Now find me ten books." Yeah, nah.
I was too, and for quite a while. It was really disappointing.
Stardew Valley, just finished the community center for the first time
Jedi: Survivor, have like 2 achievements left to wrap up
Shadows of Doubt, procedurally generated detective game that’s really interesting
I really really enjoyed it. It makes Jedi: Fallen Order look like a proof of concept
there's a They Are Billions-like called From Glory to Goo that I pirated and it's aight
Finally beat Tears of the Kingdom, gonna go for all the shrines and the ancient hero set.
Splatfest this weekend, so some Splatoon.
Still need to beat Mario Wonder, want to get Another Code: Recollection and that Cuban game that just came out.
Was still on my TWW2 bullshit, but stopped.
- Sisters of Twilight: Honestly kind of too easy, the WElf roster is fucking cracked. Morathi declared on me like T10 then suicided into my main stack, after which I took Quintex with ease. I think she's supposed to be the biggest threat. The biggest issue was that Clan Moulder kept trying to ally with me when we were supposed to be killing each other, silly rats.
- Markus Wolfhart: Started it and kinda stalled out. The Sacred Pools declared on me, but their starting stack is insane. Like 3 blessed temple guard that I have no way of dealing with, even with a double stack, because my starting units suck. Maybe I should just rush Spektazuma? All the bonus heroes are.. something. the WElf comes with Arrows of Kurnous which is a pretty good artillery strike but a foot knight doesn't seem like he'd be that strong, idk.
Went into my backlog and found I had a One Piece Dynasty Warriors game from some bundle years back, which is okay. The progression is kind of busted; it's based around defeating (or playing as) certain characters, who appear at fixed points in the story, so later upgrades can only be unlocked later in the campaign, which makes sense. The problem arises when you play the Dream Log mode, where basically anyone can appear at any point. I have unlocked so many random upgrades that I shouldn't have, but fortunately I don't think they make that much of a difference. The special objectives are also kind of frustrating. "Kill the boss of this mission with a special finisher attack" means I have to save it up well in advance, then not use it during the actual boss fight because so far every boss' final phase has invulnerability for like 30+ seconds.
Also played some stuff in TTS with friends: a round of Spirit Island as the Portal Hummingbird and my monthly crusade game of Warhammer 40k where I tabled my opponent (Scattered Supplies is now banned because it's a poorly-designed mission).
I've finally gotten around to fully playing through Bloodborne. I'm at the endgame of the base game now and just got to Ludwig in the DLC.
I've also come to the realization that I'm not sure I'll be able to make myself get far enough in Elden Ring to play the DLC when it comes out; this hyperaggressive parry-based combat system has ruined typical Souls games for me at this point.
There's supposed to be a huge Project Zomboid update being pushed this year that makes it look like a big game change. I'm really looking forward to that, actually.
I've been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 and I'm always playing Stellaris lol I keep wanting to play SimCity 3k, but I can't be assed to set it up on my steamdeck
Damn, practically a third of people here are playing Helldivers 2, those that answered this post, anyway.
Been playing some modded Minecraft, enjoying automation and building a rail network.
Big fan of any game genre that allows for infinite expression of creativity. Sandbox games, roguelikes such as Noita, and special games like Path of Exile with deep customization.
Excited for Path of Exile 2, should come out roughly Q3 or Q4 next year with a beta/EA late this year.
edit: Forgot to mention that I'm also looking out for Dyson Sphere Program's next update, which will introduce customizable vehicles (presumably like motherships, since the player character is a mecha that is already capable of space flight) and space stations. I feel like the combat update is missing a bit more for it to really come into shape, currently it's all defense and no attacking. Also excited for Amazing Cultivation Simulator 2, but have no clue what it's gonna bring.
What Minecraft mods? I haven't played in forever but I had an old one where you could build a space program, space stations, and a moonbase, all with gravity and oxygen systems.
Oh I'm playing Create: Astral, so yeah plenty of space stuff. But also trains and steampunk machines.
This is 1/2 of my base:
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I've been playing Create Astral since you mentioned it last thread and I'm really enjoying it. I just built a dripstone cauldron lava generator and tried to use it to create an infinite lava lake, then realized it'll take about 4000 cauldron-hours to fill and I'm going to need to build an iron generator next to make enough cauldrons to finish it in any reasonable amount of time.
Yeah the cauldron thing is a trap tbh, you're much better off just getting your lava from one of the underground moon lakes. Getting the lava out of the moon is somewhat inconvenient but cauldrons are much slower.
I already dug the lake this is happening. Plus, I can't even get to the moon yet.
Something being slow just means it needs to be parallelized to an alarming extent.
It is my duty to inform you that you can't really farm iron very effectively until you get to the moon. A vanilla style golem farm probably works fine but screw setting that up, and the gravel -> iron nugget washing recipe requires a very large amount of cobble, which is nearly impossible to transport without brass funnels helping you do so in batches. However, you can make many small units that produce a couple ingots an hour and consolidate that into a respectable output. ideekay.
I just dug out a 23x23x23 cube for the lava lake a lack of cobble is not a concern for me at the moment. Right now it's going into a clay generator. By the time I run through that I expect I can get a parallelized cobblestone generator built. So far belts, andesite funnels, and tech reborn storage buffers are serving well enough for item transport. The latter can filter items and transport them in any direction stacks at a time, and are just made of wood and sugarcane.
Helldivers is fixed now so I've been playing that with my friends most days. I also found this ancient 1994 economy game Gazillionaire that I liked as a kid. Also Alpha Centauri, which really deserves a remaster but the IP is split really frustratingly so it will likely never happen.
I'm looking for a good game where I can just kind of mindlessly build something, for when I don't want the stress of defending Super Earth. Something more functional-construction than Minecraft or Terraria, but also cozy. Dwarf Fortress has too many systems and quickly becomes overwhelming. Rollercoaster tycoon had a pretty good vibe, so did SimCity, but I hear Cities: Skylines is really complex and that might be too much without a good tutorial system. I just wanna build.
Along that same note, designing machines in Fusion 360 is one of my favorite video games right now.
I'm really excited for Shadow of the Erdtree.
In addition to the Satisfactory recommendation, Factorio can be played with the hostile fauna turned off/made passive, so you can concentrate on just building an ever-expanding 2D megafactory. It's a very good organic puzzle where you can always find something else to go do or rebuild or make bigger until suddenly it's 4am.
May I recommend Satisfactory? Purely functional building, much more broad strokes than MC, Terraria, or DF. It's extremely therapeutic building arrays of constructors feeding into belts that feed into train stations to pack everything up.
I'm like 2 hours into Shadowrun: Hong Kong. I can't make heads or tails on it being good or not quite yet. It seems to have more Role playing elements out of the gate than Dragonfall, but I'm not liking the characters as much so far. Every character seems to be written as a wannabe tough guy thus far.
I remember liking it. (That might be because of the better engine.) Don't forget to check out the mods for Dragonfall and Hong Kong — somebody has ported the first game into Hong Kong's engine, the Antumbra saga is cool as well.
I'm not sure I that I want to replay the first's campaign again, but it would be nice to see what campaigns other people have come up with. I remember someone on here was running a tabletop campaign awhile back, but I don't know if it's still going.
"Every character seems to be written as a wannabe tough guy thus far."
Okay, so the game has that problem so far. Gotcha.
i think i'm addicted to project zomboid for the foreseeable future. i downloaded about 15 map mods and i cannot wait to get home tonight so i can explore kentucky
I'm a huge Ogre Saga fan so naturally Unicorn Overlord shot up to the top of my list.... except for some reason I ended up restarting Triangle Strategy instead, after dropping it two years ago out of sheer disgust. I have such a love-hate relationship with that game, the gameplay is so good but the writing is fucking godawful. The worst part is some of the individual character writing actually is quite solid (the two old vets, the first recruitable brown lady, maybe a few others every now and then) but the main plot is essentially a wannabe GoT (show not books) with anime characteristics/a truly infantile understanding of politics and warfare, and the rampant Orientalism is absolutely gross. I'm just fast forwarding through cutscenes now (and there are SO fucking many) but it's still annoying enough that I might drop it again lol. Such a shame about the gameplay though if I do, it's genuinely among my favorites in the genre.
This weekend though I'm planning to do a quick run through Eiyuden Chronicle Rising in preparation for the main game's release. Very excited about that!
Also been doing a playthrough of Story of Seasons 1 since it has my fave art in the HM/SoS franchise, but it's very off and on.
