Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you're currently playing? Anything like Helldivers 2 or any other multiplayer games?
Victoria 3 - my favourite historical materialism simulator.
Stellaris - my favourite fully automated luxury space communism simulator.
Dwarf Fortress - my favourite city planning and management simulator.
Slay the Princess - my favourite regicide simulator.
Xenonauts - my favourite simulator of communists (and other countries too) fighting a feudal alien empire.Honorable mention of Disco Elysium (my favourite book masquerading as a video game).
Slay the Princess is great! ...Never played it. Yet.
Seconding Disco Elysium, which I actually have played.
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I’m currently playing the halo master chief collection beat halo 2 last night and will start halo 3 today.
Replaced League of Legends with a punching bag and running. Real life is now my video game.
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Question of the week:
Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you’re currently playing?
Still playing Noita (help me), and just picked up Animal Well (double help me). They’re both great! But probably only for a very specific type of person
Been really enjoying Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers lately (the newly-released sequel to SRB2 Kart), really love how its new mechanics set it apart from other kart racers and make it feel more distinctly "Sonic", and the tracks are so great looking, I can't believe there's still the Doom engine underneath all this
Also just feels a lot more like a complete game of its own as opposed to a mod of another game, with its new full menu UI and its focus on singleplayer content (SRB2 Kart didn't even have any other than basic time trials)
Stellaris. New DLC is worth it.
Also Eiyuden Chronicles - a little flop for a spiritual continuation of the greatest jrpg series ever but not that bad, just a little disappointing
"just a little disappointing"
Seems to match up with what others have told me about that game.
Most recently Manor Lords. Also Foxhole with comrades is super fun.
It is so good. It is everything I have wanted from a city builder: Proper scale, gridless construction, intricate resource and production chains, and decent RTS combat to boot with a sort of total war lite system.
I especially love the fact you can go into third person (though you will take a framerate hit and the controls are a little floaty) and walk around on the ground as the lord. Would be rad if they let you join the fight with your army eventually.
What are your favorite video game genres?
I think that all the derivatives of the roguelike genre are my favourite. My big personal reason is that I'm very inconsistent, so I really hate getting stuck on a die and retry loop because it's going to take twice the time as the average player to get unstuck. Roguelikes completely shatter the concept of attempting the same exact thing twice, you can only master the mechanics as a whole to succeed without knowing exactly what to do.
I also find roguelikes are great because you can just pick 'em up and play for a bit. You don't have to remember what you were doing, where in the story you are, etc. So, it's an excellent genre when you don't have a lot of time to invest in the game.
Oh wow I've never heard about Roboquest it looks kinda cool and people seem to like it, I'm gonna save this for later!
It's crazy how Slay the Spire created a craze that resulted in a thousand deck building solo games
Roboquest has shooting that feels like Doom, visuals that remind me of borderlands and absolute addicting roguelite/like mechanics. Absolute must play imo
Magic: the Gathering Arena, Magic: the Gathering Online, and OpenRCT2 (Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 with mods)
My favorite genres are JRPGs and Magic: the Gathering
It was the first of its kind!
But in fairness, I have never really liked any other card games or felt the need to play YGO, etc. Except a younger family member is big into Lorcana now, so I am enjoying playing that with them.
I just finished The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales which was a fun little game. It's not too long, but a neat concept. and just picked up Hades 2, haven't played any multiplayer games in a while here.
Still playing Stardew valley, patiently waiting for the 1.6 update to come to switch. I also have it for PC so I played on the new meadowlands farm which is awesome, but I’m more used to switch controls so PC is weird and I’m more slow. It’s a big reason I want to get a steamdeck (also to move games off my computer since it’s practically dying from doing both school and games).
I would like to go back to playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but my PC is not strong enough. I still want to try out TF2 but playing online scare me. Once I get a steam deck I will definitely play the Tomb Raider Survivor trilogy, I played the first one religiously on my Xbox 360 when I was young so it’d be nice to play the sequels. I also want to play that “not my neighbour” game, I’ve never played “papers please” but games with a similar premise always intrigued me. Disco Elysium seems popular on here so I’ll check out too. I’m always looking for commie positive or neutral games to try so there’s that.
So nothing much has changed for me since the last thread. I’m in my spring/summer semester of school which means constant cramming (it’s an expedited semester) so not much time for games. I should have freed up time in July and august, though, which will be nice.
"Stardew Valley"
I have yet to play that one, even after all these years.
I’m biased but I think it’s a great game. There’s the farming but also mining and monster slaying, lots of secrets and treasures. It’s just a good time (but also stressful at points, but still fun).
Finished Subnautica, what a great game.
Going through Fallout 4, it's garbage quality but there is something to the gameplay loop that makes me go in a trance and spend a ton of time on it, prob should just stop playing.
I also purchased the entire Yakuza bundle, so i have enough gaming content for years.
As for live service games, i play Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact. Which IMHO, are very high quality games even if they're toxic gachas.
Ive been playing factorio rimworld and classicwow. Wow sucks but I can't help myself, I just grind gold to avoid giving shitzzard money.
New rimworld dlc has been pretty fun but I'm pretty ass at the game even after 400hrs. Spooky invisible things and fleshbeasts and other such horror elements have added an interesting flavour to the game
Factorio I been playing the exotic industries modpack and every time I play modded factorio I feel like I'm just too dumb to actually figure out how to supply chain and design good manufacturing hubs but it doesnt stop me from spaghetting everywhere across the map
Classic WOW?
I didn't think they still had that.
"Wow sucks but I can’t help myself, I just grind gold to avoid giving shitzzard money."
Me and RuneScape 3.
Well its up to cataclysm now so not really 'classic' anymore, just progression servers. Osrs had a stranglehold on me for awhile too
