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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!
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I don't play games as much as I used to, but I had a lot of fun recently with Carrion - you play an alien hive mind eating scientists and fighting security through an Area 51 style facility.
I played that on Game Pass, when it launched, and really liked it. Although some of the movement could be a bit frustrating, since you are just a blob of meat.
This game was an absolute banger.
I finished Baldur's Gate 3, so i fell in the post-great-game melancholy. I reinstalled Hades and Stardew Valley, but ya know
Kerbal Space Program 2. The new For Science! update finally made the game fun and performant! And because I suck at the game, I needed to send 4 rescue missions to return Valentina from the Mun.
Is it worth getting over KSP1 yet?
Base game, not including mods? It's comparable, especially if you didn't like career mode and preferred science mode. I can see where they're going and I really like it personally.
However, if you also include mods, and you kinda have to... the sheer quality and amount of mods that really elevate ksp1 is going to make the answer to this question "no" until it has been out for years. You simply cannot compete with a decade of overhauls, dlc sized expansion mods, and visual upgrades.
The only mod I used in KSP1 was the Engineer Redux(?) mod, but I uninstalled it when advanced orbital info was added to the base game. The science mode couldn't keep me motivated after finishing the tech tree with a research lab on minmus, and the career mode eventually gets too easy and too hard at the same time. I find KSP2's exploration mode to be a perfect balance of the two, so I'm having a blast!
Just finished the Alan Wake Remaster. Really hated it, but apparently that is an unpopular opinion. I just felt like the story is not as innovative as people say and the mechanics are the same from the start to the finish.
I’m now playing Dredge. Really enjoying that game right now. I’m traveling so my Steam Deck is getting some use. I’ll be switching between Dredge and Cult of the Lamb while I’m away.
I have given Alan Wake so many tries but I get so bored by the whole into sequence. I think it suffers from the many (novel at the time) video game tropes of the late 2000s.
It's odd because I absolutely love Max Payne despite it being much older.
I just finished Stray. I'm not really a cat person but it was actually really enjoyable. Turns out cats are great platformers!
I also finished Strange Horticulture yesterday. That was a pleasant surprise especially since it was set in the Lake District.
I'm now trying to decide between starting Baldur's Gate 3 (I am not a fan of turn based combat), Immortality or The Talos Principle 2.
I'm now trying to decide between starting Baldur's Gate 3 (I am not a fan of turn based combat), Immortality or The Talos Principle 2.
I will say that you'll be doing a ton of turn based combat in BG3. But it's also one of the most well realized worlds I've ever played in.
I have friends who won't play any classic RPGs because they don't like turn based combat, but they love BG3.
If the idea of a sandbox filled with stories where you have tons of choice sounds interesting to you, I'd give it a try.
Against The Storm. It's a surprisingly addictive game.
Started playing yesterday, I can agree. I just need to get used to playing slower. It's so easy to put it on speed three and then suddenly I am falling behind and can't deal with the issues anymore.
I started up Cult of the Lamb more seriously. I had it at launch, but it didn't hold my attention between Hades for the roguelite action and RimWorld for the colony stuff.
But I'm currently bored of those two, so I'm playing this. Shit was getting frustrating with the gains for going and doing the dungeons... Until I learned that I wasnt actually cooking all my fish and had tons of fish meant to be sold. Money solved literally all my problems. Just like it would in real life 😭
I love cult of the lamb I got it on my switch and I genuinely think it's a perfect game for handheld
Cause you can easily pick it up and play it a little and set it down
But also engaging enough to sit down and play it on your TV
Plus the combination between rouge like and base building is honestly amazing
Playing through hades and now I get the hype. Super fucking fun
I played Hades on gamepass and I immediately knew that I had to buy it on steam.
Btw did you manage to get to the final boss ?
I'm playing Assassin's Creed Mirage. It's a nice change from the gigantic 100 hour open world epics that the series makes now and it's a very nice looking and sounding game. The story is fairly standard for AC games (although there's no Animus/modern day storyline this time), and the gameplay feels like what AC1 would have been if they made it today. Overall I am enjoying it a lot. I haven't been able to play video games for the past month because I've been recovering from a major surgery but this has been a nice game to start up now that I can play games again.
Baldurs Gate 3 still. 3rd run, this time Tactition. Next run on Honor. Still a banger.
Playing through my backlog, and finally gathered enough courage to play and finish Soma, and now I'm going through the Turing Test since I felt in the mood for a Portal-like game and I finished the Entropy Center not long ago.
If you haven't, give the Talos Principle a try. It scratches the same itch as Portal for me, although the tone is less whimsical, but equally bizarre.
Oh I completed that one a long time ago, I haven't bought the second one yet.
I just finished Talos Principle 2 and what a ride! I love Turing Test too and would also suggest Spectrum Retreat to scratch that puzzling itch.
Ohh haven't heard of Spectrum Retreat, I'll take a look thanks :)
Just recently started playing rimworld and I'm super hooked. Trying to complete the game vanilla first then dive into modding
INSIDE absolutely blew me away a few months ago, and I got a recommendation for Little Nightmares in a discussion about it. After about half an hour, I've gotta say, it's properly weird and I wonder what's it got in stock for me.
I love cult of the lamb I got it on my switch and I genuinely think it's a perfect game for handheld
Cause you can easily pick it up and play it a little and set it down
But also engaging enough to sit down and play it on your TV
Plus the combination between rouge like and base building is honestly amazing
I've been playing the Mario RPG remake. I remember loving the game as the kid, but as I get to each part of the game I'm like "Damnit, I hate this level!", and it happens over and over again and I'm like "wait, why do I like this game? I hate this game."
With that said I'm still playing it because I'm almost done with it so I may as well finish it.
It's easier than I remember, but I also played the original when I was like 10 years old, so maybe it used to be more difficult because I wasn't as good at video games when I was 10.
I'm excited to finish it because I have an OLED Steam Deck on the way, and I'm trying to sort out what I'm going to play first. Any suggestions for controller friendly games that run well on the deck? I think Dave the Diver is near the top of that list. I'm not to keen on playing first person shooters with joysticks, that's what my PC is for.
Just finished Full Void, a pixel graphics cinematic puzzle platformer in the style of Another World. Cool original soundtrack, nice style and animation, great atmosphere and world building despite no words.
2 hours long main story, cool indie project with great attention to detail. Well worth the money.
If you play it you will be surprised who it is dedicated to, as you can read at the end of the game.
I'm currently playing one of the games in Last Call BBS: 20th Century Food Court.
For anyone familiar with the Zachtronics catalog of games it's like someone bolted one of the programming games onto one of their factory games, but the programming part is done using cables. Unsurprisingly, programming with cables gets quite messy, so even after a short break I usually have to restart a puzzle because I don't recognize what part was supposed to do what anymore.
So yeah, great game, would recommend.
simcity 4, somehow
Coaltown needs more commuters, that smog isnt going to make itself. Agrarville needs more land for crops, which sucks for all of the residents who i think i'll drop a natural disaster on top of. Industopia needs more cashflow for a harbor, and the city planning advisor will never shut up about adding more rail and road connections.
Fun times.
I just resumed playing Yakuza 7 after a few months of not playing anything. It's a cool game but requires some levelling grinding apparently.
In previous Yakuza games I would just proceed to boss fights as a underlevelled character sometimes, but in Yakuza 7 it doesn't cut it.
WoW Classic: Season of Discovery, and I recently started my second playthrough of Satisfactory now that Update 8 is out.
I was almost interested in Season of Discovery but then I remember Blizzard's (lack of a) policy on bots. For me it really devalues the time and effort I put into the game when a quarter of the playerbase are botting and ruining the economy.
Is there any word of Update 8 to stable yet?
Update 8 is on stable. From the wiki
Patch Notes: Early Access - v0.8.3.0 – Build 264901. This patch was released on 14 November 2023. It is the last patch of Update 8 development, bringing its features to the stable branch.
Finished the New Game Plus for Alan Wake 2 (PS5) and got the platinum. Now i am back on Grime (PC) which is fun. I like how I dont lose all my money when i die. Also, im actually not bad at parrying here like i am in most games.
I also bought some games from the Steam Winter Sale. Started Overboard and Word Factori.
Playing the invincible, try to go in without looking into the story too much. I'm liking it so far.
Getting back into Monster Hunter World! Trying to tackle those endgame Iceborne quests and getting my ass kicked quite often. It's really satisfying getting a good build going with armor set bonuses and stacking skills.
Also finally playing Super Mario Odyssey. What a game. The controls are so tight and responsive. I love exploring every nook and cranny, high and low, and almost always getting some kind of reward out of every effort and idea.
I wanna get back into MHW, but those unskippable cutscenes at the beginning are a PITA
Cyberpunk 2077 phantom liberty. It's really good, like, better than most of the story in the vanilla game. It's a really cool detective story that really fleshes out V's character.
I just finished Remnant 2, and started playing it again with a different class on my PS5, but have to stop cause I am traveling. I picked up Dragon Dogma on the deck and I hated it for the first 30 minutes, but I am into it now.
A bunch of celeste (pico-8) ROM hacks, such great platforming
Doom/Skyrim solo, CSD3/Spiral Knights/CoDBO3 in coop
Pretty sad that BO3 is in a buggy state that will make the game stutter or worst case murder your FPS. Also wished the Zombies DLC would get cheaper after almost 10 years.
Fallout 4. After the disappointment that was Starfield, I had a hankering for a Bethesda style game and while not perfect Fallout 4 is just miles ahead and is still a lot of fun today.