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Hello Everyone!

It's time for this week's, "What are you playing" thread.

I wasn't able to give as much time to gaming as I thought, who knew running a community can take so much time. Even when all members are so great, and I don't have to moderate anything.

I am still playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, mainly focusing on side quests and exploration right now. With so much to explore, this is going to take a long time.

Other than that, me and wife just got NSO Expansion pass, and started the Happy Home Paradise DLC, while resuming our Animal Crossing play-through. Just cleaning the long neglected island, and helping Harv build the shops.

What about all of you? What are you playing?

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[–] soybeanscheesesticks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never got around to playing Breath of the Wild so the release of ToTK felt like a great time to finally give it a try! Still working my way through veeeery slowly, just about to take on my second divine beast.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Heh, I do that too. With so many games to play, many times I only end up playing the game when it's sequel is announced or released.

BOTW is a great game, no need to rush through for TOTK, it's not going anywhere. Just play at your own pace and enjoy the game.

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[–] Grangle1@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Almost at the end of the vanilla portion of my 100-hour journey through Persona 5 Royal. That'll leave just the extra semester/true ending left to play before I can finally move on to Tears of the Kingdom, lol. I tend not to play more than one game at a time, especially not really big games like P5R or TotK. Each deserves my full attention or I'd never finish them.

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[–] spectrologist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm playing Octopath Traveller 2! Just grinding at this point before I start the ending :)

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Octopath Traveller is pretty high on my list. I never got around to playing the first one, so want to play it soon, so that I can get ready to play Octopath Traveller 2 in a few months.

[–] spectrologist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice! Yeah the second one is way better imo -- a lot of these games involves grinding and they introduced the ability to run combat at double speed. I can no longer play the first one because it feels so painfully slow to me 😅

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[–] missingno@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm getting ready for a local Splatoon 3 tournament in Philly this weekend, put together a quick pickup team for it. Also slowly working through Persona 5 Royal, just finished the third palace.

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[–] djidane535@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

FF Thearythm & Zelda TOTK on Switch, Baten Kaitos on GC, and Mario & Luigi Superstar saga on GBA (only short games of course :p). Oh and I am also playing Pokemon Stadium 2 on N64 😅.

Jokes aside, I started too many games this time, I am not generally this busy ^^.

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[–] PencilPossessor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah TLOZ:TOTK is my go to right now. I'm at the point where I can battle Mr demon king but been side questing and all that jazz now first. I wanna go in and just obliterate him, so I'm focusing on getting the rest of the shrines etc beforehand and collecting better armour blah blah blah

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope the final fight is better than BOTW. Calamity Gannon was kind of anti-climatic boss. Fighting a group of Guardians was tougher than Gannon. 😀

Good luck clearing the game.

[–] enzyesha@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disclaimer I also haven't fought the final boss.

I wouldn't count on the Demon King being a terrible difficult fight. You have to remember that it's a storyline quest, so it has to be achievable by the least common denominator. If you really want a challenge, you should explore the depths under the southwest region of Hyrule Field ;)

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[–] farizer@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Monster hunter rise was on sale so I might give it try I loved the previous game in the series. I also need to "finish" kenshi at some point

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[–] Royalish@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll probably be playing TotK until Starfield comes out. Though playing TotK makes me want to play other Zelda games so I might try to squeeze in WW or TP.

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[–] cities@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

still tears of the kingdom. before that was a long dry spell for the switch because of the steam deck I got

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[–] brunox@feddit.cl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am still playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, mainly focusing on side quests and exploration right now. With so much to explore, this is going to take a long time.

This is me right now. I owe myself do some exploring of the depths and sky islands. Having played BOTW the surface is so familiar that I kinda went quickly around it and probably advanced way too quickly on the main quests. It's time for me to slow down and do the exploration.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I played BOTW at launch, so while I do recognize few places here and there, for me most of the land mass is new, and with the different abilities, and all the caves and wells, there is so much to explore.

Sky islands I have explored least of, and need to focus more on. Specially because there are some things you can only get on Sky islands. 😀

[–] brunox@feddit.cl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, of course. I need to explore more caves and wells too. And even familiar places have changed. But I feel like I went too fast because, despite the changes, it's still very familiar. It took me no effort to get to the main villages, because I kinda knew how to get there. It felt familiar yet new.

But that familiarity kept me from exploring the new places -and the dangerous places in the surface too-. I want to focus on that now. It's gonna be fun.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I guess sometimes having a bad memory is also a benefit 😀

[–] Cryst@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] StrayPizza@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pokémon Scarlet. I’ve got a bunch of the ominous stakes to find still, I was really trying to not use a guide but it’s been a few weeks now. Even with the performance issues I still really enjoy the story.

I also still need to get back to grinding for all the master trainer titles in Pokémon Let’s Go. We’ll see, as I get older it’s harder and harder to finish games at all.

[–] Dougas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Finding the stakes without a guide is definitely a pain in the ass. But I definitely agree that the game is very fun, even with all the bugs and the performance issues.

[–] daniel@lemmy.fribyte.no 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Recently got Splatoon 3, really fun when I don't get disconnected

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[–] thebutler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

nearing the end of the ToTK main story (i think), so i’ve been debating how heavy i want to go into all the side quests. I can’t believe how much this community has grown, you’re crushing it as the mod!

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[–] Dougas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same for me. I will keep going with tears. I am 80 hours and I feel like I have barely scratched the surface. There's so much to do.

Also I will play a bit of Pokémon Scarlet to farm the Chesnaught and Donphan paradox forms raids.

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[–] rcoelho14@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still have the Trial of the Sword quest from BOTW to finish before going to kick sludge Ganon's ass.
Finally I managed to play and not lose interest, which is great, because I was mega hyped when it was announced.
And it is an amazin game (even if I still love A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, and Twilight Princess better)

[–] farizer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Are you planning to give tears of a kingdom a shot? I personally loved it as well

[–] ThawingOwl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am still working my way through Tears of the Kingdom. I tend to lose steam on open world games and never end up finishing them. So far I am still motivated to finish this one.

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[–] Antemeridian@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally finished my vanilla Persona 5 playthrough on my PS4 a few weeks back, so last week started my playthrough of Persona 5 Royal, and will likely continue that.

[–] P1r4nha@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

P5 Strikers is on sale this week. Get it now if you think you're going to play it.

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[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

TOTK still, because once Pikmin 4 comes out I will switch to that

still haven’t even beat a single ‘regional phenomena’ yet… can’t stop myself from randomly exploring, which is honestly my favorite part of botw/totk anyway

[–] Jupeter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm playing Tears of The Kingdom of course. Side from that I'm feeling like playing Persona 4 Golden. My local weather an vibes feel kinda like this game right now, do maybe that will inspire me trip finish it.

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[–] SnekInTheShell@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been attempting Etrian Odyssey III on the switch but the controller feels clunky for mapping and the game feels so much more challenging than I remember ~10 years ago? lol.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think we were used to playing difficult games back then, with all the improvements and changes in game design, the old games feel more difficult than they used to.

Have you tried auto-mapping? Does that make game less clunky? Or does it reduces the enjoyment of the game?

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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been splitting my time mostly between ToTK and Metroid Prime Remaster, feels like a pretty good combo to break things up between. Just finally picked up It Takes Two, so I'll probably see if the wife wants to game with me a bit tonight or tomorrow after she's home from work.

[–] Dathknight@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some TotK and some Monster Hunter maybe some Advanced Wars sprinkled in.

So much to do so little time!

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, I know that feeling. I have such a huge backlog of games. Still haven't played Astral Chain or Super Mario Bros U Deluxe... so many games, and so little time.

Which Monster Hunter are you playing? Rise? I may start World with some friends soon, not sure how much we will play.

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[–] SassyLostChild@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gonna try to complete my lunatic playthrough of Fire Emblem Engage on Lunatic Mode. Also try to get in some time to play Tears of the Kingdom.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How are you liking FE Engage? Most people I know prefer Three Houses over it, and didn't like Engage much.

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[–] jaded@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably some D4 and street fighter 6. Picked up Steins gate elite on sale though so might start that.

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[–] Thebazilly@pathfinder.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still playing Tears of the Kingdom! I've been playing it nearly every waking moment of free time since it came out and it still feels like there is so much left to explore. I'm at 3 sages and 80 shrines, so I know I'm roughly 75% done, but there are so many discoveries that I just keep tripping over constantly.

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[–] Tamlyn@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I play Fire Emblem Engage. Just finished a Ironman run and maybe try to beat the DLC mapps as well with my now limited army

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[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll probably get a couple hours of totk in this weekend, and that's it. I've got way too much going on outside of gaming this particular weekend lol

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