I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about DnD, but the closest I get to playing is a Group chat where every week people post "Sorry, Can't this week".
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Damn I felt that one lol. Trying to get multiple adults who all have full time jobs and kids schedules to line up is literally impossible. I have straight up given up on it
Check out Solasta. It's the closest a video game has come to giving me the D&D feels.
Wait, everyone bailing at the last moment is not how one plays DnD?
and if we don't bail, we argue.
pbd my man. oh and change to pathfinder.
I play Minecraft very rarely, but I still watch my favourite childhood YouTubers, e.g., EthosLab.
This is pretty much exactly my experience with Minecraft. Always enjoy watching Etho.
I'm still in a dozen anarchy Minecraft discords. I'm inactive and haven't played consistently for a couple years but I like the occasional ping.
I love the community of Minetest (basically open-source Minecraft), but very rarely do I have the creativity in me to actually play it.
I've considered making mods for it instead, or just straight up contributing to the game engine itself.
I keep trying to replay Minecraft and it just can't hold my attention for long. I still follow the updates to it closely however. Maybe I should intentionally distance myself from it for a while instead, make it feel fresh again. Same thing applies to Terraria as well.
Same here, I've been taking a hard break from it though. I've also played so much modded that the base game isn't that enjoyable unless on a big smp where I can flex my combat and redstone skills, even then I find a modded server with friends more fun.
Also if you haven't played modded, check it out. Id recommend getting the Forge launcher (although there has been some drama with Forge recently, might wait until that clears up) and look through some modpacks. I especially recommend Create: Above and Beyond
Yeah, for me personally, like once a year, I get the urge to start a new map and build a tiny village and then I'm good for a while. I usually play in creative mode, too, so I can get anything done in that time...
Where is the Minetest community active?
The most active place is the forum: https://forum.minetest.net
Some of the devs also have Fediverse accounts...
And of course, you can just join onto a multiplayer server, too.
Magic the gathering. Stopped playing a long time ago, but still follow the meta and discuss on social media
This is the one for me too. Wasn't ever a dedicated player but got into following the scene because a classmate was competitive on the pro circuit way back.
I haven't played a game myself in ten years probably but still enjoy listening to the Limited Resources set review podcasts for some reason, and will watch an LSV draft video now and then.
Destiny 2. I just can't do the grind all the time anymore. I usually play the first few weeks of the season until the story is done and then wait for the next one. I'm kind of burned out at the moment though so I'm just going to wait for final shape to drop.
Me and my friends played Destiny since 2014, but for the past two years, our play time has dropped to 0. It's just not a game we enjoy getting on everyday anymore. I hope it gets back to the game I loved playing one day, so I still keep up with all the news and updates. I also love the lore, so I'll watch lore videos or read the books.
Foxhole. Because even if I'm not at the front, I can still make propaganda for Callahan.
Yup.
The competitive games ive played extensively at some point, dota and csgo mostly. path of exile isnt competitive but that too.
And the games/franchises/studios that ive really enjoyed and ocasionally go back to/keep up with news/possible sequels or dlc/etc.
Fallout, God of War, Elden Ring/FromSoft in general tbh, Slay the Spire, anything from Supergiant, etc.
Most FromSoftware games.
Absolutely love the lore and writing, love the environments and character designs and atmosphere. It's a shame that I mostly find the games to be a boring slog to actually play.
So I watch Let's Players and while they do the fighting, I can take the time to really enjoy how well-polished everything is and throw open the wiki and read through item flavor text or other bits of info.
I can somewhat relate to this, for me it's with Hollow Knight. While I wouldn't say I find it boring, I've just played through it all and have little interest in replaying. Yet the world and story is so interesting to me that I still love to watch others play and talk about it.
I still keep up with my old FC/Guild from Final Fantasy XIV via Discord even though I haven’t played the game in ages.
For whatever reason I love the Deep Rock Galactic community. I very rarely play the game, but I always love me a good ROCK AND STONE!
For me, it's dead or dying live services I suppose. Like Spacelords, and Paladins. They are "games" that frankly treat their players like pay pigs and I'm not interested in all that. I still happily discuss the world and characters though.
Absolutely! I haven't played any Fallout or Borderlands for years, but I still subscribe to those subs (oh wait, used to, I'm not on Reddit anymore)
League of legends. Esports is really enjoyable but I can’t bring myself to waste anymore time on the game. I get the itch and then it ends up fading quickly
EVE online! Following along with the space drama and shit posting on ~~reddit~~ Lemmy(?) is like 3/4 of actually playing the game itself so you can really get the feels without the embarrassment of having everyone laugh at you lossmail when you inevitably get dunked upon.
I don't play much Apex Legends, I don't really enjoy playing it. But I primarily only watch steamers on twitch that play Apex.
Yeah I’m like this with World of Warcraft. Haven’t seriously played it since 2017 but still follow news about it. I’ve come to terms with the fact the game is now utterly uninteresting to me but it’s comforting to still keep up with it somewhat. Only really accepted this strange situation as fact recently
I do the tourist thing now with WoW but I'm still talking with players, especially since my duo partner never stops playing.
Less so now, though, since /r/wow was where I participated the most.
Same. I played a lot of WoW. I was a US top 5 raider in MoP/WoD. I wrote guides on icy-veins and WoWHead.
Then even though I quit at the start of Legion, I've stuck around in the community and occasionally still post/contribute, but it's getting rarer and rarer the more the game moves on without me.
I feel you haha I also played a lot. (I was raiding at world top 50ish level though)
Also quit at the start of Legion. RNG legendaries screwed me twice (“bad luck prevention” gave me bad ones on two separate characters) and I was beginning my corporate career at the exact same time. I hear it got even worse with artifact power shortly after. Super unfun to be so far behind because RNGsus says “no, you in particular must spend a shitton more time grinding”
I play Minecraft very rarely, but I still watch my favourite childhood YouTubers, e.g., EthosLab.
Basically every single player game I've beaten, including ones I've not touched in ages I tend to check in on communities for out of curiosity.
When it comes to PVP games, only games where I put at least 250+ hours into where I feel comfortable making any kind of meaningful post.
I'm not active in the sense of commenting much, but I am an avid lurker of the Skyrim mod communities. Not just because at some point I'll get back to playing skyrim, but also because they sort of maintain a bit of faith in humanity for me
I watch a lot of warhammer 40000 videos. From lore to battle reports. I've never once played a game.
I'll play RimWorld for a few weeks till something else grabs my attention off and on. I'm always adding mods or reading the wacky ways people come up with to violate human rights.
My first hour playing the game is setting up all the mods I downloaded. My load times are getting crazy.
This would be way more common if I could find adequate discussion of any game I've played that wasn't either a single question on Steam or a forum post from 2005. Don't care how old or obscure, I've never gotten tired of something yet.
Just doesn't tend to be a lot of it, with the exception of Hades (whose community I think is still straddling both sites) and slime rancher (whose update spoilers I am avoiding for at least the next entire year).
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