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What y'all playing! I'm almost done with blasphemous 2. And will be starting starfield soon! Very excited

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[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on Starfield this week. About 12 hours in.

Have to admit, I'm struggling to have fun, which I really didn't see coming. I have hundreds of hours in Fallout 4, probably over a thousand each in Fallout 3 and Skyrim, and I adore space settings, so this was my most anticipated game for years. Seemed like it would be a slam dunk.

Another huge surprise is that it might be the main story that's keeping me going. I've never come close to being this invested in one of Beth's stories.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

I feel you. I just hit 20 hours and I probably didn't start to fully realize how to find different kinds of content deliberately until about hour 15 after I'd got some of the faction stuff started and explored enough planets to understand how to find certain side quests.

For the first while my natural instinct just had me exploring all of the cities and stations, just talking with people and picking up masses of side quests, then I hit a point where I started actually doing them, because I was burning myself out on walking and talking.

The non-scaling level of systems is interesting, figuring that out helped me to be able to do quests that I was leveled for and weren't super spongey, I figured out the structure of the random quest board quests so I could partake in FPS shooting, ship shooting, cargo running, or more narrative driven side quests depending on my mood.

Figuring out that the trade authority (only the manned shops, not the kiosks) is your stolen goods fence meant I could really start stealing in earnest, and the decrease in environmental items that are lootable, along with the decrease in lootable homes and apartments means stealing opportunities are harder to come by.

Even still, after being pretty cheap at level 20 I'm at about 120,000 credits, which seems close to enough to fully build my own ship, which I'm about to eagerly do in my next session. Once I've got a ship built I'll want to start and get into landing on less colonized planets and figure out the outposts and such, where I can pivot to hiring people from the taverns and getting into that whole side of the game.

I think because of the amount of things you could do, the amount of them that are basically impossible to do from the outset due to money (ship and outpost building), and the way the game doesn't guide or explain things well, it was really easy for me to create my own boring rut where I just walked and talked and ran away from tough enemies because I didn't realize I picked up a quest that was in or lead to a high level system.

For instance, I knew you could board ships, I had no idea that I needed the systems targeting skill to target engines to even do that at all, the skill description didn't mention it, and the early game mission that forces you to board doesn't require you to have the skill, you just board when the ship is supposed to "die". I was also initially upset random items couldn't be broken down into materials, but then I realized some materials can just be found as lootables, same for some craftable components.

All told, as I play more I'm coming around to it all more, but it'll probably take another ten or 20 hours before I fully understand all the systems and can make a judgment on if I like it more, less, or the same as Fallout 4, which I also loved.

[–] J_C___@lemmy.place 2 points 1 year ago

All starfield, all the time. Been extremely enjoyable, can't wait to do a modded new game plus.

[–] realChem@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood! It's a really good visual-novel-style game, but with the added element that you craft your own tarot-style divination deck and then draw cards from it during some conversations, and which cards you draw influence what kinds of readings you can give for people. It is established early on that since you were a kid your readings have never been wrong, and fittingly the game warns you early and repeatedly that your answers will affect your fate, dramatically. Well, no kidding! When I was playing yesterday I had a choice that I'd made hours earlier come back and bite me in the ass, hard. Almost made me want to quit and start over, but I've decided to see this play-through through and if by the end I still feel like I need to fix my mistakes I'll maybe play it a second time.

tl;dr if you like beautiful pixel art, enigmatic beings from outside of space and time, witches, tarot, and/or choices that actually matter in your games, do give this one a go! I'm not done with it yet but I'd already love to chat with someone else who's played it!

[–] Mechaguana@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Wow hardcore has consumed my life. HARDCORE HYPE HARDCORE HYPE

[–] cthael@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Playing Sea of Stars. It's so fun and beautiful to look at

[–] Seathru@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still on a space game kick. Finished up Freelancer and started playing No Man's Sky's recent "Voyagers" expedition. It's still got over a month left so I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't played the game in a while. Just to see whats new; It's come a long way.

And picked up Hardspace: Shipbreaker on sale for when NMS starts getting monotonous.

I’m taking my time with my first play through of Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m enjoying it a lot, the way it interweaves characters you’ve met before into the narrative later one is really good.

[–] TheRoarer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am about to finish Starfield. I did not enjoy my time with it. Luckily, I played it on gamepass, so very little monetary value was lost.

Might revisit once creation kit is up. That was the only way Fallout 4 was enjoyable for me.

I will head back to finishing my bg3 evil play through, filling the gaps with Darktide.

[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

What's sad is that Starfield was expected to be the next big RPG. The next Skyrim but in space.

Instead, most people are likely going to come out of their experience with the game with a "meh" opinion about it. It's solidly middle-tier.

If there's anything to be said, the visuals are incredible, but everything else is a retread of mechanics pulled from other games (most notably, half the ideas are taken from No Man's Sky).

[–] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm trying Starfield again.

New playthrough, got some .ini tweaks which seem to help performance quite a bit so far, not screwing myself with traits and character background like I did initially, and making gameplay priorities.

I was too overwhelmed the first time with all the different mechanics and forgot to do what I do with most Bethesda games: focus on a few select areas and ignore the rest, so I'm not going to bother with a lot of the mechanics I'm not interested in.

If they draw me in at some other point, might give it a shot. Otherwise, unimportant to me.

Other than that, I've been on a FIFA kick for a while. Still messing around with that. I really wish women's football was more popular. I'd honestly pay for a game specifically focusing on it and ignoring the men's side of things.

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Command and Conquer 3. I'm not very familiar with the series but I'm enjoying it, at least now that I figured out why the campaign was so hard. Apparently they patched the game balance after release with multi-player in mind and didn't consider the consequences for single-player. So after a small mod to restore the original resource gather rates, the game is a great time.

[–] Bobicus@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve picked Dead Cells back up on Steam Deck, playing on custom mode to always get the gear I want. Not the “proper” way to play, but it’s just fun to spend a bit flying through biomes killing things for a while. It’s why I love games that build in all sorts of extra features like this; I get to enjoy the game on my terms.

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
  • The Legends of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  • Brotato
[–] Ophioparma@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Started Noita again. Got to the Mushrooms but got thrashed by a Pikkuturso. Good times.

[–] sub_@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
  • NEO: The World Ends With You

    • I've only played TWEWY Final Remix on Switch recently. I find the control frustrating. Docked, it's barely playable with joycon motion control, while undocked, it's tiring, and my finger keeps obstructing the screen. The game also keeps interrupting you, very often when you moved between screens, and sometimes just halfway running, someone will just stop what you're doing halfway for conversation that's not that essential.

    • Now, this sequel has improved the gameplay part a lot. It still has problem with interruptions. But at least with proper controller support, this game is way better than its predecessor.

  • Immortality

    • This is very slow, not sure if I will eventually enjoy a 10 hour FMV mainly consists of clips not in proper order. Also, I prefer Her Story's keyword search than this, because now I need to manually scrub the clips to the point of interests. So far I'm not enjoying the story as much, mainly because it's about acting for now.
    • spoilerI know there's some supernatural stuff in it
    • I can't help but fantasize, what if the setting is sci-fi mystery, you scrub thru a number of CCTV, interviews, interrogations videos, about some weird alien / sci-fi murder. So far Immortality feels like a slog.
[–] ebc@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I just got into Factorio, and I'm lucky I have other stuff going on in my life, because it's such a big rabbit hole I don't think I'd come out! I never played it or even knew what the game was about, but the announcement last week about the space expansion got me to download the demo.

[–] variants@possumpat.io 1 points 1 year ago

Playing starfield, having fun with it, it's basically like an extended fallout 4 with spaceships. I just wish I had more time to play

[–] willhig@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dave the Diver! Every bit of the journey is fun, the game broadens in scope bit by bit, you also upgrade in increments, and the story is cute and interesting.

[–] realChem@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've put a few hours in and I agree, it's just a fun little game that slowly pushes you bit by bit into slightly more challenging stuff. I really like how well the game meshes the diving and sushi restaurant aspects, too. (Plus, I'm a scuba diver -- still pretty new to it -- and I'm a bit on the larger side, so it's a nice bit of representation.)

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finished Mass Effect 2 and loved it! I want to start ME3 but I think I should give it a bit more time.

Since everyone is talking about Starfield, I decided to play a bit... Of No Man's Sky. And I'm completely lost since I hadn't played in almost a year maybe? I don't remember anything, what I was doing or even how to play. But since I started I already started one of the quests related to the settlement and I'm doing it now. It's fun, I missed this game.

[–] d3Xt3r@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Finished Mass Effect 2 and loved it

Did you play it on PC or console? If it's the latter then how were the controls? I'm planning on getting it on console, but I suck at playing FPSes with a controller.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Console, and it was perfectly fine. It's in third person, which helps, and there are powers which don't need to be aimed in real time. I never felt like using a mouse and keyboard would make me significantly better.

[–] acastcandream@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mass Effect is a very slow, very forgiving combat experience unless you’re playing on insane. Pretty much everything auto locks on or has some sort of AOE component. You could pretty much play the game rarely firing a gun if you really are worried about it. But even then it’s not bad at all.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been playing Darkest Dungeon. I just reinstalled Death Stranding to test an AAA Windows title on Linux and it works so I think I'll start that up. I feel ready for a walking simulator replay.

I'm eyeing Starfield as well, might see if I can get that running.

[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I was super addicted to Darkest Dungeon whenever I first got it. I never ended up finishing it, but I loved the art style and the community mods that are out there.

[–] freakrho@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Death Stranding on steam deck, the version I got for free on epic

[–] Nicadimos@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you play the Epic version on Steam?

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

You can side load a program called Heroic Game Launcher that will automatically download from other stores and apply the best known version of Proton to it. It's not as good as proper Steam support, but it will often get the job done.

[–] Nicadimos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks. I'll have to check it out.

[–] freakrho@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

with heroic launcher, it handles everything for you

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surprising lack of Armored Core 6 in here. Has everyone just beaten it already, or did it get overshadowed by Baldur's Gate and Starfield.

Just finished first playthrough last night, and maybe halfway through my second now.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

There are just too many good games this year. Some of them won't make the cut when we've only got so much time and several of the best games of the year each take 100 hours to finish. Armored Core isn't making the cut for me this year.

[–] Poopfeast420@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I finished Quake 2: The Reckoning, the first expansion pack for Quake 2, and started with the second one, Ground Zero. Just like the expansions for Quake 1, it's pretty much just more Quake. A few new or changed enemies, some new weapons, and I was blasting my way through the Strogg. Just like the base game, I played on Hard, and it's not really that difficult, much easier than Quake 1. The biggest difference is that you get tons of ammo in Quake 2, so you're never completely running out.

In Pillars of Eternity, I'm almost done with the second Act, so hopefully I can finish the game in the next couple of days. I don't think I'll immediately go into the White March expansion. I got about 100h combined with this and Baldurs Gate 1, these last few weeks, so I want a break from RTwP games. Like I mentioned last week, everything feels much smoother here than Baldurs Gate was, so I'm enjoying it a lot more. The AI pathing is still complete trash though.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Was anything ever done to mod in controller support to Pillars of Eternity from the console versions? I'm building a list of RPGs I'd like to play after BG3. Also, I'm pretty sure the game uses its own roleplaying setting and rules, but is it as complicated as 2e from those old Infinity engine games?

[–] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I picked up Starfield on Friday. I'm not very far into it after 12hrs. Been doing side quests and such around New Atlantis and exploring. So far, it's fun enough. This is the first Bethesda game I've played since Fallout 3 (which I didn't finish). So I've kinda come into this mostly blind, which I think is a good thing. It reminds me a bit of Deus Ex: HR/MD, probably because of all sidequest and explo that I'm doing.

Also restarted Triangle Strategy last week or so, after putting it down for a year or two. Had it for the Switch, but then picked it up for the Steam Deck. Been taking my time with that as well.

In FFXIV, I'm in the post-Shadowbringers DLC content. I've taken a bit of a break from the MSQ to get the Nier-themed alliance raids, along with the "Eden" full-party raids. I've so far only opened two of the three Nier alliance raids, and god are they difficult. But that difficulty means they're tons of fun. I think I've got the first one down pretty well, though I've yet to complete it without dying at least twice due to not paying attention to boss telegraphs. The second one is gonna take me a bit more to get through without dying left and right. Prioritizing these over the "Eden" full-party raids at the moment. Did get my MCH to 90 during all the raiding, which means I now my second Lvl 90 class, the first being RDM. Think I might try a healer class next, just not sure which one.

[–] realChem@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

In FFXIV, I’m in the post-Shadowbringers DLC content. I’ve taken a bit of a break from the MSQ to get the Nier-themed alliance raids

Are you me? I'm just a bit into the post-ShB patches, and I just finished unlocking all three Nier raids. They're really fun (although I agree: challenging). If you happen to be on Crystal DC and want to party up for some raids or something, lmk!

Think I might try a healer class next, just not sure which one

As someone who is very much a non-healer main, I quite like Sage. My first healer to 90 was actually Scholar, but a lot of that had to do with the fact that I was really into Summoner for a while: when I'm going to heal I usually hop on Sage.

My first leveled Tank was Gunbreaker, my first leveled DPS was Mechanist and I am myself now working on Sage to fill out my "shoot guns at it to solve your problem" Trifecta.