Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?
I’m looking forward to Stellar Blade next week and I think I’m like ~80% done with FF7 Rebirth so I should be finished by then. I still need to finish Dragon’s Dogma 2 and try the FF16 DLC that just recently came out as well… I wish there were more hours in the day.
Other than that the main thing I’m looking forward to is the “totally not E3” announcement shows this summer to see what’s coming out later this year.
Is FF16 worth it? Story-wise it didn’t seem like they learned their lesson (just going by the pre-release summary) so I checked out eaaaarly.
I really enjoyed it. The best parts of the game are the characters and the spectacle of fighting the different eikons (summons). It’s not really much of an RPG though, more like an action adventure game. The combat is alright albeit pretty button-mashy (but I’m an old cranky boomer who prefers turn-based FF games so ymmv).
As for the story, I know it’s kinda polarizing among fans but I thought it was pretty good. It was more coherent than 15, at least. IMO the main draw is the eikon fights, some of which actually made my jaw drop. It feels like they took inspiration from games like Asura’s Wrath, if you’ve ever played that.
I saw a friend play it and it looked like a very generic medieval RPG. He said the latter half was bad iirc
Play recently? Slay the Spire. That game’s actually really popular in the PRC so I did a run in simplified Chinese to test my knowledge of the game.
Favorite genre? Action Adventure. Stuff like Zelda
Anticipated games in 2024? Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
Do you like 2d zelda as well and 2d zelda-likes like Binding of isaac?
I love 2D Zelda. Yet to play Issac but I want to.
So basically Zelda-likes, right?
Yeah. Obviously including Zelda itself.
Zelda’s great.
@Makan just a little bit of Dwarf Fortress. But now I’m focused on studying for an exam to (hopefully) become a federal employee.
I want to get into drawf fortress but struggle with actually sitting down to learn it.
Good look with your exam.
Anything in particular you struggle with or is it just everything at once?
Good luck!
@Makan thanks comrade!
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Question(s) of the week:
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating?
Mostly the new Space Marine game, I guess. A few other games I’m following don’t have release dates yet.
Same with me here.
Bro the notification has been stuck for two days I can’t use the ☑️ button to get rid of it, I think it’s the size that made the lemmy notification go bad 😵💫
Big oof.
the check button is unreliable
A couple of recent games I really enjoyed are Spiritfall and Viewfinder. Spiritfall is like dead cells meets super smash bros, and Viewfinder is similar to Portal in feel. Haven’t really been keeping up with new games coming out, mostly focusing on my backlog. :)
Same.
Just looked up Spiritfall and it looks like a blast
Hands down one of the best games I’ve played this year.
Dang, Jerboa does not handle cross-post well. Anyways.
I’ve been playing the hell outta Minecraft with a few friends, just started our own server and I’ve been using purpur with a few plugins to make it more fun.
Honestly I don’t even know my favorite genre anymore. Either hack and slash or fps but I haven’t played either in a while.
Not necessarily a game but a mod pack. Skyrim ultima looks so fun and 1.0 came out this year. I just need a PC that can handle it
Skyrim Ultima, eh? Guess I’ll check it out!
I got very addicted to Pokemon go for a week very recently, but I quit.
Funny that I aim to get into Pokémon Go soon.
Purchased both fallout 4 and Subnautica. Gotta say that Subnautica is a freaking gem.
Subnautica is a fantastic game that either helped me discover I had thalassophobia or gave it to me. My playtime probably got inflated by ten hours as I spent so much time sprucing up my base instead of progressing to the end of the story.
It balances the curated story elements so well with the open world survivalbox type gameplay. Not many games hit that balance so well.
Ive easily spent 4 hours sprucing up my base lol, my progression has been weird since i found the delani base very late and i just unlocked the core building for a base, i only had scanner rooms for like the first 12 hours lmao. I literally found the alien bases before the delani base, only through an alien portal did i find the island with the delani clues.
My base went from a single scanner room + vehicle bay with only solar energyr, to a full fledged 5-6 rooms base with alien containments+nuclear reactor+water filtration+ storage rooms+ bedrooms after i found the delani bases lol
Subnautica is a really fun game, atmosphere wise. Even if I don’t really vibe with the whole “corporate space” stuff it has in the background. Good luck with survival!
Im pretty sure its making fun of that setting. Like when you first pick up Diamonds, there is a recording that says that everything you pick up is owned by the company so you would be indebted if you lose the stuff lol.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. There’s other stuff, like logs from other ships bemoaning having to respond to the distress beacon, because of how notoriously shoddy company ships are
I want to play subnautica with a heart monitor just to see how bad my thalassophobia is lol
Lol that would make some good content.
Full noise canceling headphones + complete absence of light (block windows and door with black trashbags) + thalasssophobia.
I was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but had to stop because my poor laptop couldn’t handle it and school work (I might actually buy a steamdeck because of this). Currently I’m playing Princess Peach: Showtime (don’t judge me), Stardew Valley (waiting for the 1.6 update), Pokémon, and sonic origins (stuck on marble temple or whatever).
I don’t really have a favourite genre, but it looks like I lean towards role play games (I like character creation).
I am considering picking up TF2 (though I dislike online games, stranger danger) and fallout.
I’m looking forward to the new sonic generations game and a few Stardew-esque games that don’t have a release date yet.
How is princess peach? I played the demo and liked everything but the cake making. Does the difficulty ever ramp up tho or should I not go in expecting challenge?
The difficulty does go up (it’s still not that hard) especially with rehearsal levels. What I don’t like is the lack of check points. If you miss a collectible you cannot backtrack, you have to restart/replay the level as a whole to get it. I’m just happy to get a Peach game, I’ve been waiting since Super Princess Peach came out a million years ago.
Last week was Bioshock.
This week Bioshock 2!
I’m taking it very slow.
Originals or remasters? The “improved” lightning in the remasters kind of ruined the atmosphere imo. Love those games though. Both are leagues better than Infinite.
BioShock Infinite next?
No I didn’t really like it when I played it before. It really broke with the art style of the first two and the characters were kind of annoying.
OOF
You liked it? I’m going to move on to the Dishonoured series next.
I like Dishonoured even more! Both 1 and 2.
The DLCs are all great too!
Prey is another banger. There’s something about this style of FPS that grabs me. Puzzles and using the correct tools for the situation, instead of just chaos and stress like with Doom etc. The new monthly games for the Playstation has a game that claims to be inspired by Bioshock, "Immortals of Aveum ", I watched the trailer and it just looked nice but like just pure constant action, doesn’t really appeal.
Currently waiting for Stellaris DLC, Machine Age. Looks quite epic and is biggest DLC since Nemezis.
Catgirl sorcerer game (ffxiv)
Makes sense.
Got back into SMT: Nocturne this week and the Fallout hype is dragging me back to the Commonwealth so that’s what I’ve been playing recently aside from my regular daily rotation of Genshin, Star Rail, and Nikke, lol.
I’m really excited for Frostpunk 2, I’ve been anticipating that since like 2021. The gameplay seems to be more like Cities: Skylines this time around, with some other elements mixed in. I so can’t wait.
Yeah, I’m also enthusiastic for Frostpunk 2, though I’ve never played the first one.
I have been replaying Syrian Warfare since I got it in January and I played literally nothing else
Did not know that game existed, since steam reviews seem to say it’s russian propaganda it’s probably really good.
It’s unironically very good (except for AI movement) and yes it’s Russian propaganda and yes it is based.
I just finished purrgatory yesterday! It’s a really cute visual novel about befriending weirdos and going to heaven. Getting the best ending took me the entire afternoon but it was worth it. Highly recommend if it looks interesting to you (it’s free and playable in your browser (but maybe not on mobile))
“befriending weirdos”
Sounds like a game about me. And I go to heaven? This is… paradise.
More like purgatory lol but def check it out! It’s really sweet
Sure sure