Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?
(Same as last time.)
My friend gifted me Baldur’s Gate 3 last week so that’s what I’ve been playing pretty much the entire week in between Genshin and Star Rail, lol.
I like the game, the world is interesting and the roleplay stuff is a lot of fun. Even without mods, the character customization is very good (and queer friendly too!), and with mods it’s an entirely new level.
My only gripes come from the RNG nature of the combat, sometimes the DnD aspect of the game holds it back cause you keep missing spells or skills, or constantly need to rest and long rest to “replenish” magic, which even in DnD I wasn’t a huge fan of. This means battles can take a really long time, and sometimes you just don’t feel strong (like having a cleric that has limited healing), which kinda defeats the whole purpose of being in a fantasy world with magic powers.
Definitely queer-friendly.
I love the game. But right now I’m playing Elden Ring so I’ll get back to that later.
Then I’ll resume it once I complete Elden Ring.
Haven’t played Elden Ring but I’m also not a Soulslike person, lol. Everyone says it’s good though!
Loved BG3 but yeah it kinda feels like a step back from Divinity in that way, instead of having mechanics built around being a cRPG you have awkward D&D mechanics that get in the way at times.
Disable karmic dice in the settings for better RNG.
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Pokémon Scarlet/Violet, Pokémon emerald, and sonic the hedgehog 1. I’m stuck on marble zone act 3, I keep falling in the fucking lava, I miss a jump and I fall three levels down, it’s so hard for what 😭 I want to beat the original sonic games before playing frontiers.
You’re being Anakin’d, dammit.
Finished replaying God of War 1, planning to replay the 2nd soon
God of War Ragnarök?
nah, the “OG” god of war 2
Recently picked up Borderlands 3 and am LOVING it. In my search for info, I’ve seen threads from release about how terrible it is. I have NO idea what those people are talking about, maybe it’s fixed now. But the game is GREAT!
Favorite genres: RPG, looter shooter, puzzle, sim, action adventure, action sports
I heard that people hated it 'cause it has bad villains or whatever.
Not as good as the last one.
Made an edit regarding that! I agree they aren’t “great” villains, but I don’t hate them. They’re just “fine” and “okay”.
Haven’t played a lot of stuff other than World Of Warplanes to get the special pilot, and animating. vic3 1.6 is super laggy, waiting for a cracked version of 1.6.2 with the fix to come out.
Sounds good! And yeah, I’ve heard good things about that game.
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love you babe!
Yay!
Thanks for the tag!
No problem!
Also, aren’t you on JFC?
What’s JFC?
Jedi Council Forums
Never heard of it, but I’ll have to check it out and pull a Jaina to get my account name back /humor
It’s great! Join and I give you a DM on what my account there is. We have a few MLs there too.
@Makan I have finished Disco Elysium recently and I regret not playing it earlier.
Hands down one of the best games I’ve played ever. Really want to do another run through it, there’s just so much to explore in it. I really love the world building in it, just sucks you in completely.
What’s sad is not that no game has writing as good as Disco Elysium. It’s that no game even tries. Especially AAA games for whatever reason have had nosediving writing quality for a while.
Yeah, the writing in it is just outstanding. It really shows how games can be a real meaningful art form.
i’ve only been playing factorio lately. this is my current seablock map. trying to get the train based city blocks going. i’ve got basic resources going and about to start science blocks.
@Makan Recently played through the Mass Effect series for the first time and I feel very conflicted about it. I rate 7/10 overall and 3>1>2 for the series.
Currently playing a mix of dwarf fortress and helldiver’s, waiting for Millennia in 2 weeks
Helldivers 1? First one?
I meant 2, that being said I do think 1 is the better game right now
@Makan I’m playing pathfinder wrath of the righteous, As soon as my busy week is over I’m going to start playing again.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
I also enjoyed Pathfinder: Kingmaker but not as much as its sequel.
I should play Owlcat Games’ newest Warhammer 40K video game as well!
Holy cow, Makan returned?!
On topic, I actually have something to say this time. I’ve recently finished Mafia (remastered one) and Mafia 2 (original). And good golly gracious are they something else! I’ve not felt this invested in a story in a long time. Feels like I’ve watched a high quality movie or TV series. The endings don’t pull punches and while you come into the game expecting heartbreak, it still slaps you in the face. Excellent stuff, even without communist themes or anything remotely close
I made an apology thread too.
But yeah. I’m back.
Welcome back!
Good to see you again!
I finished up the Link’s Awakening remake, this week. Was playing it in tandem with my 8-year-old. I hadn’t played it in like 2 weeks because I couldn’t figure out the gimmick for the second-to-last phase of the final boss, so I figured I’d wait for my son to catch up. The kicker is that HE actually figured it out, before I did. So proud…
Also been slowly working through on Horizon: Zero Dawn, but I keep finding I have 0 desire to play it. Nothing significantly wrong with it, but I have yet to feel actually engaged, 21 hours in.
21 hours in is “not feeling engaged”? It took me less to finish Mafia 2 main story!
I felt the same way when I played Horizon: Zero Dawn. The beginning was neat, but as soon as they cut me loose I was waiting for it to get good. I quit before it did.
I was considering making a thread about it, but I made a minecraft 1.7.10 modpack awhile ago and wanted to post it here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqIwFSfZlFJbkTiNsCJvLyTWzOYh
It’s a hardcore pack that takes a lot of the mechanics of the base game and completely redoes them. Here are a few of the changes
- Sprinting speed is now the default. Sprinting now doubles your speed (where before it only increased by 15%)
- Better movement. Use LeftALT to grab ledges, crawl on the ground. Hold shift to charge a super jump
- Damage Invulnerability is completely disabled, both you and the enemies can attack you as fast as they want (careful of lava!!)
- More enjoyable early game. Wood tools were replaced with stone tools, and stone tools were replaced with flint tools
- Lowered mob spawn rate by A LOT but increased the mob cap by a lot as well. Non-zombies spawn 4x slower than base rate
- Optionally disable hunger mechanics, reverting to Alpha where food gives you hearts directly. This is on a per-player basis.
- Zombies are faster (to match your increased speed), spiders have 75% damage reduction and more health (bring bane of arthropods!)
- Enchanting is removed completely. Now you can craft enchanted books, and some crafting recipes will apply enchantments automatically
- Science theming on mods with a touch of magic. Build a realistic electrical grid to power chemical fusion then go to space
- Meticulously balanced economy. Zombies drop money which can be used to buy materials through Universal Value (EMC)
- Anti-kitchen sink design. Every mod inclusion had a lot of thought put into how it would affect the experience.
- Anti-grind design. Yes you CAN grind if you want, but if you hate doing things over and over again, there’s always a better way.
- Long-term gameplay in mind. Designed to be played for years, unlike other packs that quickly get stale after you beat them.
- New additions periodically added. For example, a recent change brings the 3x3 crafting table into your inventory
You can make Minecraft modpacks?
Never played Minecraft… perhaps I should.
I don’t condone piracy, so you can legally obtain a copy of 1.7.10 online
Gotcha, gotcha.
I’ll warn you though, the base game fucking sucks. It might be worth doing a playthrough just to learn the vanilla mechanics, or you can just say fuck all that and jump right into the superior experience and deal with the learning curve that comes with it.
Sounds good.
I’ve never ever ever played Minecraft and even actively avoided it because I didn’t want to get too addicted as a result.