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?
Removed by mod
Kinda bouncing around a few games right now, mostly though I picked RimWorld back up, been having fun with that, as well as getting back in to pushing m+ in wow, which I always enjoy
A fellow Rimworlder! Modded or vanilla? I have been a big fan of the VE series of mods, so just started an underground vampire faction game with a few of their more recent mods.
I’m still playing Dyson Sphere Program when I have time but it’s been busy. I got my sphere mostly done in my home planet and have a sphere design in mind for my next but I need to get endgame white science on farm first before that. I think I’m actually starting to lose interest in the game which is fine sing I got a few hundred hours in. That’s rare for my attention span.
My kid and I finished Mario Odyssey on this playthrough recently. He ended up playing most of the second half and was knocking out levels on his own. Can’t lie I was both impressed and proud of him. He’s actually currently working through postgame stuff now which I didn’t even know existed.
I’m still not done with Antimatter Dimensions… I’m on the last mechanic and about halfway through it but I think I’m ready to be finished with it.
Noice. Dyson Sphere Program sounds 'ight. Right up my alley, even. Tbh, strategy games don’t do it for me, but that one sounds good. Also, damn, Super Mario Odyssey is also a great game! Glad for your kid.
I feel like automation games strike a very different itch than traditional strategy games. The goal is (generally) not to build up to defeat some enemy but just to build for the sake of building even more. As a kid I always loved strategy games for the base building, but never liked the fighting my enemy part so much. I think that is why I really enjoy the automation and city builder genres.
Some have combat, but they are almost always secondary to the core of the game. Dyson has no combat yet, but it is coming in the near future. Still will be totally optional though.
DSP is my favourite of all the factory games and first one I recommend to people. I like the clean scifi aesthetic, it is probably the best visuals of a game in that genre, just seeing the dyson swarms form into a sphere over the horizon is really pretty. The devs seem like genuinely awesome people who give clear updates, plus I like to support Chinese game devs.
I am honestly not super interested in the upcoming combat update, because I never like the base defense aspect of those games.
about to finish FF16 and then I’ll take a break until baldur’s gate 3 comes out
Funny. Last time I was in one of these threads, I was asked what game I was looking forward to. It was long enough ago that my answer was “BoTW 2.” My answer to the current question? Tears of The Kingdom.
Oh wow noice.
Hope you’re enjoying it.
I have indeed, thank you.
Nice!
I’m playing Jedi: Survivor. I really like it both from exploration and story. Think the grand master difficulty isn’t well tuned. I keep getting one shot here and there. Sekiron felt more fair.
Planned to continue Chains of Echo. The turn based system in this game is interesting and isn’t most of the turn based RPGs.
Guess my TOTK playthrough has to stay on hiatus for a while.
Same with my own TOTK playthrough.
Mostly DayZ recently and some Rocketleague again for the first time in a while.
Gave TW:Attila a decent shot recently. Pretty good game, TWs just get stale fairly fast for me.
Also tried the HP game a while ago and…it’s just boring. Looks pretty good, there’s tons to do, they put in a lot of effort, but idk. Still feels weirdly lifeless and unengaging to me. Can’t really put my finger on it. On paper it’s everything my 10yo self would’ve wanted from an open world HP game, but it isn’t. Played maybe 8h, haven’t touched it in weeks and I highly doubt I’ll ever finish it.
Gave TW:Attila a decent shot recently. Pretty good game, TWs just get stale fairly fast for me.
Does it have proper UI scale now? I remember playing it long ago and it was great and since then a lot of great mods came out but i can’t play it since the interface is microscopic on higher resolutions.
Playing Now:
Rimworld, again. Basically any gaps between any other games, I start up a new Rimworld campaign. My most played game of all time at this point.
Completed Recently:
Friendly Neighborhood: Survival horror game but with muppets. I initially dismissed it as a FNAF clone, but it is much closer to a Biohazard game. Fun, not long at all, which is a plus in my books these days. Might play it more later to get more endings.
FFXVI: Was okay, probably falls smack dab in the middle of my FF tier hierarchy. Definitely had some major issues with it, but it ended up exceeding my expectations in other areas. Story was interesting enough to make me want to see it through to the end.
Seems everyone is playing Rimworld these days.
It’s an almost infinite content platform with mods, and it has a massive modding community. Can be sci-fi, western, fantasy, whatever.
It did take me a few tries for it to “click” for me, but it is easily my favourite game I have ever played by now.
