No Mans Sky which is fun and chill because its pretty but has absolutely no skill required grinding gameplay. Have pretty much quit because the "old universe" story is kind of abstract and hard for me to get into.
Still occasionally popping into Shadows of War to kill or enslave an orc captain or two but not really progressing the main quest
Dragon Keep, which was the best Borderlands 2 DLC, was recently released as a standalone game for free on Epic store. It is a promo for the new fantasy Borderlands that is coming out. The main story is fun and the SJW and general cringe "look at how self aware we are" dialogue is limited to the sidequests so its bearable. I'm a big fan of the Borderlands gameplay and progression even though it is super shallow compared to newer stuff.
Mainly playing Path of Exile because I wanted to see passive tree and defense changes and heard scourge league was good. Not disappointed but eventually the map grind gets to me so I'll probably quit soon. My SSF poison conc build is petering out in yellow maps and scourge world is super rippy.
A friend got me to buy Satisfactory to play with him. It looks great but I don't care for the gameplay, even though I acknowledge that it is a technical achievement. It is mainly a vehicle for just chatting over voice while we mine and build shit in game.
I've played Path of Exile actively for nearly ten years but the latest two consecutive giga-nerf patches have destroyed the game for me so I've basically quit. It just feels like work now.
I've found that how much of a chore it is depends entirely on your build. If you follow a guide and run a low-fiddly meta build then its a breeze. If you go homebrew or ssf and your build is suboptimal for the content level you are at then its work.
I'm much more relaxed about progression now and just play until whatever build I pick craps out. I take that as my call to do something else until next league.
Yeah I'm "self-taught" meaning I've always made my own builds from scratch ever since I started playing in closed beta. My favorite part was to play lots of different builds per league, including "wacky" ones that somehow still worked. I'd play one build until I got bored of it somewhere around 90-95 and then looked forward to starting a different build with all the shit I had collected.
With the current state of the game nothing repulses me more than the thought of starting a new build.
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No Mans Sky which is fun and chill because its pretty but has absolutely no skill required grinding gameplay. Have pretty much quit because the "old universe" story is kind of abstract and hard for me to get into.
Still occasionally popping into Shadows of War to kill or enslave an orc captain or two but not really progressing the main quest
Dragon Keep, which was the best Borderlands 2 DLC, was recently released as a standalone game for free on Epic store. It is a promo for the new fantasy Borderlands that is coming out. The main story is fun and the SJW and general cringe "look at how self aware we are" dialogue is limited to the sidequests so its bearable. I'm a big fan of the Borderlands gameplay and progression even though it is super shallow compared to newer stuff.
Mainly playing Path of Exile because I wanted to see passive tree and defense changes and heard scourge league was good. Not disappointed but eventually the map grind gets to me so I'll probably quit soon. My SSF poison conc build is petering out in yellow maps and scourge world is super rippy.
A friend got me to buy Satisfactory to play with him. It looks great but I don't care for the gameplay, even though I acknowledge that it is a technical achievement. It is mainly a vehicle for just chatting over voice while we mine and build shit in game.
Edit: Also doing daily grinds in Genshin Impact but have pretty much quit since that is getting stale. You can watch hours of gameplay on my Odysee channel :)
I've played Path of Exile actively for nearly ten years but the latest two consecutive giga-nerf patches have destroyed the game for me so I've basically quit. It just feels like work now.
I've found that how much of a chore it is depends entirely on your build. If you follow a guide and run a low-fiddly meta build then its a breeze. If you go homebrew or ssf and your build is suboptimal for the content level you are at then its work.
I'm much more relaxed about progression now and just play until whatever build I pick craps out. I take that as my call to do something else until next league.
Yeah I'm "self-taught" meaning I've always made my own builds from scratch ever since I started playing in closed beta. My favorite part was to play lots of different builds per league, including "wacky" ones that somehow still worked. I'd play one build until I got bored of it somewhere around 90-95 and then looked forward to starting a different build with all the shit I had collected.
With the current state of the game nothing repulses me more than the thought of starting a new build.