I got Octopath Traveler 0 for Christmas and have been playing it fanatically. Also playing Marvel Rivals when I need some quick matches before work. Still got a bunch of games on my Steam wishlist but pretty far behind on it all. How about you all, what are you playing into the New Year? Anything you all are waiting for?
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I devoured Dispatch in two sittings last week and it was my game of the year. I don't usually go for that genre but they included enough game to make it engaging while also having some truly compelling writing. Despite the game having an overall feel of optimism and that classic hero saves the day theme, the whole thing left me feeling kind of depressed. Maybe it's just the inevitable low after such a high, but I suspect it's more to do with the disparity between the hope for the future in the game and the dismal prospects here in reality. My escapism is highlighting the things I'm trying to escape I guess.
Anyway, very good game. Would recommend. Go in blind and just trust that it's a good experience.
How woke is it?
The closest it comes is making an off-handed remark about how diverse their workforce is, followed immediately by pointing out a character who's from another galaxy, so maybe it's poking fun at it? It really just felt like a game that didn't have a political agenda at all, which was refreshing.
I thought the opposite looking at the screenshots. Cheers.
Me too. I wanted it to be good but I was skeptical.
Not very imo.
If you liked Dispatch you might want to check out "The Witcher Tales". Totally different atmosphere, but its another game where you get to make choices and then hear MC give an awesome speech about it. The card battles are pretty fun too.
I dunno, I think Dispatch works because of the story it's telling more than anything.
Witcher Tales is the same.
Knights of the Old Republic II for the 84th time.
Factorio. The game looked insane and I have not been disappointed. Retardera hates the devs as well so that's a nice bonus.
Run while you still have a chance to escape. That game is genuinely addictive.
Once I figured out trains it was a 700 hour sprint to building a factory that tanked my framerate. Only way I know of to escape that game. I have since built a new rig and am terrified of what would happen if I ever install it again.
I can't remember but there was some minor kerfuffle where the Factorio devs landed on "fuck off we believe in free speech and communism sucks" so now all commies and trannies hate them even though they've done literally nothing controversial other than lambast an ideology that killed over 100 million in the 20th century.
Sorry I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it annoys me because sometimes I see those freaks come out of the woodwork on Reddit and call the Factorio devs nazis.
When Space Age came out I got 100 hours into a map before i said "This factory is shit" and started over again
A few things.
A card-based auto-battler called Gods vs Horrors. Has some balance issues, but a nice casual game you can do while you're doing other stuff.
An Epic freebie, bullet heaven / survivor, Jotunslayer.
Just started playing Hades again. Never got super into it, but was in the mood for an action roguelike.
Elden Ring from time to time.
Lastly, thinking of picking up Battlefield 6. I know I probably shouldn't, but I want a modern shooter. And it actually seems pretty competent now.
Unless it brings back private servers and a server browser, the game will be dead in a few months from rampant aimbotters and retarded matchmaking.
I've put 276 hours in to Stoneshard. Great little RPG designed to be hard. Can't explain why exactly but it feels like some old school DnD game. A lot of love and work has went in to making it but is still not finished/ early access. I advise to try the demo if you like this style of games.
Currently I'm also playing DA:O to see if it holds up as great as my nostalgia is telling me it was.
Project Zomboid MP held my playgroup's attention over the week leading up to new years. The current unstable build isn't worth long term attention, but I wound up farting around in solo recently as a result of getting a taste for it.
Abiotic Factor, Valheim, and Enshrouded have been MP choices lately. I've also revisited Avorion, but haven't settled on something to play seriously. It'll probably be that or Zomboid.
Still waiting on a solid MP Zomboid; Hytale is on the horizon, too.
This might be a stupid question but is MP, multi-player?
Yep. My multiplayer group is weekend warriors, but yeah, what I play tends to be what we play.
99% sure yes. The game is great solo and with multiplayer (but only if you do private servers usually. No idea if they even have public servers).
Excellent game and I’ve only played solo.
Factorio, Alchemy Factory and The Last Descendant. I jump around on a few different games here and there though
Turbo Overkill and Rimworld.
Stardew Valley since September.
Mostly Stalker 2 to tax the new GPU I grabbed like the last heli out of 'Nam as soon as the memory debacle came to light.
Went back and touched on Dragon's Dogma 2 for a similar reason.
Dabbled in Phantom Brigade now that it's a little more fleshed out than at release.
And I really should check out what's new in PoE2 at some point but I never get around to it.
Songs of Syx
A fun (but difficult) city builder. I'm still on v65 because the more recent versions are way more difficult and I can't handle it.
Racism is baked in, and it helps to either go mono-race for your city; or to have certain groups. (Like I think Cretonians and Humans get along, but Amevians hate everyone else and all races hate the bug race (Garhtrimis).)
Slavery is an enticing choice once world conquest starts to become possible (this is likely more of a v65 thing since recent versions nerfed the empire building stuff; since the dev doesn't think it's reasonable for one country to conquer the world); because sacking one city can give ~1000 free laborers (when end game city pop is ~12k). Very hard to turn that down; especially since slaves need no amenities/services.
It's a very fun game, but I respect that racism and slavery are treated somewhat realistically. Slavery is hard to ignore since it's such an easy economy boost (seems true to life), and race realism has to be considered since you can't just pretend that Tilapis will get along with everyone else (they won't).
Fun game, based AF.
Only seen the name in passing, before. I feel like I need this game in my life, now.
Fallout 76 and the FFTactics remaster
^ Found the masochist.
Ran through Prey again, forgot how woke it is, hah.
Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun mostly, it's good real times tactics. My one knock against it is that guards don't know their fellows patrols. Two guards will be staring at each other, and if you distract one so he looks away, as long as he doesn't see the other die, he notices nothing when he looks back. Level design is built around that so it couldn't just be changed, but it does bug me.
Arkham Knight. Very fun game all around, the increased Predator mission variety is a great addition. I’ve played the other three already and it’s crazy the progress they managed to make.
Going through Blood: Refreshed Supply. Gotta be honest, I love Duke Nukem and enjoyed Shadow Warrior but for some reason, Blood just isn't clicking with me, which is weird since everyone says it's the best of the Build trilogy. I'll keep at it to the end of the first chapter for now. The dynamite is a great weapon at least.
Started Inazuma Eleven on the DS just to see if I would like it, with the new game out recently. I am enjoying it, surprisingly.
Playing Kirby Air Riders off and on, it's fun but a little too chaotic for my tastes. Every win feels totally out of my control, but actually playing the game is fun.
Winter Burrow and Vein. I am intrigued by Ardem in 2026.
Vintage Story.
Its like Minecraft for the first time all over again, but the autists that maintain the massive realism and industry modpacks have already been at it and secreted all the features into the base game, but then you end up downloading a bunch of mods to add in all the tiny things they forgot.
Spent twenty dollars on it at Christmas, probably sunk thirty hours into it already, and I haven't even found enough tin to make bronze yet.
Look into wind power as soon as you can, it's amazing what you can do with a three speed gear box and four helve hammers.
Oh shit it has wind power now? I need to get back into it again
Its on my list, right after bees.
Getting tired of replacing torches and finding rift assholes in my chimneys.
But the day I can hook my querns up to rotors and stop milling salt, lime, and bonemeal by hand will be a day of celebration.
I just finished a demo for an indie game called DuskFade, which bills itself as a cross between ratchet and clank and Kingdom hearts.
the demo was promising, but needed polish. I'm looking for my next single player thing to play.
That looks promising. Going to try the demo. Have any other recommendations?
Wall World 2. I love the first one. This one is a bit more story. It is still nice but doesn’t quite feel as satisfying so I’ve only been playing it in small chunks.
Wasteland 2 Directors Cut. I played Wasteland 2 when it originally came out and never finished it. But I recently binged playing the remastered bards tale series plus the remastered Wasteland game (fantastic game for its day, despite all the flaws). So I was inspired to finish 2, and finally play wasteland 3 which has been untouched in my library for awhile.
I am playing Dredge. I finished Space Marine II and Stray in the last week, and will probably finish this tomorrow.
DQXI:S w/ harder monsters and low XP from weak monsters. First time I tried it, Dora-in-gray was a stone wall, and I gave up on the game. Yes, it's all recoverable, but I was frustrated AF, after trying again and again, whittling down my gold reserves from respec'ing, crafting, and restoring saves, then getting my ass beat every single time.
This time, I hoarded Ygdrasil(sp) leaves, did a bit of early seed farming, and spec'd the Luminary for greatswords, with Unbridled Blade unlocked before the fight. I pepped everyone, and took her down in 5 turns, using two leaves. Due to planning for Dora the whole time, though, the Tentacular and Elysium bird fights were harder than the first time.
I hadn't played any of the modern Tomb Raider games, though between Steam and GoG, I have them all, mostly from bundles, plus the old ones in ROM sets, if the PC ports are crap. So, I'm starting with the first one (1996), now, and plan to play through most of them, skipping the old remasters.
Shovel Knight. I got it first on the 3DS, and there was one room, early on in the Shovel Knight campaign, I just could not get through, with the DS' controls. The other two were OK. Got through it on the first try, with a proper gamepad, and will finally have finished the game, soon.
You seem to be extremely confused about the board you're on. You don't belong here if you have an issue with gaming.
Playing way too much arc raiders. But it's fun to grind with friends and I killed a moon cricket and called him a nigger on his twitch stream recently so that was fun.
Cultic.
First Chapter is very good and pretty well paced, Second Chapter the dev went 'yeah but what if i added this' and ended up with a 'more is better' route which lead to too much downtime (navigating, backtracking, etc), purely annoying enemies, etc so was a bit of a letdown after the 1st.
Next on the list is Verho Cursed Faces or finally diving into Cyberpunk (modded of course).
Simcity 4. Well I would be playing it right now instead of typing this if it hadn't crashed a minute ago.
The kids and I have been playing primoridalis and Armored Core 6 lately.
I just picked up Windswept. It's like Donkey Kong Country had a baby with Yoshi's Island. Very pretty and detailed pixel art, very tight and engaging gameplay. Minimal punishment for making mistakes, you just bounce right back to the checkpoint and keep going. The standard campaign has been pretty normal, but the challenge levels kicked my ass in the best way possible. It took me ages to beat the first one. Then I realized I missed a coin at the end of the level. So I hopped back in a recollected it with minimal effort, and it felt really good.
Bought a cheap used G27 racing wheel with shifter and pedals and reinstalled My Summer Car. Then My Winter Car dropped a couple of days later.
minecraft reclamation
Doing a Witcher trilogy playthrough
Though i'll be honest, first game could definitely use a remake
Finishing Disciples 2, playing a bit of HoMM 5.5 and checking out new castle: Bulwark in Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Also playing some ARAM games with my homies in LoL and yesterday we started playing Minecraft with lots of Create mods.
This year I'm waiting for few factory builders, DLC for Monster Train 2 (my favourite deckbuilder) and Slay the Spire 2
MCC. Even after all this time, playing Reach with the boys is still fun.
Plus, all the new mods help keep things interesting.
Blue Prince. Can't rightly say how far I've gotten but I am running out of obvious things to do.