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.)
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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.
@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!
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“Clannad”
My little bro finished that game not too long ago.
And yeah, my bro finished over 90 visual novels so far.
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.
Noice.
I have had that factorio itch a couple times recently, but holding off for the DLC.
Been occupying myself with Dyson Sphere Program instead.
Ooh that looks good. I just started a new playthrough in the desert, but I’ve never really seen the highest tech levels because once I start connecting up trains is when I always get sick of my base layout and start over, lmao. I’m using a city block style layout now, hopefully I’ll actually stick to it.
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 went back to finish Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. When that game came out I said that the best thing about it was free-flying through the Toriyama-verse - and that’s still true! More games need to just straight up give the player Superman-like flight, it feels so good in that game and in Xenoverse 2. That said I really wish that the “tenkaichi”-derived DBZ games could come up with a fighting engine that wasn’t just mashing light attack and spamming out your super moves whenever your ki refills. It doesn’t have to be as tight as DBFZ but something with customizable combos would be cool, maybe take inspiration from the likes of Godhand.
“SSJ2Marx”
Checks out.
Xenoverse 2 was awesome just for being able to create you oc and play with them
I’m a bit of an indies person, so recently I’ve finished “Session: Skate Sim”, a game that really impressed me with the depth of its movement and how rewarding it feels to progress it. I’ve also just finished “Lonely Mountains Downhill”, that even though it doesn’t have advanced mechanics, more than makes up for it on the discovery factor by allowing you to forge your own path to finish the tracks.
Right now I’ve just started “Furi” that seems to be half 2D shooter half beat-em-up where there are only boss fights, all in great combination with the psychedelic graphics and electronic soundtrack. I’ve also started to play “Disco Elysium” as I’ve seen multiple people here and in hexbear recommending it, but just some hours in I can tell it’s going to take a long time to finish it.
Furi is really great! I love how they went the extra mile with your extra lives/boss phases, just a few animations and lines of dialogue add a lot to what would normally be dying and trying again.
Disco Elysium is one of about six games with writing I would consider “great”. Best enjoyed slowly, without spoilers and with as much exploration as possible. I love how the “fail and retry later” mechanic ties into not only gameplay but the reccurring theme of the story and of the main character, such a simple concept but it feels really meaningful as a result.
I’m more of a CRPG person (which is basically apart of the AA rather than the Indie and AAA scene).
Disco Elysium and now Baldur’s Gate 3 are good examples of this.
I have finally, definitively finished Skyrim. I never did the Dawnguard DLC before when I first played but now I have. Overall, still one of the best games I’ve ever played even if it’s a janky mess.
I have finally, definitively finished Skyrim.
Just in time for the next re-release.
Noice.
What did you think of Dawnguard? I’m a big fan of Serana and wish the game had a number of followers with her depth.
She was kind of annoying but I appreciated the lengths they went too to make sure she wasn’t just another bland NPC companion with nothing interesting to say. I liked that touch where if you’re in one room for a long time she’ll start enchanting doing alchemy or something to pass the time. Makes her feel alive. The actual DLC was cool but I was disappointed with the lack of vampire hunting in the main story lol. It’s weird to have that all regulated to radiant side quests.
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!
Probably the best time and opportunity to get into a “Soulslike” game.
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.
Helldivers II, Deep Rock Galactic, Dead Space remake, Mount & Blade: Bannerlord 2, Chivalry 2.
I like FPS, RTS, and the like. Not exclusively shooters, but swords and sorcery.
I haven’t completed the remaster, but I’ve played Dead Space before. I didn’t find the original scary (I played it after being spoiled by better graphics), but the remaster is definitely making me appreciate the original’s horror.
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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.
Played a lot of Balatro. Though I made the mistake of beating gold stake on checkered deck first and now I can’t seem to play non flush builds lol. It’s a great game but I’m kinda getting bored of it at this point.
Honestly it’s a great game but I hate how they handled the balance. Some jonklers completely overshadow others, face cards are overtuned to shit and straights are a complete and utter joke in a game where flushes and even 5-of-a-kinds are easier to pull off.
It has the potential to be way better but it’s held back by braindead strategies where you just roll the shop hoping for the combo you want, only to drop whatever you were building towards because that one overpowered bottom-text showed up and it’s now become a face card run.
Boss blinds also don’t feel like they do enough to oppress “all in one basket” strategies, which makes every run extremely stale where you just put all of your power into one optimal strategy and just have that carry you well into endless. Bosses should punish you for playing too optimally, not for playing not optimally enough. Some blinds do have the potential to shut down a run but by that point you can just reroll.
Retrigs are probably the worst mechanic in the game, not only do they slow the pacing down to a crawl (there’s a reason everyone turns game speed up to 4x once they get one) but it turns some of the cards from nice bonuses into exponential monsters as their bonuses compound with each retrigger. I like the idea of retrigs but they absolutely should be reworked to do all your retrigs all at once. That would fix it compounding multipliers and where stacking retrigs makes each hand take like 20 seconds to complete. If you have 3 retrigs than it will roll your odds 4 times and then multiply card (and joker) bonuses by 4x. Still really powerful but not an absolute slog that breaks the scaling.
I heard great things about Balatro, but I had a feeling it would get boring really quick.
Just finished Bioshock and I’m on to Bioshock 2.
I’ll always love Bioshock, a great shooter on console. The storylines are really thoughful too. I wasn’t a big fan of the third one however. They really broke the oeuvre.
The third one is the one everyone hates, though it wasn’t always so.
With time? yeah.
I had been working my way through a first playthrough of Dark Souls 1. I finally managed to snag it in a Steam sale so I can now officially do a full series playthrough. I’m no stranger to the soulslike genre and found a lucky +5 Black Knight Sword very early on so it’s been a fairly easy run so far, aside from the early souls jankiness which took some getting used to again. I got stuck on Manus and decided to take a break so I’m hoping to get back in and finish tying up loose ends before heading to finish off Gwyn.
I’ve always wished that Souls games had a sliding New Game plus system where I could start a playthrough at like NG+2 or something because NG is generally too easy, but I’m not usually one to do NG+ in general. Once I beat a game once I’m done with it for years usually
Life hasn’t been great recently so I’ve mostly been playing more mindless games where I can have fun and drink beer. Mostly Helldivers 2 and Chivalry 2, maybe Dead Cells or Risk of Rain 2 if I’m in a rougelite kind of mood.
I’m playing my own Souls-game… Elden Ring.
Good luck! I’ve played through most of it, but open world games are tough for me in general. I always have a compulsive need to do and find everything and then end up burning myself out.
I love open-world games, but there’s too much of them, and so they don’t feel that special.
