The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion

Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!

Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.

anakin78z,
@anakin78z@lemmy.world avatar

Against the Storm. Picked it up way back in early access and kind of thought it sucked. Saw some people talk about it recently and decided to give it another go, and it doesn’t suck anymore! I suck at it, having lost every round, but I keep going back in, so I guess I like it now.

BowtiesAreCool,

Resident Evil 4 Remake. Just recently became a fan of the series

other_cat,
@other_cat@lemmy.world avatar

Back on my Rimworld addiction.

Lampadaire_raclette,

Balatro!

BaqTraq, (edited )

Playing “Thief: The Black Parade”

It’s a fan mod released this year, for a game that was released in 1998. It was a labor of love that took 7 years to complete and is the most stunning mod I have ever seen for any game period.

They push the engine to its limits, the scale, creativity, level design and story are near perfection. The story and playtime are so good it feels like an official game. You forget it’s not canon.

I can’t believe this came along, it was truly refreshing. It won the 2023 ModDB mod of the year.

Mandalore did a great review, and mini tutorial about how to launch a 26 year old game on modern systems.

theOneTrueSpoon,

I’m playing persona 3 reload and like a dragon gaiden just now. Both really good games!

iamtherealwalrus,

Sea of Thieves. Revisiting it after several years of not playing it, and finding it just as much fun now as it uses to be.

JJROKCZ,

Helldivers 2! Played the first one a bit but not nearly as engaged with that as I am in this. Bought on launch day and had a blast until the massive player spike killed the servers, that’s seems to be better now as I was able to get in fine and play for a few hours last night.

It’s 100% worth the price and hype but I recommend waiting a few weeks to a month from now while they fully deal with server load issues and they say mechs are pretty much ready to be added now and are just getting polished.

For background, the first game peaked at ~7000 players, this one had 480K on steam alone and that number again on PlayStation this past weekend. They didn’t expect this level of success and so didn’t plan to have server capacity and robust network code for it, they are putting in the long nights to fix it though and we’re already seeing improvements only a couple weeks in

Lesrid,

Balatro and Helldivers 2

nutsack,

I can’t play any game

Nanno,

Hopping between:

  • Helldivers 2
  • Deep Rock Galactic
  • MechWarrior 5
  • Last Epoch
Stalinwolf,
@Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca avatar

Still just a heavily modded Skyrim playthrough that still remains perfectly lore-friendly. But I’m strongly considering playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance soon. Unfortunately for me, the prospect of modding the hell out of Morrowind again is also calling to me.

Why walk when you can ride?

Smallwater,

Finished my first a BG3 run, blind. Was considering starting a second run, with “perfect” choices (and mods) but it seems that patch 6 broke quite some things.

Gonna spend time playing “dad games”, then. I don’t know what’s so appealing about those “X simulator” games, but I can absolutely get lost in them.

9bananas,

Patch 6 only really broke the script extender (well hotfix really)

nvm, just checked, it’s up to date! (hotfix is supported!)

pretty much everything is up to date!

Smallwater,

But reports about bugs introduced by patch 6 are still pouring in :( the two hotfixes helped, but I’m still gonna wait.

Philharmonic3,

Elden Ring and Dark Souls 1. And I intend to play them forever. Wish bb was on PC :(

caut_R, (edited )

Depending on how far you wanna go, it is IIRC (emulation)

DAMunzy,

Archmage Rises on Steam. It’s in Early Access so there are some parts that are rough especially since it has generations history and quests (go see SoAndSo in NewTown. How do I find NewTown? Ask SoAndSo, he knows the area. 🤪). But it’s fun and not as difficult as I was first afraid it was going to be.

The UI is decent but doesnt feel quite there yet: close button for shopping doesn’t feel like it’s on the correct place, font size for time of day is a bit to small for my 15 inch laptop screen at 1080p (not sure if changing resolution would help but non-native resolution on laptop never looks good IMHO).

I’m on my first character playthrough. It’s a perma death open world RPG that has a story to it. The story so far (I’m a few game months in) seems to wait for you but certain missions have time limits once you accept them.

The economy and the cost of things…seem weird. Not bad, but not like other games… And I’m fine with that. I like the ability to haggle with merchants when buying/selling(?) certain items.

Developing relationships give you little bonuses (according to the interface).

When attempting skill checks you get a d20 from that uses your bonuses. A 1 seems to always fail even when you get enough to pass by your bonus. I’d rather see the Pathfinder 2e system than the D&D d20 system when it comes to rolls so that there isn’t a guaranteed 5% chance to fail even an easy check but that’s not game breaking.

I definitely need to start away from gambling. I suck at it.

Content warning:

As an open life simulator, the finished game allows the player and NPCs to participate in a vast range of human experiences both bad and good, including: slavery, murder, cannibalism, sexual activity (non-graphic), pregnancy, and religious worship.

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