What games do your friend groups tend to play with one another?
When hanging out with friends in discord or whatever, what games do you all tend to sit down and play with one another? For me it's some combination of Valorant, Guild Wars 2, and Omega Strikers but I'm curious what everyone else plays with their friends :)
Fortnite has been our go-to for the last 3 years.
Quite impressive, considering I thought my friend was kidding when she asked me to play it with her. But it's been hella fun since!
Here's some of my friend group's favorites with old and new games mixed in, we go all over the place!
RTS
Beyond All Reason - If you're a fan of Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander or Planetary Annihilation, or if you like RTSs and want to be in control of tons of units on huge maps check this out! It's Open Source and free.
War40k Dawn of War - One of our favorite RTS's, the mix of unit loadouts and varied factions is amazing! Make sure to get the FoV and Widescreen mods here.
Gates of Hell: Ostfront - Really underrated RTS, the sound design, ballistics, attention to detail and variety of units is awesome. Allows direct control of infantry and vehicles, has a inventory system, you can steal weapons off vehicles, repair etc.
Garry's Mod - The Deathrun game mode specifically, Most extreme challenge with a cruel twist, one friend will be picked per round to set off traps and environmental changes as everyone else tries to get through an obstacle course of death.
Titanfall 2 - One of the best twitch FPSs since Tribes, CS, HLDM, Quake II, and UT. The movement is incredible and gunplay amazing. Try the Northstar client if the official servers are under attack or you want more variety with mods.
Natural Selection 2 - Really good blend of FPS and RTS elements, 1 player on each side is a commander and choose upgrades, where to build, drop supplies, give orders etc. Aliens vs Marines with strategic depth. Can be a steep learning curve for some.
Arma 3: SOG Prairie Fire DLC - One of the best Arma DLC's out, lots of free updates have happened, If you like Vietnam era vehicles and infantry and co-op with friends it's great. You'll need a group of friends to play. If you want something more modern in both theme, game engine and quality of life, wait for Arma 4.
Alien Vs Predator 2 - Face hug your friends, catch them in the Predator's net, Enjoy that classic Pulse rifle sound and screaming ! Any servers still surviving likely won't be populated depending on the time of day. I don't know where to buy this officially anymore, there must be some kind of rights issue going on for re-releasing it. Game Over, Man! Game Over!
Red Faction 2 - The building Destruction in this is really fun! Hitting friends with a giant hammer is satisfying too. There's a remastered version out but I've never tried it.
Strategy
Total War: WARHAMMER III - The Immortal Empires mode is really fun, warning though, there's a lot of DLCs, your favorite army or one you're interested in might be locked behind one.
VR
Pavlov VR - Awesome FPS, semi-realistic firearm operation with mod support!
Phasmophobia - Ever wanted to feel what it'd be a paranormal inspector, possibly scoping a place out to validate if the Real Ghostbusters should arrive or not?
Forewarned - A unique take on the Phasmophobia type game, Egyptian tomb themed, if you die you can come back as a good mummy to help friends or bad mummy to annoy friends!
VTOL VR - Semi-Sim Flight, Co-op, You can actually reach out and flip console controls / switches! It has VTOL, Jet and Helicopter vehicles.
Iron Wolf VR - Really amazing WWII Submarine co-op game, I really wish development could have continued but one of the lead developers has unfortunately passed away who was the best friend of the other dev. Tragic but they left behind something awesome for people to enjoy.
2D Mayhem
Duck Game - Pure madness, a 2D Shooter with Ducks, Crazy weaponry from a mind control gadget to a simple banana. Great online and even better if you can all get together in the same room to see everyone's reactions. Quack!
The following three games are meant for local / couch gameplay, but using steam remote play or parsec works.
Crawl - Really cool, it's a dungeon crawler except only one player is a human, the others are monsters. If a player monster kills the human, they take their place. The final boss's body is controlled by the monster players! You can choose a deity and set of monsters you might spawn as and upgrade them as you play and become more powerful.
Towerfall Ascension - 2D Archery combat game, really intense short matches, the mechanics are straightforward but hard to master.
Hidden in Plain site - Fun little party game, you try to blend in with a crowd of NPCs to achieve your goal or avoid being eliminated by other players.
I hope someone finds something new in this list, or perhaps some good memories.
It's funny, I feel like I've seen more GW2 players in the wild on the fediverse than I did on Reddit
What sorts of stuff do y'all do when you play? Most of my GW2 playing friends play endgame PvE so I'm curious how other people play the game together ^^
It really depends! Sometimes we're playing through story together (if there's new stuff out we haven't done yet), sometimes we'll be doing fractals (so technically endgame PvE), sometimes we'll go achievement hunting together or maybe farm if there's something we particularly need for something.
I've been considering trying PvP and/or WvW again, but I'm a little scared because I very much consider myself to be a casual player and I'm afraid I'd be holding my team back with my inexperience. :c
If you have any PvP questions, hit me up! I actually just finished grinding out Ascension last month and really enjoyed the process -- especially because i have a background in both fighting games and battlerite, which both translate somewhat well to guild wars, and I'm always happy to help someone learn :) And dont be afraid, that's what ranks are for! Even if someone gets mad at you for "holding them back" remember they're in that mmr bracket with you for a reason and they're just mad they're not playing to their own expectation, and it's not fair for you to hold yourself to some random person's standard :)
Mostly Rust, these days. However, we have played (and enjoyed) Valheim, Satisfactory, Raft, For the King and Heroes of the Storm. I want to get back to multiplayer Minecraft again though. Playing alone is getting old.
We met via tabletop RPGs and that's what we still do every two weeks but if we're hanging on Discord it's mainly Overwatch but also Wildermyth and Mech Warrior.
We go through phases. The game we will always return to when there's a new one is Monster Hunter, but we've played other games sporadically over the years. Most recently has been path of exile, which I normally get bored of relatively quickly but it's much more fun with friends.
How is Omega Strikers? I've had my eyes on it but it's not really my friends' type of game. I might play it on my own because I think it looks really cool.
Honestly I love it to bits. I was top 500 for a time in battlerite royale duos, so when it died I wanted a game that scratched that same itch that actually had a marketing push behind it so people would play it. Omega strikers isn't quite the same as battlerite, but it scratches a similar enough itch to where I've been really, really happy with my time with it. Played it in beta and just got obsessed lol
I will say it's not a game I can play for hours on hours like valorant, but I spend like an hour or two with it every few days and it's consistently fun. Biggest issue is cross play with mobile players and switch players means you're pretty likely to queue with like 11 year olds that don't know what they're doing, but cross play like that is a necessary evil to keep a game like this alive. It's super fun with friends though, I can't recommend it enough
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