I’m taking a break from my meds and thus I’m really struggling to enjoy a game a stay focused enough but i m trying moonring which is free on steam
Fire Emblem Engage. Only the third FE I’ve tried, I go back and forth on whether this series is for me. At this point, this one might be my favorite out of the ones I’ve played. The cast is really weird overall but I still quite like a few of them. I also like the character advancement and Engage systems. It’s fun to tinker with my party. The battles also seem to have less of the nonsense and more of the kind of strategy I like than in the others.
Never seen this thread before, but I’m playing Factorio right now. On next week’s thread, I will be playing Factorio as well. Same thing the week after. At this point it’s not really my choice to make anymore…
Cracktorio do be like that
I’m playing Disco Elysium on android and I gotta say I’m loving it. I couldn’t really get into it on PC but I’m enjoying everything about it here.
I need to take another look at that game. I loved the narrative design, and I thought the world was interesting, but I got stuck and lost and didn’t know how to get past the bouncer dude.
PEAK with friends, otherwise, grinding through Marvel Rivals ranked, and keeping up with Nikke. I was also getting through FF16, but put that down for a little.
Got 3 games I rotate now of which only 1 I haven’t played before.
Death Stranding: Finished it on the PS4 way back when and bought the PC director’s cut a long time ago but only recently picked it up again.
Cyberpunk 2077: Technically bought it day 1 but I am just now doing my first modded playthru.
Starfield: I am not a Bethesda fan so I was 0% hyped for this and only watched a lot of YouTube content about it. Randomly decided to pull the trigger recently tho. Completed the game vanilla first now I am doing a modded playthru and taking my time with it.
This one surprised me the most because I’m having fun and really enjoy my time with it. Funny thing is that most of the negative stuff mentioned about this game absolutely holds true, the game kinda ass. And Nasapunk is an oxymoron. But I’m a raccoon I enjoy trash. And if u shove 600 mods down Todd’s throat you actually get a really cool experience out of it.
Still wouldn’t recommend it tho.I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed the main story in Starfield. I normally don’t care at all about it in Beth games. Unfortunately, I was too disappointed by all the missed potential to keep up with it after that (which is just weird to type out, I think I went 200 hours in Skyrim before I decided to actually go through the story). The awful framerates I was getting really didn’t help, either.
Oh, and Starfield’s Neon is gonna look real bad side-by-side with Cyberpunk 2077. Oof.
I have somewhat similar thoughts on Starfield. I actually quite enjoyed my first playthrough of the game and wouldn’t mind playing it again, but I’m not sure I’d recommend it to someone. I thought the ship building was pretty good, and was probably my favourite part of the game, and playing through the main quest and major side quests were fun too, but beyond the clearly written out stuff there’s a lot of nothing. It’s the kind of game I’d have several shorter playthroughs of, spread out across a considerable period of time, rather than one or two really long ones or many back to back. I’m glad I played the game, and I’m glad I have it available to play again, but it’s certainly not a perfect game by a long shot and deserves its criticism. The criticism just doesn’t bother me as much as it bothers other people.
Farcry Primal. Saw it was on sale recently, so I decided to snag it. It’s not bad so far and a fun setting to mess around in. Works with my linux setup and steam deck.
How high can you go in the settings while still getting 55-60 fps at native res on the Deck?
I run it at normal (medium) quality and generally get a consistent 60 fps. Anything above that and it starts to dip into the 40s.
Im playing gta 3 on ps2. Nice nostalgia trip but the story telling is kinda dated especislly since gta 4 was my first real playtheough of a gta game back in the days and that has great story telling (and the protagonist even talks!!!)
This week end an old buddy of mine is visiting and we will probably be picking up some old gc and ps2 titles.
Also had some more fun on my wow private server.
If you get a chance, you should definitely check out Kinetica for the PS2 if you can get your hands on it, a great racing game and perfect for couch co-op!
I second the Kinetica recommendation. It’s an amazing arcade-style racing game that will have people look at you like you’re crazy if you try to describe it to them (racers wear skintight suits and strap rollerblades to their limbs and use themselves as the vehicles).
It feels a lot like F-Zero for those familiar.
Thanks for the tip!
I’m working through Act 3 (Lawful route) of Tactics Ogre Reborn. It was getting a bit challenging, until I tried crafting to get +1 weapons and armor.
EVO The Search For Eden
Classic. Gorgeous soundtrack, too. I remember as a kid (pre-Internet) actually calling up the store because I couldn’t figure out how to save the game 😂
Is it worth the time?
I think it’s a great game. I always enjoy playing. I only recently found out people think this game is janky and plays poorly! so ymmv I guess.
I reckon each era you can finish in 30 - 45 minutes, repeat 5 times.
Use emulator save states and you can break it up pretty easily.
Assassin‘s Creed Unity
I‘ve complained it the past about Shadow of War that I felt like I had to fight Talon to get him to go where I want him to. Now that I’m close to 100%ing ACU, I want to apologize to Talon cause ACU has the most sluggish, slow, and imprecise movement I‘ve ever wrestled with in these kinda games. Really made me realize how good I had it in Shadow of War lol. Every enemy just screaming at me on sight for no reason and tryna pick a fight with me when there‘s 50 people around me is also getting annoying. I think I love these games mainly for their sight-seeing and podcast side-activity capabilities now (collecathon). And revolutionary Paris is definitely a good sight-seeing location.
DiRT Rally 2.0
I‘m more of an arcade racer fan, but I‘m trying to challenge myself a bit with this one. I sometimes don‘t understand why I‘m spinning out, but I‘m hanging in there. The goal is another 100%, we‘ll see how far I can go! It‘s a pretty good rally simulation game, for anyone who doesn‘t know. It‘s also dirt cheap (hah).
Octopath Traveler
Hardly playing it atm but man, the theme song speaks to me, what a good piece. I‘m done with all chapter 1s, currently following a guide to pick up the missables before I go into the next chapters. There‘s something cozy about voiced pixel graphics JRPG storytelling to me. To anyone who‘s never heard of this game: Imagine old Final Fantasy titles, still pixel graphics, still turn-based, but with a few modern twists and the graphics pop out like a children picture book with modern effects. Full 60 at native res at max graphics on the Deck.
Just started Gran Turismo 4 carreer got my b licence but man i suck hard in this game
Tetris Party for the Wii
Blast Off for the PSP
Both emulated on a Retroid Pocket 4 Pro. Just been getting into emulation properly over the past few months and I’ve been loving playing retro games.
I’ve been playing Conan Exiles, a survival crafting game that’s been out for several years but still receives regular major updates.
It’s a bit generic - there’s little I haven’t already seen in another survival game - but it’s more polished than most due to having a major developer behind it. There’s a lot of content, bespoke animations for nearly every weapon, and the base building is a delight. Exploration is also great due to diverse biomes and the game’s climbing system, which also lets you grab the wall while falling and slowly slide to a halt - this looks and feels great and turns avoiding falling damage from a headache into a cinematic moment. It’s not parkour, but it tugs the same strings.
The game has an unfortunate tendency to crash when messing with companion inventories, though that may be due to a Steam Workshop mod I’m using (one I can’t bring myself to remove because it makes inventory and companion management so much easier). Aside from that hiccup - which only triggers once every few hours, which is tolerable for me - and knocked out enemies occasionally falling through the ground (you need to drag them back to your base to recruit them as NPCs), the game has been rock-solid.
I’m somewhat tempted to buy the new Dune game by the same devs, but I’ve heard mixed things about the solo experience.
I second this as a sandbox builder game. Self hosted a server and played with my wife for a few months. I feel like I barely scratched the full content of the game. Base building and taming/companions really is a delight. Especially building a full fortress with all the “staff” for the crafting stations.
The quality of life features around base building are sublime. Being able to upgrade structures in-place and freely move stations and chests around has ruined most other base building games for me. Inventory management and crafting aren’t great, but I can count on one hand the number of games that do those right (and at least there are mods to fix the worst of it).
The one thing I dislike about companions is how many bad ones you end up with. Especially with taming - a 20-30% chance at best of raising an elite tame means my bases are littered with regular hyenas/bears/rhinos who wouldn’t survive if they accompanied me. And I’m only just now leaving the desert - I can only imagine how many reject animals I’ll have by endgame!
Luckily with humans you can see what class and level they are before deciding to capture them, and there’s a dungeon filled with medium-tier recruits right in the starting area. It’s nice that making a full working base isn’t restricted to late game like it is in other games.
Pikmin 2
I’ve mostly played on the Switch this past 2 weeks as my kids have taken over everything else…
Also a bit of Outrun, Circuit Superstars and Absolute Drift.
Pikmin 2
How do you feel about removing the time limit?
