Everspace once I’m back from my holidays abroad.
It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?
Submitted 3 months ago by cod@lemmy.world to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 3 months ago
Artyom@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Make sure to get the encounters dlc, it improves the main game experience, and make sure to prioritize Tareen’s tasks, they take forever.
GriffinClaw@lemm.ee 3 months ago
On one hand, I really want to continue of Ghost of Tsushima.
On the other hand, I have Genshin Impact installed that Ive been meaning to try (reddit and my younger sister tell me its easily possible to do all but the highest level stuff without spending any money, and even said content is still doable with skill).
Though in the end, Ill probably default to Stardew Valley 😂
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Give Genshin a try, but be warned in advance that they have an “energy” system that determines how much actual gameplay you’ll get to enjoy. It refreshes every 12 hours (without paid boosters), but iirc, they give you some freebie energy boosts in the beginning to get you hooked.
As pretty as the game is, the hours of grind needed to make progress on leveling your characters and gear, and the relative lack of content when your energy gauge is refreshing, made me leave (someone will point out quests, but once those are done, they’re done, and you’ll still need to grind on top of that).
But there’s people who still love it. Maybe you will, too.
GriffinClaw@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Huh, chances are I actually might.
I have serious issues running a game to the ground (aka, obsessively play just one game) before moving on, especially large games. (I WANT to enjoy them. I also want enjoy everything else in the game. End up burned out by the final boss. )
Been trying to pace myself with Stardew, and been successful do far, but I was looking for something switch up with Stardew. This just might be it.
Thanks for the heads up!
cabhan@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I bought Ghost of Tsushima in one of the recent sales, and I’ve been enjoying it a great deal, so I’ll likely be joining you there.
IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Take this as lemmy also joining reddit and your sister in saying that all of genshin’s exploration and quests are super casual and free to play characters can easily do them.
The only thing hard to do while f2p are two endgame dungeons that change monthly. But these two endgame dungeons have nothing to do with any main or side quests and you can completely ignore them if you want.
GriffinClaw@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Roger, thanks for the info!
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
No Man’s Sky for sure will be one I play a lot. I also need an Arceus, so I am going to have to get Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, or Shining Pearl.
quirzle@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Been on an rpg kick. Tyranny, then the Pillars of Eternity games are up next.
DiMa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’ve just got sifu from egs and will probably get either dreadhunter or windblown somewhere down the line. Along with regular runs on Dead Cells that I’m deeply addicted to.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I’m trying something new to me: Skyrim.
cod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s my most played game by a large margin, I used to be completely obsessed with it for years
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
How many hours do you have in it? I’m just getting started and I’m barely out of the tutorial, looking for food to survive.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 months ago
At some point, probably after my steam deck is fixed, I’m gonna have to start Psychonauts. It’s been sitting in my steam library for a while and I’m positive a steam deck would be able to play through it just fine, and better than both my desktop and laptop.
donio@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you know if the controls still require tweaks or does it work out of the box these days?
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Absolutely no clue. I have yet to even install it even once since buying it, but definitely plan on changing that this year.
shiroininja@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m currently playing echoes of wisdom and elder scrolls: oblivion.
Although I drunkenly played GTA4 while listening to early 2000s crunk rap in memory of it being 25 years since 2000
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
next get drunk and play oblivion while listening to young scrolls
ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve just recently started playing through Wasteland 3. Been trying to start up Civ VI, but it appears as though Steam has broken it on my Mac, so I will need an alternative alternative. Maybe something from my Epic or GOG library, so my kids don’t leave me out of luck when they want to use the Steam library, too.
SteveNashFan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fallout New Vegas, finally getting around to playing it!
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I played it this time of year last year, also first time. It’s pretty solid, much better than FO3 which felt too shallow…
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How? Did you dig an old PC out of storage?
I can’t get New Vegas to run on a modern PC without it constantly crashing, even when with the fan patches and mods that supposedly allow it to work on newer PCs. Please share your secrets.
rbos@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It runs perfectly under Proton via the Steam runtime for me. Genuinely- maybe try Linux?
SteveNashFan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I bought it on GOG and it worked out of the box, but I might just be lucky.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Returned to Elite Dangerous after an almost two year break. Just casually space trucking to grind out some credits while watching youtube. Once I get enough to outfit one or two new ships, I plan to finally give exploration/exobiology a try, and check out the changes to the engineering grind.
When I last played, I was kind of at the end of what I’d consider “early game”, but there are a decent amount of learning cliffs. Should probably practice some of the other low level content again before moving on.
One of my cousins asked for the game for Christmas and I picked it up on sale for him, so I’m hoping we can play some together at some point.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Amusingly, I tried X4 recently, and it’s a MUCH better fit for me than Elite, mostly because I loathe MMO games that don’t need to be MMO games.
inlandempire@jlai.lu 3 months ago
I finally decided to go further than the elevator in MGS, so probably that, and hopefully follow up with the whole franchise (i only played mgs5 for about 5 hours).
I also started playing Black Book, interesting deck building game !
hisao@ani.social 3 months ago
Played some Doom 2 (halfway through Deck the Underhalls) today, gonna play Skyrim now (started new playthrough few weeks ago). After finishing Underhalls I’m gonna proceed to play even more Doom, and after finishing Skyrim I definitely wanna play more Morrowind, some big things released recently [1] [2].
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It always saddens me that Bethesda totally derailed past Morrowind. That was a masterpiece of a game, but ever since then it’s all just plain worse, dumbed down experience. Don’t get me wrong I still kind of like Oblivion, it’s not a bad game, but compared to Morrowind it’s just piece of shit. Haven’t even tried Skyrim as I fear it’s even more streamlined “experience for average Joe”…
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
What I miss about Morrowind was how unconcerned it was with being weird as fuck, it isn’t that Oblivion or Skyrim are bad it is just they feel like they got a crew cut and a Linkedin and I am like no!?! why did you sterilize all the most interesting parts of yourself even though I know why, it was a career decision.
Mac@mander.xyz 3 months ago
How to spot a Morrowind player: lol
FippleStone@aussie.zone 3 months ago
It certInly is, it feels very hollow and empty compared to earlier games. I feel that it marks the beginning of the end for Bethesda, it was a pretty steep decline from there.
kuroshido@ani.social 3 months ago
Just started on the Witcher series. Went pretty cheap on the steam winter sale. Looking forward to it.
Dutczar@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
In order, from the first? I have only played W3, but I do have the classics on the backlog, or at least W2.
kuroshido@ani.social 3 months ago
Yea I held out on 3 until I could get 1&2 so I can get the whole story.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Dishonoured, Uncharted Collection
cod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I love Dishonored. Never played the Uncharted games but they look fun
quinkin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Dredge, Disco Elysium and Mines of Moria
lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Of newer games i am considering super mario bros wonder or tears of the kingdom. But i also never played metroid prime (had it on gc but hated the controls) - just not sure if i want to play it on wii (i liked corruption controls) or the remastered version om switch.
Ill probably also start a ds game i never got to play in parallel.
Maybe uncharted on ps3? Never playes those. As you can see i have not yet decided :p
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you have a pc/steamdeck there is a metroid prime hack pack that gives you more standard joystick controls for all three games. I’d recommend playing that way.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
How do you get that setup? My steamed is mostly stock now.
minyakcurry@monyet.cc 3 months ago
Wonder is alright, but felt really short to me. TOTK on the other hand is an amazing mess that really hurts if you loved BOTW. Pick your poison with those two, I guess. Wonder does have a “challenge road” at the end, but it didn’t feel great either.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, both are okay in my book. Wonder spent to much time on the “wonders” that the platforming is just okay. And TOTK is just a more grindy BOTW.
BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I just installed MGS5 and Ground Zeros. Having never played a Metal Gear game, so I might hate it but I want to try.
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s a crazy one to start with but it’s also a very good game.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I finally got to Pillars of Eternity. (Not very surprisingly) It gives me strong Baldurs Gate 1 vibes, and it is pretty good so far.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 months ago
Still on poe2 for now. Over 250 hours in by now and don’t feel like stopping any time soon. I took time off from work when it launched and I’m getting back tomorrow so will have to learn how to balance the two now.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
The binding of Isaac.
There’s a bug update I’ve heard and I want to go back to see how it goes.
donio@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Same here. I finished last year by beating Mega Satan for the first time and starting the new year with some more Isaac.
mogranja@lemmy.eco.br 3 months ago
I’m currently playing Fire Emblem: three houses, restarted it last month and intend to finish it this year. Iight finish echoes of wisdom first, since it’s shorter.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Elden Ring’s expansion! I failed the tree boss multiple times, with help.
Noe, Class of ‘09: the Re-Up!
cod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Good luck! I absolutely loved SotE
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
It’s so hard! I love it.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Make sure that’s the last class of 09 game you play. Do not. Play Flip side.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Ahhhh I’m so sad to hear the third game isn’t good, especially after the hilarious short anime episode. I will still play it but my expectations are set hahaha
Voytrekk@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Started playing Horizon Forbidden West again on my Christmas vacation. I put it down after completing the first area, but have some renewed interest.
I am also finishing up Death’s Door on my Steam Deck, which is a great little game.
I am also going to try something I did in the past to help get me through some games. I’m going to set a goal of completing 2 games a month. The biggest issue in the past was not putting down games that weren’t interesting me enough. I have the free time, just need that extra motivation.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Forbidden west is great with adding complexity and new weapons and tools as you go. I lost steam after just starting the expansion but I played it a ton in a short time. I think its better on pc with mouse and keyboard as well.
BertramDitore@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Finally grabbed a copy of Sekiro, and though I’ve never been much of a fan of uncompromisingly punishing games, I’m optimistic that this will be the one that gets me there.
Haven’t started it yet, so it’s possible, if not likely that it’s going to kick my ass.
minyakcurry@monyet.cc 3 months ago
Sekiro is awesome! I really hope you enjoy it. If you feel stuck, just watch fightincowboy’s guides on youtube. It helps to view the fights from a calmer perspective – it’s better imo for learning patterns than throwing yourself over and over again at a boss.
BertramDitore@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Thanks! That’s good advice. Even in easier games I always have to stop and remind myself to chill and figure out the pattern. And whenever I do, it’s much more manageable and ultimately more fun.
CaptainPieces@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’m not sure yet, tangentially related but is there a community to get gaming suggestions here?
cod@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I doubt it, but you could always make a post here and you’ll get some responses I’m sure. Folks here are very good at answering questions
roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I am a few hours into Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The first couple hours were unfortunately spent troubleshooting, so my overall impression is less good than Human Revolution, but now I’m picking up good speed on it.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Enjoy it for the gameplay since the story ends in a cliffhanger for a Part 3 that will never be made. ;_;
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve got Pentiment and Persona 5 ready to go. I’ll probably start Pentiment first since it’s undoubtedly shorter.
Balatro looks really tempting, too, but I’d want that for my laptop or phone (?) and not my gaming PC.atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Spiritfall. Got it during the steam sale and I’m interested but haven’t played yet. Looks like a lot of fun.
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Making a second attempt to get into Mass Effect for the first time, at least until Hades 2 gets out of early access or MH Wilds comes out
shift_four@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Play the Legendary Edition if you can. Assuming you’re starting with the first game, there are massive quality of life improvements in that one.
FippleStone@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I get why most people prefer the legendary remaster of the first game to the original, but I would have liked it if they’d carried a lot of the design and narative choices into the sequels. EA bought Bioware in 2007, and I think it shows, but I love jank so perhaps I’m not the most impartial judge.
AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
That is indeed the version I got on an absolutely cracking sale