Planning to finish Dragon age 1 this week. I’m really looking forward to Clair Obscure but I’ll try to finish one RPG first
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by BurntWits@sh.itjust.works to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
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MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
nesc@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Do you plan on finishing expansion as well? How do you like the game so far?
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For me later parts of the game were underwhelming and railroaded, also following games made everything inconsequential and small-scale. It doesn’t help that lorewise every blight before was huge and took multiple years, sometimes decades to end. While you as a hero disadvantaged every possible way, country - sparsely populated, just 20 years after the last big war, already lost one huge battle, there is low-key civil war going on; circle of magi - broken half of the people dead; dwarfs - reluctant to help; elves - there is like ten of them. Yet my party wins. First time I’ve played, there was hope that in the end we would at best win some time at worst fail completely.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I’m planning on playing the whole series including the expansion for the first one. But my fingers are really itching for the other RPG and I don’t want to pressure me into playing the expansion. Better to play Clair Obscure in between and enjoy the expansion afterwards
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Streets of Rage on my little handheld emulator that I bought last week. I’d forgotten how long it’s been since I last played!
mohab@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
First game I ever beat in one day. Will always be the definitive belt scroller in my head.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
If you haven’t tried four yet, it is a fantastic revisit to the roots of the game.
InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
[deleted]peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Im down to playing that game against the comp, with liberal use of the pause button. Not the pvp of my younger days. But considering I borrowed and cracked it back then, and only paid for it the first time on steam some years ago, man that game has given me some great returns.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The new campaign missions seem a lot longer than what I remembered of the original campaigns. I like that they tutorials now give you some strategy, too.
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Concerned ape said he wouldn’t be updating SDV any more, or at least until haunted chocolatier was out, so I thought it’d be a good idea to dust off the old mod collection and start a new farm
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I just fell back into it a month or two ago. Be prepared for some interesting updates of you’ve been out of it for like a year.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Hes actually said the opposite. He doesn’t want to make a new SDV because adding onto it is addicting for him.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Ys X Nordics. Ys games really know how to craft adventures, definitely better than Ubisoft does, despite much smaller worlds these games are set in.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This one feels like a case of patient gaming backfiring on me. It took me a couple of years to finish Ys IX, but now that I’ve waited on this, I just want to hold out until Proud Nordics comes out.
fckreddit@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
The wait might be worth it. Since OG is already good, I am sure Proud Nordics actually might be better.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Nordics combat has no heft to me. I started Memories of Celtica(sp?) and the combat seems better in that. I think a couple decisions you make in Memories carries over to ys9 so i think I’m gonna do that next.
ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They Bleed Pixels. Tough as nails precision platformer with combat, and a gothic Lovecraftian aesthetic. Came out in 2012, but for some reason didn’t get as much attention as Super Meat Boy (2010)
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve been playing Planet Crafter quite a bit. It gives me the same vibes Subnautica did, just without any scary monsters. Love it to pieces
caut_R@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I‘ve been getting into Shadow of War.
I liked the first game more when I played it and I feel like I‘m constantly fighting the controls (don‘t jump there! don‘t drain that guy! what are you stuck on now?!), but it‘s fun regardless; and thanks to how bs gaming patents are, it‘s still very unique in the way it plays lol
any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I picked up Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (again, but I lost my save file, so I’m starting over).
It was that or Genealogy of the Holy War, but I’m going with the “easier” of the two first.TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Space Engineers while my new steamdeck downloads games. Balatro and Valhiem play great on it. Looking forward to Nier Automata.
anakin78z@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Playing Oblivion. I don’t remember liking it this much when I first played it way back when. And there’s a lot I don’t remember, so maybe I never got that far into it. I just discovered that the Daedra shrines give you crazy powerful magic items, so now I’m tracking all those down. Although I contacted vampirism during one of the missions, which is starting to suck.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Do you want a hint about vampirism that doesn’t give too much away?
anakin78z@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I ended up looking up how to cure it. I wasn’t having that much fun chasing a cure.
duchess@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow, great old-school point and click in the English countryside.
palmtrees2309@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Factorio snd Dead cells
lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I picked up portal 1 again, one of my favorite games. And then i also tried frostpunk a little. Seems cool but so far i suck at keeping the people warm
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Now I want to replay Portal 1 & 2 again. I have all the puzzles memorized a thousand times over at this point. Such good games.
Mirror’s Edge is also really fun. I’ve only played it once but think about it frequently. I’d like to play it again sometime.
lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I first got mirrors edge around the time it came out, but didnt play it much, think it was because of stability issues. Then ive always meant to play through it but never got around to.
And while you can only ever experience portal for the first time once, it is still fun to play thorugh again, especially if its some time ago and you dont remember how to solve everything.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Total War: Empire. I’ve previously played Rome 1/2, Medieval 1/2, and Atilla. For anyone who’s played other total war games, there are a couple of game mechanics that are new in Empire.
There are actual naval battles, where you put ships into a battle line, and you can board enemy ships. It’s cool but hard (for me) to control. Also many of the buildings in a territory aren’t located in the capital because it’s meant to represent colonial holdings, so you can have a sugar plantation or something outside the protection of a city, and a lot of the warfare ends up being small skirmishes sacking outlying buildings.
mohab@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Steam been threatening to decline my refund requests because I'm refunding too many games. Full text:
"Please note, that the Steam Refund Policy is not intended as a way to try out games for free. If we have reason to believe that the refund system is used in this manner, we may decline future refund requests."
So I'm sailing the high seas with a certain in-shape girl to try Slitterhead this weekend, wish me luck.
Funny part is: game has a demo, but it only covers basic combat, not the actual gameplay loop, which's more than that according to reviews and footage I watched, so I don't have enough information to make a call.
And to Steam: if you figure out a way to tag games properly and push for publishers to add long enough demos, I wouldn't be refunding too many games. Excuse me for not wanting to waste my money on games I'll never finish.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
“waste my money on games I’ll never finish.”
That’s most of their sales though
mohab@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
On Slitterhead, I'm more of a Gravity Rush Toyama fan than a Silent Hill/Siren one, so I'm hoping what horror fans disliked about the game will appeal to me. Combat was fun in the demo, but I need to experience the bodiless traversal in more open-environment scenarios to decide if I like it or not.
I also hope the tracking thing doesn't get in the way. It was a tad confusing in the demo. Seems like you need to interview NPCs too? I hope that doesn't end up screwing with the game's pace.
Y2K38@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Started playing “The Binding of Isaac”
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Og oblivion with a modified layout that works fairly well for steam deck. I just got lvl 17 and ran across my first glitch (land dreugh in the ceiling of a cave) and maybe my tenth crash. Soooo glad to say it’s running better than it ever did on my 360!
KhanLee@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I got sucked back into Warframe.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Recently modded my gba to have a laminated ips screen and over the past week I’ve dove into fire emblem advance wars and ff4
net00@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
[deleted]smokeymcpott@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I’ve been playing Bioshock Infinite lately and it’s really fun! (Except for the crashes in loading screens. Then I have to play the last part again)
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
I’ve managed to stall starting Act 3 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for an entire week. I’m in this position I get into sometimes with games where I completely avoid starting the final stretch of the story because I love the game so much that I just don’t want it to end. I’ve probably done every bit of side content at this point, vacuumed every optional area and explored every inch of the map - besides the last one I unlocked that starts Act 3 proper. I’m now grossly overleveled and overpowered for the main story, so much so that I need to work out ways to gimp myself to make the story bosses more impactful.
Anyway, the game is absolutely amazing and you should play it. It will make a very compelling case for Game of the Year, and it is certainly one of the best games I’ve played. I run out of superlatives when talking about this game, from the art direction to the story to the music and the voice acting (in both English and French, both are stellar!) to the combat and gameplay design, every piece that matters hits it out of the park.
Yes, you are some AA-jank every now and then. The lip syncing isn’t great. But you know what? None of it actually matters.
It’s a wonderful, wonderful game.
duchess@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I will probably play it, but this is not patient at all.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 weeks ago
I have confessed my sins previous weeks so I forgot about adding a disclaimer about the same game this week. You can’t be patient all the time, sometimes it’s fun to participate in the zeitgeist. This game is good enough to merit it, it’s not even a full price game to begin with and they even had a release week sale.
I’ll be back to the regularly scheduled programming soon enough. I have my Mankind Divided playthrough to return to and I have already installed F.E.A.R. as my next game.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’ve had the soundtrack on loop for weeks. It is so damn good. Lorien Testard really captured the feel of the world.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lJbuSXw4Bfo…
any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Probably the best soundtrack I’ve heard in a video game, period. He talks about composing for the game here (and likely in many other outlets).