Submitted 1 year ago by quinten@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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!
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Hi all, I’m Nailbar, and I am now a Subnautica addict.
Hi Nailbar.
Just finished that! It was fun, but also really stressful, especially earlier on. The map was also super confusing at times.
I’ve tried 10-15 times to finish it on hardcore mode. The most recent time, I was killed by a warper bringing up my last load from the lost river trying to finish the rocket and I literally can’t any more.
I’m 60 hours deep into Balders Gate 3 so I’ve been trying to chill out and not play until full release next week. Ive been having a lot of fun with Dave the Diver in the meantime.
I took a break from BG because I didn’t want to get burned out on the starting area. Really looking forward to the release.
The struggle is so very real.
I play a weekly dnd session. I’ve been playing for almost 7 years. I thought I’d check out baldurs gate. I got absolutely bodied in the first encounter.
I learned 2 things; my DM is very kind and wants us all to have fun, baldurs gate is not kind and is coldly indifferent to my concept of fun.
I’m exaggerating a bit, but it was tougher than I thought. Saving helps a lot. I’m sure I wouldn’t have gotten wrecked right away if I planned better.
Do you mean the original Baldurs Gate or Baldurs Gate 3, the upcoming one?
I just got Tears of the Kingdom. I was able to go in completely blind (other than knowing what the main powers are) and hooooly shit it’s amazing.
If Breath of the Wild was inspired by Zelda 1, this game is the Link to the Past version.
It was so hard to dodge spoilers! I also went in mostly blind, and it’s been pure joy. But also… feeling a bit overwhelmed! There’s SO MUCH to explore and do, and I have serious anxiety that I’m going to miss things or forget to go back somewhere.
Yeah I feel that. I just assume I’m going to miss stuff and go with it.
I am constantly amazed how much there is to explore. The world is so freaking huge with so many layers. I’ve been in little areas thinking “I’ll just check this out for a second” and an hour later I’m still seeing what’s around the corner in that area.
I’m trying to play the lastest Duviri Paradox in Warframe, but man this is such a boring slog. Imagine if you took the most horrible clunky combat from the Soulsborne games and combined it with the most infuriatingly random roguelike RNG, and then you added the most insane grind to it in order to make your character not instantly die from the weakest of enemies.
Needless to say, I do love Warframe, but by the gods I thoroughly hate the Duviri Paradox with a passion I usually just reserve for Soulsborne games.
That’s funny, Warframe definitely has a grind to it, but I remember the combat being a joy with excellent flow. (I haven’t played in like 8 years so take that with a grain of salt)
Why do you play it if you don’t like it?
I recently set up a private Valheim server for me and a friend. So far it's great fun. We just made it to the mountains tier. It's a bit grindy, but a very fun and relaxed grind.
I am hopelessly addicted to Battlebit Remastered
I’m still on Death Stranding like last week. I can’t get enough of this game, though I wish the Director’s Cut version was available on Game Pass
Just finished my second play through a couple weeks ago, what an incredibly unique game. The balance system almost felt like a rhythm game to me, really makes me hope it inspires other similar games. This was my first time on directors cut, I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of bonus content. Definitely worth playing if it ever goes on a big sale or gamepass.
I just finished Directors Cut and currently trying to 100% it. Just can’t get enough of it! What’s the difference between DC and the original release?
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A play though of Baldur's Gate 1 while I wait for the 3rd one to release.
Hades it turns is quite beatable with a bow even if your reflexes are not great. And Control for whne i need more chill.
And for some reason I cannot kick my decade long Nhl habit.
Hades is literally my favorite game of all time. I used to pass on rougelikes and other “hard” games, but decided to try it out after hearing about how it was pretty good.
I got it on my switch and got hooked. I loved it so much. It got me into challenging games. I’m even dabbling in soulslikes now.
I bought it on my PC when I upgraded. I wanted to support the devs, so I bought it for my brother and two other friends. I even bought it for a stranger I met a party because it was on sale.
Recently I started playing Darkest Dungeon again. Such a great game but sometimes it will break your heart.
It’s such a depressing game. I can only ever play it in small doses
Sometimes everything is going great and then it all falls apart. I recently took on Vvulf for the first time and had a TPK with all of my highest level characters losing all of my legendary items. At that point I just rage quit and decided to start a new game on radiant because apparently I can’t handle darkest mode.
Darkest Dungeons really hits it out of the park with its atmosphere and themes. I probably would have ragequit a few times if it weren’t for the near perfect presentation.
Jagged Alliance 3. I loved JA2 1.13 to death, and while JA3 kinda pales in comparison so far, I do love the fresh content. Hope modding will take off for it.
I’ve been running through Into the Radius. It’s in the easily top 3 VR games for me, it’s does a incredible job at immersing you into the world which is basically like Stalker. Coming back from harder missions I’ve felt mentally exhausted just from how stressful it can get. But that stress is so addictive.
Stardew valley and mini motorways. Recently finished hue which is a nice little puzzle game. Still need to finish just cause 3
I finally finished Final Fantasy VI yesterday (a ROM-hack of the SNES original).
Bring a long game, and having already played for 15 hours before losing my progress and starting again, it was a very full-on experience.
Cult of the Lamb. I beat it back in November but picked it up again after the developers added a lot. I’ve been enjoying my replay. The new additions and changes fixed some of the things that annoyed me on my first playthrough.
I just started with Cassette Beasts, as it was finally on sale on Switch and I cannot get myself to play a Pokemon game on anything but a portable console. Just feels wrong.
It is… the strictly better Pokemon game, as people told me it’d be. I keep looking for issues compared to the classic games, but no, they did it all slightly~notably better. And wow is the soundtrack fantastic. And wow is the theming incredibly well done, with the walkman as the battle menu as the cherry on top.
Highly recommended. I cannot say much about the story so far, but what I’ve seen is indeed interesting.
Have you tried any of the other Pokémon clones? I’d be interested to hear how you think it stacks up to some of the others. I tried a few, and none really captured what I wanted. I thought Cassette Beasts looked pretty cool style-wise so it was somewhat on my radar.
I was on E2M6 before work got extremely hectic and I put it on pause for a while. Now that I’m finally getting back to it, I love it so much. To extend my playthrough, I’m playing it how I play classic Doom: Boltgun Start Only; No Saves (death means I start the whole level over), and Exterminatus difficulty. It’s gotten challenging but I love the mastery that comes from playing a map from the beginning again.
I’ve been slowly playing through Vampire Survivors again with each hero only using their starting weapon. I did the lightning ring dude on the first map the last time. Only barely made it to 30 minutes with that one.
Dave The Diver.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I remember picking it up when it was new but I didn’t have the time to really get into it, plus the first chapter is very slow, so I didn’t give it a proper chance and put it away. I’m very glad I gave it another shot though, because it’s such a good game. I’m almost finished the second camper now I think.
I picked it up on Xbox back when it was released, because I liked the first one a lot. It was one of the biggest gaming regrets I’ve ever made. It is so goddamn tedious.
Like, I get why it’s that way. It’s the reason it’s popular. It’s all about the attention to detail and a semblance of realism, but holy shit do I hate it.
I got my first perfect bear skin and was pretty jazzed about it. On my way back to camp I got attacked by a mountain lion, sending me, my horse, and the skin down a hill. I only found my horse.
Maybe I did something wrong, but I’ve never been more upset at a videogame in my life.
This game is just so massive and definitely has a flow of its own. At some point, I just had to push through the main campaign, otherwise I woul’ve never seen the end of it. Maybe one day I’ll come back to dig the side activities.
Battlebit and Trackmania mostly right now
Still just playing *Team Fortress 2. This is how it usually goes with me; I pick one or two games at a time and play em into the ground. Relearning how to play Scout, which I was never very good at to begin with. Takes a lot of twitchy reflexes and quick reaction time, even moreso than the other classes except perhaps Sniper when flick-shotting.
I’m playing some old school Black Ops II Zombies with some friends. Buried is such a great zombie map!
Trackmania! I’m trying to get better and I’ve been playing for the past few months, I have mostly silvers on the summer campaign now!
Dying light 2. Second time playing through, going for the “good” ending this time.
Sea of thieves and battlebit
How is Sea of Thieves these days? Always been curious if I should convince the group to pick it up.
Remnant 2, I usually don’t play games on release but I had to make an exception for this one, it’s so good.
I am waiting for Baldurs Gate 3 to release and in the meantime I was just staring at my screen buuuut just got the word that both of the Zelda Oracle games are now on Switch Online or whatever it is called, so that is how I will spend my weekend:))
Woodstock@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Playing outer wilds for the first time. I’m kinda stuck but I don’t want to look up a guide in case I see spoilers!
JakenVeina@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I dunno if the community’s migrated or is still over on reddit, but /r/outerwilds was always good for gentle hints, for those who want them.
I don’t know if I’ve seen anyone yet who QUITE got all the puzzles in their own. Some of them are a RIGHT bitch, so don’t feel too bad if you need to get a little bit of help.
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Looks like there’s a small one at !outerwilds@lemmy.world - not much content yet, but so it is while the instance has its initial growth.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I used a walkthrough right at the very end. The final bit is time sensitive so I was mostly just confirming that I knew what to do and didn’t have to repeat it.
CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Me too! I’ve already had to search for some very specific things so far. I’ve been trying to avoid a guide, but I’m not sure how much longer I can put it off. It’s just very boring to have to head back to places if I get something time sensitive wrong. I’ll probably stick with it, but it hasn’t been keeping my interest as well as I hoped. It just feels like I’m repeating myself a lot and that’s really boring.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Man I want to get into that game so much, but I just can’t handle the controls. I understand them, and I appreciate that they actually have that type of system in the game… But I’m fighting the ship far more than I’m playing the game.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It plays a lot better with a gamepad. I bounced off it the first time I tried and then the second time I played it on my Steam Deck and got so sucked in that I finished it in a couple of days
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Try doing something else for a while, go see other planets, other leads you’ve been following. A lot of places I thought I was stuck in I later realized it was a part of a different puzzle elsewhere in the game.
Where are you stuck?
Last piece of advice, don’t give up on the game. It’s one of those games where you’ll be glad you finished it.