Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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• randy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Started Into the Breach after getting it a few weeks ago in a Steam sale for less than $4. Excellent tactical gameplay with randomized encounters challenging enough that I haven’t successfully completed a run yet.

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  • Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gem of a game! I kinda 100%ed it. I like how the difficulty is fair, but can be extremely punishing - one wrong move can fck you up big time :D

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Picked up the previous game on sale and really liked it. This game is a major improvement on combat but a step backwards everywhere else IMO.

  (Spoilers?) You play half the game as Kasuga, the main character of the last game. The other half, you’re the main character of some of the older Yakuza games. I do not like this. I get in the groove with one party right as it forced me to the other for the next chapter.

  Also, a ton of the side quests for the other char are “remember this from the old games??”

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• viral.vegabond@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Playing art of rally, and charlie murder 😁

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• RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pokemon Blue using RetroArch on my phone. I got a gameboy color skin for the interface and laying in bed at night playing pokemon under the blanket makes me feel like a kid in the 90s again.

  Also ‘The Midnight Walk’. The atmosphere and art style are perfection.

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  • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been using RetroArch to replay Pokémon games on my phone recently too. I’m currently on SoulSilver. I actually haven’t run into any of the usual visual bugs with HGSS emulation (black spots, full black screen, etc) which has been great. Every other emulator I’ve used has had those bugs. Maybe I’ve just been lucky this time around but it is a known issue with all ROMs for HGSS for some reason.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Might I recommend Universal Pokémon Randomizer for your next play through?

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    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That actually looks like a lot of fun! I already know where to find everything so randomizing the entire game would make it feel fresh. Thank you for the suggestion!

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• Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I started playing a VR game called “mothergunship: forge” it’s a roguelike wave shooter that gives you a bunch of blocks to build insane weapons that grow crazier and crazier every room. I prefer to put everything on the left hand so it ends up looking like a tree full of connectors, guns, power-ups, hats and keys XD

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  • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That sounds awesome, though VR only is unfortunate. It sounds like something I’d play if I had the means. Looks really fun.

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• dkppunk@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am slowly working my way through Pokemon Sun on my 3DS. I found a copy of The Golden Compass based on the early 2000s movie and that may be my next one. Either that or TMNT, I played that one before but I really enjoyed it and wouldn’t mind a replay.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Natural Selection 2 is still an awesome game with a pratically unique gameplay. It’s an RTS/FPS hybrid with asymmetrical teams. It’s worth checking out if you can handle a bit of a learning curve.

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m going against my usual behaviour and playing multiple games at once this week. I’ve almost finished Ninja Gaiden 2 Black (White), and this will probably be my go-to way to experience NG2 going forward. It’s not quite the full ridiculousness of the original (and the added girl chapters from Sigma do kind of ruin the pacing and flow) but it just looks so good and plays so smooth at 120 FPS. With the fixes and additions from the White mod it comes close enough to a “best of both worlds” version to satisfy me, and I have enjoyed some of the Sigma inclusions like the Enma’s Fang greatsword weapon and the removal of the tunnel worm boss.

  Having finally received my package I also started on Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword that I’m playing on my N3DS. It was also Itagaki-designed and released between NGB and NG2. It’s a really interesting game, using the DS held in portrait mode like a book and the stylus as the only control input. It looks absolutely fantastic for a DS game, and the gameplay is surprisingly well translated from the mainline titles. It looks and feels just like a proper Ninja Gaiden title, with familiar animations and enemies and fast combat. It also has a fantastic Ninpo system where you draw the sign of the Ninpo you’re casting with the stylus, which is very fun so far. The only issue I’m having with it is constantly worrying that I’ll scratch the touchscreen from all the stylus use.

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Valkyria Chronicles 4. I often have a hard time enjoying Japanese titles. With a lot of them the characters look kinda weird, the pace is sluggish with a lot of unneccessary dialogue and the UI is clutteded. Decided to give this one a go anyway and while some of the mentioned tropes are very much present it still slaps because of the unique gameplay.

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