It's actually nuts how much there is to do in TOTK. I'm now 80 hours in and I've done 1 temple. I had finished BOTW by this time... although, I am trying to explore more this time instead of just going straight to the storyline.
It's actually nuts how much there is to do in TOTK. I'm now 80 hours in and I've done 1 temple. I had finished BOTW by this time... although, I am trying to explore more this time instead of just going straight to the storyline.
No idea what my gameplay time is but I’ve been doing this same. I’ve done one temple but am spending the rest of the time exploring and unlocking the map. Constantly getting side tracked by all the interesting little things.
Mhmm, I feel you. I don't want to touch it before I completed Breath of the Wild. But I'm already getting spoiled with the crazy things you can build. Then again, I'm not exactly making a big effort to stay in the dark aside from averting my eyes as soon as anything Tears of the Kingdom related pops up hah
I accidentally got spoiled today from a meme that was posted on Reddit about TotK. Not a huge deal as I had just figured out part of it today before seeing it. I have to watch those spoiler tags more closely!
I finally found a way to end my inability to stop playing WoW after 18+ years of it. I didn't consider myself "addicted" - as I am able to maintain career & family, it was more about it meant I didn't play any other game. I ended the issue by requesting a "private information removal" - which hard-deletes every aspect of your entire battle.net account. Gone. 13,000 hours and it feels great. I also don't feel like I "lost" anything. When you see a 2 hour movie, but then you leave the theatre when it's over - do you regret spending 2 hours? No, you don't.
AAAAnd the very next act I took was to make a new Battle.net account to play Diablo4. The wheel of time, and all.
In other thoughts, I don't expect D4 to be forever, and I look forward to smaller/indie games on Steam. Looks like I need to try Dwarf Fortress, RimWorld, and others.
That's a mind-boggling amount of hours you put into WoW. I haven't been really connecting to an MMO for the past couple years. At the moment, I'm playing Star Wars Galaxies again, but I'm only semi-casually logging in to craft a few things to sell on my vendor and then have two or so hours of RP before logging off again.
For RimWorld at least, I can assure you that it's a lovely time-sink! And while it sucks to lose your little pixel people, allowing your colony to include death and tragedy makes for much more interesting stories.
SWG Legends. Not just because it has the largest playerbase but also because I prefer the type and amount of content that came with/after the Combat Update and NGE. The skill system from pre-CU was really awesome though!
I just got back from an arcade bar, where I played a bunch of retro games like Frogger, Q-Bert, Tetris, Street Fighter II, you get the vibe.
It's so fascinating playing these old cornerstones of the gaming industry and thinking of how much video games have morphed over their history. The first thing that comes to mind is how the way we think of gameplay has completely changed; these old arcade cabinets have very simple but entirely unforgiving mechanics, whereas nowadays I feel like I need two tutorials and a read-through of a manual before I can approach a game, but once you get the hang of a game's particularities stuff gets easier in a way?
Like, the premise of Frogger is exceedingly simple; cross the street without getting killed. The challenge comes from the mechanics. Stuff gets faster, things are more hectic, you have less time to calculate your next move.
Whereas modern game mechanics are kinda smoothed out. There are less pixel-perfect maneuvers and places where timing is important, there's a bigger emphasis on exploration, figuring things out, interacting with the game world. Like just think of the differences between the original Super Mario Bros' gameplay and say Super Mario Odyssey. I'm not saying one style is better than the other, I definitely enjoy both retro and modern games, but the different priorities as preferences and technology evolved over time are immensely fascinating to me.
Another reason why games don't necessarily have obstacles that require pixel perfect maneuevers, is that you no longer need to throw a coin into the machine every time you die.
That said, yeah, I recently watched a video essay on the first Wing Commander and it must have been so crazy back then because there wasn't anything quite like it, if I remember correctly.
You brought up a deep memory of watching these two guys playing House Of The Dead in an arcade back in the day. It was a difficult as nails light gun shooter, and these guys were further into the game than I’d ever seen anybody get. There were areas and enemies I’d never even heard of on the screen. I was part of a small crowd that stopped playing our own games to watch the spectacle.
Games designed to eat your money deserve to be gone, but still I can’t deny what a spectacle they could be.
I know exactly what you mean. Got into Atari 2600 games a year ago, and it feels like an entirely different universe compared to modern games
I am paradoxically okay with winding up paying to be a beta tester! ...if it's for a tiny indie studio doing something weird, interesting, and experimental where I can join a Discord and talk to people about it. That's a fun experience. To hell with paying a major corporation for the privilege of being any form of sucker.
99% of people just dont care unfortunately, preorders, microtransactions seeping into everything, all these new games coming out unfinished and buggy, knowing that most people will buy them regardless of how bad they run.
People will join the bandwagon saying a game is bad then buy it a day later too i noticed
It feels almost petty to mention, but my main problem with gaming these days is choice... there's just too much. I have a SteamDeck packed with over a decade of Humble Bundles and giveaways. I have a MiSTer FPGA with 10,000 retro games. I have subscriptions throwing me more games in a month than I could play in a year... and amid all that choice, I found I was playing none of it.
So I've taken steps. On retro devices, I've taken to removing the full ROM sets (or hiding them from view) and just selecting a handful of games that I used to own, or definitely want to play. In Steam, I've started a collection list of games I'm interested in and I only ever pick from that.
And, somehow, it works. Seeing only three or four games to choose from somehow short circuits that panic response of seeing three or four thousand. It's easier to fixate on a game, or to find something to genuinely enjoy about a title that may not be that perfect experience otherwise, rather than discarding it quickly and moving on to the next fleeting thrill.
The main problem when having too many games is that just a bit of frustration can be enough to have me switch to a different one so in a sense never going very far on any of those titles. Very frustrating.
Mhmm I feel that problem. My unintentional solution was that my additional 2TB drive died and I was reduced to 2TB disk space in total (so about 1,5TB usable for games). Literally having to uninstall one or two games if I had a spur of "Oh I could quickly (relatively speaking, as it would also have to install and update) start Red Dead 2 again" keeps me from jumping from game to game constantly.
I'm feeling frustrated by games that don't respect my time. Don't play the same 30s animation every time I perform a minor action that I'm required to perform 10s or 100s of times, often in quick succession. At least have a skip button at a minimum!
Also, give me all of the information I need to make informed decisions, and make them intuitive!
The mandatory “immersive” animations are such a pain. Sure it might unrealistic that clicking a button teleports all the equipment from a dead guy into my inventory, but I am far more reminded I’m playing a video game if I’m forced to sit through a canned animation of digging through a dead guy’s pockets every single time I loot.
I saw the long animations as a constant criticism of Red Dead Redemption 2, and when I finally played the game... it was not nearly as aggravating as I thought it would be.
Maybe it's because people on the internet often blow things out of proportion, but considering the amount of immense detail every single facet of the game has, it gives you the time to appreciate everything, and to me RDR2 feels less like just another videogame and more like a unique experience unlike any other.
I feel super stagnated when it comes to games anymore. I still want to play but I only ever seem to play the same 2 games which are positively ancient now. I have tried to chip away at my backlog, but I will play for one night and then go right back to my comfy games even if I enjoyed it. Then if I want to try again I have to start over from scratch because too much time will have passed and I can't remember the controls or what I was doing, so it's back to the comfy games again because at least I won't get frustrated.
Maybe I need to try some very short games or something? But also maybe I am just being too picky! I look for things that I think would scratch the same itch as my comfy games but haven't found anything that gets close enough (yet!). I just want to have fun why do I have to make this so difficult?! >_<
I'm stuck in that same kind of gaming rut, I think it's because dealing with "being an adult with responsibilities" is a lot more stress than when I first started gaming as a kid. My brain just does not want to learn a new system of rules, and I end up quitting new games halfway through the tutorial.
The couple times I've fought through that feeling, I've found a few new games I really love. So maybe it's a mindset thing. I miss the ease with which I used to lose myself in new passions.
Yeah good point! Come to think of it I got a new game late last year that I thought would have a good shot with pushing through that mental block and then some life stuff got very in the way and I just didn't go back to it and forgot about it until now. I should try that one again now that things are slightly less chaotic.
Yeah, same here.
I've mentioned this game before recently, but I just finished Gris and am absolutely smitten in a rare way. It's very short, simple, and relaxed (no fail states), but it's got probably the most beautiful art direction and score I can remember. That being said, it does also wind up doing some pretty interesting things with its simple mechanics too.
You can finish it in a few hours, but there's a draw to return again just to sink back into the world, cause... It's just pleasant there.
I just looked Gris up and even though I tend to avoid platformers, everything else about it really appeals so I will put it on my wishlist and have a think about whether to splash out for my birthday, thank you!
Happy to spread the word! If you do wind up giving it a shot I hope you enjoy it.
I'm the same with basically 2-3 games but I recently made a bold decision to actually start playing something I bought recently (Hitman 3) and I'm having a great time with it! Idk if you experience the same but I get this anxiety at playing something other than my comfort games, but honestly it's been very nice to play something new for once :) so I really recommend to just give something else a try and really commit to it.
Yes, idk if it is anxiety exactly but I definitely find it stressful and discombobulating. But having the backlog sitting there looking at me is also stressful! Probably I need to take pressure off and just try to chill out with a new game, which is sort of the approach I have with drawing, like if I remove the pressure to be instantly good at it and let myself be terrible at it, it actually is a lot more fun for me and I will do it more often.
I run my own single-player WoW-WotLK server and that is the main comfy game, the other is the Tropico series (mainly 3 & 4). I have tried a few alternatives over the years for both of these and nothing hooks me in as much, but maybe they only hook me in that much because of familiarity or nostalgia? Timberborn is I think the closest that has given me a similar feeling to Tropico (even though they are fairly different!), and I do have Guild Wars 2 which is a lot nicer overall than WoW but doesn't really give the same feeling. I should still give it another shot though, I played it for a little while before I set up the WoW server and really liked that the clothes were so customisable :D But I have been out of the loop so other suggestions would be good too!
Oh wow servers emulation went huge compared to ten years ago(last time I checked) would you say that it is a nice seamless experience or is there a lot to tinker even when you have finished setting it up?
For mine there was very little for me to tinker with, it was a single player Azerothcore repack ready to go, which is good because I am not very technologically skilled! There have been a couple bugs, like a couple of quests are kinda janked, but I can just go into the database and mark them off as done for my character when that happens cos I don't know how to properly fix them. Most of the tinkering was things like, do I want to adjust reputation/skill gains, how much stuff do I want the auctionhouse bot to list, how many profs do I want to allow per character, things like that. But that was all very easy to do thanks to the way the repack was done, and isn't actually necessary because you can just stick with the default settings. The only thing I can't do is PvP because I don't have playerbots, but I never did PvP on WoW anyway so it doesn't affect me much. I prefer it a lot to most of the multiplayer pservers I have tried, but I did tend to play WoW as a single player game mostly anyway! :D
I have actually! I do remember liking aspects of it but it is a bit too hard for me tbh, so it just ended up being too stressful. But it was a good suggestion anyway!
Finally started playing Mass Effect legendary. It surely lives up to it's hype. The combat is nifty, but the dialogue and choices are super fun.
Also playing Dysmantle with my partner. It's simple but very cathartic and mindless. It's got issues but overall very worth playing. Especially couch coop.
Big thing for me recently has been quitting Destiny 2. I've invested an...embarrassing amount of time into that game and while there's zero regret about the friends I made and the good times I've had, the game has just progressively moved further and further away from what I enjoyed about it. It's just not something I feel the same way about anymore. Feels weird(but not bad) no longer being tied down to a "main" game.
...but yeah, been nice to catch up on some single player stuff. Playing Tears of the Kingdom quite a bit but Diablo IV is really hitting that loot dopamine part of my brain Destiny did so that's the main thing right now.
I have put destiny 2 on the backburner recently since lightfall came out. I had plenty of frustration before that but the actual state of the game after that was so bad I just had to take a step back from it. Played a bunch of single player games and have been having a blast with them. My only issue is a lot of my friends from destiny keep going back, and I kinda feel compelled to join again. Not that I hate it, I just made a new build i love, but it has departed from its best moments.
Yeah that's where I'm at with it too. No hate, just something that's not what it was. I'll probably play The Final Shape to see the thing through to the end (maybe dip in for returning raid because that always gets it going for me haha), but it's not the same and I'm done resisting the tides. It's a game that's being wound down. I'm just trying to be grateful for the good times I had as opposed to being bitter about what it's become.
This was me with VALORANT last year. I run an indie-focused games publication, but I lost myself completely to VALORANT to the point that I wasn't playing anything else, and the site suffered as a result. I wasn't even really having much fun, and then I realized how much I was investing into a live service, and games I was genuinely interested to play, talk about, write about, were just passing me by.
So this year I decided to give up live service games for a year, and that has seriously allowed me to get back into my groove, and to play a lot of backlog games. Steam Deck has also helped quite a lot in that regard.
My friend and I play Destiny 2 but we do not do any of the seasonal content. We are still making our way slowly through The Witch Queen and that is quite enjoyable for me. I refuse to devote my free time entirely to one game again.
Having said that... Diablo IV... ooof.
I'm kind of tired of triple AAA games right now. So much crap out there. Not sure if it's an issue of sucking the gaming industry dry or what but buhhh. There are outliers but it's pretty exhausting.. however emulation has never been better. I downloaded some OG Pikmin, Mario, etc and been playing through them and having a blast. Such an interesting time that a raspberry pi 4 can play a ton of the oldest games for "free" and the new stuff kind of gets forgotten about in 6 months.
I have typically avoided older games and played the new and shiny. However, in recent years AAA games have just felt like a chore. I am finding emulated games and indie games to be much more satisfying, especially on my Steam Deck.
I feel the same way. Lack of identity, lack of new ideas. The last games that felt fresh to me was Returnal and Demon's Souls (I didn't play the original). I still need to try Elden Ring though
SteamDeck is awesome!! I'm playing steam games and emulated games side by side. Such a great experience. My biggest complaint about the deck is battery life but I can play anything from Super Mario 64 to TOTK. The I can seamlessly switch to Stardew valley with mods. I hope Valve keeps the completion fierce because it's an amazing idea and piece of tech.
There's a couple of studios that keep things interesting (ie, Nintendo with TOTK and FromSoft with ER), but other than that, what even is there anymore? I swear, the old AAAs just put pure crap out now. While Sony has been killing it lately, Im a little worried seeing what percentage of their funding is now going to be going to new live service stuff.
Are full games for full price too much to ask for from half these companies now? Thank god the indie space is killing it
100% agree! TOTK is amazing but it's a diamond in a sea of garbage it feels like. As I get older I feel like I have less and less time to play games I don't really like. So many are grindy and samey. Indie space blows my mind. Stardew Valley is basically one guy... Like how?!?!! You have millions in AAA and you are getting absolutely trounced by the indie crowd.
Gaming-wise, I'm honestly having a great time. I think there's never been a better time for gaming. Yes, it's true that a lot of newer games have horrible micro-transactions practices, but there's also newer games that don't do this, there's always older games that can be played, leaked builds of games that you might have thought would have never existed (like Gears of War 3 on PC) which are actually quite fun to play and there's more game mods now than ever before. I think this is kind of the golden age of gaming in it's own way.
I’m kind of in a spur of playing or replaying older games. Replayed Fallout 1 recently and I’m doing a low intelligence build for the first time ever.
Debating playing VTM Bloodlines or the original Deus Ex, because this is a sin- I’ve never played either.
So far I am locked out of the Killian/Gizmo quest because both characters think I’m too dumb and dismiss me.
And big problem: I’m too stupid to use a slot machine. I had planned on using gambling as my money maker so this is a problem. Even with Mentats I’m still too dumb to gamble.
Oh dear. Are Fallout 1 & 2 like New Vegas in their gambling where you just need a high luck skill and the money will roll in? I've played the both of them once but I never did any gambling.
You have also inspired me: next time I go back to Fallout 2 (never completed it because I made it close to the endgame with a shitty build and it got too hard for me) I will do a low int run for a little while since I heard there is some unique dialogue with other dumb characters.
Yes, your chance to win is based entirely on your gambling skill and once it is more likely than not to win, you can get infinite cash by going up to a slot machine or poker table and holding down the enter key to place infinite bets.
Overwhelmed honestly
Jedi fallen survivor Totk Many I haven’t finished (horizon, gow)
Yeah, these last few months have been a whirlwind for me. I got a Steam Deck, so I started working through that backlog (most notably, Horizon ZD). Then I got Jedi: Survivor, and ToTK (still working on this one).
So, Breath of the Wild is my favorite video game of all time, and Tears of the Kingdom is BotW+++, so I'm doing great game wise. I also started Diablo 4 last night and so far I love it. It's like if they took Diablo 2, then added in only the good parts of Diablo 3. I might change my tune as I continue, but so far I'm loving it. I'm still enjoying my daily Marvel Snap addiction, but I've gone from regular sitting in the 70s to struggling to break out of the 40s. But still fun, even if I lose, which is a mark of a good game.
Tears of the Kingdom has been consuming my life at the moment. I have the final boss mission ready to go but havne't commited to that yet. I want to explore more before "finishing" the game
Then I'll follow it up with the Outer Wilds DLC
After that I want to dedicate myself to some platformers and indie games that everyone recommends.
Honestly, feel like I'm in a good place gaming-wise, just planning ahead so there isn't a vacant hole in my life when I finish ToTK
TotK is amazing. I was put off the price point at first but with the sheer scope of the game I can't complain. Flying around on the Wing device is my favorite.
I initially got frustrated at them because they're so hard to launch, but now I appreciate that they're not a one-and-done tool. Something I still want to do is freeze a block of ice, then use that to shift one off a cliff.
I'm feeling the loss of Cryonis for sure. And Stasis.
I mean, Cryonis is the type of thing you never have to miss as long as you have ice enemy parts, to either throw or put on arrows.
Anytime a blue chu-chu attacks you, kill it with an elemental attack so its blobs convert to that color; very useful.
100% There are so many things you can do with the Wing, I mean just so many things you can do in general with all the Zonai devices. So many solutions to so many problems. Everybody I talk to handles problems in unique ways. That uniqueness to everything is really fantastic
Pretty good. Started gaming in the 80s, so my perspective includes cabinets, consoles, and PC gaming. I have more than enough in my queue to keep me going. Barely touched Shadowrun, Cyberpunk. Still playing lots of THPS, Salt and Sanctuary, Skyrim, and Hot Wheels Unleashed (I have a 4yo son who loves that shit).
I watch/listen to a bunch of gaming video essays which help me get a good fix. Been playing ToTK which has been great fun and have been all over Timberborn recently.
There's so much to play these days, so I have a hard stance against anything with microtransactions.
Who are your favorite essayists for games? I'm keen on Monty Zander and Noah Caldwell-Gervais, as well as Chris Davis.
Conveniently I listed out some of my fav Gaming YouTubers here!
https://beehaw.org/comment/107048
I very much enjoy Monty Zander, they have great energy; I’ll check out those other two!
Omg lol, so many recommendations in that thread. Video essays are back on the menu boys!
And that's just gaming Youtubers! I also have a lot of tech, philosophy, film & media ones I love. Also a couple of disaster essayists, train & themepark ones too 😂
Alternating between Tears of the Kingdom and Vampire Survivors.
I'm hesitant to buy games at full price these days, but I had a bad day last weekend and bought the Resident Evil 4 remake on a whim, and I love it. Not looking forward to beating it, because then I'll be in the void again where I can't find anything to play.
I was focusing on Overload a bit, which I've found to be a fun homage or spiritual sequel or successor or whatever to Descent. It does a pretty good job of addressing the problems of players potentially getting lost and disoriented in complicated 3d spaces, and it absolutely preserves the fun of wandering around, trying to spot robots before they're already firing at you, and then frenetically blowing them up. Lots of fun exploring and poking around for secrets and figuring out how to win fights. I feel like I'm only okay at it, I'm playing on a medium-ish difficulty and taking significant advantage of save-anywhere to decide I didn't actually screw up that last fight that badly, but I'm having fun anyway. A bit daunted by how difficult some of the later levels are turning out to be, though..
Anyway, I was doing all of that - plus other things, I have a bunch of gaming balls in the air right now - but then No Man's Sky had a new expedition come out. I only got the game in the last year or two and haven't been interested in it at the same time as an expedition happened, so I spent last night focusing on it. It seems okay? It's nice that my knowledge of the game allows me to render some tasks that might be arduous completely trivial, like knowing exactly what weapon to go fetch and what to do to get my hands on a quad servo fairly quickly. I think I spent too much time early on just getting a bunch of basic supplies lined up, but now I'm moving through everything pretty quickly so maybe that was correct and has paid off; I'm definitely overthinking the experience a bit. It doesn't really seem like that big of a deal, overall - it's not a major transformation of the game or anything, it winds up being what it says on the tin, just a quest line to go do to unlock some cool stuff. The cool stuff is actually mildly appealing to me, which is nice and a bit unusual.
I can go on, I found a novel (to me, anyway) way to break Chronicon a few days ago, but I think that's the appropriate amount of rambling.
I have a backlog but TotK is what I’m playing and a little Diablo 4. I wish I had more time!
Playing Pathfinder:wotr and The Outer World, havin' a blast.
I'm just happy that there are a couple games in looking forward to this year. Helldivers 2 and bomb rush cyberfunk. I'm delighted with the first, and honestly kind of concerned with the second. They haven't released any new trailers, teasers, or spoilers in what feels like years and I think it might have stalled out development wise.. But it's supposed to release in August.
Helldivers 2 on the other hand looks impressive, and because of the dev team I have zero concerns on the quality of gameplay or overall feel of the setting. It just doesn't have a firm release date yet.. Some time this year.
Oh my, how did I miss Helldivers2??? I love(d) the first one after having already put so many hours into Magicka 1 and 2. I was so sad that there wouldn't be another Magicka and/or Helldivers and now you (and the Steam Store page) are telling me the new Helldivers will be out in less than an eternity? Your comment alone made me glad that I started this thread!
I picked up Pathfinder: Kingmaker after a very long hiatus and I'm enjoying it a lot once I decided to lower the difficulty so I can focus on the story and not on the intricate ruleset.
My favorite part is the kingdom management.
Did you play WOTR??
Still haven't gotten over my Elden Ring addiction, coming up on 250 hours. Experimenting with different builds is really fun, and I do like the fashionsouls / elden bling aspect too. Pretty excited about the DLC as well.
Other than that EU4 and some classic Halo multiplayer have been occupying the rest of my time.
Got to hit Street Fighter's 6 training mode hard to learn some Cammy combos and also to practice some special moves (I'm not used to having a DP) and fundamentals. Getting bodied pretty hard by my friend lately, who mains Juri and plays JP on the side.
Also want to get back to Strive and play some ranked matches and, if I get enough free time, resume my Dragon Age: Origin's playthrough.
There's a demo on Steam if you want to try it out. If you're struggling with move inputs, the modern control scheme helps a lot with easing you in on the game. And, apparently, the single player mode World Tour is really well-made while teaching you some fundamental concepts effectively (I haven't tried it yet, that's what I read).
Unfortunately, I don't really have a video or a review that describes the game in a newcomer-friendly yet succinct way. You can always search for rooflemonger's street fighter 6 videos. He has a 30 minutes long review of the game if you can stomach it. He also has an hour-long beginner's guide and a 2 hours-long(!!) character guide if you really want to get into it or if you just found a character you vibe with and want to know more about them.
I tried the demo earlier; I didn't think much of it, but that's probably more because of demo restrictions than actual game issues. The world tour never really got into very interesting tutorials of strategic dynamics, and I couldn't try my hand against humans.
If they have a full free weekend at some point, that could be perfect for me.
Yeah, the demo could've had more stuff, I had way more fun in the open beta, to be honest. I still think it can give people a general idea of what it's about and its new mechanics but yeah, I see your point.
I wouldn't expect a full free weekend any time soon, unfortunately.
YouTube has been helping my gaming fix. But digging Diablo 4 at the moment. I'm excited for the Xbox showcase since it will be all gameplay trailers verse CGI which shows nothing besides what the game could look like. This year has been great I think game wise. Harry Potter was great, started Jedi Survivor, Pokemon I ran through non-stop (yes it is a mess but I do love Pokemon a lot). Funny enough for Stalker Gamma, that mod got me into Stalker, super excited for Stalker 2
I miss games that were just fun. I was on PTO last week and at one point I had two idle games on my desktop while I was playing Puzzle Quest 3 (also free-to-play and I was aggressively approaching the pay-to-win wall). I hate how addictive those games are but I keep coming back until I'm bored stiff and they're still not getting a single penny out of me.
When I finally put those down, I moved to Diablo IV which is a mindless hack-and-slash with a too-complicated-to-figure-out skill tree. I don't even know what most of the skills are, the descriptions are too jargony to make any sense, but they're upgrades so they must be good, right?
I've played every game in the franchise but It's been years since I actively enjoyed Assassin's Creed. It'd been slowly downhill since Brotherhood (temporarily ignoring the garbage fire that was ACIII) but it really took a nosedive when it also became just another a hack-and-slash occasionally interrupted by a story that I never cared about. Actually, I can't tell you a single thing that happened in any of the AC stories ... except beating up the pope at the end of ACII. That was fun. Aside from that, the storyline in any game is pretty much lost on me. Don't care, never will. Just tell me what I need to know in a little box in the corner.
Gaming wise it's probably the best period I've had. I've finished a lot of smaller games, found absolute gems such as Outer Wilds (+ the perfect DLC) and Devil Daggers, P-ranked my way through Ultrakill and I'm slowly going through Elden Ring, which is just so awful on many fronts, that I don't think I'll be playing any other soulslikes ever. I've got a nice long rant about it brewing inside me.
Celeste got a massive, high quality community map pack recently, so I'm slowly chipping away at the maps, and I finally found a "main game" that I'll probably be playing forever - Trackmania.
I don't think I'll be running out of stuff to play anytime soon.
lol, and here I thought I had it bad!
I'm trying to earn the “illuminatus” achievement in Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which requires to collect all tinderboxes. Half an hour into the game, and I realize I can't collect a tinderbox, almost like it isn't even there. I try moving things around, nothing changes. I try exiting the room, but I can't interact with the door which is closed. After restarting the game, the tinderbox is gone but I'm still stuck in the same room with no way to get out. First time something like this ever happened in God knows how many playthroughs.
I'm lucky it occurred so early in the game ig
I've been playing around with Dyson Sphere Program a bit. It's basically a factorio/crafting game based on creating a namesake Dyson Sphere.
I'm not the best with crafting games so ive been looking up some build guides and good god. Some people are nuts with these setups. It's insanely efficient and mapped out.
I got sucked in last night and next thing I know it's 1am and my "Hey nerd, you're way past when you should've gone to sleep" notification went off. It's really good.
With SF6 being out I'm trying to get back into fighting games in a big way. The single player has been a ton of fun and I really appreciate how they introduce fundamentals of the genre as part of the mode's challenges.
Marisa (bi poly muscle queen) and Honda (sumo chad) are my mains
Heh.
Im enoying the amount of single player games I suddenly have available. Dead island2, darkest dungeon2, totk.
The few games that have come out in the past yearish that have been worth the time are really worth the time. I think I have like 350 hrs in Elden Ring, 130 in totk, quite a few in Spiderman PC, then a lot in single player indies. Im hoping to pick up Returnal on Steam sale, and I already have a damn good backlog.
I dont think Im going to play an online game for a long time yet. Keeping up with ever changing meta coupled with toxic competition just makes me feel sad
I play Destiny 2 but when that frustrates me or is down (happening a lot lately), I play Civilization 5.
I've been on an ESO kick for about 4 years. I start other games, but I'd rather be playing ESO. I have no interest in solo games, and I enjoy the mechanics. Outside of the bit of lag/disconnect in the massive PVP area (Cyrodiil), there aren't any problems that are game breaking, noticeable, or noteworthy (except by minmaxers, who complain about everything in every game).
I'm happy just plodding along in ESO solo, or in group, and have developed a large friend base there. It's turned into a much happier alternative to WoW for me, and I don't see myself doing much in other games for quite a while.
Well, Warcraft 3 Reforged isn't actually as bad as I thought it would be. I thought it was going to be this awful crap experience, but I really haven't seen that (okay yes, it has crashed on me once). I picked it up a few days ago and it's been one helluva nostalgic power run. XD I think they actually did a fairly good job of just upgrading the graphics but still keep the style the same, even though I wasn't a huge fan of the overly comic styling of War3. I haven't done custom maps nor campaigns yet, I know people complained about the campaigns not working. I really only played the Founding of Durotar when I was young.
IDK, it really isn't as bad as I thought. I heard that a new-ish team is running now, so maybe it will get better. I would like to get a custom game browser built into the game, similar to what Star craft 2 does.
It's been fun double timing War3 and D4 the last few days. :)
Just finished ToTK, and started up Diablo 4 last night. So far so good 🔥
Hear the servers went down for Diablo 4. Are they running good now?
Nah they're pretty good! Haven't had any issues on NA
I’m in a lull. Horizon 2 DLC was great. TOTK was great, now I feel empty while gaming. I’ve just been playing Kerbal to wile away downtime. Good narratives are hard to find.
I have been branching out into genres that I normally don't play. Having fun in Divinity Original Sin and Stellaris. Taking time to learn something a bit more complicated than just shooting stuff blindly.
Everspace 2 (om nom nom, loved it)
Was at a bit of a slow spot. Then I picked up Everspace 2 on a whim. OMG that is a fantastic game; also learned to use button style peddles for rolls. Everspace 2 combat sits at a pretty sweet spot between No Man's Sky and Star Citizen (or ED). The combat is still arcade like but you can move your ship well in 3d space.
The Rift Breaker (surprise! it's awesome)
Most recently I picked up The Rift Breaker and wasn't expecting much.... oops. Another fantastic game. Brings back some Total Annihilation memories and Empire Earth to some extent due to the massive build out of bases (if you want). The Rift Breaker somehow continues add in more resources in a way that doesn't fatigue much. They also removed "it's a running sim" issue for building your base. Can't wait to see how multiplayer works out, whenever that happens. If multiplayer works well this will be a must play for our little game group.
Jagged Alliance 3 (like really? a real deal this time?)
Cautiously curious about Jagged Alliance 3. They brought in the director from JA 1&2 and looks like they have really tried to not screw up this installment. Could be good, I'll likely roll the dice on that day one as I loved JA:1&2 and others in this genre.
Starfield (oh buddy!)
Finally, completely throwing caution to the wind..... Starfield. This is the top game on my watch list and I cannot wait to see how it plays out. I classify Bethesda Fallout and Elder Scroll games as "clutter looters" and absolutely eat them up. Whatever Starfield may be, 1000 worlds for mods to drop content on is likely going to give it a very long life. Really looking forward to this one.
Bored with the feeling of nothing to play.
I finished TotK, as in finished all of the shrines. I was planning a pokemon fan game on my steam deck for about a week but finished that too. I was playing Melvoe Idle on my phone for the last 6+ months but just 100% it.
I feel like I am growing out of video games a bit. Work and young kids make it hard to put energy in a game unless I'm really into it.
Man I had to blast through Tears because I'm moving and I'm leaving the Switch behind with my family... would've liked to take my time, do all the shrines and side quests. Too bad!
Game ended on a fantastic note through! ::: spoiler TOTK final boss spoilers Got floored when he flurry dodged me the first time. Learning what to look for was tough but doable with the hearts I had. Dorf is a SKILL CHECK dude. :::
So many games just want too much attention.
The single-player games are bloated with crafting, mission timers, levelling trees, giant worlds that required mounted traversal, etc. They all want to be 50+ hours game time each.
The multiplayer/Live service games are battlepasses, dailies/weeklies, limited-time content. They all want to be 6+ hours a week each.
When I decide to play a game after working, I'm not playing those games anymore. I want to, and I have a bunch of them installed, but they're just sitting in my library. Games like that require me to choose to spend X hours at a time playing only that, and I'm probably not going to do that.
I love video games, and I enjoy playing those larger SP games when I do play them. But I had to dial back and stop playing a lot of 'Live service' games because the content was in passes that demanded too much time I couldn't give them. I wasn't playing enough to complete them, but their games were built around them that there wasn't much point playing them if I couldn't.
Each evening I feel like playing a game, and I just watch Youtube while playing something I can pickup and play for 30min instead - or fuck around on the internet and not play anything at all.
I decided to play Witcher 3 because it was so highly reviewed, and after playing it for ~5 hours, then going to bed and feeling like I was still in the 'tutorial starting zone', having mostly run around over empty ground. Barely any characterisation or story progression had actually occurred. With no meaningful progress or reason to continue, I just... didn't. A few days later I decided to uninstall.
I have so many games that i've gotten from ps plus and steam sales that if I was back in middle school i would be having a fucking field day. Back then i only had like 1 or 2 games that i was actively playing (mostly kotor and halo games), now i have so little time tho, my backlog is insane and i don't know where to start.
I need to finish hollow knight and elden ring and then i have all these long, heavy hitters in my backlog like witcher 3, rdr2, dragon age inquisition, elder scrolls online, salt and sanctuary, superhot, star wars republic commando, half life 1, deus ex 1, metroid samus returns, celeste, far cry 3, and tons tons more, and if i get my ps3 set up there's even more.
Too many games too little time
Been playing a LOT of Victoria 3. It's wild to know exactly what people dislike about a game, feel the game has severe shortcomings... and yet still obsessively play it.
Gaming-wise I'm in a tough spot. I have a wonderful amount of games to play through and experience. But as a Twitch affiliate, I like to dedicate my time to video games just when I'm streaming, so that I can share my experiences (and also write about them, with video proof). I also find that I need time to do other things in my life besides video games (socializing, adulting, etc) so the window for me to play games is getting smaller.
After going on a binge of buying Switch titles over the last six years I think my purchases are going to be really sparse from here on out. Especially if I make use of my Game Pass subscription more often.
I'm playing the same multiplayer games over and over but I'm not really progressing on my backlog of games and it's been this way for 6 months, so i think it could be going better
I'm having a ton of fun playing the remake of System Shock. Earlier I played Pentiment, which was amazing, and wasn't able to get on other games until System Shock came out, which I must say that I'm having a blast with it.
When I finish System Shock, I'm planning on starting Deus Ex or something similar.
Deus Ex is one of my all time favorites. Haven't played SS yet but I have the Steam bundle for it, so I just have to pick a time to give it a try. (Lots of games competing for my time, including multiple instances and versions of DX lol.)
I'm honestly pretty positive around the number of games I get to play on Game Pass. Several major releases I was excited about are coming there this month, and even if they weren't, I'd usually be able to find something.
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Been playing Zelda, Tears of the kingdom. I’ve blocked all the relevant keywords as to not get spoiled, but now the game is out for quite a bit of time and people are just posting vids and memes without spoilers messages of the keywords. It’s such a huge and beautiful game and I want to explore it on my own time, but I’m scared it’s a race against the clock before I get a spoiler on something.
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