Another week another thread!
What have you all been playing this week? Anything you’re particularly looking forward to in the short term?
Deep Rock Galactic - I should have probably picked it up earlier. It’s such a wonderful co-op game with so many memorable, epic moments happening.
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Warhammer 40k Boltgun
Borrowed Metroid Dread at the library. I love the game, but I’m having a real tough time. It’s a little too hard for me, but I’m still hoping to finish it.
Horizon: Zero Dawn, almost non-stop. The mechanics can be a bit finicky sometimes, but the story and world building keep me coming back.
There are a lot of little things that I really don’t like about it and these almost certainly exist because it was originally exclusive to Playstation. I sometimes find my self a bit irked because there was so much more they could’ve done to make it a classic. Instead, it’s just good enough.
Dave the Diver. It’s a great blend of Subnautica, Recettear, and absurdity.
Can’t wait for this on console - it looks like it would fit so well on the Switch
More Final Fantasy 14. I’ve started the Heavensward post-game content (I guess you can call it that?).
I’m done with all the optional dungeons and raids you unlock after the base story, and now I’m continuing with the story quests that were added in later patches. There’s just so much time-wasting, back and forth bullshit, that it’s just a chore, though. Start quest in town A, go to town B for a short cutscene, go to town C for another short cutscene, go back to town A for yet another cutscene. Since you can teleport everywhere by this point, it doesn’t take long, but is just so boring. That’s why I’m constantly queuing for random dungeons and hang out in the Gold Saucer, basically avoiding the story.
As for classes, I’ve mainly played Reaper, which is fun, and today started trying out Dancer, and had a good time as well.
Post-patch content in A Realm Reborn and Heavensward are both pretty rough. Post-patch content gets a bit better later on. Look up the alliance raid series’ and the raids and do those as well to break up the monotony.
I played Super Mario Galaxy, and was having difficulties with motion control and aiming the stomp (even after doing the spinning stomp move), then I reached a place with underwater level, I bailed out. Personally for me, it’s probably better suited for short bursts of gameplay than longer period of streaming the game.
Right now I am replaying Zero Time Dilemma. I am still enjoying it.
I’ve been playing a mix of Remnant: From the Ashes and Stellaris.
I’ve completed Remnant now, and am just gearing up for the DLC, but the problem with it is that you have to erase your campaign progress (character progress stays) before you can start the DLC, so I’m running around the campaign world to try get the things I might have missed before I can dive into the DLC.
For Stellaris, I’ve been playing a modded playthrough, with a mod named GigaStructures, which has been absolutely ridiculous in the power scale. The start of the power creep is turning small moons into hyperpowerful attack ships, aptly named Attack Moons. I then progressed to turning planets into ships, which was yet another order of magnitude. Finally, you can convert 5 moons and 4 planets into a stellar craft, using a local star as it’s power source and core component. The power scale with these mods is pretty wacky
I’ve been playing Diablo 4 this week; I can’t even begin to tell you how many gleeful hours I put into Diablo 2 back in the day, but this one is feeling more like a chore than fun. There’s a part of me that wants to just grind out to 100 to get there but I recognize sunk-cost fallacy when I see it, so I’m at least taking a break for a while.
A friend gifted me Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor during the Steam sale so that’s probably on the menu for this weekend. My 12-year-old has played a couple from that series and enjoyed the puzzles so I’ll see if they want to play it with me. I also picked up the stealth puzzle game Gunpoint and am looking forward to giving that a go.
Still playing Final Fantasy XVI. The story and characters are fantastic. Now that I’ve put some time into it, the combat feels pretty great. Excited to see where it goes. I feel like I’m still in the first quarter of the game.
I’m playing Tom Clancy’s The Division (using GeForceNow). And I’m really liking it. Dying is not really frustrating, but challenging at most. Progression is not hard and the story is really enjoyable.
And I’m playing Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. This is my first Tom Clancy game and I’m loving it.
Out of curiosity, do you experience any crashes/disconnects?
I quit playing the game due to heavy crashes in the middle of missions. Was a widespread and known issue.
EDIT: forgot to mention, PC wise. Not console.
I haven’t played since last week, but I’ve never experienced any crashes. Anyway, I’ve seen that on Reddit someone was complaining about the same problems as you.
I finally got around to playing the Portal series. I played 2 first (it was a free Games with Gold pick) and thought it was great, so about 20 or so puzzles through the first Portal now. I’m kind of surprised the series ended with one sequel.
Viewfinder comes out tomorrow, I’m looking forward to that. I played the demo on steam and confirmed that it is something I’ll almost certainly enjoy.
Doing another run in Satisfactory. I’m building a mega base building vertically and horizontally. I’m around 30 hours in in this run, made coal after about 6 hours and I’m still working on oil, but getting there. I’ve gotten to the last tier before, stayed a while, but never pushed long enough to obtain the employee of the planet cup or to buy everything in the awesome shop.
