What have you been playing this week? Do you think others might like it?
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Tears of the kingdom - little late to the party but it’s a fun game.
remember to not update the software and lock it to whatever version you initially have. It’s gonna be very hard to amass resources if you aren’t planning to use dup exploits or play it for a very long time. (preferably pre 1.1.2)
I don’t know about all that, I’ve put maybe about 50 hours into it with no dupes and I find that I almost always have pretty good amounts of most things. Sure, you CAN cheat yourself a gorillion zonaite and get max batteries right at the beginning of the game, or infinite of the best weapon fuse materials, but… why? They’re not really that hard to come across and you’re robbing yourself of one of the key reasons to even explore the world in the first place.
I don’t know how far you did in terms of BotW, but the way it works burn me out(upgrading gears and inventory slots) so this time around I just decide to dupe stuff. It make the work feel a lot more like a good play ground for exploration compare to really constraint weird grind fest. Let’s use your zonite example as material source.
- can you play without farming zonaite and not even upgrade your base battery? Yes, in my early hours without dupe knowledge I managed to unlock all skytower and defeat some harder area mob that defends tower without using anything duped.(I basically started looking for duping because of the reason coming up next.)
- can you finish the game wihtout zonaite gathering? I believe so, it’s not even used if you are not using auto build in the over world.
- max battery requires 4500 charges, while realistically without too complex builds that use energy draining components too much, just 4~5 batteries upgraded should cover a lot of usage. BUT, even that lowers the freedom when you are on a quest to explore “fast”. 4~5 batteries just requires about 1/3 of total amount so about 200~300ish large zonaite. And they give you 1 for quest reward or from chests.
- zonaite charges(the one that fill battery and gives you a bit of red charge even mid using your thing) and auto builds are the supposed zonaite burner. In terms of game design, they want this resource to dump into things that enable you do do something fun or interesting. charges and construct parts are the main thing to exchange capsules. And this is what breaks it for me once I realized how much work I need to do to start feeling freedom building shits and put them to work. If you play it like BotW, it just feels like a side thing that’s fun when you have it. But I don’t want to play it like BotW, I want to have the freedom to build stuff and use them as I like. Which needs a lot of capsules and a lot of zonaites for autobuilds(when the parts are from memory instead of capsules. )
- since you can’t use auto build or capsules in shrines, so getting lots of these dups doesn’t break the puzzle. Can you like ride fan-attached machines all the way to destination temples/area without exploring? I guess you can, I don’t know since I didn’t do that. For my first 2 temples, I still follow quest lines etc.
But it made my korok shipping SO MUCH FUN compare to without duping those charges/autobuild parts. Like it literally changes the boring and repetitive quests(like holding the sign in place ones) into a fun experiment platforms. Duping the parts also make fusing a lot less “punishing” as some of the better parts are required to upgrade as well. I don’t have to “conserve” just go whacking and don’t get too annoyed like BotW when weapons break. (as most of the damage comes from fusing, not the weapon states.)
Note, I haven’t even build homes etc to dup weapons/bows/shields, and it just unlocks the game so much without the gathering grind. (so the old blood moon weapon/material gather runs is no longer needed.) Like, yeah, I really don’t have that much free time to dedicate to one game, so if I have the option to by pass any grind mechanics that also doesn’t “break” the game, I am gonna just do it.
I told myself I’m not buying Final Fantasy until I’m done with Tears of the Kingdom and now I’m sweating nervously at the release date next week.
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Spider-Man Remastered on Steam. I haven’t played a Spider-Man game since the original. It was/is on sale. It’s really fun, but it does have performance problems.
Same thing I play every week. Coral Island and RCT3.
Coral Island is in Steam Early Access and is as yet unfinished, but is making steady progress and the devs are doing great at keeping everyone up to date on progress. Coral Island is frequently compared to Stardew Valley. Frankly, I don’t enjoy SDV. I’ve tried and tried and it just doesn’t do it for me. Coral Island is everything I was hoping SDV would be. It’s game play is similar, but I find the whole thing much more enjoyable.
I’ve been playing RCT3 off and on since I first bought it on CD a million years ago.
What does RCT3 stand for?
Roller coaster tycoon I’m assuming.
It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, at least. It definitely fits the naming convention I’m used to.
If so, yeah—that scratches a kind of itch real nice. I used to be really into RCT3. RCT2 was my introduction to tycoons and sim kinda games when I was in like kindergarten, and it probably played a big part in my video game tastes since. I’ve shifted over to Parkitect these days: it’s got a nice balance between the logistics/business end, building up a theme park, and the detailing. I try to get into Planet Coaster every once in a while, but I end up feeling like it gets tantalizingly close with letting me do stuff I want, but something would somehow feel lacking. Planet Coaster’s path building mechanic comes to mind.
Sometimes I’ll still boot up RCT3. Its mechanics aren’t quite as robust as modern games in the genre, but the rides and attractions set and the aesthetic somehow manages to feel evergreen to me.
I was nearly 40 when RCT2 came out. :-)
My biggest wish for RCT3 has always been that you could store modified shops like you can store coasters. That’s the one thing about it that drives me further bonkers.
I really really really want to like Planet Coaster but dang, trying to put paths down and the like is a nightmare for me. I have bad arthritis in my hands and having to do minute and detailed movements can be incredibly difficult. So I wind up with things where they don’t belong and lose money and ARGH.
I’ve heard Parkitect is better but I’m gun shy after PC and afraid I’ll waste even more money on a game I can’t play.
I still play Dungeon Keeper (the original) sometimes, too. It’s such a classic, and every “new reboot” of the game seems to just fail in all the wrong ways for me.
Sorry. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3.
I know most people love 2 the most, but 3 is the one I like best. I like the 3D way you can move around and I like the whole way the mechanisms work.
Since I’m limited to one hand (I fractured my elbow), I’ve been going back to my strategy game catalogue. At first I started with Endless Legend, which I’ve got over 100 hours in, but I wasn’t vibing with it. The backlog game I had on the side, Age of Wonders Planetfall, became my main game. I’m still trying to get into it, but it just feels too cluttered for it’s own good. I don’t think I want to give up on it but alongside that I began playing Endless Space 2 which is really cool! Even with experience in the Endless series it still feels a bit complicated, it’s not as insane as Stellaris, but I have a good feeling about it now.
Have you tried Endless Space 2 multiplayer? If so how is the experience? My gaming group loved the first one but we eventually gave up with it as we could never make it through an entire playthrough without the game crashing/desyncing and corrupting the save file.
No, I haven’t. It’s been a long time since I played multiplayer in any game at all! Which wasn’t local co-op with my sister at least…If Playnite is to be believed that would be Titanfall 2, 2 years ago.
I’ve been playing Victoria 3 and I just can’t wait to have fun
Destiny 2: The new season feels fantastic.
I feel boring after scrolling through all the other replies and just saying Diablo 4. :p
I died against the final boss earlier this week after getting them down to a couple hits left, so I spent all week grinding renown and paragon points and just completely face rolled them this morning. Feels good, man. I can’t wait to start on the endgame content.
Other than that, I played that Grimace game on my GBC style emulation handheld. It’s… a game. I also played Microsoft’s Bejeweled clone in the mobile Xbox app to get rewards points.
It is weird that diablo feel like you haven’t really started the game until you’ve completed the story once. Like that whole well written story and beautiful cut scenes are in fact the prologue to the real game.
I haven’t actually completed the story yet, but that’s what it feels like at the moment. To be clear though - I’m really enjoying it!
My friend group has been enjoying the new update to Dead by Daylight. It’s a pretty big game on a lot of consoles and pc platforms, but for anyone who hasn’t seen it: it’s a horror-movie inspired game, even featuring famous licensed movie and video game characters, that plays out as an asymmetric 4v1 type of tag/hide and seek. The new update adds a rogue AI killer and a space colonist survivor, but many different themes and tropes all come together in DbD. it’s a fun casual experience, but unlocking things can take a long time and mastery comes very slowly
Dragon Age: Origins
I remember playing a little bit of Inquisition years ago, but I never got very far. I felt like playing a somewhat old school RPG and I know this game is held in high regard so I’m giving it a shot. So far it seems pretty good but I’ve only put a couple of hours in.
Also playing Enlisted.
I love this game! One of my favorites. Enjoy.
Pokémon Violet. I have the dex. I’ve finished the storyline. I just find raiding fun and relaxing.
Solasta - Crown of the Magister cRPG trying to replicate the feel of tabletop RPG as well as possible IMO they did it really well ! Not everything is perfect of course, and it’s more combat-centered than my tabletop experience, but I’m really enjoying this first playthrough (playing in coop with a friend).
Divinity - Original Sin 2 RPG with a turn-based combat system, a somewhat open world and interesting storylines I stopped playing on normal and started again on tactician, I was getting bored by the fights becoming too easy during act 2.
Warframe! Super fun.
poly bridge 3! very chill but still stimulating game where you get a variety of maps and scenarios to build bridges in. i did have to watch two hours of bridge building tutorials because my knowledge of physics is abysmal but if you passed a physics course in high school i doubt it’s nearly as challenging.
Have you played 1 or 2? I played through most of 2 and thought about trying 3, but tbh it looked like more of the same and not a lot of innovation. Maybe there’s more to it than I realize though
i only picked up 3 on a whim, haven’t played the rest, but based on the vids i’ve seen of 2 it does seem like more of the same.
Just achieved 240% in Arkham Knight. Was it worth all the time and hassle just to receive a different colored version of the main batsuit? Kind of.
Now I’ve got the Arkham itch and decided to start replaying City for the first time in years.
