Feel free to let everyone know what you’re currently playing, recommend some great titles from yesteryear (especially on sale).
Steam Summer Sale 2023 is tomorrow, countdown clock
Still playing Rimworld, committing atrocities to society if I’m not playing FFXIV. I always find some new mod to use or new challenge. I get bored with the end game and usually just start a new one, so in my current colony I’m trying to either launch the ship or get enough honor to take over their shuttle. I have yet to complete the game lol even after 100’s of hours of playing it.
I’ve been on a Rimworld binge while away, one of the few games my laptop can handle and I have to say, it’s sooooo good, and yes the temptation to rebuild everything from scratch to create the perfect colony is always so strong.
I’m like 60 hours into Ghost of Tsushima. Been loving the immersion in that game
Battle Bit, Overwatch, DRG and World of Warships.
DRG is just a great game, and a new battlepass season just started. The battlepass is free, just a place to unlock cosmetics, no FOMO since they get added to the game’s drop pool once they’re not on the battlepass.
I’m playing Robo Quest. It’s a fps rogue lite from a few years ago. The combat reminds me of overwatch and the characters and weapons remind me of Borderlands.
Street fighter 6. Love it. There is unfortunately no community for it on lemmy
Unfortunately we need to stay in bigger community groups until the level activity grows to a point where a community needs to break into smaller groups for specific games etc.
Alternatively you could make a c/StreetFighter and populate it while you wait for people to slowly come, I’ve been doing that with several lemmy communities, but I can only maintain so many postings per day. That being said, the rate which each of them have grown already is greater than I could have hoped.
You would also need to factor what instance to build it on, whether it is likely to get defederated and if its going to be one which people may check etc. However, if there is no other community yet, you just need to make sure its a simple enough domain to remember, etc. You really only need to post say twice per day.
Thanks for the input! I am really thinking about making one, maybe in the lgbt lemmy, it’s a niche that really works with the new games. Now I only have to learn how to do tgat on here…
Remnant in preparation for Remnant 2. Also currently part of Humble Bundle.
Monster Hunter Rise just released it’s final planned update after 2 years. It’s PvE, and it still has a really large community so won’t be hard to find partners for hunts.
Immortality. FMV game which is closer to an interactive movie than a game. Included in xbox game pass.
It’s a mystery/thriller about an actress who has gone missing and whose films were never released. The gameplay involves scrubbing through clips of recovered movies/behind the scenes/extras and linking related people/objects to uncover more clips and more plot.
The lead actress is effectively playing four roles and she is absolutely incredible. I’ve found all the acting to be great but she is a stand out. I would typically find the idea of ‘watching’ a game more than ‘playing’ it to be a turn off but so far I have found it to be pretty enthralling and a great “in-between” for other games I’m playing.
Really highly recommend! Play with a controller though since the rumble is a hugely helpful part in finding ‘secrets’.
Be sure to check the list of content warnings though because there are some pretty intense scenes/themes
Amazon is currently giving away Prey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2017_video_game))
I really liked the game and the unique alternate history sci-fi world full of great technology gone horribly wrong. :)
The world-building relies a little too heavily on audio logs and found documents, which
Wolfenstein The New Order & Old Blood are kind of like that too.
I have been going hard on Kenshi as of late. Honestly such a unique game, I recommend giving it a look!
I recommend kenshi all the time. I love it.
I just completed Blacksad: Under the Skin. Engaging story, somewhat janky controls. So now I’m in between games and am wondering if I should really start with Mass Effect.
Been doing a proper run-through of Everspace 2, it finally came out of a two-year Early Access a few months ago, currently on 20% sale and has a free demo. Really enjoying it, it’s very Freelancer-esque and I’m liking the stop-start animated cutscene style.
I probably wouldn’t have tried it out without GamePass, but I’m so glad I did. I think the 3rd person works well with a controller layout, and I’m honestly having more fun flying here than in SW: Squadrons. I do admit it’s making me wish I had the full flight stick kit.
Just picked up Party Hard 2…
Played the first one on steam and had a blast. It’s like Hotline Miami but you’re a serial killer just trying to get sleep so you have to murder everyone at the neighbors house party. Got the sequal on xbox this time
Gonna jump on it tonight.
Hahaha this sounds amazing! Thanks
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. Finally completed the base game after falling off from the tediousness. I really hope the sequel addresses that issue because otherwise, it has fantastic combat in a world with mythical creatures.
I have it in my library. Any tips for a beginner? Anything to watch out for?
Wolves hunt in packs
Jokes aside I will say your main pawn learns by watching what you do, so it helps to have a general idea what type of character you want to play as and preferably have your pawn have similar playstyle.
It does help with their AI and also when at bars telling them to keep quiet does help your sanity.
Be careful about pawn commands, it has an effect on pawn ai playstyle weighting.
Pawns learn to fight enemies better based off a series of “weak points” that they learn by either fighting, hitting an enemy with an element weakness or hiting a enemy on a weak spot - example cutting off a chimera tail or blinding a cyclops.
And destoying weakpoints is also an way to get rare ingredients, like cyclops tusks from destoying the cyclop’s tusks sticking out their mouths.
