Tell us what game you are currently, or recently played, greater than 6+ months old.

If the game happens to be on sale, a link would be fantastic.

  • restingboredface@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Been making my way through Return of the Obra Dinn. It’s so different from anything I’ve played before. Really neat, though I wish there was some more help/guide info available in game on the mechanics of it. I feel like I stumble into things most of the time.

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    7 months ago

    I’m playing Starcraft 1 again. We’ll see how far I get this time. I’m not certain I’ve ever finished all the way through Brood War without cheats.

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    7 months ago

    Last night I finally finished MGS The Twin Snakes, and soon about to be starting MGS2. Was pretty fun even if I had no idea what I was doing most of the time.

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      The Twin Snakes is excellent. I’ve not played 2/3 or 4 so kinda makes me what to go play them.

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        I’m honestly not a big fan of Twin Snakes (I think the mechanics ported over from MGS2 broke a lot of the original design of MGS1, and I don’t prefer the cutscenes over the original), but if you think it’s excellent you absolutely should play 2 and 3 at least. MGS3 is a masterpiece.

    • OmegaMouse@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      Have you played any of the series before? MGS2 and 3 are some of the best games ever made, IMO :) Twin Snakes is ok, but I much prefer the original.

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      7 months ago

      Make sure to play the original version of MGS1 eventually. It’s different enough (and arguably superior) to Twin Snakes to be worth a play.

      • haych@lemmy.one
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        7 months ago

        I’ve tried it multiple times. I don’t like it, it looks worse and controls are clunky

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    7 months ago

    I haven’t had much time for games lately unfortunately but when I have found a few minutes here or there, I finally started Morrowind. I’m thinking of making a post about it soon, but it’s still an awesome game 21 years later

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    7 months ago

    Playing through:

    • New Vegas
    • 13 Sentinels
    • Might start on Skyward Sword on Switch, now that I’ve finished TOTK
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        I started playing it years ago but quit after reaching the Strip - this time I will make sure to actually finish it! The writing is great and the quests are really memorable.

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      7 months ago

      I’m replaying this one right now (more or less, I hadn’t played Final Cut before).

      I know it’s too highbrow for some people, but the writing absolutely pops in this game.

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    Nothing this week but I built my kids their first PC so looking forward to loading it up with games for them. It’s old (i5 4690K + R9 370) but good enough for most games I own.

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    7 months ago

    Nier Replicant ver. whatever

    Haven’t played the original, only Automata, and damn this game has a lot of fetch quests. Pretty rewarding from time to time, but the gameplay of the side quests is ass. I hope I don’t have to do much more fragile deliveries.

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      7 months ago

      Damn man that’s kinda disappointing to hear. I wanted to do this one eventually but not if it’s going to highlight my death stranding work trauma. I can’t keep just being a mule like that

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        Haven’t played Death Stranding myself but at least the paths are pretty short in Nier at least compared to how I imagine Death Stranding. That doesn’t make farming items more fun though.

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      There’s only one Fragile Delivery quest if I recall.

      It IS skippable. But the completest in you will hate yourself.

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        I already did 3 fragile deliveries :D
        The biggest “problem” is that you cannot tell beforehand if a quest will be good or not. The lighthouse lady and the old man’s dog quests had an amazing conclusion, so they were totally worth it, even though gameplay wise they were boring.

        I think you definitely feel that Automata is an improvement on the OG Nier (assuming that OG Nier and the remake aren’t that different) in terms of quest design. That doesn’t make Replicant bad though.

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          Oh my bad. It’s one family of quests

          This might sound crazy, but I actually preferred Nier Replicant to Automata in terms of gameplay. I preferred Automata slightly on story and feel, but I also felt like Automata made some really bad mistakes that Nier didn’t (the notorious prologue, for example)

          If I could ONLY play one of the two once, I think it would be Automata. If I could only play one game 100 times, it would be Replicant. if that makes sense

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              “Game Over” having to rewatch the opening 6 times in a row was almost enough for me to toss the game out. I ended up putting “super-duper-easy” auto-fight mode on until I reached the first save point.

              Who though that having a 1-hit-kill boss 15+ minutes into the game BEFORE the first save point was a good idea?

              Even Soulsbornes aren’t that cruel

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                I probably just got lucky because I beat him first try. Just a completely different experience.

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                  Fair point

                  But that damn double-saw is one of few bosses that both have one-hit-kill situations that also attempt to hit you with one-hit kills (instead of them being incidental collisions). One could say it’s one of the hardest bosses in the game.

                  It really sucked how many times I had to watch the opening cut-scenes. They went from beautiful to annoying.

    • all-knight-party@kbin.run
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      Fuck yeah, I’m maybe three quarters done with that game, only the DLC left. I’ve been playing it for like a year and I’ve fully completed all of Greece, just finishing up quests. One of my favorite games at this point.

  • frankjaeger@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Control and Fallout 3.

    Control is a masterclass at world building and storytelling.

    Fallout 3 is as excellent as always, but even on the Steam Deck it suffers from random crashes. Save often.

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    Baldur’s Gate 3! It’s such an amazing game that I used a week of vacation time to do nothing except play that game. I’ve never done anything like that before. Forewarning, laying on the couch for a week straight doesn’t feel great physically.

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    I recently finished Grime (I got it for free on EGS). Not 100% tho.

    A metroidvania with lots of difficulty to it.

    Tho I found it to be a great game, but not amazing.

    The bosses have great music and a beautiful design, they offer a great challenge, and often a respoin point is close enough to not be an annoyance.

    There was some (multiple) places where area music was absent, and seemed sketchy.

    Weapon balance is, well not that great, due to stamina. The game heavily pushes towards using low stamina consumption weapons, which also attack fast and do low damage per hit.

    Higher damage per hit weapons are slower and use more stamina which is very punishing.

    The inability to change the mouse binds is also a disappointment. Tho good thing I had ghub to create macros for the game and allow me to change those.

    • latesleeper@lemmy.world
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      I just did unga bunga (strength) and had a fairly easy go of it. I put a good many trait points into stamina as well. I also invested into stamina regen abilities.

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    7 months ago

    I’m getting back into the witcher 3 horse. Ive played it on and off over the years but never completed it. I’m looking forward to putting more time into it because its a really cool game so far

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    Just Cause 2. The grind is pretty insane but it‘s a fun game with some quirks. I legit think the game would‘ve profited if it was only half as big lol

    It‘s an old game and has issues on modern PCs, if you experience crashes (very likely), then do some or all of the following: Avoid the skull island in the middle of the map, enable Win 7 compatability mode, run as admin, turn decals and bokeh off in the graphics options. I‘d also suggest installing a hookshot mod that raises the distance you can hook to, otherwise getting anywhere on the stupidly huge map is gonna be a pain.

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    Rip. And. Tear.

    Currently working my way through Doom Eternal and I think it’s one of the best first person shooters I’ve ever played. If you ever even touch a FPS game, you’ve gotta play this. The music alone is worth the price of admission.

    Side projects I have are Tails Noir, It Takes Two (also an incredible game imo), and Crash Nitro Kart. I have Nitro Kart on a bit of pause since the steam deck can’t emulate it well. Will have to move emulation and saves over to my PC sometime.