Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?
(Same as last time.)
I’m trying to play a lot of stuff at the same time to see if the constant shifting keeps me interested in all I’m trying.
What video games have you played recently?
- Recently I started my second playthrough of Sekiro, I first played and finished it when it launched I think.
- I’m in the middle of my first Hollow Knight playthrough and this game is fucking amazing.
- I recently started a new Elden Ring character too, she is named ComradeTarnished and I don’t know exactly what build I want, but I want to try a shotel with parry and a hammer on the right hand, it probably won’t work well so I’ll most likely end up trying a Grave Scythe blood build, this is probably gonna be the character I do the DLC with when it launches, but I don’t know if I wanna do it in NG or NG+1.
- Yesterday I started Lies of P for the first time too, and while I’m still getting used to the movement, this game seems to be really good, at least on first impression, I hope it lives up to the hype surrounding it, I’m having fun so far.
- Today I tried an hour or so of the Archthrones mod beta for Dark Souls 3, I picked the starting class with a bandage in the head that looks sick as fuck. Besides a few things it’s really cool, can’t wait to finish the demo.
What are your favorite video game genres?
I think my answer above shows that its Souls/Souls-like lmao.
What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?
Haven’t finished a game in months sadly, the last one I did was Katana Zero, but it was like my 7th or 8th run. Still great tho, I gotta get around to finish getting all the achievements, there’s only two left.
it was like my 7th or 8th run.
Impressive.
Also, “ComradeTarnished,” nice.
Impressive.
Thanks! I realized I phrased it a little weird, I didn’t mean run like in a roguelike because it is not that, but meant that I finished the game 7 or 8 times now lol. If you like short fast-paced sidescrollers with outrun themes and a perfect soundtrack I highly recommend it, it’s a literal gem. Also, the later plot points are inspired by the Vietnam war.
Also, “ComradeTarnished,” nice.
The shotel and hammer I mentioned is supposed to mimic the hammer and sickle, I hope the build works out lol.
It works. Hamsics generally change between communist party or communist group depending on the country.
@Makan I’m playing pathfinder wrath of the righteous, As soon as my busy week is over I’m going to start playing again.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
I also enjoyed Pathfinder: Kingmaker but not as much as its sequel.
I should play Owlcat Games’ newest Warhammer 40K video game as well!
League of Legends. I don’t play it for fun, I play it for ego boosting and a sense of accomplishment in reaching higher ranks. It’s such a toxic piece of crap but I’m stuck with it because I’m addicted to the drug of the victory screen. Nothing beats the catharsis of writing an essay to your teammate when you get angry at them.
Ugh, I hate toxicity (no offense or anything).
And yeah, if it helps you with, I guess, feeling good, go for it!
I was considering making a thread about it, but I made a minecraft 1.7.10 modpack awhile ago and wanted to post it here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqIwFSfZlFJbkTiNsCJvLyTWzOYh
It’s a hardcore pack that takes a lot of the mechanics of the base game and completely redoes them. Here are a few of the changes
- Sprinting speed is now the default. Sprinting now doubles your speed (where before it only increased by 15%)
- Better movement. Use LeftALT to grab ledges, crawl on the ground. Hold shift to charge a super jump
- Damage Invulnerability is completely disabled, both you and the enemies can attack you as fast as they want (careful of lava!!)
- More enjoyable early game. Wood tools were replaced with stone tools, and stone tools were replaced with flint tools
- Lowered mob spawn rate by A LOT but increased the mob cap by a lot as well. Non-zombies spawn 4x slower than base rate
- Optionally disable hunger mechanics, reverting to Alpha where food gives you hearts directly. This is on a per-player basis.
- Zombies are faster (to match your increased speed), spiders have 75% damage reduction and more health (bring bane of arthropods!)
- Enchanting is removed completely. Now you can craft enchanted books, and some crafting recipes will apply enchantments automatically
- Science theming on mods with a touch of magic. Build a realistic electrical grid to power chemical fusion then go to space
- Meticulously balanced economy. Zombies drop money which can be used to buy materials through Universal Value (EMC)
- Anti-kitchen sink design. Every mod inclusion had a lot of thought put into how it would affect the experience.
- Anti-grind design. Yes you CAN grind if you want, but if you hate doing things over and over again, there’s always a better way.
- Long-term gameplay in mind. Designed to be played for years, unlike other packs that quickly get stale after you beat them.
- New additions periodically added. For example, a recent change brings the 3x3 crafting table into your inventory
You can make Minecraft modpacks?
Never played Minecraft… perhaps I should.
I don’t condone piracy, so you can legally obtain a copy of 1.7.10 online
Gotcha, gotcha.
I’ll warn you though, the base game fucking sucks. It might be worth doing a playthrough just to learn the vanilla mechanics, or you can just say fuck all that and jump right into the superior experience and deal with the learning curve that comes with it.
Sounds good.
I’ve never ever ever played Minecraft and even actively avoided it because I didn’t want to get too addicted as a result.
I have been playing a lot, as usual, FFXIV. We are finally consistently seeing Ultima so maybe we’ll clear UWU soon?
It’s funny because even though I have 5200h of FFXIV, I’m not sure I’d call mmos my favorite genre. Most of them annoy me a lot after a week or so.
Oh, I loved Final Fantasy XIV when I played it but it was too expensive for me at the time when I did.
I hear the story-line is great.
Finished replaying God of War 1, planning to replay the 2nd soon
God of War Ragnarök?
nah, the “OG” god of war 2
Just beat the Resident Evil 3 Remake for the first time yesterday and enjoyed it! It’s a bit on the short side, but I don’t believe length is a virtue, and RE games have a lot of replayability. I didn’t enjoy it as much as RE2R (I prefer the level design and backtracking in RE2 and the story/characters are much stronger), but it’s still a solid experience, and I’m looking forward to doing some achievement hunting so I can unlock the power ups and unlimited weapons for some S Rank and challenge runs on higher difficulties. Then, next stop: RE4R! RE4 is one of my favorite games of all time (real brave opinion, I know), so I’m interested to see how they adapt the grandaddy of 3rd person over-the-shoulder shooters for the REmake style of gameplay.
I had been working my through a first playthrough of Dark Souls 1. I finally managied to snag it in a steam sale so I can officially do a full series playthrough. I’m no stranger to the soulslike genre and picked up a +5 Black Knight Sword very early on so it’s been a fairly easy run so far, aside from the early souls jankiness which took some getting used to again. I got stuck on Manus and decided to take a break so I’m hoping to get back in and finish tying up loose ends before heading to finish off Gwyn.
I’ve always wished that Souls games had a sliding New Game plus system where I could start a playthrough at like NG+2 or something because NG is generally too easy, but I’m not usually one to do NG+ in general. Once I beat a game once I’m done with it for years usually
Life hasn’t been great recently so I’ve mostly been playing more mindless games where I can have fun and drink beer. Mostly Helldivers 2 and Chivalry 2, maybe Dead Cells or Risk of Rain 2 if I’m in a rougelite kind of mood.
I’m playing my own Souls-game… Elden Ring.
Good luck! I’ve played through most of it, but open world games are tough for me in general. I always have a compulsive need to do and find everything and then end up burning myself out.
I love open-world games, but there’s too much of them, and so they don’t feel that special.
Currently playing Spiritfall, best way I can describe it is of Dead Cells meets Super Smash Bros. It’s a really fun rogueluke with good pacing and mechanics. Recently finished Viewfinder which was a real gem. If you enjoyed Portal then highly recommend checking it out. And speaking of Portal, I really enjoyed Portal Revolution, free if you already have Portal 2.
Heard good things about Spiritfall. Viewfinder is also great. Portal I’m kinda done wanting to play considering we’re never getting a Half-Life 3 (we got that VR game but how long ago was that?).
I’ve just accepted that HL3 isn’t happening at this point. :)
I got excited after the VR game came out… but you know how it is…
Just as much as Valve giveth, they taketh as well…
indeed
Certainly.
Played a lot of Balatro. Though I made the mistake of beating gold stake on checkered deck first and now I can’t seem to play non flush builds lol. It’s a great game but I’m kinda getting bored of it at this point.
Honestly it’s a great game but I hate how they handled the balance. Some jonklers completely overshadow others, face cards are overtuned to shit and straights are a complete and utter joke in a game where flushes and even 5-of-a-kinds are easier to pull off.
It has the potential to be way better but it’s held back by braindead strategies where you just roll the shop hoping for the combo you want, only to drop whatever you were building towards because that one overpowered bottom-text showed up and it’s now become a face card run.
Boss blinds also don’t feel like they do enough to oppress “all in one basket” strategies, which makes every run extremely stale where you just put all of your power into one optimal strategy and just have that carry you well into endless. Bosses should punish you for playing too optimally, not for playing not optimally enough. Some blinds do have the potential to shut down a run but by that point you can just reroll.
Retrigs are probably the worst mechanic in the game, not only do they slow the pacing down to a crawl (there’s a reason everyone turns game speed up to 4x once they get one) but it turns some of the cards from nice bonuses into exponential monsters as their bonuses compound with each retrigger. I like the idea of retrigs but they absolutely should be reworked to do all your retrigs all at once. That would fix it compounding multipliers and where stacking retrigs makes each hand take like 20 seconds to complete. If you have 3 retrigs than it will roll your odds 4 times and then multiply card (and joker) bonuses by 4x. Still really powerful but not an absolute slog that breaks the scaling.
I heard great things about Balatro, but I had a feeling it would get boring really quick.
What video games have you played recently?
Secrets of Grindea with my gf, and the original Metal Gear Solid on my own.
What are your favorite video game genres?
JRPGs and 2D platformers
What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?
As I mentioned before, the original Metal Gear Solid. I found that the gameplay and game design haven’t aged well but I can see why it was revolutionary for the era. I am mainly referring to most of the combat setpieces, the stealth sections and the adventure game-like riddles were good. The aesthetics, sound design and atmosphere in general were excellent, with the voice acting being insanely good for that time. I also thought the story was good even if the character writing is a bit amateurish at times, with a plot twist that I thought was amazing and very well executed. The themes are also pretty good and interesting even if they aren’t as deep as some fans would have you believe (although all of us are guilty of this with the things we like I guess)
Don’t you mean “Grandia” instead of “Grindea” or am I wrong here?
Also, Metal Gear Solid 1?
Oh yeah, and I can tell that JRPGs are definitely your favorite if you’re playing Grandia.
Good luck on playing Metal Gear; maybe it’ll be in time for a new Metal Gear Solid game that Konami will inevitably do by asking Kojima back.
It is this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/269770/Secrets_of_Grindea/
It was in early access since 2012 and just released, it’s pretty fun in co-op and you can play with up to 4 people
2012? And just released?
Wow…
Also it was MGS1, not MG
Right, got it.
Recently picked up Borderlands 3 and am LOVING it. In my search for info, I’ve seen threads from release about how terrible it is. I have NO idea what those people are talking about, maybe it’s fixed now. But the game is GREAT!
Favorite genres: RPG, looter shooter, puzzle, sim, action adventure, action sports
I heard that people hated it 'cause it has bad villains or whatever.
Not as good as the last one.
Made an edit regarding that! I agree they aren’t “great” villains, but I don’t hate them. They’re just “fine” and “okay”.
I have finally, definitively finished Skyrim. I never did the Dawnguard DLC before when I first played but now I have. Overall, still one of the best games I’ve ever played even if it’s a janky mess.
I have finally, definitively finished Skyrim.
Just in time for the next re-release.
What did you think of Dawnguard? I’m a big fan of Serana and wish the game had a number of followers with her depth.
Noice.
Been playing a lot of Black Ops 2 Zombies w my friends and brother lately, mostly the map with the lava all around. Other than that on my free time I play a lot of GTA 4. I fucking love GTA 4, I could spend hours talking about it and all the little tricks and exploits that aren’t as obvious in game
You mean the lava map with the car and everything?
I forget which one, but it has lava everywhere and Pack-a-punch is in the first stage/starting area of the zombies map
My friend gifted me Baldur’s Gate 3 last week so that’s what I’ve been playing pretty much the entire week in between Genshin and Star Rail, lol.
I like the game, the world is interesting and the roleplay stuff is a lot of fun. Even without mods, the character customization is very good (and queer friendly too!), and with mods it’s an entirely new level.
My only gripes come from the RNG nature of the combat, sometimes the DnD aspect of the game holds it back cause you keep missing spells or skills, or constantly need to rest and long rest to “replenish” magic, which even in DnD I wasn’t a huge fan of. This means battles can take a really long time, and sometimes you just don’t feel strong (like having a cleric that has limited healing), which kinda defeats the whole purpose of being in a fantasy world with magic powers.
Disable karmic dice in the settings for better RNG.
Loved BG3 but yeah it kinda feels like a step back from Divinity in that way, instead of having mechanics built around being a cRPG you have awkward D&D mechanics that get in the way at times.
Definitely queer-friendly.
I love the game. But right now I’m playing Elden Ring so I’ll get back to that later.
Then I’ll resume it once I complete Elden Ring.
Haven’t played Elden Ring but I’m also not a Soulslike person, lol. Everyone says it’s good though!
