Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you’re currently playing? Anything like Helldivers 2 or any other multiplayer games?
FarCry 2 is a habit of mine because I love the early 2000s war-torn Africa setting. All the enemies are racists, conscripts or mercenaries and the guns rust and fall apart. It does have an unfortunate contingent of Rhodesia/Apartheid fetishists.
BG3 on PC, mass effect crysis 2 on steamdeck
The Great Ragtime Show on picade
picade?
It’s a raspberry pi running an emulator for old school arcade games. Fun little retro thing
Played Recently:
Animal Well. It’s fine, I am not really a metroidvania guy though. Foundry. Also fine. It’s a factory game in the vein of Satisfactory, though with a procedurally generated world instead of a static one. Has potential, needs a lot more time before it really stands out from the competition.
Genres:
RPGs and factory/automation/base-building games for the most part.
Live Service Games:
I periodically have phases where I get pretty into Warframe, and now is one of those times. It’s a pretty good “podcast game” to do other stuff during, I generally really like a lot of the art design and lore of that universe. As far as a live-service game it has a relatively decent business model, basically everything is available in-game, though they will happily take all the money you have if you so choose.
I used to play Dead by Daylight because I love horror, but I am so fantastically bad at that game that I ended up dropping it.
I decided to try Stellaris. The changes post 2.0 are not as complex as I thought. I still miss the wormhole and warp drives though. I also liked picking between laser/bullets/torpedoes. Wish they would bring that back. In this game, I’m a Megacorporation that has almost turned the entire galaxy into it’s subsidiary. Only 1 empire remains, they have a few subjects of their own, but it’s just a matter of time until they’re torn apart and become a subsidiary. After that, all that is left is to destroy Unbidden which should be appearing any time now.
Stellaris never fails!
I’ve been playing a lot of Helldivers 2, Stellaris and Baldur’s Gate 3.
I love strategy games. I played tons of solo Mario Party as a kid, I’ve been hooked on “map games” ever since.
I’ve been playing a lot of Helldivers 2, Stellaris and Baldur’s Gate 3.
Those three games are a common thread here.
I’m not playing any multiplayer, I’m currently playing Fallout 2
Good choice.
Pro soccer online still and GTA4 and 5
I have recently played Team Fortress 2 with someone from school whose name I won’t mention for anonimity reasons. I have also recently played modded Skyrim Special Edition. I’m not sure whether Tf2 counts as live-service or not, bc it hasn’t had a major update in 6 years. I also plan on buying Helldivers 2
Finished Outlast 2 and Alien: Isolation, all achievements, it was literally insane.
I might play something to chill out next lol.
Favorite genres: horror(mostly indie), sci-fi/action adventure and crime.
Bloodstained recieved its last patch. What a letdown of a game.
I just started playing realm of the mad god, bullet hell mmo
just finished FF7 Rebirth a few days ago and really loved it; I think it’s probably gonna be my personal GOTY. Now I’m working on Stellar Blade and eventually I should have some time to finish Dragon’s Dogma 2, right? …Right???
As for the question I stopped playing Helldivers 2 because I got kinda bored with it. It’s a good game but eventually you get burned out. I might pick it back up when they release some more stuff to do.
Finished Subnautica, what a great game.
Going through Fallout 4, it’s garbage quality but there is something to the gameplay loop that makes me go in a trance and spend a ton of time on it, prob should just stop playing.
I also purchased the entire Yakuza bundle, so i have enough gaming content for years.
As for live service games, i play Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact. Which IMHO, are very high quality games even if they’re toxic gachas.
I’ve decided it’s time to restart my Destiny addiction. I redownloaded 1 and 2 and I’ll be making a new character this time.
Replaced League of Legends with a punching bag and running. Real life is now my video game.