Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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I got Krita on Steam, am drawing
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Cult of the Lamb, it's well suited to Steam Deck gaming and my desktop is currently in the back of a moving truck
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Good luck with your move! We moved, one year, from Vancouver to Ottawa, and for 6 weeks the movers had No Idea where the truck was. It was so stressful!
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I never got to finish FFX and lost my PS2 memory card, but recently got another copy and played a little bit of it earlier this week. So I am excited to some day get back to where I was. I basically got to the level up map thing before turning off for the night.
I am also excited because I'm waiting until I have time this weekend to experience Viva Piñata basically as blind as I can on 360 this weekend since I think the last time I played was a demo from around the time the first version of the 360 came about.
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Currently pulling my hair out with Tactics Ogre: Reborn. Got kind of fed up with the changes from the older games so halfway through I decided to blitz through the game and avoid anything optional; currently at the last few fights before the final boss and am feeling very afraid I'm going to get stuck at the end...
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You're not the only one working your way through it. There's so much I like about it, but, damn, it's hard to love. I just got to act 4, myself, and keep having the thought "this would be nice to have a friend who has played the shit out of this game to give me some guidance here and there"
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Lol I feel you. I did just manage to beat the game yesterday without too much headache so hopefully you can too. As long as you can keep clearing battles without a ton of restarts I think you'll be ok. Just make sure to have a lot of mana restoration items haha
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If you're still playing it, feel free to message me for tips on the Fediverse or on Discord. I love talking TO.
Difficulty definitely starts picking up chapter 4, so you'll have to start finding creative ways to work within the level cap. Gear crafting is one of them.
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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Need to play it again for the fourth time now
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Broke out the GameCube. SSX3 and Double Dash.
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Ssx3 is so good, I think it might be a perfect game.
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Assetto Corsa
Been driving various racecars on Tail of the Dragon. Good fun.
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Still dividing my time between trudging through the Chernobyl exclusion zone in STALKER: Anomaly and perusing scripts and configs to resolve conflicts and crashes as I either discover them or provoke them by continuing to either tweak existing mods on my list or add more to the pile.
I get like this frequently with modding, I don't know if it's a latent perfectionist streak or just your garden variety hyperfixation but I tend to lose myself in the desire to make everything just right and get stuck on that over actually playing. But I think I'm having fun with it as I'm hacking my way through making compatibility patches so maybe it doesn't matter?
It would be fun to actually finish the Mercenary storyline though. I haven't even progress past the starting areas of Cordon/Meadow/Garbage yet...
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There's a reason why heavily moddable games tend to bring comments like "yeah, so I played the game for 3 hours and spent 20 modding it" - the latter can be just as fun as the game itself.
I'd be curious about more of your thoughts about Anomaly as you continue your playthrough. While I'm not planning to jump back into Stalker any time soon, I'm always on the lookout for what to do when I do so more info could be useful. No pressure though!
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This is far from my first time in Anomaly, so I think that's a reason my posts have been a bit briefer than my usual rambling. But I can try to be a bit more elaborate going forward. What to do in Anomaly is so heavily dependent on what modpack (or custom modlist) you're running though. They can play out completely differently and sometimes have entirely different approaches. Like, playing GAMMA and playing EFP are entirely different animals.
How much have you played before?
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Still playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advance but it's becoming a bit of a chore now so Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on PS1 also gets a shout out.
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FFTA was the game that got me into trpgs. Absolutely love it. Character progression feels so good and I love the ability to pull a little bit from one job to another via the way the skills system works. I've been playing Tactics Ogre Reborn lately and it certainly has a much better plot, but I'd like it if character growth was closer to FFTA.
I have a lot of opinions about the plot to FFTA though. Marche frankly feels like the villain to me. His stated goal is literally to destroy the world.
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Witcher 3. Only 15 minutes in and I want to stop playing it already, which is a new record for how quickly I've got bored of this game in the half a dozen times I've tried to stick with it in the past.
I need to stop listening to people who tell me to give it one more try. I just don't like this game.
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I don't know how you would know that after 15 minutes, buy ok...
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the half a dozen times I've tried to stick with it in the past
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Why does combat feel so bad in this game at the start?
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The recent bloodletting of New World and release of its expansions for free drew me back to check things out a bit.
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How is it? I might need to find some sort of social game to play soon and I already own it, I think.
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I pretty much just treat it like an open world Ubisoft game. With more rubber banding.
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Finally started (and finished) Mario Odyssey. Wonder what happened to Nintendo, cuz this game is a pure love letter to Mario fans. Currently doing after game bonus stuff.
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I'm replaying Witcher 3 Blood and Wine. I had a completed game save that I jumped into. It only took me an hour or two to get back into the control scheme, which was a pleasant surprise.
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Went back to Celeste to do some D-sides. Best platformer ever, no contest :)
Some Dune Imperium on the iPad with some Ballatro games mixed in.
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Getting back into overwatch 2 cos they brought back 6v6 open que.
And it's free, works on Linux without anti-cheat hassles.
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Some WoW, some Zero-K.
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Which version of WoW?
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The mainstream, not the classic, usually horde on Staghelm. I did try Classic a bit, as I missed the challenge, but I had no playmates n classic for a while and when I came back they'd gotten to Cata; and that's when I noped out.
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Wildmender which I'm sure I got in a humble bundle. Both me and my wife have one. I ran into it as I was browsing my massive steam library for a casual game.
Its an open world sandbox survival. Clean simple graphics. Not really building but I get Don't Starve vibes but it's extremely forgiving.
The best part is the survival mechanics. You awaken in a ruined dessert world and work towards restoring it.
You need to stay hydrated and fed. So you need to grow stuff to eat and keep your water bottle topped off.
Its extremely gratifying to start off with just a desert with a small pool of water and end up with an oasis.
You can play solo or up to 4 player online/LAN.
The storyline is pretty good too. Combat is fairly easy but that's coming from a seasoned gamer. I don't think I'd die except from fall damage.
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I’m glad you made it through Halo 2 okay. I think I mentioned it a few weeks back but I definitely found 2 to be the hardest in the series on higher difficulties. Most of my love for Halo 2 came from the multiplayer actually. Dual wielding SMGs on Bloodgultch was peak video gaming for me. I still think CE is overall my favourite Halo game but 2 has always held a special place in my heart.
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Yeah, you certainly did. It's not a huge issue honestly - difficulty was high? That sucks but I simply lowered it, whatever.
My main problem, which isn't even a real problem, has to do with the atmosphere. Playing MCC made me realise that I simply prefer the (early?) book and Reach approach of subdued, bittersweet and somewhat tragic tone over the "action hero saves the day" of the mainline games. That's just personal preference though.Overall, my issues with the game aren't with its quality, it's more of a "me" thing.
I have no doubt multiplayer, whether co-op or versus, would be a good fun, it's just not something I can comment on. I have no one to play with in co-op and I don't really care about PvP any more. Gameplay does feel like it would work great in that environment and the nostalgia factor can not be understated - I also have plenty of games that might not be my favourites (or the best at what they do) but my memories with them leave me with a soft spot that doesn't care about objective facts.
It was an engaging experience and that's exactly what I hoped for when starting MCC for the first time.
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Seeing these remarks on the H2A soundtrack after having previously gone back and forth a bit on it makes me feel guilty, hopefully the callout of the difference didn't lessen the experience. I don't know about you, but I'm often blissfully ignorant until something just slightly negative is pointed out and then it becomes a bother. Glad you enjoyed it, either way! The H3 start was jarring for everyone though. I think one of the books gets into the details for what happens between 2 and 3, but not any of the ones I read. The short version is "Chief really wanted to go home to earth, so he got on a covenant ship going home. When they didn't go straight to the surface, he tried to do the sonic adventure 2 opening and surfed on a door from orbit down to the ground"
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No worries, it's not your fault - I simply found the tracks in the second half of the game to be weaker than the early ones. If anything I'm the opposite and tend to be way more critical about stuff that gets hyped up by everyone while trying to keep an open mind about things others complain about.
I remember surfing from one of the trailers, I think, I just hoped there'd be at least a short sequence on the ship and that surfing itself would be a part of the game (I expected a cutscene honestly). As good as these games are there are still some parts that feel a bit rough and unplanned. Oh well, it's not a huge issue.
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Lollipop Chainsaw Repop. It's very silly and mostly fun, but very button-mashy, I can't reliably trigger the more lengthy combos, and the cut scenes go on way too long.
I have rebounded in No Man's Sky again. I have speedrun the expedition 20 event and holy all these new features are so cooooooool.