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The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion

Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!

Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.

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  • I got super into Rimworld this last month and had a blast. I am also closing out my first playthrough of BG3, doing it with a friend so it's taking a bit longer. Picked up the new Cyberpunk DLC but haven't really had a chance to dig into it yet.

  • I finished Spiritfarer, and I gotta say, I was underwhelmed. The game told me I was the new Charon and promised me an emotional experience of helping spirits come to terms with whatever was holding them back before disappearing forever.

    What actually happened, is that I found myself in the company of very demanding (and, often enough, even quite rude) spirits who never actually bothered with interacting with me on anything more than a very superficial level, mostly just to ask for arbitrary and very specific things. "Stella, I want Fried Chicken" (which requires ingredients that you can only craft hours later). "Stella, I want expensive furniture for my house". "Stella, go buy a rose bouquet and expensive-looking jewelry for my wife".

    There were too few interactions with them to form meaningful connections, and by the time they were gone, I felt like I didn't really know most of them. They never interact with one another, either, and they are completely dependent on you to do even the most basic of things. One of them wanted to throw a party, and wanted me to ask other spirits what they wanted to eat, as if he couldn't do it himself. One was gifting me food every day, and at the same time was asking me to feed him. By the time they were gone, I was relieved that they weren't there anymore to bother me with their silly requests.

    The first few spirits are probably the best (Deer, Frog, Porcupine), but most of the later ones are not as well written. Bull is just "generic cartoonish mob guy", Parrot is "dnd guy". Falcon wanted to build a museum and... That was it, that was his entire personality. I don't even know what the deal was with Dog, she just acted like a self-righteous and abusive teacher for a while, and then asked me to set sails to the place where souls go. They don't show any personality beyond their distinctive trait, feeling one dimensional, boring and, ultimately, fake. The fact that huge swathes of backstory for all spirits are hidden away in the artbook doesn't really help.

    And despite you trying to help, none of them really comes to terms with what was holding them back. Most just... Give up and accept to disappear. Which kind of makes sense, considering the actual story of the game (which you can piece together as you play), but it is underwhelming and the exact opposite of what I was promised when I first booted it up, and kind of a bleak statement by the developers.

    And that's the story. The gameplay is just a repetitive grindfest that stretches on twice as long as it should. At first it looks like a cozy, relaxing experience, but soon enough you find yourself working around the clock to grow crops, melt ore, feed herds, check on the spirits daily to give them food and keep them happy, and the situation grows worse and worse as the ship gets bigger, more tasks are added on top of the previous ones, and more spirits join you on your travels. It gets overwhelming.

  • Still playing a lot of Lies of P recently while trying to go for 100%. I underestimated how long this'll take honestly, it seems like you need to do 3 separate playthroughs and be very careful about easily missable quests and records. Same shenanigans as dark souls really.

    Still, it's a really fun game. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys the souls games.

  • Still on the Street Fighter 6 grind, just picked up another character, Luke. What a dumb stong tool set, placed into Diamond for ranked which is my highest by far(usually into mid plat).

    And then finishing up Cyberpunk, DLC was awesome, and patch 2.0 has refreshed the game. Cleaning up the map and doing every quest I can, hopefully get this wrapped up this week as well and can move onto another game.

  • Rogue Tower - Steam description: Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.

    I've enjoyed unlocking all the cards and completing the 1-path (simpler) mode. Now I'm working on 2/3/4 path modes and finding them much more difficult. Uncovering levels of strategy I didn't know existed in this game after simpler mode. Surprisingly complex for a tower defense and very interesting.

    Also, CS2. Still fun to shoot people in the head.

    • I’m not sure how I feel about the revamped buy system in CS2, but I guess it does make it easier to add more alternate guns.

      • I am also uncertain but it does seem better than the old 2 layer/level system. I don't like limiting the choices but I do tend to only use a few weapons.

  • I’ve been playing The Outer Worlds for the first time since it released ages ago.

    It is a great little roleplaying adventure game. I should do a stand alone post on it, in large part because it is almost always compared to Fallout New Vegas, which does it a disservice by setting up the wrong kinds of expectations.

    I do enjoy playing a first person RPG that actually feels like a story rather than the increasingly bloated and unfocused Bethesda games which it is also often compared to.

  • I’m trying to play Returnal. It’s beautiful but I’m not sure the gameplay is ok for me. Next up is Cyberpunk DLC!

  • Just finished FFXVI finally. Loved it. I'd probably rank it somewhere in the middle of the Final Fantasy games I've played. The ending was a bit mundane, but the rest of the story was really well done and the combat got better and better as the game progressed.

    Not sure what to play next, FFII, The Last of Us Part II, Returnal, Rogue Legacy 2. Might get back on Halo Infinite when they introduce Firefight finally, but I'm really not expecting much from that game.

  • Just got back into Dofus Touch. I'm not far on either Touch, the PC version, or the sequel Wakfu, but they are at least fun enough for me to enjoy.

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