A new week and a new thread.
What are you all playing!
Street fighter 6 and valorant. Watching some puzzle games like viewfinder makes me want to go back and finish the talos principle, which I plan to do. Also need to finally play the third amnesia game so I can play the bunker.
Still playing a lot of Hunt: Showdown after 1k+ hours. Fantastic game.
Also just started Jagged Alliance 3. Loved JA 1 & 2, when I was younger. JA3 finally looks to be a good successor. I am still in the first few tutorial sectors and the game is already pretty harsh. A good start.
Started a fresh play of Mindustry this week and forgot how much I enjoy it. I play primarily on PC now to save my hands, but the mobile apps are free if someone wants to try it out!
Great game! And very playable on mobile too. I also enjoyed Shapez a lot. Looking forward to the sequel.
Shapez ruined me on Factorio. It feels like it took Factorio, removed all the weird distractions, and got down to the distilled essence of the genre. Everything else feels unsatisfying now. Send help!
Battlebit Remastered and MWII when my friends have been online
I really want to keep playing Satisfactory, we had just automated computers and aluminum, so I’d really like to build a huge train system and push into the endgame.
@chloyster right now Pikmin 4!! It’s a lot of fun
Sweet!!! I agree I’ve been absolutely adoring it. I think it’s probably my favorite one
I have started playing Pharaoh a new dawn and have really been enyojing it. Damn it brings back memoires.
I’m playing Dave the diver. It keeps me surprised, constantly adding new sections, while keeping the cor game loop fun. I suck at navigating though so I frequently get lost.
Yeah, Dave ate my entire weekend. Some issues, but great game overall.
ESO, picked it up because it was free and I have some friends who play it. The difficulty spike from literally anywhere else in the world and the imperial city is nuts, kind of wish every zone was this tough. I could do without the PvP though, I got floored pretty much any time another player showed up. Worth it for those extra skill points though.
X4 foundations with the boron dlc. I start and stop this one a lot. I’ve played hundreds of hours in this game and still feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.
Phoenix Wright trilogy
I’m playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS for friends), trying to get the Orb of Zot unsuccessfully.
My best runs so far are with a Minotaur, although a Gnoll is good too, more or less. The farthest I’ve arrived so far is Dungeon:12, and Orcish Mines:2 were nasty the two times I achieved to get into it.
Return to Monkey Island, Vampire Survivors and Northgard.
Plus, my boss bought an arcade cabinet for the office, so I’ve been playing lots of different arcade games, mostly Golden Axe, Bubble Bobble and Street Fighter II
pikmin 4! so excited to finally have my hands on a new pikmin game. the game is very streamlined and a lot of the minor annoyances of the older games have been eliminated by one design choice or another, and it is just really easy to sit down and play.
would recommend for new players and fans of the series.
Without any major spoilers how would you say it compares to pikmin 1/2? Pikmin 3 was okay but imo 2 was the best, and 1 suffers a lot from poor quality of life. Ive played every game so far around release and Im tempted to get 4 on my next paycheck. Is it more like the caves and exploration of 2 or the slightly more linear gameplay of 3?
its different from the other ones, mostly in terms of ui and game feel, but it plays the most like 3. the caves are great so far (if a little short, but there is still plenty more for me to do), overall its just been lots of fun but i do wish it was a little harder. The big areas are super cool, and the design improvements allow you to just go diving into any caves or dandori battles you find in your travels without having to worry about where are my pikmin, do i have everyone, do i have the right types, etc.
would definitely recommend it to any pikmin fans
I finally finished Persona 5 Royal the second time in a row, and moved on to…Persona 5 Strikers lol
I’m surprised nobody else is playing Remnant 2. It just came out and it’s pretty damn fun.
They called the original “Dark Souls with guns” and it’s definitely that sort of game in the sequel. But it’s not as punishing as a typical souls-like since there’s no death penalty. It’s perfect for my preferences since I hate the “losing all your money when you die” thing in Elden Ring.
Apparently it’s very fun in co-op but I have been playing solo so I can’t speak to that.
At only $50, it’s a pretty solid recommendation from me if “dark souls with guns” piques your curiosity even a little. AA title with no jank and I’ve only seen a single bug so far in my playing on XSX.
I was just watching a couple friends of mine stream Remnant 2 earlier and it does look pretty slick. It seems there is at least one puzzle that requires co-op to fully solve, and there may be more further in just so you and others are aware.
