This is a very good time to pick up one or more Fallout game. The release of the show brings sales on the games on multiple platforms
Stardew Valley. I'm going to marry the fuck out of Abigail. I think I understand waifus now. I love her so much.
I'm finishing up Saints Row: The Third Remastered. I'm absolutely loving it, and I think I prefer it to GTA V. It's way less serious, but I actually somewhat care about the characters, unlike with GTA V. The side content is a lot of fun, and it has the turf war mechanic I loved about GTA SA.
I highly recommend it if you haven't tried it. It's a bit janky, but there's a lot of fun to be had imo, just don't take it too seriously (the game makes that really hard).
Have you gotten the Shark-O-Matic gun yet? It’s hilarious.
I just finished portal 1 & 2 for the first time! I was let down on the lore and story. I think if you were around on the internet when portal 2 came out in particular, you might understand. It just had so much reference in pop culture without explanation, i expected there to be more once you had context. I was let down.
That said DAMN these are excellent and fun games that are accessible to any player. The games are designed with fantastic visual clues to help you understand new puzzle elements. They are fun, not challenging to a frustrating degree, and the game is structured where you really can just play a bit before dinner or something.
Yeah, they definitely reached meme status, but they're really good puzzle games. The story and lore is, interesting I guess, but it's certainly not the focus of the game.
If you want a puzzle game with more interesting lore, play The Talos Principle. It's interesting if you're into philosophy, and it's still good if you skip the text entries.
Has anyone else played Rimworld? I picked it up but feel like Im lost. Ive watched a couple vods and seem to be doing everytjing correctly but idk. Just seems like Im nit advancing or maybe missing something??
I will never stop playing that game. I would suggest playing with "Peaceful" difficulty level at first (and maybe choosing Phoebe Chillax as narrator) so you'll have time to advance. There's so much to discover and do anyway without everything trying to burn your house down.
I've got way to many hours in rimworld.
Some tips.
Psychic shock lances are must haves. You can't make them but they are easy to buy from traiders and settlements. Two uses and they are gone but so worth it. They cost about 600 with two uses so 300 a zap. Here are some great ways to use them.
Raider with a great set of skills and traits. Zap him and stockholm syndrom him. Raider with nice very expensive armor. Zap and strip. You just spent 300 silver to buy a few thousand worth of armor and removed a strong enemy. And it doesn't have the tainted trait because he didn't die. Raider with a mini gun or doomsday launcher. Zap now you have it and they don't. Raider grabbed one of your pawns and leaving the map. Zap.
Insanity Lance is also good. Notably against any pawns with a rocket launcher. Have it shot it's friends. Or a good meele raider. Zap and the raiders are dealing with it while you are getting in position.
Both are consumables that you have to find or buy but are so profitable and can save your bacon.
You can pause and see all stats and equipment. When raiders show up check for pawns with skills you need or dangerous weapons like doomsday launchers.
Home zone is also where they clean. Turn it off in areas you don't need cleaned like crops. This saves a ton of pawn time. It's also where they fight fires. So you need to add it back when there is a fire.
If you are using mods complex jobs is a great choice. It breaks down jobs into more categories. So for example anyone can tend wounds but only good doctors can do surgery.
Combat keeps ramping up if you don't take losses and as you gain wealth. So you can end up with a very brittle base where any attack that can hurt you also is a almost total wipe. Look up kill box designs. They are almost required.
If you don't have a kill box. Having a pawn in armor and a shield belt with a smoke launcher firing at it behind cover is great in combat. Put it just in front of your shooters. The raiders shot at it and it doesn't take much if any damage. Letting your shooter pawns fire away.
If you want other tips let me know or check out Francis John. He has good guides and some of his playthroughs are great. I recommend the tribal wizards playthrough for fun.
When that poor pawn gets stuck in Australia having to wall him self in to hide from the mechs, raiders, and bugs. Rebuilding the wall from the inside as they chew at it from the outside.
The Long Dark.
Survival sim, in an arctic wilderness. It took me two weeks (occasional play only) to trudge through the snow and gather resources to smith some arrowheads for hunting. With that done, food is no longer an issue until my bow wears out. Better scour the forest for the right kind of wood, soon.
Playing Cyberpunk 2077, it's sometimes a little unintuitive. You're thrown into a world that doesn't explain anything about what's going on and is filled with so much stuff, but in general a really good game.
I've started Fallout 1 this week and not too long ago I finished Carmageddon 2.
Fallout is on sale (75% off);
https://store.steampowered.com/app/38400/Fallout_A_Post_Nuclear_Role_Playing_Game/
Carmageddon 2;
https://store.steampowered.com/app/282030/Carmageddon_2_Carpocalypse_Now/
Playing Planescape: Torment for the first time, amazing game though the rather dated interface can get tiresome.
Dunno whether this counts (free full game, no DLC, 10+ years old) but I’m loving battle for wesnoth. Some dialogue is stunted but it’s among the best hex grid strategy games I’ve played.
That game's closer to 20+ years old. It's been a very long time since I've played it. It was way back when gaming on Linux was mostly limited to games that had a native Linux release.
I just found out there was a series off "Wallace and Gromit" adventure games from Telltale (RIP)
bought them all on steam and playing the first episode now. So far the writing and visuals are spot on
I just bought Brotato on Steam. Shits fun af. It's like a roguelike but with no learning curve and literally anybody can play, but the higher levels are still difficult.
I finished Dave the Diver this weekend, great little game!
Now I've jumped board the No Man's Sky train again, for the first time in six (!) years. And so far it's been really fun and chill!
Played and beat Final Fantasy 8 for the first time. Bit of an unpopular opinion, but I enjoyed everything about it more than FF7 (which i also played for the first time a few months ago). As a long time JRPG player, the mechanics were really interesting and fresh. I liked the majority of characters more as well. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm coming to these games 20+ years later and don't have the nostalgia for them - I'm not sure. I can definitely see why people loved FF7, though I'm not one of them.
I'd love anybodies thoughts on this and their opinions on the two games!
Stardew Valley and Kingdom Come Deliverance are the two big ones at the moment. I've played both a bit at a time for a while now.
Stardew Valley needs little introduction. It's a beautiful gem of an indie game. I'm in fall of year two and just getting used to married life and making that sweet sweet gold making wine and jelly.
Kingdom Come Deliverance is an awesome RPG in a non-fantasy medieval setting. You're the son of a blacksmith and your town is burned by a massive army leaving you a refugee seeking to avenge your parents. You're no war hero or chosen one, just a man trying to find his place in the beautiful but uncertain world...and maybe learn to read while he's at it
I just started a new Fallout 4 playthrough after binging the show, and my wife hopped back into Fallout Shelter. I guess they added the show characters to FS so that’s fun.
Oxygen not included (with spaced out DLC)
Just got a new PC, and I'm running Linux as my only OS now, so I've been spinning up some of my old favourites to test things out.
Mechwarrior 5, Crusader Kings III and even a bit of Cyberpunk (technically older than 12+ months, but it doesn't feel in the spirit of this community)
The Witness.
It feels especially relevant to this community because I'm picking it up again after a hiatus of over five years. I tried back then but got hard stuck on a puzzle that I just didn't get, and I refused to look up the answer and spoil the joy of discovery for myself.
Anyway, playing it is 2024, after walking around for 30 minutes to refresh myself, I was able to solve almost instantly 😅 so now I'm back into the game and loving it!
It's a quintessential patient game, with its slow pace (including the walking pace - glacial when compared to action games), and puzzles that you can puzz over in between sessions (even for years like in my case).
I told this story to a friend, and they asked "so did this puzzle take you 30 minutes to solve, or 6 years?" Which is a thought!
I recently replayed the entire Arkham series, including Origins.
They all still hold up incredibly well (maybe Asylum a tiny bit less, it was the first one and it feels a little clunky when you're coming right off of City or Knight), the acting is timeless, the stories feel like classic Batman tales... They're just perfect Batman games; and damn near perfect games just in general.
Been replaying through Y's VII: Lacrimosa of Dana. Such a great JRPG and Falcoms sound team was absolutely on point for this title.
Me and a buddy have been replaying Battleblock Theater but trying to 100% all levels on hard mode, which we did not do back as kids lol
I've been playing fallout 4, got it a few weeks ago on sale for less than 8 bucks
Been playing nioh 2 since it was part of humble bundle's monthly. Game is as amazing as it is hard, barrier for entry is huge but can be really worth it if you enjoy mastering complicated systems.
Currently playing Zelda: Twilight Princess HD on Wii U. Game‘s good but we’re too spoiled with the aiming and fast Link we got in BOTW and TOTK
Finally started Fallout 2, I should have played it ages ago but it is kind of a slog at the beginning.
I'm also preparing to hunt Fatalis in MHW.
Picked up Talos Principle 1 and 2 for 20$. Really enjoying the first one so far. It's like Portal but more serious, makes you feel really clever, lots of "outside the box" thinking.
Wreckfest, I just can't get over how much fun it is to crash cars. :)
Replaying FO3 for the first time in ages and through TTW. A few sprinkling of mods to make the game feel more modern and omg is it a blast.
I got my (recently turned 12) son hooked on Civ5. He put 70 hours behind him in just a week during the Easter holidays.
So now we're playing multiplayer. I have my gripes with that game, but damn it never gets old.
P5 Royal. Hasn't quite grabbed me yet maybe because I played most of vanilla a few years ago and it's pretty slow going at times.
I finally got a vr headset so im currently playing half-life alyx. But its making me incredibly motion sick. So besides that im playing watch dogs 2 again.
I’m going through Mass Effect 3 now. When I started the series I thought it seemed good, but I didn’t really understand why it was so very popular. And then the story picked up, and I understood.
Then the opening scene of 2 came, and that was amazing. What a way to start a sequel.
Now in 3 I feel like they nailed the atmosphere. I can’t wait to see where the story goes.
Hellpoint.
Great soulslike
Doom 2016 & flatout (whatever edition was recently steamdeck verified).
Yakuza Infinite then to FF7 Rebirth. They both have japanised Hawaii in it
My wife and brother in law and I have been jamming on Valheim. I'm not usually one for survival crafting games, but it's great with other people.
BOTW on CEMU. A bit overhyped perhaps, but I'm enjoying the playthrough so far
I‘ve recently finished Fallen Order, Unravel, and En Garde.
Fallen Order was a nice game although I always felt like the game valued celebrating its animations over how in control I felt. It felt kind of sluggish to fight and the frequent traversal stutters were also a bit meh. It sounds like I didn‘t like it but I‘d give it a 7/10. There‘s also no fasttravel at all. It‘s absolutely worth picking up on sale if you‘re into soulslikes.
Unravel is a really old game, but it‘s a 2D platformer and through its realistic style stood the test of time thus far: It‘s great to look at even today. The story‘s somewhat emotional but if you don‘t like it, you can ignore it since it plays out wordlessly in the background. Puzzles and platforming sections weren’t frustrating and just fun. I think I looked up a solution like twice and it usually turned out there was an object I could interact with that I wasn‘t aware of. Fantastic music. The game‘s cheap and great, I‘d give it an 8/10. If it crashes on start up, you need to download and install the basic version of K-Lite Codec Pack, the game uses an old codec for videos that you might not have.
En Garde is a cheesy indie Zorro game with Sekiro mechanics and lots of environmental interactions. It‘s on sale on Steam right now for 10 bucks and absolutely worth it. Great music, combat feels snappy, the game does its thing and then it’s over, no fluff. It‘s also tough at nails to do no hit runs and pretty hard even on normal runs (it ramps up in chapters 3 and 4). However, it has „accessibility“ options which are basically just cheats (infinite health, auto parry, etc.), so tune to your liking. I‘ve beaten a lot of soulslikes and found normal difficulty enjoyable. 8/10.
Now it‘s back to Skyrim and Monster Hunter World.
I'm playing the original Phantasy Star via the SEGA Ages version on Switch. Very much enjoying the simplicity of an 8-bit RPG, but it's amazing to see how much they were able to push the Sega Master System to its limits.
Also trudging through Dirge of Cerberus on PS2. It's clunky and jank as hell but I love the atmosphere.
If you haven't tried Spiritfarer, it's absolutely worth the playthrough. So many feels...
Driver: San Francisco and loving it!
Returned to my beloved 3DS to play a fan translation of the Japan-only Rocket Slime 3. The translation itself is solid, though there are a bunch of text rendering issues. Nothing that ruins the experience. I loved the previous game and this one is a very similar experience, but I think I preferred the mecha fights of 2 over the pirate ship battles of 3.
The gameplay balance is all over the place, unfortunately. Regular adventuring off-ship is dead easy and a little dull. The boss fights in particular are incredibly uninspired. But the ship battles wildly fluctuate in difficulty. Some I manage to Perfect without much challenge, others have me hanging on by a thread and landing me on the Game Over screen more than once.
I'm on the last chapter of the main quest and will probably give up soon on trying to complete everything as I've read the final post-game gauntlet is absolute hell.
A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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