Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?
(Same as last time.)
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Hands down one of the best games I’ve played ever. Really want to do another run through it, there’s just so much to explore in it. I really love the world building in it, just sucks you in completely.
What’s sad is not that no game has writing as good as Disco Elysium. It’s that no game even tries. Especially AAA games for whatever reason have had nosediving writing quality for a while.
Yeah, the writing in it is just outstanding. It really shows how games can be a real meaningful art form.
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“Clannad”
My little bro finished that game not too long ago.
And yeah, my bro finished over 90 visual novels so far.
@Makan I’m playing pathfinder wrath of the righteous, As soon as my busy week is over I’m going to start playing again.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
I also enjoyed Pathfinder: Kingmaker but not as much as its sequel.
I should play Owlcat Games’ newest Warhammer 40K video game as well!
Holy cow, Makan returned?!
On topic, I actually have something to say this time. I’ve recently finished Mafia (remastered one) and Mafia 2 (original). And good golly gracious are they something else! I’ve not felt this invested in a story in a long time. Feels like I’ve watched a high quality movie or TV series. The endings don’t pull punches and while you come into the game expecting heartbreak, it still slaps you in the face. Excellent stuff, even without communist themes or anything remotely close
I made an apology thread too.
But yeah. I’m back.
Welcome back!
Good to see you again!
I have finally, definitively finished Skyrim. I never did the Dawnguard DLC before when I first played but now I have. Overall, still one of the best games I’ve ever played even if it’s a janky mess.
I have finally, definitively finished Skyrim.
Just in time for the next re-release.
Noice.
What did you think of Dawnguard? I’m a big fan of Serana and wish the game had a number of followers with her depth.
She was kind of annoying but I appreciated the lengths they went too to make sure she wasn’t just another bland NPC companion with nothing interesting to say. I liked that touch where if you’re in one room for a long time she’ll start enchanting doing alchemy or something to pass the time. Makes her feel alive. The actual DLC was cool but I was disappointed with the lack of vampire hunting in the main story lol. It’s weird to have that all regulated to radiant side quests.
i’ve only been playing factorio lately. this is my current seablock map. trying to get the train based city blocks going. i’ve got basic resources going and about to start science blocks.
Ooh that looks good. I just started a new playthrough in the desert, but I’ve never really seen the highest tech levels because once I start connecting up trains is when I always get sick of my base layout and start over, lmao. I’m using a city block style layout now, hopefully I’ll actually stick to it.
Noice.
I have had that factorio itch a couple times recently, but holding off for the DLC.
Been occupying myself with Dyson Sphere Program instead.
I went back to finish Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. When that game came out I said that the best thing about it was free-flying through the Toriyama-verse - and that’s still true! More games need to just straight up give the player Superman-like flight, it feels so good in that game and in Xenoverse 2. That said I really wish that the “tenkaichi”-derived DBZ games could come up with a fighting engine that wasn’t just mashing light attack and spamming out your super moves whenever your ki refills. It doesn’t have to be as tight as DBFZ but something with customizable combos would be cool, maybe take inspiration from the likes of Godhand.
“SSJ2Marx”
Checks out.
Xenoverse 2 was awesome just for being able to create you oc and play with them
Helldivers II, Deep Rock Galactic, Dead Space remake, Mount & Blade: Bannerlord 2, Chivalry 2.
I like FPS, RTS, and the like. Not exclusively shooters, but swords and sorcery.
I haven’t completed the remaster, but I’ve played Dead Space before. I didn’t find the original scary (I played it after being spoiled by better graphics), but the remaster is definitely making me appreciate the original’s horror.
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Definitely queer-friendly.
I love the game. But right now I’m playing Elden Ring so I’ll get back to that later.
Then I’ll resume it once I complete Elden Ring.
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Probably the best time and opportunity to get into a “Soulslike” game.
Loved BG3 but yeah it kinda feels like a step back from Divinity in that way, instead of having mechanics built around being a cRPG you have awkward D&D mechanics that get in the way at times.
Disable karmic dice in the settings for better RNG.
I’m a bit of an indies person, so recently I’ve finished “Session: Skate Sim”, a game that really impressed me with the depth of its movement and how rewarding it feels to progress it. I’ve also just finished “Lonely Mountains Downhill”, that even though it doesn’t have advanced mechanics, more than makes up for it on the discovery factor by allowing you to forge your own path to finish the tracks.
Right now I’ve just started “Furi” that seems to be half 2D shooter half beat-em-up where there are only boss fights, all in great combination with the psychedelic graphics and electronic soundtrack. I’ve also started to play “Disco Elysium” as I’ve seen multiple people here and in hexbear recommending it, but just some hours in I can tell it’s going to take a long time to finish it.
Furi is really great! I love how they went the extra mile with your extra lives/boss phases, just a few animations and lines of dialogue add a lot to what would normally be dying and trying again.
Disco Elysium is one of about six games with writing I would consider “great”. Best enjoyed slowly, without spoilers and with as much exploration as possible. I love how the “fail and retry later” mechanic ties into not only gameplay but the reccurring theme of the story and of the main character, such a simple concept but it feels really meaningful as a result.
I’m more of a CRPG person (which is basically apart of the AA rather than the Indie and AAA scene).
Disco Elysium and now Baldur’s Gate 3 are good examples of this.
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Tagging those that were here before. Cheers!
love you babe!
Yay!
Thanks for the tag!
No problem!
Also, aren’t you on JFC?
What’s JFC?
Jedi Council Forums
Never heard of it, but I’ll have to check it out and pull a Jaina to get my account name back /humor
It’s great! Join and I give you a DM on what my account there is. We have a few MLs there too.
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Done!
Question of the week:
What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?
(Same as last time.)
I have been playing a lot, as usual, FFXIV. We are finally consistently seeing Ultima so maybe we’ll clear UWU soon?
It’s funny because even though I have 5200h of FFXIV, I’m not sure I’d call mmos my favorite genre. Most of them annoy me a lot after a week or so.
Oh, I loved Final Fantasy XIV when I played it but it was too expensive for me at the time when I did.
I hear the story-line is great.
Finished replaying God of War 1, planning to replay the 2nd soon
God of War Ragnarök?
nah, the “OG” god of war 2
Oh kewl
Just finished Bioshock and I’m on to Bioshock 2.
I’ll always love Bioshock, a great shooter on console. The storylines are really thoughful too. I wasn’t a big fan of the third one however. They really broke the oeuvre.
The third one is the one everyone hates, though it wasn’t always so.
With time? yeah.
