What have you been playing this week? Do you think others might like it?
After a few years of mostly playing strategy & tactical games, I fired up Minecraft this weekend. I’d never really given it a proper try before, but it’s been refreshing and relaxing. I started on survivor mode but found the enemies kind of annoying, so I switched to peaceful survivor mode and that’s been fun so far. Just enjoying the “wander around and build stuff” atmosphere. Honestly makes me want to play more sandbox-y games after a while of mostly playing more intense stuff.
You might like Satisfactory. They added a peaceful mode recently and the game is heckin’ beautiful after the last update. Sometimes I’ll just stop playing the game and look at things now.
I’m playing Grim Dawn because i’m not a big fan of always-on in Diablo 4. So i’ve decided to give Grim Dawn a try and damn, i’m really loving it.
It’s a great game, I’ve been recommending people spend their money on it over D4, for the same price they could get all the Grim Dawn dlcs and have a stack more content in my mind (-:
I just fired up a GD game with a friend last weekend. I forgot how to play since it’s been so long.
Necro/Occultist all day long. BoneZone and the boys causing havoc all around.
Just finished up the System Shock remake. Been struggling to find a game to captivate me, but this one surely did the trick. Pretty week ending though… just like the original, hah.
Would love to see Ultima Underworld 1/2 get the same treatment.
I’ve been playing Prey. It runs great on Steam Deck and is a lot of fun overall. That and No Man’s Sky are my games of the summer so far
The new Season of Deep Rock Galactic. I don’t really like this seasons weapon frameworks, but there’s still some cool cosmetics to unlock. Like a plague doctor mask with a fancy hat. :3
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Rock and stone!
Battlebit remastered. Definitely got curious from their ads, but it is a battlefield experience like no other. Puts 2042 to shame. It looks silly but its challenging in all the right ways.
Little bit of Darktide. If you haven’t tried it since the rocky start, it’s not a bad time to get into it again. A lot of the content feels a lot more tight and there is more forgiving mechanics to get good gear. Other than that, more Warframe as the new update gets closer. Also a good time to hop in as well
If you’ve played Vermintide 2, is Darktide as good as it? I’ve been wanting to dip into the 40k setting but I’ve heard the game got a meh reaction so far
Honestly I don’t think so. It’s a more ranged-based version, and the aesthetic is extremely well done but I’d hesitate to say that it would give the same complete feel that Vermentide currently has. Then again, V2 has been out and developed for a longer period, so Darktide might get there with more time.
Thanks, perhaps I’ll give it some more time to finish cooking before I grab it lol. It sounds like it could scratch that itch that Left 4 Dead satisfied and Back 4 Blood couldn’t quite give me
It definitely scratches that itch for me, but totally check in every now and then to content creators to see how it looks and feels. It’s changed a lot over the past few months so here hoping it keeps growing
Final Fantasy XIV. As a decade+ WoW player, its really nice to find such a nice player base. I’m just hitting level 54 ( so between the base game A Realm Reborn and on my way into the first expansion ) and I’ve experience absolutely 0 toxicity.
Picked up Deep Rock Galactic based on recommendations in another thread, not very good at it yet but it’s a lot of fun!
Mechabellum. Nothing else.
Autobattler with mechs. Very lively atm and you get a game in a minute easily. Super well executed game, but it is in early access and definitely has jank when it comes to user experience.
Would 100% recommend.
I’ve started playing Deep Rock Galactic, and I’ve been loving it, even just playing a few solo missions to get a feel for it. I’m going to try to get my wife into it, since we’ve been looking for some more games to play together.
Outside of that, I’ve been playing Tears of The Kingdom and that’s been fantastic. Great follow up to one of my favorite games. And then mixing in some Overwatch as well which, despite its problems, is still pretty fun to play with some friends.
Deep Rock Galactic is such a gem that I can always come back to! I hope you two have a lotta fun with it. There’s a lot of cool stuff going on right now, with the lithophage outbreak, and a couple really tough enemies.
Yakuza! I finished Yakuza 0 after years of trying to get through it, and started Kiwami. It’s been a lot of fun.
Just finished Kiwami and enjoyed it. The random encounters got to be a bit much, and the side quests were pretty basic, but I was really impressed with the fighting and how much there was to do.
Yakuza 0 really is the king of sidequests, imo.
Need to rush to the bridge and stop someone getting shaken down?
Sure, but mahjong and crane games first.
I’ve been playing Ace Combat 7. It has been exhilarating!
Yo ace fan! One thing I love about the ace combat series are the soundtracks. Daredevil from 7 is just mwah phenomenal.
You are absolutely right!
Witcher 2 babyyyy. First time playthrough and it’s just… Like I’m a kid again and I can’t stop thinking about playing it again when I’m at work.
It’s been a few patches since last, and Update 8 is live on the Experimental Branch, so I started a new save of Satisfactory.
Never managed to get far in previous runs, because I tended to think complicated instead of thinking big, so have a new strategy this time. When I need modular frames, I find a fresh set of iron nodes and dedicate the entire output of those to modular frames. Things are more spread out, but collecting resources is an uncomplicated problem to solve.
So far I’m optimistic - feeling less overwhelmed.
I’ve been waiting on Satisfactory until it’s out of early access. Should I continue to wait or is it good now?
What is there is fun and stable. It’s easy to spend hundreds of hours as it is, so I’d give it a go. :)
Loving the new update - starting a new update 8 run with some friends, been a while! Getting horrendous frame stutter trying to play multiplayer at the moment, but I guess that’s the price to pay for running the experimental release.
I’m thinking about that too. My rail system is poorly planned. Either I can rip up a ton of spaghetti track or start over. Maybe I should start over.
It’s always annoying to restructure, as just tearing stuff down can destroy the infrastructure you need to build the new system.
In Factorio that was a non-problem as I’d just move a bit to the left on the infinite map and make a completely new base, but here I am stuck in place.
I’m not excited to deal with the in-place rebuild problem, so I just start over.
Yea, I was lucky to have a ton of hours in Factorio, so the Rail system is pretty well laid out. Ist still possible to to move and rebuild in Satisfactory, but it’s just so much more anoying than Factorio makes it
