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Vampire Survivors
Starfield and Final Fantasy 14. Both have been hard to find time for with general lack of time in life.
Starfield: still enjoying it a lot. I know it is going to bore me eventually, but for now the exploration and personal narrative I've been rolling with have been enough to keep me interested.
FF14: My static fell apart and we've given up on Savage raiding for this tier. There is a huge backlog of activities I haven't been able to do this whole time while Savage prog occupied 90% of my time in-game, but now I can't choose where to start.
Starfield and Brotato
Getting bored. Starfield is just a buggy mediocre FPS. Everything else in it is giving me serious 'no man's sky' vibes and not in a good way.
Starfield is a classic case of some misleading marketing on purpose, and, well, it just falls into the perpetually doomed category of games/media that will always suffer from extremely high expectations: sci-fi/space/cyberpunk. The imagination wanders especially far with games like these, and there's little to none us, the consumers, and they, the devs and publishers, can ever do about it.
That being said, you're right in not praising the game. It's a niche fun in my opinion, and only shines if you take it for what it is, but not for what it seemed to have been marketed as.
TL;DR Stafield is a Bethesda game through and through, but with a coating some Microsoft PG-13 "play it safe" attitude.
Starfield, like a maniac.
Yeah, me too. Just shy of 140 hours in and still having a blast.
Just joined the Crimson Fleet for the first time, got my first custom spaceship that I'm happy with, still haven't completed the UC questline, hardly dug into outposts at all...
I may be here for some time :)
Armored core 6. Finished one ending yesterday and on ng+ today. I'm way more invested in faceless characters than I thought I could be and there was an unexpected anime like fight that hit me in the feels
Got yuzu running on Ubuntu so I'm finally play breath of the wild ! I don't normally pirate games but I don't want to buy a switch for one game .
Funnily enough playing BotW on CEMU was what got me to get a switch, it was just so good I wanted to play it without any caveats or messing with settings or working around the gyro controls and the allure of playing it portably anywhere was high.
Loving Starfield! Its not perfect but still very fun 😀
Ac Odyssey. Hopefully finish it soon. Been good but a bit of a long slog. How would I know which quest is just a standard fetch or which one is worth it.
The quests you get from the quest boards, especially the ones with the hourglass icons can be pretty much blanket ignored. Otherwise you can tell when talking to the quest giver if Alexios/Kassandra accepts the quest generically and doesn't respond to anything the giver says very specifically other than "I'll take care of it" or things like that.
I love the shit out of that game, have been world exploring and only doing the unique side quests.
I love AC. Or... did.
AC Odyssey was the first one in the entire series I couldn't push myself to finish. I used to love just bumping around eliminating every single map icon, but Odyssey was way, way too big, and having my zen ruined by bounty hunters all the time was exhausting.
I heard Valhalla was even worse. It was the first one I skipped after playing each one since the original (even some of the 2D ones).
You can just pay off your bounties instantly at any time from the map screen, and I've always had so much money in that game that I've never had to deal with a bounty hunter unless I wanted to, and I don't even sell any gear, I dismantle it all.
If you're a compulsionary completionist then the game is probably too big, but they make it as friendly as they can to not have to complete the world. Unique gear drops only seem to come from unique Cultist leaders or checking vendors, and there's no achievements for completing all map markers, it's just supplemental content for XP and some gear or if you just really want to do it, there's no huge cost to just moving on to actual quest content if you want.
They don't tell you when you've completed a whole region for a reason, to disincentivize completing it all unless you're a madman. I'm doing world completion just because I like grinding the game, but it's been two years in the making with big breaks in between, and if you ever feel like your gear or levels are behind the curve and you have to grind, the difficulty settings can be changed and can be set as forgiving as you like, they actually alter the level scaling and RPG aspects.
I think it's a great game worth playing, but you do need to be ready to tell yourself when enough is enough because they give you too much for weirdos like me that just wanna experience it all over a really long... Odyssey.
I'm glad you had fun with it. Do accept that my inability to have fun with it doesn't negate any of the enjoyment you got out of it. Respectfully, something this long instructing me of all the ways I must have played it wrong if I didn't enjoy it as much as you comes off as a little condescending. I'm sure it wasn't your intent, but like... I know I have the option to put it down or skip things. I know I can pay off bounties. I was there, these systems and ideas are not hard to find. But for me, the fact that I'm allowed to skip engaging with a system or put it down before I see all the devs put there for me to see is the opposite of a selling point.
For me, it's like I ordered a meal at a favorite restaurant, the plate came out with portions three times larger than expected and gorgeously plated but with so little seasoning I couldn't stomach it. Saying "you don't have to eat it all" and "there's salt on the table" doesn't make it a good meal.
We find different things fun, and that's okay. May we both have a good time with Mirage.
Sorry, my intent was not to sound condescending, I was erring on the side that you weren't aware of the ways you could get around those issues in order to enjoy the parts you wanted to. Your criticisms are definitely valid, I would agree that even needing to know about the workarounds sort of proves that what was included wasn't an entirely cohesive and tight product to begin with, the way I played is not necessarily right or wrong, and neither is yours, it's just how I was able to mine the most enjoyment out of what was there.
My main idea is to not let someone see your comment and assume that that's how the game is and there's not another way to enjoy it or any clear ways to identify where content you'd want to play begins and ends, I was able to figure out and selective play the parts I enjoy, but even still there is content in that game that I skip because it's, definitively, not fun. Even still, it's become one of my favorite games of all time, but no one game is for everyone, thanks for the mature discussion, sincerely!
Yeah. I beat Odyssey completely. Absolutely loved it. I'm a huge fan or Norse mythology so I thought Valhalla would just totally captivate me but... I got bored! It was just too much. Started to feel incredibly repetitive.
I really enjoyed it. Beautiful scenery to explore but it is annoying with bounty hunters. There's just too many quests. I think Valhalla was actually better in this regard. Honestly all games are repetitive. Most RPGs have a lot of fetch quests or something similar.
It's not too bad of the game is 40 hours or so. It really grinds you down if it's so big with millions of exactly the same quests. Each island each city.
That game is unbelievably long, especially it you do the dlcs
I've lately finished my first playthrough of Katana Zero. Wondering about whether I should leave well enough alone or try for another ending. I might not have time honestly.
Recently just got into Tunic! Amazing game!
Sea of Stars has been the only game I made time to play in months.
I recently introduced Untitled Goose Game to my 10 year old daughter, and now that's all she wants to do with me every evening after her little sister goes to bed. So... That's pretty much all I've been playing.
We'll see what the next obsession will be.
Recycling my comment from the other day. I am close to finishing The Outer Worlds. The game has a somewhat mixed reception when it comes up in discussions online and I think it's mostly because the developer Obsidian made New Vegas and Outer Worlds apparently is the worse game. So, I never played New Vegas and therefore can't compare the two. I do enjoy my time with Outer Worlds very much!
I accidentally bought the outer worlds mistaking it for the outer wilds. I beat it but was annoyed the whole time lol.
Starfield, BG3, Battlefield 2042. Whenever I actually get time to play any of them.
Path of Exile, BG3, Last epoch...
My third time through factorio. This time with K2+SE mods. It's taking a long time. Most of the time I'm waiting for my rockets and leave it afk for hours. Total play time 800+ hours, most of which I swear is afk! I've almost set up an outpost for every resource now, so that should make my life much much easier.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon! It's on steam sale for $12 reg version, but I bought the Hero Edition for $14. It has two extra job classes and something else I've forgotten. I'm 4 hours in and it's been a LOT of character and plot set up while just scratching the surface of their turn-based combat. The story is pretty good so far and full of Japan's particular brand of uncanny fringe humor that I'm expecting to snowball as time goes on.
Trying to beat the high alchemist in Noita, but I haven't been able to find a personal fireball thrower spell to stick on the high alchemist. I mostly end up dying anyways through normal progression
Replaying red dead redemption 2 for the third or fourth time, just chilling around in chapter 4. and some battlefield one multiplayer.
Xenogears using EmulationStation on Steamdeck.
Dope game so far, been a while since I played a good old school jrpg.
Trying to get all the tags in Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Getting close, but sone spot are well hidden.
Diablo 3 season 29 started last Friday and loving it!
Finally solo self found leaderboards!
Also enjoying the seasons theme, small areas with random mobs, elites, gobs and rift guardians.
Having more fun than playing D4.
Still playing BG3. About 120 hours in, still my first playthrough, but I think I'm getting close to the end. Wouldn't be surprised if it takes me another 15-20 hours to get there though. After that I need to decide if I want to play through again with different characters/choices, or do something else first (recently got Tiny Tina in a bundle and looking forward to playing that).
Red Dead Redemption 2. Trying not to rush through the story and just explore. Can't get enough of this game.
I randomly got hit with the urge to play the ps2 mascot games. I've started picking them up for cheap to rip and load onto my Steam Deck. I've finished the first Ratchet and Clank and Sly Cooper games. Now started on Going Commando, with plans for the rest of both of their ps2 games and the Jak and Daxter trilogy. I've played all of Ratchet and Jak before but Sly is new to me, minus maybe half of his 4th game.
And still chugging through BG3 with my wife. It's been hard getting time for the longer play sessions it requires lately but we'll get through it eventually.
Upgraded my PC recently. I can now run Half-Life: Alyx, so I'm playing it. Best virtual reality game ever in my opinion.
Street fighter v
RE1 HD remake (had played only about half of the GC one)
Such a wonderful game. For someone like me who grew up with the original, probably the best remake ever made. It's the same, but so much better.
Oh, and Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth 2. Possibly still the best RTS ever made. Change my mind.
Finished first Quake recently (EXCELLENT game, still very much playable even after nearly 3 decades, definitely 9/10), and currently playing Perdition's Gate, it is kinda unofficial Doom 2 expansion released in 1996, and it had chance to be included in Final Doom (which are two additional official episodes for Doom 2), but ultimately it was decided against it.
Perdition's Gate is kinda interesting as it has some unique elements and I genuinely enjoyed it even though there are probably much better Mega WADs nowadays, later maps are too short though, and it looks like they have made them only to accomplish 32 maps total like in the original game. Secret maps are also... odd... definitely not bad, but.... just odd (and disappointing to some extent I guess), although I am not going to spoil them for you. Also the locations for secrets are also weird.
Interesting and odd is I think the best description for this Expansion/WAD.
I just picked up Shadow of the Tomb Raider after not having touched a Tomb Raider game since PS1, and still never finishing them. It's pretty good! It feels a lot like God of War but with Lara Croft. Makes me want to pick up the previous iterations to get more of the story, since I'm a bit lost, but it's easy to fill in some of the blanks.
Trying to play wow classic hardcore with my group of friends. So far I'm the only one who hasn't died and it's frustrating trying to group up now since we're all wildly different levels.
I'm leaveling up all my familys' favorite ssx tricky characters cause otherwise we all play as Moby when I visit (the only character I play as normally). Mac, Kaori, JP. Probably won't be unlocking uber-boards on all of them, but we'll see
Playing Red dead redemption 1, now that they released it on the new PS
It really irked me to pay what they priced it at but I just didn't want to wait anymore
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