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What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game General Discussion Thread #29 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

and

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What games of 2025 are you enjoying right now, if any?

and

What do you think of the recent Nintendo Direct? And the upcoming one on April 2nd? And, once the Direct airs, what did you think of it? (Last question is for when it airs in the future.)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just finished playing Shadowrun Hong Kong, can definitely recommend if you enjoy RPGs with tactical combat. Started playing Killer Frequency. It's a pretty clever concept, and only around 5-9 hours to finish. Can also recommend Turbo Overkill, which I finished recently. A truly amazing boomer shooter.

I tend to enjoy games that are story focused, and not too grindy.

Haven't really kept up with Nintendo. Haven't touched my Switch since I got the Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah, the Switch and likely the Switch 2 will still be outclassed by the Steam Deck.

I feel the same way, though I still keep up with Nintendo, especially since they have their own exclusives.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah their exclusives is really what makes the platform worth it, I spent many hours on mario kart :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I could use another good racing game right about now, tbh. Maybe Wreckfest 2 when it's out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I haven't played any decent racing games in a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel that; to me, the open-world ones are where it's at, but people barely do that anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I find the problem with open world games tends to be that it's really hard to have any depth in them. Since the player can go anywhere and do quests in whatever order they stumble upon them, it's hard to have interesting progression and development of the world. I find I prefer the hub model Bioware uses where you have sort of open worldy segments that are stitched together into an overarching story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That latter point is especially the case; the progression aspect is definitely a problem.

Yeah, I agree with the BioWare approach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I too enjoy Turbo Overkill a lot but I'm only maybe halfway through. :/ I stopped playing because for some reason I started getting this weird sound bug where all audio cuts out for 5 - 10 seconds and then comes back and is fine for like a minute until it cuts out again. I've tried everything. No matter what I do it just keeps happening and it only tends to happen on the Windows version of Unity games in general I've noticed. I've combed the web for answers but only found a couple people with a similar problem with no answers, or answers that don't work for me.

If only they released a Linux native version. Linux native Unity games are completely fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh that sucks, I've been playing it on Steam Deck and haven't run into any show stopping bugs with Proton emulation for it.