Victoria 3 - my favourite historical materialism simulator.
Stellaris - my favourite fully automated luxury space communism simulator.
Dwarf Fortress - my favourite city planning and management simulator.
Slay the Princess - my favourite regicide simulator.
Xenonauts - my favourite simulator of communists (and other countries too) fighting a feudal alien empire.
Honorable mention of Disco Elysium (my favourite book masquerading as a video game).
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Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you’re currently playing? Anything like Helldivers 2 or any other multiplayer games?
Replaced League of Legends with a punching bag and running. Real life is now my video game.
I’m currently playing the halo master chief collection beat halo 2 last night and will start halo 3 today.
Still playing Noita (help me), and just picked up Animal Well (double help me). They’re both great! But probably only for a very specific type of person
Most recently Manor Lords. Also Foxhole with comrades is super fun.
Magic: the Gathering Arena, Magic: the Gathering Online, and OpenRCT2 (Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 with mods)
My favorite genres are JRPGs and Magic: the Gathering
Stellaris. New DLC is worth it.
Also Eiyuden Chronicles - a little flop for a spiritual continuation of the greatest jrpg series ever but not that bad, just a little disappointing
Still playing Stardew valley, patiently waiting for the 1.6 update to come to switch. I also have it for PC so I played on the new meadowlands farm which is awesome, but I’m more used to switch controls so PC is weird and I’m more slow. It’s a big reason I want to get a steamdeck (also to move games off my computer since it’s practically dying from doing both school and games).
I would like to go back to playing Baldur’s Gate 3 but my PC is not strong enough. I still want to try out TF2 but playing online scare me. Once I get a steam deck I will definitely play the Tomb Raider Survivor trilogy, I played the first one religiously on my Xbox 360 when I was young so it’d be nice to play the sequels. I also want to play that “not my neighbour” game, I’ve never played “papers please” but games with a similar premise always intrigued me. Disco Elysium seems popular on here so I’ll check out too. I’m always looking for commie positive or neutral games to try so there’s that.
So nothing much has changed for me since the last thread. I’m in my spring/summer semester of school which means constant cramming (it’s an expedited semester) so not much time for games. I should have freed up time in July and august, though, which will be nice.
Been really enjoying Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers lately (the newly-released sequel to SRB2 Kart), really love how its new mechanics set it apart from other kart racers and make it feel more distinctly "Sonic", and the tracks are so great looking, I can't believe there's still the Doom engine underneath all this
Also just feels a lot more like a complete game of its own as opposed to a mod of another game, with its new full menu UI and its focus on singleplayer content (SRB2 Kart didn't even have any other than basic time trials)
What are your favorite video game genres?
I think that all the derivatives of the roguelike genre are my favourite. My big personal reason is that I'm very inconsistent, so I really hate getting stuck on a die and retry loop because it's going to take twice the time as the average player to get unstuck. Roguelikes completely shatter the concept of attempting the same exact thing twice, you can only master the mechanics as a whole to succeed without knowing exactly what to do.
Ive been playing factorio rimworld and classicwow. Wow sucks but I can't help myself, I just grind gold to avoid giving shitzzard money.
New rimworld dlc has been pretty fun but I'm pretty ass at the game even after 400hrs. Spooky invisible things and fleshbeasts and other such horror elements have added an interesting flavour to the game
Factorio I been playing the exotic industries modpack and every time I play modded factorio I feel like I'm just too dumb to actually figure out how to supply chain and design good manufacturing hubs but it doesnt stop me from spaghetting everywhere across the map
I just finished The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales which was a fun little game. It's not too long, but a neat concept. and just picked up Hades 2, haven't played any multiplayer games in a while here.
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Question of the week:
Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you’re currently playing?
Finished Subnautica, what a great game.
Going through Fallout 4, it's garbage quality but there is something to the gameplay loop that makes me go in a trance and spend a ton of time on it, prob should just stop playing.
I also purchased the entire Yakuza bundle, so i have enough gaming content for years.
As for live service games, i play Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact. Which IMHO, are very high quality games even if they're toxic gachas.
Well I play the classic genre of live service games: MMORPGs. In fact I've been quite hyped to play Guild Wars 2. I'm almost finishing the retunr to achievements and getting a legendary amulet.
That said I never got into the modern take of live-service. Never played fortnite or any looter-shooters. Even Fall Guys felt like it tried too hard to keep me playing (and paying).
FarCry 2 is a habit of mine because I love the early 2000s war-torn Africa setting. All the enemies are racists, conscripts or mercenaries and the guns rust and fall apart. It does have an unfortunate contingent of Rhodesia/Apartheid fetishists.
I'm about to launch into some more serious gameplaying as I'm taking my last final of the semester in about two hours.
I've been playing Balatro and Baldurs Gate 3 when I can. BG3 is not going to be the addiction for me that it has been for so many others, I can tell. I don't want to try with a whole bunch of characters because I've already made like six characters in tabletop DnD. Balatro is the shit, though.
I'm going to download Slay the Princess once I'm back home... and maybe Dwarf Fortress if I decide I'm not wanting much of a social life this summer. It's that or redownload Disgaea 2 to try and beat.
I love colony management sims, 4x, and roguelikes.
I decided to try Stellaris. The changes post 2.0 are not as complex as I thought. I still miss the wormhole and warp drives though. I also liked picking between laser/bullets/torpedoes. Wish they would bring that back. In this game, I'm a Megacorporation that has almost turned the entire galaxy into it's subsidiary. Only 1 empire remains, they have a few subjects of their own, but it's just a matter of time until they're torn apart and become a subsidiary. After that, all that is left is to destroy Unbidden which should be appearing any time now.
Mostly I play factory management style games. Top 3 being Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, and Mindustry. Though they've been more mental effort than Ive been able to muster recently.
Then I am also playing Last Epoch as a co-op game because it's been a way to connect with an old friend from school (since we live in different cities it's hard to connect in person).
So nothing too exciting or new.
Recently "beat" Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and am headed back to Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Outside of that I've been replaying Hades 1 (trying to finish up some of the dialogue I didn't complete to let Hades 2 bake for a bit longer before I play it). Also casually playing some Team Fortress 2 whenever I can't mentally commit to anything.
Favorite genre is easily the 4 player "hunting" games (Monster Hunter franchise, Wild Hearts, Phantasy Star Online BB/Universe). I wish more studios would attempt games here because I feel like the genre's popularity is underserved currently.
The closest thing to a live service game I play is Team Fortress 2 and I don't think updating your game to being 64 bit really qualifies in any meaningful way.
My favourite genre would be coop, so games like It takes two, L4D, DRG, Operation Tango, We were Here, Lovers in a dangerous spacetime, unravel 2, overcooked...
Still heavily involved with stardew valley 1.6. I'm not playing any multiplayer games, but I have been dabbling with a bit of suzerain. I've pissed off pretty much everyone who isn't a radical leftist, and I suspect that I'm about to be ousted in a military coup soon. It's fun.
I'm not playing any multiplayer, I'm currently playing Fallout 2
I've decided it's time to restart my Destiny addiction. I redownloaded 1 and 2 and I'll be making a new character this time.
I've been playing Ni No Kuni. It was kinda underwhelming, in my head I had picture a more "grandiose" story (closer to a Tales Of game), but the beginning was very slow and not much was going on, and also the gameplay was kinda boring since it's one of those games where you recruit monsters to fight with you. That said, it's gotten better, quite fun, though the friend AI was completely useless with some bosses.
My favorite genres are probably JRPG, stealth games and FPS with emphasis on story regardless of the genre. Really liked Deus Ex (except for the awful stealth, good thing you aren't locked out of much if you're not stealthy) and Stalker (gotta replay Clear Sky tbh)
Been playing Hades and clash of clans on my phone (recently got back into it lol).
Answer: nah lol
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