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submitted 5 months ago by GuyWTriangle@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

I'm gonna start a weekly Sunday evening thread where we all talk about what we've been playing the past week.

I have been doing a replay of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice this week. It's one of my favorite games and I was surprised how much muscle memory Ive retained for most of the major boss fights.

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

I'm playing stardew. Apparently the 1.6 update is a big deal but it's like my 2nd time playing it and I never got past the second year so I know fuck all about the game. It's at once a fun chill relaxing game and also very hectic getting all my farm chores done in a day. I have a friend who actually knows what they're doing and it's very fun to insist on having them help around the farm but not be allowed to teach me the deep lore.

[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Hell yeah, I'm back on my Stardew Valley bullshit. If you ever need guidance, check the wiki, it's very comprehensive (although it might be missing some of the 1.6 stuff still). I haven't played it in a couple years, so it's nice!

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago
[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago
[-] yoink@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

hell yeah same, via Viva New Vegas

[-] large_goblin@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

I'm taking a break after old world blues made me face the wall (of text).

It's been a good 7/8 years since I did a "full" playthrough of the game and it's nice to have a reflection of my improved understanding, to know why Caesar is a big dialectic dumb dumb rather than just nodding my head like umm yeah, I guess it really is inevitable the NCR be destroyed.

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I went through Mega Man X and was probably going to go through them up to 4, from what I hear the series took a nose dive after that and they even made a 3D one? Gotta pace them a little bit because it's brutal on my hands.

[-] AdmiralDoohickey@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 months ago

X4 is really good. If you play buster only and don't abuse weapon weaknesses, the bosses are some of the best in 2D platformers if that's your thing

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

I was like "What, you're doing a Buster only run? The Argon Buster sucks!" and then I realized you were talking about Megaman, not the X4 space 4x game.

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

The 3D ones are ass. I don't remember 5 being bad but I also just don't remember it.

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

X4 is amazing and X5 is okay. 6-8 are pretty ass though.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

5 is fine enough, but after that you should just skip ahead to the Zero games.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Helldivers mainly

Even with all the chuds and chodes

Game is fun

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

It seems like if you have a good group it is a blast. I need to grab it at some point.

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Disco Elysium, I can see why its popular around here lol.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Still mucking around with my old mmorpgs, I have Everquest, Ultima Online, and Final Fantasy XI in rotation. I tried to play some MGS Peace Walker but either I suck or the controls are wonky and I ended up not really liking it. Feel like as I get older RPGs like mmos or JRPGs are more my speed now.

[-] goose@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Helldivers II: Just picked this up to play with some friends from a former job. It's a ton of fun with a good group, and the hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-hammer Western imperialist satire adds a lot.

Soulstone Survivors: Vampire Survivors with more active combat and build variety.

Dead Rock Galactic Survivor: Vampire Survivors with mining and aiming.

Splatoon 3: Tracking down the final uncollected palette chips in Side Order. Team Baby Chicks will win this weekend, mark it down.

Splatoon: baby chicks vs. baby bunnies vs. baby bears

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

Mario Wonder. I find it's kind of a weekend only game cause it's hard to play when tired after work

[-] Ceres@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

bought darkest dungeon (1) cause it was $3 and its been great, no deaths yet so overconfidence will definitely be my slow and insidious killer

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[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

no man's sky, i've been trying my best to polish up our hexbear space commune

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

yogthosgrad was attacked by the space feds, it was a bit of an ordeal to sort out but they should be out of our hair at least for now

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

Been playing some modded Minecraft. Working on my rail network train-shining. I automated iron production but need far more gravel supply to keep up with the amount of iron for rail and machinery for more factories. The productive forces must grow denguin

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What modpack are you using?

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

I'm playing Create Astral. I've been on that pack for a year, haven't gotten too far because I've put some restrictions on myself and not played super actively. I really wanna get back to Forge packs to try Hex and some other mods, though.

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[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Games? I just fix Proton for fun.

[-] red_stapler@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

I am up to 3 ships with victory cleared on FTL Advanced Edition on Normal difficulty. This was impossible for me even a few years ago.

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Im still playing pokerogue, my current run started with a clodsire, cinderbunny and a turtwig all with good stat and natures thanks to eggs and catching them.

I think this week im going to do a endless to see how far i get, with a meowstick with good ivs i got from an egg

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

I've been playing Stationeers. It's interesting but also frustrating. It's a space survival crafting game which focuses hard on realism, especially gas handling. So you need to make an atmosphere with the right proportions of nitrogen and oxygen to breathe in your base, and you need a breathable atmosphere to open your spacesuit helmet to eat and drink, and you also need to add some carbon dioxide to the atmosphere to grow plants, and you also need to keep the atmosphere at the right temperature range for both the plants and yourself.

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago
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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Yep. It's a blast

[-] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I started playing as a ranger but it was boring so I switched to conjurer and now it's more visually interesting.

Also Mordheim: City of The Damned, to get hyped to play WFRP in the near future.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Elden Ring, Darkest Dungeon pvp, Patron, and might dip into Hinterland for a bit. My attention span isn't quite there and I'm just lazing about on my day off. My issue is wanting to play a little of everything at once, despite not being into games that much. Anyway, off to hop into Kingdom: New Lands.

[-] PoisonIvy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Thinking about picking up osrs because I need another mindless (see: fun) Skinner box in my life

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

I found the Mohole in FlightGear

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

I just bought a PS5 and playstation plus yesterday so I'm going between the FF7 remake for when I want to pay attention, rocket league when I feel like getting angry, and Far Cry 6 for while listening to a podcast.

Tangentially related, I learned today that the seemingly chill guy next to my stall at the Farmer's market that sells homemade fudge streams COD and gambling on kick almost daily. He also sells basically embezzled golf balls under the table for dirt cheap lmao.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

I replayed Psychonauts so I could finally play Psychonauts 2 without any hang-ups about not completing it. I had never actually beaten the Meat Circus as a kid, and this was the first time I cleared it. I think the difficulty was largely a product of being much younger and worse at games, but it was still the hardest and imo the worst part of the game (for being annoying and a bit clunky to play through). Either way, the game holds up very well all these years later.

Psychonauts 2 was fantastic. Just fantastic. Absolutely great game, and humorously it runs better for me than the first game, which freezes constantly (GOG versions for both). Gameplay feels better in basically every regard, story is excellent, combat is excellent (particularly for a platformer), voices and characters are excellent. 100%-ing levels seems less daunting than it was in psychonauts 1 as well, so I'm slowly pursuing that.

I've also been playing Dawn of War: Soulstorm with the Unification mod, which has finally been finished (I think?). That mod is like 3 or 4x bigger than the base game files because it adds so much fucking content. New maps, new factions, new gameplay modes, etc. Soulstorm is finally better than Dark Crusade (except the story, I still like DC more for that).

[-] goose@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Now that you've completed both Psychonauts games, do you think playing 1 is a prerequisite for getting the most out of 2?

[-] yoink@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not who you're replying to, but absolutely I'd say you have to play 1 before 2 - there's a lot of plot points in 2 directly related to the events of 1

that said, it's absolutely worth it

edit: that said, thinking back on it I'm fairly sure there's a whole recap section at the start of 2 - maybe if you're satisfied with that it'll be ok? but either way i'd still say it's a good idea to go back to 1, and tbh a playthrough of it isn't tooooo long

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[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Psychonauts 2 is genuinely one of my favorite games of all time.

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[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

feel free to shame me, but Diablo 4 since it went on game pass

I needed the nostalgia

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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Helldivers II- Get on for a few matches and have fun. Thankfully no overtly cringe teammates on random yet. Got to play with a friend from an old job and it was a blast.

Rimworld- Base game was on sale on steam and its been fun so far.

Baldur's Gate 3- Been sitting in my backlog for a while. Opened up the game two or three times and never got past the character creator. Finally started a week ago and its been good. Feels a bit intimidating with the amount of information available, but I also haven't had any trouble in the battles I've had so far.

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Armored Core 6, really loving the game loop so far. Working on beating the chapter 1 boss right now

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[-] Misanthrope@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1721530/The_Captain/

I found this game on GGN searching for point-and-click games. For me, it hits just right. I'm not to far in, but it's extrmely well done from the prospective of someone who grew up on 90's adventure games.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

I just loaded 450 mods in to Kenshi. Bought a wreck in The Hub, repaired it, plopped a couple of straw beds and a chest down. Currently breaking rocks and stealing stuff to get some cats and get my starting characters strength up.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Riven. I'm finally tackling this one, after trying it as a kid and not understanding any of the puzzles or what the backstory was supposed to be.

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Waiting for Dwarf Fortress adventure mode for Steam on Wednesday (beta version), plus Galactic Civilization 4 getting an expansion on Thursday that I will check out.

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