What are you playing? v.11 (Knee-Deep Edition)

[mixmastermo]

Playing Dead Island 2. Game has sold north of 4M units as of last month. Good sales.

About 13h in and feel like I'm closing in on campaign close.

Honestly, did not like this game at first because of the combat but...I pressed on to feel it out. Once melee options and crafting get going, the power fantasy kicks in and the game finds its momentum.

I really liked the card/modifier system of Back 4 Blood and while this game employs much the same, it's not fun, IMO.

There's also a subset of cards for autophage mods that they've uniquely fleshed out with tiers (so I can tell it's important) but I just don't dig it. Hope I'm not screwing myself later by making my way without.

There are two story expansions, iirc; one, Haus, and the latter SOLA. I may pick one up but I don't know right now. I'm curious what happens to protag so I'm looking forward to progressing. This game has artificial level-gating to keep your gear and exploration controlled, so if they've the same in the DLCs, I probably won't pick up.

Hmm I tried the trial on this and I was iffy on the combat as well..

May check it out if it goes on sale at some point.

 

[Zazen]

Playing Dead Island 2. Game has sold north of 4M units as of last month. Good sales.

About 13h in and feel like I'm closing in on campaign close.

Honestly, did not like this game at first because of the combat but...I pressed on to feel it out. Once melee options and crafting get going, the power fantasy kicks in and the game finds its momentum.

I really liked the card/modifier system of Back 4 Blood and while this game employs much the same, it's not fun, IMO.

There's also a subset of cards for autophage mods that they've uniquely fleshed out with tiers (so I can tell it's important) but I just don't dig it. Hope I'm not screwing myself later by making my way without.

There are two story expansions, iirc; one, Haus, and the latter SOLA. I may pick one up but I don't know right now. I'm curious what happens to protag so I'm looking forward to progressing. This game has artificial level-gating to keep your gear and exploration controlled, so if they've the same in the DLCs, I probably won't pick up.

I dropped it. It was opposite for me. I liked it at first but the dialogue wore me down, it’s like it was written by a middle schooler or something. Very good looking game on the pro though

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Finally picked up Diablo IV again having not played it since my Dad passed away at the beginning of July in 2023. I got the game at launch, put in maybe like 18 hours, got to Act 3, but I don’t know, after my Dad died I just couldn’t bring myself to play it for some reason.

A few weeks ago I started a play through of Diablo 3 which I hadn’t touched since its expansion came out in 2014. Diablo 2 had been one of my favourite games ever when it came out when I was in high school, and when the remaster came out in 2021 I put like 200 hours into that, but Diablo 3 never really clicked with me. What prompted me to pick Diablo 3 back up in late January for the first time in over 10 years was I wanted to try out this “Darkening of Tristram” event that goes on in Diablo 3 every year for the month of January to celebrate the anniversary of Diablo 1, where supposedly there’s like some mission or whatever in Diablo 3 where you play through a recreation of the Diablo 1 campaign. I had heard about this event for years but had never played it through. Alas, I wasn’t able to do it this time either, as you need to do it before the end of January and I had like started a new character on January 28th or thereabouts, which didn’t give me enough time to beat the main campaign before going to do this special event. Oh well, maybe next year.

In any event, after playing through the D3 campaign it made me want to go back and restart D4. I actually like it quite a bit, maybe not as much as D2 but certainly more than D3. However, playing it makes me think about my Dad a lot, just because of that whole period of my life of suddenly losing him out of the blue.

 

[Valhoven]

I dropped it. It was opposite for me. I liked it at first but the dialogue wore me down, it’s like it was written by a middle schooler or something. Very good looking game on the pro though

Feel this but have assumed camp was the target writing style; it’s low-hanging fruit dialogue all in all with sensationalist VA – you’re not wrong. There’s this one NPC Sam B that embodies that but it works for him, who’s just over the top and a shirtless action-star cliché.

I’m playing as Ryan (firefighter) for my playthrough and he’s a wise-guy meathead.

 

[Valhoven]

Hmm I tried the trial on this and I was iffy on the combat as well..

May check it out if it goes on sale at some point.

It’s free on PS if that helps.

Game looks great and somehow fixed its hooks in me but the combat is jank lite when doing finisher transitions…and you do those a lot, lol.

I look forward to playing every night which is always a healthy metric but, yeah, this is not a game to overthink.

I also recommend not playing coop and playing it rather like a SP game.

I’ve been on a zombie kick the last few months, having recently sunk quite a bit of time into Dying Light 2. This game feels much, much less copy-paste than DL2 (shops + buildings are unique) and for that I’m happy. Exploration is pretty fun and there are a number of elemental traps or enviro synergies to figure out, so you can be strategic and make things more complex if you want.

Turn off tooltips and min HUD, IMO. Score is OK and kind of industrial-softcore infused; something more Mick Gordon (Doom) would have been cool AF.

 

[method115]

There’s way too many good games right now. Sitting here playing civ 7 happy as a clam, but getting huge fomo over kingdom come deliverance 2

I want kcd2 also but I just beat the first one so trying to play some other games first.

 

[Valhoven]

I want kcd2 also but I just beat the first one so trying to play some other games first.

You and I have long had the same strategy in genre changeup before the next game. Jump into something entirely different, then tackle KCD2. What's in your sights right now?

 

[method115]

You and I have long had the same strategy in genre changeup before the next game. Jump into something entirely different, then tackle KCD2. What's in your sights right now?

I just beat Alan Wake 2 last Friday and I have no idea what to play. Downloaded a bunch of stuff from ps+ just to try out but nothing stuck with me.

Went through the store deals a few things caught my eye but still not sure. Might just go back and work on some older game plats I want for now.

 

[Valhoven]

I just beat Alan Wake 2 last Friday and I have no idea what to play. Downloaded a bunch of stuff from ps+ just to try out but nothing stuck with me.

Went through the store deals a few things caught my eye but still not sure. Might just go back and work on some older game plats I want for now.

Dude, I'm one trophy shy in Darksiders 3 from the Plat and it's been years. I hate myself for it but can't ever bother to reinstall and commit. I'd have to collect 1M souls, iirc; it's a total slog. And the apocalyptic difficulty level is nuts.

 

[method115]

Dude, I'm one trophy shy in Darksiders 3 from the Plat and it's been years. I hate myself for it but can't ever bother to reinstall and commit. I'd have to collect 1M souls, iirc; it's a total slog. And the apocalyptic difficulty level is nuts.

Wow just one away? I think I’d have to go back and do it at that point.

FF7 Remake I’m like 4 away. All of them are easy except beating all VR missions on the hardest mode. I gave up. It amazes me how hard they made the plat for both the FF7 games. Even the director commented on it and plans to chill on the next one. Meanwhile FF16 was one of my easiest plats.

 

[Zazen]

Wow just one away? I think I’d have to go back and do it at that point.

FF7 Remake I’m like 4 away. All of them are easy except beating all VR missions on the hardest mode. I gave up. It amazes me how hard they made the plat for both the FF7 games. Even the director commented on it and plans to chill on the next one. Meanwhile FF16 was one of my easiest plats.

The dress thing was far more obnoxious. It was so confusing what you were supposed to do and how save data works for your progress. In remake all you need to do is beat the one VR mission that gives you the ring. Forgot the name but it basically gives you limit break all the time. Rest of the game is a joke after that and I beat all of hard mode that way. I suggest looking up the mission that gives you it and then just doing the rest of the game. Unfortunately it is one of the toughest fights just to get it though. I think it’s the one you fight two summons at once.

 

[WhiteMousse]

Finally picked up Diablo IV again having not played it since my Dad passed away at the beginning of July in 2023. I got the game at launch, put in maybe like 18 hours, got to Act 3, but I don’t know, after my Dad died I just couldn’t bring myself to play it for some reason.

A few weeks ago I started a play through of Diablo 3 which I hadn’t touched since its expansion came out in 2014. Diablo 2 had been one of my favourite games ever when it came out when I was in high school, and when the remaster came out in 2021 I put like 200 hours into that, but Diablo 3 never really clicked with me. What prompted me to pick Diablo 3 back up in late January for the first time in over 10 years was I wanted to try out this “Darkening of Tristram” event that goes on in Diablo 3 every year for the month of January to celebrate the anniversary of Diablo 1, where supposedly there’s like some mission or whatever in Diablo 3 where you play through a recreation of the Diablo 1 campaign. I had heard about this event for years but had never played it through. Alas, I wasn’t able to do it this time either, as you need to do it before the end of January and I had like started a new character on January 28th or thereabouts, which didn’t give me enough time to beat the main campaign before going to do this special event. Oh well, maybe next year.

In any event, after playing through the D3 campaign it made me want to go back and restart D4. I actually like it quite a bit, maybe not as much as D2 but certainly more than D3. However, playing it makes me think about my Dad a lot, just because of that whole period of my life of suddenly losing him out of the blue.

I had a somewhat similar loss in 2011. Dark Souls was what I played while going through hell. It was appropriate.

I'm really sorry for your loss brother

 

[GtehMVP]

Finally picked up Diablo IV again having not played it since my Dad passed away at the beginning of July in 2023. I got the game at launch, put in maybe like 18 hours, got to Act 3, but I don’t know, after my Dad died I just couldn’t bring myself to play it for some reason.

A few weeks ago I started a play through of Diablo 3 which I hadn’t touched since its expansion came out in 2014. Diablo 2 had been one of my favourite games ever when it came out when I was in high school, and when the remaster came out in 2021 I put like 200 hours into that, but Diablo 3 never really clicked with me. What prompted me to pick Diablo 3 back up in late January for the first time in over 10 years was I wanted to try out this “Darkening of Tristram” event that goes on in Diablo 3 every year for the month of January to celebrate the anniversary of Diablo 1, where supposedly there’s like some mission or whatever in Diablo 3 where you play through a recreation of the Diablo 1 campaign. I had heard about this event for years but had never played it through. Alas, I wasn’t able to do it this time either, as you need to do it before the end of January and I had like started a new character on January 28th or thereabouts, which didn’t give me enough time to beat the main campaign before going to do this special event. Oh well, maybe next year.

In any event, after playing through the D3 campaign it made me want to go back and restart D4. I actually like it quite a bit, maybe not as much as D2 but certainly more than D3. However, playing it makes me think about my Dad a lot, just because of that whole period of my life of suddenly losing him out of the blue.

I was like that with Fallout 4, and the franchise in general.

When Fo4 came out, I had just broken up with my fiance and moved back home to take care of my dad who had alzheimer's. He hated video games when he was normal, but he loved watching me play FO4. It was the old time music he liked mainly, but he'd get a good laugh out of the Super Mutants and the gore from vats.

I put like 2k hours in that game, largely base building. He'd sit with me for hours.

Afyer he died, I couldn't touch any of the FO games for a long while, until last year when, along with the TV series hype, I went on a big New Vegas, Fo3/4 bender. It's like he was sitting beside me again smiling at the good tunes.

Anytime I hear a song that was used in Fallout, or see anything relayed to the games, it makes me think of him and the good memories. Hopefully that happens to you too, it's a happy little place for me.

 

[ssBaldy]

Last 2 weeks I've been playing Metalstorm with my friends.
An arcade about plane dogfights. It is far from perfect, but fast paced and fun, and we are aviation nerds so like "flying" nicely drawn planes that go pew pew pew.

 

[HHJ]

I was like that with Fallout 4, and the franchise in general.

When Fo4 came out, I had just broken up with my fiance and moved back home to take care of my dad who had alzheimer's. He hated video games when he was normal, but he loved watching me play FO4. It was the old time music he liked mainly, but he'd get a good laugh out of the Super Mutants and the gore from vats.

I put like 2k hours in that game, largely base building. He'd sit with me for hours.

Afyer he died, I couldn't touch any of the FO games for a long while, until last year when, along with the TV series hype, I went on a big New Vegas, Fo3/4 bender. It's like he was sitting beside me again smiling at the good tunes.

Anytime I hear a song that was used in Fallout, or see anything relayed to the games, it makes me think of him and the good memories. Hopefully that happens to you too, it's a happy little place for me.

That is a cool story man.

My dad died when I was nine, so I dont exactly have those kind of memories with him, but he did like arcade games, and sometimes when I'd go to the store with him, he'd put a quarter in for me. Sometimes we watched WWF together. He would have LOVED MMA I am sure.

 

[Dizzy]

Dang, this thread suddenly

 

[method115]

The dress thing was far more obnoxious. It was so confusing what you were supposed to do and how save data works for your progress. In remake all you need to do is beat the one VR mission that gives you the ring. Forgot the name but it basically gives you limit break all the time. Rest of the game is a joke after that and I beat all of hard mode that way. I suggest looking up the mission that gives you it and then just doing the rest of the game. Unfortunately it is one of the toughest fights just to get it though. I think it’s the one you fight two summons at once.

I have nothing going on right now I'm going to download this and see about doing it this week depending on how much MP I play with my group. I really wanted that plat and I know I'm at the very last chapter now so I should be able to find\do the mission whatever it is.

The dress stuff was easy but I had to look online what to do. Basically if you do all the missions you get to decide. If you barely do any or skip them all you get forced into the worst one and doing half gets you the other one. I need to do one more but the bad thing is I don't remember which one if it.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Reccomend me some relaxing street racing/driving games.Esp if it has big cities like NYC/Tokyo etc

I just want a game to veg out to.

forza horizon 5 is king.

 

[HereticBD]

Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order

It's better than I remember, but the main issues I had are still prevalent. Mainly the level design. Oh' my fuck, what a mess. It's just path here, shortcut there, in an absolute clusterfuck of a map that can see you turned around and confused at every damn turn. It's very frustrating to try and locate the "correct" path to get where you want to go. Oh' and then there's the no fast travel(maybe it unlocks later) thing. If you hit the end of a mission, you gotta trek it back to the ship. The shortcuts are meant to help you, but again, the mapping makes it a bit confusing. I've been completely lost no less than 5 times, in a whole 12 hours of gameplay. It's fucking retarded, and they REALLY made big improvements with the sequel.

Other than that, it's pretty good. A little bit harder though, which is okay, but the game really loves throwing enemy gauntlets at you, and you ain't got all the new tricks of "Survivor" to deal with them. Makes it a bit more of a methodical game, where you really have to study the battlefield and pick your shots. The bosses also don't mess around, but it does make you utilize all of your powers, unlike "Survivor", in which the powers were kind of an afterthought, and was there for flair and more advanced players that need to utilize them on higher difficulties. This is more "Souls like" in that regard. It doesn't mess around. A few mistakes and you're dead. The health is less generous too, which really makes you take into consideration when to strike. Not bad, just different, and I do kind of appreciate it making you learn the patterns, rather than winging it on most bosses, pumping health stims and getting by.

All in all, a good blueprint for the almost masterpiece that "Jedi Survivor" is. I'll probably beat it. Overall, I think this franchise is a bit underrated. It's a perfect blend of Souls like and a more traditional third person cinematic action game, like Uncharted. If the trend continues, the next game is gonna be something really special.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

heard there's a new monster hunter game coming out tomorrow and those are supposed to be good but i've never played any monster hunter games before, but now i've got a hankering to try me some monster hunter.

and not waiting until tomorrow after the new game gets cracked, i gotta get me some monster hunter on. so i was torn between what to start with. monster hunter worlds + iceborne or monster hunter rise + sunbreak. after a bit of sleuthing, i've decided to go for monster hunter worlds + iceborne so i'm going for that and some kind of a 30 gig high res texture pack with it.

no idea what to expect out of this one. probably gonna get my ass handed to me.