What’s everyone on /m/gaming playing lately?
I’m still making my way through the Diablo IV campaign, really enjoying that but looking forward to blasting and figuring out if I enjoy the endgame more than anything at this point. I’m a binge Path of Exile player but the past few leagues haven’t really done it for me. It’s been nice to play an ARPG again and I’m enjoying D4’s slower pace. Zoom zoom is great in POE, but it’s nice to get back to basics a little bit.
Went with Whirlwind Barbarian. Know it’s meta, but Cyclone Slayer is my favorite POE build so I’m just trying to enjoy my time as the overpowered class rather than fighting it haha.
Played through the Lies of P demo as well and thought it was mostly great. Not the greatest example of gameplay for the genre IMO, but the production values and the vibe were stellar.
How about you guys?
Street Fighter 6, and in really enjoying it. I’m not a fighting game guy at all, but they added a new Modern control scheme that lowers the barrier to entry. Now I’m having a blast every night with my buddies. I’d highly recommend it to anyone reading this.
Been playing Street Fighter 6 too. It’s been a lot of fun, though the monetization scheme they slapped on has me reticent for the game’s future
It’s more or less my first fighting game and I’ve been really enjoying it too. I made attempts at Guilty Gear before and it was just a lot to take in. SF6 has been a lot more manageable to start picking up even on classic controls which has been a lot of fun.
I didn’t think I’d really enjoy the single player part either but that has been fun, just running around with a controller and beating random dudes up.
I hit about 90 hours in Tears of the Kingdom but then Street Fighter 6 and Diablo 4 came out so those two have been taking up most of my time now. Final Fantasy XVI in a couple weeks will be stealing time from those two haha it’s a good month for games
Wow, I didn’t even know about FFXVI, what a year for gaming!
It’s honestly turning out to be one of the best in a long time. A new Zelda, Diablo, Final Fantasy on top of a Star Wars sequel, Spider-Man sequel, Starfield…such a good year.
dude it’s shocking to me Final Fantasy XVI releases so soon. Don’t know why, but that one really snuck up on me. Absolutely right, we’re inundated with good stuff to play right now. Great problem to have.
I honestly keep forgetting it is too. Not gonna lie I wish it was July or August at this point just because June is so crazy, but is what is is haha
I’m just wrapping up my rather thorough playthrough of Tears of the Kingdom and have quite enjoyed it. Maybe coning up on about 200 hours now. I’m not getting every Korok. Fuck that.
I don’t know what to focus on next… I just came out of finishing CrossCode on my Deck before TotK dropped, and loved it.
Maybe it’s time to slap on the Quest 2 and go for Firmament.
Super reasonable about the Koroks. Especially the ones that refuse to move on their own with the bags. Special kind of hatred for those dudes.
Plan on getting back to TotK myself when the Diablo binge is over. Near 100% Breath of the Wild and what I played of Tears is just next level strong.
Oxygen Not Included.
What can I say? I’m a sucker for colony / simulation / management games. It has cute graphics, and it’s still getting updates. And it works on Linux!
I haven’t played the game a whole lot. I bought it to some of my friends when it was 5 dollars. No one played it tho unfortunately.
I think i need to get on it again. The huge skill tree is really intimidating to me.For dupe (duplicant) skill trees, Francis John has a great tutorial, but as a general guide:
- You’ll want to specialise your dupes but not too much. It’s fine to mix skills a bit.
- It’s better to mix activities if they’re all performed outdoors (building, digging) or all indoors (cooking, farming).
- Worst hypothesis, use the skill scrubber, so don’t feel afraid to experiment.
- Don’t assign skill points just because they’re available. Consider morale.
- Doctoring is usually not useful. I simply pretend that it doesn’t exist.
- Decorating and cooking are useful, but one dupe with each task is enough. (Or one with both - decorating isn’t too frequent.)
- Almost everyone benefits from Improved Carrying I and II. Late game you’ll probably want to assign them Exosuit Training.
- Francis John’s video is old and the skill tree changed in the meantime, so take that into account.
If you meant instead the tech tree, a few tricks:
- The top is usually more important than the bottom. For example if unsure about researching food or decor, go with food, as it’s way up.
- Things requiring only basic research (blue) and advanced research (purple) are specially critical, but your dupes can survive quite a while without materials research (yellow) or interstellar research (orange).
I just got back into Guild Wars 2. What a pleasant mmo to play casually for years.
When I’m feeling spicy, I pick up Deceive Inc. - I like the ability to play solo and not be forced to team up with people and this hits the right parts of the brain for me when I’m up to pvp.
I’m eagerly waiting for the new Team Fight Tactics set. I got bored of set 8 pretty quickly so this new update looks insane. I like that the devs are taking risks with augments and expanding the complexity of the game.
On the side, I’ve been trying to finish Dragon Age: Inquisition so I can delete it. I don’t know if it’s my attention span, but massive single-player RPGs with a breadth of content haven’t been doing it for me… The gameplay/combat feels really repetitive and therefore makes progression tedious. I’ve recently given up on AC Odyssey because of this. :(
I spent the last few weeks finally catching up on breath of the wild so I could go in to tears of the kingdom and oh boy, it’s so good and I’m having so much fun. Haven’t even thought about playing anything else for a little while now - though now I’m even more keen to play through some of the zelda classics.
I never finished BOTW and was gonna go finish it first, but my buddy bought a Totk edition OLED switch after already having bought the game so he gave me his extra copy. I gotta say, as fantastic as BOTW is, Totk is legitimately even better! You’ve got a lot to look forward to!
Oh, I’m easily 30 hours into totk already - it’s unbelievable how good it is!___
Love both. Totk is objectively a better game. But I think there’s merit in going back to play botw. There’s more of an element of exploration and survival in the wilderness to it that I don’t feel in totk.
Persona 5 Royal. Finally picked it up on Steam Deck. I’m about 15 hours in and hooked.
Ooooooh - have fun!!!
I spent the past couple weeks playing through TotK and it was very fun, but I played so much over a short period of time I definitely burned myself out a bit.
I’ve now been getting back into Parkitect, which I highly recommend if anyone is a fan of the older RollerCoaster Tycoon games
Just finished up the Diablo 4 campaign last night myself, then unlocked Nightmare. Might take a break and finish up the System Shock remake. The OG one was just before my time; SS2 was my entry to the series.
I need to give the new System Shock a try too! I just redeemed my Steam code after backing it ages ago and installed it on my Steam Deck. Play a few minutes to see if it runs on there, but haven’t really gotten around to diving in yet.
I’ve never played the OG System Shock, SS2 was my introduction to it as well.
Diablo 4, DRG, and Fallout 4 with the Horizon mod (which makes it feel very different, more hardcore survival based)
Diablo 4 is lots of fun. Idc what people are saying about cosmetics and shit. Easy to ignore.
While I agree charging $20 on a full price game is a lame thing to do, I also agree with you that as long as they stay cosmetics I could not give less of a shit how many there are or what they cost.
Pretty much just TotK. There are a few other recent games I’m interested in, but I don’t want to rush through TotK to get to them.
Recently got a random burst of motivation to continue Shadow of War, which I started nearly four years ago. Finished the game, then caught up on Shadow of Mordor and replayed Shadow of War because I forgot the complete first half of the story. No idea why I didn’t do that sooner, relearning the combat wasn’t that hard and damn it’s fun.
Skullgirls - Although I say SG is my main game, truthfully I haven’t made as much time to grind these days as I’d like. Drowned in pools at Combo Breaker. But after 8 years I’m okay with letting this be my casual comfort game now, don’t have the drive to try and catch up to the top players anymore but I still enjoy playing Quick Match from time to time.
Them’s Fightin’ Herds - On the other hand I have been more focused on pushing my Velvet, managed to make top 16 at Combo Breaker this year. Top 8 next year!
Splatoon 3 - I’ve also been getting into Splatoon competitive, bit of a change of pace for me as everything else I play is 1v1, but I’m really in love with this game. Can’t say I’m as good at it as I’d like to be, but I keep practicing. (By the way, I made a Splatoon sub here if anyone’s interested)
Slay the Spire - This is just an addiction. After about 800 hours of vanilla I now screw around with the silliest Workshop mod characters I can find. Makes for a good background game while watching Youtube.
Persona 5 Royal - Attempting to make time for JRPGs in between my competitive stuff is probably a mistake, but I keep trying to do it anyway. Currently on the third palace.
Love Slay the Spire! One of my favs too
Trying to find time to play Pathfinder: Kingmaker - just got done with the first major quest after founding your barony, so now I need to figure out how to make gold so I can respec my party members
I just got my first gaming console (PS5) in like 15 years last month, so I have a lot to catch up on. I just finished God of War, probably going to aim to finish Spider-Man: Miles Morales next, then probably move on to Horizon Forbidden West or Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.
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