What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game General Discussion Thread #22 - AOS for Lemmy.World - A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

I played the beta, the combat is refreshingly different (does not seem similar to the FFG Rogue Trader rules). I had so much fun with it, that I stopped so I dont spoil it when it comes out.

How's the atmosphere? The trailers seemed a bit cartoony, which isn't really an issue given how wacky 40k often is, but does it convey the gloom and doom of it?

good - they know what they are doing
a bit cartoony, i will wait for release for improved graphics
In my short experience - yes

Thanks!

Whats your favorite build in AoE4?

Also excited for AC6, itl be the first one I've played since 2

Currently playtesting Mars Tactics, It's sort of like Red Faction combined with XCOM, in that it's about a worker's strike on Mars that escalated into a full-blown uprising, but it works on turn-based squad tactics combined with a planetary strategic & logistics system.

Idk why they give me an option to play as the bourgeois though, I'll never use it. Other than that, it's pretty damn great.

Seams neat.

I'm still playing Dyson Sphere Program when I have time but it's been busy. I got my sphere mostly done in my home planet and have a sphere design in mind for my next but I need to get endgame white science on farm first before that. I think I'm actually starting to lose interest in the game which is fine sing I got a few hundred hours in. That's rare for my attention span.

My kid and I finished Mario Odyssey on this playthrough recently. He ended up playing most of the second half and was knocking out levels on his own. Can't lie I was both impressed and proud of him. He's actually currently working through postgame stuff now which I didn't even know existed.

I'm still not done with Antimatter Dimensions... I'm on the last mechanic and about halfway through it but I think I'm ready to be finished with it.

Noice. Dyson Sphere Program sounds 'ight. Right up my alley, even. Tbh, strategy games don't do it for me, but that one sounds good. Also, damn, Super Mario Odyssey is also a great game! Glad for your kid.

I have mentioned DSP in the past on here. Elevator pitch: if you like automation and fine tuning systems and machines and also like space and planets then it's worth checking out. It's Factorio... IN SPAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!

I've have issues with Mario games in the past(looking at you Mario 64) and I also think Nintendo kind of sucks with their more questionable decisions in the industry involving old games and online but I think Odyssey really is something special. The movement is great and the platforming is very approachable. It really does a lot of things right.

Nintendo isn't even the worse in the business; it's just particularly their stinginess when it comes to their past games that's more noticable (whereas their anti-union practices go unnoticed). But of course, I don't care about the "fandom;" I care about the workers. And the workers don't get it so nice at Nintendo...

But again: they aren't the worst game company to grace "consumers."

Tbh I wasn't even aware of their anti-union practices so you are correct about that going unnoticed.

And like I have their entire catalog up to N64 downloaded for my emulators so that isn't even really an issue. I should focus my removed and energy to their approach to unions methinks.

Now I'm real curious about that removed part of your post.

Oh, I remember now. I said b*tching. Admins please don't ban me... I love you all! Sorry for the bad word! 💀

You're good, I think. I think that they think that you've already learned your lesson. You've done the time, so to speak. No need to drag it out.

Back from the gulag. I think maybe it's just filtered as the word can be used as a derogative towards women. Def not my intention at all lol.

Understood.

Wow, that's a bit sus. I don't remember what it was since I was pretty chatty today but I don't think it was anything worth censoring me over? Wasn't expecting that from this server. Do they have a bot that does that based on a white/blacklist?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I wouldn't know, good friend.

I feel like automation games strike a very different itch than traditional strategy games. The goal is (generally) not to build up to defeat some enemy but just to build for the sake of building even more. As a kid I always loved strategy games for the base building, but never liked the fighting my enemy part so much. I think that is why I really enjoy the automation and city builder genres.

Some have combat, but they are almost always secondary to the core of the game. Dyson has no combat yet, but it is coming in the near future. Still will be totally optional though.

Interesting.

DSP is my favourite of all the factory games and first one I recommend to people. I like the clean scifi aesthetic, it is probably the best visuals of a game in that genre, just seeing the dyson swarms form into a sphere over the horizon is really pretty. The devs seem like genuinely awesome people who give clear updates, plus I like to support Chinese game devs.

I am honestly not super interested in the upcoming combat update, because I never like the base defense aspect of those games.

The game is absolutely stunning at times. And yes big support for Chinese dev team.

I'm also not really interested in the combat update but you will be able to just turn it off. I sat on Factorio for the longest time because I didn't know you can make a seed without biters. I only wanna stress about bottlenecks and not tower defense mechanics that I'm not even good at to begin with lol.

Playing Now:

Rimworld, again. Basically any gaps between any other games, I start up a new Rimworld campaign. My most played game of all time at this point.

Completed Recently:

Friendly Neighborhood: Survival horror game but with muppets. I initially dismissed it as a FNAF clone, but it is much closer to a Biohazard game. Fun, not long at all, which is a plus in my books these days. Might play it more later to get more endings.

FFXVI: Was okay, probably falls smack dab in the middle of my FF tier hierarchy. Definitely had some major issues with it, but it ended up exceeding my expectations in other areas. Story was interesting enough to make me want to see it through to the end.

Seems everyone is playing Rimworld these days.

Everyone's playing it these days for a reason. The game is the definition of replayability and when a new(successful) colony can give you an engaging experience for dozens of hours it's always a staple in my library when I don't know what else to play. The game is variable and engaging from start to finish with just vanilla alone and adding the vibrant modding community just makes it that much better.

It's an almost infinite content platform with mods, and it has a massive modding community. Can be sci-fi, western, fantasy, whatever.

It did take me a few tries for it to "click" for me, but it is easily my favourite game I have ever played by now.

I'm currently playing modded TES V: Skyrim, and I'm about to complete the Dawnguard DLC for the 3rd time

I've probably played Skyrim for 150+ hours over the years. Still never completed the main game lol.

I’ve completed the main story once

I've never modded it. I just like running around. More or less.

I've completed all the other quest lines, I think.

One of the great things about Skyrim (and Fallout 4) is the audio and text can be changed to Spanish. It's great for picking up vocab. Some of that vocab is a bit random, granted. But the repetition of basic items and the ability to make NPC's say the same lines over and over again. I'll never forget 'lata' (tin/can)!

Yes, I've been learning it for a while now. One of the things that makes it easier is switching to a Spanish game or TV series when life is busy. It's a bit less intense than reading and going through the grammar, but it keeps me in the language.

Very well, yes. Otherwise, I get burnt out. I can't maintain 'studying' Spanish every day on top of being an adult and looking after myself. But I can always dedicate half an hour (or more) to escapism. It's not so much the time, but the energy required for in-depth 'studying'. So games and TV can really help with that.

If I come across an unknown word on TV, I ignore it. In a game, it depends. In a cut-scene? I ignore it. During gameplay, I usually try to work out its meaning. Sometimes, if I know enough to keep playing, I don't even worry about meaning, I just keep playing. If I come across the word three or more times and cannot figure it out, I look it up. If the word is frustrating me, I look it up. Occasionally, I write down these words, with a translation, aiming to keep a list – but it never lasts long and I usually forget about my lists quite quickly.

In a game like Skyrim or Fallout 4, you know exactly what e.g. the nouns are because you can see them. So if you look at a carrot and the label on-screen says zanahoria, it's obvious it's a carrot. Words like 'habilidades' (abilities) and 'otorga' (grants/gives) are transparent. I know what they mean; but it's strange – I wouldn't necessarily be able to say what the equivalent English word is. I don't worry about it.

To build vocabulary, I do 'listening-reading' (see my post in learnspanish@lemmygrad.ml), I read on Kindle with the Spanish dictionary set up and click unknown words for an instant translation (I don't do this with every unknown word), and I read parallel texts. I also use google translate to look up unknown words if I hear or read them 'in the wild'. To speed up this process, start with texts that you have read before or texts on topics with which you are familiar. You will be able to guess the meaning of words more easily, which means you won't need to look up so many words.

Note that I rarely do this, but a fast way to build vocabulary is through word lists:

Three columns. Write seven-to-ten random words in the target language column 1. Translate them to a known language in column 2. Then translate back to the target language in column 3. Then write the words in the target language in column 1 of a new table.
The next day, look at each word and see if you can remember it. If so, write it in column 2 in a colour (e.g. blue). If you have to look it up, write it in column 2 in a different colour (e.g. green). Translate column 2 in column 3. Start a new column 1 in a new table, adding the 'green' words. Add new words up to seven-to-ten, in total. If you had to look up e.g. three words, you can add four-to-seven new words.
The next day, go again. Repeat.
Each week, do one long list of all the words that you remembered (written in blue). You can review the trickier words in this list once a month.

Paul Nation wrote a good guide on learning languages: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications/documents/foreign-language_1125.pdf. The same thing in Spanish: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications/documents/spanish-version-what-you-need-to-know-to-learn-a-foreign-language.pdf. You can use this as a parallel text if you open the English and Spanish PDFs side-by-side. He has some other work, here, including the same guide in different languages: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications.

Ugh, I hate Skyrim.

Why do you hate Skyrim? (Genuine question)

Not much since I've been away on vacation. I've been playing in the Lemmycraft server while listening to podcasts. Not really sure what to play next. I'm feeling some nostalgia for Fallout 3.

Too bad you can't play Fallout 3 on the computer anymore...

why not?

Supposedly due to the way the game was made and structured.

There's no workable official Fallout 3 in existence. Imagine that. You can look it up, but not file of Fallout 3 works unless you have mods.

Something about the Gamebryo engine...

Fitgirl repack seems to work without issues.

Ah interesting.

Arr comrade! The pirate life is the way!

I’m still on ToTK. It fits well into the hour-long intervals I have available right now.

My game time fluctuates.

I'm currently very into Elden Ring. In a sea of gacha quest games, where you have a todo list of all quests, with arrows pointing exactly what you need to do next, Elden Ring feels very refreshing. I love how it doesn't hold my hand at all, and exploring the world is very rewarding.

It also scratches an itch I have, which is the git-gud aspect of some games, and it feels very rewarding to finally beat a boss you struggled with, or kill a dangerous enemy without taking a single hit

Plus, it literally has no quest markers.

I... like that.

I've reached the point where I'm afraid to actually be done with Tears of the Kingdom. I suppose I actually need to so I can get Pikmin 4. I'm a longtime Pikmin fan so this feels like a fever dream actually having Nintendo do another big push on the series.

Also intermittently playing New Pokemon Snap. Shameless plus, but sub to pokemon_snap@lemmy.piperservers.net and see pics from my playthrough and add your own.

In the retro category, my consoles are crying in neglect. I've only been playing couch multiplayer intermittently when friends come over, usually Didddy Kong Racing on N64

I get that. I don't want to finish games sometimes.

Playing ADOM right now, haven't played since I was in middle school. Its lightweight enough a potato could play it without heating up the room.

Haven't completed anything recently, its been way too hot to play video games.

I like Sandbox and rpg.

Same here!

Mostly DayZ recently and some Rocketleague again for the first time in a while.

Gave TW:Attila a decent shot recently. Pretty good game, TWs just get stale fairly fast for me.

Also tried the HP game a while ago and...it's just boring. Looks pretty good, there's tons to do, they put in a lot of effort, but idk. Still feels weirdly lifeless and unengaging to me. Can't really put my finger on it. On paper it's everything my 10yo self would've wanted from an open world HP game, but it isn't. Played maybe 8h, haven't touched it in weeks and I highly doubt I'll ever finish it.

Gave TW:Attila a decent shot recently. Pretty good game, TWs just get stale fairly fast for me.

Does it have proper UI scale now? I remember playing it long ago and it was great and since then a lot of great mods came out but i can't play it since the interface is microscopic on higher resolutions.

I'm just playing on good ol' 1080p, but it's working fine for me. It just looks...old. Dunno, but Empire's UI looks so much better and higher res despite being a much older game. Maybe that's a side effect of poor upscaling in Attila.

TW: Attila?

I just heard of that one.

Oh, and I hate HP now.

Stardew Calamity?

That's a spin-off game.

In case you don't know what to play next.

Big oof.

I’ve been playing a lot of Wii U Super Smash Bros. I can finally beat level 9s as a random character more than half of the time.

Oh nice.

I love me some JRPGs but haven't really played any good ones in a while. I do know Atlus is releasing a P3 remake and a Persona-like game next year so I'm suuuuuper hyped for that.

Also while not a JRPG, I'm really excited for Starfield. There are some other games I'm excited for but can't remember off the top of my head rn.

I'm also excited for Starfield.

They said Fallout in space and I said say less 😂

Ain't outer worlds already fallout in space tho lol

Hmmm yeah actually lol. Can't really argue with that 😂

Daaaamn lol.

Well maybe you can get it on console? Silly suggestion, I know 💀

I've been super conflicted on starting a P3 FES playthrough with the remake on the horizon. I entered into the series with Persona 4 and loved it but never got the chance to try the earlier entries. I know I can mod to change it but the aspect of not being able to control your other characters was always a huge turnoff for me. Maybe I'll finally just jump into Yakuza: Like a Dragon instead since it's been burning a hole through my backlog

Yeah the AI is a bit braindead but if not being able to control your characters is a deal breaker, P3P does allow you to control them.

I played Like a Dragon, the story and characters were really compelling, I think you might like it.

I've been going pretty hard on Darktide since I got it a few weeks ago. The gameplay is fun and the soundtrack goes hard, but im often frustrated by how bizzarely unstable it can be for a mainstream game. Beware the menu screens, for they will betray you. Once it took me 10 tries to get a sucessful launch without a blackscreen or freezelock.

It really is just the menus though, once you get into the game you're safe and it rules

Also, you may already know, but I hear the devs snuck in some dumb white-supremacist symbology or gestures?

I’ve been playing a lot of Saints Row 2 lately. Very nostalgic for me, I played it a lot about 10 years ago. I like the San Andreas style of winning back territory. I also like the activities in the game. Great game. I also like Vampire Survivors, a newish game that plays like an old-school survival arcade game.

Vampire Survivors is supposed to be terrific and has wide aclaim.

yea I’m a fan, they have a free mobile version too in case someone doesn’t have the cash to shell out on a gaming console or PC

The Outer Worlds, one of my favorites. The messaging is a bit limited in its criticism of capitalism, but overall, it's refreshing to see and it combines it with a game that is pretty brief and to the point (not getting bogged down in repeatable quests and such things). It's also an RPG with choices that don't always have black and white, good vs. evil answers, and that's my favorite type of video game. And also, in spite of having some nuanced choices, it doesn't do the enlightened centrism thing of making it sound like the clear worst faction of the game could be good ackshully; it's pretty clear on that point and leaves more of the greyer stuff to side plots.

Finally playing through GoW Ragnorok. My thoughts so far are that I hated elves in the last game and I hate them in this game too.

Damn Elves...

I'm all over the place with games currently. Still playing Street Fighter 6 and enjoying that a lot, nice to see improvement in your gameplay as time goes on. Also have been playing Hunt Showdown after taking a break from it for a couple of months. Recently started playing Project Zomboid with some friends and it's been a fun pickup, probably the most realistic zombie game that exists.

Oh yeah, heard great things about Project Zomboid.

It's pretty fun and well made. Has a huge community of modders so there's a lot of mods you can install that make the game better.

I love those types of games and their corresponding communities.

I've been playing Viewfinder, which is a first-person puzzle game where you can pick up photos/drawings/etc and place them in the world so that you can walk into them. Not too far yet so I don't know if it'll evolve into such, but so far it gives mindbending puzzler vibes like Superliminal, Antichamber, or Manifold Garden.

I saw footage of that game on YouTube and it looked great, tbh.

Playing: Replaying Witcher 3.

Just finished Gabriel Knight Sins of the Father.

That last one sounds like a Metal Gear Solid title.

It's a point and click from 93.

Currently I'm hooked onto Mystery Dungeon/Roguelike-esque games. So right now I'm playing Touhou Genso Wanderer and some Shiren the Wanderer.

There are no games that I've finished recently, though have gotten very close to it. Sonic Mania is one such game. I've reached to the final stage, but with powercuts being so frequent I was unable to beat the stage because if you get to Act 2 and decide to quit, you'll have to start from Act 1 again for some... unknown reason. So yeah.

I'll probably complete Mystia's Izakaya in the future though.

Shiren the Wanderer is supposed to be prett good, from what I've heard.

Yeah Shiren's pretty good. ~~You should try it~~

I probably will try it.

Funny. Last time I was in one of these threads, I was asked what game I was looking forward to. It was long enough ago that my answer was "BoTW 2." My answer to the current question? Tears of The Kingdom.

Oh wow noice.

Hope you're enjoying it.

I have indeed, thank you.

Nice!

Grounded was a sleeper hit, no question. Much better than anyone anticipated and the initial reviews weren't that great. But damn, it's been getting steadily more popular over time.

My only major complaint is it seems like the go into excessive detail for certain survival aspects of the game for realism but none of the actual bugs you fight make any sense. Like spiders living in packs and ORB WEAVERs walking around and attacking on the ground etc. I also feel the combat difficulty vs material progression is way unbalanced. Killing the stuff you need for better weapons and armor feels like a pretty monumental task if you aren't cheesing it.

Fair complaints.

Was out of town for the weekend. But I picked up Dave the Diver, and have been continuing to play Oxygen Not Included. Still trying to get back to Zelda.

My favourite genres are strategy and action/adventure.

Most of the games I've been playing for a while have been infinite time sinks. But I did recently finish a game of Victoria 3 as Nejd. I finished the game as a great communist power, after having unified Arabia. It was challenging, and was some of the most fun I've had in the game so far. I really like the game, but I can see why some people would want to wait.

Mainly just Final Fantasy XIV.

JRPGs, platformers

Last game I've completed was Kirby and the Forgotten Land. it was pretty cute and fun. :)

I'm playing Jedi: Survivor. I really like it both from exploration and story. Think the grand master difficulty isn't well tuned. I keep getting one shot here and there. Sekiron felt more fair.

Planned to continue Chains of Echo. The turn based system in this game is interesting and isn't most of the turn based RPGs.

Guess my TOTK playthrough has to stay on hiatus for a while.

Same with my own TOTK playthrough.

It's been months since I picked up a game.

RPGs are my favourites.

The last game I tried to play was Days Gone? Far too tense. I couldn't continue.

Anyone know any good text based games in Spanish? (Or, while I'm asking, French, German, or Chinese?)

Just cranked out the Red Faction series. Wanted more out of Guerilla, but the online is dead. Somehow found myself playing AC4 next. Oddly okay with this.

I like sandboxes I guess.

Did you play the first Red Faction?

Yeah. It was really fun. The Half Life vibes and destruction was awesome. Returning to the lab in RFG filled with me a surprising amount of nostalgia that I didn't know had. Tough to say which is my favorite between 1 and G.

Playing danganronpa, as well as a lot of minecraft. Do check out our server.

Yep.

I’m playing terraria right now, I’m going for the ranger class, and I’ll be entering hard mode soon.

"What video games have you played recently?"

Garbage game called WoT Blitz, lol. Don't play it)

What are your favorite video game genres?

RPG. And strategy sometimes.

What game have you completed recently and what are your thoughts on it?

Don't remember. Let it be a random map in Heroes 3. Enjoyed it, though it's tiring at times.

Surprised to not see Jagged Alliance 3 here. It's similar to XCOM with heavier RPG elements a la old-school Fallout.

I've found several Communism references and I suspect the developers are pretty based. Really enjoying it so far.

It's fortunate to see this thread, as I just so happen to have something games related that I want to rant about and see the opinions of the comrades. Glad to see you back, Makan.

So. About ten or a bit more years ago, I was at this superhero RP place (I was younger, cringe and marvelbrained), and many folks there were big fans of the Metal Gear series - to the point of blatantly ripping off concept and characters. One fellow even made a "Diamond Dogs PMC". Others were all "Remember the basics of CQC" and all that jazz.

Listening to them talk about MGS made it appear as a serious and immersive stealth thriller, with a deep lore and deep philosophy that makes one pause and ponder. Now, ten years later, I was randomly reminded of MGS existence by a colleague (as I understand he just likes stealth actions). So what do I do? I go and see if my steam library has any. It does - my brother has MGS V in his library which I can access! Hurray!

So I've decided to try it, and well... Let's just say I liked the Ultramarines movie more.

The loading before the main menu is an endless slog of "dlc this, logging into servers that, look at our privacy agreement, and now another one". Okay. Start the game, and that's where the real show begins. It takes one hour or more just to waddle through what is essentially a prologue and teaching the controls. And it's trying SO hard to be "cinematic" it just ends up silly.

Oh here we have a spy thriller intro, with gritty stuff like human teeth embedded in your skull! Oh next we have a super sneaky spec ops chick killing a nurse while the doctor doesn't notice! And the protag apparently can't even gesture to bring Doc's attention to it!

Now we have Satan Man! Oh no, he's impervious to bullets! But wait, he is defeated by a sprinkler! And there's creepy gasmask girl that looks like everyone's edgy OC from 00's! She has much telekinesis! Except she apparently can't move people and just throws rocks and shit. And it just goes on and on with this. Spoopy gasmask wearing russkies indiscriminately murder random patients! But also can't notice two guys hiding under the bed.

Oh no, they're checking the bodies and popping them in heads just in case! But now they've decided to stop, because our protagonist can magically hold his breath (despite being unable to walk five minutes ago) and also because mysterious helper peed under himself or something. The horseback chase was just one ginormous pile of ridiculous, and I'm saying this as a Warhammer fan ffs.

Also the helicopter looked stupid, why not just use a proper Mi-24?

The first actual mission is taking place during "Soviet invasion of Afghanistan", with Ocelot (fuckin cowboyyboo) ranting about le ebil Soviets and brave resistance and how protag's supposed "private army" (!) is helping them resist. Wew, such Rambo. And it straight up lists "Soviet airborne brigade" as the enemy - right after taking a pause to add Ocelot's eyewear to the title screen. Because I guess it's funni. The titles, my god, the endless titles. It's trying to be a movie, to the point I have to wonder why it was made a video game to begin with.

So all in all, I am not merely disappointed, I am severely displeased. What was originally sold to me by the fans as this cool spy thriller, turned out to be nothing more than capeshit in a different wrapper.

Rant over.

Lately I've got back into DMZ. I've also just been given SoulVars to review, which is pretty fun, and I've started Chained Echoes as I've been hankering after a JRPG for ages.

Favourite genres are RPG and side-scrolling beat 'em up.

I haven't completed a story-driven game in a while, but I got through Monster Train for the first time recently which was good. The game itself hasn't really grabbed me, though.

Good questions - thanks for the opportunity to think and post!

about to finish FF16 and then I'll take a break until baldur's gate 3 comes out

Kinda bouncing around a few games right now, mostly though I picked RimWorld back up, been having fun with that, as well as getting back in to pushing m+ in wow, which I always enjoy

A fellow Rimworlder! Modded or vanilla? I have been a big fan of the VE series of mods, so just started an underground vampire faction game with a few of their more recent mods.

I've been using some mods, yeah. I try to stick to the spirit of vanilla though, the VE mods are great for that. Been playing a medieval game recently, trying to eventually tech up to gene modding, then I'll see where I go from there

@Makan I just finished Wolfenstein II : The New Colossus, and I'm currently playing Oxenfree, sometimes.

Wolfenstein was really cool, but I'm happy that I got it during sales, for like 5€, because paying 70€ for those 10 hours of original gameplay would have been hard

Playing NBA2k23, tell everyone you know that is interested in this game to never play it. Piece of fucking shit game made by a bunch of dumbass fucking assholes who make stealing the ball tougher than memorizing Pi to the 3,000,000,000th digit. Whoever made this game is a basement dwelling waste of oxygen. Like who on Earth has this much trouble stealing the ball?! My steal is at 80!!! I hate 2k and everyone associated with 2k. Yall can suck my fuckin dick, MAKE IT EASIER TO STEAL!!! Nobody ever said “wow, I’m having fun with this basketball game but it’s way too easy, I wish I got fouled more when I try to steal” because you know what they’d do if the game was too easy? They wouldn’t have to steal the goddamn motherfucking BALL!!!!! Sorry for the rant but 2k becomes worse with every year

Just some Coral Island(Stardew-like game) and Street Fighter 6 to abide the time waiting for Baldurs Gate 3. Today is finally the day, im so hecking excited, the way I haven't for a piece of media since my teens. I'll be making the queerest, gayest, most simping character fighting for marginalized people(my kind of power fantasy) ever