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ampersandrew, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd
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I played a fair bit more Backpack Hero, and made some more progress in the story mode. Still a bit too grindy for my tastes, but I'll either finish it or just stick to the classic roguelike mode.

I've been playing more Starfield, and the recurring thought I have every step of the way is, "this should be better". To go into much more detail than that would be to right a dissertation, but the short description is that the game has barely changed compared to Fallout 4 and Skyrim.

I got through another few missions of Wargroove 2. It continues to be a worthy successor to Wargroove.

Combined with Starfield, Pillars of Eternity is helping me resist starting a new run in Baldur's Gate 3. I also have that feeling of, "this should be better" here, but it's pretty much entirely down to production value. Number 1 with a bullet is that I wish it was fully voice acted, including narration. Still though, loving everything else so far despite real time with pause, which has been less of a problem than I thought.

experbia,
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I'm glad to hear Wargroove 2 is worth it! I really enjoyed the first and I was worried when I heard about a sequel.

ampersandrew,
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It's a minor iteration on a formula that works, and there's just enough changed and added to justify the sequel.

Astaroth,

I got through another few missions of Wargroove 2. It continues to be a worthy successor to Wargroove.

I didn’t have high hopes for WG2 at first but I saw they made some really good improvements with the map editor.

I’m still on the fence about buying it though, I heard it doesn’t have ranked match making so if I get it it would only be for the single player. Might get it if it goes on steam sale

assplode, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

Diablo 2 Resurrected. Rolling a new character as Sony decided I needed to pay for online access to play my other character.

Fuck that. I only do single player. I'll just make a new one!

frog, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

Dorfromantik this week. One day I will have the time and energy for something more complicated. My enormous list of unplayed games is staring at me.

SharkAttak, do gaming w Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations )
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i was already too old to even bother trying.
What? You mean it as having less game time?

skele_tron,
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Yes, that and blizzards enshittification was well underway so i just skipped on it.

Kata1yst, do gaming w Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations )
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Against the Storm (More city building focused)
Northguard (nearly a direct Warcraft clone)
Beyond All Reason (TA clone)

All magnificent.

raydenuni,

I don’t know that I would call Northgard a Warcraft clone. The mall is divided into tiles and each tile has its own resources and building limits. Units can only attack other units that are in their tile. There’s a much bigger emphasis on building up your tech tree and taking tiles.

Still, it’s one of the more interesting and fun evolutions of the RTS genre. If sci-fi is more to your taste, Dune the newer gameby the same studio is similar.

Kata1yst,
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Well that's fair I suppose. The feel is very similar.

Xyloph, do gaming w What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?

Blizzard and Westwood studios. It’s unfortunate what happened to them.

GregorGizeh, do gaming w Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations )

Just so you know, StarCraft 2 is free to play now, including the terran campaign. It even has a more relaxed co-op vs ai mode with a lot of replay value for the people who can’t put up 300 apm any more in competitive play.

weew,

I think someone also recreated the entire SC1 campaign as custom SC2 maps

GregorGizeh,

Yeah that one is also fantastic. It’s called StarCraft: Mass Recall and is also completely free

shapesandstuff, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

Back to catch up on Baldurs Gate, finally tied up act 1. Also back to Tarkov, the masochism is in full swing.

Aaand back to counterstrike, did i mention masochism? CS2 has brought the gang back together though, really feels like almost a decade ago when we had full lobbies every night.

sunbunman, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

Just learned there was a new Grim Dawn expansion announced so replaying that again.

dallo, do gaming w Warcraft 2 / Starcraft type games ( or clones, or engine recreations )

0AD is more Age Of Empire based but it is quite good so far. Still a work in progress.

Poopfeast420, (edited ) do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

I’m nearing the end of Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion. It’s still really mediocre, but I got into that mindless grind of those 300 side missions. The main story is pretty lame, the only interesting bits are those directly connected to FF7, basically when you’re in Nibelheim, although even that is a bit of a let-down.

I also played more on my Steam Deck than expected, mainly because I got sick a few days ago and would just dabble a bit here and there while lying down. I did a some Vampire Survivors runs, but it’s basically always the same, so I need to look into those unlocks I’m missing. Then I tried Boneraiser Minions, but I’m not sure about this one. It’s a Vampire Survivors-like, but here you summon different skeletons to fight for you. The first few runs felt really slow and boring, but some of the unlocks improved it somewhat. I’m still not sure about the minions fighting for you thing though, since it feels a bit too RNG, but I’ll give it a bit more time.

YoTcA, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

Hogwarts legacy: I think I already reached the last quarter of the game and it is fun so far. The main story feels more like a side quest, but the world has the right feel that the books and movies left behind. Only the side activities become a little too much. I still keep finding new stuff I could do, but always in so many iterations that I already know that I will not do all of them. Why can’t there be just 20 Merlin trials that are fun and diverse instead of 100(?) that quickly become repetitive?

CharlesReed, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

Diablo 3: Season 29 - Working on stocking up on Torment 16 bounty caches for the Avarice conquest (completing a 50,000,000 gold streak). It's taking me longer than I anticipated, but then again, I keep getting distracted by the Visions of Enmity. I really need to start ignoring those portals.

Diablo 4: Season 2 - Snagged the Razorplate chest armor with around 15,000 Thorns and a level 925 bow, so I've been kicking ass and actually surviving Helltides. My current goal is reaching level 90.

No one lives under the lighthouse - This was the first time I played this game, and it was amazing. It's been sitting in my Steam library since this past spring, and I didn't really know a lot about it going in except that is was more or less atmospheric horror. It was not what I was expecting, and in a good way. It was way more horrifying and lightly Lovecraftian than I thought it would be, since I was expecting something more similar to Dear Esther or What Remains of Edith Finch where I just kind of walk around while learning the story, so I was pleasantly surprised when I actually had work to do lol. I thought I'd get sick of the pixel art graphics, but it held up pretty well, and I even got some nice screenshots out of it. The only parts that were relatively frustrating were two weird chase scenes, but luckily the game gave me the choice to skip them after dying so many times. I've read that there's multiple endings, but I was satisfied with the one that I got (whichever one it is), since it was pretty much like a light bulb going off in my head and made sense with the story as I understood it. Parts of it felt very Amnesia-like as well, which is always a plus for me. I don't plan on 100% it any time soon, because it's definitely one of those games I like to finish in one go, but I think I'll have fun whenever I do.

Elkenders, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 3rd

A bit of Slay the Spire again and a tiny bit if Spiro Remastered with my daughter.

Fredol, do games w Whats with the sudden indie output from South Korea?

Those are fake indie games. They re-create the indie aesthethic to appeal to ethical consumers.

Dave the diver is not indie because it’s published by Nexon.

Lies of P is made by a previously unsuccessful company, but it’s also not indie. They made a lot of games in the past like Battlefield Online

delitomatoes,

Interesting, I guess the market for games as service or big games is not so profitable now, it would be like if Disney funded a small movie.

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