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Titan, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th

Trying The Last of Us on PC. The TAA in this game is atrocious, everything is a smear fest

swordsmanluke, do games w This console generation seems skippable

As someone with a PS5 since launch… Not really.

I’ve owned every PlayStation generation since the original. I don’t consider myself a Sony stan, but with the exception of the Xbox 360, I’ve felt each generation of the various PSX’s have had a better lineup for my tastes. (Halo is great, though)

This time around, not so much. After three years, I have purchased five titles for my PS5. And, by FAR, the game that gets the most play is my PS4-version of Minecraft, so my kids can play multiplayer.

If you’ve got money to burn, I’d recommend a Steam Deck + Dock and a Bluetooth controller of your choice instead. Most of the same games will run on either platform, with the advantages of PC gaming - mods, forward compatibility, access to the MASSIVE Steam store and library…

Alternately the Switch has had a great lineup of first party titles - as usual. Just pickup a pro controller too, the “joycons” develop drift so fast it’s not even funny. Every single joycon I’ve purchased (six pairs over five years) has developed drift in under a year. I know I can get them repaired, but at this point, I’m over it. Just buy a pro controller and have done with it.

(If anybody is curious, my five PS5 titles are

  • Spider-Man: Miles Morales
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Sackboy’s Big Adventure
  • Jedi Survivor
  • Diablo IV

All but one are available on PC. I bought the Spiderman games before the PC ports arrived. Jedi survivor had a bad port at launch and I really wanted to play it. And Diablo IV I was able to pick up used for cheaper than the PC price. …let’s just say that after hundred plus hours in D3, I’m glad I didn’t pay full price for D4.

I do also pay for PlayStation Plus, where I’ve downloaded and played a few dozen indie titles, all of which are also on PC.)

delitomatoes,

Benefit is that Jedi actually runs on the console

Annoyed_Crabby, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th

EDF5, the one true patriotism game. Can’t wait for EDF6 localisation.

altima_neo, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th
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Firing up the old PS2 and playing some Odin Sphere

calabast, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 14th

Sinking even more hours of my life into Path of Exile. Also been playing some Cobalt Core on my steam deck I got for Christmas.

Tom_bishop, do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)

Attending university

Pheonixdown, do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)

FFX Blitzball is the mini-game that I sunk the most time into by far (100+ hours), and always had fun.

Gwent from Witcher 3 kind of goes without saying, the framework is so good it’s spawned 3 full games that I can think of.

Best Hacking mini-game goes to the newer Deux Ex games, quick, the right amount of challenge but if you didn’t like it you could basically never do it.

Best lockpicking I’m going to give to Starfield. Literally the only part of the game I actually enjoyed, each is a great little puzzle.

Anti_Iridium,

My roommate in college would play Qwent in Witcher 3 and I would find myself glued to the TV.

undeffeined,

OMG blitzball!! Initially thought it was stupid but once it clicked I was hooked !!!

KingThrillgore, do games w This console generation seems skippable
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I gotta be honest I am waiting for the inevitable PS5 Pro because nothing is out this gen that interests me and the AAAs are mostly duds at this point, something we saw a lot of last gen. Industry is due a large adjustment.

JoeKrogan, do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)
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The FF9 tetra master card games and chocobo digging

Stovetop,

…Who hurt you?

Swarfega, do games w This console generation seems skippable

I got the PS4 Pro having not bothered upgrading from a PS3. At this point there was so many good games to play. I was so impressed I got the PS5 a year after launch. I’m really disappointed as the games have lackluster compared to my time on the PS4.

Honestly the only console that I see is worth having is the Switch. Other than that I play on the PC and now Steam Deck.

Tier1BuildABear, do games w This console generation seems skippable
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PS2 was good, PS3 was skippable. Xbox 360 was good, Xbox One was skippable. Can you guess when I got a PC? Lol. The Switch was the perfect console to pair with the PC in my opinion, but then I got a Deck… So, no, no reason to get any of the new consoles unless you just absolutely need to play the new Spider-Man game right now.

tacosanonymous, do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)
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Animal Crossing on the GameCube straight up let you buy little NES consoles with a small variety of titles.

otp,

Does it actually let you buy them? I thought they were mostly locked away behind special event codes, or even dummied out.

tacosanonymous,
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Really basic ones can be dug up or purchased. You did have to get event codes for some cooler ones.

otp,

TIL, thanks!

TwilightVulpine,

I also loved that they added some minigames from Amiibo Festival into New Leaf on the 3DS: Puzzle League and Desert Island Escape

Aielman15, (edited ) do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)
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I have a few.

PGR3, a Xbox360 racing game, contains Geometry Wars 1 and 2 as mini games. YT Link

Celeste contains the entirety of Celeste Classic (PICO-8) as an easter egg in one of its levels. YT Link

Xenogears, a PS1 JRPG game, contains a battle arena minigame, and I spent a few hours on that as a kid. YT Link

Machinarium’s Gomoku/5 in a row minigame is so much fun, I played it with my friends at school when we didn’t want to listen to our teacher :) By the way, I really recommend Machinarium to every fan of old school point-and-click games.

Thassodar,

Geometry Wars was the best! And in each Project Gotham the had a new version!

newthrowaway20, (edited ) do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)

I like how the Yakuza/Like a Dragon is jam packed with mini-games. Sega even puts classic arcade games in it. But I feel like bang for your buck, you’re going to have the most mini games in the Yakuza game than you will in any other game.

ladytaters,

This, absolutely. The claw catcher is my jam.

Timwi, do games w What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games)
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As a fan of the LucasArts point-and-click adventure games of the 80s-90s, it would be remiss of me not to mention that Day of the Tentacle, the sequel to Maniac Mansion (their first adventure game ever), actually contains Maniac Mansion as a minigame.

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