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FullOfBallooons, do games w Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of October, 2, 2023
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I finished the story in TOTK on Sunday, and I just started Baldur’s Gate 3. But I’m starting to wonder if I should pause BG3 for a minute and play through something a little smaller rather than going from one huge game to another.

Blizzard,

Play Baldur’s Gate 3, nothing else matters!

HawlSera, do games w Just finished my first playthrough of Prey by Arkane Studios and WOW.

Try the 2006 version of Prey next

JackDark,

Seriously! Every time I see something about Prey and it’s not the 2006 version, I’m annoyed.

HawlSera,

I’m just amazed that prey 2006 is still hilariously cheap on those gray Market sites, cuz that’s the only way to get it now

One day I’ll give the game with the same name an actual shot, because I’m sure it’s good on its own merits, but it will always be a reminder that Prey 2. The REAL Prey 2 was stolen from us

JackDark,

Every so often I watch that gameplay trailer for Prey 2 and make myself sad.

HawlSera,

Never forget what they stole from you

wccrawford,

Yeah, when the new Prey came out I was very, very confused for a while.

I ended up liking the game, but I didn’t find it as interesting as the original.

HawlSera,

I felt personally attacked when this game was not only blowing up in popularity, but the original was taken off of steam and seemingly memory holed

agentshags,
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that game was trippy.

_haha_oh_wow_, do games w Just finished my first playthrough of Prey by Arkane Studios and WOW.
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I still need to play it, been meaning to go a playthrough on my Steam Deck but every time I hear about Prey someone is always saying it’s a great game.

lemba, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 1st

Getting familiar with Team Fight Tactics… I loved Dota Underlords. CS2 for nostalgic memories. Magic Arena, new season just began.

thatsage, do games w Are there any reputable independent gaming sites left?
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Honestly, a bit out of left field but… DIgital Foundry? Though they don’t cover everything…

whoisearth, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?
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A remaster of the original two Thief games of the quality they did with Dead Space.

adriator, (edited ) do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

I really want to play single-player versions, or at least on my own private server, games like Travian or Ikariam. Basically resource management strategies but without the insane need to be 24/7 online in anticipation of an enemy attack.

Edit: Also a single player tab targetting open world rpg.

bmaxv, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?
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@Ultimatenab

A single server MMO like eve online, but with real stakes.

In eve, when you die, you keep your character, most of your assets are safe, either by meta gaming or game mechanics.

You can't really harm/steal from characters.

Which reduces the need to work together and defend your character and your assets. Risk aversion and occasional replacement is a valid strategy.

There is more stuff wrong with eve... but the biggest problem is the stakes.

lloram239,

Very tricky to accomplish as long as people can interact with each other in the real world and bypass whatever rules and restrictions you have in the game rules, be it in terms of just communicating in situations where they shouldn’t be able to or running multiple accounts and characters at the same time to boost their power and influence.

You’d need to get extremely draconian with the anti-cheat, require real world ID for account creation, not allow new player once the game started and all that.

laxu,

Plus there would always be griefers who just want to ruin other people’s game because the repercussions are at most a bit of money (if they get banned and have to buy a new copy of the game), rather than incarceration, bodily harm, or death in the real world.

Crotaro,

May I introduce you to Ultima Online?

You have some items that are not lost upon death (either by them being special and “blessed” or by you paying some in game gold to insure them (costing you every time you die), but everything else? On your corpse, ready to be taken by the nearest player and even humanoid enemy. More than once have I seen a lich just grab some of my stuff and cackle off back into the dungeon.

Aside from being able to lose stuff on death, there are actual Thievery skills ranging from sneaking to pickpocketing and lockpicking (for stealing from player homes or when you unearth treasure chests). There is a “safe overworld” but many popular private servers have removed that. You might go about your daily business to grab some stuff from the bank teller and next thing you know, a grandmaster thief took your precious sword from your backpack (there are a lot of skill checks involved depending on how many possible witnesses there are (player and NPC), if the thief is invisible, how heavy the item is and such).

Ashtear, do games w Are there any reputable independent gaming sites left?

Gematsu is niche, but I’m 99% sure there’s nothing really shady going on there.

endlessmeddler, (edited ) do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

I would like to see a (real)guitar-centric music game (like Rocksmith) that allows people to input their own songs/guitar tabs. I’ve always found the limitations that licensing entails very off-putting.

Edit: just to clarify, I meant being able to look up whatever song you want, and then importing the tabs into the software so that you could play the song using the visual format that Rocksmith has (falling notes fretboard style).

SomethingBurger,

Rocksmith has custom songs, check out customsforge.

endlessmeddler,

Ah, sorry I wasn’t quite specific enough for what I meant. I really meant being able to import songs, not just creating your own.

SomethingBurger,

So, Rocksmith? There is a third party tool to import tabs.

endlessmeddler,

Oh, ok then. Guess I’ll have to check that out next chance I get. What’s it called?

SomethingBurger,

DLCBuilder

Check out Customsforge for already created songs (you need an account, use a throwaway email address).

endlessmeddler,

Thanks for telling me about that, I appreciate it

luno, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

a racing game that feels like mario kart but for pc

Squids, (edited )

There’s the sonic racing series which has a few ports on PC. I haven’t played them on PC, but I’ve played them on the switch and they’re pretty Mario kart-ish both in playstyle and mascot racer charm.

Also you can play as The Heavy.

LucyLastic,

So, Tux Kart?

Edit: or more old school, Wacky Wheels (I think I still have a copy somewhere)

Ultimatenab,

In think you are looking for dash dash world on Steam.

gerryflap,

Something like Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed? It’s been quite a while, but I remember having fun with it. It felt like a Mario Kart kinda game

Rainman, do games w What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?

Marvel’s Midnight Suns. It wasn’t a huge flop, but not successful enough to get a sequel, which makes me very sad. I think it failed because it had a useless ingame shop, which made the game look like another cashgrab, when in reality those who bought the Legendary Edition have every skin included. Legendary edition has often been on sale for 50€ and that’s definitely worth it. I enjoyed the game a lot and both the base game and DLC offer great characters that are both fun to talk and to play with.

bermuda, (edited ) do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

So, while INFRA already does fully exist, I’d love to see more games like it. It’s really hard to describe what INFRA is without major spoilers, but if you’ve played it then you probably know what I’m talking about.

It’s like… take the new Chernobyl game and remove literally all the death states, then fill it to the brim with easter eggs, lore content, secret rooms and pathways, challenging logic puzzles, stuff like that. INFRA ticked all those boxes for me and I have yet to find a game like it.

Every game that I’ve looked at and been recommended as being “like INFRA” always has some major flaw or some concession that really sets it apart from the original game. INFRA is pretty much all about exploring your surroundings to uncover the plot of the game and even change some of the story if you’re vigilant enough about the puzzles. You can literally complete the game just as a walking sim while doing fuck-all, but I think most players will find the intrigue of the story interesting enough to be almost coerced into going down the other fork in the road, so to speak. Like there are sections in every chapter where you have to use your knowledge in civil engineering to repair some sort of machinery using intermediate logic puzzles, but you’re always able to just skip it. However, completing these puzzles allows you to unlock the story as the puzzles require exploration. Hope that made sense.

Brightwave,

I wasn’t expecting to see INFRA mentioned but it’s one of my favorite games for a lot of the reasons you mentioned! It really had a sense for exploration and environments to tell more of the story. And it really is part puzzle game without having any single gimmick like other first person games. It reminds me a lot of Half Life 2’s puzzles (which makes sense since INFRA was also built in Source as far as I can remember).

I’m really itching for more expansions or games like it. Not sure what happened to the DLC they were working on, but there were some groups working on mods.

M500, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?

I want to see a sequel to enter the gungeon.

Telorand,

Do you mean something different from Exit the Gungeon?

Solarius,

Exit the Gungeon is basically a different genre using the same IP.

M500,

Yes, that game is pretty shallow in comparison.

Exec, do gaming w What type of game you want to see that doesn't fully exist yet?
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WoW but with the storytelling of FFXIV

Ultimatenab,

I got 5k hours in WoW up to Cataclysm and 10k+ how in FFXIV (beta tester from 1.0). I think the story telling of WoW up to WoTLK, was told amazingly well and it had a strong point, but BC was even better. Things rapidly declined from Cataclysm and this is why I never got back, whereas I’ve stuck with FFXIV for 13 years.

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