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any1th3r3, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th

I finished a couple of games last week, SotN and Sayonara: Wild Hearts.

I’m currently back on DOS2 and I quite enjoy the slow pace of the game.
I might also attempt another playthrough of Bloodborne.

Jeffool, do games w Best game ever?
@Jeffool@lemmy.world avatar

Tetris in a walkway. Any format, really. It’s just great.

lowleveldata, do gaming w Back to total war I guess

How about a credit card

_Lory98_, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th

Trying to finish Trails of Cold Steel II.

My opinion hasn’t really changed on it from last time, it still drags and most of the game feels like padding, the characters are uninteresting and the combat is a downgrade from the older games. The tone of the writing also really doesn’t fit the setting and that bothers me a lot.

As with CS1, the bond system feels unnecessary and it’s not really used for character growth (which would have probably been fine if they were interesting in the main story). I’m still playing only because I really liked the previous games, otherwise I’d have dropped them early into CS1.

Borrowed Nine Sols and tried it for a few hours. It seems quite good, I really enjoy the art and parrying feels really satisfying.

Coelacanth, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th
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The F1 season kicked off, so I played around a bit with F1 Manager 2024 since it was free on Epic a few weeks ago. It’s much like the previous iterations of the series - great presentation but vapid and shallow underneath. It’s a real shame, because there are things about it that are compelling. Having all those real team radios and proper circuits and gorgeous cockpit views during races and all the official branding does make a difference. In-race management is also pretty damn fun.

The problem is that it was designed by a team that don’t understand management games. Everything about it starts falling apart the more seasons you play, which is the complete antithesis of what management players are after. The great things like team radios disappear as you replace your drivers and staff members with youngsters or generated people who don’t have voice clips. Nobody has a personality, there are no off-track events that make you invested. The greatness of the perfectly replicated race calendar fades as tracks aren’t added or removed between seasons. There are no interesting regulation changes over time that change fundamental aspects of the car or the rules. The power ranking and properties of the engines never change.

There is no soul or depth here to hook you for years upon years and make you want to build a dynasty. It basically only works if you pick a top or midfield team and try to manage a championship win during the first or second season, beyond that it loses its shine. Still, it’ll be a decent distraction this week as there is no race to watch.

Alpha71, do games w Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

And their still asking 70+ bucks for it…

koncertejo,
@koncertejo@lemmy.ml avatar

It was literally just on sale for $19.99.

Alpha71,

Which is nice IF YOU HAVE THE MONEY!!!

Elkot, do games w Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

Never got to play this as it was never released for non vr players, can’t help but think this terrible decision cost valve a lot of money from potential customers

Lv_InSaNe_vL,

It was made as a tech demo to show off next gen VR hardware and tracking. Why would they port it?

PhAzE,

It’s not going to be playable wothout vr, because the game is built fully around the vr experience.

Psythik,

There’s a no VR mod in the workshop but don’t bother because without VR this game is nothing special.

savvywolf, do gaming w What topics would you like to see in a research paper on queer gaming?
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

One thing that could be interesting to discuss is character creators and general restrictions on what a player avatar can and can’t do.

For example:

  • Require all player + npc relationships to be hetero.
  • Have most relationships be hetero, but sprinkle one or two bi characters for spice.
  • Lock certain clothing options or body styles to specific genders.
  • Tie the player’s pronouns and voice to their gender.
  • Tie the player’s gender to what’s in their pants.
  • Restrict genetal options to a boolean “male” or “female” (intersex people exist).
  • Force the player to only be in a monogamous relationship.
  • Allow the player to be polyamous but inexplicably punish them for being too poly (Looking at you, Stardew).
Harlehatschi, do games w One-handed games?

I’ve been playing Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel recently on PC and despite being relatively action heavy it’s 99% left hand (WASD + Q + space)

chlorofil, do zapytajszmer w dlaczego moderatorzy zatwierdzają użytkowników o imionach „nicole44”, „nicole80”, itp. ?
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Ja tylko widzę posty, które mówią o tej całej nicole, ale nigdy bezpośrednio nie miałam styczności.

danciestlobster, do games w One-handed games?

Caves of Qud is keyboard only option (no mouse), mostly just need wasd. Definitely an atypical RPG but very fun all the same.

BleatingZombie, do games w One-handed games?

I went through the same thing a while back

I played a lot of turn based RPGs

missingno, do games w One-handed games?
@missingno@fedia.io avatar

Puyo Puyo Champions has a one-handed controller preset. D-pad or ABXY to move, shoulder buttons to rotate.

Only caveat is that if you want to play online, only the Switch version is actively populated, so I can't recommend the game on any other platform.

Hyphlosion, do gaming w There are many games that I've only seen the first 40% of because I keep starting over...

This is me in Final Fantasy. I was in the middle of the ocean on a ship. Don’t remember what I did last or where I was going. Spent an hour going around the map killing things and still couldn’t figure it out.

Rob200, do gaming w People who have played Assassin's Creed Shadows, how is it so far?

Assassin’s Creed shadows has some beautiful looking environments.

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