Gaming thread! What have you been playing recently?
Tears of the Kingdom? Diablo IV? Duke Nukem?
The thing about getting into game dev as a hobby is that basically now you have no time to actually play other games! 😭
When I do get time, Deep Rock Galactic is a fave for those days when you just want to shoot something in the face but you don’t want to do it surrounded by aggressively sexist 12 year old boys. A new season just dropped this week, which makes it sound like a typical money-hungry microtransactional mess but I swear it’s not like that at all, the devs are great people and everyone should give this one a go. ROCK AND STONE!
More chill days I like to investigate the unending backlog of cozy indie games from Epic (never touched them until I got a Steam Deck but it’s been great for those). Or revisit Mini Metro which on the surface is a simple af puzzle game but it’s surprisingly immersive and deep.
Of course it’s Steam Next Fest atm, I’ve only tried a couple of demos so far (Station to Station and Laysara: Summit Kingdom) but was thoroughly underwhelmed by both of them. On the other hand my husband tried the demo of Memori and got super into it, he says anyone who liked Celeste should give it a try.
Also last mention goes to Outer Wilds, I’m not “playing” it as such because it’s pretty one-and-done, but it’s impossible not to recommend it whenever even a slightly appropriate opportunity allows. One of the most amazingly crafted and emotionally impactful games I’ve played in my 30-odd years of gaming and if you’ve never tried it, please just trust me and go in blind it is so worth it.
Mini Metro
Just purchased (on phone) - thanks for the tip!
One of us! It’s honestly an absolute masterclass in how you can make a simple concept so surprisingly deep.
Downside is they released Mini Motorways a while ago and I’m sure it’s amazing but Mini Metro was so good that I’ve still not got bored of it and moved onto the sequel and I feel bad 😆
Motor ways and metro are entirely different, yet very similar. I would recommend giving motorways a shot, I think you’ll find the differences enough that it’ll feel like an entirely different game, with the same amount of satisfaction. I kinda flip a coin to see which one I’ll be playing.
It’s at the top of my wishlist, so if I ever get time to play anything ever again… 😭
sad gamedev noises
Good to know they’re different enough to stand apart though, thanks!
ROCK… AND… STOOONE!
Did I hear a rock and stone?
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For anyone wondering about Deep Rock - it’s a co-op FPS that is insane amounts of fun with a very friendly community. The DLC is cosmetic only - all the seasonal content is free.
Thought I was in all the DRG groups but I guess I missed this one, cheers!
For everyone else here’s an actual clickable link [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin)
Browsing with Jerboa - no type of link works for opening in the app. Does the ! prefix make a difference when browsing from a webpage?
Also, what are the other DRG communities?!
There were a few set up early on, but seems like this newer one is the most active anyway. You can search for others at https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=deep+rock+galactic
As for the links, sorry, I know Jerboa was having trouble opening links but thought they’d sorted it out by now tbh. The link with the ! syntax is just literally direct to the community (
!drg@lemmy.worldbeing the address you’d enter into search to pull it into your instance). The other two are relative links that users on the Lemmy and Kbin websites can use to click straight through to their local version.If there’s a better way to link for Jerboa users please let me know! Trying to make the effort and give people easy ways to get to any community I mention.
I’m currently building a massive irrigation system in Timberborn and also running through BOTW again before unwrapping TOTK.
I’m pleased that there’s not so much TOTK stuff floating about here as there was on the other place, I want to go in as innocent as a newborn lamb.
I’m so keen to try Timberborn! I was gonna hold off til it’s out of early access but I’m kinda tempted to just dive in.
I thought it would be my kind of game after watching a dozen of Real Civil Engineer’s videos and it is, 50+ hours in a few weeks. I love the slow inevitability of the drought seasons.
I’m hoping that they will introduce pipework into the main game (without mods) as that would really extend the ability to do some mad hydraulic engineering.
Don’t get as much time as I would like (who does?) But mostly Dwarf Fortress having finished a portal play through.
I’m looking at Deep Rock Galactic to play with my boys as I’ve got them to promise we will only play together! We all played Valorant for a bit but they can put about 10 times the hours in that I can so they outstripped me long ago!
Deep Rock Galactic is great, highly recommend it!
I always come back to two games. Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Minecraft. But I really miss Minecraft from the alpha and beta days when it was simple. D:OS2 is possibly the best story driven, turn based RGP I’ve ever played - any recs for something similar? Over winter I tried to get into Hogwarts Legacy but I couldn’t find the motivation to progress despite growing up with and loving HP. On mobile I play Sky: Children of the Light pretty much daily and have done for almost 3 years now. Looking forward to PC release for that which was announced not long ago.
[email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin) have set up a community Minecraft server to try and recapture the old days! No idea how active it is but might be worth a look :)
I didn’t know you could still play the oldschool game 👀 I will have to look into this, thank you!
If you like story-driven RPG, I highly recommend you Disco Elysium. It’s basically Divinity: Original Sin without the combat system and the fantasy setting (and with even better writing).
Thank you, I’ll check it out! I appreciate that there is no traditional combat, that stresses me out.
Disco Elysium and return of the obra-dinn are games that give me hope for the future of video games being something besides rogue lite deck building gacha crate games.
Right now I have Final Fantasy XIV running in the background, I’m waiting for some ore to respawn at roughly 10:42 our time. Gathering’s a nice laid back experience.
After I’m done with this I’m probably gonna boot up Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town and do some gathering in that too. :)
Hello fellow XIVer!
Still finishing Zelda TOTK - it’s one of the best games ever made.
Mostly Rimworld, which must be real underwhelming for my beefy machine.
Underclocking both my CPU and GPU and still getting 165 FPS.
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Slowly going through Stray and Disco Elysium. I have like 30 minutes a week to spend on gaming 😥
I have like 30 minutes a week to spend on gaming
Me too. Small children or something else keeping you busy?
Same situation. Stray great game for picking up and putting down on the deck
Not even any kids, just work and life admin smh
BattleBit has become my current obsession. Feels just like playing Battlefield 3 back in the day once you get past the Roblox-esque graphics. Honestly when I’m not playing it I’m thinking about playing it.
I’m thinking about getting it. Looks terrible visually but everyone says it’s a fucking blast. I care more about fun and mechanics than visuals so it seems like I would probably enjoy it.
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Nothing has displaced Deep Rock Galactic for me for quite a while. It’s just so much fun to play - with friends, strangers, or solo - all are good.
Bosco is such a great wingman.
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I started some TotK, but mostly just been fiddling with the PC to get it running nicely - I would play it on Switch but a smooth 60fps is what I crave these days.
Also got the kids Lego 2K Drive, my son loves Lego and especially likes making cars so this is right up his street, the building mechanics are pretty cool and I’m sure you can make some truly crazy stuff with it. It’s early days but I would give it a recommend so far.
That smooth 60 is what I want, and I think that it won’t be too long until I get into Switch emulation. But totk does play pretty well on native hardware, for the most part. I don’t think Zelda is one of those games that absolutely requires 60 fps. Controversial opinion, I know, but Zelda looks just fine at 30 fps. When it does achieve 60, it’s a little jarring tbh. I’d rather if the system can’t run it at a stable, constant 60 that it instead locks in at 30. I’d rather play at 30 all the time than 60 sometimes.
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Hell Let Loose WW2 shooter. It has a great in-game community, and they just released the British faction too (which is a bit rough around the edges right now, admittedly).
That is an AWESOME game and I HATE fps games
Just completed the latest No Man’s Sky expedition… getting close to finishing the main story in the new Zelda. I pretty much tend to play one game at a time until I’m done with it before moving onto the next.
Very much trying to tamp down my hype & excitement for Starfield and Fable… wait, Duke Nukem? Is there a new Duke Nukem?! I used to make maps for DN3D that we’d play over modem (BEEEP BROOOOOP BRRRRRRRR), my friends quickly learned that the high-powered weapon seductively placed on a pedastal with flashing lights was always a squishing trap.
Cannot overstate how excited I am about the new Fable!
“You’re that Chicken Chaser!”
Did you see the ad with Richard Ayoade (omg I spelled his name right, achievement unlocked)? As per, people whingeing about it, I thought it was brilliant. But then I’m a huge fan of his since the Garth Merenghi days.
Aye - the wife and I loved it. Was so weird as the night before we were getting her steam deck set up and we watched the o.g trailer while talking about how great it was.
Is there a new Duke Nukem?!
No, thankfully not!
Haha. Would go down like a bag of hot sick today, wouldn’t it. Stupid nostalgia.
Divinity 2 Original Sin, after that either going to do a modded playthrough of Total War: Three Kingdoms or play the Batman: Arkham series.
Got back into Grim Dawn in a big way recently. Diablo IV was released at the right time for ARPG fans, but I just can’t deal with all of the extra garbage that you get with Blizz games nowadays.
