What are you all playing lately?
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I’m always wishing there was more interaction and discussion on the niche Lemmy groups. Today I got to wondering if there were some games we could focus on to help foster our small community. But what is everyone playing or interested in playing? Are we all off playing our own obscure indie favorites or are there some games we share?
Comment below and upvote the ones that you have in common!
Last Epoch, an indie ARPG similar to Diablo or Path of Exile. I have about 450 hours in it (since the early access phase) but hadn’t played it for over a year. Now that I’m boycotting Microsoft/Xbox I recently jumped back in and have been enjoying the impressive amount of stuff that’s been added post-launch.
I play this kind of game “casually”, by which I mean I don’t look up build guides. To me the most fun part of the game is developing a good enough understanding of the mechanics to be able to find success building whatever type of character it is that I want to play. For someone with this type of approach I think LE is great and very flexible! It’s the only game I’ve reviewed on Steam and years later I still recommend it!
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Last Epoch, an indie ARPG similar to Diablo or Path of Exile. I have about 450 hours in it (since the early access phase) but hadn’t played it for over a year. Now that I’m boycotting Microsoft/Xbox I recently jumped back in and have been enjoying the impressive amount of stuff that’s been added post-launch.
I play this kind of game “casually”, by which I mean I don’t look up build guides. To me the most fun part of the game is developing a good enough understanding of the mechanics to be able to find success building whatever type of character it is that I want to play. For someone with this type of approach I think LE is great and very flexible! It’s the only game I’ve reviewed on Steam and years later I still recommend it!
I’ve been thinking about finding a Diablo alternative. D4 just feels kind of samey and uninspired, even if they managed to bring the art style back to its roots. Going to look this up! I enjoy doing these things blind too, and figuring it all out on my own, at least for the first playthrough.
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Space Station 14! It’s so goofy! I love the idea of a large scale semi cooperative roleplaying experience.
That looks pretty nuts - how many people can be in the station at once?
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Noita. Simple and clever.
And Rimworld.
Most games I’ll play and it’ll be one and done for me, never pick them up again. But I always go back to Noita. Something about it still feels so mysterious. Even though I feel like I have the gist by now there are so many possibilities and things I’m sure I still haven’t uncovered. Such a gem that deserves more attention.
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Hahah yeah checks out
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Hey thanks, I’ll look into those options.
Though maybe ultimately I should just set up an emulator and enjoy the old memories like you did
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Yeah that seems about right. For Xemu, you need the BIOS, MCPX and HDD Image Files separately, which can be found here. No further setup or config needed. You can find the ROM at The Vault. Ninja Gaiden 2 ROM is also available there.
I can send you my config file for Xenia if you want to avoid most of the fiddling, but most of it came from YouTube videos and Reddit threads I found when googling “NG2 Xenia”. It ran really well for me in the end. I experienced the audio bug maybe five times, and restarting fixed it every time. The graphical glitch artifacts were somewhat annoying the first handful of chapters, but still worth it for the higher resolution and completely disappeared after that (apart from during loading screens, but who cares about that).
You said you’ve played before so maybe you already have some fundamentals, but watching a tutorial video on YouTube that goes over basic principles can help a lot. The games sort of expect you to rely on certain mechanics that are never explained, and while you can figure it out yourself it’s probably smoother to watch a tutorial. Also just experiment with combos and weapons: NGB felt very well balanced and encounters that seemed impossible at first felt very possible once “figured out”.
Nice thanks for all that info and the links. I’m not sure if I remember how the gameplay worked anymore at all actually so maybe the tutorials are in order too.
Either way I’ll probably hit you up when I inevitably tire of Nightreign. I haven’t even played all the characters yet but I can tell my attention is starting to drift.
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I’ve been working through my endless backlog.
I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It is a masterpiece.
I bought the Sniper Elite Humble Bundle that came with games 1 through 5. I have played through 1 to 4 already. It makes me miss games that can be finished in 20 hours instead of the endless grinds every game expects now. I also miss when Nazis were the evil bad guys.
I’m also playing through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. This one is set in Hawaii which is a coincidence since I’ve also just finished Kitchen Sync: Aloha!, a cooking game set in Hawaii.
I’m waiting for a sale on Clair Obscur but I’ve heard such good things from pretty much everyone
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That looks pretty nuts - how many people can be in the station at once?
Different servers have different caps but it’s usually like more than 50.
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Nice thanks for all that info and the links. I’m not sure if I remember how the gameplay worked anymore at all actually so maybe the tutorials are in order too.
Either way I’ll probably hit you up when I inevitably tire of Nightreign. I haven’t even played all the characters yet but I can tell my attention is starting to drift.
Anytime! I love these games and love both talking about them and helping out so just @ me or DM me or whatever works best for you when the time comes.
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Some of my favorites right there! I guess I should try Geometry wars since it seems like we’re on the same page.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and later Geometry Wars 2 were some of my favorites one the Xbox 360. Dual-stick shooters with awesome, simple, crisp graphics that, during the transition from CRT to LCD TVs, made LCDs look GORGEOUS.
3 is a phenomenal addition to the series (if relatively old now). It has all the modes from the previous two, and an “adventure” mode. Fantastic pick-up-and-put-down title to play when you have a bit of time or need something to distract the ADHD brain. And it’s cheap!
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I think the update that came with the expansion changed body part damage. I’ve got 3 pawns in storage without stomachs. Every social fight seems to cost me a nose.
Yeah I have two without noses now, but I finally got Flesh Shaping unlocked so soon I can start pumping out replacements. Also the leader got a bionic spine, then immediately got both legs blown off in the next fight. She is costing me a lot in advanced components lol.
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I’ve got that on my list with my group! Do you think we’ll like it if we liked 7 Days to Die and Valheim? Would love something in that style but still a little different than either of those.
I honestly don’t know because I didn’t play either of those. I’d say it looks pretty similar to Valheim but I have no idea how the combat feel compares.
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Oh I might be thinking of Siofra! Sorry hahaha, it’s been a while.
I went back into the expansion after months of not playing, and I forgot how much I loved this game… but sheeiit, is the expansion brutal. The main game was hard, but I had a much easier time roaming around and having fun and exploring without dying. Shadow seems a lot more…. “Go here and do the thing to progress”.
This exchange just popped back into my head for some reason. Your description of the approach to the flower was spot-on! Turns out it just happens to be a similar approach to Siofra. Took me a few attempts, and fire damage is a bit of a miserable situation for my dex build with a bit of int (level 150, scadutree… 9, I think? Maybe 10?), but I got there. I found that the best thing I could do was actually just to absolutely max out my own durability and accept that I was only getting one attack off per opportunity. I was having a really rough time avoiding the thorn eruption attacks, so the crimson seed talisman basically giving me two extra flasks worth of health was great. So long as I used fire damage and hit it in the “face” I didn’t really need to do anything else to get plenty of damage
I have since gone through the specimen storehouse and found my way into Rauh, which I was absolutely delighted by because it looks exactly like Shadow of the Colossus and I’d been itching to get there ever since I found that waygate that gives you a preview of it
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I’m always wishing there was more interaction and discussion on the niche Lemmy groups. Today I got to wondering if there were some games we could focus on to help foster our small community. But what is everyone playing or interested in playing? Are we all off playing our own obscure indie favorites or are there some games we share?
Comment below and upvote the ones that you have in common!
Hollow Knight. Had it for a while with a ~10hr save when I heard the silk song announcement and an trying to finish it before procrastinating on purchasing silk song.
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Hollow Knight. Had it for a while with a ~10hr save when I heard the silk song announcement and an trying to finish it before procrastinating on purchasing silk song.
I’m in the same boat. I did really enjoy my experience with it so I’m not sure why I didn’t power through. If I can get over my Nightreign addiction then maybe finishing that is next.
