What are you all playing lately?
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This community is kind of in the shadow of all the other gaming communities, it doesn’t feel like it has a strong identity to separate it. There’s already plenty of weekly threads elsewhere to discuss what we’re playing and I already feel like I repeat myself between !gaming@beehaw.org and !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works. Do we need another one here? But sure.
I’ve been playing through the Ninja Gaiden series lately. Finished Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 on normal, playing on Xemu and Xenia Canary emulators respectively. Currently playing through Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge from the master collection, though I’m not sure I will finish it.
NG3RE should have the best combat in the series. The fundamentals are better than ever, Ryu is more fluid in his movements than ever and the combo strings are more flexible than ever. It just… I dunno. It doesn’t feel as good, satisfying or just fun. NGB had extremely precise, measured and deliberate combat, albeit slower than the later games. NG2 was an unbalanced mess, but it had a visceral pleasure when it clicked that is simply unparalleled. NG3RE changes the formula a lot, and not always for the better. Trying to play for Steel On Bone counters is what the game wants you to do, but it’s more reactive and less fun than previous games. And the animations aren’t as satisfying as the executions in NG2. NG3RE also has even worse bosses, which is a damn feat considering the series has some real stinkers.
And let’s not even get into the atrocious story, which manages to be maximally bad and lame but without ever crossing over into “so bad it’s good” territory. The Call of Duty or Ghost Recon-esque military special agent framing also ruins the vibe, and the boring and terrible level design makes me miss the wildly varied and interesting locations of NG2.
I really don’t know if I’ll finish it, all I want to do really is go back and play NGB and NG2 again. At least I found FiendBusa’s “Black” mod for it, that makes it a bit better.
This community is kind of in the shadow of all the other gaming communities, it doesn’t feel like it has a strong identity to separate it. There’s already plenty of weekly threads elsewhere to discuss what we’re playing and I already feel like I repeat myself between !gaming@beehaw.org and !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works. Do we need another one here? But sure.
What a helpful addition to the discourse!
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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!
Easy Red 2. Sandbox WW2 game with a bunch of campaigns, mods, and a mission/map editor. Great developer who updates the game frequently.
It’s not a visually amazing game or anything, but if you want to have Americans in German Uniforms fighting Chinese paratroopers in Stalingrad with M16s then you can. Its great
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I enjoyed every Far Cry game up until 6. 6 is just a steaming pile of shit.
I like the gunplay but once you get an armor piercing shotgun everyone just immediately dies. I’m 40 hours in and the game feels like a chore. I’m speeding through the faction missions just so I can see how Giancarlo Esposito dies.
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This community is kind of in the shadow of all the other gaming communities, it doesn’t feel like it has a strong identity to separate it. There’s already plenty of weekly threads elsewhere to discuss what we’re playing and I already feel like I repeat myself between !gaming@beehaw.org and !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works. Do we need another one here? But sure.
What a helpful addition to the discourse!
I just don’t know that the fragmentation is super helpful at this level of users, we have what - 4 medium sized basically interchangeable gaming communities? I am not as committed to community consolidation as some other uses but it still feels like concentrating interaction would be better than spreading it out at this point in time.
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This community is kind of in the shadow of all the other gaming communities, it doesn’t feel like it has a strong identity to separate it. There’s already plenty of weekly threads elsewhere to discuss what we’re playing and I already feel like I repeat myself between !gaming@beehaw.org and !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works. Do we need another one here? But sure.
I’ve been playing through the Ninja Gaiden series lately. Finished Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden 2 on normal, playing on Xemu and Xenia Canary emulators respectively. Currently playing through Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge from the master collection, though I’m not sure I will finish it.
NG3RE should have the best combat in the series. The fundamentals are better than ever, Ryu is more fluid in his movements than ever and the combo strings are more flexible than ever. It just… I dunno. It doesn’t feel as good, satisfying or just fun. NGB had extremely precise, measured and deliberate combat, albeit slower than the later games. NG2 was an unbalanced mess, but it had a visceral pleasure when it clicked that is simply unparalleled. NG3RE changes the formula a lot, and not always for the better. Trying to play for Steel On Bone counters is what the game wants you to do, but it’s more reactive and less fun than previous games. And the animations aren’t as satisfying as the executions in NG2. NG3RE also has even worse bosses, which is a damn feat considering the series has some real stinkers.
And let’s not even get into the atrocious story, which manages to be maximally bad and lame but without ever crossing over into “so bad it’s good” territory. The Call of Duty or Ghost Recon-esque military special agent framing also ruins the vibe, and the boring and terrible level design makes me miss the wildly varied and interesting locations of NG2.
I really don’t know if I’ll finish it, all I want to do really is go back and play NGB and NG2 again. At least I found FiendBusa’s “Black” mod for it, that makes it a bit better.
Yeah I don’t see many posts here so I was wondering if quizzing the community might inspire some new interactions and maybe help develop the identity here. No need to force in weekly things that other subs are doing.
I used to love Ninja Gaiden - what would be the best place to start? NG2 then? Unbalanced but satisfying sounds okay to me.
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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!
I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky lately. They just put out an update that let’s you build a spaceship that also functions as a base. I’m only just now getting into the game and it came at a perfect time for me because I’m just now getting the point that I need a house to store stuff and I haven’t found a planet that I love. Now I don’t have to because I can live in a ship built just for me!
Just me and my antlered ewok exploring the black.
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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!
currently going trough my personal backlog of games I’ve always wanted to play but never could. Never had my own console or a good enough PC. bought myself a steam deck and I’ve been an absolute degenerate doing nothing but playing video games. Just finished all 3 watch dogs (+ DLCs), currently working my way trough horizon zero dawn then will play forbidden west. Also simultaneously playing expedition 33, fallout 4, sleeping dogs and the witcher 3. I know its not high art but watch dogs is my favourite game and franchise I wish ubisoft would do something more with it.
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I’m couch surfing rn and only have my laptop, so I can really only play Stardew Valley. I’ve been slowly changing production entirely over to ancient fruit from hops.
I wish could play Satisfactory tho. :{
I finally got my wife hooked on Stardew Valley.
For years I’ve been trying to get her to game with me, never pushing too hard because I didn’t want to put her off the entire thing.
Recently she got laid off and picked up a part time job, so she’s had more free time. I asked her to consider playing Stardew Valley, and she said she would, but kept putting it off.
Finally one Saturday we had some free time and she agreed to give it a shot. I made popcorn, set her up with a Switch on our TV, gave her an hour or so to get started (I was willing to answer questions about controls, but wanted her to learn the game herself because I genuinely believe that’s part of the charm), then joined her with my Steam Deck (not multiplayer, just both of us playing single player).
She enjoyed it, but after that day she didn’t touch it for a while. Then I reminded her the Switch doesn’t need to be on the TV, and suddenly she was playing it every day. She’s fallen deeply into the Stardew Valley rabbit hole and I am so happy.
She broke her foot recently, and when we were at the urgent care center she had the Switch and I had my Steam Deck as we were waiting. The doctor who finally saw us said we were geniuses for being so well prepared for the packed waiting room.
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I’m playing through the first Death Stranding, which I’ve really been enjoying. The gameplay did not hook me initially, but it grew on me. I’m a sucker for a good narrative and so I progressed because I wanted to know what was happening.
I’ll want to play the second one afterwards, but I’m thinking that I’ll take a break in between. Maybe try Sword of the Sea? It looked pretty cool.
I really loved Death Stranding, need to get back into it. I had the same experience but then I think I was out of town for a week and for some reason never picked it back up. It’s just so melancholic and meditative sometimes and almost always has that cinematic beauty.
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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!
Cyberpunk 2077
Stardew Valley
Hades 2
Diablo 4
These are the ones I’m rotating between most right now. I’ve also got Doom (2016) and BG3 on rotation, but haven’t hit them in a while.
The Steam Deck has been such a great addition. Especially being able to stream titles like CP2077 from the PC for better graphical fidelity and battery life.
Edit: Oh! And Geometry Wars 3! It’s so good on the Steam Deck! It says “Playable” but I genuinely don’t know why, it seems completely supported as far as I can tell.
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I recently finished Dragon Age Inquisition, and then started Powerslave: Exhumed.
I never played any of the original versions so it’s a completely new experience for me. Enjoyable so far - it’s an interesting historical link between classic metroidvania and 90s FPS, like a proto-Metroid Prime in some ways.
I do wish they’d added a quick save button to this modern version, though.
Huh I never heard of Powerslave but your description “classic metroidvania and 90s FPS” makes me think it might need to go on my list
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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!
Clair Obscura, because I enjoy depression.
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Helldivers 2, have played at least a couple times a week since release with a group of friends but have been diving almost every night for the last few weeks as one of our other friends is on XBox and finally gets to join us!
Unfortunately he has only had time for one dive so far, but hopefully he has plenty of time tonight.
Oh I was doing a bunch of Helldivers 2 as well until Nightreign. Such a chaotic blast. The new city stuff on the maps looks like crazy fun.
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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!
I’ve been on a Lethal Company kick for a few months. I’ve been getting super involved in the “high quota” scene, where people try to get the highest quota possible. It involves a lot of crazy tech and good team work, and I’m really enjoying it.
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I just don’t know that the fragmentation is super helpful at this level of users, we have what - 4 medium sized basically interchangeable gaming communities? I am not as committed to community consolidation as some other uses but it still feels like concentrating interaction would be better than spreading it out at this point in time.
So don’t interact with the topic everywhere if you think it is too spread out. I see enough activity here and patient gamers to warrant them being different as they have different focus.
Plus each one is on a different instance. If there was only the one on beehaw I wouldn’t see anything since I blocked that instance.
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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!
Red Dead Redemption 2.
I picked it up a yeat or two ago, played through it, and loved it. When RDR was finally released for the PC, I immediately dove into it.
RDR was ezcellent, but it made me crave RDR2 gameplay, which was far deeper. So now I’m riding around in the epilogue, completing challenges and collecting every piece of clothing, saddle, and trinket.
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Recently finished mullet madjack, decided to replay quake 2
Huh never heard of Mullet Madjack, looks pretty nuts
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Nightreign had me, I’ve gone back to it for the everdark bosses, but I find the run before the bosses the most fun.
Went back to elden ring because of it, also picked up enshrouded and have been playing that with my coop group.
Balatro and slay the spire get a run a day
Yeah I’m there with you on Nightreign, the run is really fun. There’s something about it that is making me start to think that’s actually the way Fromsoft games work the best. I still have a few issues with the game in general but crafting your build around the loot and its passives is super satisfying.
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Oh I was doing a bunch of Helldivers 2 as well until Nightreign. Such a chaotic blast. The new city stuff on the maps looks like crazy fun.
City stuff can be fun or frustrating!
The tall buildings can block orbitals, line of sight for large stuff can make killing shots a lot more difficult than on most maps, and trying to cut through buildings can lead to walking right into a horde of infantry type stuff. On the other hand, watching the human support teams get a kill or two before dying can be pretty entertaining!
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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!
Currently replaying Borderlands 3 and playing Horizon Forbidden West.
