Have you been spending hours trying to pass a level? Or maybe you are completely addicted to a newly bought game. Do you have a question about a game or would like to share something else? In the Weekly Discussion Thread, you can do it all!

Please don’t forget to use the spoiler tag as soon as you start talking about a storyline.

  • danthehutt@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m playing Risk of Rain Returns and having a great time with it. I’d love to see how it feels on a Steam Deck, since it seems like a perfect game for that. Still haven’t had a successful run solo but the journey is what matters.

    Sometimes fitting in Super Mario Wonder when I’m feeling whimsical. It’s really fresh and the one off mechanics that pop up are really entertaining.

    I’m also getting into Slay the Spire for my lunch break game every now and then. Boy howdy is this a great game. My current run was a near bust as I discarded a core card of my deck by accident. I suspect I would have been better off, but I’m still trudging through haha.

    Taking some lighter games at the moment but very much looking forward to picking up Metro Last Light and V Rising as my winter games this year. Hoping they’ll be good ones since my gaming sessions will be decimated next year when my daughter is born!

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    10 months ago

    It’s gone largely unnoticed on Lemmy (at least it hasn’t come up on my feed) but I’ve been playing The Finals since it launched during TGA. I don’t normally play F2P games but The Finals is made by ex-DICE employees so I had to try it out. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say it’s the most fun I’ve had in an online shooter in almost a decade. It has pretty much killed my Satisfactory factory (because no longer remember what I was doing there) my Remnant 2 playthrough and my plans to return to Destiny before The final shape. And I don’t care about any of those other games because there’s something so addictively fun about the core gameplay of The Finals that I just can’t put it down. I’m probably going to spend the next week(s) also playing this game.

    Overall, despite it being F2P game and having the obvious negatives of a F2P game I still strongly recommend The Finals. If this was a full priced title I’d buy it full price.

    • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I loved the Finals when it was in beta. It legitimately was the most fun I had in a multiplayer game since Titanfall 2 and Lawbreakers. It just had that raw chaos feeling that I was craving.

      Then I heard the announcers were AI voices, and that was disheartening. Then I heard that they slowed the movement down for the release to a point that it felt really sluggish so I just haven’t been motivated to try it post-release.

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        10 months ago

        The movement thing is as close to a fake outrage as you can get. The developers have not slowed the game down. The thing that’s having the biggest impact on the game feeling slow is the default FOV that has been set to 70. If you played on 90 FOV (or higher) and then play on 70 FOV the game is going to feel extremely slow, but it’s a visual difference not a gameplay difference. The game feels exactly the same as it did in open beta.

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    I recently reinstalled monster hunter world only to find I need to grind anjanath a hundred times to get my artillery charm upgrade.

    I’m not sure how long this will last before I uninstall it again.

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    10 months ago

    I‘ve actually continued playing Reus which has been collecting dust in my Steam library for a decade. I‘m still 50/50 on whether I know what I‘m doing or not, but I am aiming for all the achievements, let‘s see how that goes lol

    Shout-out to anyone who has even heard of this game.

    • Okami@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Reus is great! I spent a summer several years back sinking my teeth into it good. It really scratches the itch for playing Civilization when I don’t have time to play Civilization.

      I never did get all the achievements. Some of them are crazy hard to pull off within the time limit. Good luck to you if you end up sticking with it.

      I’m quite looking forward to Reus 2.

  • Jud_R@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Can’t get enough of Season of Discovery right now. Cannot wait to finish work to get back home and login!

  • delitomatoes@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Against the Storm just hit 1.0, it’s pretty amazing to see a game come out fully formed unlike some AAA titles. It’s not genre defining but pretty unique, the same vein as Frostpunk and Banished but with an overworld and a WC3 aesthetic

  • Nioro@lemmings.world
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    10 months ago

    Currently playing monster hunter world with a pinch of darkest dungeon and a side of borderlands 3.

  • Stelus42@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate! I just recently got Citra emulator running on my steam deck and it runs great. Plus, Citra can emulate local multiplayer over the internet, so I’m playing with my old buddy who moved to california. Just like we did back in our highschool days.

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    10 months ago

    Breath of the Wild and Hollow Knight on my Steam Deck.

    Divinity Original Sin II on the PC.

  • Dio9sys@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been playing a metric ton of Star Ocean: Second Story R.

    I just love a good port of the best Star Ocean game.

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    10 months ago

    Don’t mind me, just doing everything 16 year-old me despised just so I can say I defeated the Max-Tac operators.

    For context, the first time I shot a pedestrian in GTA IV just because I could, I felt an immense amount of guilt.

    Now I’m a full-blown cyberpsycho trying to dismantle the police force in Night City gonk by gonk.

  • Ashley Graves@lm.possum.city
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    10 months ago

    Borderlands 2! Graphics may not be hyperrealistic but the artstyle is amazing, not to mention the fact it can run on pretty much any setup (even a PS Vita)

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      10 months ago

      I played the shit out of Borderlands 2 until I realized it really wasn’t fun. The guns and stuff are cool, but the shooting feedback wasn’t satisfying enough to justify continuing. Then Borderlands 3 came out and improved in every way on the core mechanics and I was too tired of Borderlands 2 to care. I really wish BL3 came out like 5 years sooner.