Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?
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Good luck!
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I want to get into drawf fortress but struggle with actually sitting down to learn it.
Good look with your exam.
Anything in particular you struggle with or is it just everything at once?
Haven’t touched it in years but I just couldn’t sit and focus to learn how to play properly
Purchased both fallout 4 and Subnautica. Gotta say that Subnautica is a freaking gem.
I want to play subnautica with a heart monitor just to see how bad my thalassophobia is lol
Lol that would make some good content.
Full noise canceling headphones + complete absence of light (block windows and door with black trashbags) + thalasssophobia.
Subnautica is a really fun game, atmosphere wise. Even if I don’t really vibe with the whole “corporate space” stuff it has in the background. Good luck with survival!
Im pretty sure its making fun of that setting. Like when you first pick up Diamonds, there is a recording that says that everything you pick up is owned by the company so you would be indebted if you lose the stuff lol.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. There’s other stuff, like logs from other ships bemoaning having to respond to the distress beacon, because of how notoriously shoddy company ships are
Subnautica is a fantastic game that either helped me discover I had thalassophobia or gave it to me. My playtime probably got inflated by ten hours as I spent so much time sprucing up my base instead of progressing to the end of the story.
It balances the curated story elements so well with the open world survivalbox type gameplay. Not many games hit that balance so well.
Ive easily spent 4 hours sprucing up my base lol, my progression has been weird since i found the delani base very late and i just unlocked the core building for a base, i only had scanner rooms for like the first 12 hours lmao. I literally found the alien bases before the delani base, only through an alien portal did i find the island with the delani clues.
My base went from a single scanner room + vehicle bay with only solar energyr, to a full fledged 5-6 rooms base with alien containments+nuclear reactor+water filtration+ storage rooms+ bedrooms after i found the delani bases lol
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Question(s) of the week:
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating?
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the check button is unreliable
Mostly the new Space Marine game, I guess. A few other games I’m following don’t have release dates yet.
Same with me here.
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Last week was Bioshock.
This week Bioshock 2!
I’m taking it very slow.
Originals or remasters? The “improved” lightning in the remasters kind of ruined the atmosphere imo. Love those games though. Both are leagues better than Infinite.
Remastered on PS4. Yeah I’m not going to
betterbother with infinite!
BioShock Infinite next?
No I didn’t really like it when I played it before. It really broke with the art style of the first two and the characters were kind of annoying.
OOF
You liked it? I’m going to move on to the Dishonoured series next.
I like Dishonoured even more! Both 1 and 2.
The DLCs are all great too!
Prey is another banger. There’s something about this style of FPS that grabs me. Puzzles and using the correct tools for the situation, instead of just chaos and stress like with Doom etc. The new monthly games for the Playstation has a game that claims to be inspired by Bioshock, "Immortals of Aveum ", I watched the trailer and it just looked nice but like just pure constant action, doesn’t really appeal.
Prey is absolutely great, but I have yet to try it; I only have hearsay to assess it at this point.
Got back into SMT: Nocturne this week and the Fallout hype is dragging me back to the Commonwealth so that’s what I’ve been playing recently aside from my regular daily rotation of Genshin, Star Rail, and Nikke, lol.
I’m really excited for Frostpunk 2, I’ve been anticipating that since like 2021. The gameplay seems to be more like Cities: Skylines this time around, with some other elements mixed in. I so can’t wait.
Yeah, I’m also enthusiastic for Frostpunk 2, though I’ve never played the first one.
You definitely should, it’s hard as hell in the beginning but does get easier
Dang, Jerboa does not handle cross-post well. Anyways.
I’ve been playing the hell outta Minecraft with a few friends, just started our own server and I’ve been using purpur with a few plugins to make it more fun.
Honestly I don’t even know my favorite genre anymore. Either hack and slash or fps but I haven’t played either in a while.
Not necessarily a game but a mod pack. Skyrim ultima looks so fun and 1.0 came out this year. I just need a PC that can handle it
Skyrim Ultima, eh? Guess I’ll check it out!
I just finished purrgatory yesterday! It’s a really cute visual novel about befriending weirdos and going to heaven. Getting the best ending took me the entire afternoon but it was worth it. Highly recommend if it looks interesting to you (it’s free and playable in your browser (but maybe not on mobile))
“befriending weirdos”
Sounds like a game about me. And I go to heaven? This is… paradise.
More like purgatory lol but def check it out! It’s really sweet
Sure sure
Currently waiting for Stellaris DLC, Machine Age. Looks quite epic and is biggest DLC since Nemezis.
My brother plays that one, little one, anyway.
I’ve been giving Endless Space 2 another try. Did a Horatio win, now I’m doing a Riftborn playthrough. I feel this game is a bit barebones. I want to like it, but after 1 or 2 playthroughs, I feel bored and need to move on. The orchestral music is great though.
I was thinking of trying Stellaris again, haven’t touched it in years. The 2.0 update was a deal breaker for me.
ah fair
Stellaris is the one Paradox game I actually keep coming back to, as a fan of SF I appreciate that it just hits on nearly every SF trope out there. I thought about trying Endless Space 2 again with the Awakening rework, but I think I would honestly just rather play stellaris.
I still very rarely finish stellaris games though, as much as I like the early game the late-mid to late game just really drags.
I’m definitely still playing Dyson Sphere Program. I’m building my first space ball around an O-type and if my calculations are correct, it’s gonna be pushing 861 GW with just the one shell. I’m considering adding as many as the game allows to see what I end with. My initial goal was to get on the leaderboard for this seed, I’m there. Now my goal is to get the 1 TW achievement. After that I’m considering going for 1st place on the leader board.
I’m still bottlenecking on science too. My theoretical max is 2500/min but I’m only getting around 1800 under best conditions. But I’m actually focusing on a new rocket factory I put in my new sphere system anyway. Research can just trickle in for now.
I’m gon a plop down more mining in my sphere system and hope I can keep my silicone and titanium topped off since that is where it’s chugging right now.
Other than that, I finished Prodeus and am working to collect all the collectible things for new guns. It’s a lot of fun if you like restro shooters. It doesn’t overstay it’s welcome too much.
I’m working on getting into Ultra Overkill currently too. I’m not sure move tech really works with boomer shooters but it’s still mindless fun. Also chainsaw legs.
DSP is my favourite factory game by far, great to see someone else playing that one. I just polished off my first Dark Fog game, so was poking around at some other up and coming factory games before I started another run.
I just finished the frame on my initial sphere shell out of a planned 10. I still need 12 million sails shipped to it and ramped my sail production up to around 10k/min. I’ve been working on just this shell for a week along with trying to fix my white science bottleneck because I really want to ramp up to 5k science/min. I actually chose to do a non-df run this time even though I was waiting for the new update before I started playing again lol.
Also I think my estimated 861 GW is gonna be closer to 873 but we shall see.
If you like factory games and haven’t given it a shot, check out shapez. It’s surprisingly fun and deep for just cutting shapes up and such.
I am afraid to ask since I am trying not to buy any new games but do you have any new ones that you’d recommend?
I can totally understand doing a non-DF run, they are a cool challenge in the early game and their special buildings can really help with ramping up late game but they can be a bit annoying to deal with. The DF Lab in particular is a huge help if you are going for one of the big science achievements, because I think it is 2x as fast as a base lab. I wouldn’t play with DF again myself until they flesh out the space combat more, dealing with the space hive right now is kind of cumbersome because it hasn’t really been fully implemented yet.
I may have honestly played every factory game on steam at this point. Shapez was great, I am looking forward to shapez 2. DSP / Factorio / Satisfactory is the holy trinity of factory games to me at this point, but I think everyone knows those.
Captain of Industry is a great one with more real-world production chains and some light colony-management as well. It’s pretty challenging and you can get locked into a death spiral pretty easily. There are difficulty settings that can be adjusted on the fly that help with that though. I like more of a sci-fi setting usually, but this is a pretty cool adaptation of real industry.
Desynced is a lesser known SF factory builder that adds some programming elements. Basically everything are logistic bots rather than belts, but all the bots can be programmed with a decently robust visual programming language. All the buildings/bots you build are modular too, with components that you slot in. I like shoving some solar panels on all my carrier bots so that they contribute to my power grid while transporting cargo.
Of the trinity, Satisfactory is the latest in my collection and it just did not click with me. I got coal up and running and then just dropped it. I think it’s the fps perspective that I wasn’t jiving with.
Captain of Industry is def on my radar. I’m not so sure about it but might grab it done day.
This is the second time in a week that I’ve seen Desynced mentioned so I’m gonna add it to my wishlist now.
Ultra Overkill is a good one.
I played a bit more and it’s really a lot of fun. The move tech can get a little chaotic though.
Fair.
I got very addicted to Pokemon go for a week very recently, but I quit.
Funny that I aim to get into Pokémon Go soon.
Im playing the CK3 mod, After The End right now alongside keeping up with Guilty Gear Strive.
Which CK3 mod?
The name of the mod is After The End
Aha
I’ve been playing Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey and Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer lately. I’ve got a long commute to work, so the DS has become my best friend when I don’t feel like reading. I also started another playthrough of Diddy Kong Racing, initially just to test homebrew N64 emulation on my Switch. It actually runs well! It also plays mostly nicely with widescreen hacks, only downside is I have to run the game at base N64 resolution to avoid slowdown.
My favorite genre is probably RPGs? But I tend to get really into one or two genres at a time and then switch to something else after a bit. Recently it’s been roguelikes and, briefly, pinball. Before that I was playing a lot of bullet hell games. I think more and more I’m just interested in games that I don’t have to commit to for more than one play session.
What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?
I don’t know if this counts but I’m very excited for the Majora’s Mask PC port to release! I’ve been checking their Discord server every day hoping to see news. Otherwise, Demonschool seems pretty interesting, and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance I suppose? I thought the original release of that was only alright, but hopefully the new route will be something I’m into.
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Shin Megami Tensei V is supposed to be insanely good, from what I heard, so definitely get to the DLC.
SMT V was pretty good, yeah. I thought it was kind of weak compared to Nocturne and IV, but the game was still a lot of fun, so I’m sure the DLC will be a fun way to revisit it
I have been replaying Syrian Warfare since I got it in January and I played literally nothing else
Did not know that game existed, since steam reviews seem to say it’s russian propaganda it’s probably really good.
It’s unironically very good (except for AI movement) and yes it’s Russian propaganda and yes it is based.
Catgirl sorcerer game (ffxiv)
Makes sense.
