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.

  • Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I finished Baldur’s Gate 3, so i fell in the post-great-game melancholy. I reinstalled Hades and Stardew Valley, but ya know

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        11 months ago

        I played the one, all the way to the big fight at the end, failed it and got too exhausted to reload and redo it… But it was a really good game though , it’s true! Is the 2 as good/better?

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          11 months ago

          “The 2” is the best RPG I have ever played in my life. The combat system and the overall style of the game is famazing! I especially loved all the cheese.

  • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I don’t play games as much as I used to, but I had a lot of fun recently with Carrion - you play an alien hive mind eating scientists and fighting security through an Area 51 style facility.

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    11 months ago

    Kerbal Space Program 2. The new For Science! update finally made the game fun and performant! And because I suck at the game, I needed to send 4 rescue missions to return Valentina from the Mun.

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        11 months ago

        Base game, not including mods? It’s comparable, especially if you didn’t like career mode and preferred science mode. I can see where they’re going and I really like it personally.

        However, if you also include mods, and you kinda have to… the sheer quality and amount of mods that really elevate ksp1 is going to make the answer to this question “no” until it has been out for years. You simply cannot compete with a decade of overhauls, dlc sized expansion mods, and visual upgrades.

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          The only mod I used in KSP1 was the Engineer Redux(?) mod, but I uninstalled it when advanced orbital info was added to the base game. The science mode couldn’t keep me motivated after finishing the tech tree with a research lab on minmus, and the career mode eventually gets too easy and too hard at the same time. I find KSP2’s exploration mode to be a perfect balance of the two, so I’m having a blast!

  • clampy_boi@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I just finished Stray. I’m not really a cat person but it was actually really enjoyable. Turns out cats are great platformers!

    I also finished Strange Horticulture yesterday. That was a pleasant surprise especially since it was set in the Lake District.

    I’m now trying to decide between starting Baldur’s Gate 3 (I am not a fan of turn based combat), Immortality or The Talos Principle 2.

    • Phishr42@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I’m now trying to decide between starting Baldur’s Gate 3 (I am not a fan of turn based combat), Immortality or The Talos Principle 2.

      I will say that you’ll be doing a ton of turn based combat in BG3. But it’s also one of the most well realized worlds I’ve ever played in.

      I have friends who won’t play any classic RPGs because they don’t like turn based combat, but they love BG3.

      If the idea of a sandbox filled with stories where you have tons of choice sounds interesting to you, I’d give it a try.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    11 months ago

    I started up Cult of the Lamb more seriously. I had it at launch, but it didn’t hold my attention between Hades for the roguelite action and RimWorld for the colony stuff.

    But I’m currently bored of those two, so I’m playing this. Shit was getting frustrating with the gains for going and doing the dungeons… Until I learned that I wasnt actually cooking all my fish and had tons of fish meant to be sold. Money solved literally all my problems. Just like it would in real life 😭

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      I love cult of the lamb I got it on my switch and I genuinely think it’s a perfect game for handheld

      Cause you can easily pick it up and play it a little and set it down

      But also engaging enough to sit down and play it on your TV

      Plus the combination between rouge like and base building is honestly amazing

    • Hillock@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Started playing yesterday, I can agree. I just need to get used to playing slower. It’s so easy to put it on speed three and then suddenly I am falling behind and can’t deal with the issues anymore.

  • VelveteenUnderground@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m playing Assassin’s Creed Mirage. It’s a nice change from the gigantic 100 hour open world epics that the series makes now and it’s a very nice looking and sounding game. The story is fairly standard for AC games (although there’s no Animus/modern day storyline this time), and the gameplay feels like what AC1 would have been if they made it today. Overall I am enjoying it a lot. I haven’t been able to play video games for the past month because I’ve been recovering from a major surgery but this has been a nice game to start up now that I can play games again.

  • Cexcells@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Baldurs Gate 3 still. 3rd run, this time Tactition. Next run on Honor. Still a banger.

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      11 months ago

      I played Hades on gamepass and I immediately knew that I had to buy it on steam.

      Btw did you manage to get to the final boss ?

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        11 months ago

        I’m trying to get to the epilogue boss now. I’ve beaten Hades ~30 times just trying to complete prophecies

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    I love cult of the lamb I got it on my switch and I genuinely think it’s a perfect game for handheld

    Cause you can easily pick it up and play it a little and set it down

    But also engaging enough to sit down and play it on your TV

    Plus the combination between rouge like and base building is honestly amazing

  • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
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    11 months ago

    I’m currently playing one of the games in Last Call BBS: 20th Century Food Court.

    For anyone familiar with the Zachtronics catalog of games it’s like someone bolted one of the programming games onto one of their factory games, but the programming part is done using cables. Unsurprisingly, programming with cables gets quite messy, so even after a short break I usually have to restart a puzzle because I don’t recognize what part was supposed to do what anymore.

    So yeah, great game, would recommend.

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    11 months ago

    INSIDE absolutely blew me away a few months ago, and I got a recommendation for Little Nightmares in a discussion about it. After about half an hour, I’ve gotta say, it’s properly weird and I wonder what’s it got in stock for me.

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    11 months ago

    Playing through my backlog, and finally gathered enough courage to play and finish Soma, and now I’m going through the Turing Test since I felt in the mood for a Portal-like game and I finished the Entropy Center not long ago.

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      11 months ago

      If you haven’t, give the Talos Principle a try. It scratches the same itch as Portal for me, although the tone is less whimsical, but equally bizarre.

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        11 months ago

        Oh I completed that one a long time ago, I haven’t bought the second one yet.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah, I’ve heard good things about the second one, so I’m doing the first one now. Finding the stars is truly insane sometimes.

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      11 months ago

      I just finished Talos Principle 2 and what a ride! I love Turing Test too and would also suggest Spectrum Retreat to scratch that puzzling itch.

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        Ohh haven’t heard of Spectrum Retreat, I’ll take a look thanks :)

  • ReasonablePea@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Just recently started playing rimworld and I’m super hooked. Trying to complete the game vanilla first then dive into modding