• Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago
    • Finished all battles in Easy Red 2 and started again.
    • Just started Spell Brigade.
    • Tried to get back to Astroneer, but don’t seem to find myself playing it.
    • Tried to get back to Elite Dangerous, but no.
  • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I’ve been getting back into boomer shooters and dungeon crawlers.

    I’ve been playing more Selaco, and I’m excited for the next chapter to be released. Also Burger Flipper has taken my spare time in that game while I’m playing it (it’s the idle clicker game-within-a-game).

    I reinstalled Lunacid to jump back in and hopefully finish that at some point soon. I’ve been playing fun demos like Mohrta and Hark the Ghoul too.

    And of course Project Zomboid.

  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Mostly Spyro (the PSX one) and both versions of Cyberpunk 2077. Alternatively Muse Dash if I don’t have much time (or will) to go for a longer session.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I respect the love of a PSX game, thumbs up.
      What do you mean by both versions of 2077?

      • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I really like checking out oldies in their original form, even if there’s a “better” remake/remaster available. It’s fun to see what those games had to offer in their prime.

        As for Cyberpunk, I’m playing both the most up to date version (2.13 with Phantom Liberty + mods) and the legacy one (version 1.16).

        There were a lot of gameplay and design changes in the 2.0 release. Since I played the game before that, I had a constant reaction of some things being… off. I wasn’t sure whether my mixed feelings had to do with nostalgia or if I really liked some of the old gameplay more, so I decided to reinstall the legacy version to confirm (thanks CDPR for keeping it available).

        Long story short, while I do like some of the things they did with the game and genuinely believe it’s a better product overall, I’d be lying if I said I prefer the new version. I still have fun and all the technical improvements, free content and access to mods make for an easy choice but boy do I wish there was a way to port those to the legacy version. There are a few mods that restore some of the old design choices which gives me a sliver of hope for a potential larger restoration in the future. For now though, I’ll just keep enjoying what’s there.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Sounds like how I view No Mans Sky. Im one of the wierdos that really enjoyed how alone and wierd the game used to be.

          • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Does NMS allow you to play the older patches at least? It really sucks whenever games change significantly without an ability to stick with what you like.

  • podperson@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I’m old and just started playing Far Cry 5 (haven’t played any of the others before). Very fun.

    • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I highly recommend the first one, Far Cry 3 and its stand-alone expansion Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Also, the first Crysis game which is very similar to Far Cry.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Im old too. I played the first FarCry. It was amazing. That was a time that driving a vehicle in first person view, having moving shadows based off of light sources, being able to see far away, and being able to shoot out lights was ground breaking. (To be fair 007 GoldenEye had lights you could shoot too)

      Now there aren’t any games that let you shoot or destroy light sources.

    • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I have played every Far Cry since the first. In my opinion FC5 is the worst. Boring setting. Far more mundane and repetitive than the others. The forced kidnappings were annoying. The ending was meh. I think FC6 was a refreshing change.

      Personally Far Cry Blood Dragon is the best overall. The Vietnam DLC for FC5 is also excellent, even though short. FC4 is also great, and has a truly unique setting and was a lotnof fun with the gyro copter and Yeti. FC3 is good and fun, but it’s overrated.

      FC2 I think is the best FC in a spiritual sense. For all its flaws, it truly set out to implement a unique concept the other FC’s have forgotten… that is you set out to accomplish something and everything will go wrong. You were supposed to be frustrated and overthink things. The setting was cool, the story was effed up, and the buddy system was kinda neat.

      All Far Cry’s suffer from underdelivering on the story. So much potential with the villains, yet barely seen. People who brag about how cool Vaas is seem to forget you only see him like 3 times, he’s gone by like mid-game, and he wasn’t even the main villain.

  • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Talos Principle. I set it down months ago when I got stuck on a puzzle. Solved that shit in 10mn yesterday

  • rowinxavier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Half Life 2, I got a new laptop a couple of years ago and it was the first that could actually play it properly but I never got to it, then the big update came out and wow, so worth it, loving it.

    TES IV Oblivion. Love it, so silly, I love thieving.

    Autonauts vs Piratebots, such a fun and cute little programming game.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      You hide cards at night in the forest for fun? Seems like a solitary type of game to play.

      • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Hehe you’re right kinda.

        I take my phone data offline after about midnight and if I can’t sleep I’ll do Solitaire or crosswords.

        If I’m really wanting a good game, Zen Pinball is my poison. One day I plan to get an old TV and turn it into a Zen Pinball machine, as others have done on YouTube.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Pinball games are fun. Ive tried everyone on the Switch, and a few on Steam, but they all seem to lack something.

          Finding a decent pool table game is the same.

          • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            I think pool would be harder to emulate than pinball unless using a real cue and VR. It’d be hard to have a one to one user interface for this whereas pinball is mostly binary since flippers went electronic.

            That said, I’ve fond memories of some pool games in the DOS / '95 era. The duration of the mouse click being the analog to the cue force.

            • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOPEnglish
              1·
              3 days ago

              There’s a cheapo pool game on Switch that uses the gyros in the controller for moving the stick. It’s pretty cool at first. But then you realize it’s a cheap game that’s not worth it.

              The possibility is there.

              The pinball games are DLC money sinks, unfortunately.

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    7·
    3 days ago

    • Elden Ring. Only the base game, and this is my first run. I have been very thorough with it, though. I’m currently trying to beat Malenia, then it’s off to do the last boss

    • Victoria 2. Weekly multiplayer session with a couple of friends. It’s 1915, and my people have just elected an anti-military party that is really hampering my efforts to swing a big imperialist stick around

    • Lorn’s Lure. PS2 graphics, generous 3D platforming mechanics, and an impossibly vast and desolate megastructure to explore. Well I’m playing the demo of it, anyway. I am going to get the full version, it made a good impression.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      My friend that really doesn’t play many games loved Elden Ring. And ive listened to a lot of lore videos from Dark Souls to Elden Ring. But my PC probably can’t handle the game. I can’t wait to eventually be horrible at it though.

      • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        I don’t like souls like games. I LOVED Elden Ring. It was the exact balance of controller destroying and fun.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        3·
        3 days ago

        It’s great fun! So long as you’re on board with the experience it is trying to create, of course. FromSoft are good at what they do and don’t much care for whether or not what they do is everyone’s cup of tea

        I’d love to try Bloodborne, because that gameplay combined with a bit of cosmic horror sounds amazing to me. I’ll have to either wait for a PC port or learn about emulation, though

        The thing that stuck out to me more than I expected about it is how painterly it often feels. It’s exceptionally good at framing its environments in a spectacular or pleasing way even while the player has full control of the camera. I’m not usually one to worry about visuals too much, but this game’s environments really stuck out to me. And while it is very high-fidelity and nicely rendered, it’s less about the actual graphical performance than it is about the design of the environments