Still gonna keep this goings; people from before will be pinged.
Discussion questions:
What video games have you played recently?
What are your favorite video game genres?
Question of the week:
What did you like most from the recent TGA 2024, assuming you watched it or know of the announcements?
and
What did you enjoy most from the year 2024 in terms of gaming?
Well, a lot of bad news has happened politically IRL, but let’s make this thread a good one, and enjoy ourselves here!
Been playing a lot of South Park Fractured But Whole, pretty funny game and the combat is decent. I think it’s slightly better than Stick of Truth. Other than that I just finished RDR2 and I wanna play RDR1 soon
Just played The Quarry, and it was a blast. Can highly recommend if you enjoy choices based story games. My favorite genres are story games, turn based tactical, and roguelikes. I find I don’t have a huge amount of time to play, so I like games that aren’t too complex and that you can pick up and play without having to remember how the game works.
Didn’t follow TGAs this year. For 2024 games, I really enjoyed Selaco, Spiritfall, Portal Revolution, and Arco.
sounds gud
Got back into playing pokken (am getting consistent wins against hard AI now yay)
Pokken? What’s that?
it’s a pokemon fighting game for the switch (and the wii u i guess)
Oh, Pokken Tournament!
I only played around 5 minutes of the My Sims Kingdom that came out on the Switch. I am in my finals week so I haven’t been able to play anything, but after the 19th I’m free (until January)! My favourite genre seems to be cozy games, so that’s interesting, although I also like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Legend of Zelda, so I don’t know what to say about that.
I don’t pay attention to the game awards, I think CaseOh won something. I liked playing my switch games and some on steam this year, not much gaming from me unfortunately. I imagine next year will be even less games because it’s my final year of undergrad which means I have to lock in.
Never heard of CaseOh before the event
I’ve only ever seen clips of him on TikTok but he’s hilarious and hot, double whammy! An award well deserved
Oh damn, I could use some comedy. Guess I’ll check them out.
Replayed two flash games from my childhood that held up incredibly well. First was Battle of Britain 303 Squadron, and the second 1066. Would recommend if you have 15 minutes to spare!
Damn, flash games. They still around? What about Tetris on the Internet or as a flash game?
I was watching a video saying that they were held in “flash base,” as an archive.
This was probably the best TGA ever. Even the skits were funny. Definitely intrigued by the idea of an Elden Ring spin-off but the football game from the Sifu devs looked really cool too.
Yeah, definitely the best TGA ever. And I’m actually interested in the Elden Ring spin-off. I actually want it, warts and all. I know it’s a GaaS-type deal. But I don’t care, provided it’s done well for a good enough time, at least…
I’ve been playing some Pokémon. I’m mostly finished w/ Fire Red, just need to rematch the Elite 4, and I’m mostly done with Let’s Go Pikachu too, which I started playing because a friend is also playing right now. And although it is extremely easy difficulty wise, I’m doing a living dex since catching Pokémon in this game is, at least, fun.
I’m getting the urge to go back to Baldur’s Gate 3, Breath of the Wild and Disco Elysium, all which I haven’t finished yet, unfortunately.
About TGA, I wasn’t expecting another FromSoftware game, and it being an Elden Ring alternate reality 3-player roguelike? SIGN ME IN, the trailer was cool, I want to see where this goes. Other than that, the only other games that caught my attention where the football game which looked so fucking cool, and this comes from someone that absolutely hate sports games, specially Fifa; The Long Dark looked super cool too and the new Ninja Gaiden looked amazing. I’m also interested in Onimusha after the trailer on TGA, so I’ll take a look into the games some time.
Ah, I can see that you have Kras Mazov as your username, but you haven’t finished Disco Elysium.
Shows the effect the game had on you just like it did to all of us…
@Makan I’ve played a bit of Mirthwood an indie game that’s kind of a mashup between stardew valley and the sims
Then went to check out Path of Exiles 2 which I’m enjoying so far.
Oh, I’ve heard great things about Mirthwood, tbh
caves of qud 1.0 out now babeyy!!! also been playing gyruss for the arcade and panel de pon/puzzle league/tetris attack.
fav video genres are roguelikes, puzzle games, and arcade games like shmups.
there was a game awards…?
ring racers is THE game of 2024 in my heart and soul and spirit and its factual go play ring racers
Caves of Qud is finally out! WOW!
fuck yes, ring racers
Still on factorio. About 120 hours into the save. Pausing now to study programming a bit, but will play less hard, for the upcoming months, likely.
Damn, I need a game I can just grind.
I was soooo excited for Veilguard. Guess which game I kinda hate? 😅
I will never forget the intense and deep disappointment I felt after playing DA2. I hear Inquisition was better, but the entire series was dead to me from that point forward and I lost faith in direction of the series from that point.
I’m not the “stop having fun” type, but it’s a bummer to hear that they never managed to bring it back to the great to the same spot that made the first game so phenomenal.
I know what you mean. I really enjoyed Inquisition, I still play it today. It’s not perfect but it’s great. Veilguard just feels like a bad cartoon. Example: I’m playing as a Shadow Dragon and everyone keeps explaining to me what the Shadow Dragons do. Ok, yep, read the codex, read my own intro, I got it.
It was originally supposed to be a heavily monetized live service game and they had to pivot really late in development because of backlash during playtesting. A lot of the weirdness you see like that is because they were reworking what basically amounted to a bad mmo. I hear the last few hours of the story are pretty good though.
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Damn.
I want to desperately enjoy The Veilguard and I still plan to buy it. I loved Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age Inquisition growing up.
Too bad only three decisions carry over from the third game…
I finished Tactical Breach Wizards recently, which is weird, because I usually bounce hard off turn based tactical games. I also generally suck at them. That doesn’t stop me trying them every once in a while because I really -want- to get into them. TBW is one of those rare ones that plays more like a puzzle game and I really enjoyed it. I played on easy and found the mechanics very forgiving. Gameplay mostly revolves around setting up combos with each character’s unique skills, allowing for some very satisfying outcomes when everything goes to plan. Writing is top notch; the story is fun, funny, engaging, humorous and touching with some really good character moments. Art style is very much low-poly pastel indie style, but it’s well executed and looks good IMO. Veterans of the genre might find it a little simplistic, and the main campaign is fairly short, but I absolutely loved it.
Yeah, I generally try hard turn-based tactical games, even though I’m not that good at them.
What Video Games Have You Played Recently?
I recently finished Indika which is this strange little indie game where you play as a nun in the Russian Orthodoxy and my god. It was perfect, an insane story, the set-pieces were excellent, and the discussions on theology were very well written and for someone never really exposed to religion much it was very interesting.
Favorite Video Game Genre?
Probably social deduction multiplayer games. I do really enjoy a good single player story, but nothing is as addictive to me as a good game of SS14 or 13. There is so much fun to be had and every game you play is unique.
What did you like most from the recent TGA 2024, assuming you watched it or know of the announcements
Probably my most anticipated game from there is The Long Dark II just because a multiplayer version of that game should be fun. I anticipate zomboid but without zombies which should be fun
Awesome!
i really like Indika’s style, i haven’t had a game grip my attention like that in a very long time but I kept getting stuck in the chase thing with the beast and finally just gave up
I really do recommend you finish it. The game gets a lot more depressing after that and the ending really does hit you like a brick. Would recommend
i played the Indiana Jones game a bit last week… it’s not really all that great but somehow it’s just good enough to keep me trying to collect the things and whip Nazis
I download just about every game that comes out but most of them i delete within an hour or two of playing
i actually started playing tf2 again after many many years of not playing it … it’s still the same game i remember and loved, but i would love it if there was a MegaTF mod for it like there was for TF on Quake
Well, it seems that this Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (I presume that’s the one you mean) game was an improvement for you.
Oh, and punching and whipping the ass of Nazis; what’s not to love?
Finished bulletstorm,
Starting sekiro.
Enjoy!