Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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I started to play No Man's Sky again
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Also here for NMS and building Corvette class ships!
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American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 at the moment, finally with head tracking! It's so much better, to the point that I would find it hard to go back.
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Been playing through The Messenger again. Still an amazing game.
Also picked up No Man's Sky again to build the Corvette class ships, build up some settlements, and collect some of the newer cosmetic building items. It's impressive how much love has gone into that game, and it gives me a chuckle that it now has basically everything Star Citizen has (ships with walkable interiors, food, planet exploration, space combat, main quests, etc.).
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I got really deep into Caves of Qud (classic rogue like) after initially dropping it for being too difficult. It has a bit of a learning curve, but beyond that, it is really fun. Very engaging sci-fi fantasy world, lots of interesting things to do or see, some fun random quirks/jank, and very diverse character customization. I think what I love the most is that it's a knowledge game, where you excel by learning some bits and tricks here and there, like the effects of cooking with certain ingredients or getting some special items with an important effect (aka cheesing stuff).
Also besides being a very hard roguelike, it is really chill in a way (also helpt by the music).
If you do have struggles with it, I can recommend giving roleplaying mode a spin, where you don't have permadeath, or there is a website called qudzoo with some seriously good advice.
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The writing is seriously good. I enjoy just reading random furniture descriptions.
The only reason I haven't beaten it yet is that it feels repetitive since the main story and certain profitable side quests are always the same.
While some RNG like the faction relationships add great and flavorful variety, others like the medicine recipes are technically different every time but it doesn't matter.
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They announced some upcoming expansions, I wonder if one of those would address the "story always the same" part, since that does seem to be a common criticism
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I've been playing Project Silverfish and having a blast it is Scaly STALKER.
Also Peak with my friends.
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Alan Wake
Putting the finishing touches on Alan Wake (the really old one). I‘m not much of a horror guy (and it‘s not much of a horror game), so mainly the story kept me going lol. Probably just gonna watch a playthrough of 2 to know how it continues.
Peak
Otherwise, I‘ve been playing some Peak with my gf and I really like it. The generated levels keep it fresh, the swap out only every 24 hrs gives ample opportunity to get familiar with the mountain. I wish it had DLSS and/or FSR though, the performance is abysmal for what it‘s rendering, the integrated „scaler“ looks pretty poor. My PC‘s screaming when I play this for no apparent reason lol
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Alan Wake 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, and if you like the story it's definitely worth considering playing. Yes, it is a bit more of a horror game, but it's phenomenal. I recommend watching a recap of Control and its AWE DLC, as they directly tie into the plot of Alan Wake 2. Or just play them, Control is also a great game.
If you really truly can't stomach horror games, both Welonz and Mapocolops have great AW2 playthroughs.
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Control is also a great game.
Second this. The Ashtray Maze is still one of the coolest levels in a game for me.
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Peak is a peak example of a trending game.
We're also playing it. And we know other couples playing it too.It came out of no where, is a bunch of fun, and will be forgotten about in a couple weeks.
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Control. It’s weird, which is a big plus in my book, the puzzles are a nice level of trickiness for casual gaming, and I’m really enjoying how the gameplay develops
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Death Stranding. I just got done playing Snake Eater for the first time and got addicted to Kojima's storytelling.
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Been playing Cardinal Quest 2. It's such a joy to come back to this game again every few years. Aside from perhaps DoomRL, it's my favorite coffeebreak roguelike.
It's got such excellent graphics and audio compared to the rest of the genre. The environments (many being outdoors) are much more interesting than your typical dungeon. The classes are quite good and even within a class there is plenty of variety with the skills and talents you take.
The achievement system is great for giving you stuff to do and unlock besides just winning. Itemization is on point for a game with runs that last half an hour. Never tedious, usually impactful.
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Wow. First search result was for Kongregate. That brought back some memories.
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Vampire Survivors's Ode to Castlevania DLC
It's so fun to see them actually get to use the IP VS was inspired from, and the DLC is absolutely a love letter to all of Castlevania, including some of the more obscure characters in the lore. The DLC has roughly double the content of the base game, with at least three big "unlock/events" locking more layers of content behind them. Tons of new playable characters, tons of new weapons, one new massive map with its own unique mechanics and progression, and so much classic Castlevania music and remixes. Totally worth it.
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I finished Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge. Despite everything, I'm very happy to have finished the whole trilogy. I've become quite fond of this series, and I'm already very keen on going back and playing NGB and NG2 again sometime soon. Especially curious to compare the Ninja Gaiden 2 White mod with the original NG2 experience.
NG3RE is a bad game. I could rant about it for hours. It has one of the worst stories I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing, and in attempting to be a "story focused" game it actively gets in the way of your enjoyment constantly. The level design is uninspired and the enemy variety is terrible. It's a QTE-infested fuckfest, its extremely solid combat system isn't even allowed to shine due to poor gameplay design and it has the worst bosses in the whole series - a series that was already infamous for bad bosses, by the way. That final boss was an absolute shitshow and I can't believe I made it through. Had I not saved up all the Max HP upgrades in the skill tree to use as health potions in the final fight I wouldn't have been able to. Also, they actually had the game end on a fucking QTE.
If you must play it to see the whole series, install this mod, set Ninpo generation to 1.5, damage multiplier to 1.35 and enemy block rate reduction to 85. I played around with it a bit and it actually makes the combat feel alright and lets you mostly ignore Steel On Bone QTE instakills and heal with Ninpo instead, as well as actually play around with your combo strings to kill enemies.
To follow, and continuing my Itagaki journey I found out he and some other Ninja Gaiden 2 people in the Soleil studio made the game Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time. So I've started playing that now, and you know what? It's actually kinda good. Feels a bit like a throwback to old school games with pickups on the ground and collectibles, and you can even sense some of the Ninja Gaiden lineage in the combat. Much less demanding and intense though - granted I'm only playing on Normal difficulty. It starts out a little slow but once you start unlocking new moves and functions in the skill tree the combat starts opening up and feel pretty good and fun.
It's not going to be a GOTY contender but I'd say it's worth your time. I never watched the cartoon but they apparently got both the original creator and show writers as well as voice cast on board. Love the art style too and it's had some cool levels thus far. Bosses have been decent, not too hard. Recommended if you need a short chill action game, and doubly so if you're a Samurai Jack fan I assume.
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Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time
Delisted in December, unfortunately. They didn't even bother giving us one final deep sale before pulling it. Cheapest it's ever been is $24, IIRC.
This and Transformers: Devastation are top of my Steam wishlist, but the chances of their coming back is nonexistent. Like, I have played them through other means, but I'd love to have them in my Steam library and go for the 100%.
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If you can stomach it it's still for sale on Epic I'm pretty sure. Otherwise yeah, Ms Fitgirl provides, and I did use her services this time.
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Started playing the Witcher. Gonna try to play through all three in order. Picked them up for cheap or free a while ago, never got to them until now. So far, it feels a little clunky, but the aesthetic is great.
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The first Witcher definitely has clunky controls. But 3 is a masterpiece. 2 falls somewhere in between.
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I'm back on the Xcom 2 kick. Almost at 2k hours lol
There's a Warhammer 40k game like xcom called Machanicus that im downloading right now. I really want the Owlcat Warhammer rpg, but $44+ is a little step at the moment.
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Oof. Mechanicus starts out ok, even has some cool mechanics but then gets utterly trivial and just keeps going like that.
Are you playing modded Xcom? I enjoyed a run with amalgamation classes, gem-based psi and lots of mods to make the enemies harder but it has been shelved for a while because the Humanity's requiem Mutons are too much to take on and I need to think about how much to sacrifice to pass missions until my weapon upgrade finishes.
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DCSS again. It's a 30 minutes or less roguelike if you suck as bad as I do so give it a try if you're looking for something like that. I got about 10 other games in the queue that I can't quite myself to start like POE2(replay, I know it's good game).
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I’m playing Sub-Nautica literally bc there was a post on c/SteamDeals on Lemmy that I listened to and am actually enjoying it so much!
Played both Subnautica and Below Zero this year and absolutely loved it, what a fantastic game!
That's a game that I enjoy so much I've had it for years and played for hours and hours ...and still haven't beat it. I just love swimming and building in it.