The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Balatro and Helldivers 2

[-] Nanno@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Hopping between:

Helldivers 2
Deep Rock Galactic
MechWarrior 5
Last Epoch

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Helldivers 2! Played the first one a bit but not nearly as engaged with that as I am in this. Bought on launch day and had a blast until the massive player spike killed the servers, that’s seems to be better now as I was able to get in fine and play for a few hours last night.

It’s 100% worth the price and hype but I recommend waiting a few weeks to a month from now while they fully deal with server load issues and they say mechs are pretty much ready to be added now and are just getting polished.

For background, the first game peaked at ~7000 players, this one had 480K on steam alone and that number again on PlayStation this past weekend. They didn’t expect this level of success and so didn’t plan to have server capacity and robust network code for it, they are putting in the long nights to fix it though and we’re already seeing improvements only a couple weeks in

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Last week I went deep into Next Fest and came up with a bunch of demos, to varying success. Tried Synergy (promising), Sword of Convallaria (great, but deeply concerned about the mobile/gacha systems), Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds (not great, borrows shamelessly from Divinity: Original Sin 2), and Balatro (surprisingly interesting).

For now, I'm kind of bouncing around, not being able to settle on anything. Might go back to Atelier Ayesha tonight.

[-] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Sea of Thieves. Revisiting it after several years of not playing it, and finding it just as much fun now as it uses to be.

[-] other_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Back on my Rimworld addiction.

[-] Lampadaire_raclette@jlai.lu 2 points 7 months ago

Balatro!

[-] anakin78z@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Against the Storm. Picked it up way back in early access and kind of thought it sucked. Saw some people talk about it recently and decided to give it another go, and it doesn't suck anymore! I suck at it, having lost every round, but I keep going back in, so I guess I like it now.

[-] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

I'm playing persona 3 reload and like a dragon gaiden just now. Both really good games!

[-] BaqTraq@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Playing "Thief: The Black Parade"

It's a fan mod released this year, for a game that was released in 1998. It was a labor of love that took 7 years to complete and is the most stunning mod I have ever seen for any game period.

They push the engine to its limits, the scale, creativity, level design and story are near perfection. The story and playtime are so good it feels like an official game. You forget it's not canon.

I can't believe this came along, it was truly refreshing. It won the 2023 ModDB mod of the year.

Mandalore did a great review, and mini tutorial about how to launch a 26 year old game on modern systems.

[-] criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Persona 3 Reload. Only played a bit of the original but I'm loving this remake. The QoL updates make it feel more fun and less of a slog. And I love the newer graphic style.

Did a bit of helldivers 2 with friends. Good fun but between work and kids I don't have a lot of multi-player game time anymore.